Favorite paintings?
Sally G. Waters
is my first time starting a thread here (be gentle,
please....); second, I've liked the "favorite Beatles
song" thread, and reading everyone's contributions;
and third, I just watched Thomas Kinkade's interview
on 60 Minutes. Now, I know there are people (as
shown on that interview) who just love his stuff -
but I'd like to do an informal poll here of what artists
people really like (and you have to admit, we are an
eclectic little mix here!)
So, if you can - favorite artist / painting, and even
better, a link to a picture of it on the web!
My start, my 2 faves:
--John William Waterhouse, "A Mermaid"
http://sunsite.dk/cgfa/waterhou/p-waterhouse2.htm
--Romero Britto, "Friendship"
http://www.art-discount.com/Romero_Britto/Romero_Britto_Friendship_.htm
Anyone else care to share?
Mametsuki
Mametsuki
aemilia
"Sally G. Waters" <sgwa...@gte.net> wrote:
>
> So, if you can - favorite artist / painting, and even
> better, a link to a picture of it on the web!
Vincent van Gogh, The Bedroom at Arles, 1887
http://sunsite.dk/cgfa/gogh/p-gogh7.htm
Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi, The Death of the Virgin (1604??)
http://sunsite.dk/cgfa/caravagg/p-carava29.htm
Raphael, St. Catherine of Alexandria, 1508
http://sunsite.dk/cgfa/raphael/raphael2.htm
Gianlorenzo Bernini, The Ecstasy of St. Teresa, 1645-52
http://sunsite.dk/cgfa/b/p-bernini1.htm
(I know, it's a statue, I'm cheating)
Jan van Eyck, A Man in a Turban (possibly a self-portrait), 1433
http://sunsite.dk/cgfa/eyck/p-eyck12.htm
Edward Hopper, Chop Suey 1929
http://www.southern.net/wm/paint/auth/hopper/interior/hopper.chop-suey.jp
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Rene Magritte, Les Amants (The Lovers) 1928
http://www.mcs.csuhayward.edu/%7Emalek/Magrit3.html
These are but a few...I really love art history and llove so many
artists and paintings...
aemilia
Buttercup
Buttercup
"Oh I believe in yesterday"
mslinda
Louis Icart. I have my bedroom done in a 20s art deco style and eight
Icarts on the walls.
Linda C.
Reets
>Guernica - Picasso
Too bad. Thomas Kinkade indicated that Picasso's popularity wouldn't last. He
gives him another decade or two.
Reets
Sally G. Waters
no one will remember Picasso because they'll all still
be enthralled with hundreds of pictures of little cottages
and lighthouses and churches with light shining through
them. Yep, if only ol' Pablo had been able to paint like
that! (She said sarcastically....)
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Jinxblues
Edward Hopper
Chicago Art Institute
Coincidently, this hangs in the same room as the famous "American Gothic" by
Grant Wood. That's the one of the old man with the pitchfork and the stern
looking woman at his side.
DNA409
Neil ... your petit chou-chou
"Pink is the navy blue of India"- Diana Vreeland
"Wear your green cornflakes with pride"-Dolly Parton
http://members.ebay.com/aboutme/dna409/
DvHof
The Courtauld Gallery, London
I mean, I know it's no Kinkade, but...
wmca...@earthlink.net
The Painter of Light? It must be so then.
Callen Molenda
You can't possibly be disagreeing with the man whose "artwork" torn out of $5
calendars decorates the entire wall of my neighbor's cubicle.
Callen, who has to avert her eyes as she passes said cubicle
Callen Molenda
> Guernica - Picasso
> Mametsuki
Saw it at MOMA before it went back to Spain. Truly amazing.
Callen
Mametsuki
What a great painting! I Love that Manet,The Excecution of Maximillian at the
Mannheim gallery is my personal favorite Manet. oh oh... how about the Dead
Bullfighter? Incredible...
>A Bar at the Folies Bergere"- Edouard Manet
>The Courtauld Gallery, London
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>I mean, I know it's no Kinkade, but...
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Mametsuki
maryanne kehoe
afternoon at the Hermatage. There were *so* many paintings of importance
there, but I found the historical furniture collections a lot more
interesting.
Myname2use4now
of mine.
The Sleeping Gypsy by Rousseau. I think that gypsy is in for a big surprise
when it wakes up!
