Post a painting you like

[Kyriakos]

There are some paintings which are less known, but can be dear to someone who has seen them. I thought that this could be an easy way to see more paintings which do not normally appear, since they are by not so known painters, or they are not representative of their ussual style

You can post any painting you like, for whatever reason

This is the "blue horseman" by Kandinsky:

 

[CurtSibling]

Not sure who created this superb panzer painting, but it is one of my favourites for technique and style.

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[Darth_Pugwash]

This is my desktop wallpaper:



I found it here: http://www.starduststudios.com/Von_Richthofen.htm

 

[Leifmk]

This is my desktop background; it was also used as the cover to what might be my favorite album of all time (Bathory's 1988 magnum opus Blood Fire Death). The artist is Peter Nicolai Arbo, a Norwegian 19th century painter; the title is Åsgårdsreien (the motive is the Norse equivalent of the "Wild Hunt").

 

[aronnax]

Spanish Armanda being burnt by the english

 

[thetrooper]

Leif posted the one I was thinking about.

Listen to 'Ride of the valkyries' (Wagner) while you look at it.

 

[CurtSibling]

@Darth_Pugwash:

The Baron versus Hawker, it seems...A legendary battle between two aerial heroes.

 

[Bartleby]

Turner's Snowstorm. I use it as my wallpaper from time to time.

 

[thetrooper]

Turner's Snowstorm. I use it as my wallpaper from time to time.

That's borderline PDMA.

@ self

 

[Kyriakos]

I like the way Turner (probably) thought Making something random, observing what it *could* look like, and then presenting the composition as something from the start destined to be just that, therefore claiming that the randomness was carefull abstaction

 

[cthom]

breugel's 'winter/hunters in the snow'. my parents had a print of this over the fireplace, as a youngster i used to adore looking at what all the people were doing.

 

[Kan' Sharuminar]

Arcadia by Etienne Saint-Amant.



There's more at his website here. They're of a similar colourful and chaotic style, which I quite enjoy

 

[Perfection]

They're dogs, and they're playing poker!

 

[Kyriakos]

@Perfection: This is a collage, right?
Who created it?

 

[Perfection]

No, Oil Painting by C. M. Coolidge.

 

[Atlas14]

La Fragua de Vulcano by Diego Velazquez

 

[Solver]

Sadly, I can't find a decently-sized version right now.

 

[Godwynn]

He's one of my favorites.

 

[Gilder]

Always liked this one:

 

[Kyriakos]

@Godwynn: "He too is Alexander"? (another guess, hopefully correct this time..)

@Gilder: name of the painting?