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The greatest painting in all of human history is Titian's Assumption of the Virgin
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Need some good Scandinavian vibes in here, always liked this for just showing an ordinary festive situation that would put a smile on anyone's face..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hip,_Hip,_Hurrah!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hip,_Hip,_Hurrah!
I think the the best in-person experience I had with a painting was Malevich's black square.
It's just so square, man.
Legitimately one of my favorite works of art. It's incredibly bold, innovative, and forward thinking for the time (1915!). An answer to the question of whether it is possible to create art that doesn't rely on the crutch of reproducing the world and instead is expressed in a visual language of its own that is purely made up of color and shape. Genius.
I know this post is from months ago but I just gotta say I really like this painting and have never seen it before today.No, it's "Thai Food (Miami Beach)" by Hervé Di Rosa.
The imposing flat green surface that takes up about half the painting, the yellow sky, the incongruently detailed plants and trees, the bizarrely simplified cars, the black-yet-glowing dog lurking in the shadows, the way the power line seems to clip through the side of the building... it's hard to take your eyes off it.
Fun fact: the painting actually portrays a real restaurant, though it closed a few years ago.
Yes, his use of light is spectacular.Always loved Nymphs and Satyr. The way he paints the light damn near puts me in a trance.
I imagine I'd have some kind of religious experience if I ever saw it in person.
The Sordid Truth behind Degas's Ballet Dancers
Artists are just like the rest of us - fascinated by pretty clothes. :p
Artists are just like the rest of us - fascinated by pretty clothes. :p
When it comes to Christian-themed paintings I prefer the realism of Rembrandt and Caravaggio, the former especially.
You know that that is just a theory and never proven, right? There are signs that it could have been the case, but no direct prove.
Furthermore, why would that even take away from his accomplishments? Like painting is just tracing and coloring in the blanks. The use of colors and light is not great, it is amazing and unmatched for centuries.
Oh I am not trying to take away anything from Vermeer at all. Amazing works of art that stand the test of time and will continue to be amazing for the rest of recorded humanity.
I do think though, it is important to understand the process to create works. Vermeer's realism was so far ahead of anyone at the same time that people couldn't believe (and still are amazed) that it was done "freehand". Vermeer's works and process have literally been recreated and the theory has serious support behind it.
It does NOTHING to remove any accomplishments of the works themselves. Tracing doesn't bring life and depth to painting, but it assisted in bringing realism in a time it was not possible.
And honestly, it's more of a testament to the impressiveness of Vermeer in all, than does to diminish anything.
I saw this masterpiece in Bologna last week. It's so powerful, it's outstanding.
It's called "The Great Wave off Kanagawa", by Katsushika Hokusai.
Gerrit Van Honthorst
Atkinson Grimshaw
I disagree w/ OPs premise, but also love Grimshaw's depictions of industrial Britain. They're really evocative for me, and I love depictions of scenes.
As a videogame player, I really like how Dishonored modelled a lot of their world off of Grimshaw's London.
This is genuinely amazing. The folds on the carpet are blowing my mind.
Been posted already but the only one that has stuck with me from my visit to El Prado has been "Saturn Devouring His Son"
The definition of haunting.
The definition of haunting.
I love this.Yeah, not a fan, sorry OP.
I like Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky and his obsession with the sea.
Yeah it resides in the Cappella di San Severo here in Napoli where the main attraction and centerpiece is the Cristo Velato (Veiled Christ) made by Giuseppe Sanmartino but whenever i go there i always go to its right to watch Il Disinganno, a much more impressive sculpture if you ask me.
