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.
― 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)
itt: paintings that are plot-points in movies and TV that are terrible paintings (or excellent ones if there are any)
― mark s, Sunday, 4 December 2022 16:53 (two years ago)
Joseph Ducreux, Portrait de l'artiste sous les traits d'un moqueurhttps://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 Birdshttps://uploads6.wikiart.org/images/remedios-varo/creation-of-the-birds.jpg!Large.jpg
Leonora Carrington - The Giantesshttps://uploads7.wikiart.org/images/leonora-carrington/the-giantess-1950.jpg!Large.jpg
Jean-Léon Gérôme - Truth Coming Out of Her Well to Shame Mankindhttps://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
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 joyeusepisanello - the vision of saint eustacevan gogh - l'arlesiennegoya - 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 eustacehttps://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 rubiconhttps://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)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_of_Marat
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_Devouring_His_Son
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sea_of_Ice
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)
https://www.artsy.net/artwork/philip-guston-the-studio
― the late great, Sunday, 4 December 2022 21:02 (two years ago)
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)
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Sunday, 4 December 2022 21:09 (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)
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
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Sunday, 4 December 2022 21:42 (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)
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 problemhttps://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
https://i.postimg.cc/28HxZQ36/1-A513395-35-FD-4044-884-B-BE4-F5518-A2-F7.jpgBattle Scene from the Comic-Fantastic Opera ‘The Seafarer’, Paul KleeI 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.jpgThe pages I remembered about this painting:https://i.postimg.cc/Kcp6ZMFP/66-E53902-576-C-47-A6-A5-F8-2-D3-E51-C7129-D.jpghttps://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)
mostly thinking about pieces that blew me away at museums
james ensor - still life in the studiohttps://www.artsy.net/artwork/james-ensor-still-life-in-the-studio
claude lorrain - a seaport at sunrisehttps://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 issushttps://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 larkspurhttps://www.georgiaokeeffe.net/images/paintings/black-hollyhock-blue-larkspur.jpg
hilma af klint - altarpiece number one group xhttps://www.guggenheim.org/audio/track/group-x-altarpieces-nos-1-3-1915-by-hilma-af-klint
basquiat - skullhttps://www.wikiart.org/en/jean-michel-basquiat/head
― comedy khadafi (voodoo chili), Monday, 5 December 2022 04:21 (two years ago)
marc chagall - i and the villagehttps://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 PMhttps://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.
https://64.media.tumblr.com/33d8d46a37964567dcbf13a9392a5f3a/tumblr_np21pmQyST1qztcdbo1_1280.jpggeorge 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)
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
― ledge, Monday, 5 December 2022 09:18 (two years ago)
ah! well. nevertheless.
[ 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)
― bit high, bitch (gyac), Monday, 5 December 2022 09:58 (two years ago)
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)
― 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 Tubke88/100 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-gonePieter 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_trapJohn Byrne - Self Portrait in a Flowered Jacket https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/48552Chuck Close - Phil https://whitney.org/collection/works/1425Njideka 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.jpgDavid Hockney - A Bigger Splash https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Bigger_SplashDavid 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_PercyEdward Hopper - Nighthawks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nighthawks_(Hopper)Winifred Knights - The Deluge https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/knights-the-deluge-t05532Roy 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_HerculaneumPiet Mondrian - Broadway Boogie Woogie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadway_Boogie_WoogieChristopher Richard Wynne Nevinson - The Soul of a Soulless City https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Soul_of_the_Soulless_CityBridget Riley - RA2 https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/riley-ra-2-p11563James Rosenquist - F-111 https://www.moma.org/collection/works/79805Stanley 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).jpgStanley Spencer - Self Portrait (1914) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Spencer#/media/File:Self-portrait_(1914)_by_Stanley_Spencer.jpgJMW Turner - The Fighting Temeraire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fighting_TemeraireJMW Turner - Snow Storm - Steamboat off a Harbour's Mouth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Storm:_Steam-Boat_off_a_Harbour%27s_MouthVincent 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)
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
― Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Monday, 5 December 2022 17:12 (two years ago)
Hals is the best
― jmm, Monday, 5 December 2022 18:22 (two years ago)
any pedro friedeberghttps://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 Velazquezhttps://i.imgur.com/imQ0knT.jpg
Beheading of Saint John the Baptist by Caravaggiohttps://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 IIhttps://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.
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🖼
― 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 Worldhttps://whitney.org/collection/works/1907
Paul Guaguin - The Day of the Godhttps://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)
― 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)
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.jpgPiet 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.JPGEugène Delacroix - Jeune orpheline au cimetière
And since it's ILMhttps://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.jpgNicolas Poussin - A dance to the music of time
― Nabozo, Thursday, 8 December 2022 07:31 (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 Dovehttps://www.max-ernst.com/images/paintings/forest-and-dove.jpg
Edvard Munch - Madonnahttps://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
Some gorgeous pics itt.https://i.postimg.cc/59grDzgY/18-E1-AAF2-10-C1-4-B22-8-A5-E-69-A160-E8-F039.jpgI’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.jpghttps://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
― 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.
― 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)
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.jpghttps://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.jpgEdward 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)
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)
come on 20 other people, fucking post
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 29 January 2023 01:56 (two years ago)
Jackson Pollock - Blue PolesMark Rothko - Four Darks In Red Phillip Guston - FlatlandsJoan Mitchell - Sans NeigeFelix Gonzales-Torres - Perfect LoversJR - The Chronicles of San FranciscoLisa Reihana - In Pursuit of Venus (Infected)
― Dan S, Sunday, 29 January 2023 03:07 (two years ago)
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=4ecfecbfda0e4f4aMatisse - 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)
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.jpgJasper 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://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
― Shard-borne Beatles with their drowsy hums (Chinaski), Friday, 17 February 2023 23:25 (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)
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 CézanneThe sea at L'Estaque behind treesc. 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 TureenJean Siméon Chardin Frenchca. 1728–30Metropolitan 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.jpgThe 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.
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"), 1874https://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)
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/Henry_Ossawa_Tanner_-_The_Banjo_Lesson.jpg/427px-Henry_Ossawa_Tanner_-_The_Banjo_Lesson.jpgHenry 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?20110613085313Hyppolite 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
― Nabozo, Wednesday, 10 May 2023 13:33 (two years ago)
Killed for five months, rises from its ashes
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cf/Dante_Gabriel_Rossetti_-_Beata_Beatrix%2C_1864-1870.jpgDante Gabriel Rossetti - Beata Beatrix (1870)
― Nabozo, Tuesday, 24 October 2023 11:43 (one year ago)
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)
https://i.imgur.com/hfOYOvI.jpeg
hyman bloom, the bride
― z_tbd, Saturday, 3 August 2024 14:33 (ten months ago)
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)