Your five favorite paintings [of this moment].

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5. Bad Boy by Fischl.

― Remy (x Jeremy), Saturday, 21 May 2005 05:04 (twenty-one years ago)

I've always quite loved....

http://www.austlit.com/pix/raft-medusa.jpg

The Raft of the Medusa by Gericault. And not just because of the Pogues.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 21 May 2005 05:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I bought a print of this Gericault at the Getty today. It hangs next to my picture of Richard Nixon.

― Remy (x Jeremy), Saturday, 21 May 2005 05:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Alex, have you ever read Julian Barnes' "A History of the World in 10-1/2 Chapters"? One of the chapters is on this painting.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Saturday, 21 May 2005 05:21 (twenty-one years ago)

My taste is kind of all over the place. Lichtenstein, Renoir, Barney Bubbles. I'm haunted by a marker drawing of the Popemobile I saw in an exhibit of mentally disabled people's art at the Philadelphia Museum about ten years ago.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Saturday, 21 May 2005 05:39 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm not really a monet fan, but i've always loved "impression: sunrise." i get the sense that it's regarded as more historically important than good, but i'm always a little amazed when i see a big reproduction of it. even little, the colors are overwhelming:

http://www.artofcolour.com/impressionism/impressionism-image-files/impression-sunrise.jpg

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Saturday, 21 May 2005 06:01 (twenty-one years ago)

another favorite: "sitting woman with her legs drawn up" by egon schiele:

http://bertc.com/subtwo/images/schiele3c.jpg

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Saturday, 21 May 2005 06:04 (twenty-one years ago)

http://gallery.euroweb.hu/html/c/christus/2/index.html

Petrus Christus, the painting which is here labelled "St Eligius In His Workshop", which is probably not of St Eligius at all. I fell in love with it at the Met when I was in NYC last month. I will use it for an album cover someday.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 21 May 2005 06:04 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/epc/langueXIX/laforgue/courbet.jpg

― David A. (Davant), Saturday, 21 May 2005 06:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Great, I have to xpost after the vagina...

To narrow it down, how about 5 from one of my favorite underappreciated artists? These aren't my 5 favorite Charles Burchfields, but they're 5 I could find online:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v335/gypsyfrocksbedlam/Burchfield1.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v335/gypsyfrocksbedlam/burchfield5.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v335/gypsyfrocksbedlam/burchfield3.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v335/gypsyfrocksbedlam/burchfield10.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v335/gypsyfrocksbedlam/burchfield8.gif

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Saturday, 21 May 2005 06:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Burchfield is great! I photocopied a print of an image of his and put it on the cover of my copy of 'Scarlet Letter' in high school, and my teacher made me take it off for being 'distracting.' I don't remember what the image was, but I remember my teacher was a jerk.

― Remy (x Jeremy), Saturday, 21 May 2005 06:31 (twenty-one years ago)

The Dia:Beacon's webpage for the excellent Agnes Martin paintings ("paintings?") they have completely fail to capture anything about the painting. But they're great.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 21 May 2005 06:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Caspar David Friedrich (German Romantic) has a bunch of great works, but I've never seen them adequately reproduced/photographed. Sea of Ice is much lighter, springier, and fluid in person, and feels weirdly violent. And, conversely, A Walk At Dusk is one of the darkest and most sinister paintings I've seen in the past few years.

― Remy (x Jeremy), Saturday, 21 May 2005 06:44 (twenty-one years ago)

A perennial favorite:

http://www.bhikku.net/2004/12/malevich.jpg

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 21 May 2005 06:53 (twenty-one years ago)

This'll surprise no one.
http://members.shaw.ca/vcofell1/myweb4/brave_&_the_bold_49.jpg

― Huk, Saturday, 21 May 2005 06:55 (twenty-one years ago)

A sentimental favorite, by my grandfather:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v335/gypsyfrocksbedlam/C.jpg

He did a bunch of these pulp air-combat covers. I have 3 of them up on the wall.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Saturday, 21 May 2005 06:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Huk, is that even a painting?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 21 May 2005 06:58 (twenty-one years ago)

(It's great, I'm not arguing that it isn't great.)

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 21 May 2005 06:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Wowo, GM! I almost won an auction last year for a Doc Savage cover for $200. I was beat out in a last-minute sniping war that drove the price to $1000+, and haven't tried again. That's an amazing cover!

― Remy (x Jeremy), Saturday, 21 May 2005 07:01 (twenty-one years ago)

(i know it's not a painting, sorry)

― Huk-L, Saturday, 21 May 2005 07:02 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm jealous too, GM. That's wicked.

Does this count?
http://members.shaw.ca/vcofell3/myweb6/mad_38.jpg

― Huk-L, Saturday, 21 May 2005 07:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes. But no Chris Ofili.

― Remy (x Jeremy), Saturday, 21 May 2005 07:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Another painting is the one I have in my living room of a raccoon in Antarctica with penguins, which a friend painted for me. Sadly I don't have a pic or scan yet.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 21 May 2005 07:11 (twenty-one years ago)

I have some very nice watercolours from my mom.

