Post your favourite paintings, or other piece of art.

[Sasaferrato]

Yeah yeah, been done before etc, however, worth revisiting.

I like this:

Albrecht Durer. 1508.

Hands are very difficult, those are the best I've ever seen.

 

[lizzieloo]

Yeah yeah, been done before etc, however, worth revisiting.

I like this:

Albrecht Durer. 1508.

Hands are very difficult, those are the best I've ever seen.

I love Durer, proper studies. His self portraits are fab

 

[Manter]

I love Durer, proper studies.

Agree.

Am going to have to thing about my fav. So much I like...

 

[moody]

rothko aint got nothing on me.

 

[SpookyFrank]

At the moment, this:

e2a: Matisse btw.

 

[ska invita]

Rothko before his suicide...poor fella

 

[JimW]

Always thought this ("Unique Forms of Continuity in Space") by Umberto Boccioni looks amazing, tho only ever seen pics not the actual thing:

ETA: His paintings were excellent too.

 

[Lock&Light]

 

[plurker]

Got blown away by this at the BP Portrait award. Nathan Ford is the artist.

also have a soft spot for John Virtue's landscapes

 

[Sasaferrato]

Both of those are excellent.

Could I ask people to name at least the artist please?

 

[Lock&Light]

Could I ask people to name at least the artist please?

The one I posted is The Battle of San Romano by Paolo Uccello

ETA: Sorry, links don't seem to work.

 

[goldenecitrone]

Vermeer.

 

[Sasaferrato]

The Vermeer.

The girl with the pearl earring.

 

[SaskiaJayne]

The wonderful Damien has donated this to the Tate, a great artist & a great philanthropist.

 

[purves grundy]

Anything with Purple Ronnie

 

[Blagsta]

 

[sleaterkinney]

Paul Klee

More

 

[starfish]

Edward Hopper

 

[boohoo]

Always thought this ("Unique Forms of Continuity in Space") by Umberto Boccioni looks amazing, tho only ever seen pics not the actual thing:

ETA: His paintings were excellent too.

Love his work - this is in the Tate - though it is actually one of a few versions. He did more sculpture but it got destroyed - which is a shame as it was all trying to capture an idea of movement.

And his paintings are fab. I saw them at an exhibition at the Tate - I went a bit potty - lots of OMG it's that one. I've waited nearly 20 years to see those pieces... amazing!

 

[boohoo]

My favourite part of the Battle of San Romano painting is this bit. I've see the others. I like the funny little man painted in perspective at the bottom. I love the idea that all these artists were trying to figure out how to get painting done correctly.

 

[not-bono-ever]

Bombergs Bathouse

like blows me away - many have not heard of Bomberg sadly, but was pivotal in futurism and Vorticism - hes now got a semi perm exhibition at the Elephant, where he taught & founded the Borough group IIRC. Probably the "best" artist that Britian has produced in the past couple of hundred years

 

[boohoo]

This piece is by a guy called Nevinson who was very influenced by the Futurists.

 

[yardbird]

Mark Boyle

 

[Captain Hurrah]

 

[lizzieloo]

Elisabeth Frink's horses, we have one in MK, It was the only nice surprise when we moved here

 

[UrbaneFox]

It reduces me to tears every time I see it.

 

[lizzieloo]

It reduces me to tears every time I see it.

That's a recent quoad isn't it?

*stands back, strokes chin*

 

[JimW]

I'll see your dirty Russian revisionists and raise you a Chen Yifei!:

 

[friedaweed]

Early Dali. Woman at Window. Always been my fav pic.

 

[UrbaneFox]

That's a recent quoad isn't it?

*stands back, strokes chin*

Yes. The stillness of the glitter and mirrored ball is vibrant with movement that is not depicted but worked into them. To view them is to become involved in this inner process which is simultaneously one's own contemplation.