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In reply to the discussion: If you could have one famous work of art in your home so you could see it every day which would it be? [View all]if..fish..had..wings
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If you could have one famous work of art in your home so you could see it every day which would it be? [View all]
CTyankee
Feb 2024
OP
The Return of the Prodigal Son is the best painting of all time, IMO. It always moves me.
CTyankee
Feb 2024
#15
Hopper's works always has a hint that something is going to happen...no wonder it inspired the "Psycho" house.
CTyankee
Feb 2024
#21
I'm glad you couldn't resist. I saw that movie years and years ago but remember laughing a lot.
MLAA
Feb 2024
#85
Ok, my first thought is one of Monet's very long Waterlilly paintings. Except it wouldn't fit! So gotta think of
electric_blue68
Feb 2024
#35
I remember seeing a presentation of them at the L'Orangerie in Paris and at the time we were told to speak in whispers
CTyankee
Feb 2024
#65
Wow! I visited my aunt & uncle in '16 in Switzerland. She was an artist who invited me to make art w her...
electric_blue68
Feb 2024
#75
Two choices: Fur Traders Descending the Missouri, or Rest on the Flight into Egypt
NBachers
Feb 2024
#45
Marcel Duchamp - "The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even" aka "The Large Glass"
GReedDiamond
Feb 2024
#48
I saw it twiice. My mother took me to Amsterdam when I was 16 and I was totally blown away by this painting.
CTyankee
Feb 2024
#67
Did you see Nightwatching? Cool movie that used the painting as a jumping-off point.
Scrivener7
Feb 2024
#130
Frans Hals' "Laughing Cavalier", or a Jacob Lawrence, Romare Bearden or a Charles White.
brush
Feb 2024
#60
Given the poses, I hesitate to ask what this painting is all about....but please give me some background here as I know
CTyankee
Feb 2024
#110
This is a long scroll depicting a humorous fart competition from the 15th century
Kablooie
Feb 2024
#112
I already have a reproduction of Van Gogh's "Starry Night' up in my front hallway.
Aristus
Feb 2024
#91
A nice Rothko, two or three Modigliani portraits, one of Gauguin's Tahiti paintings, Van Gogh's night cafe or..
BluesRunTheGame
Feb 2024
#94
We are fortunate to have Van Gogh's "Night Cafe" here at the Yale University Art Gallery.
CTyankee
Feb 2024
#96
At one point my dad had a small cataloge of mostly Japanese wood prints...
electric_blue68
Feb 2024
#124
👀I've narrowed it down to Tiepelo, Turner, Monet, Hockney, Cole, Church, and maybe two others.
electric_blue68
Feb 2024
#118
Ty. Maybe at some point. Although I might be able to show some digital stuff easier than having pull out, and...
electric_blue68
Feb 2024
#123
I'd like each month from the Tres Riches Heures du Duc de Berry -- especially February,
betsuni
Feb 2024
#128
PPR - The Apotheosis of Henry IV and the Proclamation of the Regency of Marie de' Mdici
Chakaconcarne
Feb 2024
#138