Do you have a favourite painting?

BenHoldsworth..

Good choices!!

this guy ranks highly for me too… he is my buddy though.

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Geetee – I saw that exhibition of Paula Rego’s! It’s worth getting the book of her illustrated bursary rhymes. Makes them as dark as they were originally intended to be!

Geetee1972 I like that. Who is the artist? Its sexually-charged and disturbing.

My favourite, haunting Wilfred Owen poem

What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?
Only the monstrous anger of the guns.
Only the stuttering rifles’ rapid rattle
Can patter out3 their hasty orisons.4
No mockeries5 now for them; no prayers nor bells;
Nor any voice of mourning save the choirs, –
The shrill, demented6 choirs of wailing shells;
And bugles7 calling for them from sad shires.8
What candles9 may be held to speed them all?
Not in the hands of boys but in their eyes
Shall shine the holy glimmers of goodbyes.
The pallor10 of girls’ brows shall be their pall;
Their flowers the tenderness of patient minds,
And each slow dusk11 a drawing-down of blinds.

Loving the stuff so far.. some of the pictures I knew but I’m being introduced to some great artists too

John Atkinson Grimshaw
have always been drawn to this since seeing his work in Leeds Art gallery

Henrique Oliviera sculpture

My untrained brain doesn’t always “get” the message behind sculpture but I think this is interesting.

always liked Dave Kinsey – and gutted i missed the apocalypse exhibition showing the John Martin stuff

This blew me away when I saw it in the Musee D’Orsay.

Velasquez for me.

I had the good fortune to win a Scholarship from the Royal Academy to study his work in the Prado. I made several paintings from Las Meninas.

Mr. and Mrs. Smith by Gainsborough is a favourite (don’t know how to put up a picture, can someone help please?)

Also enjoy most L.S. Lowry works of art.

I think I saw a George Shaw up there. I love this one, it’s called Christmas Eve. When I first saw it, it reminded me of every Christmas Eve ever.

Bunnyhop, here you go

http://www.vatican.va/various/cappelle/sistina_vr/index.html

my vote for Kyffin Williams

my vote for Kyffin Williams

I have a friend who had who ahd her portrait painted by him. He’s a great painter.

I loved these:

Much better in real life though! Pictures made with salt by Ragna Robertsdottir. We saw her exhibition in Reykjavik last October.

Also same collection:

Hora, Binners has it right. The artist is Paula Rego.

That painting of a milkmaid by Jan Vermeer.

-I like a good plat me –

Absolutely. And definitely skateboards!!!

I curated an exhibition of skateboard graphics once including a few Jim Phillips and Wes Humpston originals.

There has been some great stuff posted here. But not much from local or new artists.

I love the abstract expressionists, Anish Kapoor, Klimpt etc. But I can’t trust myself totally in that, do I like them because of what I have read or learnt from others. A good example for me would be Barnett Newman, I love his Zip paintings, but I am not sure if I when I look at them I am being influenced by a friend who absolutely loved them or my own interpretation of them.

So I have found that when I react to unknown/lesser known or new artist, and have no preconceptions, I can trust my instincts a lot more.

So what new stuff do you like ?

Most by the following:-
Georges Braques
Salvador Dali
Escher

I also like Gustav Corbet.

Sorry for not naming particular paintings.

Something a little different?

Mcmoonter, any more of your own stuff? I like that first one. Anyone else paint a bit?

1st and 2nd page have the best pictures, we are sweeping the barrel now.

how about this as a 70’s icon of misfortune..

I’m struggling to identify my favourite painting, while not technically the best one of the most memorable I’ve seen is the panorama Mesdag in The Hague.

http://panorama-mesdag.com/

righog
So I have found that when I react to unknown/lesser known or new artist, and have no preconceptions, I can trust my instincts a lot more.

So what new stuff do you like ?

Bought one of a series by Sue Rose, similar to this, at Christmas:

I like it, nothing profound, but it makes me smile.

great bit of art telly on BBC4 at the mo’ (can prob get on Iplayer) Tales of Winter: The Art of Snow and Ice. Lot’s of good ole winter paintings. Great stuff!

thx1138 : I like rothko, enough to jump on a train a few years ago from scotland one morning and go down to the Rothko exhibition at the Tate and just sit or rather stand as it was so busy there all day and absorb them as much as possible then i jumped back on the train at night and came home, his work can unsettle me in ways that i have absolutely no comprehension why they do so and some make feel incredibly happy and others fill me wi dread and foreboding and others can make me forget to eat/shit/piss and breathe – I’m not arty in the slightest and didn’t take art in high school and couldn’t tell you one artist from another, apart from Rothko obviously.

I also love Pollock, i get lost in a good way inside his paintings and i’m not impartial to Hopper either.

I dunno why those artists get me excited but they do, i’m not saying i like them for effect either as i’m sure others who like them have also got valid reasons for getting something out of them.

Thanks Mcmoonter.

In the same vein as IanW

Somafunk; fair enough, but as long as you’re aware that all you are looking at are some crudely daubed large canvasses, not something crafted with exceptional skill or talent. And be aware that setting and context play a very important part in how your subconcious receives the work; take a Rothko painting, and stick it on the wall of a dull restaurant or office foyer, and you’d probably pay it no more than a fleeting glance; a splash of colour to brighten up the place. But put it in a prestigious art gallery, and suddenly people start raving on about it. Just makes me laugh really. But then I suppose peole will be along to attempt to justify it, and claim I’m ‘visually illiterate’ or some other such nonsense. By all means enjoy it, but you could get the same enjoyment out of looking at a damp patch on a wall, if you put your mind to it. that’s the truth.

‘The Idle Servant’ by Nicholas Maes is one of my favourites in the National Gallery in London:

Always makes me smile when I see it.

Sorry these aren’t paintings but rather pencil drawings. His detail work is stunning. I’ve allways wanted the 2 of these, sadly i’m only half way there.

I’m not into art, I can appreciate most of the stuff already posted, but it’s not my thing. I do have Imola 94 by Goldsbrough, but it’s more about the event, a photo would probably do

thx1138 – That painting’s shit! 😆

Great thread!

I don’t know too much about art apart from catches my eye really but I have enjoyed looking at peoples favoured art on this thread, I have a liking for the paintings by Howaida Moussa Weel –

I have even been fortunate enough to pick one up.

Keep them coming.

More design than art, if you’re being picky, but anything by AM Cassandre

Sax Impey’s Storm Collection is awesome.

@ Madfly, if you like pencil drawings check Paul Cadden out, he does stuff like this

“thx1138 – That painting’s shit!”

I assume you’re joking, or being ‘ironic’ or something, otherwise that 3 years you spent at art college was a waste of taxpayers’ money. Why not actually attempt some constructive criticism, rather than being childish?

I’ve always thought ‘Alien’ could have been even better had HR Giger had a greater influence. Could have been even more dark and disturbing.

Joan Miro, Carnival of Harlequin

René Magritte, The Son of Man

Carl Andre, Equivalent VIII

^ wondered when the infamous bricks was going to make an appearance.

Puts kettle on…