Your favourite painting (famous, paintings, artists, work)

[saucywench]

Ghost ship series. I love it! Great paintings and history info. Ships, full moons, Lycanthropy. I've actually sailed on The Flying Dutchman.









Thought of some words!

[virgode]

Originally Posted by Tantalust

Something (much) more modern here..

George Grie - "Full Moon Rising"

Ghost ship series: Full moon rising: Modern gothic surrealism art prints posters wallpapers

This is absolutely awesome.

[Tantalust]

Of the collection of four on that page, Grie's lower left painting has trees growing out of the ship's deck.
Spooky...

[Tantalust]

Howard Pyle - "The Mermaid":



"His contemporary Vincent Van Gogh spoke of Pyle in a letter to his brother, saying that Pyle's work "...struck me dumb with admiration".

Howard Pyle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[saucywench]

^T-What a great compliment to the artist! And, deservedly so. I really like that painting.


Hey everyone-I found something interesting. Check it out in the Unusual Art thread soon.


For now, Karabchievsky's works remind of the paintings by another artist...my favorite one.









Google Image Result for http://www.karabchievsky.com/images/450/NewYork_Moscow_40x26_3500.jpg

[Tantalust]

Ando Hiroshige

'Navarro Rapids':



Hakonepa:



The Plain at Suzaki:



Fuji seen from the sea at Honmaki, Musashi


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[saucywench]

[quiet walker]

Originally Posted by saucywench

(several Frank Frazetta images)

I have loved his work since the seventies, along with other modern day illustrators Bernie Wrightson, Jeff Jones, Mike Kaluta, Neal Adams, Jean Giraud "Moebius", Barry Smith and others. You can really see the impression on these artists made by an earlier generation, Howard Pyle, Maxfield Parrish, N.C. Wyeth, Frederick Remington, etc

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61qJmHee4XL._SS500_.jpg (broken link)

[saucywench]

Qw- sw

[Tantalust]

Hmmm, the Hiroshiges have reappeared..

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SW, cool Frazetta stuff, we loved him in Creepy and Eerie magazines when we were younguns..