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MarsBonfire -> RE: Favorite painting? (5/6/2009 5:26:16 AM)

Sadly, I have rather pop art tastes... my favorite painting of all time is "The Prologue and the Promise" by american artist Robet McCall. On display in a pavillion at EPCOT. Everytime I see it, I get a sense of where we might be going, re: the future... and maybe it doesn't have to be a world of death and destruction.

But I do love a great many artists. Mostly those who have worked in science fiction and fantasy illustration. These are the guys who give shape and form to our society's dreams and nightmares: Hildenbrant, Hardy, Bonestell, Freas, Frazetta, Foss, Eggleton...

But, when it comes to erotic art? Michael Manning. Hands down.



kittinSol -> RE: Favorite painting? (5/6/2009 5:32:28 AM)

One of the most erotic painting in the world is this one: L'origine du monde by Courbet [8D] .



Marc2b -> RE: Favorite painting? (5/6/2009 6:31:01 AM)

This is a tough one for me because I work in an art center (three galleries, over twenty artist studios) and am surrounded by paintings (and many other forms of art) all day.  I certainly have my favorites but they are local artists that you’ve never heard of (but should have and perhaps some day will).  I won’t name any names since I have to presume that they don’t want their names bandied about on a BDSM site.  You can see some of them here.

As for internationally known artists, well I’ve always been partial to the impressionists but if I had to pick a favorite it would have to be Andrew Wyeth’s, “Christina’s World.”  The combination of the familiar and the comfortable (home) with struggle… Well, I’m not sure I can put it into words… which is what the best art work should do.



MsFlutter -> RE: Favorite painting? (5/6/2009 6:57:47 AM)

Monet's Water Lilies
Tamara de Lempicka 's 'Girl With Gloves'
Edward Gordon's 'The Ballroom'



kdsub -> RE: Favorite painting? (5/6/2009 8:22:00 AM)

I like most all art and lately I have taken a liking to anything by Terry Redlin

Butch



ienigma777 -> RE: Favorite painting? (5/6/2009 9:01:15 AM)

For those interested, see the movie 'Girl with the Pearl Earing'.



LaTigresse -> RE: Favorite painting? (5/6/2009 9:10:29 AM)

Oh my god this is like asking me my favourite book.

No way can I answer, not at all. I adore art, good art, even some mediocre art.

Iowa City has some really great local artists that I adore, as much for the people they are as the work they do.

Here is one gallery I can think of http://www.lasanskystudio.com I enjoy some of Tomas's work and Charlie's, especially those of the local models. They are usually quite large and the computer screen does not do them justice.

There are two artists and their names escape me at the moment, that did HUGE canvases of western US landscapes. The lighting in them was almost always amazing.

I usually hate fluffy, pretty water colours, too vapid and bland. I like art that has dramatic lighting, strong colours, art that is passionate in some way.

Not into most abstract or modern art, it bores me to tears.



AngelGeena -> RE: Favorite painting? (5/6/2009 11:17:25 AM)

Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte by Seurat has always been one of my faves.  I love how he makes pieces up of tiny dots.    I also like alot of Edward Hopper



stella41b -> RE: Favorite painting? (5/6/2009 3:15:53 PM)


The Apotheosis of War by Vasily Vereschagin.





MikeC5 -> RE: Favorite painting? (5/6/2009 4:48:03 PM)

im mostly into abstract stuff. any kandinsky works especially Composition VIII
max ernst is another favorite especially Ecell de Foc



slaveluci -> RE: Favorite painting? (5/6/2009 6:43:54 PM)

"A Young Girl Reading" (or "The Reader") is an 18th century oil painting by Jean-Honoré Fragonard. Here's a couple of links:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Young_Girl_Reading

http://www.nga.gov/cgi-bin/pinfo?Object=46020+0+none

I have always loved this painting. A print of it hung on the wall in my home as I was growing up and I could look at it for hours. She is so pretty and looks so comfortable sitting there reading. It always made me wonder just what she was reading and I love how her little pinky is sticking out[:)]

My favorite.................luci



dreamofthemoon -> RE: Favorite painting? (5/6/2009 8:38:20 PM)

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ORIGINAL: AngelGeena

Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte by Seurat has always been one of my faves.  I love how he makes pieces up of tiny dots.    I also like alot of Edward Hopper

Ooh, that's always been my favorite, too, Geena!



susie -> RE: Favorite painting? (5/6/2009 8:43:16 PM)

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ORIGINAL: sambamanslilgirl

anything by Claude Monet


Me too. I have books and prints of his all over the place.

I also have a great friend Edward Noott whose pictures I love. My house is also full of my father's paintings and drawings.



UglyTruth -> RE: Favorite painting? (5/6/2009 8:48:54 PM)

Favorite? My favorite whatever (song, food, painting) changes all the time. One of the most enduring though would be The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch.





Joseff -> RE: Favorite painting? (5/6/2009 9:03:15 PM)

Oh, there is no way I could name a favorite work, or even artist. I was a Fine Arts major in college. Every time I go into a museum or gallery, I get lost for hours. I have literally been escorted out of galleries at closing. I have seen student and amateur art that I still picture in my head, and when you throw in sculpture, furniture, and architecture...I could never have a favorite, there's just too much. I may not have seen my favorite yet.



Jeptha -> RE: Favorite painting? (5/6/2009 9:09:06 PM)

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ORIGINAL: kittinSol

One of the most erotic painting in the world is this one: L'origine du monde by Courbet [8D] .
That is beautiful.

Myself, though; my art tastes are strictly Junior High School.

I liked gothic-y paintings of water scenes with mermaids and sinister looking water creatures by Arnold Bocklin (like this one; The Waves)

And like the cigar label poster I had on my wall of the Mephisto Cigar devil standing over San Francisco.

I might have to look for that again on Ebay someday.

Getting away from strickly painterly stuff, I admired the pop-artsy collage "Just What Is It that Makes Today's Homes So Different, So Appealing?"

And to veer even farther afield, the photograph by André Kertesz, called Satiric Dancer.

Back to paintings, I was amazed at how abstract this Whistler painting was for the year 1875; (Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket.)

Though, of course, I don't really have any idea what 1875 might have been like at all.
Maybe it was thoroughly abstract all the way around.



Vendaval -> RE: Favorite painting? (5/6/2009 9:38:32 PM)

GT,
 
Olivia is wonderful too.  Some friends of mine have a full color painting by her of Bettie Page with a whip and a tiger.
 
Lucylastic, thank you for sharing, adding to my list. 


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ORIGINAL: GreedyTop

Olivia (I own a litho of one of her Bettie Page pieces..#28 out of 50 that is signed by both Bettie and Olivia)




YoursMistress -> RE: Favorite painting? (5/6/2009 10:21:53 PM)


I saw Dali's "Last Supper"  hanging in the National Gallery in Washington DC, one of my very favorite paintings. 

Anything by Rembrandt van Rijn

Yours



GreedyTop -> RE: Favorite painting? (5/6/2009 10:43:23 PM)

When I was in the Netherlands, I spent an afternoon at The Rijksmuseum.

I was in heaven.



YoursMistress -> RE: Favorite painting? (5/6/2009 11:17:46 PM)

I hope that you didn't do anything illegal while in Amsterdam.  [;)]



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