100 best paintings poll nomination thread

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A painting shall be defined as a work in paint on a flat surface, including canvases, panels, walls, and ceilings. Works of multiple panels (triptychs, etc) shall count as a single work. Paintings on canvas or panel with collage elements are permitted as long as the primary medium is paint.

Other ambiguities will be decided by fiat or overlooked.

Nominations close when I feel like it.

G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Sunday, 4 December 2022 16:47 (two years ago)

Kazimir Malevich, Black Cross

but also fuck you (unperson), Sunday, 4 December 2022 16:48 (two years ago)

Robert Williams, Carne de Amore

https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-SvvkRSm0vso/WqVLkoZRrDI/AAAAAAAAGkk/zzweMsiHoykUT7N-_O4L2ohyuHcQoqPGACEwYBhgL/s1600/williams%252C%2Brobert%2Bchick%2Bon%2Benchilada.jpeg

but also fuck you (unperson), Sunday, 4 December 2022 16:50 (two years ago)

Joseph Ducreux, Portrait de l'artiste sous les traits d'un moqueur
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9a/Ducreux1.jpg

formerly abanana (dat), Sunday, 4 December 2022 17:40 (two years ago)

^^^ Love that one.

but also fuck you (unperson), Sunday, 4 December 2022 17:42 (two years ago)

Sargent - El Jaleo

The Bankruptcy of the Planet of the Apes (PBKR), Sunday, 4 December 2022 17:42 (two years ago)

this guy rocks:

The Study of Vermeer, 1964 #botero #naïveart https://t.co/kO1OuaA9Dr pic.twitter.com/OHcYWvnsNS

— Fernando Botero (@ArtistBotero) December 2, 2022

mark s, Sunday, 4 December 2022 17:45 (two years ago)

Dalí's Cerberus pic.twitter.com/XQ1BAk8ubB

— Andrei (@TheUntranslated) December 4, 2022

xyzzzz__, Sunday, 4 December 2022 17:45 (two years ago)

time to crack open my Sister Wendy books

fleeting art that floats! (geoffreyess), Sunday, 4 December 2022 17:46 (two years ago)

Velazquez - Portrait of Juan de Pareja

The Bankruptcy of the Planet of the Apes (PBKR), Sunday, 4 December 2022 17:55 (two years ago)

Anselm Kiefer, Zim Zum

https://media.nga.gov/iiif/f57996d5-eee1-4986-a985-9b9a25164a36__640/full/!588,600/0/default.jpg

DPRK in Cincinnati (WmC), Sunday, 4 December 2022 18:01 (two years ago)

Remedios Varo - Creation of the Birds
https://uploads6.wikiart.org/images/remedios-varo/creation-of-the-birds.jpg!Large.jpg

Leonora Carrington - The Giantess
https://uploads7.wikiart.org/images/leonora-carrington/the-giantess-1950.jpg!Large.jpg

Jean-Léon Gérôme - Truth Coming Out of Her Well to Shame Mankind
https://uploads7.wikiart.org/00233/images/jean-leon-gerome/jean-l-on-gerome-1896-la-v-rit-sortant-du-puits.jpg!Large.jpg

emil.y, Sunday, 4 December 2022 18:10 (two years ago)

Also, like obv, Garden of Earthly Delights.

emil.y, Sunday, 4 December 2022 18:11 (two years ago)

Raises the question, why is she in the well

G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Sunday, 4 December 2022 18:11 (two years ago)

Probably I’ll leave nominations open for a year or so, see if we can get up to 2000 noms

G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Sunday, 4 December 2022 18:12 (two years ago)

down a well is the only place you can be without shaming mankind

ciderpress, Sunday, 4 December 2022 18:13 (two years ago)

I think there are actually other paintings of her in the well, unless I just dreamt that. Hang on, got to do some googling.

emil.y, Sunday, 4 December 2022 18:14 (two years ago)

Ah yeah, wiki has a bit of the backstory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth_Coming_Out_of_Her_Well

One of the other paintings is called the nurturer Truth lies in a well, having been killed by liars and actors, so I guess that's why she's down there.

emil.y, Sunday, 4 December 2022 18:16 (two years ago)

damn those actors

mark s, Sunday, 4 December 2022 18:23 (two years ago)

The general societal view of actors as malign trash really needs to make a comeback.

but also fuck you (unperson), Sunday, 4 December 2022 18:38 (two years ago)

It has been assumed that both paintings (like a similar, later work by Édouard Debat-Ponsan) were comments on the Dreyfus affair,[5] but art historian Bernard Tillier argues that Gérôme's images of Truth and the well were part of his ongoing diatribe against Impressionism.[6][7]

lol, I like that second reading. Truth coming out of her well to scream at impressionist hipsters.

jmm, Sunday, 4 December 2022 18:43 (two years ago)

gerome screaming at mike yarwood

mark s, Sunday, 4 December 2022 18:52 (two years ago)

gerome and unperson screaming at mike yarwood

mark s, Sunday, 4 December 2022 18:52 (two years ago)

There is this artists self-portrait which I thought was by Rembrandt, but doesn’t seem to be in Wikipedia’s compendium of Rembrandt self portraits. It depicts a tiny artist with a huge looming empty canvas before him. A great depiction, that no matter how good you may be at your job, the normal response to the undertaking of any large task is “oh shit how or where do I even start this, what am I even doing, God I suck.”

Lord Pickles (Boring, Maryland), Sunday, 4 December 2022 18:57 (two years ago)

it looks like it is a Rembrandt, but not really a self-portrait: https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-early-rembrandt-perfectly-captures-anxiety-facing-blank-canvas

Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Sunday, 4 December 2022 19:00 (two years ago)

will throw some noms in the well:

hodler - femme joyeuse
pisanello - the vision of saint eustace
van gogh - l'arlesienne
goya - the dog

devvvine, Sunday, 4 December 2022 19:17 (two years ago)

El Greco - The Burial of the Count of Orghaz

The Bankruptcy of the Planet of the Apes (PBKR), Sunday, 4 December 2022 19:22 (two years ago)

https://pictures.abebooks.com/inventory/md/md22381697720.jpg

mark s, Sunday, 4 December 2022 19:24 (two years ago)

Demuth - I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold

The Bankruptcy of the Planet of the Apes (PBKR), Sunday, 4 December 2022 19:27 (two years ago)

I would like to nominate the entire Lascaux cave complex as a single painting since it can be considered as one enormous wall mural. Here is a small sample:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lascaux,_Megaloceros.jpg

more difficult than I look (Aimless), Sunday, 4 December 2022 19:28 (two years ago)

Füssli / Fuseli - Silence:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5e/Johann_Heinrich_F%C3%BCssli_-_Silence_-_WGA08336.jpg

ArchCarrier, Sunday, 4 December 2022 19:30 (two years ago)

A few personal faves. I love lots of Charles Burchfield, but I'll stick with these two for now:

Gateway to September

http://www.huntermuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Burchfield_1976.3.6-1-e1586109046996.jpg

Ghost Plants (Corn and Sunflowers)

https://burchfieldpenney.org/cache/images/45b8b3a8af3c92452bc773e06477f928.jpg

a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 4 December 2022 20:02 (two years ago)

