Great Paintings/Pictures - according to bertie [more to be added]

Submitted by bertie on Wed, 02/08/2006 - 06:40
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  • Section G1: Art as Representation
  • Portrait of a Young Man by Agnolo Bronzino (1530s)
  • The 'Bull-Leaping' Fresco from the Palace of Knossos, artist unknown (c.16thC. BC) [Not technically a painting, but counts as a picture.]
  • Ophelia by J.E. Millais (1851-2)
  • Section G2: Art as Significant Form
  • White Center by Mark Rothko (1950)
  • The Morning of the Resurrection by Sir Edward Burne-Jones (c1870)
  • The Great Wave of Kanagawa from Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji, by Katsushika Hokusi (c1823)
  • The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere by Grant Wood (1931)
  • Nude Descending a Staircase, No.2 by Marcel Duchamps (1912)
  • The Kiss by Gustav Klimt (1907-8)
  • PearBlossom Highway by David Hockney (1986)
  • Section G3: Art as Affective Expression
  • The Scream by Edvard Munch (1893)
  • Nighthawks by Edward Hopper (1942)
  • Balcony by M.C. Escher (1945) [A lithograph, but a picture.]
  • Christina's World by Andrew Wyeth (1948)
Author Comments: 

This list was inspired by Welcome to my World by lbangs

It should be easy to find images of any of these by going to an image search engine (Google is as good as any) and entering the artist's name and a word from the title.

A note about viewing art on the web. I often find that images are darker than they should be. What I do is copy them to my image viewing program and use the enhancements to lighten them up a bit. Alternatively, you could fiddle with your monitor's brightness setting - I don't recommend that however.

192202/08/2006

Good choices. I especially agree on Munch. With Rothko I still have my problems though (and the other folk like Piet Mondrian, etc.).

What about Edward Hopper?

The Grand Inquisitor

bertie02/08/2006

You'll notice that most of my choices so far I have placed in the Significant Form section. I don't mean by that that each work of art belongs in only one of those categories, just that they seem strong examples of them.

I intend to add Hopper's Nighthawks - where would you place that one?

192202/09/2006

Ah, Nighthawks, my favourite painting. Personally I'd put it into G3, but it's your list, so it's up to you.

BTW, have you ever had a close look at that painting, and listened at the same time to Billy Joel's "Piano Man"?

Keep the list up, it is very interesting.

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bertie02/09/2006

G3, really? And what emotion does it express do you think?

192202/09/2006

"They're sharing a drink they call loneliness, but it's better than drinking alone."

bertie02/09/2006

Okay, I'll buy that.

bertie02/08/2006

And here's a more difficult choice: The Kiss by Gustav Klimt, would go equally well in G2 or G3 - what do you think?