Your Favourite Painting

[Astro Pen]

I found this yesterday in Newport Museum Gallery. I absolutely love it.
It is my new favourite.
Portofino Painted by war artist Eric Henry kennington in 1952.

 

[Pyan]

One of my favourites and oddly similar - White Ships from Valinor, by Ted Nasmith.

 

[CAOM]

I know it might sound a bit cliché, but I'm crazy about that painting 'The Dance'. No other painting has ever made me feel the way that one does. It's just so...

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

Very tough question. I am drawn to the surrealism of Dali and Magritte, and the proto-surrealism of Bosch. I can't pick a single one.

 

[Badgersaurus]

I'm a big fan of this 'Young Lady with a Parrot' by Rosalba Carriera:

And I also really love all of Henri Rousseau's jungle paintings, especially The Dream. There's something really special about them that's hard to pin down.

 

[Toby Frost]

I don't think I have a favourite, but there are a lot of paintings that I like which I wouldn't want to hang on my wall and look at every day.

I really like the landscapes of Eric Ravilious.

I've recently got into the art for Moebius' strange graphic novel Edena. I like his use of colour and fading.

I also saw this today: it's called Sark by Edward Reginald Frampton, and I like it a lot.

 

[Ursa major]

I really like the landscapes of Eric Ravilious.

I was fully prepared not to think much of that Ravilious painting, but something about it makes me want to stare at (well, into) it...

...almost as if I'm looking through a portal at a (slightly, but somehow also significantly) different parallel world.

 

[MEvans444]

My favorite artwork by my favorite artist illustrating one of my favorite SF authors. Michael Whelan - All the Weyrs of Pern by Anne McCaffrey. What I particularly like about this artwork is that it actually depicts the scene in the book pretty well exactly!

 

[Montero]

@Toby Frost
The Revilious reminded me a bit of Rowland Hilder - I look at his paintings for a moment of peace e.g.

 

[Elckerlyc]

Some magic realism. Carel Willink.

 

[Robert Zwilling]

The Garden Of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch

 

[Robert Zwilling]

Another painting I like for the amazing amount of detail is The Tower of Babel by Pieter Bruegel the Elder

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

Overly familiar and parodied, but I like Edward Hopper's 1942 Nighthawks.

 

[Ambrose]

Many Magrittes. Would not care to choose just one, but 'Golconda' plus any of the more vertical Empires of Light.
Both of Matisse's 'La Danse', which I saw together in Paris in the 1990s.

 

[Harpo]

Some of my favourites have been mentioned already, Salvador Dali has been my favourite artist since I attended his exhibition at the Tate in May 1980, and I have a jigsaw puzzle of my actual favourite painting (the Bosch shown above)

So instead, here’s a painting I own. I love outsider art in all forms, and I discovered that a local friend paints in a style that I like a lot. He does it just because he likes doing it, and doesn’t sell them.
So when he announced earlier this month that he is going to sell one and was open to offers, I immediately said I’d pay £20, which he agreed to, and the next day I took it home.

Here it is, I love it

 

[Rodders]

Not high art at all, but i used to love the images on the back of Mad Magazine that was folded to create another image, often ironic in nature. They were very clever.



There used to be one of these in each issue.

 

[Rodders]

Again, not too sure whether it counts as art, but i adore album cover art and i think that Roger Dean has to be one of the more famous artists, but other such as Rodney Matthews were also quite prolific and had their own style.

 

[Harpo]

Again, not too sure whether it counts as art, but i adore album cover art and i think that Roger Dean has to be one of the more famous artists, but other such as Rodney Matthews were also quite prolific and had their own style.

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In what silly universe are these not art? Rodney Matthews is an incredible artist, and I am reminded of when I used to collect art books published by Paper Tiger and others.

Here’s my favourite of those books. Mythopoeikon by Patrick Woodroffe

 

[Elckerlyc]

I'm not a great admirer of abstract art, but the paintings by William Malucu have an undefinable beauty.

 

[HareBrain]

Roger Dean has to be one of the more famous artists

My sister went to see an exhibition of his the year before last and bought me a signed print of that "sea dragon" one you've attached.

Here’s my favourite of those books. Mythopoeikon by Patrick Woodroffe

Wow, I'd forgotten all about him! I used to love that book. Maybe I'll get a used copy.