John Everett Millais "Autumn Leaves"

https://d3d00swyhr67nd.cloudfront.net/w1200h1200/collection/GMIII/MCAG/GMIII_MCAG_1892_4-001.jpg

a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 4 December 2022 20:03 (two years ago)

Archibald John Motley Jr., "Night Life"

https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/ec19d5f1-ae0f-5186-d421-4a53dca5fb90/full/843,/0/default.jpg

a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 4 December 2022 20:07 (two years ago)

jacques lous david - death of marat

goya - saturn devouring his son

ilya repin - ivan the terrible and his son ivan

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_the_Terrible_and_His_Son_Ivan

the late great, Sunday, 4 December 2022 20:35 (two years ago)

obvious choices i guess but obvious for a reason

caspar david friedrich - sea of ice

grunwald - isenheim altarpiece

jasper johns - flag 1954-1955

mark rothko - brown, blue, brown on blue

philip guston - the studio

the late great, Sunday, 4 December 2022 20:39 (two years ago)

I'd never seen the one ArchCarrier posted before, I really love that.

emil.y, Sunday, 4 December 2022 20:40 (two years ago)

Guys post pictures please unless I recognise the name I’m not bothering to look these up

bit high, bitch (gyac), Sunday, 4 December 2022 20:44 (two years ago)

Umberto Boccioni, The City Rises

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b4/The_City_Rises_by_Umberto_Boccioni_1910.jpg

Lavator Shemmelpennick, Sunday, 4 December 2022 20:47 (two years ago)

pisanello - the vision of saint eustace

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/23/Pisanello_018.jpg

devvvine, Sunday, 4 December 2022 20:48 (two years ago)

Going to add some I found when I was trawling through the years -

https://i0.wp.com/centuriesofsound.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/george-frederic-watts-e28093-after-the-deluge.jpg

George Frederic Watts – After the Deluge (1891)

https://i0.wp.com/centuriesofsound.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/anders-zorn-a-portrait-of-the-daughters-of-ramc3b3n-subercaseaux.jpg

Anders Zorn – A Portrait of the Daughters of Ramón Subercaseaux (1892)

https://i0.wp.com/centuriesofsound.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/stanisc582aw-wyspiac584ski-planty-o-swicie.jpg

Stanisław Wyspiański – Planty o swicie (1894)

Camaraderie at Arms Length, Sunday, 4 December 2022 20:49 (two years ago)

wilhelm trubner - caesar at the rubicon

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b4/Wilhelm_Trübner_-_Caesar_am_Rubicon_-_8522_-_Österreichische_Galerie_Belvedere.jpg

devvvine, Sunday, 4 December 2022 20:51 (two years ago)

lmao what a good boy

imago, Sunday, 4 December 2022 20:56 (two years ago)

I mean, not that good. Not now there's a sausage

imago, Sunday, 4 December 2022 20:57 (two years ago)

ross bleckner - cage

https://www.artnet.com/artists/ross-bleckner/cage-pxo7CUwZt7AEbaE5m2jnA2

the late great, Sunday, 4 December 2022 20:57 (two years ago)

I sometimes think "The Young Napoleon Bonaparte Studying At The Military Academy" is the hardest painting of all time pic.twitter.com/A0aGuGSNG6

— Jash Dholani (@oldbooksguy) December 4, 2022

xyzzzz__, Sunday, 4 December 2022 21:00 (two years ago)

jacques lous david - death of marat

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_of_Marat

goya - saturn devouring his son

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_Devouring_His_Son

caspar david friedrich - sea of ice

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sea_of_Ice

jasper johns - flag 1954-1955

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_(painting)

mark rothko - brown, blue, brown on blue (apparently name changed since i saw in person)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/No._61_(Rust_and_Blue)

philip guston - the studio

https://www.artsy.net/artwork/philip-guston-the-studio

the late great, Sunday, 4 December 2022 21:02 (two years ago)

ooh I do like a hammershøi.

ledge, Sunday, 4 December 2022 21:12 (two years ago)

yeah all three of those are great. hard to believe that portrait is 1909

the late great, Sunday, 4 December 2022 21:14 (two years ago)

avant-garde anachronism in old paintings

^ you might be interested in the above thread for out-of-time art

koogs, Sunday, 4 December 2022 21:22 (two years ago)

thx!!!

the late great, Sunday, 4 December 2022 21:26 (two years ago)

Masaccio - Expulsion from the Garden of Eden

https://static.artbible.info/large/masaccio_verdrijving.jpg

Francis Bacon - Study After Velasquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/56/Study_after_Velazquez%27s_Portrait_of_Pope_Innocent_X.jpg

John Martin - Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/328524630/figure/fig1/AS:685803512553474@1540519707842/Destruction-of-the-cities-of-Sodom-and-Gomorrah-as-envisaged-by-John-Martin-in-1852.png

Hello I'm shitty gatsworth (aldo), Sunday, 4 December 2022 21:32 (two years ago)

https://smarthistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/cezannethumb-870x659.jpg

Paul Cézanne, Mont Sainte-Victoire

calzino, Sunday, 4 December 2022 21:41 (two years ago)

I nommed the first 2 simply because Ive seen them in person so many times (I used to go to the NGA in Canberra on my lunch breaks).

Stoop Crone (Trayce), Sunday, 4 December 2022 21:43 (two years ago)

https://arthistoryproject.com/site/assets/files/11801/william-adolphe-bouguereau-dante-and-virgil-in-hell-1850-obelisk-art-history.jpg

Bouguereau, Dante and Virgil in Hell

Shard-borne Beatles with their drowsy hums (Chinaski), Sunday, 4 December 2022 21:49 (two years ago)

https://uploads0.wikiart.org/images/ilya-repin/a-shy-peasant-1877.jpg!Large.jpg

Ilya Repin, A Shy Peasant

https://media.tate.org.uk/art/images/work/T/T02/T02039_10.jpg

Walter Sickert, Minnie Cunningham at the Old Bedford

Shard-borne Beatles with their drowsy hums (Chinaski), Sunday, 4 December 2022 21:53 (two years ago)

Two favourites.

Pieter Brueghel the Elder - The Magpie on the Gallows

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1c/Die_Elster_auf_dem_Galgen.jpg

Rembrandt - Bathsheba at Her Bath

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2c/Rembrandt_Harmensz._van_Rijn_016.jpg

jmm, Sunday, 4 December 2022 21:57 (two years ago)

pierre-auguste renoir - spring, chatou

https://www.pubhist.com/works/50/large/pierre_auguste_renoir_spring_chatou.jpg

devvvine, Sunday, 4 December 2022 22:02 (two years ago)

gorgeous

Lavator Shemmelpennick, Sunday, 4 December 2022 22:04 (two years ago)

https://media.tate.org.uk/art/images/work/T/T00/T00801_10.jpg

Spinning Round, Jean Dubuffet

calzino, Sunday, 4 December 2022 22:05 (two years ago)

georgia o'keeffe - autumn leaves, lake george

https://www.georgiaokeeffe.net/images/paintings/autumn-leaves.jpg

devvvine, Sunday, 4 December 2022 22:08 (two years ago)

https://d3d00swyhr67nd.cloudfront.net/w1200h1200/collection/ES/BRHM/ES_BRHM_BNS_036_028A-001.jpg

Cecil Osborne - Sunday Morning, Farringdon Road (1929)

Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Sunday, 4 December 2022 22:17 (two years ago)

I like that O'Keeffe, haven't seen that one before.

