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

Monarch of the Glen by Edwin Landseer is lovely.

AI tells me that Episode 3 of the Big Art series concentrates on Interstitial America and focuses on Grant Wood, Edward Hopper and David Smith.
I shall have to look up Interstitial. It's probably too long ago for it to be on iPlayer. But tomorrow I shall see if its still available.

Sam Toft is one of my favourite artists and I would choose ‘The Day I Met You’ if pushed for just one. Others show various adventures on a bicycle, always with a dog. Their quirkiness makes me smile every time.

If not that, then a Caravaggio please. His representation of light is astonishing.

Anything by Caravaggio . His use of light is amazing

Sorry Lixy I hadn’t read the whole thread before I posted. Great minds think alike!

Doodledog

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.

Me too!

AskAlice

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 have that on my wall - not the original!

For me nothing will ever beat Christ of St John of the Cross by Salvador Dali.
Sadly too big for any wall in my house though!

No portraits at all; that painting of La Penitente would make me feel distinctly uneasy.

A beautiful scene, the countryside or the coast, perhaps with small figures in the distance, yes. I always loved Canaletto's paintings when I was younger but not so much now.
Tranquil scenes that can transport me to somewhere beautiful.

Looking at modern artists, I do have prints of John Lowrie Morrison and love his use of colour.
I like Cornish scenes by more modern artists of the last century too.

Turner's 'The Fighting Temeraire' was the first painting to catch my eye as a youngster, but I'm mostly a lover of the Pre-Raphaelites. I have 'The Lady of Shalott' by Waterhouse on my wall, but it's already been claimed.

I will have to go with a very special painting Cave of the Storm Nymphs which I discovered is in a private collection belonging to Andrew Lloyd Webber so I'll never see it. The depth of the cave is what lures me in. Then I can lead a debauched life lying in the sand naked playing with jewels.

Let's try that again. Cave of the Storm Nymphs

Oreo

Pretty much anything by Monet.

I said that even before I saw your post. His paintings are beautiful.

Absolutely anything at all by Leonora Carrington.

I love Berthe Morisot’s paintings, but the one I would love to own, I saw at the National gallery .
I’m afraid I can’t remember the Japanese artist’s name, but it is all white with a few jagged black lines . It represents cracks in the ice of a frozen lake. So simple, so moving!

Westcoaster

For me nothing will ever beat Christ of St John of the Cross by Salvador Dali.
Sadly too big for any wall in my house though!

That would do me too, together with ‘the sculpture on the 4th plinth - Ecco homo!

gm do you mean the screen painting?

If so that was done by Okyo.

I do like Japanese art. It is the clean lines and simple but powerful images that draw me.

I particularly like those of images of cranes, known as birds of happiness.

grandMattie is it Cracked Ice by Maryuma Okyo?

Crossed post! Whitewavemark2

While looking for Cave of the Storm Nymphs I came across The Acrobats by Gustave Dore.
Now there's a story in a painting.

TwiceAsNice

Anything by Caravaggio . His use of light is amazing

Snap!
Posted Doubting Thomas upthread.

Anything by Gaugin. I love his work so much I know he was a bad boy but I guess that’s me😀 his work from the islands was particularly fantastic
I m definitely an impressionists gal and like most of them
And second favourite
Salvadore Dali so much to work out such a complex man and puzzling pictures love them
Do like Lowery too Did you see the film about him ?

grannysyb

I haven't got room for either, but Whistlejacket by Stubbs or La Pieta by Michelangelo in the Vatican, I cried when I saw it.

I so understand what you say having been lucky enough to see The Prodigal Son by Rembrandt, in the Hermitage. It made me feel hugely emotional.

Gainsborough is famous for his portraits but I love the way he paints trees.

NotSpaghetti

Sago did you see his big London exhibition some years ago - I think it was at the RA... I was amazed by his fabulous moody charcoal drawings which I'd not been aware of before.
They were stunning.

Yes, I was so lucky I got a free walk through.

My daughter’s friend worked for the RA and had spent many hours with DH on the composition.

As she took me round she relayed some lovely stories about him, apparently he only agreed to the exhibition if there was somewhere within the gallery he could go to smoke whilst he was working there!

I loved the exhibition, I also went to his Normandy exhibition, Big Trees at Warter and the immersive experience.

We once went to an exhibition about 30 years ago, there was a very stylised painting of an East Yorkshire scene, my husband recognised the place immediately as it was on the road to his prep school, his eight year old eyes saw the countryside exactly as Hockney painted it.

How interesting Sago I remember now yes, it was definitely the RA as I was forced to buy an "afternoon tea" ticket as I couldn't get a ticket when I could go any other way!

I just wanted to chomp my way through it so I could have more time in the show but it was a beautiful spread and I think it must have been in Keepers House as it felt pretty grand.