Two Favorite Paintings
 

What are your two favorite paintings of the last 150 years?

Mine are the Jardin à Sainte-Adresse:
http://snipurl.com/2498m

& the Hôtel des Roches Noires:
http://snipurl.com/24990

Both by Claude Monet

This is a tough one. There are so many fabulous paintings out there! I'd have to say, though, that most anything by Frank and Herbert Dicksee and James William Waterhouse.

These two in particular:

The Gipsy Girl - Herbert Dicksee (I own a signed etching)
http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t...e7/HD11802.jpg

The Crystal Ball - JW Waterhouse
http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t...de7/jwcrys.jpg

Had to throw in a 3rd also by JW Waterhouse
http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t...de7/jwmari.jpg

those are all beautiful~ i don't have a painting in particular, but i love anything van gogh did~

The painting I love most are the ones that evoke the strong emotions. And to me, the strongest emotions are loneliness, heartache and desolation, and chaos. But there are two pretty picture here too.

This is from Goya. 'Saturn devouring his son'

http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/c...01/Chronos.gif

This is from Madame Elizabeth Vigee Lebrun. 'Self Portrait'

http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/c...r01/Lebrun.jpg

This is a panel from the Sistine Chapel by Michelangelo, the way she looks to her left evokes the feeling that she is foretelling the Coming of something huge. 'The Delphic Sybil'

http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/c...-Delphic-1.jpg

Kathe Kollwitz, 'Poverty'. Most of her work features mothers with their children, often disturbing images of death and suffering.

http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/c...verty-1893.jpg

Degas, 'Interior Scene, or, The Rape'

http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/c...eriorScene.jpg

Also by Degas, 'The Absinthe Drinkers'. The woman looks lost in her desolation.

http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/c...heDrinkers.jpg

'Several Circles' by Kandinsky. Lovely, with wonderful movement and I like it for the silliest reason- blue is my favorite color!

http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/c...ralCircles.jpg

One of my favorites, too. Saw a Degas exhibit, odds and ends in the hands of a handful of American collectors, in Minneapolis a few years back. Good stuff.

The Suicide of Dorothy Hale - Frida Kahlo
http://www-cvr.ai.uiuc.edu/~slazebni...rothy_hale.jpg

The Moulin Rouge - Toulouse Lautrec

http://www1.fccj.org/cgroves/2236doc...in%20rouge.jpg

Okay here are three I really love; but they all go back further than 150 yrs.


The Intruder, 1660 by Gabriel Metsu
http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q...4/intruder.jpg

The Fall of Phaeton, 1604/1605 by Peter Paul Rubens
http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q...14/phaeton.jpg

Daniel in the Lions' Den, 1614, Peter Paul Rubens
http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q...4/lionsden.jpg

Bordighera - Claude Monet
http://www.monetalia.com/paintings/monet-bordighera.jpg

I am a Renoir fanatic- there are so many beautiful nudes, still lifes (lives?) and portraits. A few of my favorites:

Roses
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y11.../si-300995.jpg

Mother and Child
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y11...child-1892.jpg

The Picture Book
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y11...renoir-167.jpg

And one by Mary Cassat:

Little Girl in a Blue Armchair
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y11...e-armchair.jpg

I actually love ALL of Renoir's florals and I love this scenic print by Monet:

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y11...t-C1005805.jpg

I just realized you asked for our TWO favorites. for me, probably my first two. ;)