Paintings

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Lucretia Panciatichi
Agnolo Bronzino, c. 1540
102 cm x 85 cm; oil on panel

 

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The Abduction of Europa
Noël-Nicolas Coypel, 1727
127.6 cm × 194 cm; oil on canvas

 

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Rainy Season in the Tropics
Frederic Edwin Church, 1866
166 cm × 303 cm; oil on canvas

 

[Sean Regan]

I've always admired John Singer Sargeant. The story of the commission of "Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose" and execution is interesting. (He'd rather play badminton than get on with it).

This is on my desktop. My icons fit neatly down each side.

It replaced this, which I'd had on various computer screens for years.

Our eldest granddaughter was sufficiently computer literate from an early age, (their father has an IT and facilitation company). When she was about five, on a visit to us was using my computer, just playing a game she'd brought with her. So was familiar with the painting.
A few weeks later her mother took her on a visit to one of her "posh friends." The woman had an "art book" on a coffee table. The child noticed it and opened it and had reached this illustration before the woman noticed her.

"Oh leave that alone darling, that book isn't for little girls.
The kid looked up and said "Where's the little cat?"
The photo had been cropped to fit in the book's pages, so there was no cat.

The woman was gob-smacked. Our daughter kept a straight face and casually said, "Oh, she likes art."

Amongst other artists, I've a lot of time for the illustrator, Norman Rockwell, who produced the front cover for the Saturday Evening Post every week for the best part of half a century. I first became aware of him in the late fifties when I was at grammar school as a copy always ended up in the school library a week after it had been finished with in the staff room. I also liked the adverts for the classic cars of that era.

As they say, "every picture told a story" O.K. the settings are contrived to help with this.

 

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Portrait of a Young Woman
Amedeo Modigliani, 1918
61 cm x 46 cm; oil on canvas

 

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Ruins with Cows and Figures
Giovanni Niccolò Servandoni, early 18th Century A.D.
48 cm x 64 cm; gouache on cardboard

 

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Players Handbook cover
David A. Trampier, c. 1977
original size and medium unknown

 

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View of Toledo
El Greco, 1596 to 1600
121.3 cm × 108.6 cm; oil on canvas

 

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The Scream
Edvard Munch, 1893
91 cm × 73.5 cm; oil, tempera, pastel & crayon on cardboard

 

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Witches Sabbath
Francisco Goya, 1798
43 cm × 30 cm; oil on canvas

 

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1943-A
Clyfford Still, 1943
91.4 cm × 76.8 cm; oil on canvas

 

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The Tower
Frieda Harris, 1938-1943
original size unstated, watercolour on paper

 

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The Cyclops
Odilon Redon, 1898 to 1914
66 cm x 53 cm; oil on board

 

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Allosaurus
Charles R. Knight, 1919
original size unstated; oil

 

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Princess of Mars
Frank Frazetta, 1970
39.4 cm x 50.2 cm; oil on canvas