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

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.

Bob Ross......??



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ROFL

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

I'd take a Bob Ross original in a heartbeat.

Sorry about the Munch male frontal nudity. It's art.

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.

Sorry, I make my own rules.

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/69/fd...ca3d5b4453.jpg
(Fallen Angel - Alexandre Cabanel)

The Kandinsky, Pollock or Monet.

The Jackson Pollock or the Floyd would both look great in my LR