What's your favorite painting/artist and why?

[Diva]

This sculpture (Veiled Vestal Virgin)....it takes my breath away! I first saw it in the movie "Pride & Prejudice"......sculptor is Raphael Monti, 1847.

[weatherboi]

Currently I am in love with the works of Fernando Botero!!!!

[daisygrrl]

I like these two for different reasons, of course

This one by Gerda Wegener is very playful to me; her other work more explicitly tackles issues of class.



Raphael Perez's "Two Men" is so warm, in so many ways...

[Mitmo01]

Paul Gaugin takes my breath away--all of his works make me freeze my gaze

Titian is by far my favorite classical master--The Rape of Europa, Danae, and his masterpiece The Venus of Urbino

[Mitmo01]

The Russian Hermitage Museum has a fantastic virtual website and some of the worlds most beautiful paintings in it

http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/html_En/index.html

[Diva]

Originally Posted by Mitmo01

Paul Gaugin takes my breath away--all of his works make me freeze my gaze

Titian is by far my favorite classical master--The Rape of Europa, Danae, and his masterpiece The Venus of Urbino

Here Ya go.....a little Gaugin for Ya...

some amazing artists already mentioned here. I'd like to share some of my favourite artists/paintings/sculpture/arty architecture with you too.

I travelled to Madrid just to see several of my favourite paintings

This was the one that made me take the trip - Las Meninas by Velazquez (I was surprised to discover how small the painting is)
http://exterior.pntic.mec.es/fhua000...as-meninas.jpg

I also managed to see Picasso's Guernica on that trip too
http://homepage.mac.com/dmhart/WarAr...a/Guernica.JPG

I am a fan of the Dutch Masters - the delicacy of light in many of the paintings is just awesome.
http://images.google.co.uk/images?q=dutch+masters+paintings&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-USfficial&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=0gZvS6X7PN7KjAehjvDrCg&sa=X&oi=image_result_g roup&ct=title&resnum=1&ved=0CBQQsAQwAA

I was mightily impressed by Rembrandt's The Night Watch which is at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, mainly because it must be the biggest painting I've ever seen also because of that luminosity of light Rembrandt was so good at.
http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.rijksmuseum.nl/images/news/rijks_tefaf_wand_nachtwacht_final5%3Flarge&imgrefu rl=http://www.rijksmuseum.nl/nieuwsenagenda/nachtwacht-ontrafeld%3Flang%3Den&usg=__rPhi4E5y33lQVBufkor724-wdd4=&h=320&w=427&sz=28&hl=en&start=13&um=1&itbs=1 &tbnid=TC39pjNqzX1OnM:&tbnh=94&tbnw=126&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dthe%2Bnight%2Bwatch%26hl%3Den%26clien t%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-USfficial%26sa%3DG%26um%3D1

Barcelona is almost an whole town art installation. Parc Guell is amazing and is one of those places that you absolutely must visit at least once in a lifetime.
http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www-ma2.upc.es/~geomc/events/socg2002/parcGuell.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www-ma2.upc.es/~geomc/events/socg2002/ParcGuell.html&usg=__MpjHLrLiTaVeHTsQow0x3NP9o3A=& h=403&w=609&sz=90&hl=en&start=1&um=1&itbs=1&tbnid= tcysIAFW2PTBTM:&tbnh=90&tbnw=136&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dparc%2Bguell%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfir efox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-USfficial%26sa%3DG%26um%3D1

as is Sagrada Familia - also in Barcelona. Started in 1882 by Antoni Gaudi it is still being built and one of those places that you can go back to over the years and watch it's progress.
http://www.sagradafamilia.cat/sf-eng/index.php

Thus far Ingress and I haven't managed our usual trip to London at the start of the year to take in whatever exhibitions are currently showing and I don't think we will get a chance until after her Post Grad Cert. in Education (teacher training) is over. I particularly enjoyed the Annie Liebowitz retrospective at the NPG last year and Shibboleth at Tate Modern the year before.

