100 best paintings poll nomination thread

Nominate here

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.

Kazimir Malevich, Black Cross

Robert Williams, Carne de Amore

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

itt: paintings that are plot-points in movies and TV that are terrible paintings (or excellent ones if there are any)

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

^^^ Love that one.

Sargent - El Jaleo

this guy rocks:

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

— Fernando Botero (@ArtistBotero) December 2, 2022

Dalí's Cerberus pic.twitter.com/XQ1BAk8ubB

— Andrei (@TheUntranslated) December 4, 2022

time to crack open my Sister Wendy books

Velazquez - Portrait of Juan de Pareja

Anselm Kiefer, Zim Zum

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

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

Also, like obv, Garden of Earthly Delights.

Raises the question, why is she in the well

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

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

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

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.

damn those actors

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

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.

gerome screaming at mike yarwood

gerome and unperson screaming at mike yarwood

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.”

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

will throw some noms in the well:

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

El Greco - The Burial of the Count of Orghaz

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

Demuth - I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold

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

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

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

John Everett Millais "Autumn Leaves"

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

Archibald John Motley Jr., "Night Life"

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

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

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

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

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

Umberto Boccioni, The City Rises

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

pisanello - the vision of saint eustace

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

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)

wilhelm trubner - caesar at the rubicon

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

lmao what a good boy

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

ross bleckner - cage

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

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

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

https://i0.wp.com/centuriesofsound.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/lovis-corinth-e28093-self-portrait-with-skeleton.jpg

Lovis Corinth – Self-portrait with Skeleton (1896)

https://i0.wp.com/centuriesofsound.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/vilhelm-hammershc3b8i-e28093-sunbeams.jpg

Vilhelm Hammershøi – Sunbeams (1900)

https://i0.wp.com/centuriesofsound.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/zinaida-serebriakova-%E2%80%93-at-the-dressing-table-self-portrait.jpg

Zinaida Serebriakova – At the Dressing-Table: Self-portrait (1909)

ooh I do like a hammershøi.

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

avant-garde anachronism in old paintings

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

thx!!!

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

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

Paul Cézanne, Mont Sainte-Victoire

Yves Tanguy - Vieil horizon
https://64.media.tumblr.com/85825deb9f2ee08c42029227721c09d9/tumblr_onzqlfpiTL1qzse0lo1_500.jpg

Francis Bacon - Triptych (1970)
https://searchthecollection.nga.gov.au/stcapi/service/ngacd/asset/preview?contentInfo=/2021/5/21/12/42/d1ea1249-dcd1-4c96-a95d-48f9f4c40d7f.bin

Paul Delvaux - Sleeping Venus (and yes, partly because of Bauhaus)
https://media.tate.org.uk/art/images/work/T/T00/T00134_10.jpg

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).

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

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

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

pierre-auguste renoir - spring, chatou

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

gorgeous

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

Spinning Round, Jean Dubuffet

georgia o'keeffe - autumn leaves, lake george

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

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

Cecil Osborne - Sunday Morning, Farringdon Road (1929)

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

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

Wassily Kandinsky, Composition VII

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

Oskar Schlemmer - Bauhaus Schlemmer

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

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

they're quite correct!

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

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]

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

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

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

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

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

mostly thinking about pieces that blew me away at museums

james ensor - still life in the studio
https://www.artsy.net/artwork/james-ensor-still-life-in-the-studio

claude lorrain - a seaport at sunrise
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Claude_Lorrain_-_A_Seaport_at_Sunrise_-_WGA05016.jpg/1280px-Claude_Lorrain_-_A_Seaport_at_Sunrise_-_WGA05016.jpg

albrecht altdorfer - the battle of alexander at issus
https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2Ol2HauSixU/WnNHL-WT3CI/AAAAAAAAKvA/BaDiVu186ysJrbTEEppBkp6Y1OXV_27NQCLcBGAs/s1600/Albrecht%2BAltdorfer%252C%2BThe%2BBattle%2Bof%2BAlexander%2Bat%2BIssus.%2B1529.jpg

georgia o’keeffe - black hollyhock, blue larkspur
https://www.georgiaokeeffe.net/images/paintings/black-hollyhock-blue-larkspur.jpg

hilma af klint - altarpiece number one group x
https://www.guggenheim.org/audio/track/group-x-altarpieces-nos-1-3-1915-by-hilma-af-klint

basquiat - skull
https://www.wikiart.org/en/jean-michel-basquiat/head

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

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

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.

Peter Blume, "The Rock":

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

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

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

Picasso - Guernica

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

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.

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

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

Artemisia Gentileschi - Judith Slaying Holofernes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_beheading_Holofernes#/media/File:Judit_decapitando_a_Holofernes,_por_Artemisia_Gentileschi.jpg

Artemisia Gentileschi - Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemisia_Gentileschi#/media/File:Self-portrait_as_the_Allegory_of_Painting_(La_Pittura)_-_Artemisia_Gentileschi.jpg

ah! well. nevertheless.

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

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.

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...

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

it did.

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/

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.

