Post A Painting You Are Thinking About

[Nekkowe!]

I recently went to Cologne and both the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum and the Museum Ludwig had a lot of ones that stick in my head still... I hadn't seen a lot of paintings in person, especially lately, so they hit me all the harder for it.

My favourite from the former: Maximilien Luce's Notre Dame, Paris, View from the Quai Saint-Michel 1901-04



The evening colours and purple shadows here just knocked me flat. In person, this work is huge, too... This probably goes for everything in this thread, but the full effect in person doesn't really come across that well in a photograph on a screen; in this case, not least because it's a pointilist painting. The way it all melds together is...! My gosh.

My favourite from the latter: Arthur Segal's The Port



I can't form any words at all for this one. Are you seeing this...?

[higadoyrinon]

Lately I've been thinking a lot of Philip Guston's paintings. This one is Floor.
My favorite work of his is this late period that's more figurative or cartoony, after his work with abstraction for years. Lots of red and pink, very loose.

[AtomicRunner]

The Burial of the Count of Orgaz by El Greco



Been one of my favorite paintings for a really long time, I thought about it today. I really want to go see it again, but unfortunately being in a church in Toledo makes it a bit out there to go when you could instead go to El Prado and see a lot of paintings in one go. Still, one of El Greco's finest paintings.