I would just love to go to the Guggenheim in Bilbao, the Uffizi in Florence and of course the New York Guggenheim too.




apologies for the long links.

[Toph]

Jacques-Louis David (30 August 1748 – 29 December 1825) most of his portraitures were painted in his own image...very ego maniacal

Eugène Delacroix (French, 1798–1863) The Abduction of Rebecca painted (1846) a scene taken from Sir Walter Scott’s historical novel Ivanhoe

[Diva]

Dante Gabriel Rossetti
(late 1800's)
Pre~Raphaelite

[BestButchBoy]

[Miss Scarlett]

Originally Posted by Diva

This sculpture (Veiled Vestal Virgin)....it takes my breath away! I first saw it in the movie "Pride & Prejudice"......sculptor is Raphael Monti, 1847.

Like you I first saw this in Pride & Prejudice. I am absolutely captivated by the work and would love to see it up close and personal.

[Hack]

I'm a major fan of Andrew Wyeth, American realist. I also love Winslow Homer.

[Mitmo01]

Diva, the Vestal Virgins has a long and storied history in ancient Rome

They were the Heart and Soul of the city as they tended to the fire of Vesta which was the hearth that was never allowed to die out.....well when Rome was finally sacked the first things the Visigoths did was to cermonially put out the fires of Rome both physically and esoterically starting with the Vestal Virgins....intriguing history

sorry for the derail...

[AtLast]

There are so many artists and works I appreciate and love, throughout the centuries.

Van Gough's Starry Night is a favorite.

And I have to say da Vinci's Mona Lisa has always drawn me in.

I have to ad that one of the best things to me at the Butch Voices Conference were the works displayed by queer artists.One woman did some charcoal drawings of a post menopausal, Native American butch that struck me to my soul. Maybe someone will remember her name?

Elizabeth Hoague Cleaveland is a local favorite of mine.

[Semantics]

This is such an enjoyable thread. Thanks everyone.

I love Frida Kahlo



My favorite by her is A Broke Column. I'm not going to post a picture because it's a little disturbing.

Another is Dali's The Anthropomorphic Chest of Drawers:

[Semantics]

I also really love the artwork of Aimee Garcia Marrero:

[T4Texas]

I also like fantasy art. This is Egyptian Queen by Frank Frazetta who has been around for years as a comic illustrator and painter.




This is Glenkeeper by Alex Horley

[okieblu]

Originally Posted by AtLast

There are so many artists and works I appreciate and love, throughout the centuries.

Van Gough's Starry Night is a favorite.

And I have to say da Vinci's Mona Lisa has always drawn me in.

I have to ad that one of the best things to me at the Butch Voices Conference were the works displayed by queer artists.One woman did some charcoal drawings of a post menopausal, Native American butch that struck me to my soul. Maybe someone will remember her name?

Elizabeth Hoague Cleaveland is a local favorite of mine.

Do you know if the artist was 2 Spirit also? If so, you might try googling 2 Spirit artists charcoal (or drawing) some version of that. I'd like to know myself now!

[Kätzchen]

I've always loved this picture, but never knew the artist.

It is a painting by 17th century Dutch painter, Johannes Vermeer. It's on display at The Hague, in The Netherlands.

I love the simple beauty of this portrait would a woman wearing nothing but a head scarf, pearl earrings and the translucent beauty of her facial features (her eyes, her mouth, the aura about her).

Here's a link to learn more about the artist and the painting:
https://g.co/kgs/jUxvge

[homoe]

Originally Posted by Kätzchen

I've always loved this picture, but never knew the artist.

It is a painting by 17th century Dutch painter, Johannes Vermeer. It's on display at The Hague, in The Netherlands.

I love the simple beauty of this portrait would a woman wearing nothing but a head scarf, pearl earrings and the translucent beauty of her facial features (her eyes, her mouth, the aura about her).

Here's a link to learn more about the artist and the painting:
https://g.co/kgs/jUxvge

Miss Katz you are aware there is also a movie right?
A young peasant maid working in the house of painter Johannes Vermeer becomes his talented assistant and the model for one of his most famous works.