most famous painting and best painter

[Sandman]

I've always liked Vermeer's 'Girl with a pearl earring'.



It's not the most famous one, I'll grant you that.

[Alex]

Well, there are others which are more or less know, and some of them have been cited here before:

- Starry Night - Van Gogh
- Les Demoiselles D'Avignon - Picasso
- Guernica - Picasso
- Arrangement in Gray and Black: Portrait of the Painter's Mother - Whistler
- Le Moulin de la Galette - Renoir
- The Persistence of Memory - Dali
- Der Küss - Klimt
- The Scream - Munch
- Nighthawks - Hopper (I love his paintings, btw)
- Liberty Guiding the People - Delacroix
- The Nude Maja - Goya
- Oath of the Horatii - David
- The Milkmaid - Vermeer
- The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp - Rembrandt
- The Night Watch - Rembrandt
- Las Meninas - Velázquez
- Supper at Emmaus - Caravaggio
- The Burial of Count Orgasz - El Greco
- The Sistine Madonna - Raphael
- The Garden of Earthly Delights - Bosch
- The Birth of Venus - Botticelli
- The Triumph of Death - Brueghel (the Elder)
- Adam and Eve - Dürer

Of course this just scratches the surface, but some of those paintings are among the best known in the world.

[Buck Birdseed]

Good list, ones I'd add:

- La Grande Guerre by René Magritte
- Marilyn Monroe (Pink) by Andy Warhol
- Campbell's Soup I (Tomato) by Andy Warhol
- Waterlilies (Clouds) by Claude Monet
- American Gothic by Grant Wood
- Bacchus and Ariadne by Titian
- The Cheat With The Ace of Diamonds by Georges De La Tour
- The Last Supper by Leonardo Da Vinci
- Whaam! by Roy Liechtenstein

Not all of these are great paintings but they're ones many people recognice.

I bet I'll think of more too.

[Buck Birdseed]

- Episode from the Spanish War of Independence - Goya
- The Arnolfini Marriage by Jan van Eyck
- Olympia by Edouard Manet
- Death of Marat by Jaques-Louis David

Plus an absolute ****load of famous portraits! Not least the ones on american money, Gilbert Stuart's one of George Washington for instance.

[Asher]

I'm partial to Brandon Bird paintings myself.

"Elysium"


"Two Warriors Come Out of the Sky"


"Waiting for Adventure"

[Buck Birdseed]

Oh yeah, favourite painter? Italian futurist Luigi Russolo. Some deride his paintings as simplistic but I love the action they extrude.

[laurentius]

Asher, is that Mr. T looking at the sun in elysium?


ontopic; guernica!

[DeathByTheSword]

I've always liked Vermeer's 'Girl with a pearl earring'.

there is a film coming up about that painting...watched the trailer not so long ago

[Boris Godunov]

Come on, I would think Da Vinci's "The Last Supper" would be the obvious runner-up to Mona.

[Alex]

sure, "the last supper" has to be one of the most famous...

snapcase has a good list too.

another ones that I like: Piero Della Francesca, Constable, Turner, L.S. Lowry, Ingres, Degas, Cézanne, Klee...