― Huk-L, Saturday, 21 May 2005 07:16 (twenty-one years ago)

That's an amazing cover!

Yeah, I love it. He later got into "serious" art, did some nice watercolors and some abstract type things and everything, pretty good, but I love those pulp covers best. I'm not sure why it was always airplanes he did, I guess he just liked painting them. (He died when I was pretty young, so I never got a chance to talk to him about any of it.)

I have them up in my baby's bedroom. I like the idea of him growing up with his great-grandfather's paintings on the wall.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Saturday, 21 May 2005 08:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Awww. I was already gonna chime in with everyone else on how devastatingly good that cover looks, but that's really sweet. Huk and his mother's stuff, too.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Saturday, 21 May 2005 08:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I have always admired this buttock painting - "don't loook at at work unless they are cool there)

http://www.kenseysartworld.com/store/images/tori's%20ass_small.jpg

― Mike Hanle y (mike), Saturday, 21 May 2005 08:53 (twenty-one years ago)

speaking off buttocks, here's anothe rlink that you probably shouldnt clikc at work

http://www.buttockaugmentation.com/frequentlyAskedQuestions.htm

― Mike Hanle y (mike), Saturday, 21 May 2005 09:03 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm pleased with this one, I'm making a Moomin one next.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v210/jel2004/brambly2.jpg

― jel -- (jel), Saturday, 21 May 2005 10:03 (twenty-one years ago)

I like this guy stuff, Mimmo Rotella:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v210/jel2004/rotella3.jpg

― jel -- (jel), Saturday, 21 May 2005 10:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I want to see the Moomin one.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Saturday, 21 May 2005 14:12 (twenty-one years ago)

remy, did you go to the getty with my brother? i think he was there yesterday, too.

― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 21 May 2005 14:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Whenever I can I go into Tate Britain to see

http://www.tate.org.uk/collection/N/N01/N01615_9.jpg

― Mooro (Mooro), Saturday, 21 May 2005 15:00 (twenty-one years ago)

No, John! I wish I'd known. I had an out-of-town friend visiting, and we made and brought a picnic to Topanga Canyon:

cardamom mango buttermilk bread
honeydew-ginger yogurt soup
roasted cumin-bean salad
salami & chevre
kiwi iced tea
coconut-tapioca pudding.

But we got too lazy to actually kike after eating all the food. So we went to the Getty instead.

― Remy (x Jeremy), Saturday, 21 May 2005 15:25 (twenty-one years ago)

To actually what?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 21 May 2005 15:55 (twenty-one years ago)

err, hike.

― Remy (x Jeremy), Saturday, 21 May 2005 16:30 (twenty-one years ago)

i havenet been obsessed with paintings in quite a while, but i have been thinking lots of drawings, screen prints and fotos--here are the ones ive been thinking about.

ed ruscha--LA Maps
http://www.crownpoint.com/artists/ruscha/images/1003/LASF1sm.jpg
richard prince--cowboys:
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/images/h2/h2_2000.272.jpg
warhol--the last supper, with the wise owl
http://www.thecityreview.com/s04scon1w.jpg
uta barth
http://www.tkf.no/images2001/utabarth.jpg
and a painting (mughal imperial dynasty, ca 1670) of battling elephants, in how it crowds the space in dynamic fury. cannot find the image

ive also been thinking, in general about the queering of japser johns, and how all of his work is considered to be about his sex life, and he finnaly does a series of paintings that come out in the open and is attacked for them (charlie finch in artnet for one) and wondering if critics have overstated the case for johns, and if they have--what are the impl;ications of that.

― anthony, Saturday, 21 May 2005 16:40 (twenty-one years ago)

chris, did you see the agnes prints i blogged about a bit ago--much more clear and reproducable. i didnt know you were a fan.

― anthony, Saturday, 21 May 2005 16:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I've only barely scratched the surface of what she's done, but we've talked about her, I think -- her few paintings at the Dia:Beacon were great, and I had seen everything in the museum, and it was 5 minutes to closing, when I realized I hadn't seen the Martin room! So I panicked and ran back in and had trouble finding it but then there it was and it was great, so great.

I've v. intrigued by the Ruscha.

Jasper Johns is good in small doses, terrible in large doses.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 22 May 2005 07:59 (twenty-one years ago)

https://31.media.tumblr.com/bb82aa7ef35477a4b953bb72f52c6103/tumblr_mtfl6wLTuQ1qkpirfo1_500.jpg

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: Bündner Landschaft mit Sonnenstrahlen (1937)

more like LAZERSTRAHLEN

― j., Sunday, 16 March 2014 20:41 (twelve years ago)

Lucian Freud: Sunday Morning - Eight Legs possibly nsfw.

― Congratulations! And my condolences. (Sanpaku), Sunday, 16 March 2014 21:47 (twelve years ago)

I like this guy stuff, Mimmo Rotella:
― jel -- (jel), Saturday, May 21, 2005 6:10 AM (8 years ago)

Hey Jel, If you are around, can you direct me to the date and dimensions of this? thanks! It's amazing

― Iago Galdston, Tuesday, 18 March 2014 01:20 (twelve years ago)