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Favourite paintings.

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Cricko2

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Just to pass a bit of time in this "close season" what are your favourite Paintings .

To start this is one of mine by "Metz"

The exact title of the painting is A Fantastic Architectural View Evoking "Daniel in the Lion's Den".

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I have two. One is by Brueghel, The Triumph of Death, I've seen it at the Prado

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The other is Manet's Racing at Longchamps

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Bathers at Asnieres, by George Seurat:

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There's a ma-hoo-sive one in the National Gallery, and I can stand in front of it for hours. The pointillism he uses is quite mesmerising.
 
The other one I like, for far more sentimental reasons, is Renoir's "Jeune Filles Au Piano" - the girls in it have exactly the same hair colour as my sisters:

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There's also Monet's Promenade pres d'Argenteuil, which is based in my favourite gallery in the world, the Musee Marmottan, a shrine to Monet. For me, this picture is the high-point of impressionism...

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And finally, for something more brutal and challenging, but totally spellbinding, there's Picasso's Guernica - something which any student of Nazism will know all about...

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For a tranquil scenery ....

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Albert Bierstadt, Mount Corcoran, c. 1876-1877,
 
Matt the Shrimp said:
There's also Monet's Promenade pres d'Argenteuil, which is based in my favourite gallery in the world, the Musee Marmottan, a shrine to Monet. For me, this picture is the high-point of impressionism...

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Lovely Picture Matt ...Monet for me is probally my No1 ..To many " Lillies " pictures that claim all his fame ....

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Your future home :)
 
I know what you mean about the Lillies, John. People get a bit overboard about them, when for me it's his other stuff that's fantastic... his pictures of the Cathedral at Rouen at dawn and dusk are completely awesome for instance - the sort of thing you can stand in front of for hours and wonder at the colours and textures...

Full sunlight:

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Dusk:

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I have always adored the work of Turner. Here are a few of my favourites...

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"A First-rate taking stores"


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"Shipwreck of the Minotaur"


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"Dido building Carthage"


and my personal favourite...


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"The Fighting Temeraire"
 
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