So you have a favourite painting?

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

I really, really wanted to go to the RA's 2012 Hockney exhibition. I'm sure visitors must have felt they could walk straight into the scenes, both very familiar and strangely surreal at the same time.

Agreed about Classics, it's a wonderful thread!

American Gothic by Grant Wood.

I was talking to a friend about this one recently, and she said seeing it in the gallery, it was really compelling, one of those ones where reproductions simply don't do it justice at all.

Love this thread.

I have so many favourites, I couldn't choose one.

Love a bit of Klee & have this in my study.

Turner's Harlech Castle

I have never been there, nor have any connection to the place, but I fell in love with it when I saw it in the Tate. Like so many, the reproduced image here does not do it justice.

It seemed to me the perfect representation of dreamy evening light, so beautiful you wanted to just walk into it. I could have looked at it for hours.

I also love The Starry Night and the Blue Rigi as I went there on honeymoon.

Having another go at the girl in the blue dress...
yay!

EBearhug - I'm jealous of your friend, I'd love to see the original. I find it hard to look away from even when a reproduction

Dutch art too - love vermeer.

I'm jealous of her too, Jacques - but her work means she gets to travel a lot, so she fits in galleries and so on alongside.

I can't pick just one but anything by George Shaw.
His paintings really capture that childhood sense of growing up in suburbs and waiting for life to begin - the mix of boredom and possiblity.
There's something so poetic and beautiful yet sinister and melancholy about his work.

I love so many of the pictures you've all linked. I've shown my son some, but I'm meant to be reading him a story!

I used to have the Kandinsky circles one on my wall as a Uni student. Many happy moments were had underneath that large print

I just can't think of a favourite. There are too many. But will think of one for later..

ooooo I love that sketch undertone and that painting above is lovely. If I ever find myself in Washington I will be going to see that.

I love George Shaw - and he paints in enamel paints, which is quite unusual.

Yes - they are done in Humbrol model enamel which adds to the wonderful unheimlich quality of light.
It must be really hard to work with as it behaves really differently to other paint.
I love the confluence of skill and feeling quality in his work.

I have seen some of these today! Saw The Turner Pale Horse, Ophelia, also love Lady and Ermine, and Ambassadors, Lady of Shallot and Guernica. Girl with Pearl Earing, all Emma Hart. Love carnation lily rose

Yes, idle that's the one.
Another vote here to have this moved to classics

Hellelil and Hildebrand, The Meeting on the Turret Stairs

Never ever seen that one before, LOVE IT.

Love Vermeer and also the French one, the Asbtithne ones, girl looking at abstinch lots of them in the someset house gallery.

manet, girl in a bar. Degas - L Absithne

It fabulous isn't it BeyondRepair. I just adore the emotion captured in it.

I really want to go see the real thing. Shall have to take time off work though as I think it's open two weekdays a week and only in the morning for two hours!!!

I love Munnings too and have a little print waiting to be framed. I bought this Cecil Aldin in December,I've always loved his work and the horse has an expression exactly like our pony. The pencil sketch was bought in an auction,I've no idea who did it,but I love it, it cost me £9.

My favourite is The Kiss by Gustav Klimt. Absolutely beautiful..sorry i can't link a picture i'm a real luddite and my tech support guys (the kids) are not here!

Jockeys in the rain. Edgar Degas
Woman at bath. Edgar Degas
Whistle jacket. Stubbs
The kiss gust av Klimt
The wassail. Margaret mackintosh. I have a print above my Charles rennie mackintosh bed and bedroom furniture

I love all of Avril Patons work. I collect her signed prints.

The birth of Venus by Botticelli. I know it's probably over famous, but I saw it in the Uffizi in Florence and it is beautiful, very large and just lovely.

My favourite sculpture is Cupid and psyche in the Louvre. It's just so romantic, I saw it on honeymoon and will always love it.

van gogh almond tree in bloom

moroni the tailor - put him in a hoodie and the face would feel as alive or real as how he is in the painting

EBear and Smarties I think George Shaw is great too. Saw his Turner prize exhibition in 2011 at Baltic in Gateshead. Was great and really resonated without memories of the various small towns I grew up in. I like the extraordinary ordinariness of his paintings.