As for paintings i prefer Scuola di Atene (School of Athens) or else something made by Caravaggio
This is a fantastic thread and lots of favorites have already been posted already, so I'll just settle for one I really like that hasn't been posted yet, rather than what I consider the "greatest painting":
This is the London Madonna on the Rocks by Da Vinci (or, controversially, Da Vinci et al.). I've, ah, gotten in trouble before for my belief that, with an artist whose works include the literal Mona Lisa, my favorite face of his is actually in this painting. Specifically:
I have always found this face remarkable not just for its beauty, but for its universality. In its soft curves and warm, full cheeks it has a sort of feminine radiance, and yet there is in equal parts a masculine sharpness to the jaw and a subtly defined brow above the more delicate eyes that suggests a masculine structure. Whereas in a portrait the face is often centered and prominent, here this angel is not the subject at all, but merely an onlooker; it is precisely in this feeling that the angel is also an audience to the painting that there is a powerful air of mystery and attraction towards it, as if you're supposed to be looking at the Madonna (whose eyes, incidentally, aren't quite visible), but are inexorably drawn to this luminous individual off to the side instead. I would compare it to going to a music concert and seeing someone strikingly attractive in the audience across from you; a sort of incidental surprise at seeing a beauty that is incidental to the main event. And I think the more ambiguous sexuality ties masterfully into those feelings, as a symbol of the sort of uncertainty with which we would half-remember such a meeting. It is, in effect, a covert, meaningless glance at a beautiful nobody, tenderly immortalized in a painting where that moment lasts forever. It single-handedly makes the painting as a whole one of my favorite Da Vinci pieces.
This is the London Madonna on the Rocks by Da Vinci (or, controversially, Da Vinci et al.). I've, ah, gotten in trouble before for my belief that, with an artist whose works include the literal Mona Lisa, my favorite face of his is actually in this painting. Specifically:
I have always found this face remarkable not just for its beauty, but for its universality. In its soft curves and warm, full cheeks it has a sort of feminine radiance, and yet there is in equal parts a masculine sharpness to the jaw and a subtly defined brow above the more delicate eyes that suggests a masculine structure. Whereas in a portrait the face is often centered and prominent, here this angel is not the subject at all, but merely an onlooker; it is precisely in this feeling that the angel is also an audience to the painting that there is a powerful air of mystery and attraction towards it, as if you're supposed to be looking at the Madonna (whose eyes, incidentally, aren't quite visible), but are inexorably drawn to this luminous individual off to the side instead. I would compare it to going to a music concert and seeing someone strikingly attractive in the audience across from you; a sort of incidental surprise at seeing a beauty that is incidental to the main event. And I think the more ambiguous sexuality ties masterfully into those feelings, as a symbol of the sort of uncertainty with which we would half-remember such a meeting. It is, in effect, a covert, meaningless glance at a beautiful nobody, tenderly immortalized in a painting where that moment lasts forever. It single-handedly makes the painting as a whole one of my favorite Da Vinci pieces.
https://www.artforum.com/print/201809/ewa-lajer-burcharth-on-the-art-of-eug-232-ne-delacroix-77267
Eugène Delacroix appreciation
Eugène Delacroix appreciation
That is, indeed, nuts.
As much as I love painting and think it's generally far more effective as art, I'll always be more impressed by sculptural skills.
I was actually gonna post that im partial to some Beksinski myself so nice choice.A wild Beksinski appears...
His art is very striking, both haunting and beautiful.
Stuff like the OP just bores me, both artistically and especially the subject matter.
In a Roman Osteria
By Carl Bloch
not uncommonly seen on the internet with the caption "why dont you paint a picture, it'll last longer"
A popular radio DJ in the UK recreated this image after being inundated with messages saying he looked just like the man in the painting.
How come nobody's blowing into the toy to get bubbles? Oh ... heh .... ok.Siesta from Arthur Berzinsh is really a great work of art.
i am fuckin losing it at the cardboard cut out for the cat.A popular radio DJ in the UK recreated this image after being inundated with messages saying he looked just like the man in the painting.
Need some good Scandinavian vibes in here, always liked this for just showing an ordinary festive situation that would put a smile on anyone's face..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hip,_Hip,_Hurrah!
Funny you posted a Skagen piece. I came here to post A Stroll on The Beach
The one that moved me the most was undoubtedly The Last Supper in Milan.
The whole wall is a canvas and Da Vinci nailed it.
The whole wall is a canvas and Da Vinci nailed it.
