What's your favourite painting?

[just jim]

Caspar David Friedrich's "The Wreck of Hope"

 

[Flying_Monkey]

So many, so little time! Here's a few I love:

Two connected by a theme

Uccello's Hunt in the Forest

This is an astonishing painting in that it is the essence of an entirely new way of seeing that world...

Brueghal's Hunters in the Snow

There is something that perfectly captures the essence of winter and of late mediaeval Dutch life here.

I love that period of art around the early C20th - probably the most fertile period of human creativity since the Renaissance. In particular: Kandinsky. All of his work from his earlier folky stuff to his later abstracts - here's an early thing: Colourful Life

Paul Klee... Ad Parnassum

I love Japanese print-making - Hokusai and Hiroshige and others. This is Hiroshige's Bridge in the Rain - again, an absolutely revolutionary work that transformed western art too.

The very Japanese influenced Hundertwasser (who also trained as a print-maker there)... this is Der grosse Weg

There are lots more!

 

[Kirstie]

Mark Rothko's seagram murals. Tate Modern have recently extended their collection of them in a Rothko exhibition. They have an amazing presence and almost radiate energy. They make the hairs stand up on the back of my neck! I love just being with them.

 

[papercorn2000]

So many, so little time! Here's a few I love:

Two connected by a theme

Uccello's Hunt in the Forest

This is an astonishing painting in that it is the essence of an entirely new way of seeing that world...

Brueghal's Hunters in the Snow

There is something that perfectly captures the essence of winter and of late mediaeval Dutch life here.

I love that period of art around the early C20th - probably the most fertile period of human creativity since the Renaissance. In particular: Kandinsky. All of his work from his earlier folky stuff to his later abstracts - here's an early thing: Colourful Life

Paul Klee... Ad Parnassum

I love Japanese print-making - Hokusai and Hiroshige and others. This is Hiroshige's Bridge in the Rain - again, an absolutely revolutionary work that transformed western art too.

The very Japanese influenced Hundertwasser (who also trained as a print-maker there)... this is Der grosse Weg

There are lots more!

I really like the dogs in the Brueghal picture. They seem almost cartoonish and yet they convey so much more sense of cold and weariness than do the largely anonymous hunters.

 

[Flying_Monkey]

Mark Rothko's seagram murals. Tate Modern have recently extended their collection of them in a Rothko exhibition. They have an amazing presence and almost radiate energy. They make the hairs stand up on the back of my neck! I love just being with them.

Me too. But that necessity of presence and nearness means they are almost impossible to reproduce on a computer screen - the effect is not the same at all.

 

[Kirstie]

Me too. But that necessity of presence and nearness means they are almost impossible to reproduce on a computer screen - the effect is not the same at all.

Which is why i didn't post an image. The exhibition is really special.

 

[papercorn2000]

Some of Pollock's stuff, you can really get lost in. I think it may help if you have a little chemical assistance!

 

[mondobongo]

Horse Frightened by Lion by George Stubbs

 

[longers]

I'll stop now.

Don't stop! Looking forward to more of your choices already.


This is one I like and have been to see a few times, good if you can get on the bench right in front of it - feels like you're going to be run over! At nearly 3 and a half metres wide this little pic doesn't do it justice.

This is another one of my favourites.

 

[Melvil]

I love Mondrian...I find there's a lot of emotion in his rigid spaces...kind of like the way that some of the most emotionally affecting music is clinically and precisely played.

And perhaps only because I can so easily get to see this in Edinburgh, I love this picture so much - in the very unlikely event you don't know, this is by the past master, Rembrandt. This does the real thing pathetically little justice.

 

[TVC]

John Everett Millais - Ophelia

View attachment 1454

 

[Haitch]

Some of Pollock's stuff, you can really get lost in. I think it may help if you have a little chemical assistance!

+1

 

[Disgruntled Goat]

I know what I like I and I like what I know:

 

[Haitch]

I love Mondrian...I find there's a lot of emotion in his rigid spaces...kind of like the way that some of the most emotionally affecting music is clinically and precisely played.

Mondriaan was born here in Amersfoort. His father was a teacher and the school is now a museum. It doesn't have any of his works but it does have an utterly crap website.

 

[ComedyPilot]

I like Edvard Munch's painting 'The Scream'