So you have a favourite painting?

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

Anything at all by Vladimir Kush, but especially "Diary o Discoveries" ...

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Brilliant thread caulk, it's reminded me of how I used to love to lose myself in paintings when I was younger.
A favourite was in the Ashmolean in Oxford, of men hunting in the woods. Sadly, havn't a clue who it was by.

Tiger in a tropical storm by Henri Rousseau.

Love this thread.

Love Rousseau.

Three of my favourites.

Arnolfini Wedding by Van Eyck and also joie due vivre by Picasso. lush!

Mumzy, I'm a fellow Dufy fan. But this is my favourite.:

Not a painting, but a sculpture. The Winged Victory of Samothrace. I can sit on the stairs in the Louvre for hours and just look at it. I love it.

Thank-you, alittleegg!

spaceal, I haven't been as to get back to the Tate since the DCs arrived. And as for the film, was it good? Did they use the story (apparently just a myth) of him being lashed to a mast for the inspiration for that painting?

Casper could you explain why you love the Winged Victory? I saw it in the Louvre but didn't get it at all, I would love it if you could give me a bit of an insight. I did however really love the Venus De Milo.

Dh and I went to Tate modern a few years ago to the Rothko exhibition. I was in awe of his paintings and much to my suprise I was captivated by his black paintings. The genuine brilliance of black on black with texture being the focus has stayed with me more than any other.

Cafe Terrace at Night by Van Gogh, and Echo and Narcissus by Waterhouse.

Love Kandinsky this being one of my favourites

Snap Teacup! Love the Lady with an ermine.

Also love all of Hokusai's Mount Fuji pictures, beautiful and interesting.

What a lovely thread.

Or The Ambassadors by Holbein, amazing.

Another Van Gogh lover here too, he seems very popular on this thread!
This one made me stare for a long long time in the Van Gogh gallery in Amsterdam. Such a story in such a tiny humble painting.

Ooo, also loved seeing Joseph Wright's work in Derby museum/ art gallery recently, dark and yet full of luminosity. Quite lovely. Couldn't say which I liked best, so here's a picture of the gallery and some of the best ones. (not me in pic, from tripadvisor). Well worth a visit if you're in the east midlands.

Not sure on an actual favorite as there's loads of beautiful ones.. My favorite artist would have be LS Lowery.. I also love the hay wain although I don't know who it's by.
Have any of you visited the Liverpool art gallery. It's brilliant. I often used to take dd where she choose a picture and write a story about what she thought was happening in the picture.
Also there is a little room there for little one called big art for little artists. It's a free and educational day out. If you're in to paintings it's highly recommendable.

I like 'The Scream' as it echoes how I feel sometimes!

I also like Van Gogh & Lowry as artists.

At the moment it's a portrait of General Leonard Wood by John Singer Sargent. It's in the Smithsonian in Washington DC just kind of in a corner like it's no big deal. Wood was a 'rough rider' in his youth and went on to do various political jobs, from the official records he was an uncomplicated character - not a particularly fascinating subject you would think, but Sargent obviously saw something in him. His expression is so complex and vulnerable, and there's someghing in there like lust or attraction and it's very hard to pin down, and mesmerising when you're standing in front of it. There are unanswered questions about Sargent's sexual orientation, so sometimes I think maybe Sargent could have been attracted to Wood and painted in a reflection of how he felt. Anyway. Not a great pic but if you are passing through DC I would highly recommend. It's next to a nice little Degas so it's not likely you'd be wasting a trip!

I saw this one in the Rijksmuseum last year
I adore her expression

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oh - lost half her face

Sorry to be predictable but another Whistlejacket here. I'm looking at a print on my wall now.

I do love Starry Night as well, and I enjoy Munnings' paintings of Exmoor.

John Singer Sargent's 'Carnation Lily Lily Rose'.

I love the soft glowing light on the girls' faces and the twilight feeling it evokes.

I think Guernica is amazing (and I have spent quite a bit of time studying Picasso, and I too went to Madrid specifically to see it) - but I can't say it's a favourite, because it's not at all comfortable.

Love Kandinsky's use of colour.

Love Whistlejacket, just the size of it when you walk into that gallery.

Love Millais's Ophelia, which I first saw in a library book when I was about 7, and I thought it was a photo, not a painting - I mean, it was a photo of the painting, but I thought what was depicted was a photo, and it blew me away that someone could paint like that. Had a soft spot for the PreRaphaelites ever since.

But my favourite ever is Holman Hunt's Our English Coasts (Strayed Sheep).
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