Stoop Crone (Trayce), Sunday, 4 December 2022 22:20 (two years ago)

http://totallyhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/composition-vii-1913.jpg

Wassily Kandinsky, Composition VII

immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Sunday, 4 December 2022 22:24 (two years ago)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bauhaus_Stairway#/media/File:Oskar_Schlemmer_-_Bauhaustreppe_1932.jpg

Oskar Schlemmer - Bauhaus Schlemmer

bulb after bulb, Sunday, 4 December 2022 22:47 (two years ago)

apologies, Bauhaus Stairway, don't know why the wiki link is bad.

bulb after bulb, Sunday, 4 December 2022 22:50 (two years ago)


pierre-auguste renoir - spring, chatou

i must protest.

https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/07867ba5ee6ed93ce74b494e55a8ee9252ed2fd5/0_158_2399_1442/master/2399.jpg?width=1200&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=f2ae36d39340e06bf61f87f92e0cda56

The field divisions are fastened with felicitations. (Deflatormouse), Sunday, 4 December 2022 23:13 (two years ago)

they're quite correct!

calzino, Sunday, 4 December 2022 23:21 (two years ago)

mikhail serebryakov - diagonal solution of the problem
https://www.eastsidegalleryexhibition.com/artworks/serebrjakow-diagonale-loesung-des-problems/

comedy khadafi (voodoo chili), Sunday, 4 December 2022 23:52 (two years ago)

Lucian Freud, Man With Leg Up

https://www.culturewhisper.com/images/thumbs/cw-23816-914x520.jpg

Francisco Goya*, The Dog

*perhaps

[img]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/38/Goya_Dog.jpg/img]

papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 5 December 2022 00:00 (two years ago)

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/38/Goya_Dog.jpg

papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 5 December 2022 00:00 (two years ago)

https://i.postimg.cc/28HxZQ36/1-A513395-35-FD-4044-884-B-BE4-F5518-A2-F7.jpg

Battle Scene from the Comic-Fantastic Opera ‘The Seafarer’, Paul Klee

I used to be so into art as a child, mainly through drawing and painting, but also through the frankly legendary Childcraft series. Two of that series were about art, and Look Again was filled with paintings, questions about the paintings and plenty of colour and space. There are paintings in that book that still stick with me more than 30 years later.

This painting was one of the ones in this book and I finally saw it in London eight years ago, and the colours were even more beautiful in person than they were in my child’s memory. The creatures were just as fantastical. It was even better than I remembered.

(Similarly, I saw Picasso’s Mother and Child at the Art Institute of Chicago earlier this year, remember very excitedly telling user felicity that this painting has a father painted over and I learned this from the exact same book. The moral of the story is that my mother gave me a lifelong love of art through these books and also that some stuff just leaves an impression on you even long before you are aware of things such as taste and such.)

The Picasso painting:
https://i.postimg.cc/FHzXyVZn/2-E99-E2-DC-2172-4261-9-A7-F-BB0-C7-ED4218-C.jpg

The pages I remembered about this painting:
https://i.postimg.cc/Kcp6ZMFP/66-E53902-576-C-47-A6-A5-F8-2-D3-E51-C7129-D.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/NFFZ6g82/9933-B8-F0-B045-4-C11-B465-79179-EB876-FF.jpg

bit high, bitch (gyac), Monday, 5 December 2022 00:18 (two years ago)

Wow that text really rings some bells in my distant kid memories! What book is that from?

Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 5 December 2022 00:35 (two years ago)

xps to Lucian Freud- pairs well with Egon Schiele, Reclining Woman

https://www.egon-schiele.com/images/paintings/the-reclining-woman.jpg

Lavator Shemmelpennick, Monday, 5 December 2022 03:29 (two years ago)

marc chagall - i and the village
https://uploads6.wikiart.org/images/marc-chagall/i-and-the-village-1911.jpg

comedy khadafi (voodoo chili), Monday, 5 December 2022 05:16 (two years ago)

I'm doing one more because I should be repping for local artists.

John Brack - Collins Street 5 PM
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/39/Collins_Street_5_pm_.jpg

Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 5 December 2022 06:46 (two years ago)

Poussin - Adoration of the Golden Calf. I spent two days drawing this at the National Gallery.

https://az334033.vo.msecnd.net/images-1/the-adoration-of-the-golden-calf-nicolas-poussin-1634-50c1e03c.jpg

And to show it wasn't all po-faced religion back in those days:

Poussin - Nymph with Satyrs

https://www.thehistoryofart.org/nicolas-poussin/Nymph%20with%20Satyrs%20Nicolas%20Poussin.jpg?ezimgfmt=rs:400x522/rscb8/ngcb8/notWebP

Egon Scheile - Portrait of Paris von Gütersloh

https://6.api.artsmia.org/800/10219.jpg

Obviously true of many of the paintings here, but seen in person this is large and extraordinarily vivid.

ledge, Monday, 5 December 2022 08:38 (two years ago)

Peter Blume, "The Rock":

https://i.imgur.com/C0GqiS4l.png

lord of the rongs (anagram), Monday, 5 December 2022 08:52 (two years ago)

Also nominating the Mona Lisa and Gustav Klimt's The Kiss.

lord of the rongs (anagram), Monday, 5 December 2022 08:52 (two years ago)

https://64.media.tumblr.com/33d8d46a37964567dcbf13a9392a5f3a/tumblr_np21pmQyST1qztcdbo1_1280.jpg
george underwood

massaman gai (front tea for two), Monday, 5 December 2022 08:56 (two years ago)

Picasso - Guernica

https://www.stayinart.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/co-guern-1200x580.jpg

nickn, Monday, 5 December 2022 08:57 (two years ago)

I think anyone who has ever done a surface-pattern design course has spent some time totally ripping Klee's exquisite colour sense and style for some fabric design repeat, but obviously in a bad way because there is only one Klee.

calzino, Monday, 5 December 2022 08:59 (two years ago)

Here's a tip: if you put and around your jpeg links we can actually see the pictures!

ArchCarrier, Monday, 5 December 2022 09:10 (two years ago)

Another tip is to try the BB code first before you post something.

ArchCarrier, Monday, 5 December 2022 09:11 (two years ago)

ah! well. nevertheless.

ledge, Monday, 5 December 2022 09:18 (two years ago)

[ img ] url [ /img ] (without spaces)

ArchCarrier, Monday, 5 December 2022 09:22 (two years ago)

yeah I think linked to the wiki page of the image - not the article, but not the image itself. or something. idk i'm only a senior web developer.

ledge, Monday, 5 December 2022 09:29 (two years ago)

i think wikipedia does an odd thing with its image urls, they are links to the image within its own media veiwer, so they don't embed nicely. you can click through and rightclick the actual image to get actual url though

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/05/Self-portrait_as_the_Allegory_of_Painting_%28La_Pittura%29_-_Artemisia_Gentileschi.jpg

that said, this thread's just going to be 1000 broken links in a year's time anyway so...

koogs, Monday, 5 December 2022 09:31 (two years ago)

(i don't even know if that worked because i have the ilx expand images option off...)

koogs, Monday, 5 December 2022 09:32 (two years ago)

it did.

ledge, Monday, 5 December 2022 09:51 (two years ago)

I made posts for "(year) in Art" for the years 1890 to 1930, you can find all of the links here, about 10-25 paintings per year, I promise that none of them will be taken down in the next year.

https://centuriesofsound.com/tag/painting/

Camaraderie at Arms Length, Monday, 5 December 2022 09:53 (two years ago)

I think anyone who has ever done a surface-pattern design course has spent some time totally ripping Klee's exquisite colour sense and style for some fabric design repeat, but obviously in a bad way because there is only one Klee.


