Portrait Paintings

ast3r3xast3r3x
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in General Discussion edited January 2014
I'm just looking for some (hopefully 800x600 or bigger) pictures of some of your favorite portraits by painters. My friend has to recreate a picture with herself in it and I was wondering from more cultured people then myself, their favorite portraits.



Please provide a link or just post it here



I spent 5 min trying to think of the word I wanted other then cultured but couldn't so I had to stop before I gave myself an aneurism.
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  • Reply 1 of 25
    chu_bakkachu_bakka Posts: 1,793member
    I like Vermeer and Rembrandt.
  • Reply 2 of 25
    kickahakickaha Posts: 8,760member
    If you want something more fun, try Alex Ross.
  • Reply 3 of 25
    akumulatorakumulator Posts: 1,111member
    Ann Gale

  • Reply 4 of 25
    k squaredk squared Posts: 608member
    Van Gogh painted some good ones.



    http://www.values.ch/vangogh.htm
  • Reply 5 of 25
    midwintermidwinter Posts: 10,060member
    Edward Burne-Jones, "The Beguiling of Merlin" (1874)



  • Reply 6 of 25
    thegeldingthegelding Posts: 3,230member
    donald roller wilson









    here
  • Reply 7 of 25
    dmzdmz Posts: 5,775member
    Renoir isn't all bad.





    http://digilander.libero.it/webpaint...noir/Lunch.jpg
  • Reply 8 of 25
    carol acarol a Posts: 1,043member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by segovius

    Ingres is always good for a laugh...







    Hi Segovius -



    I like the blue satin drape.



    What do you suppose that feather thing is for?



    Carol
  • Reply 9 of 25
    kickahakickaha Posts: 8,760member
    Cleaning!



    Her pipes, of course.



  • Reply 10 of 25
    carol acarol a Posts: 1,043member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by segovius

    Or my personal fave - Leighton's Flaming June (I'm going for a kind of naive eroticism here - somebody stop me) :







    Naive eroticism is good.



    Why should we stop you?
  • Reply 11 of 25
    carol acarol a Posts: 1,043member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Kickaha

    Cleaning!



    Her pipes, of course.







    Her PIPES?



    WHAT pipes?



    Hmmm. Are you being naughty?



    (Carol asks suspiciously)
  • Reply 12 of 25
    dmband0026dmband0026 Posts: 2,345member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Carol A

    Her PIPES?



    WHAT pipes?



    Hmmm. Are you being naughty?



    (Carol asks suspiciously)



    Do you expect anything less? Especially in this thread that is sure to turn into softcore pr0n v 2.0 (Post your desktop being v 1.0) naughty is the thing to be!
  • Reply 13 of 25
    papiliopapilio Posts: 20member
    Giorgione - Venus Asleep

    Cézanne - Lady With Swan

    Botticelli - The Birth of Venus
  • Reply 14 of 25
    kickahakickaha Posts: 8,760member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Carol A

    Her PIPES?



    WHAT pipes?



    Hmmm. Are you being naughty?



    (Carol asks suspiciously)



    Never!



    Smut is solely in the eye of the beholden.
  • Reply 15 of 25
    carol acarol a Posts: 1,043member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Kickaha

    Never!



    Smut is solely in the eye of the beholden.



    I was afraid you'd say that.
  • Reply 16 of 25
    ast3r3xast3r3x Posts: 5,012member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by papilio

    Botticelli - The Birth of Venus



    It's the illustrator girl no?!
  • Reply 17 of 25
    ast3r3xast3r3x Posts: 5,012member
    Symbolic of the world, good intentions turned bad \



    I have to say I love that orange picture, those oranges are so vivid! I tried to find a bigger copy of that but the oranges are dull \
  • Reply 18 of 25
    nebulousnebulous Posts: 193member
    Mmmm - art. I love it!

    Some of my personal favorite artists for portraits are:

    John William Waterhouse - "Boreas" is a beautiful portrait

    Anything by Chuck Close

    Various art nouveau pieces by Mucha

    And of course: "The Girl With a Pearl Earring" by Vermeer

  • Reply 19 of 25
    nebulousnebulous Posts: 193member
    Oops! I forgot one of my other favorite portraits:



    "Madame X" - Sargent



  • Reply 20 of 25
    papiliopapilio Posts: 20member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by ast3r3x

    It's the illustrator girl no?!



    yes, the Roman goddess of love
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