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You folks have a fav?..

When I was a younger I used to love reading about and  building plastic model kits of WWII Aircraft..I read all I could about them and finally came across a painting by Frank Wootten called "Bader Bale out" About the legless WWII ace that was shot down in his Spitfire over Germany.baled out, leaving his artificial legs in the cockpit..It's quite a story.He managed to talk the Germans into letting the British airdrop him some new "legs"  The Germans thought that was pretty safe...well as soon as he got them,he put them on and tried to escape..I believe they took them away from him after that.I bought the print when I was 16, and to this day I still am facinated by it!..What's your Fav and why....I used photobucket , but even if you don't include a picture , I'd still love to know!!I'll look it up.

My favorite is "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte" by Georges Seurat. In a college course on Modern Art where we studied the Impressionist artists, this painting was an example of a technique known as pointalism. The painting is made up of 10's of thousands of different colored dots. I believe I was more impressed with the technique than the subject itself at the time.

A year later while at the Chicago Art Institute, I turned a corner and there it was in all its majesty. The painting is about 7' x 10' and is an imposing work just because of its sheer size. I fell in love with that painting immediately for the power of its beauty and it still remains my favorite. While many of the other Impressionists have a more impressive body of work, Seurat sure hit a home run with his masterpiece. If you're ever in Chicago, make sure you see this one.

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JJ
Napa, CA
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I'm something of a lover of the paintings of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood; John Millais,Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Holman Hunt, Edward Burne-Jones. Their technical ablility and sense of romance has makes their paintings glow and their sympathy to nature is stimulating.

My favourite of the school is Jon Millais' 'Ophelia'



Colin

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This paintings like 8' tall!

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Billy Dean Thomas
Covina, CA

"Multi famam, conscientiam, pauci verentur."
(Many fear their reputation, few their conscience)

Nice ones!!..Man Billy, that gal is wearing some dress! Beautiful...Like that one Colin...do you know the story behind her...

I only had seen JJ's before.Here's JJ's

Colin- I am a MASSIVE Pre-Raphaelite fan...we had to do a study at College of their work and a reproduction, so I did Beata Beatrix...this is the original, but I did a pretty darn fine job of reproducing it and got top grades for it..



What can I say about this one?





Also like Dali's Classic Period....his best stuff in my opinion was done much later on in his life...



Also like a bit of Edward Hopper's work. I can't for the life of me find my favourite Dali and Hopper paintings, DANG!!!!


Gotta like some William Turner, 'cos I am directly related to him through my paternal mother (whose maiden name is Turner!!!!)

Not really my favorite, but deserves an honorable mention.

"The Kramer" - Larry Salk

    

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Billy Dean Thomas
Covina, CA

"Multi famam, conscientiam, pauci verentur."
(Many fear their reputation, few their conscience)

Sam, The only thing I'm jealous of Andrew Lloyd Webber for is his collection of Pre-Raphaelite work. He started buying Victorian painting when it was not considered fashionable and now has an unrivalled collection, better I think than the Tate's. I'd like to see your copy of the Beatrix. I live in a 600 year old house and the Pre-Raphaelite pictures are the only ones that really seem to suit the genus loci.

Colin

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My favorite is hanging on my refrigerator and is by my then 3 year old granddaughter.

Ron

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OLD MAN formerly (and formally) known as:

Ron Wisdom

Somewhere in the middle of Arkansas......

Hahhaahah!! It's the SERGE!! Am I right?   

Speaking of you know who..Found a couple of potentials for him...

"Dancing Bears"

  "Bear"

This is a favorite of mine


Mmmmmm, velvet.
Sorry, I was an art history minor in college and I've just seen way too much Italian High Renasance to take it very seriously anymore.

This is a painting I commisioned by a local musician/artist. I just gave him the title "Girls and Guitars,".... he came up with the rest....

http://www.ronhawkins.com/paintingviewer.cfm?painting_id=97

I also own one by him called Nicholas

http://www.ronhawkins.com/paintingviewer.cfm?painting_id=105

Enjoy!

Richard.

First time of my entire life where i really felt photogenic!!! Thanks Hesh!

Irwin, thanks, those are really cute paintings.

One of my favorites while i was a security guard at our National Art Gallery, was "The Fortune teller" but i can't remember the artist's name, Rembrandt has also made wonders with this art.

Sorry, can't find the pics

My wife is a professional artist and a registered copyist at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. She is one of less than 12 people who are qualified and permitted to paint from the original master paintings. It is scheduled to be no more than one copyist one day a week because they have to secure the room the original is in. The painting stays under lock until it is finished.

Because the finished painting is indistinguishable from the original, especially after some years of aging, special marks have to be made on the stretcher strips and on the front and back of the canvas underneath the painting that will be able to be seen under xray and other forms of light.

My wife's specialist is the English and Dutch Masters so when people ask what kind of art we have on our walls, I reply "Oh, you have seen it all " . Our walls are covered by paintings (or copies, I will never tell ) of Joshua Reynolds, Gainsborough, Rembrandt, Vermeer, George Romney, Frans Hals, Van Gogh, Sargent, Constable (that would look quite right and English, eh Colin) and others.

My wife and I both went to school for Art so when ever she needs encouragement to get away from the housework and out to her studio, I threaten to start painting again myself...then she heads to the studio and I head to my workshop and all is right with the world.

As to my taste in art, being of Norwegian ancestry, I am drawn to Edvard Munch. Some of his paintings are haunting such as Summer Night's Dream,



or Girls on the Jetty



or Mother and Daughter

Two of my favourite local Ontario artists;

Farm #1 by Carl Hoselton


A life of its own by Mark Killett


Thanks for the thread.

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Michael Lloyd

“I was born to ignorance, yes, and lesser poverties ...
I was born to privilege that I did not see ... I didn’t know it, but my way was paved” – John Gorka

Great thread. Here's an interesting one hanging in my living room. It looks much much better in real life though (the flash kind of makes it all look different):

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I might post one of my paintings tomorrow. If I do, no making fun.   

we promise

These are a few by my art instructor, Stephen Naegle, who was born in Toquerville, Utah in 1938. He died in a car crash in 1981 without becoming known. But his work is worth remembering, as is the man. A great guy commemorated on my site: www.naeglefriends.org

Stephen Naegle Website containing 309 documented art works.

Great thread, Bruce

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Painting above is named West of Gallup.

In the thread above are Water Wagon and Wiggins Fork.

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When I was a freshman in college. It's not super artistic, but it huge! It's
only my favorite because of how fun it was. The Hebrew story of Jonah.