Pick a famous artist's painting for your living room.

[Rain Man]

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.)

[Rain Man]

WASSILY KANDINSKY*


VINCENT VAN GOGH*


TOMMASO MASACCIO*


TITIAN*


REMBRANDT VAN RIJN*


RAPHAEL*

[Naptown Chief]

Stephen Hawking

[Rain Man]

PIET MONDRIAN*


PIERO DELLA FRANCESCA*


PETER PAUL RUBENS
*

PAUL GAUGUIN*


PAUL CÉZANNE*


PABLO PICASSO*

[eDave]

Patiently waiting for some Jim Carrey.

[Randallflagg]

Bob Ross......??

[eDave]

Originally Posted by Randallflagg

Bob Ross......??

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

[Rain Man]

MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI*


MARK ROTHKO*


LEONARDO DA VINCI*


JOSEPH MALLORD WILLIAM TURNER*


JOAN MIRÓ*


JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT*

[Rain Man]

JAN VAN EYCK*


JACKSON POLLOCK*


HENRI MATISSE*


GIOTTO DI BONDONE*


FRANCISCO DE GOYA*


EDVARD MUNCH*

[Rain Man]

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

[Rain Man]

ÉDOUARD MANET*


DIEGO VELÁZQUEZ*


CLAUDE MONET*


CARAVAGGIO*


ANDY WARHOL*


ALBRECHT DÜRER*

[Munson]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

ÉDOUARD MANET*

Going strictly by the paintings offered, I chose this one.

I probably would've went with Van Gogh, but the one shown wasn't all that appealing.

[Rain Man]

Okay, those are your thirty paintings by the world's greatest painters. The poll will come up soon.

[Simplicity]

Sorry, I make my own rules.


(Fallen Angel - Alexandre Cabanel)