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Pick a famous artist's painting for your living room.
(https://chiefsplanet.com/BB/showthread.php?t=322706)
Pick a famous artist's painting for your living room.
Okay, here are the rules and the background.
I googled a list of the "greatest painters of all time" and found some random person's list who seemed to have an opinion. I then googled the names of the top 30 artists, adding "paintings museum" to the search to try to avoid copies and stuff. I took the second image that I found in each search. My goal was to avoid the artist's most famous painting, and to get a different, and generally less famous, example of their work. I'll put images of each of the 30 artist's paintings up in the first few posts of this thread. Here's the rule: you get to pick one of these paintings to be displayed in your living room for the rest of your life. It is the painting shown in the first set of posts in this thread. You cannot pick another painting by that artist. You cannot sell the painting or charge admission to view the painting. You do not own the painting. It is being provided to you for your personal enjoyment only. Which painting do you select? (Gimme a minute to get the posts up and the poll up. Go paint a picture of a happy tree or something while you're waiting.) |
WASSILY KANDINSKY*
https://i0.wp.com/www.guggenheim.org...eb-1.jpg?w=870 VINCENT VAN GOGH* https://assets.simpleviewinc.com/sim...68aef642e9.jpg TOMMASO MASACCIO* http://www.travelingintuscany.com/im...accio32700.jpg TITIAN* https://www.hermitagemuseum.org/wps/...c-7d2af943a6ff REMBRANDT VAN RIJN* https://www.theleidencollection.com/...dts-Mother.jpg RAPHAEL* https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped..._panoramio.jpg |
Stephen Hawking
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PIET MONDRIAN*
https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/phot...-115331271.jpg PIERO DELLA FRANCESCA* https://www.thegrandwinetour.com/wp-...3-1200x770.jpg PETER PAUL RUBENS * https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/images/hb/hb_42.187.jpg PAUL GAUGUIN* https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/image...b_51.112.2.jpg PAUL CÉZANNE* http://media.getty.edu/museum/images...e/10932501.jpg PABLO PICASSO* https://www.metmuseum.org/-/media/im...011C5D172C1E37 |
Patiently waiting for some Jim Carrey.
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Bob Ross......??
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MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI*
http://media.getty.edu/museum/images...l/36717701.jpg MARK ROTHKO* https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/image..._1985.63.5.jpg LEONARDO DA VINCI* https://www.straitstimes.com/sites/d...amp=1483042806 JOSEPH MALLORD WILLIAM TURNER* https://thumbs-prod.si-cdn.com/Ei7FG...llee_aoste.jpg JOAN MIRÓ* https://d7hftxdivxxvm.cloudfront.net...200&quality=80 JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT* https://www.thebroad.org/sites/defau...t_untitled.jpg |
JAN VAN EYCK*
https://www.visitflanders.com/en/bin...cm13-85734.jpg JACKSON POLLOCK* https://thumbs-prod.si-cdn.com/SZCgT...2-17858401.jpg HENRI MATISSE* https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibition...atisse_18.ashx GIOTTO DI BONDONE* https://www.louvre.fr/sites/default/...e-recevant.jpg FRANCISCO DE GOYA* https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/image..._29.100.10.jpg EDVARD MUNCH* https://munchmuseet.no/assets/1907-1...nter_75/2Q.jpg |
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Sorry about the Munch male frontal nudity. It's art.
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ÉDOUARD MANET*
http://blogs.getty.edu/iris/files/20...net_spring.jpg DIEGO VELÁZQUEZ* https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/image..._14.40.631.jpg CLAUDE MONET* https://theknow.denverpost.com/wp-co...1-1074x780.jpg CARAVAGGIO* http://www.museivaticani.va/content/...1280.1280.jpeg ANDY WARHOL* https://news.wttw.com/sites/default/...l%20THIS_0.jpg ALBRECHT DÜRER* https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/image...b_43.106.1.jpg |
Okay, those are your thirty paintings by the world's greatest painters. The poll will come up soon.
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Sorry, I make my own rules.
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/69/fd...ca3d5b4453.jpg (Fallen Angel - Alexandre Cabanel) |
The Kandinsky, Pollock or Monet.
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The Jackson Pollock or the Floyd would both look great in my LR
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No Bob Ross?
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Jean-Michel Basquiat. Definitely a conversation piece and it’s bright.
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Okay, here's my first cut. I can go from 30 to 14 pretty easily by eliminating paintings where I don't really like the style or the subject.
Contenders WASSILY KANDINSKY VINCENT VAN GOGH TOMMASO MASACCIO TITIAN PETER PAUL RUBENS PAUL CÉZANNE PABLO PICASSO LEONARDO DA VINCI JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT HENRI MATISSE FRANCISCO DE GOYA ÉDOUARD MANET DIEGO VELÁZQUEZ CLAUDE MONET Rejected – Don’t like the style ANDY WARHOL ALBRECHT DÜRER JACKSON POLLOCK MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI MARK ROTHKO JOSEPH MALLORD WILLIAM TURNER PIET MONDRIAN PAUL GAUGUIN Rejected – Don’t like the subject CARAVAGGIO REMBRANDT VAN RIJN RAPHAEL JAN VAN EYCK GIOTTO DI BONDONE EDVARD MUNCH JOAN MIRÓ PIERO DELLA FRANCESCA |
What the hell is that lady holding in the Da Vinci?
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Tough call between the MIRÓ, the BASQUIAT, the POLLOCK, or the DÜRER.
