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What painting would you enter & explore?

73 replies

evtheria · 30/09/2023 17:55

• Got to be a painting
• Your choice whether you remain as yourself, or become one of the characters/details in its style
• The painting is like a window into its larger world, ie you will not be confined to just that bit we see
• Bonus points for including a pic of your answer

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evtheria · 30/09/2023 17:57

I'd choose one by Maxfield Parrish, though it's hard deciding which.
I quite like the idea of being one of the lantern bearers, they look like they're getting ready to enter a ball, but then it's be amazing just to wander around his mountains...

What painting would you enter & explore?
What painting would you enter & explore?
What painting would you enter & explore?
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junbean · 30/09/2023 18:06

The Magic Circ by John Waterhouse

What painting would you enter & explore?
FortunataTagnips · 30/09/2023 18:08

I used to love looking at this Canaletto painting of Venice when I was little. There’s so much going on - a bit like a grown-up Richard Scarry, I suppose! I wouldn’t mind spending a bit of time in here, just mooching around and watching people getting on with their daily lives:

https://static01.nyt.com/images/2011/12/09/arts/09VOGEL_SPAN/09VOGEL-jumbo.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp

https://static01.nyt.com/images/2011/12/09/arts/09VOGEL_SPAN/09VOGEL-jumbo.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp

Thisnamesbetter · 30/09/2023 18:15

The Hunters in the Snow Pieter Bruegel the Elder

I'd warm my hands by the fire, skate on the ice and explore the village & life of old times.

What painting would you enter & explore?
embramum · 30/09/2023 18:19

Any of Monet’s garden at Giverny paintings

123ZYX · 30/09/2023 18:19

Starry Nigh - Van Gogh. Despite knowing the story of where it was painted, it's just a calming view (assuming I'd not be kept in the asylum)

embramum · 30/09/2023 18:36

…or (with a nod to the Breugel) The Skating Minister at Duddingston Loch

evtheria · 03/10/2023 19:31

Love these answers.
I went on a bit of a trawl looking up the images and seeing what other works they led me to.

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InDubiousBattle · 03/10/2023 19:43

The Finding of the Saviour in the Temple by William Holman Hunt or Work by Ford Maddox Brown.

ConstitutionHill · 03/10/2023 19:50

The Robing of the Bride - Max Ernst.

ConstitutionHill · 03/10/2023 19:51

Here it is.

squashyhat · 03/10/2023 20:29

Nighthawks by Edward Hopper. I would love to know what circumstances brought them together in that place and time.

Nighthawks, 1942 by Edward Hopper

Nighthawks, 1942 by Edward Hopper

https://www.edwardhopper.net/nighthawks.jsp

Lavenderosa · 03/10/2023 20:38

The Golden Stairs by Edward Byrne-Jones. I have a large print of this and I'd like to know where they're coming from and where they're going. I would disguise myself as one of the women.

‘The Golden Stairs‘, Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, Bt, 1880 | Tate

‘The Golden Stairs‘, Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, Bt, 1880 on display at Tate Britain.

https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/burne-jones-the-golden-stairs-n04005

BristolBlueGlasses · 03/10/2023 20:56

Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy by David Hockney. I'd love to wander through the streets of Notting Hill and experience swinging London back in the 1960s......and perhaps buy several houses at 1960s prices!!

BristolBlueGlasses · 03/10/2023 20:59

Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy.

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YellSomeMoreAdam · 03/10/2023 21:20

Renoir's Luncheon of The Boating Party, I did a jigsaw of it with my Mum when I was a teen and I loved it. Always seemed like people were having interesting conversations and I wanted to fall into the picture since then.

What painting would you enter & explore?
StowOnTheWold · 03/10/2023 21:25

I’m already inside Dali’s 🐝 flight around a pomegranate and I want to come back out.

MariePaperRoses · 03/10/2023 21:28

Alfred Sisley

Le Pont de Moret-sur-Loing

Le Pont de Moret-sur-Loing depicts one of most iconic landscapes in Sisley's oeuvre, showing the town of Moret across the river Loing.
This exquisitely detailed example belongs to an important series that Sisley completed during the last decade of his life, following his move to Moret in 1880.
Sisley cherished the beauty and quietness of the town, notable for its mills built upon a multi-arched bridge and its sturdy medieval architecture, which he painted from multiple viewpoints.
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What a beautiful place for a long stroll.

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Ameanstreakamilewide · 04/10/2023 17:22

Thisnamesbetter · 30/09/2023 18:15

The Hunters in the Snow Pieter Bruegel the Elder

I'd warm my hands by the fire, skate on the ice and explore the village & life of old times.

I like his Fall of Icarus.

He's basically saying 'life goes on'.

Thisnamesbetter · 04/10/2023 17:25

Ameanstreakamilewide · 04/10/2023 17:22

I like his Fall of Icarus.

He's basically saying 'life goes on'.

I like all the Bruegel paintings I've seen. The elder and the younger.
I keep finding new things to see in them.

NomenNudum · 04/10/2023 17:57

Such a great question! I'd have a poke around in Henry Darger's Realms of the Unreal, though I'd stay quite close to my spaceship so I could make a quick getaway if needed 😬

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Gnomegnomegnome · 04/10/2023 18:04

Obviously I would love to sit and watch the world go by in Van Gogh’s The Cafe Terrace on the Place du Forum.

I would also jump into Sir john everett millais painting and save Ophelia.

What painting would you enter & explore?
What painting would you enter & explore?
Gnomegnomegnome · 04/10/2023 18:05

BristolBlueGlasses · 03/10/2023 20:59

Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy.

I love that

whatsappdoc · 04/10/2023 18:44

Gnomegnomegnome · 04/10/2023 18:04

Obviously I would love to sit and watch the world go by in Van Gogh’s The Cafe Terrace on the Place du Forum.

I would also jump into Sir john everett millais painting and save Ophelia.

Have you been to the Van Gogh immersive exhibition in London yet? The virtual reality add-on takes you to the Cafe and you can wander in and out and look around the street. I loved it.

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