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

The Little Street, Vermeer.

Actually, anything by Vermeer.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Reflections_on_the_Thames,Westminster-_Grimshaw,_John_Atkinson.jpg

I've always wanted to step into Reflections on the Thames by Grimshaw. It's so atmospheric. I used to stare at it for hours in the art gallery in Leeds!

Wow this is such an amazing thread. I don't have an answer yet just enjoying reading everyone else's Xx

Oh, any piece of medieval art. Preferably the ones painted by someone who has clearly never seen what they are painting. The cats are my favourite.

The great thing about the Canaletto picture of Venice is that the view is still recognisable today, if you find the right spot.

I once had a birthday card from my DPs with that Renoir.

Wow, that one’s awesome @CaptainCallisto. I fancy a bit of a wander round Bosch’s garden of earthly delights - utterly mental and compelling

Several paintings that my grandad did. Specifically, the one of the fields and stream behind his house in Wiltshire, because I always wanted to dip my feet in the stream and explore the fields. Also one of a beach on the Isle of Wight, so I can go explore the rock pools and the little boat. And then I’d like to turn around and see him painting, so I can talk to him as an adult (he died when I was 11), and meet him when he was much younger too. I’d love to just watch him draw.

Jack Vettriano's The Singing Butler.

The dress was originally green. Not red.

I saw it in the Rijksmuseum a week ago. Absolutely stunning.

great thread thanks OP

Damn - you beat me to it 😁.

Another vote for Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights. I saw this and could have spent hours standing in front of it.

I’m also fascinated by A Young Emir Studying by Osman Hamdy Bey, from 19c Istanbul.

garden of earthly delights by Bosch
one of Hogarth’s crowd scenes like Country life or Southwark fair would be cool to meet all the characters from 18th century Britain

Although I saw this pencil sketch by Bosch (The Trees Have Ears and the Field Has Eyes) in an exhibition a few years ago and could definitely lose myself in this particular world of his.

The Spreading tree - Sir George Clausen.

Reminds me of the film Picnic at hanging rock where the young girls languish in the sunshine.

Well, if anyone wants a painting that they can actually stand in - ok, you have to go to the real place to actually explore, smell and hear it - then, don't miss this.
It has to be seen to be believed (and even then the believing is a thing of the mind rather than the eyes). And not a lot of people know about it.

Museum Panorama Mesdag (panorama-mesdag.nl)

I'd like to step into Botticelli's Primavera. I mean obviously it's a lovely place to wander with all those flowers and plants. But really I want to talk to Flora- I feel like she's a real woman somehow caught in a Renaissance painting

Tintoretto the last supper
Or a Caravaggio
As long as I could be an invisible bystander

I was going to say the same painting. I saw it when i was younger and I've loved it ever since.

David Hockney's swimming pools always look so inviting to me. I like the look of this one, with the Mountain View. 

Portrait of the Artist

I’ve always been fascinated by the couple (father and daughter, I think) in American Gothic. He looks so forbidding and she so sad. Would love to have a chat with them about their lives.
https://www.artic.edu/artworks/6565/american-gothic

Virtually any painting by Thomas Kinkade.

Richard Edward MILLER.

Jeune femme au collier circa 1919.
(Young girl with a necklace.)

Step into her shoes for a day.