Albert Aublet | portrait titled "Morning"
 

http://www.internetweekly.org/images...et_morning.jpg

I like this portrait for these reasons: symbolism, metaphor, and a particular realism that I find enchanting.

(i.e., the swans- mating rituals, mating for life as partners - mating concepts in general; the River - the plethora of social constuction pertaining to a myriad ideas - intentional use or metaphorical use; au natural beauty - the element behind living simply, authentically, dimensional applications; the tree and its leaves - for structural purpose; root ideas, anchoring principles.)

Edward Hopper :: Summertime
 

http://www.bestpriceart.com/vault/cgfa_hopper16.jpg


For me, Hopper is a master of light.

Today...
 

Ted Williams

http://www.tedwilliamsaviationart.co...pg&w=200&h=280

Today
 

http://www.hoanglongart.com/images/p...onet003_1_.jpg

I love the Impressionists and paintings of Monet's pond are fabulous. The colors calm me.

Love This Piece!
 

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3626/...5289f6ac60.jpg


Great whimsy combined with simplicity of expression.

My favorite is a Deacon Trust piece of an angel in the woods. Now, that sounds pretty and innocuous, but Deacon Trust is an Outsider artist, and the angel looks pretty much like a Power Puff girl with crazy eyes and a blue dress with a white stain on it (which earned her the middle name "Monica")... I love her because she's so completely unexpected and I smile every time I look at her.

Oh, and did I mention there's glitter in the painting? How can you not love fine art that includes glitter???

Nude Woman
 

Worried GuyAnonymous
 

i have been exploring the museum of bad art.


http://www.museumofbadart.org/coll7/image01.jpg

I've always loved Franz Kline

http://www.artchive.com/artchive/k/k...ew_york_ny.jpg

Lucy In the Field With Flowers/Unknown
 

Acquired from the trash in Boston.


http://www.museumofbadart.org/images...ait-1-lucy.jpg

http://i1038.photobucket.com/albums/...oy/01_Lisa.jpg


"A man paints with his brains and not with his hands."
~Michelangelo

Browsing through everyone's choices of images, I'm struck by your choices. Great assembly of form and texture. Love also the found object piece. Great eye.

Dadaism - Especially Hannah Hoech
 

http://www.heidi-holleis.com/files/u...nnah_hoech.gif

http://arliquido.blogs.sapo.pt/arqui...nah%20hoch.jpg

http://www.polyvore.com/cgi/img-set?...o4g6Alw&size=l

http://elissa.typepad.com/photos/unc...ized/hoch1.jpg

http://www.sadievaleri.com/work_01.html


Another great live female artist.

http://i1038.photobucket.com/albums/..._lyndacopy.jpg


"A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art."
~Cezanne

My first love has always been Impressionism
http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h1...tary-night.jpg

But I enjoy art in all it's forms

I'm especially loving the Mark Langan posted earlier in this thread.

I am drawn to Jackson Pollock - I feel like I can see into his head thru his paintings.

http://www.doobybrain.com/wp-content...pollock-me.jpg



I adore Ruebens

http://www.abcgallery.com/R/rubens/rubens49.jpg

Georgia O'Keeffe
 

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5tPgogCF0l...+O%27Keefe.jpg

"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance."
-Aristotle

http://i1038.photobucket.com/albums/...cassoesque.jpg

“Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.”
~G. K. Chesterton

Romance
 

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2023/...8719950b84.jpg

Jean-Leon Gerome (French, 1824-1904)
Pygmalion and Galeta
Oil on Canvas, 35 x 27 in.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York

From Ovid's Metamorphoses, X, in which Pygmalion, a sculptor fell in love with an ivory statue he had carved.

"Pygmalion made offerings to Venus and made a wish. "I sincerely wished the ivory sculpture will be changed to a real woman." However, he couldn’t bring himself to express it. When he returned home, Cupid sent by Venus kissed the ivory sculpture on the hand. At that time, it was changed to a beautiful woman. A ring was put on Galatea's finger. It was Cupid’s ring which made love achieved. Venus granted his wish."

http://i1038.photobucket.com/albums/...led_port-1.jpg

always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
e. e. cummings