Rembrandt has always been a favorite of mine - I took this picture last summer.
What's your favorite painting?
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Rembrandt has always been a favorite of mine - I took this picture last summer.
These are two of my favorites:
Georges Seurat's - A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (1884–1886)
Edward Hopper's - Nighthawks (1942)
I observed both of these paintings last year at the Art Institute of Chicago, and bought a small print of each to display in my shop.
Georges Seurat's - A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (1884–1886)
Edward Hopper's - Nighthawks (1942)
I observed both of these paintings last year at the Art Institute of Chicago, and bought a small print of each to display in my shop.
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Kinda always been partial to Rockwell. 
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I have never been much one for art but that is my leading contender for favorite.
A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte
Love how he tells stories
Washington Crossing the Delaware by Emanuel Leutze. I stop into the Met to see it every time I am NYC. It's massive at over 12' 5" x 21' 3". I sit on the bench in front of it and let it suck me in.
There is some mighty good stuff already posted in this thread.
Myself, I’m a big fan of American Regionalism and its offshoots.
Andrew Wyeth’s Christina’s World probably tops my list. It has fascinated me since childhood, and my wife gave me a very large framed print of it for my birthday one year. It has hung In our living room ever since. There have been countless times when I’m walking through the house on the way to doing something else, and I’ll stop for a moment and study it even more.
For me it elicits much of the human condition; drawing on both despair and hope, obstruction and determination, and how one’s own world can be incredibly small and yet massively expansive at the same time.
Myself, I’m a big fan of American Regionalism and its offshoots.
Andrew Wyeth’s Christina’s World probably tops my list. It has fascinated me since childhood, and my wife gave me a very large framed print of it for my birthday one year. It has hung In our living room ever since. There have been countless times when I’m walking through the house on the way to doing something else, and I’ll stop for a moment and study it even more.
For me it elicits much of the human condition; drawing on both despair and hope, obstruction and determination, and how one’s own world can be incredibly small and yet massively expansive at the same time.
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One of several favourites: 'The Ambassadors', Hans Holbein the Younger, 1533
'The Lady Elizabeth Tudor' (artist unknown, circa 1545-6). The future Queen Elizabeth I. Aged about 13 at the time the portrait was made, probably to be shown to prospective suitors. Her mother had been executed for treason when she was 2 years old, her father was dying, herkid half-brother Edward as Edward VI was about to write her out of the succession, as later her half-sister Mary who kept her under house arrest. Regarded as a pawn in the religious and political manoevrings of the mid 16thC, I find this portrait fascinating, and the more I look at it, the more I think I see: smouldering resignation masking abarely repressed defiance and an unsuccessful attempt to look resigned and submissive as in the similar portrait of her foster-mother Queen Jane Seymour. A girl who has become very old for her years, as a child negotiating the snake-pit that was the Tudor court.
Don’t really have a favorite, but here’s one that I fell in love with in the 80s.
Romare Bearden. “Jammin at the Savoy”
Romare Bearden. “Jammin at the Savoy”
We have a local artist named Wilf Perreault who is incredibly talented. I have 3 of his smaller pieces but would love to have a larger one but they go for top dollar.
Hard one to answer because there is so much great art. But I will share one that hangs in my living room.
I like puzzles, and this one by Piero della Francesca has no particularly satisfying answer.
I had this Dali print back in my room at college. "Impressions of Africa" painted in 1938.
