Favorite Paintings/Works of Art

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<p>Mine are:</p>

<p>Improvisation No. 30 by Wassily Kandinsky
<a href="http://www.artinfo.com/media/image/147979/AA0509_DTB_018.jpg%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.artinfo.com/media/image/147979/AA0509_DTB_018.jpg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Interior with a Violin by Henri Matisse
<a href="http://www.billelar.dk/matisseviolin.jpg%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.billelar.dk/matisseviolin.jpg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Honorable Mention:
Discobolus (Myron), Laocoon Group (?), David (Michelangelo), School of Athens (Raphael), Apollo and Daphne (Gian Lorenzo Bernini), Raft of the Medusa (Theodore Gericault), Dante and Virgil in Hell (Eugene Delacroix), La Gare Saint Lazare (Claude Monet), Japanese Bridge at Giverny (the ones with red) (Claude Monet), Starry Night (Vincent van Gogh), The Gross and Agnew Clinics (both Thomas Eakins), Three Musicians (Pablo Picasso), and Guernica (Pablo Picasso)</p>

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<p>I love Raft of the Medusa, Gare St. Lazare, and the Gross Clinic too.</p>

<p>Some of my very favorites:</p>

<p>Judith Beheading Holofernes by Caravaggio
<a href=“http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/38/Judith_Beheading_Holofernes_by_Caravaggio.jpg[/url]”>http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/38/Judith_Beheading_Holofernes_by_Caravaggio.jpg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>When I Put My Hands on Your Body
<a href=“http://www.queer-arts.org/archive/9902/wojnarowicz/large/images/07.jpg[/url]”>http://www.queer-arts.org/archive/9902/wojnarowicz/large/images/07.jpg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Tughra of Suleyman the Magnificent
<a href=“http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f2/Tughra_Suleiman.jpg[/url]”>http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f2/Tughra_Suleiman.jpg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Apoxyomenos by Lysippos
<a href=“http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/greeks/art/sculpture/pictures/apoxyomenos.jpg[/url]”>http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/greeks/art/sculpture/pictures/apoxyomenos.jpg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Any Faiyum portrait
<a href=“http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/53/Fayum-22.jpg[/url]”>http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/53/Fayum-22.jpg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Rape/Abduction of the Sabine Women by Giambologna
<a href=“http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5d/Giambologna_raptodasabina.jpg[/url]”>http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5d/Giambologna_raptodasabina.jpg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Ahh, this is making me miss my Art History book so desperately. I have a lot more favorites, but I think these are pretty good.</p>

<p>The Lacoon group is by these 3 guys from Rhodes. One of their names is Hagesandros I think.
I always feel sort of bad because I honestly don’t like Guernica.</p>

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<p>I always feel sort of bad because I honestly don’t like Guernica.</p>

<p>I’ve never heard of anyone who doesn’t like Guernica before!</p>

<p>My favorite painting:</p>

<p>“Madonna Dolorosa” by Carlo Dolci [this just happens to be at the local art museum!]
<a href=“http://www.artexpertswebsite.com/pages/artists/Dolci/Dolci_BlueMadonna.jpg[/url]”>http://www.artexpertswebsite.com/pages/artists/Dolci/Dolci_BlueMadonna.jpg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>cool stuff posted so far! i especially love the first one, millancad.</p>

<p>if anyone can identify this painting &/or artist: <a href=“http://photos-e.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-sf2p/v196/200/97/795880556/n795880556_2657516_6333.jpg[/url]”>http://photos-e.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-sf2p/v196/200/97/795880556/n795880556_2657516_6333.jpg&lt;/a&gt;
or this one (same artist): <a href=“http://photos-f.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-sf2p/v196/200/97/795880556/n795880556_2657517_6593.jpg[/url]”>http://photos-f.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-sf2p/v196/200/97/795880556/n795880556_2657517_6593.jpg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>…i’d love you forever. i knew at one point but completely forgot. the first painting is probably my favorite – the photo doesn’t do it justice, but i’ll google image search it & some others if i ever find out who the painter is.</p>

<p>i also really like renoir. yes, i’m boring because i love impressionism blah blah blah.</p>

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<p>^OMG. Those are beautiful! </p>

<p>And impressionism is lovely. People who don’t like it are lying.</p>

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<p>Hey hilsa, you never responded to my PM lol</p>

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<p>Ah yes. That’s because I figured that by the time I received it (the next day), it was too late. And my friends use different proxies, though I don’t know which ones, since I’ve yet to use one.</p>

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<p>Ah, love: [“Starry</a> Night Over the Rhone” by Vincent Van Gogh](<a href=“You are being redirected...”>You are being redirected...)</p>

<p>Also anything by Dali. That genius.</p>

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<p>My body is the best work of art.</p>

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<p>Or your mom.</p>

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<p>^^^^^^^^^^^^^^fail!!!111!!!1!11!!</p>

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<p>Anything by the American Mirror Company</p>

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<p>Jacques Louis David’s The Death of Socrates </p>

<p>[File:David</a> - The Death of Socrates.jpg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:David_-_The_Death_of_Socrates.jpg]File:David”>File:David - The Death of Socrates.jpg - Wikipedia)</p>

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<p>on my quest to find the artist of that other painting, i found a piece that i loved too much not to post:</p>

<p>[El</a> Greco – View of Toledo](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:El_Greco_View_of_Toledo.jpg]El”>File:El Greco View of Toledo.jpg - Wikipedia)</p>

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<p>Swooooon.~</p>

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<p>I mostly like Romanticism and Impressionism.</p>

<p>These have always been some of my favorites (but I, of course, love most of Turner’s stuff…) - <a href=“http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/94/Turner,_J._M._W._-_The_Fighting_T”>http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/94/Turner,_J._M._W._-_The_Fighting_T&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>You stole the words right out from under my fingers. Impressionist works are some of my favorites and I quite like Monet’s famous gardens.</p>

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<p>^Me too, the gardens and poppies and women with parasols are my favorite :] I actually am not a fan of the water lily works… dunno why though. They’re too overblown imo.</p>

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<p>hmm Salvador Dali for starters</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.thehandstand.org/archive/winter2008/articles/images/salvadordali3.jpg[/url]”>http://www.thehandstand.org/archive/winter2008/articles/images/salvadordali3.jpg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>too many to post from so many artists. Plus We can’t post the actual image :(</p>

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<p>^I like Dali’s stuff, most of it.</p>