Yeah we’ve talked about this before but you’re bang on, absolutely gorgeous stuff

bit high, bitch (gyac), Monday, 5 December 2022 09:58 (two years ago)

Artemisia Gentileschi - Judith Slaying Holofernes

i loved this one when i saw it at the uffizi, but totally forgot the title and artist, so thank you

comedy khadafi (voodoo chili), Monday, 5 December 2022 12:21 (two years ago)

Here's a tip: if you put and around your jpeg links we can actually see the pictures!

― ArchCarrier, Monday, December 5, 2022 4:10 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

i purposefully posted links because this thread will eventually be impossible to load

comedy khadafi (voodoo chili), Monday, 5 December 2022 12:22 (two years ago)

Not if you use zing, they’re just thumbnails

bit high, bitch (gyac), Monday, 5 December 2022 12:29 (two years ago)

The Burial of the Sardine by Francisco Goya pic.twitter.com/Tv6mg312wh

— Andrei (@TheUntranslated) November 29, 2022

xyzzzz__, Monday, 5 December 2022 12:50 (two years ago)

Saw this on twitter a month ago

1987: Early Bourgeois Revolution in Germany by Werner Tubke

88/100 pic.twitter.com/RF9qx7RLk7

— The Cultural Tutor (@culturaltutor) October 5, 2022

xyzzzz__, Monday, 5 December 2022 12:55 (two years ago)

Francis Bacon - Study after Velázquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X https://en.wikipedia.org/wikiStudy_after_Velázquez%27s_Portrait_of_Pope_Innocent_X
Pauline Boty - Colour Her Gone https://www.artfund.org/supporting-museums/art-weve-helped-buy/artwork/11953/colour-her-gone
Pieter Brueghel the Elder - Hunters in the Snow, Winter Landscape with Ice skaters and Bird trap https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_Landscape_with_Ice_skaters_and_Bird_trap
John Byrne - Self Portrait in a Flowered Jacket https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/48552
Chuck Close - Phil https://whitney.org/collection/works/1425
Njideka Akunyili Crosby - Mother and Child https://www.victoria-miro.com/exhibitions/496/works/artworks23554/
Mark Gertler - Merry Go Round https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merry-Go-Round_(Gertler_painting)#/media/File:Mark_Gertler_-_Merry-Go-Round_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg
David Hockney - A Bigger Splash https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Bigger_Splash
David Hockney - Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portrait_of_an_Artist_(Pool_with_Two_Figures)
David Hockney - Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr_and_Mrs_Clark_and_Percy
Edward Hopper - Nighthawks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nighthawks_(Hopper)
Winifred Knights - The Deluge https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/knights-the-deluge-t05532
Roy Lichtenstein - Whaam! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whaam!
Eduoard Manet - A Bar at the Folies-Bergere https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Bar_at_the_Folies-Bergère
John Martin - The Destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Destruction_of_Pompeii_and_Herculaneum
Piet Mondrian - Broadway Boogie Woogie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadway_Boogie_Woogie
Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson - The Soul of a Soulless City https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Soul_of_the_Soulless_City
Bridget Riley - RA2 https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/riley-ra-2-p11563
James Rosenquist - F-111 https://www.moma.org/collection/works/79805
Stanley Spencer - Shipbuilding on the Clyde, Bending the Keel Plate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Spencer#/media/File:Shipbuilding_on_the_Clyde,_Bending_the_Keel_Plate_(Pt._1)_(1943)_(Art.IWM_ART_LD_3106).jpg
Stanley Spencer - Self Portrait (1914) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Spencer#/media/File:Self-portrait_(1914)_by_Stanley_Spencer.jpg
JMW Turner - The Fighting Temeraire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fighting_Temeraire
JMW Turner - Snow Storm - Steamboat off a Harbour's Mouth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Storm:_Steam-Boat_off_a_Harbour%27s_Mouth
Vincent Van Gogh - The Starry Night https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Starry_Night

Dan Worsley, Monday, 5 December 2022 16:48 (two years ago)

Bah, images not showing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merry-Go-Round_(Gertler_painting)

And the Spencers.
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/25164

https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/spencer-self-portrait-n06188

Gobsmacked that Wikipedia doesn’t have an article on Rosenquist’s F-111

Dan Worsley, Monday, 5 December 2022 16:53 (two years ago)

Hals is the best

jmm, Monday, 5 December 2022 18:22 (two years ago)

any pedro friedeberg
https://tunicastudio.com/tunica/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/OBRA_06-300dpi-1024x1018.jpg

massaman gai (front tea for two), Monday, 5 December 2022 18:27 (two years ago)

Chuck Close, Big Self Portrait

https://s.hdnux.com/photos/12/23/77/2703309/5/rawImage.jpg

nate woolls, Monday, 5 December 2022 19:38 (two years ago)

Always loved this self-portrait in pastel by Chardin.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7c/Chardin_pastel_selfportrait.jpg

jmm, Monday, 5 December 2022 19:43 (two years ago)

Will knock a couple obvious ones off here . . .
Las Meninas by Diego Velazquez
https://i.imgur.com/imQ0knT.jpg

Beheading of Saint John the Baptist by Caravaggio
https://i.imgur.com/jSIhWVh.jpg

Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Monday, 5 December 2022 19:52 (two years ago)

Might have missed it, but on the obvious tip I haven't seen anyone list any Magritte yet. So:

Magritte - The Lovers II
https://www.renemagritte.org/images/paintings/the-lovers-2.jpg

emil.y, Monday, 5 December 2022 21:20 (two years ago)

Can we have a sub-poll just of paintings of Judith beheading Holofenes?

emil.y, Monday, 5 December 2022 21:22 (two years ago)

*Holofernes, damn it.

emil.y, Monday, 5 December 2022 21:22 (two years ago)

Thx emily I was considering posting that Magritte!

Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 6 December 2022 02:18 (two years ago)

Might have missed it, but on the obvious tip I haven't seen anyone list any Magritte yet. So:

Magritte - The Lovers II
🖼


That’s basically a Hipgnosis album cover

Lord Pickles (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 6 December 2022 04:01 (two years ago)

Eventually it was...

