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Your favorite paintings?

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Your favorite paintings?
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Your favorite paintings?
April 10, 2013 at 6:22 pm


becca's consideration of Michelangelo's work inspired me.

Post your favorite paintings. (I hope this isn't a duplicate thread; I looked but didn't see anything similar. If so, please merge or close. tnx.)


"Denim and Silk" by Christine Rosamond

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"The Scapegoat" by William Holman Hunt

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RE: Your favorite paintings?
April 10, 2013 at 6:26 pm
Geurnica - Pablo Picasso

[Image: guernica.jpg]
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RE: Your favorite paintings?
April 10, 2013 at 6:54 pm
Great thread Apo!

For me it has always been Salvador Dali's The Persistence of Memory.

[Image: persistence2.jpg]

For me, I love the emotive contradictions I perceive. Haunting yet serene. Confused yet ordered. Dismaying yet encouraging.

I had also heard Pink Floyd's Time before seeing the painting; they are inextrably linked in my mind.
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RE: Your favorite paintings?
April 10, 2013 at 7:05 pm
I'm partial to Van Gogh's "Starry Night".

[Image: Vincent-van-Gogh-The-Starry-Night-631.jpg]

Though I have to admit, I'm a big fan of this as well.


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RE: Your favorite paintings?
April 10, 2013 at 7:31 pm
Are you guys inside my head??? The Guernica (print) hung on the dining room wall in my house all through growing up, then I inherited it, then I gave it to my sister who keeps it on the wall in her guest bedroom.

I have Dali all over my house (he's my favorite).

And Starry Night? I'm having a tattoo designed in that tradition to cover another tattoo.

Fun thread, Apo!
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RE: Your favorite paintings?
April 10, 2013 at 7:40 pm
CD just posted my favorite painting of all time. Here are a few more:

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RE: Your favorite paintings?
April 10, 2013 at 7:54 pm
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RE: Your favorite paintings?
April 10, 2013 at 7:55 pm (This post was last modified: April 10, 2013 at 7:55 pm by Faith No More.)
I don't have a huge inventory of paintings inside my head, but this one always stood out to me. (It used to be my avatar)

"Chronos Devouring His Children" by Francisco de Goya

[Image: KronosDevours.jpg]

Not only is it somewhat disturbing, it is based on Greek mythology. Double whammy.

And even though they're not paintings per se, I have to post something by M. C. Escher. This is one of my favorites.

[Image: mc_escher.jpg?1357665533]
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RE: Your favorite paintings?
April 10, 2013 at 7:59 pm
pritty much everything by Gustav Klimt


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German painters tend to be shit. Austrians are great.
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RE: Your favorite paintings?
April 10, 2013 at 8:17 pm (This post was last modified: April 10, 2013 at 8:18 pm by Cinjin.)
Don't know if it's my favorite, but I liked it so much I bought it and hung it in my home.


The Human Comedy
Michael Trull 1990
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