What's your favorite painting?

DC · 10-10-2009, 12:29 PM

While I like paintings, I'm not really exposed to them. Australia isn't exactly the center of the art world, and I feel the internet is not the correct medium to view actual paintings.

Having said that, my favorites are Brughel's Icarus, which I have only recently seen as part of my study of Auden's poetry;
http://nongae.gsnu.ac.kr/%7Esongmu/P...s_Brueghel.jpg

And Gustav Dore's ilustration for Paradise Lost;

http://www.redicecreations.com/speci...ov/lucifer.jpg

**JacquesMagique** · 10-10-2009, 01:42 PM

I really like that top one

I take quite an interest in art, mainly in the modern art movements though.

Kandinky is immense:
http://abstract-art.com/abstraction/...nsky_tr_ln.jpg

I'm quite in to political art also. Saw some great examples recently at the exhibition of Chinese art that was at the Saatchi gallery.
http://netdependent.files.wordpress....ngguangyi1.jpg

It's not so much the message which they portray, I just find that some of the feelings which they can evoke can be pretty amazing. Russian Constructivist art (which tended to be pro-lenin) is quite interesting also:
http://www.usc.edu/schools/annenberg...ages/706bg.jpg

This is so much better than the crap which Stalin's propaganda machines pumped out (socialist realism) which was soo dull.

http://www.artlies.org/_issues/41/fe...arsen.fig3.jpg