What is your favorite painting? Share links if you want?

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What is your favorite painting? Put some link if you want !

I like Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper
 

And I love Sistine Chapel's paintings, by Michaelangelo.
 

And Gustav Klimt, The Kiss

LauraMarx · Accepted Answer

This is difficult for me. I do not have a favourite painting. I hate all paintings, actually. They are all horrible. Because, I cannot connect to a single one. It's because I love them. I go to the Ulster Museum in Belfast and spend several hours on the art floors, staring at the paintings and the sculptures. I will stare at a single painting for hours. There was an exhibition of John Luke's paintings, recently - his painting, Northern Rhythm. I stare at it for hours, and hours, and hours. Just at this one painting. I love it so much. And most recently I look for oil paintings, because I love them. I look at the way they blend the sky, and how the sun peels out from behind great buildings, or how the moon scatters over the grainy water. I can still smell the oil paints, so many centuries later.

But, I can never connect with it. You understand? There is always this virtual layer, between me and the paintings. I used to love Avant-Garde. Futurism, especially, and cubism, and constructivism. I thought it could save me. I thought I could think in Abstract, and I could find something really true. I thought the violent images of the futurists could really help me make some change! But none of it could. The painters I loved were all millionaires or fascists, or whatever. They believed horrible things. They wanted to kill people like me - because I was a lesbian, or because I was Irish. Or whatever. When I learn about these painters, I cannot feel anything towards their paintings. Their paintings only make me cry. So I look at old paintings, Renaissance paintings. I love Rembrandt, Duhrer, Titian, Goyo! I love to see the chiaoscuro especially. The figure who is submerged in the velvet black waters of night, but illuminated by a single, cold moonbeam. It is so beautiful.. And I look at their paintings, for hours and hours, again

But... I still feel so cold about it. I am looking for some heart in the paintings that will comfort me and find only a few brushstrokes. I don't know.

spuitkaas · Accepted Answer

I saw these paintings a few years ago by a exposition nearby. I love the colours and the painter wanted to express a russian fairytale. I really liked it. The painter is Svetlana Tiourina.
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I like a lot of paintings actually. I like Van Gogh and I like the painting "the kiss" you mentioned as well, but I wanted to point out a non-famous painter.

UberTroll · Accepted Answer

I recently discovered Leonid Afremov's work and I think it's absolutely stunning! I love his use of color <3

SurströmmingLover · Accepted Answer

Salvador Dali clock Rembrandt - Belshazzar Feast and of course Mona Lisa

Klaatu51 · Accepted Answer

i like cubism style mostly...

DodgersGM · Answer

If I'm only pick one, then I choose Wheatfield With Crows by Van Gogh.  His use of brushstrokes and his hauntingly dark sky are so incredibly captivating!

Kyndra · Answer

Virgin of the Rocks by Leonardo da Vinci And there are amazing paintings in some of the churches I've visited, and in some libraries. But I don't know who painted them.

LovesTVDx · Answer

This painting actually made me cry when I saw it for real...

Hans222 · Answer

In general, I admire painters who can paint every detail "picture perfect".
Like: imagine you go to London and make a high resolution picture of yourself in front of Tower Bridge.
Than an artist paints exactly the same scene, and the pairting and picture look identical including the finest details of your face, waves on the Thames and every detail of the bridge. That's the sort of painting I like!

GalaxyHotChoc · Answer

Yes it's a painting

Anonymous · Answer

The paintings on the ceiling of Versailles. It looks so so beautiful bi wanna go there badly.

Maazin · Answer

this Glass painting is stunning.

Virulent · Answer

It's a painting made for me of me by a 7 year old.

ashfelicis · Answer

My favorite's the Face of War (Visage de la Guerre) made by Salvador Dali in 1940. It tells a lot, I think.

MrThrusty · Answer

the bedroom - van gogh

KLTheErudite7229 · Answer

What about Mona Lisa?

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