Can’t you guys get along?
f.y.i the OP asks to give a reason why you like the painting…
This is supposed to be an art appreciation thread, do i need to call security?
Thank you.
I bought a framed print of Millais’ “Bubbles” several years ago because I loved the deep rich colors, the sweet portrayal of childlike wonder, but mostly because of the striking resemblance this little boy bears to my oldest when he was little. Fell in love with it on the spot.
Millias was a pedo, see his writings, 11-year-olds are the ideal of human beauty he writes.
I’m fond of these vanitas paintings too,
Unnecessary
Stick your f.y.i’s you abbreviating little devil child.
Well then appreciate. Jeez.
Quiet you or otherwise post some more, so that I may laugh at you.
Nice choice Dom.
Vanitas!
I suppose this has a slight Vanitas feel to it; Damien Hirst
When I was a “boy” I used often to sit all night smoking dope and looking at the art texts, the stillness of the vanitas paintings gave me a real chill, in the same way also,
Botticelli’s Annunciation
and also David and Ingres really effected me in this way,
Ingres, The Water Carrier
David, Death of Marat
porn. ban imo
Stillness is interesting, the Vanitas give me this strange feeling of simply being a brief moment of time, a snapshot of life, looking at the one I posted there is this man sat with what are probably images of his ancestors, there is the usual clutter one acquires around oneself in life, the skull and sand-timer, his skull? in a sense he’s already dead as we are too.
Those thumbnails are too small 
Stepleton Park - John Grimshaw. I admire his haunting twilight atmospheres.
Reminds me of Victorian literature.
(ps - looks really good with dark border)
The word that comes to mind for me is “frozen.” The vanitas paintings too first taught me what is symbolism in painting; at the time, smoking too much dope, every picture, every thing, became a symbol.
I’m a Balthus fan too. Why…?
Balthus, Young Girl
Damn symbols.
But yeah I once had this book, a sort of encyclopedia of symbols used in paintings. Little things like flowers which kind of go unnoticed, all have a meaning and purpose etc. Madness. A picture is literally worth a thousand words.
This one upset me too as a youngster, I believe it was called either Fire-screen Mary or Moon Faced Mary in the text I first saw it in. No, she is certainly no beauty, but the symbolism! (notice the three-sided table in the corner, etc). The painter was back in those days called “Master of Flémalle,” but I see that he has since been identified as Robert Campin. Some of his other works are rather “still” as well, and if I recall rightly, there are a few that create an unsettling anti-horror vacui too.
That is quite weird. The child appears to have an adult proportioned body, looks more akin to a pygmy.
porn the sequal. ban imo
This painting is evidently haunted.
Quiet you.
Schiele
I officially hate RebelEpsilon
Who said romance was dead?
-Scottish Colourist J. P. Peploe
Love the vibrancy of the colours in this one