I have a coworker in Barcelona who has that on his living room wall. Not something I would do.

Please add Bob Ross to the poll please

And add the Kramer

MONET was a close second for me but I ended up going with JOSEPH MALLORD WILLIAM TURNER. (Whom I've never heard of)

If you hate Pollock, you'll REALLY hate Mark Rothko.

Odd, I really dislike Pollock, but I chose Rothko for my painting. (I actually use Rothko for my screensavers.)

Monet would have been my choice if not based on the painting in OP

The Pollock is something I really can dig

Yes.

It's not so much that I hate them, I just think its ****ing stupid that they are legitimately considered some of the greatest artist and most influential in history for shit that requires absolutely no talent.

Painting rectangles and slopping paint around? Come on man. That's some shit I would expect to buy for $5 at a kindergarten fundraiser and the shit sells for $146M with someone trying to tell a back story on a painting that has no logical meaning and then there are people out there that actually argue how they are misunderstood.

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You folks are slipping....

I'm holding out for one of the Airwolf series by Demonpenz. His work with MS Paint is special.

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“I sense great vulnerability. A man-child crying out for love. An innocent orphan in the post-modern world.”

“I see a parasite. A sexually depraved miscreant who is seeking only to gratify his basest and most immediate urges.”

“His struggle is man's struggle. He lifts my spirit.”

“He is a loathsome, offensive brute. Yet I can’t look away.”

“He transcends time and space.”

“He sickens me.”

“I love it.”

“Me too.”

I don't think my love of art is on the same level.

This was tough. It is almost like you went out of your way to find less inspiring works by several of the artists. I know I could have found more than a dozen paintings by Van Gogh, Cezanne, Picasso, Rothko, and Monet that I enjoy more than the selected paintings.

It came down to these four:

Kadinsky -- I always enjoy his paintings, and this is not a bad selection.
Van Gogh -- a top five artist for me, but a bad selection. I suspect I would enjoy this painting more in person. I can't really make out the brushstrokes in the image.
Picasso-- I like the blue period. I would probably enjoy this more in person.
Rothko -- I've learned the meditative value of Rothko over the past five years. This one is meh and the room has to have the right lighting for them to bring out their best.

I'm going with the Rothko, edging out the Picasso.

I used to think Rothko was just some blotches of paint. If you look closely you will notice very subtle variations in color even in the most monolithic of his blotches. The longer you look, the more you see. With the right Rothko in the right lighting, this process of discovery can persist for more than 10 minutes, with colors slowly revealing themselves every few minutes.

Rain man will come back later and tell us how much each one sold for.