Favourite Paintings

[nate]

Composition IV -by Wassily Kandinsky


i'm also a fan of Rene Magritte's work. like:

The Treason of Images


and Son of Man

[krempel]

no love for the greatest painter in the history of the world.... Thomas Kinkade????

[fnr]

My favorite Hopper (and favorite painting, in general) is "Rooms By The Sea":

That's good stuff.

[sftl99]

I've seen many of these originals in person and it always astonishes me how much different they are than what I expected. Like Starry Nights is so freaking small. I figured it would be pretty large, but it's tiny. And vise versa with many of the classics.

[burny]

The Abby in the Oakwood - Caspar David Friedrich


Mystery and Melancholy of a Street - Giorgio de Chirico


Nostalgia of the Infinite - Giorgio de Chirico


Cityscape - "Imperial Boy"


it's more CG, i think than paint, and i don't know his real name because his site is all in Japanese. still, it's a great piece and it really gets my imagination going.

New York Movie - Edward Hopper


Office in a Small City - Edward Hopper


Automat - by (surprise) Eddy Hopper


there's tons more though that are my favorites. pretty much anything by Monet and a good deal of Romantic-era pieces.

[jetaylor]

Sorry about no pictures...:

"Red Fuji" - Katsushika Hokusai
"Great Wave off Kanagawa" - Katsushika Hokusaid
"The Temptation of St. Anthony" - Salvador Dali
"LHOOQ" - Marcel DuChamp
"Nude Descending Staircase" - Marcel DuChamp

[bookworm77]

I'm actually not a huge fan of Kinkade. I don't know why. Although, I will admit, my friend has a couple of originals by him (they know a guy who knows a guy), and they're much better when looking at the real thing instead of a print.


I forgot to mention the mind-warping MC Escher:


"Waterfall"


"Hand with Reflecting Sphere"


"Reletivity"

I just love his work with perspective. It's quite brilliant.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Raphael - School of Athens


Jacques Louis-David - Oath of the Horatii


Caravaggio - The Calling of St. Matthew


M.C. Escher - Ascending and Descending

[krempel]

I'm actually not a huge fan of Kinkade. I don't know why. Although, I will admit, my friend has a couple of originals by him (they know a guy who knows a guy), and they're much better when looking at the real thing instead of a print.

youre such a nice guy man. but i was kidding, i ****ing hate kinkade.

[bookworm77]

youre such a nice guy man. but i was kidding, i ****ing hate kinkade.

ROFL Thanks. I didn't catch that you were kidding, though. I'm not quite as passionate about him, I just get tired of seeing his stuff on puzzles. As if there weren't better paintings to contruct in your spare time...