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

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

Not if you use zing, they’re just thumbnails

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

— Andrei (@TheUntranslated) November 29, 2022

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

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

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

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Turner_-_Rain%2C_Steam_and_Speed_-_National_Gallery_file.jpg/405px-Turner_-_Rain%2C_Steam_and_Speed_-_National_Gallery_file.jpg

JMW Turner - Rain, Steam and Speed – The Great Western Railway

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/Cavalier_soldier_Hals-1624x.jpg/405px-Cavalier_soldier_Hals-1624x.jpg

Franz Hals - Laughing Cavalier

https://www.rct.uk/sites/default/files/styles/rctr-scale-1300-500/public/collection-online/c/f/255889-1526292966.jpg

Anthony Van Dyck - Charles I with M. de St Antoine

Hals is the best

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

Chuck Close, Big Self Portrait

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

Always loved this self-portrait in pastel by Chardin.

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

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

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

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

*Holofernes, damn it.

Thx emily I was considering posting that Magritte!

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

Magritte - The Lovers II
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Eventually it was...

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

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

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

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

The breadth of choices here is amazing.

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

Odilon Redon, The Cyclops

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

Xavier Mellery, The Stairway

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

Gustave Dore, Harpies in the Forest of Suicides

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

Arnold Böcklin - Playing in the Waves

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

Gustaf Carlström - The Blooming Cactus

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

Joaquín Sorolla, Lunch on the Boat

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

Anselm Kiefer - The Orders of the Night (1996)

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

J M W Turner - Dido Building Carthage (1815)

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

El Greco, Laocoön

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

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

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

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

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.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/64/Piet_Mondrian%2C_1908-10%2C_Evening%3B_Red_Tree_%28Avond%3B_De_rode_boom%29%2C_oil_on_canvas%2C_70_x_99_cm%2C_Gemeentemuseum_Den_Haag.jpg
Piet Mondrian - Red Tree

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/Eug%C3%A8ne_Delacroix_-_Jeune_orpheline_au_cimeti%C3%A8re_%28vers_1824%29.JPG/1024px-Eug%C3%A8ne_Delacroix_-_Jeune_orpheline_au_cimeti%C3%A8re_%28vers_1824%29.JPG
Eugène Delacroix - Jeune orpheline au cimetière

And since it's ILM
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/The_dance_to_the_music_of_time_c._1640.jpg/1200px-The_dance_to_the_music_of_time_c._1640.jpg
Nicolas Poussin - A dance to the music of time

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

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

richard lindner, that

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Grant Wood, January

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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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.

John Singer Sargent, the Spanish Dance

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

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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"!

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.

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.

David Hockney, Pearblossom Highway

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

i think that last one is a photocollage

(it's great though)

true that, thread title reading fail.

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/

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

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

Pierre Bonnard, The Open Window

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

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

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

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.

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

Kirchner, Bogenschützen (Archers)

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

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

Merry Christmas!

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

jacopo pontormo, “the deposition from the cross”

david park, four men

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

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

come on 20 other people, fucking post

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)

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

edvard munch - the sick child 1907

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

date should be 1885–1886

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

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!

ah yes the date on the painting is a dead giveaway

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

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

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

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

Peter Doig - Echo Lake 1998

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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!

wikipedia links that end in parentheses are always messed up

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

John Wesley - The Bumsteads 1974

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

Diver! Yes!

none of these images show in flagging :(

Watson and the Shark, John Singleton Copley

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

Always loved that one.

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

Goya - Witches' Flight 1797-98

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

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

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

on a different note..

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

Bridget Riley - Achæan 1981

https://sothebys-com.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/ec03055/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2000x2000+0+0/resize/2880x2880!/format/webp/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsothebys-brightspot-migration.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fa2%2Fe5%2F28%2Fa9f0ebd8b92015e1e44259a9b1bf74ed17d78af7efb5f155d32789de4a%2Fl07132-6-lr-1.jpg

John Atkinson Grimshaw - A Wet Road by Moonlight, Wharfedale 1872

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

kandinsky, three sounds (1926)

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

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

Redon, Mystery

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

Emmanuel De Witte - Interior with a Woman Playing a Virginal

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

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...

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

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

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.

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

hell yeah, awesome post and images

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 :)

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?

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.

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.

Great posts Deflatormouse ty

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

It's a shame about the ray.

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

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.

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

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

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

Red Sunset on the Dnieper, Arkhip Kuindzhi

Nicolaes Maes - The Eavesdropper (1657)

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

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

Oh that one is the best painting actually

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/Henry_Ossawa_Tanner_-_The_Banjo_Lesson.jpg/427px-Henry_Ossawa_Tanner_-_The_Banjo_Lesson.jpg
Henry Tanner - The Banjo Lesson

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/61/Hippolyte_Flandrin_-_Young_Man_by_the_Sea_-_WGA07905.jpg/1104px-Hippolyte_Flandrin_-_Young_Man_by_the_Sea_-_WGA07905.jpg?20110613085313
Hyppolite Flandrin - Young Man by the Sea

https://media.myswitzerland.com/image/fetch/c_lfill,g_auto,w_3200,h_1800/f_auto,q_80,fl_keep_iptc/https://www.myswitzerland.com/-/media/st/gadmin/images/attractions/museum/sa_kmbern_der-tag_hodler_235251.jpg

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)

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

Leonor Fini Little Hermit Sphinx

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

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

hyman bloom, the bride

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

beautiful