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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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spaceal · 07/03/2015 08:13

Peter Lanyon's Thermal for me. It's so restful yet uplifting. I could (and have) looked at it for a long long time.

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prettywhiteguitar · 07/03/2015 08:07

I love this portrait of Vanessa Bell by Duncan Grant, you can see it in the National portrait gallery. The Bloomsbury portraits were all influenced by French impressionists so are really colourful and loose. I really like them as a group of artists, women were quite equally represented too which is unusual in groups of artists.

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PacificDogwood · 07/03/2015 08:05

The Birds by Franz Marc or almost anything by the painter of the Blue Rider and its German Expressionists. I am quite fond of the French lot as well Grin

SomewhereIBelong · 07/03/2015 07:56

Sorry GallicIsCharlie - the crucible 2 exhibition finished in October - they will probably hold another in a couple of years, I have been to both and they are STUNNING in their diversity and placement of the sculptures - more than 100 from the best sculptors we have to offer placed all over, under and around Gloucester cathedral...

leadrightfoot · 07/03/2015 07:56

Whistlejacket
Just wow try to see it whenever I get the chance, have a print the scale is awesome

TeacupDrama · 07/03/2015 07:53

Lady with an ermine by Leonardo da Vinci personally prefer it to Mona Lisa also like Vermeer lady with milk jug
Arnolfini marriage by van Eyck

nameuschangeus · 07/03/2015 06:43

There is a Canaletto in one of the drawing rooms at Alnwick Castle. I could look at it for hours. I have never seen a print or even a postcard if it. It is beautiful. I go to Alnwick Castle yearly just for that painting.

loveableshoulder · 07/03/2015 06:39

I know nothing about art, btw!

loveableshoulder · 07/03/2015 06:38

I'm so lucky I used to work at the national portrait gallery. Lots of time to wander the corridors looking at the paintings. The Joshua Reynolds self portrait is one of my favourites, I don't really know why. He just looks so innocent, honest, genuine - I can't really explain it.

Also, Whistlejacket, which I used to go and look at next door in my breaks :)

So you have a favourite painting?
So you have a favourite painting?
EmMcK · 07/03/2015 06:21

Oh Toby, I remember seeing that too for the first time and just being struck by the power of the scene.
My favourite is Love Locked out, I just adore it. We are in NZ now but I have a big print. I love it, and my boys are about that age too.
www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/merritt-love-locked-out-n01578

TobyLerone · 07/03/2015 06:01

The Execution of Lady Jane Grey by Paul Delaroche.

The first time I saw it it made me cry. It's just so sad and beautifully painted. The different fabric textures of the clothes when you get up close are incredible.

Fluffyears · 07/03/2015 05:02

Aargh stupid phone 'ophelia'

Fluffyears · 07/03/2015 05:02

Op helps is my favourite painting too. It's so realistic and at john if the cross I go to the kelvin grove gallery a lot to see it

Peaceloveandbiscuits · 07/03/2015 04:56

Sisters I loooove Millais and all the pre-raphaelites!

SistersOfPercy · 07/03/2015 00:00

Oops, forgot image....

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SistersOfPercy · 07/03/2015 00:00

Death of Ophelia by Millias.
When I read the book about Elizabeth Siddal (the model in the picture) I loved it all the more. She nearly died for that painting, she lay in a freezing bath for so many hours she ended up with hypothermia.
I love any painting with her in it though, Rossetti painted some beautiful images of her (he married her eventually) but she was such a tragic figure and it seems to tell the story on her face.

LizardBreath · 06/03/2015 23:58

Juliao sarmento - 'forget me', not a favourite as such, but it has haunted me since I saw it.

dalek · 06/03/2015 23:49

I love starry night by Van Gogh as well - I have an umbrella that has it printed on the inside - lovely.

I am also loving things by Dylan Izaak - I was lucky enough to get a limited edition print of this for my birthday - it's above the fireplace in my living room and makes me smile every time I see it.

www.renniesgallery.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/New-York-Times-by-Dylan-Izaak.jpg

bonzo77 · 06/03/2015 22:41

tatyr me too. Whistlejacket. I saw it in person once aged I guess about 7. But anything Stubbs really. I ride a little chestnut horse who is half Arab half thoroughbred. Probably quite close in type to whistlejacket. He does the pose too occasionally!

GallicIsCharlie · 06/03/2015 22:37

I love that one, too, Alpaca - and the street/cafe one with the starry sky :)

Thanks for the links to the Hirst angels, Somewhere! I can get to Gloucester - might go and admire them for real.

AlpacaPicnic · 06/03/2015 22:23

Starry Night by Van Gogh.
Just so pretty and swirly! I love the colours and thee movement.

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MaelstromOfLunacy · 06/03/2015 22:16

Anything by Danielle O'Connor Akiyama, but particularly Heart's Desire - I have a limited edition print hanging in my bedroom that I was given for my 21st birthday, and it's my most treasured possession.

Magmatic80 · 06/03/2015 22:00

I don't know what it's called but it's a huge oil painting of a Norwegian fjord in Leeds city art gallery. It used to be hung perfectly on a wall and eye level was just above the water so the hillsides towered above you as you gazed at it. They moved it when they did the place up and now it's on the stairs so you can't get close enough to get lost in it anymore, and eye level is the top of the hillsides. Ruined it :( when my ship comes in I'm going to buy it and a house big enough to hang it in

SomewhereIBelong · 06/03/2015 17:34

no - but I do like sculpture - does that count .. Anatomy of an angel (black) and

fallen angel by Damien Hirst are just ... perfect.

weegiemum · 06/03/2015 17:30

Gosh I have loads!

Most moving has to be either Dali's St John of the Cross or Picasso's Guernica.

For sheer joy, I love Joan Miro.