So you have a favourite painting?

[CaulkheadUpNorth]

This is mine. It's called A pageant of childhood By Thomas Cooper Gotch

So you have? I meant Do you have! Maybe my thread title is just assuming you will have one...

Not a painting but a sketch - Don Quixote by Picasso. It's very spare, a few lines really. Dapple is adorable, Rocinante is incredibly bony and yet noble of stance. Love it.

Ive just had a look at it. It's so different from other stuff by Picasso (the women and the colour)

yy so so different

The first time I saw it, it made me do a double take of the artist. Ofc v clever too, a few strokes of the pen and BAM here's ye man, away tilting at windmills, ta-dah.

This one. Shows a carefree, nature-loving side of HRM. MUCH better than that Lucian Freud disaster!

Blimey, I have loads! Here's one. I love every work Kandinsky made.

I have a postcard of that one gallic, I love it. There was an exhibition at the Tate modern a few years ago of Kandinskys work and I saw so much I had never seen before.

I have loads too, but this is one of my favourites by Waterhouse

Wish I'd seen that, Caulk :) It must have been a joyful exhibition!

Whistlejacket. Makes me glad every time i see it

I love a painting in Manchester city art gallery called The Chariot Race I think. I could sit in front of it all day. The horses look like they are thundering towards you. I'm a bit of a tech div so can't link a pic.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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!

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.

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

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.

Oops, forgot image....

Sisters I loooove Millais and all the pre-raphaelites!

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

Aargh stupid phone 'ophelia'