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/rousseau/gypsy.jpg
The Persistance of Memory by Dali
http://www.art.com/asp/sp-asp/_/NV--235_F23_A126/PD--10019244/SZ--2/poster
s.htm?XRFID=547790&TKID=542695
I also love Georgia O'Keefe, and Edward Hopper.
So many artists...so little time!
Smoot
myname2...@aol.comdntspmme (Myname2use4now) wrote:
I agree this is a great thread. I especially love that so many have put in
urls so we can look at the paintings and see for ourselves.
Emma
--
In times of war, you are obligated to pretend that your leader is a
Great Man, even if he is the village idiot. It has always been so.
RitaHansard
Favorite Painting: The Storm
by Pierre-Auguste Cot
Favorite Curiously Interesting Painter: M.C. Escher
Favorite American Painter: Homer Winslow
Favorite Holiday Painting: War's End Kiss
by Alfred Eisenstaedt
and
A Cozy Evening by Donna Green
http://art.com/asp/sp-asp/_/NV--1_7910/PD--10059471/SZ--2/posters.htm
Jinxblues
I also love Georgia O'Keefe, and Edward Hopper. >>
Well, we think alike. My choice was "Nighthawks" when I responded to the
thread.
Sally G. Waters
states that one of the major influences for the look
of the Bates house was a painting by Hopper. Check
out "House by the Railroad":
http://sunsite.dk/cgfa/hopper/p-hopper4.htm
Sally (really glad that y'all are enjoying this thread - and
REALLY glad that no one has named that jerk Kinkade!
We have pretty good taste here! Well, in paintings,
anyway....)
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Myname2use4now
>From: "Sally G. Waters" sgwa...@gte.net
>Date: 11/26/01 9:23 PM Eastern Standard Time
>Message-id: <0PCM7.1259$K34.5...@paloalto-snr1.gtei.net>
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>In a book about the making of "Psycho", the author
>states that one of the major influences for the look
>of the Bates house was a painting by Hopper. Check
>out "House by the Railroad":
>http://sunsite.dk/cgfa/hopper/p-hopper4.htm
wowzers, that looks like the Bates house to me, and the Addams house, and the
Munsters as well.
The One and Only Billy Shears
"Sally G. Waters" <sgwa...@gte.net> wrote in message
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> Okay, I'm trying something here - first, this
> is my first time starting a thread here (be gentle,
> please....); second, I've liked the "favorite Beatles
> song" thread, and reading everyone's contributions;
> and third, I just watched Thomas Kinkade's interview
> on 60 Minutes. Now, I know there are people (as
> shown on that interview) who just love his stuff -
> but I'd like to do an informal poll here of what artists
> people really like (and you have to admit, we are an
> eclectic little mix here!)
These have probably been mentioned before, but here goes:
Guernica (Picasso)
Starry Night (Van Gogh) (or just about any Van Gogh)
The Kiss (Klimt)
I also like Chagall, Dali, and Hopper.
The One and Only Billy Shears
Yeah, sure. (snicker)
Kinkade knows more about marketing than he knows about art or art history
(that seemed to be the point Morley Safer -- somebody who seems to really
know art -- was hinting at). There's nothing special about him -- he's an
average commercial artist who struck gold. He'll be a footnote at best
after he's gone. Picasso will still be considered a giant.
Smoot
myname2...@aol.comdntspmme (Myname2use4now) wrote:
I grew up hoping to live in a house just like the Addams or the Munsters.
Now I just want a place a bit like Hogwarts, with a secret passageway or
two and a huge fireplace like the Gryffindor great room.
Emma (unfortunately I'm stuck in a boring place that isn't out of a
fictional film or tv show)
Smoot
Shears" <bsh...@NOSPAMmydeja.com> wrote:
Did you read the article about Kinkade in the New Yorker a couple of
months ago? He's a marketing genius.
Emma
Mary Campbell
It looks like the farmhouse in DAYS OF HEAVEN.
Callen Molenda
> What a great thread, I loved looking at everyone elses choices. Here are a few
> of mine.
>
> The Sleeping Gypsy by Rousseau. I think that gypsy is in for a big surprise
> when it wakes up!
