Our favourite paintings: the great Auteur Gallery
It’s too complicated to explain but I was able to replace the bigger image with a smaller one for Lady Elizabeth Pope’s portrait (1615) by Robert Peake the Elder (1551-1619)
And here’s Boy with Squirrel (1765) a 150 years later
John Singleton Copley (1738-1815), American
Um, something’s definitely wrong I don’t know how it’s going to work out but I’m trying to post two Elizabethan portraits now….
Lady Elizabeth Pope 
Robert Peake the Elder (1551-1619)
Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland, The Wizard Earl (1564-1632)
Nicholas Hilliard (1547-1619)
Parmigianino: Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror
Landscape with birds and dodo (1628)
Roelant Savery (1576-1639)
Dodo, obese and drawn with two left feet, brought in from Mauritius (1626)
Interior with Phonograph
Henri Matisse (1869-1954)
The color scheme in this painting reminds me of The Color of Pomegranates/Sayat Nova.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7336544791488368382
That’s a great Matisse, and new to me. Not much of his stuff here, i wasn’t sure which one to pick. And well done promoting the neglected Savery. I do have a picture of a dodo, someone brought me from Mauritius when i was young. There are some Armenian painters i like, and here’s one i’ve just discovered.
Vardges Sureniants: Salome
Hakob Hakobyan: Morning at Avgadnazor
Halim Karabibene: Noe’s Harbour
Martiros Saryan: Armenian Valley, Cotton Pickers
Khachatrian: Morning. Workshop
Grigor Khandjyan: Sunflowers with Pomegranates and Corn Cobs
and so back to Paradjanov. There’s an excellent site of Armenian paintings i discovered a couple of years ago, armsite.com, where you’ll find most of the above.
Actually, I’ve always liked Magritte more than Munch:
Van Dongen-“Corn Poppy”
Matisse-“Piano Lesson”
George Grosz (1893-1959) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUNdZo1Pfzo
To Oskar Panizza, Oil on canvas. 140 × 110 cm
Ah i was trying to do that one before (my favourite Grosz), here’s hoping it comes out…
I’m surprised no one had mentioned Mark Rothko, though the images of his paintings don’t do them justice or look particularly spectacular. It’s just that when you’re in a room with them, it’s overwhelming and soothing all at once. They bring you into them, they move when you breathe, almost.
The ones at the Tate Modern in London are exhibited particularly well, in a dimly-lit room with ample bench space.
Egon Schiele is another of my favorite painters, I think I saw a self-portrait on here somewhere.
Love the Rothko. A musician friend of mine had that piece as the cover of his album. Artist: The Grassy Knoll. Album: III
Anyway, here’s my addition…a little Winslow Homer. ‘Eight Bells’.
Stanisław Masłowski – “Wschód księżyca”
Very striking. Thanks, i’ve just been checking out some more of Maslowski’s paintings
A new WWW search find, a ontemporary painter from Iceland… other paintings I prefer are too big for this site, alas.
’’Helgi Þorgils Friðjónsson (b.1953). His approach to nature as the leading subject of the history of Icelandic painting is not a formal, minimalist or conceptual one; he works with a mixture of surrealism and naïve painting. But what seems to be old fashioned at first sight is nothing else but a strong, subjective expression with knowledge of the history of art." (from the exhibit website for The Akureyri Art Museum)
Whaling in Edo Period Japan
Hokusai (1760-1849)
Strictly a Sharpshooter (Norman Rockwell 1941)
New York Movie, Edward Hopper
Portrait of Sacha Guitry (1885-1957) by Léon Gard (1901-1979)
Petit pont de pierre by Léon Gard
Nature morte aux oranges et chaudron by Léon Gard
Friedrich – “The Abby in the Oakwood”
Magritte – “L’Empire des Lumières”
Can Someone please tell me how you post pictures on these threads?
Kenji
Gros: Madame Bruyere