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So you have a favourite painting?

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CaulkheadUpNorth · 06/03/2015 16:30

This is mine. It's called A pageant of childhood By Thomas Cooper Gotch

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BobbyGentry · 08/03/2015 22:07

Jacques-Louis David's 'The Death of Marat (French: La Mort de Marat or Marat Assassiné)' is pretty stunning and might be in my top 10.

Sootgremlin · 08/03/2015 22:03

Love this thread, really enjoying looking up the paintings I don't know.

Makes me wish a had an hour to go and have a poke around a gallery.

Going to try and put the images in, my link was ambiguous.

So you have a favourite painting?
So you have a favourite painting?
enjoyingscience · 08/03/2015 21:51

I love Isabella and the pot of basil. Such a twisted weird story, and a beautiful painting.

(There's a severed head under the basil)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabella_and_the_Pot_of_Basil#mediaviewer/File:WHH_Isabella_Pot_of_Basil_DelArt.jpg

EBearhug · 08/03/2015 21:48

I love that Monet - haven't seen it before. Must go to the Louvre some day.

Isn't the Lady of Shalott by Waterhouse.

Madeyemoodysmum · 08/03/2015 21:46

Manchester art gallery. Beyond repair. A lot of his are at the Tate. But a awful lot are privately owned. Shame.

Shakey1500 · 08/03/2015 21:40

This also because it reminds me of Sondheim's Sunday in The Park with George, a musical written about the artist Georges Seurat

So you have a favourite painting?
BeyondRepair · 08/03/2015 21:37

yes thats a beat madey I wonder where it is?

Shakey1500 · 08/03/2015 21:37

Same as ohmymimi (I think we have "conversed" before though can't remember about what?!)

I think I would burst into tears if I stood before it in RL

So you have a favourite painting?
Madeyemoodysmum · 08/03/2015 21:36

I love Waterhouse but this is my fave.

Its very sexy and I love the faces and the beauty of the bodies. Both the Male & female.

Sagethyme · 08/03/2015 21:33

Oh it did work! Wow i've learnt something tonight! Grin

pointythings · 08/03/2015 21:32

Whoops, not the Louvre, the Jeu de Paume as was back then.

Sagethyme · 08/03/2015 21:32

Not if this link will work:
www.leagoldberg.com/

BeyondRepair · 08/03/2015 21:31

Speaking of Holman Hunt - I fell in love with 'The Lady of Shallot' as a romantic 15 year old. I still love it.

We saw Lady today in the Tate, just introduced DD to it and the poem.

Exquisite, makes me want to get a rowing boat and float up and down the Thames Blush

BeyondRepair · 08/03/2015 21:29

I have a copy of The Girl with the Pearl Earring. H hates it so it's in the basement atm but I'm going to hang it up soon. I luffs it

I have a copy, ripped from the newspaper, in a little frame!

I am going to Holland soon and Girl with the Pearl is going to be an hour away from us, very tempted to go and see it, but it means missing Amsterdam.

Aladyinsane · 08/03/2015 21:27

Francis Danby 'The Deluge'. It's very striking in real life.

So you have a favourite painting?
pointythings · 08/03/2015 21:26

This one by Monet. Makes you just want to walk into it and away from all the crap in your life. I saw it in the Louvre and never went on to watch anything else.

So you have a favourite painting?
Sagethyme · 08/03/2015 21:25

I love Lea Goldberg's art...sorry not sure how to link, but i love the bright funky cats, it reminds me slightly of Beryl Cooks' art work....but animals instead of people!

BestIsWest · 08/03/2015 21:21

I hadn't seen the Durer before either. Amazing.

GallicIsCharlie · 08/03/2015 21:11

Wow, EBear, hadn't seen that Dürer turf picture before. It's amazing :)

TheOneWiththeNicestSmile · 08/03/2015 20:55

(There are several versions of this though - no idea which one I actually saw)

Moln · 08/03/2015 20:54

Meeting on the Turret is in the National Gallery in Dublin.

www.nationalgallery.ie/Home/Collection/Irelands_Favourite_Painting/Burton

I work about 15 min walk from the Gallery too! I'm going to have to take a morning off

TheOneWiththeNicestSmile · 08/03/2015 20:54

I love a lot of van Gogh's

Cypresses is beautiful & as a PP said, seeing an image doesn't prepare you for the impact of the actual painting - I was shocked when I saw this at how vibrant & beautiful the colours were

upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ce/Wheat-Field-with-Cypresses-(1889)-Vincent-van-Gogh-Met.jpg

EBearhug · 08/03/2015 20:49

DopeyDawg, is it William Powell Frith's The Railway Station?

If we're going for Dürer, it has to be the Great Piece of Turf.

TeacupDrama · 08/03/2015 20:43

Albrecht Durer the hare, his self portraits are amazing too as is melancholia

wearenotinkansas · 08/03/2015 20:40

I love Lautrec, particularly this one. Maybe because I think his women look convincingly like real women