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Albrecht Altdorfer
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...BCnchen%29.jpg a detail of the same painting https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...di_isso_05.JPG |
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Since I cannot have a Magritte, I will happily settle for a Matisse.
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If I then shake out the top half of my contenders, I end up with:
Top Half: WASSILY KANDINSKY PETER PAUL RUBENS LEONARDO DA VINCI JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT HENRI MATISSE ÉDOUARD MANET CLAUDE MONET Eliminated: VINCENT VAN GOGH TOMMASO MASACCIO TITIAN PAUL CÉZANNE PABLO PICASSO FRANCISCO DE GOYA DIEGO VELÁZQUEZ |
Getting it down to my top three:
PETER PAUL RUBENS JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT CLAUDE MONET Elminated: ÉDOUARD MANET HENRI MATISSE WASSILY KANDINSKY LEONARDO DA VINCI |
I’m very tempted by the Basquiat.
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DaVinci, Picasso and Monet, when I was younger.
C.M Russell has been more my taste for decades. |
Bob Ross is the correct answer.
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So among my top three, here's how I would rank them.
#1 - Monet. I know it's trite to pick Monet, but there's a reason that he's considered great. I love his stuff, and I have a natural attraction to landscapes. I have to go Monet here. #2 - Basquiat. This guy does some seriously awesome stuff. I really like his painting, and it's a really close call to pick it. #3 - Rubens. This is a surprise for me, because I'm not usually into his stuff, but this particular painting is really wonderful. I like how the central figures are more crisp, and then the figures on the edges get fuzzy. Great work. |
Rubens cuz he was painting big booty hos before it was cool
https://www.artble.com/imgs/a/f/d/81...marseilles.jpg |
Monet isn’t my favorite, but it’s better than the Van Gogh you selected. I would have a tough time turning down the Pollock or Kandinsky though.
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Looks like a ferret.
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The Monet for sure.
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I did not read the rules before posting. I would like to change my vote from the Matisse to the Caravaggio.
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Went with the POLLOCK as it aligns with the decorating ideas I have for my new house.
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No Hieronymus Bosch no care.
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Someone picked the one with all the dinky doos, (NTTAWWT).
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Rembrandt has two votes? I like his stuff in general, but the selected painting isn't exactly irresistible to me. It looks like the emperor in Star Wars.
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Turned a corner at the Vatican Museums a few years ago and saw in front of me Raphael’s “Transfiguration”.
Most of the other paintings from that period haven’t aged particularly well and are discolored, faded. Transfiguration, in that regard, was the 4k UHDTV to the tube televisions that populated the halls elsewhere. It was so vivid. The colors were so unbelievably pristine. A closer look revealed brush bristles stuck in the oil, and fingerprints scattered about. It’s a masterpiece. One of probably five pieces of artwork that have ever made my eyes well up with tears just from looking at them. |
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A painting that I saw at the Louvre has always stuck with me as a beautiful painting. Delaroche's "The Young Martyr". It's amazing in real life. https://i.pinimg.com/originals/2f/e1...48dd030066.jpg |
Caravaggio simply beats/murders all the competition. He was one part genius painter and one part drunken brawling street thug.
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Since art is subjective..no offense.
No: Albert Bierstadt Norman Rockwell Maxfield Parrish Thomas Hart Benton Remington *Frank Frazetta *Roger Dean but off the list... The Monet is tempting as I saw my first at the Nelson last year. The Pollack would be incredible because you could study and get lost in it for hours. But in the end, I'll have to choose the Michelangelo. The only artist to ever create masterpieces in art, sculpture and architecture. He's unparalleled in my eyes. No one comes close. |
Caravaggio and I didn’t need to see the options
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Monet for me and it's not even close. Art rarely does much for me, but his stuff has depth at a level I really don't understand myself.
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I took art history as one of my college courses and when we got to Pollock there wasnt much to be said other than sometimes he drops a cigarette butt in his painting as he stands over the canvas and haphazardly flicks paint around. |
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What about Renoir?
https://tabanerocigars.com/wp-conten..._auguste_5.jpg Alternative for Raphael: http://en.allpaintingsstore.com/Art....o-Altoviti.JPG And one more, from Winslow Homer: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...dack_guide.jpg |
I didn't see Salvador Dali.
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As someone who knows nothing about art - I picked monet. Surprised he had so many votes. Must say something about his talent.
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I have to say i was disappointed in Michelangelo's work. I usually love his stuff.
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The first one because it's the only one that even comes close to matching my other decor
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How is Bob Ross not on this list?
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No Dali? I love Dali stuff.
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Where is Henri Rousseau?
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I watched an old lady who apparently gave no ****s walk up and touch that Jackson Pollock. I would have went with Van Gogh if it had been one of many of his other paintings.
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I'd take any of the impressionists...and Dali IS great...just not what I'd want in my living room.
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Pieter Bruegel for the win.
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So I love Rembrandt and van Eyck, but the paintings that they did that are available here aren't anythign I love. I'm choosing -- as I now see so many others did -- a nice seashore painting by Monet.
It's dominating the competition, but I think that is far less the skill of the artist than the simple fact that here in the modern world, that is an entirely appropriate (if slightly boring), very nice piece of work. |
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Nah, see my reply above. He's not likely even top 10 for me. It's just a nicer piece that fits well in any living room, more than any extraordinary talent he has. I love Rembrandt, but an old crone staring down at me all the time? err.... |
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Chupacabra. |
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