So you have a favourite painting?

Amy I went to that exhibition. Some interesting pieces (not least a mouthwatering pencil sketch of Yeats) but the crowds packed into the rooms were very frustrating.

Whoever was asking about the Winged Victory check this out: musee.louvre.fr/oal/victoiredesamothrace/victoiredesamothrace_acc_en.html

I'd be hard pressed to choose just one, pretty well anything by Caspar David Friedrich will do. This one for example.

Here's the link to the Ned Kelly series: nga.gov.au/Nolan/Index.cfm

Strumpers the room full of Rothko's Seagram murals at the Tate is captivating as well.

Reminds me of the most amazing moment walking into a gallery room: the room full of Sidney Nolan's Ned Kelly paintings in Canberra. Mind blowing.

MrsWembley, yes, they do use that story. Which is part of what connects to Lanyon, as he got into gliding as a way of literally getting into weather and landscapes.

I really liked the film as I learnt a lot about Turner and Timothy Spall is fabulous, and there's some v tender relationships with his dad and with Mrs Booth.

One - hard to explain why I love the winged victory so much.... I think it's because it's mysterious with it being missing the head, and also it's a strong emblem of womanhood. I love the detail of the wing, the drape of the dress, and musculature of the arm. I can only imagine what it was like when it was complete...

Also, Frida Kahlo.

A Bar at the Folie-Bergere, by Manet. It's in the Courtauld in London, and they have very considerately put a bench facing it at just the right distance. could sit there for a very very long time.

Ooh Undertone, a fellow Sargent lover. Very handsome portrait!

Littlefiendsusan I think the painting you mean is The Hunt in the Forest by Uccello. It's noteworthy for its treatment of perspective.

It's a shame as I love JSS's work in general and there was an exhibition at the national gallery when I was in London a few weeks ago, but it was quite expensive to go into that part of the gallery so we couldn't justify it

Mine, same as Fluff is Christ of St John on the cross by Salvador Dali

Second favourite is 'The singing butler' by Jack Vettriano

I think Guernica is amazing (and I have spent quite a bit of time studying Picasso, and I too went to Madrid specifically to see it) - but I can't say it's a favourite, because it's not at all comfortable.

Love Kandinsky's use of colour.

Love Whistlejacket, just the size of it when you walk into that gallery.

Love Millais's Ophelia, which I first saw in a library book when I was about 7, and I thought it was a photo, not a painting - I mean, it was a photo of the painting, but I thought what was depicted was a photo, and it blew me away that someone could paint like that. Had a soft spot for the PreRaphaelites ever since.

But my favourite ever is Holman Hunt's Our English Coasts (Strayed Sheep).
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John Singer Sargent's 'Carnation Lily Lily Rose'.

I love the soft glowing light on the girls' faces and the twilight feeling it evokes.

Sorry to be predictable but another Whistlejacket here. I'm looking at a print on my wall now.

I do love Starry Night as well, and I enjoy Munnings' paintings of Exmoor.

oh - lost half her face

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I saw this one in the Rijksmuseum last year
I adore her expression

At the moment it's a portrait of General Leonard Wood by John Singer Sargent. It's in the Smithsonian in Washington DC just kind of in a corner like it's no big deal. Wood was a 'rough rider' in his youth and went on to do various political jobs, from the official records he was an uncomplicated character - not a particularly fascinating subject you would think, but Sargent obviously saw something in him. His expression is so complex and vulnerable, and there's someghing in there like lust or attraction and it's very hard to pin down, and mesmerising when you're standing in front of it. There are unanswered questions about Sargent's sexual orientation, so sometimes I think maybe Sargent could have been attracted to Wood and painted in a reflection of how he felt. Anyway. Not a great pic but if you are passing through DC I would highly recommend. It's next to a nice little Degas so it's not likely you'd be wasting a trip!

I like 'The Scream' as it echoes how I feel sometimes!

I also like Van Gogh & Lowry as artists.

Not sure on an actual favorite as there's loads of beautiful ones.. My favorite artist would have be LS Lowery.. I also love the hay wain although I don't know who it's by.
Have any of you visited the Liverpool art gallery. It's brilliant. I often used to take dd where she choose a picture and write a story about what she thought was happening in the picture.
Also there is a little room there for little one called big art for little artists. It's a free and educational day out. If you're in to paintings it's highly recommendable.

Ooo, also loved seeing Joseph Wright's work in Derby museum/ art gallery recently, dark and yet full of luminosity. Quite lovely. Couldn't say which I liked best, so here's a picture of the gallery and some of the best ones. (not me in pic, from tripadvisor). Well worth a visit if you're in the east midlands.

Another Van Gogh lover here too, he seems very popular on this thread!
This one made me stare for a long long time in the Van Gogh gallery in Amsterdam. Such a story in such a tiny humble painting.

Or The Ambassadors by Holbein, amazing.

Snap Teacup! Love the Lady with an ermine.

Also love all of Hokusai's Mount Fuji pictures, beautiful and interesting.

What a lovely thread.

Love Kandinsky this being one of my favourites