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Kinbote
08-30-2005, 10:47 PM
So, post three thingums that you like. Just because!

Edward Hopper, Morning Sun
http://ablarchitecture.com/images/tom/a-thousand-words/hopper-13.jpg


Ingres, The Source
http://www.engr.mun.ca/~zhikai/finearts/paintings/source.jpg


Felix Vallotton, Addormentata
http://digilander.libero.it/mielemansarda/immagini/Vallotton/addormentata1908.jpg

TheImplodingVoice
08-30-2005, 11:07 PM
I love these (although they are not my favs, but I decided to avoid abstract paintings)

Odilon Redon

http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/redon/redon.cyclops.jpg

Munch

http://www.moma.org/press/departments/prints/Munch-Anxiety.jpg

Francis Bacon

http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/bacon/selfport.jpg

Kinbote
08-30-2005, 11:29 PM
Out of curiosity, do you like most Redon, or some, or what? Because certain things of his I like a lot, and others I hate a lot.

TheImplodingVoice
08-30-2005, 11:37 PM
I love most of his Paintings but his drawings are pretty mediocre IMO

Kinbote
08-31-2005, 05:57 AM
This is I think my favorite of his:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b3/Odilon_Redon_003.jpg/784px-Odilon_Redon_003.jpg

Nak Nak
08-31-2005, 12:51 PM
escher
http://www.math.technion.ac.il/~rl/M.C.Escher/1/snakes.jpg

amano
http://amanosworld.com/html/work/new/new11.html
http://amanosworld.com/html/work/g-images/g5l.html

john william waterhouse

http://www.essentialart.com/tt/John_William_Waterhouse_Saint_Cecilia.jpg