What's your favorite paint ?

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There's so many I like but definitely on my top 5 is The Madonna with the Long Neck by Parmigianino. I like a lot of artist who distort the human figure El Greco, Ingres, Dali, etc... and in this painting nothing is in proportion, oversized baby Jesus, huge mary, long neck, long curved fingers, and so on, not because Parmigianino couldn't do proper anatomy and proportions but he is purposely manipulating all these elements for elegance and his using size for symbolism. Jesus is the most important figure so he gives him the largest size, followed by Mary and then the angels.

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My personal favourite.

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also, holy shit saved
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>>3113940
>>3114213
Wonderful paintings

>>3114445
meme

>>3114479
absolute trash

>>3115067
Why is it absolute trash? The one you posted is pretty simplistic and weak too...

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>>3113940
David is propaganda, if I had to choose a neoclassical painting there's better than the oath.

>>3114213
It's creepy

>>3114445
But not as much as this, pass the sick bucket

>>3114479
Junk, sorry. Why? Glossy, meaningless, for teenagers bedrooms.

>>3115067
Proof that Vemeer struggled with faces.


Watteau is easily one of the greatest painters to have lived.

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>>3113940
very high detail, but why the fuck does one of the soldiers have his arm so tightly grasped around the other's torso

was he a gayboi

>>3114213
>naked children again
>>>/trash/

>>3114445
why. also, why is the satyr fucking praying to it. nice touch with the moon coming out early and being just slightly visible tho

>>3115067
i thought this was a photograph of a museum exhibit until i focused on her ugly face.

>>3115291
i can barely tell whats really going on here with the trees on the right seemingly morphing into a fuckin black cloud but the way in which the colors meld and shift around the people is rather warm

What is needed is

Byzantine
early Italian renaissance
northern renaissance
mid-late Italian renaissance (does that cover mannerism?)
a Baroque
Rococo
Dutch school
then what?
Romantic
NeoClassical
Symbolist
Impressionist
Expressionist
late - modern

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I saw this giant of a painting in the flesh, last week.
Sargent's The Acheson Sisters, 1902.

Here it is in situ, with candelabra and everything.

>>3115345
He was good but he's very self-congratulatory. I think I prefer Sickert.

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>>3115297
I don't like when traditional paintings look like someone put a billion filters on photoshop.

whatchu guys think of dutch boy

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>>3115350
what type of lunatic peels an orange that way

>>3115350
Sad.

>>3115348
Meh, Sickert's work looked really muddy when I saw it last week.

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William H. Hunt - The Finding of The Saviour In The Temple

https://youtu.be/8Uh2fYoKlKY
Even though he looks vaguely like Pete Doherty, I'm giving it a pass.

>>3115352
thats a lemon mate

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>>3113940

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>>3113940

>>3115067
vermeer was a HACK

>>3113940
Gerome, "The Bath". An absolute gem of a painting, it's amazing. If you're ever in the San Francisco bay area, go see it at the Legion of Honor, it's a beautiful work of art - no photo has ever done it justice, the colors are intense and beautiful.

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>>3117808
Painting attached, sorry

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>>3113940
I know this one is sneered at and called a "meme" painting, but I've seen it several times at the Met in NYC when it was on loan to them (it's at a smaller gallery outside of the city now). First, it's a large piece, and it's impact isn't possible with a photo. Second, when you look at it up close, it's practically a master treatise on how to paint skin, in subtle light. The colors are beyond words. The colors are why it's one of my favorite paintings.

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One of my favorite contemporary artists is James C. Christensen. Although probably not everyone's cup of tea here, because he was known for Christian art, he was a great fantasy artist, who could also paint his butt off realistically. If you want to learn to paint underbrush in a forest, he's your guy - or cloth. They guy could paint cloth better than anyone. His technical skill with oil was master level.

>>3117814
Keep in mind that most of the critics are still influenced by the insults that Picasso and some of the Impressionists hurled towards him. It got so bad in the end that they demanded that his paintings get removed from the museums and they succeeded. Bouguereau was basically removed from art history until he got rediscovered in the 80ies.

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>>3117938
Paintings go in and out of fashion. The national gallery London rejected Titian once.

>>3118021
really? i'd think they'd reject literally anyone else but titian

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>>3118022
"Having been refused by the National Gallery, London, the Barbarigo collection was acquired in 1850 by Tsar Nicholas I"

>>3117814
this actually makes me feel tingly to look at. This is extremely good.

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I like this one because hephaestion's pose looks badass and alexander is like please respond.

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>>3118475
>“Pan is dead,—Great Pan is Pan, Pan is dead.”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, who hated Pan and the romantic re-imagination of classical gods, miserable woman that she was.

It's a pretty long riff going back to 300 bc :/

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Triumph of Death by Bruegel is fantastic.

Just look at the skeleton drumming.

>>3118475
You should see it in person. It's a very large painting. I just looked it up, it's 100"x71", or about 8'x6'. You could get up close to it, where it was hanging in the Met, and see the brush strokes. It's an amazing painting.
You really can't get the impact of a lot of paintings, from photographs. A lot of the qualities of oil don't translate often, and the size of a painting also has a lot to do with it. Like Monet - walking into the Monet room at the Met is like walking into a cathedral, with those enormous canvases - the paintings have a completely different impact in person than from a photo.

>>3115291
>>3115297
>>3115276
>People who have never seen a Vermeer in real life

That being said there are better Vermeers.

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>>3113940

Caravaggio's last two paintings are gorgeous diplays of tenbrism.

>>3118021
Same the Tate throwing out Pre Raphaelite drawings etc.
Can't wait for the turn of Emin, Hirst etc.

>>3118574
Where's Skelly
But yes, it's amazing.

>>3119240

Look at the crowd to the right, above the gate, he's drumming.

Also the guy who tries to hide in the tree ... beautiful.

>>3118574
Damn, this made my day.

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>>3113940
This one lately. It's not to far so I can see it when I want. It speaks to me.

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>>3113940

>>3115067
Such a great painter. I find it hilarious there are people on /ic/ that shit on him. Like you guys reject both modern art and the best of realism, just fucking neck yourselves already you edgy retarded faggots.

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>>3115348
Based opinion right there. Amazed frankly to see it expressed on /ic/.

>>3116164
Good taste.

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Frosty Morning by Turner. Have nothing to say about it, other than no image I've seen before does it justice. I'll post another one after this that has a different key, so you get an idea of the variations in its photographic appearance.

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>>3120304
And the other one.

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>>3118574
HOL UP