So you have a favourite painting?

[CaulkheadUpNorth]

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

Whoops, not the Louvre, the Jeu de Paume as was back then.

Oh it did work! Wow i've learnt something tonight!

I love Waterhouse but this is my fave.

Its very sexy and I love the faces and the beauty of the bodies. Both the Male & female.

Same as ohmymimi (I think we have "conversed" before though can't remember about what?!)

I think I would burst into tears if I stood before it in RL

yes thats a beat madey I wonder where it is?

This also because it reminds me of Sondheim's Sunday in The Park with George, a musical written about the artist Georges Seurat

Manchester art gallery. Beyond repair. A lot of his are at the Tate. But a awful lot are privately owned. Shame.

I love that Monet - haven't seen it before. Must go to the Louvre some day.

Isn't the Lady of Shalott by Waterhouse.

I love Isabella and the pot of basil. Such a twisted weird story, and a beautiful painting.

(There's a severed head under the basil)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabella_and_the_Pot_of_Basil#mediaviewer/File:WHH_Isabella_Pot_of_Basil_DelArt.jpg

Love this thread, really enjoying looking up the paintings I don't know.

Makes me wish a had an hour to go and have a poke around a gallery.

Going to try and put the images in, my link was ambiguous.

Jacques-Louis David's 'The Death of Marat (French: La Mort de Marat or Marat Assassiné)' is pretty stunning and might be in my top 10.

I would love to see this in the flesh. It has such mystery in it, the rider has such a serene expression but there is darkness and tension in it too

EBearHug - no, but thank you - it's very like it. Have a feeling it's on a boat. Damn memory, no longer working!

This one it hangs on my wall it is by Linda Charles.

I also adore many of Miro's minimalist wall pictures. Funny in a way as a child when my dad used to drag me to art galleries I hated abstracts.

Hello all,
We have had a few reports of this thread, nominating it for Classics, and we agree that it is lovely. So staaaand by...

thanks MN - would be good to be able to look through it - so many great recommendations.

I have another sculpture - I cry when I see pictures of it - it is a Monument to unborn children in Slovakia called The child who was never born by Martin Hudá?eka.

It is beautiful, soooo beautiful and EXTREMELY moving
imgur.com/gallery/u3gOFcN don't click if you are feeling hormonal.

Thanks, MNHQ!

Sculptures too now? My favourite is The Dying Gaul

Oh no Somewhereibelong I have tears in my eyes now

Can I be a little bit excited that I created a thread, and it's been SO exciting to see people's favourite pieces of art and it's got into classics. Woop!

somewhereIbelong that is haunting.

Yy caulkheadupnorth, great thread

I've just bought this painting from a local gallery (one in Lichfield if anyone is local to there) I thought I'd share it incase anyone else likes this sort of thing.

I love those pictures CaulkheadUpNorth very much my sort of thing...

I don't really have a favourite as my tastes have changed throughout my life, but I have a few paintings that have always stayed important to me

The Leighton one is very special to me as I bought a print a couple of months after I met my XDH and it called out to me so much - it's her position I think, I sit like that all the time and I was so in love at the time! It might have all gone wrong but I still love the painting and the way it made me feel back then.

The Tadema one makes me feel all hot and blurry, as if I've been sitting on that hot marble in the sun. Bliss!

Somewhere, you just made me cry in public!

I was just thinking, me hormonal? Me, emotional? Nah, course not! Tough as nails, me!

Forgot, I cry at adverts.