If you could own any painting or work of art. What would it be?

HelterSkelter1

I love it J52. So peaceful. It has the same stillness and simplicity as the Peploe painting of Iona which was my choice at the beginning.

I think he was influenced by Peploe, they painted in the same locations

Another Scottish Colourist fan here. A Peploe or JD Fergusson for me please.
If I had room maybe one of the Money water lily murals from the Orangerie too would be nice.

What a lovely thread! I love the pre-Raphaelites. I don’t know what I would choose though. As with so many things it depends on the day.

NotSpaghetti. The programme was Big Sky, Big Dreams, Big Art presented by Waldemar Januszczak in 2018 on BBC4. The picture was so distinctive. They look so hardworking and straightforward.

Thank you HelterSkelter, I'm really grateful for that little bit of extra information; I'm delighted to finally know her name.

Mumsnet can be very in your face, but so many of the posters said what a lovely thread it was and how they enjoyed reading it.

I would choose Not of the Fold by Frederick Morgan, a beautiful painting in it's own right but also very meaningful to me. I'm a huge fan of John Piper too and find his work very powerful . Oh, and are we also allowed some stained glass as I love Tom Denny's awe inspiring creations.

Claude Monet's "The Artist's Garden at Vétheuil". Such a beautiful sunlit garden path with sunflowrs and the two little children. I have a print of it and it always cheers me up, particularly in the dark gloomy winter time.

I almost forgot I would love an original Eric Ravilious painting of the South Downs chalk and flint hills.

Turner’s ’The Fighting Temeraire’, wonderful use of colour, so atmospheric,
I also deeply admire Picasso’s ‘Guernica’, so much so that I went specifically to Madrid to see it. I couldn’t have it hanging on my wall though (even if I had the room!)…too sad and haunting.

I have several works by Pete Monaghan a Welsh artist who uses mixed media mostly corrugated cardboard. I love his work.

Another vote for Dali,s Christ of St John of the cross.As children ifit was a wet Sunday,that was at least two out of four we were taken to Kelvingrove.The museum / Art Gallery was like a second home to us.
I did the same with my children until weddings became legal on Sundays ,though we still had regular visits.
I have a second artist too,Ryan Mutter for his incredible clydeside shipyard scenes with worn faces and tired men pouring out of the .yard .They are simply breathtaking

The Tom Denny stained glass is stunning Keepcalm. Such vibrant colours. You certainly can have your choice of window.

My choice would be Breughel's Hunter's In The Snow. It's been my favourite since I first became aware of it 60 years ago. My second choice would be Giorgione's The Tempest.

Scandalised masks by James Ensor. Mkakes me smile..

Renoir’s ‘Poppy Field’. I find the impressionists so life affirming.

‘Salvatore Mandi’ Da Vinci. grannysb I also cried when I saw the Pieta in the Vatican.

Salvator Mundi.

I am sure there was a Ryan Mutter on Antiques Roadshow. Maybe the Flying Scotsman. Very powerful work. I see what you mean about the worn faces. One picture I have just found has a small group of working men. Tired faces. Also I like the picture of a barge sailing past Battersea

Eric Ravillious - almost any of his landscape pictures, but if forced to choose 'the White Horse', a view across the Berkshire downs witht the Uffington White horse on the horizon.

That is my land and since our move I have missed it so much.

Helterskelter I love Ravilious but most especially his lithographs.
Fabulous.

I'm another fan of Ravilious and have one of his above my fireplace. a print you understand

I'm fickle in my taste or perhaps eclectic and have an assortment of paintings on my walls, many painted by my friends.

I don't have an absolute favourite.

I just have last years Ravilious calendar Grammaretto but I did weave a series of fabrics based on his work once.

One of the posters on Mumsnet said that when she was at Uni students were able to borrow paintings to hang on their walls for a year from the Uni collection and then return them. I wonder if schools are able to borrow art works/prints for a short time from a centrail art library.

Yes. They are.
And hospitals.

HelterSkelter1

NotSpaghetti. The programme was Big Sky, Big Dreams, Big Art presented by Waldemar Januszczak in 2018 on BBC4. The picture was so distinctive. They look so hardworking and straightforward.

Thank you.
I'd be interested to see that.