Storm Thorgerson cover for the Mars Volta "Frances the Mute":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File%3AFrances_the_Mute.png

Hideous Lump, Tuesday, 6 December 2022 06:43 (two years ago)

Was in the Magritte Museum a month ago. He has so many bangers obv

imago, Tuesday, 6 December 2022 08:00 (two years ago)

Peter Blume - Light of the World
https://whitney.org/collection/works/1907

Paul Guaguin - The Day of the God
https://www.gauguin.org/the-day-of-the-god.jsp

Lavator Shemmelpennick, Tuesday, 6 December 2022 17:40 (two years ago)

The breadth of choices here is amazing.

immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 6 December 2022 18:46 (two years ago)

https://www.paintingmania.com/arts/odilon-redon/large/cyclops-121_2570.jpg

Odilon Redon, The Cyclops

Shard-borne Beatles with their drowsy hums (Chinaski), Tuesday, 6 December 2022 18:51 (two years ago)

https://www.ekphrastic.net/uploads/1/4/0/7/14070919/published/30397f447563e0a66980fff47c570c83.jpg

Xavier Mellery, The Stairway

Shard-borne Beatles with their drowsy hums (Chinaski), Tuesday, 6 December 2022 18:56 (two years ago)

https://biblioklept.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/gustave_dore_dante_the_harpies_wood.jpg

Gustave Dore, Harpies in the Forest of Suicides

Shard-borne Beatles with their drowsy hums (Chinaski), Tuesday, 6 December 2022 18:58 (two years ago)

I love that but it looks more like an etching/engraving than a painting?

emil.y, Tuesday, 6 December 2022 19:04 (two years ago)

Arnold Böcklin - Playing in the Waves

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FepBCZLX0AA1J0d?format=jpg&name=4096x4096[

ꙮ (map), Tuesday, 6 December 2022 23:30 (two years ago)

Gustaf Carlström - The Blooming Cactus

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FePgjnzWAA8mawf?format=jpg&name=medium

ꙮ (map), Tuesday, 6 December 2022 23:31 (two years ago)

Joaquín Sorolla, Lunch on the Boat

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FbandGvWAAserFW?format=jpg&name=medium

ꙮ (map), Tuesday, 6 December 2022 23:39 (two years ago)

Anselm Kiefer - The Orders of the Night (1996)

https://samblog.seattleartmuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/die-orden-der-nacht-1080px.jpg

Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 7 December 2022 05:00 (two years ago)

J M W Turner - Dido Building Carthage (1815)

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f4/Turner_Dido_Building_Carthage.jpg

Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 7 December 2022 05:02 (two years ago)

El Greco, Laocoön

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/23/El_Greco_%28Domenikos_Theotokopoulos%29_-_Laocoön_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg

G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Thursday, 8 December 2022 00:33 (two years ago)

I have an early sketch by Kathy Gilje that is an homage to it. That has alway been one of my favorite paintings

The concept of choosing 100 best paintings is about a million times more futile than choosing 100 best films. Maybe that was your point in starting this thread, silby

Dan S, Thursday, 8 December 2022 01:51 (two years ago)

I would like to contribute to this thread, but am not sure how to upload an image to ilx, can someone advise me?

Dan S, Thursday, 8 December 2022 02:07 (two years ago)

Sargent - El Jaleo

― The Bankruptcy of the Planet of the Apes (PBKR), Sunday, December 4, 2022 12:42 PM (three days ago) bookmarkflaglink

yesss this is my favorite work at the gardner museum

k3vin k., Thursday, 8 December 2022 02:29 (two years ago)

Sargent maybe top 3 for me but never new that one until I saw it in person. Now it’s one of my favs.

Maybe I should nom the Sargent mural at the Boston Public Library, too. It’s so different than most of his stuff. One part looks like the over of a 90s rpg.

The Bankruptcy of the Planet of the Apes (PBKR), Thursday, 8 December 2022 06:17 (two years ago)

Couple of faves from my 20s:

Max Ernst's Forest paintings are great; will nominate the first one I discovered, Forest and Dove
https://www.max-ernst.com/images/paintings/forest-and-dove.jpg

Edvard Munch - Madonna
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5f/Edvard_Munch_-_Madonna_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg

Chris L, Thursday, 8 December 2022 08:29 (two years ago)

https://www.fulltable.com/VTS/f/fortune/az/lindner/lindnerbad/4.jpeg

massaman gai (front tea for two), Thursday, 8 December 2022 11:17 (two years ago)

richard lindner, that

massaman gai (front tea for two), Thursday, 8 December 2022 11:17 (two years ago)

Some gorgeous pics itt.

https://i.postimg.cc/59grDzgY/18-E1-AAF2-10-C1-4-B22-8-A5-E-69-A160-E8-F039.jpg

I’ve always liked this unfinished Degas, Lady with a Parasol, which is at the Courthauld. The sketch is from a different finished painting set at a race course, I always like how the messy unfinished strokes suggest motion and contrast with the still person in the middle.

bit high, bitch (gyac), Thursday, 8 December 2022 11:36 (two years ago)

https://i0.wp.com/www.myddoa.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Henri_de_Toulouse-Lautrec_Vincent_van_Gogh.jpg?resize=768%2C914&ssl=1

I love this Lautrec study of Van Gogh because it captures the essence of what a fun guy he was! I think I remember reading Lautrec found him a bit too serious and po-faced for his liking but I'd guess he might have admired him as an artiste and a fellow pisshead.

calzino, Thursday, 8 December 2022 12:04 (two years ago)

I was in Paris recently and went to the Musee D'Orsay. The completely astonishing Kehinde Wiley sculptures aside, the things that have stuck with me are the Bougeaureau painting upthread and the Degas sketches. Amazing.

https://news.artnet.com/buyers-guide/kehinde-wiley-fondazione-giorgio-cini-venice-templon-2149668

Shard-borne Beatles with their drowsy hums (Chinaski), Thursday, 8 December 2022 15:28 (two years ago)

That sounds like such a humblebrag. To mitigate, I was with 35 Year 11s and it was a completely mental four days.

Shard-borne Beatles with their drowsy hums (Chinaski), Thursday, 8 December 2022 15:29 (two years ago)

While we're at it: Kehinde Wiley, An Archaeology of Silence

https://aforsay.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/02.-WILEY_Femme_Piquee_Par_Un_Serpent_Mamadou_Gueye_2022_iFWyLa4-640x251.jpg

Shard-borne Beatles with their drowsy hums (Chinaski), Thursday, 8 December 2022 15:30 (two years ago)

Closer to home, I'm a big fan of Oxford (MS) photorealist Glennray Tutor.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/13/Glennray_Tutor_1.jpg
https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557087a9e4b0435ae47ce0e4/1613678617201-CSWNQL6J4E376BW1SN8B/DSC_6494_2.JPG

DPRK in Cincinnati (WmC), Thursday, 8 December 2022 15:40 (two years ago)

Super obvious one that never loses its magic for me: Vermeer's The Art of Painting. If I could live in any painting...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_Painting

jmm, Thursday, 8 December 2022 15:46 (two years ago)

Grant Wood, January

https://uploads3.wikiart.org/images/grant-wood/january-1940.jpg!Large.jpg

Liz D. (Eliza D.), Thursday, 8 December 2022 15:49 (two years ago)

xp

That sounds like such a humblebrag. To mitigate, I was with 35 Year 11s and it was a completely mental four days.


I’ve been to the Musée D’Orsay once and on that trip I passed a bunch of French children on a school trip sitting in front of Manet’s Olympia. It’s such a great museum though, I need to go back. Did they like it?

bit high, bitch (gyac), Thursday, 8 December 2022 18:37 (two years ago)

ugh, my memory of seeing Manet’s Olympia at D'Orsay is that I was a bit careless moving through the crowd and accidentally kicked someone in the leg

jmm, Thursday, 8 December 2022 18:43 (two years ago)

I’ve been to the Musée D’Orsay once and on that trip I passed a bunch of French children on a school trip sitting in front of Manet’s Olympia. It’s such a great museum though, I need to go back. Did they like it?

