Art that you like

[knight66]

Only about a month ago I saw that Turner painting in the National Gallery in London. It was the first time I had seen it 'live' and was not as big as i had assumed. It however has plenty of impact. I feel Turner was also commenting on the end of the era for sailing ships, I should think you can draw quite a bit from the piece.

Mike

[knight66]

I recall that poll, it was partly promoted by the morning radio current affairs programme, 'Today'. Each painting had a supporter explaining why it was great. There are an awful lot of great paintings missing and much as I like it, I cannot seriously see the Raeburn being on a par with a number of the Italian works in the UK.

Mike

[George]

Dali's "The Chemist of Ampurdan in Search of Absolutely Nothing"


One of my favorites.

[Maciek]

It's definitely a great title.

[George]

It's definitely a great title.

Yeah, I love that existential stuff.

[Maciek]

André just posted a link to some nice Ilya Repin paintings. I felt it was a good occassion to give this thread a bump...

First some famous Russians:



(well, I'm not sure if you can call his daughter famous exactly...?)

Also liked these:
(Sadko!)

[George]

(Sadko!)

These two are great, Mr. Osa (easier to spell) thanks for posting them! 

[Maciek]

Stanislaw Wyspianski (famous as painter, even more famous as playwright - no opera librettos though, AFAIK)

[Norseman]

Dali Atomicus by Philippe Halsman (1906-1979) (yes, that's Salvador jumping in the background)
I'm considering getting a poster of this

[Novi]

I really like Aubrey Beardsley's illustrations.

He was fascinated with Wagner ... here's Isolde:



And the 'Wagnerites' :



My favourites are the Salome ones:

     

The Lysistrata ones are hilarious but I'd probably be banned for posting them .

The fin de siècle was great fun .

[Saul]

[paul]

From top to bottom, Rothko, Motherwell, Martin.

[paul]

By the way Saul, are those from a video game?

[greg]

the first 6 of Saul's pictures i really like 

Escher







Kandinsky



Picasso


Van Gogh

[Lethevich]

Anselm Kiefer



Gerhard Richter

[greg]

that Richter is a Kandinsky wannabe lol
ok, i'm just kidding, it's ok
what's interesting is around the middle it looks like he put a different piece of canvas on top of the regular canvas, but probably he just made it look that way

[Lethevich]

what's interesting is around the middle it looks like he put a different piece of canvas on top of the regular canvas, but probably he just made it look that way

Yip, it looks like crayon on plastic, not adhering properly (or a petrol on water kind of effect).

[Mark]

I'm a traditionalist when it comes to art, so here's a bit of Vermeer:

[BachQ]

Very nice, Saul 

[Lethevich]

Oh, and this is one of my favourite "IMPORTANT EVENT WITH CLASSICAL ALLUSIONS" Romantic paintings, I figure, if I want to pick one, I may as well pick the most overblown/ridiculous/impressive one :