What painting would you enter & explore?

[evtheria]

• 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

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...

The Magic Circ by John Waterhouse

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:

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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.

Any of Monet’s garden at Giverny paintings

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)

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

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

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

The Robing of the Bride - Max Ernst.

Here it is.

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

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.

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!!

Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy.

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.

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

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.

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.

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 😬

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.

I love that

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.

The Attersee painting(s) by Klimt.
I am in fact going to explore the real location next year, but I want it to look like that.