>
> http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/rousseau/gypsy.jpg
>
> The Persistance of Memory by Dali
> http://www.art.com/asp/sp-asp/_/NV--235_F23_A126/PD--10019244/SZ--2/poster
> s.htm?XRFID=547790&TKID=542695
Dali freaks me out too much! When I was little my parents had a book called
"Fantastic Memories" illustrated by Dali - on one page was a drawing of what
looked like an elderly woman seated in an armchair as seen from the back, and on
the next page was the same scene from the front - only the "woman" wasn't there,
just a hole in the fabric of the chair with ants crawling out of it! AAACCCKK!!
I have to go home now.
C.
Callen Molenda
Okay, what he said, plus anything by Gauguin and
http://art.com/asp/sp-asp/_/NV--1_1822_9718/PD--10048835/SZ--3/posters.htm
Kandinsky
Callen
EvelynMcH
full-sized coffee table book and as a paperback. I have both, and I can't tell
you how many times the smaller one has gotten me through waiting rooms and long
lines....
Henri Rousseau -The Dream
http://www.moma.org/collection/paintsculpt/rousseau.dream.html
Mondrian - Broadway Boogie-Woogie
http://www.moma.org/collection/paintsculpt/mondrian.broadway.html
Monet - Sunflowers
http://martyw.best.vwh.net/monetw.jpg
And absolutely every thing by Van Gogh and Gauguin
-=>epm<=-
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>PEUPLE
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>Peep...@webtv.net put forth...
>>
>>Delacroix's LA LIBERTE GUIDANT LE
>PEUPLE
>
>English ONLY please. :]
Fine!! OfTheCross's LIBERTY GUIDING THE PEOPLE
:-)
>
>My favorite is "Nighwawks" by Hopper.
>
What *is* it w/ you peuple & that painting?!
Curious hugs,
Janice, who likes the version w/ MM, Jimmy Dean & Elvis better......
<running & ducking>
Myname2use4now
>From: Peep...@webtv.net (Peep...@webtv.net)
>Date: 11/27/01 8:49 PM Eastern Standard Time
>Message-id: <6889-3C0...@storefull-117.iap.bryant.webtv.net>
>>My favorite is "Nighwawks" by Hopper.
>>
>
>What *is* it w/ you peuple & that painting?!
>
Funny you should ask because I was thinking the same thing myself. What I came
up with is that as in many of Hoppers works, isolation figures prominently.
Perhaps those of us use to the cold isolated feel of cyberspace are more drawn
to it because we can relate to it. Then again, perhaps we're drawn to its clean
lines and grace. Either way, I think that painting speaks volumns about the
American experience.
ps. whoever substituted Elvis and Marilyn in that cheesy rip off of Hoppers
painting should be taken out back and put out of his/her misery.
Peep...@webtv.net
>>What *is* it w/ you peuple & that painting?!
>>
>
>Funny you should ask because I was thinking the same thing myself. What
I
>came
>up with is that as in many of Hoppers works, isolation figures
prominently.
>Perhaps those of us use to the cold isolated feel of cyberspace are
more
>drawn
>to it because we can relate to it. Then again, perhaps we're drawn to
its clean
>lines and grace. Either way, I think that painting speaks volumns about
the
>American experience.
True -- THIS gal always loved it, but, admittedly, it *has* lost some of
its power to convey existential dread since its "big city" tableau
(originally painted in the early '40s) almost looks homey now.
>
>ps. whoever substituted Elvis and Marilyn in that cheesy rip off of
Hoppers
>painting should be taken out back and put out of his/her misery.
:-)
Still, I'm sure they identified w/ those garishly-lit critters trapped
under glass amid The Void.
Hugs,
Janice, Nightpeep........:-O
Bosssssss
>Edward Hopper
>Chicago Art Institute
>
I love Hopper. I'm using Rooms By the Sea as my wallpaper on my computer right
now.
http://affiliates.allposters.com/link/redirect.asp?aid=85097&item=290780
Bosssssss
>better, a link to a picture of it on the web!
What a great idea! My two favorites right now are Edward Hopper, esp. Rooms by
the Sea:
http://affiliates.allposters.com/link/redirect.asp?aid=85097&item=290780
and anything by Monet but esp. Waterlillies:
http://affiliates.allposters.com/link/redirect.asp?aid=85097&item=290780
and Haystacks:
http://affiliates.allposters.com/link/redirect.asp?aid=85097&item=290780