Thread by @KS1729, a thread of paintings that I can't help but return to see [...]

a thread of paintings that I can't help but return to see again, sometimes for the painters hard earned skill and on others for the vision it shares generously -- 2020

1. “Spirit of the Plains", Sydney Long. 1897.

2. Fritz Hegenbart

"The woman aiming an arrow from inside a serpent’s jaws represents Malice"

3. Melancholia, Odd Nerdrum

4. Man with a horse's head, Odd Nerdrum

5. Return of the Sun, Odd Nerdrum

6. 'River Cove', Andrew Wyeth, 1958

7. The Mouth of Krishna, Albarran Cabrera (Angel Albarrán and Anna Cabrera)
Pigments, gampi paper and gold leaf.

Robert II married Bertha of Burgundy while being godfather to one of her children from a former marriage. This made their union incestuous. Pope Gregory V excommunicated the king. Jean-Paul Laurens portrays the couple in dramatic isolation to condemn the fanaticism of the church.

Puvis de Chavannes was a specialist in monumental painting. His flat technique, without shadows or reliefs, in clear tints matched stone of the wall surfaces on which he usually worked. Younger artists like Seurat and Maillol were inspired by him.

Geese, Mochizuki Gyokusen (Japanese, 1834–1913)

12. The remarkable Dr Gachet, author of a thesis on melancholy, in June 1890, took up Van Gogh & cared for him till his suicide in July. It was while he was with Dr Cachet that VVG created his most expressionist works, like
Eglise d'Auvers, which was like a cry from the darkness.

13. detail from a painting by Georges de La Tour's 'The Fortune Teller' ~ from around 1630s, but was only discovered in mid 20thC

14. Amrita Sher-Gil, Torso, 1931, oil on canvas.

15. Joan of Arc, Jules Bastien-Lepage, 1879

16. Time Clipping the Wings of Love (1761), Johann Zoffany 1733-1810

[I don't know what the context is, but I like the title of painting]

17. Mars Disarmed by Venus and the Three Graces, Jacques-Louis David (1824)

[also, the cover of an extraordinary work edited by @scaliger and others ]

18. Untitled, Nasrollah Afjehei

19. Rêve, 2002, Safwan Dahoul

20. Bindis on painted board, Bharti Kher

21. Contemplation, Tsherin Sherpa, (gold leaf, acrylic and ink on cotton, 2015)

22. The Alley of the Kings, Mike Worrall, 2015, Oil on Linen

23. The Temptation of St. Anthony, 1516, Hieronymus Bosch

24. Song from the riverbank, Chen Yiming (b.1951), Oil on canvas. 51 x 35 inches.

25. Head of a Lady in Medieval Costume, Lucien Victor Guirand de Scévola, 1900, Pencil and watercolor

26. not a painting, but a painting in stone

Fly high (2017) by Luo Li Rong

27. Young Seated Girl, Henri Martin, 1904

28. Krishna and Pradyumna Rescue Arjuna, Harivamsha series, Punjab Hills, Kangra, ca. 1820, Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

29. Untitled, Muhamad Ikbal Arifin Suradi aka Ibay Arifin aka Ibay Arifin Suradi (based Bandung, Indonesia) - Drawings: Ink on Paper

30. From the Swimming series, Maria Svarbova

31. Lhasa, Kwok Hon Sum, ink and colour on paper, c.1990

32. Moon's Metamorphosis No.75, Liu Kuo-Sung, ink, colour and collage on paper, 1971

33. Keith Jarrett, by Sam Nhlengethwa, oil & collage on canvas, 2017

34. Shakuntala [with her friends Anasuya & Priyamwada] write a love letter on a lotus leaf, Raja Ravi Varma, at the Ashmolean

35. Clouds and Cornfields, Jennifer Woodburn

36. Erik Olson

37. Jason Brooks

38. Interior with Young Woman, Vilhelm Hammershoi, 1904

39. The Chess Game, Ludwig Deutsch

40. The Dream Haunting the Mogul, Gustave Moreau, 1881

41. Washerwomen at Roubine du Roi, Paul Gauguin, 1888.

42. The Sphinx, From Voyage d'Egypte et de Nubie, Frederick Louis Norden, 1755.

43. Bathers, George Tooker, 1950.

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45. The Fleeting Moment, Eya Philip Wakeham

46. "A white stag rides on a cloud, symbolizing his role as a messenger b/w the earth & the gods. On his saddle is a branch of the sacred sakaki tree and a mirror, which, along with the sword and jewel, is one of the 3 sacred symbols of Shinto."

“Deer Mandala,” 1600s, Japan

47. Village in Rain, Kasamatsu Shiro (1898 - 1991)

48. Great Indian Fruit Bat by Bhawani Das, 1778-1782

49. The Pantheon , Isabel Muñoz, Rome, 1995

50. Fabio Hurtado

51. The Tree of Life , embroidered canvas. early 17th century,

52. Besik Arbolishvili, Georgia

53. Reading with Dog, Takahiro Hara, Japan

54. The Dinner, Fernando Bayona

55. Koichi Sakamoto

56. Basement Barbers, Peter Uka, Nigerian, 2016.

57. Portrait of the Actress, Igor Obrosov, Russian, 1974.

58. Li Wentao, China

59. Cave, Billy Childish, British, 2019.

60. Two Lovers, circa 1880, Auguste Rodin

61. Edgar Ende

62. This is London, Miroslav Šašek, Czech. (1916 - 1980) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miroslav_%C5%A0a%C5%A1ek

63. Ahmed Morsi, born in Alexandria, Egypt, 1930

64. Sphere, Tamara Kvasitadze, Georgian

65. Autumn Dusk, Wilhelmina Barns Graham, British, 1978

66. Girl with Curls, Salvador Dalí, Spanish, 1926.

67. Surprised by the Storm, Ferdinand Hodler, 1887

68. Self Portrait, Ferdinand Hodler

69. National Funeral, Sheng Qi, 2006

70. Julia Lacey

71. Béla Kontuly, Hungary

72. Tomas Sanchez, Cuba

73. Roberto Fabelo, Cuba

74. Childe Hassam

75. Xawery Dunikowski

76. Rebecca Haines

77. Sandro Botticelli

profiles/details of Simonetta Vespucci

78. Hamed Abdalla

79. George Birrell

80. Phyllis Schafer

81. Heinz Flockenhaus

82. Jane Graverol

83. Torbjörn Zetterholm

84. Ana Mercedes Hoyos

85. Nicholas Bott

86. Andrew Wyeth • Wind from the Sea (1947)

87. Utagawa Hiroshige, 19thC, Japan

88. Drawings over the years to accompany Jean de la Fontaine’s ‘Fables choisies pour /es enfants’ — he collected folk tales and fables from all across Europe & the East, and set it to French verse from 1665 onwards.