Our favourite paintings: the great Auteur Gallery

Another off-topic (though some have connections with or have influenced films, well visual representation through the ages has had an influence):

Titian: Venus of Urbino

Kenji, I don’t know the art of painting and the dynamics involved but there are scores of them that arrested me with the sheer visual power and depth. I love Caravaggio, Velasquez, Da Vinci, Dali, Van Gogh and Picasso….let me see if I can find a few that I can post.

I’ve always enjoyed Lichtenstein’s comic pop art:

Here is his Hopeless

Gozzoli: Procession of the Magi

too big sorry but so many details.. i’ll have to trim Vermeer, Turner, Velasquez, Brueghel et al down to size

Alfred Sisley, Molesey Weir-Morning 1874

Oh yes, well done, Sisley deserves more attention. My wife says “lovely”. Wait, you’ve changed it.

Monet’s Madame Monet and Her Son

I must document surrealism:

Max Ernst “L’Ange du Foyeur”

Velasquez: Las Meninas

Wassily Kandinsky

Rousseau: Tiger in a Tropical Storm

Hiroshige: Dawn at Kanda Myojin Shrine (from 100 Famous Views of Edo, great set!)

Gwen John: The Convalescent (one of my wife’s favourites)

Stubbs: Whistlejacket

Gustave Caillebotte, Les Raboteurs de parquet

Sisley: Bougival, 1876

some of my (well known) very faves- Vermeer, Turner, Brueghel- still to come…wonder if anyone will put them on first

Thomas Lawrence, Pinkie (1794)

Zdzisław Beksiński

Alex Grey

Leonardo da Vinci, Portrait of Cecilia Gallerani (1490-91)

Piet Mondrian’s Composition with Red, Blue and Yellow

Dürer’s Hare (1502)

Hoffmann: A Hare in the Forest

i’m not usually one to split hares

Munakata Shikou

It’s difficult finding an image of his artwork that uploads. This seems to be an image of a woodblock print that was chosen for an 80 yen stamp.

Li Cheng: Solitary Temple amid Clearing Peaks (long before Giotto and European paintings started taking off)

Doinel: you find the painting through google, whatever, then copy the url, and put on here with exclamation marks either side of the url

Titian: Ranuccio Farnese

Renée Magritte

Rembrandt: The Jewish Bride