What's you favorite painting?

Post a pic. of your favorite PAINTING.  It doesn't have to be by anyone famous, it can be from a starving artist sale, one of your kids, one of yours....just so it's a painting and you love it.

Here's my absolute favorite.

I don't have to post my favorite painting.  It's already here.  Starry Night by Van Gogh is hands down my favorite painting.  I even have a little teapot with that scene on it.  Love it!

 Monet's Water Lilies is a close second.  I've seen part of it in the Cleveland Museum of Art and I could just sit and look at it for hours. Very calming.

I really like Monet's Water Lilies, but my favorite is one painted by my mom.  It's an abstract painting of candles.  I can't post a picture right now, because I'm in the process of having it remounted so I can hang it from the ceiling.  Mom taught me pretty much everything I know about art and inspired in me a real love of the impressionists, both of the European school and the Japanese (which tend to be too raunchy to post here).

Hmm.  I went to do a search for that painting on PB and came up with several different ones, could you post it? 

ROFL.....my 1st thoughts were starry night & water lilies...

 well I am looking at it.....no not the one you posted....

Charles Wysocki's Pumpkin Hollow.....we have number 1 of the reissued canvases, we bought it from his kids who had a shop at Lake Arrowhead, CA  woo hoo....for those who care....I love fall colors and it fits into my computer room nicely....the shop was wonderful....full of prints, canvases and the like....they also do all their own framing...

I love Renoir.  This is Dance at Bougival 

Also Sandro Botticelli's Primavera, which I am extremely grateful to have seen it in person at the Uffizi Gallery

Pags...do you mean which painting is at the Cleveland Museum of Art in regards to the Monet Water Lilies?  If so, here is the link to it..........

 http://www.clevelandart.org/educatn/trc-news/slidepac/8.html

We saw Van Gogh's "Starry Night" about 10 years ago (maybe more) when it came to the Baltimore Museum of Art as part of a traveling exhibition "17 masterpieces." There is nothing like seeing a real masterpiece in person (versus a reproduction). We also saw Van Gogh's work in New York and his paintings were by far my husband's favorite.

I like portraits, or any artwork of the human face or figure. Anything by Thomas Eakins, great American portrait painter.

Here is a painting of wrestlers by Thomas Eakins. (Warning: this may offend some viewers, although it is a beautiful study of the human body.)

http://www.wrestlingsbest.com/collectibles/art19-1899thomaseakins.jpg

An original by my friend Ellen Powell Tiberino signed and given to me just before she died. I think the title is The Washerwoman but I am not sure. We were all so overwhelmed by her illness, I never asked. I was very moved by this gift. Our children were best friends. You can see more of her work online.

Hands down#1 is Girl with Turban-also called Girl with Pearl Earring by Vermeer.  Friend had a print of it and as a young girl, I used to stand in front of it and wonder what she was thinking. I thought at the time we were about the same age-15-16 years old..#2 is Don Meredith's "Old Times Are Not Forgotten" painting of the old civil war veteran.  Sorry I don't know how to post pics...Toni

Here ya go Toni!

 This is a hard one.

I like Starry Night(and other VanGogh stuff), most of Monet's (and others of his period) stuff, some Picasso, and a few local artists.  I have several paintings by Sarah Glaves (a local who also has a minor in math).

 Whiteflower.....what a beautiful painting and all the more special being given to you by your friend.  It certainly is a treasure.  Thanks for sharing that!