It's the most incredible place and they did like it, I think. We sat and had tea in the extraordinary cafe there. What a place. As for the art, that thing Kurt Vonnegut said, something along the lines of 'I could rollerskate through the Louvre and make decisions about what I liked', they pretty much enacted that.

Shard-borne Beatles with their drowsy hums (Chinaski), Thursday, 8 December 2022 20:51 (two years ago)

https://www.etsy.com/listing/1066537139/saturn-devouring-his-son-womens-briefs

Camaraderie at Arms Length, Sunday, 11 December 2022 08:29 (two years ago)

.. I thought that said "Saturn devouring his son's woman's briefs"...

m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Sunday, 11 December 2022 09:18 (two years ago)

🖼

I love this Lautrec study of Van Gogh because it captures the essence of what a fun guy he was! I think I remember reading Lautrec found him a bit too serious and po-faced for his liking but I'd guess he might have admired him as an artiste and a fellow pisshead.


Oh that’s incredible where is it?

Lord Pickles (Boring, Maryland), Sunday, 11 December 2022 18:10 (two years ago)

John Singer Sargent, the Spanish Dance

https://i.imgur.com/sQD4Ll4.png

Karl Malone, Sunday, 11 December 2022 18:22 (two years ago)

xp

The French painter met Van Gogh, who was eleven years older than him, at Fernand Cormon’s studio, where they were both taking lessons. They probably worked together intensively for a while, as the style and technique of their paintings in this period look very similar.

some unspecified Parisian café, perhaps during the "green hour"!

calzino, Sunday, 11 December 2022 18:36 (two years ago)

Lautrec was quite a boozer as well, he had a modified hollow walking stick that he filled with booze for when the cafes weren't open! But I think he admired Van Gogh, he once got into a fight with another painter who slagged his work off at an exhibition.

calzino, Sunday, 11 December 2022 18:49 (two years ago)

The drawing (I assume) is remarkable not only for giving us an acute portrayal of Van Gogh by someone who wasn’t Van Gogh but also cause it looks a bit Van Gogh-y in style too.

Lord Pickles (Boring, Maryland), Sunday, 11 December 2022 20:04 (two years ago)

David Hockney, Pearblossom Highway

https://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/hockney/hockney.pearblossom-highway.jpg

that's not my post, Sunday, 11 December 2022 23:00 (two years ago)

i think that last one is a photocollage

(it's great though)

Karl Malone, Sunday, 11 December 2022 23:08 (two years ago)

true that, thread title reading fail.

that's not my post, Sunday, 11 December 2022 23:12 (two years ago)

Was going to nominate Hockney's 'A Year in Normandie' which is an astonishing piece of work but probably doesn't fit the brief of the poll.
https://saltairefestival.co.uk/events/david-hockney-a-year-in-normandie/

Dan Worsley, Sunday, 11 December 2022 23:22 (two years ago)

Well, his A Bigger Splash is probably worthy of a nom.

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/1e/0a/5d/1e0a5d29587b8d79075310aa06df5ad9.jpg

nickn, Sunday, 11 December 2022 23:28 (two years ago)

Pierre Bonnard, The Open Window

https://images.fineartamerica.com/images/artworkimages/mediumlarge/3/the-open-window-pierre-bonnard.jpg

that's not my post, Sunday, 11 December 2022 23:31 (two years ago)

xpost those other Hockney works are fantastic. Hope there is another showing of A Year in Normandie.

that's not my post, Sunday, 11 December 2022 23:33 (two years ago)

Kano-Isen'in Naganobu, Twelve Famous Places in Japan (Mt Yoshino with cherry blossoms)

https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58fd82dbbf629ab224f81b68/1592805587109-M4V6Z79AXT0T804FI0GO/Kano-Isenin-Naganobu.jpg

that's not my post, Sunday, 11 December 2022 23:54 (two years ago)

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Church_Heart_of_the_Andes.jpg/1024px-Church_Heart_of_the_Andes.jpg

Frederic Edwin Church - The Heart of the Andes (1859)

The above doesn't do it justice of course--the thing's 5 foot x 10 foot. Link to largest version on Wikimedia Commons: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/78/Church_Heart_of_the_Andes.jpg

Discovered Church by chance at a major retrospective at the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC, 1989. Knew nothing about him, the Hudson River School, or landscape painting in general. Was completely captivated by the beauty, size, detail, and the mastery of light and depth common to Hudson River artists. Back at the hotel later, I found that the exhibit catalog I bought was misprinted (several pages were just smears of ink), so I went back the next morning and ended up renting the guided tour cassette and doing the whole exhibit again.

"Heart of the Andes" is owned by the Met in NY (I'm in NJ), so I've gotten to visit it many times since, always the centerpiece of the roomful of Hudson River paintings it was displayed in. The last time I visited, they had rearranged the galleries--now, turn left from "Heart of the Andes" and you're looking through an arch at "Washington Crossing the Delaware," all 12 foot x 21 foot of it. It really robs "Andes" of some of its impact; it can't possibly have the same first impression on new viewers that it used to.

Hideous Lump, Monday, 12 December 2022 00:07 (two years ago)

Marc Chagall, 1912, Le Marchand de bestiaux (The Drover, The Cattle Dealer)

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c4/Marc_Chagall%2C_1912%2C_Le_Marchand_de_bestiaux_%28The_Drover%2C_The_Cattle_Dealer%29%2C_oil_on_canvas%2C_97.1_x_202.5_cm%2C_Kunstmuseum_Basel.jpg

ꙮ (map), Monday, 12 December 2022 00:27 (two years ago)

Kirchner, Bogenschützen (Archers)

https://i.imgur.com/xaH96hD.jpg

Karl Malone, Wednesday, 21 December 2022 00:39 (two years ago)

Gustav Klimt's The Kiss.

i love The Kiss but i think i like Death and Life even more. pretty nice pair imo

https://i.imgur.com/FRBmrDA.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/lKneKfu.png

Karl Malone, Saturday, 24 December 2022 20:14 (two years ago)

Merry Christmas!

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/97/Edward_Burne-Jones_-_Nativity_-_IMG_0732.jpg
Edward Burne-Jones - The Nativity (1888)

ArchCarrier, Sunday, 25 December 2022 07:14 (two years ago)

jacopo pontormo, “the deposition from the cross”

LaMDA barry-stanners (||||||||), Sunday, 25 December 2022 09:12 (two years ago)

three weeks pass...

david park, four men

https://i.imgur.com/kHAZthw.png

(i'll hold off until 20 other people post)

Karl Malone, Sunday, 15 January 2023 00:02 (two years ago)

two weeks pass...

come on 20 other people, fucking post

Karl Malone, Sunday, 29 January 2023 01:56 (two years ago)

Jackson Pollock - Blue Poles
Mark Rothko - Four Darks In Red
Phillip Guston - Flatlands
Joan Mitchell - Sans Neige
Felix Gonzales-Torres - Perfect Lovers
JR - The Chronicles of San Francisco
Lisa Reihana - In Pursuit of Venus (Infected)

Dan S, Sunday, 29 January 2023 03:07 (two years ago)

two weeks pass...

call me old fashioned but a coupla clocks doesn't make the top 100 paintings ever list

karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Friday, 17 February 2023 15:08 (two years ago)

edvard munch - the sick child 1907

http://www.munchmuseet.no/globalassets/kunstverk/thesickchildpainting.jpg

karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Friday, 17 February 2023 15:11 (two years ago)

date should be 1885–1886

karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Friday, 17 February 2023 15:14 (two years ago)

wait, no, what i posted was a later version he did of the same subject, was correct on the date the first time. i am not an art historian

karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Friday, 17 February 2023 15:15 (two years ago)

that one you posted is dated 1926 in the corner, so it must be the last in the series https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sick_Child_(Munch)

that's his sister just before he died of tuberculosis - a wonderful topic to revisit repeatedly through the years!

