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Michael Robinson

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Faerie Queen by Maria Cosway, which can be viewed at Chatsworth House (I don't know how to add the photo )

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Yes, thank you :)
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Robert Jones, Napa

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Vermeer - and de Hooch - were absolute smashers: I remember seeing a Pieter de Hooch as one of the very first paintings I looked at seriously, as it were; it was beautifully printed in the old Look and Learn magazine, aimed at nerdy kids like me, and I'm sure that was one of the things that kicked off my interest in painting in oils. It was also the first time I realized that a painting could be subtle and still fascinating - didn't have to shout at you, or depict scenes of war and gore.
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Alan Green

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I'm a great fan of Impressionism, so here's one of my favourites - no, not Monet, or Cezanne, but "Bridge at Hampton Court" by Alfred Sisley. I like heaps of his work, in this one I feel I can just reach out and feel the warm sunshine.
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Ever since I can remember I have admired the works of the masters but as I get older (a lot older) I fail to find the old excitement. Having said that I do love the Sisley and Bruegel paintings above. I recently visited the Modigliani exhibition at the Tate Modern and was enthralled with the sculptures but soon got bored with the paintings - after looking at the first dozen or so heads all almost identical to each other I got quite bored. As for the impressionists at Tate Britain, apart from a few outstanding works they no longer did much for me - foe example Monets views of London in the Fog looked flat and uninspiring. More and more I get drawn to abstract work. I have recently acquired a book of Derek Hirst's work and keep returning to it again and again. I am not so impressed by his earlier work but love the simplicity of line of his later works. I suspect I may be alone in this (but then I am in a lot of things - I'm probably the only person who agrees with Corbyn's cautious approach to the tragic poisoning case ) but just in case there is anyone else out there who, like me, has moved on here is Church Norton 3 which I have taken from the book.
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Lewis Cooper

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This thread has confirmed what I already knew...it's impossible to come up with a short list of favorite paintings. All the posts have been interesting and inspiring. Another favorite of mine is Karl Larsson, mostly famous for a series of books he produced about his family and life of his farm. He was a portraitist, painted murals, but it's his watercolour and line work that fires me up. He studied in Paris at the time the impressionists were stirring things up, but he went his own way with his art. The lifestyle he depicted on his farm made him an icon among the arts and craft crowd, much of the furnishing in his beautiful home was designed by his wife. He lived the kind of life that most of us would like. There's a charming portrait shown below (watercolour and line), the client wanted it done this way...the sitter's husband is in the background, the little girl is one of Karl's many children. Oh to be able to paint like this.
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An interesting thought Marjorie, pity the mechanics of the site won't allow it. (A 'who posted this? quiz...hah! Nice idea.) At first I thought you'd identify me easily from my Karl Larsson (Pen and watercolour) favorite. You might identify others as well. But then I think it's fair to say that some of us like work we wouldn't normally attempt ourselves. Lew.
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Another favorite artist. Heath Robinson...he of the weird inventions fame. Also a brilliant illustrator, whose pen and ink work was sublime. Here's just one of his many illustrations...Shepherd's Hill, Highgate.
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Jim Morris

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I don't/can't have a favourite painting. I have half-a-dozen William Russell Flint prints on the walls of my home, but a favourite painting? Impossible. With today in mind, I will submit this staggeringly powerful Crucifiction painting by Graham Sutherland from the Vatican archives. I find it very gripping:

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