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Post by Carl LaFong on Mar 21, 2017 12:20:00 GMT
Pope Innocent X by Velazquez. I love the impatient look on his face:  |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2017 10:58:12 GMT
Portrait of Dexter... a study in Bic pen, by Father Jack... Note how the artist captures that dreaming about peanut butter biscuits faraway look in his expression...  |
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Post by Carl LaFong on Mar 22, 2017 21:49:31 GMT
You're slightly in front so far, Jack!
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Post by general313 on Mar 23, 2017 0:43:26 GMT
I like the Francis Bacon reinterpretation.  |
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Post by Carl LaFong on Mar 23, 2017 12:02:08 GMT
Yes, love that too. That's what the sitter feels like inside in the first painting!
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Post by WarrenPeace on Mar 30, 2017 23:28:29 GMT
What a great question, Carl! My pick would be this one by Vincent Van Gogh. Not only because he is my favorite painter, but I like it because on the wall in the background is a set of Japanese prints that Van Gogh had put up on his wall. Japanese art or prints was something he liked and was an influence for his work. Portrait of Pere Tanguy  |
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Post by mszanadu on Mar 31, 2017 0:50:27 GMT
 Here's my favorite, Carl LaFong ( the same as my Avatar  ) . It's Harvey and Elwood P. Dowd from the movie Harvey 1950 . Thanks so much Carl LaFong for your subject post  . |
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Post by The Lost One on Mar 31, 2017 14:58:42 GMT
Lady Claire by John William Waterhouse  |
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Post by Pangolin on Apr 12, 2017 20:25:25 GMT
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Post by koskiewicz on Mar 11, 2018 22:31:42 GMT
"The Girl with the Pearl Earing"
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Post by mikef6 on Mar 15, 2018 18:38:59 GMT
This is called the Chandos Portrait because the first family we know of that owned it (in 1747) was named Chandos (duh!). We also know that when it came to the Chandos collection, it already had the reputation that this was a portrait of William Shakespeare. Really, who knows who the hell it is? Nevertheless, this is one of the three portraitures of Shakespeare from which all others are derived (the other two are: the engraving in the First Folio and the statue of Shakespeare over his tomb in Stratford). I like it that the man in the painting has an earring. In the Early Modern Period this meant much the same as it still does: the wearer was a little more bohemian than others. The Chandos Portrait now resides in the National Portrait Gallery in London. The Chandos Portrait  The First Folio engraving  The grave site statue  |
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Post by Jep Gambardella on Mar 15, 2018 18:56:03 GMT
There is one that I saw in the Louvre in Paris once that I quite liked. It is by an old Italian painter named Leopoldo something, and it shows a woman with an enigmatic smile on her face.
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Post by needysboy on Apr 20, 2018 23:41:09 GMT
L'Innocence by William-Adolphe Bouguereau. 
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