President of Destiny Encounters International (Karl Malone), Friday, 17 February 2023 15:21 (two years ago)

ah yes the date on the painting is a dead giveaway

karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Friday, 17 February 2023 15:24 (two years ago)

i intended to post the 1907 originally but image was too large, would've been clunky to embed

https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/munch-the-sick-child-n05035

karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Friday, 17 February 2023 15:25 (two years ago)

http://d2nt4pr41ziy99.cloudfront.net/s3fs-public/2019-02/71-09%20FB%20Triptych%20FB%20TW%20BL.jpg?VersionId=Yv7F0wHvjbXerCXcnrGEi3BmOd3vG9JA

Francis Bacon - In Memory of George Dyer, 1971

karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Friday, 17 February 2023 15:29 (two years ago)

http://www.moma.org/media/W1siZiIsIjMzMDYxMCJdLFsicCIsImNvbnZlcnQiLCItcXVhbGl0eSA5MCAtcmVzaXplIDIwMDB4MTQ0MFx1MDAzZSJdXQ.jpg?sha=4ecfecbfda0e4f4a
Matisse - The Piano Lesson 1916

karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Friday, 17 February 2023 15:30 (two years ago)

http://media.tate.org.uk/art/images/work/T/T07/T07467_10.jpg

Peter Doig - Echo Lake 1998

karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Friday, 17 February 2023 15:34 (two years ago)

xp

i f'd up the wikipedia link, in case anyone clicks it, it needs the closing parentheses on the right.

in the second Munch Sick Child from 1907 (4th in the series) he appears to have signed it twice!

President of Destiny Encounters International (Karl Malone), Friday, 17 February 2023 15:36 (two years ago)

wikipedia links that end in parentheses are always messed up

karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Friday, 17 February 2023 15:41 (two years ago)

http://img.artlogic.net/w_1010,h_580,c_limit/exhibit-e/53a05fa7a9aa2c6344d555cd/84b1b65eeba638e6f5b9e435913786e5.jpeg

John Wesley - The Bumsteads 1974

karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Friday, 17 February 2023 15:51 (two years ago)

http://www.moma.org/media/W1siZiIsIjE1MTMwMSJdLFsicCIsImNvbnZlcnQiLCItcXVhbGl0eSA5MCAtcmVzaXplIDIwMDB4MjAwMFx1MDAzZSJdXQ.jpg
Jasper Johns - Diver 1962-63

karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Friday, 17 February 2023 15:53 (two years ago)

Diver! Yes!

G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Friday, 17 February 2023 17:51 (two years ago)

none of these images show in flagging :(

ledge, Friday, 17 February 2023 17:56 (two years ago)

Watson and the Shark, John Singleton Copley

https://media.nga.gov/iiif/88ee0857-1a19-4308-8358-d814febce6db/full/!588,600/0/default.jpg

G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Friday, 17 February 2023 18:03 (two years ago)

Always loved that one.

Unfairport Convention (PBKR), Friday, 17 February 2023 18:30 (two years ago)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/71/Witches_Flight_Goya.jpg

Goya - Witches' Flight 1797-98

karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Friday, 17 February 2023 19:27 (two years ago)

the middle-to-latter period, scary goyas are pretty hard to beat imo

la vie wokisme (voodoo chili), Friday, 17 February 2023 19:51 (two years ago)

i've always liked this state of the art representation of what the black paintings might have looked like on site

https://i.imgur.com/UZQ1WKw.png

President of Destiny Encounters International (Karl Malone), Friday, 17 February 2023 19:53 (two years ago)

there's that one spot on the second floor, right by the door, that is still accepting applications for a disturbing goya painting

President of Destiny Encounters International (Karl Malone), Friday, 17 February 2023 19:54 (two years ago)

on a different note..

http://media.tate.org.uk/art/images/work/T/T03/T03816_10.jpg

Bridget Riley - Achæan 1981

karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Friday, 17 February 2023 20:06 (two years ago)

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/mystery-and-melancholy-of-a-street-1914.jpg

Giorgio de Chirico - Mystery and Melancholy of a Street 1914

Shard-borne Beatles with their drowsy hums (Chinaski), Friday, 17 February 2023 23:28 (two years ago)

kandinsky, three sounds (1926)

https://www.guggenheim.org/wp-content/uploads/1926/01/41.282_ph_web-1.jpg

la vie wokisme (voodoo chili), Friday, 17 February 2023 23:31 (two years ago)

two months pass...

https://i.imgur.com/YFVXTPz.jpg

Redon, Mystery

z_tbd, Tuesday, 25 April 2023 19:40 (two years ago)

http://www.pubhist.com/works/14/large/paul_cezanne_sea_estaque_trees_699.jpg

Paul Cézanne
The sea at L'Estaque behind trees
c. 1878-79

karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Tuesday, 25 April 2023 20:26 (two years ago)

Emmanuel De Witte - Interior with a Woman Playing a Virginal

https://twitter.com/restot50/status/1194012504495722502

underwater as a compliment (Eazy), Tuesday, 25 April 2023 20:58 (two years ago)

that De Witte is absolutely gorgeous - not familiar with him and so I googled to explore, noticed multiple other versions of that painting with vastly different color palettes... one of the pitfalls of looking at art on the computer screen...

Lavator Shemmelpennick, Wednesday, 26 April 2023 14:45 (two years ago)

yeah, the widely varying images of the same painting are frustrating, especially when there's only a couple that are a decent resolution and the saturation of the colors is so different.

i don't know de witte either, but i love how far back you can see into those interior rooms

z_tbd, Wednesday, 26 April 2023 15:36 (two years ago)

twitter has helpfully age-restricted the De Witte so i can't see the filth

koogs, Wednesday, 26 April 2023 16:12 (two years ago)

just found out that the Met took down The Silver Tureen by Chardin. it's probably temporary, but i'm gutted. that's one of my go-to artworks at the Met, and probably the painting i've spent the most time looking at anywhere. it's always been there. i wanna post a bunch of Chardin's still lifes here. i can't pick one. those paintings were formative for me.

now, i love paint. i always loved paint. when i was 12 years old i borrowed a deKooning book from the library. i was really excited about it. one of my favorite plates in it was just a picture of his messy paint pots, with different colors swirling around inside. i like paint as much as i like paintings. i love the pigments, i love the viscoelasticity of it. it doesn't take a painter, or a painting, to make paint extremely appealing. it's a beautiful material. there's some quote, i don't remember who said it, but it's on a placard at the Met: Chardin seems to paint with the textures he depicts, he seems to paint with silver and feathers and fur and flesh and porcelain and ripe fruit.

so, i was a teenage kid sitting in a Barnes and Noble reading about Jackson Pollock. an older lady walks up to me and asks if i've seen a then-current exhibit of his drawings. i had, and told her what i thought of it. whatever i said must have impressed her, because she practically dragged me by the arm to where her husband was sitting 20 feet away and repeated it to him. turns out the guy was a student of Hans Hoffmann and gives weekly classes in his basement. i was welcome to attend free of charge. i was just some dumb kid, but these kind people made me feel like i understood art and generously invited me to their house.

that encounter instilled in me that art is what you suppose it is. it isn't something that only trained people can see, or that only sensitive people can see. because at that age, i was very out of touch with my emotions. i thought i didn't have feelings. i was pretty sure that whatever i liked about an artwork, i wasn't capable of being moved by it the way everyone else was. that turned out to be wrong.

anyway, i only went to a few of the classes, but stayed in contact with the couple until he passed away and she moved permanently to Cape Cod. two years later, there was a huge loan exhibition of Chardins at the Met, and they pushed me to check it out.

now, i could not have been less interested in looking at still lifes by some French guy from the 18th century. i was getting into Basquiat and Sigmar Polke, 1980's New York postmodern pop. And that stuff has an electricity to it that i appreciate, but what i took away from the Chardin show is, a great painting doesn't reveal itself to you all at once like that. It makes you slow the fuck down. other than that, i don't know squat about painting. but i'm pretty confident in knowing that one thing. there's pop art, and there's fucking Rembrandt. and that show was the turning point, because if there's anyone who'll make you slow down it's Chardin.

https://collectionapi.metmuseum.org/api/collection/v1/iiif/435887/1507013/main-image

The Silver Tureen
Jean Siméon Chardin
French
ca. 1728–30
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

"party!", you say? we'd rather be home with some soup. remember that old Weezer shirt that said "if it's too loud, turn it down"? Weezer shirt otm.

No, 𝘐'𝘮 Breathless! (Deflatormouse), Wednesday, 26 April 2023 20:10 (two years ago)

https://www.wga.hu/art/c/chardin/1/01ray.jpg
The Ray (1728, Musée du Louvre, Paris)

No, 𝘐'𝘮 Breathless! (Deflatormouse), Wednesday, 26 April 2023 20:13 (two years ago)

hell yeah, awesome post and images

z_tbd, Wednesday, 26 April 2023 20:15 (two years ago)

i can't imagine chardin slowing down those cats long enough to paint them so vividly! i guess i can imagine the carcasses staying still though :)

z_tbd, Wednesday, 26 April 2023 20:16 (two years ago)

exactly, he's contrasting the tension of the cat's body with the stiffness of the carcasses. that's what the placard says, i've seen it a million times.

i intend to post a bunch more Chardins but it's slower than i thought. i feel bad about this, since calzino managed to pick just one Cezanne way upthread, and absolutely nailed it. yeah, that one.

i get that this is 100 paintings, not painters. but fuckin' Chardin, y'know?

No, 𝘐'𝘮 Breathless! (Deflatormouse), Wednesday, 26 April 2023 20:48 (two years ago)

he has another one that does something similar, with a dog looking up longingly at a banquet table.

i always think of my dad's wake. i walked some of the mourners downstairs and out the door, and when i came back upstairs 2 minutes later, my black lab was standing on the buffet table. he'd eaten everything.

No, 𝘐'𝘮 Breathless! (Deflatormouse), Wednesday, 26 April 2023 20:52 (two years ago)

Those Chardin's are great. He's one of those anonymous (to me), but technically great French painters from that period that I can't keep straight, but recognized that first one instantly.

This machine bores fascism (PBKR), Wednesday, 26 April 2023 21:19 (two years ago)

Great posts Deflatormouse ty

Keep the nominations coming folks, I’m closing them in 1 to 70 years

G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Thursday, 27 April 2023 01:22 (two years ago)

It's a shame about the ray.

peace, man, Thursday, 27 April 2023 11:57 (two years ago)

Great thread, btw. First time I've seen it.

peace, man, Thursday, 27 April 2023 11:57 (two years ago)

That De Witte painting is in the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts -- its page on the painting is probably best as far as color/resolution.

De Witte also has a series of paintings of Dutch church interiors worth seeing.

underwater as a compliment (Eazy), Thursday, 27 April 2023 12:06 (two years ago)

That De Witte painting is incredible. It feels almost infinitely deep. Weirdly made me think of Renoir (the film maker).

Stars of the Lidl (Chinaski), Thursday, 27 April 2023 13:06 (two years ago)

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8d/Flaming_June%2C_by_Frederic_Lord_Leighton_%281830-1896%29.jpg

Nominating one of my wife's favorites, Flaming June by Frederic Leighton

Chris L, Tuesday, 9 May 2023 19:16 (two years ago)

https://dl6pgk4f88hky.cloudfront.net/2022/04/202217-Michael-Art-NO-COLOUR-CORRECTION-1038x778.jpg

Red Sunset on the Dnieper, Arkhip Kuindzhi

Chris L, Tuesday, 9 May 2023 19:24 (two years ago)

Nicolaes Maes - The Eavesdropper (1657)

https://uploads6.wikiart.org/images/nicolaes-maes/the-eavesdropper-1657.jpg!Large.jpg

Stars of the Lidl (Chinaski), Tuesday, 9 May 2023 20:48 (two years ago)

Berthold Woltze - Der lästige Kavalier (known in English as "The Irritating Gentleman"), 1874

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/77/Berthold_Woltze_-_Der_l%C3%A4stige_Kavalier.jpg

the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 9 May 2023 21:15 (two years ago)

Oh that one is the best painting actually

G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Wednesday, 10 May 2023 01:26 (two years ago)

five months pass...

Killed for five months, rises from its ashes

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cf/Dante_Gabriel_Rossetti_-_Beata_Beatrix%2C_1864-1870.jpg
Dante Gabriel Rossetti - Beata Beatrix (1870)

Nabozo, Tuesday, 24 October 2023 11:43 (one year ago)

seven months pass...

https://media.tate.org.uk/art/images/work/T/T13/T13589_10.jpg

Leonor Fini Little Hermit Sphinx

I would prefer not to. (Chinaski), Wednesday, 12 June 2024 20:39 (one year ago)

victor brauner, suicide at dawn (1930)
https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5888ae4a1e5b6c469bd7775b/1634273504588-5SA621RZ6B3KY68WSYMV/Screen+Shot+2021-10-15+at+12.50.19+AM.png

the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 12 June 2024 20:58 (one year ago)

one month passes...

https://i.imgur.com/hfOYOvI.jpeg

hyman bloom, the bride

z_tbd, Saturday, 3 August 2024 14:33 (ten months ago)

seven months pass...

https://i.ibb.co/fdjc1mR8/DP154016.jpg
龔賢 Gong Xian - 山水圖 冊 from ‘Landscapes and Trees' (album of twelve leaves)
ink on paper, 1679

but some albums are more equalized than others (Deflatormouse), Tuesday, 11 March 2025 03:59 (three months ago)

beautiful

karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Tuesday, 11 March 2025 13:54 (three months ago)


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