If you could have your portrait painted by one famous painter, who would you choose?

[CTyankee]

Rembrandt did great portraiture and Leonardo, of course. Manet did some great ones (but got some people bothered).

I'm a bit fixated on John Singer Sargent. Beautiful ladies in a beautiful era...https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sargent_Lady_Agnew_of_Lochnaw.jpg

[msongs]

1. vincent vanG

[CTyankee]

3. interesting choice. Might be a good portrait, tho unusual...

[matt819]

18. My choice also (nt)

[lkinwi]

27. Definitely Vincent

[Ohiogal]

2. I'm not famous

But I've done my own in pen and ink!

[CTyankee]

4. Oh, I wish I could paint but I'm just not talented in that department...

Sounds wonderful!

[Floyd R. Turbo]

5. Ralph Steadman!

[NightWatcher]

10. Hells yes!!!

[vercetti2021]

6. Hard choice

But...between Rockwell and Van Gogh.

[CTyankee]

7. what portraiture did you love about each of them?

[vercetti2021]

9. For me I enjoyed

Starry Night from Van. I have a replica painting of that in my house along with five other replicas.

Rockwell I have The Runaway, Tough Call, and Before the Shot.

What I enjoy about Van Gogh is that he could create anything out of anything.

Norman Rockwell did real life artwork of real people in everyday situations.

[CTyankee]

24. That's a lovely description. Thank you for that tender and sensitive desription...

[CTyankee]

25. Too bad we don't know more about Vermeer. His life is such a mystery to us today.

Yet his art completely overwhelms us.

[vercetti2021]

30. I will search his work

[vercetti2021]

29. You're welcome dear

[TygrBright]

8. Johannes Vermeer

He found the light in his subjects' humanity.

wistfully,
Bright

[sarge43]

16. Second that. n/t

[First Speaker]

11. Al Hirschfeld...

...I'd rather have one of his caricatures than a whole gallery of "real" artists' portraits...

[sinkingfeeling]

12. Norman Rockwell.... of course, I know he's dead.

[vercetti2021]

14. Great minds think alike

[50 Shades Of Blue]

13. Sandro Botticelli

[Polly Hennessey]

15. John Singer Sargent

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

17. Artemisia Gentileschi.

She was really good at painting pissed-off women.

[CTyankee]

23. she sure as hell did!

She was brutal in her depictions of women being brutalized by men. And she was shut up by male artists who refused to recognize her as a fellow artist.

She produced art when she was giving birth to 4 babies in 4 years, IIFC. How she did that I do not know...

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

32. Like this:

Excellent article about her here: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/oct/05/artemisia-gentileshi-painter-beyond-caravaggio

[Hoyt]

19. Picasso.

[Phoenix61]

20. Someone willing to lie a little

Not a lot, just shave a couple of years off.

[mithnanthy]

21. I agree...John Singer Sargent!

I just love the beautiful way he captures the elegance of women.

[jberryhill]

22. That Dutch guy

[CaliforniaPeggy]

26. Andrew Wyeth or one of his talented progeny!

I have always loved his work. And his life fascinates me!

[CTyankee]

28. I was never crazy about the Wyeth folks but I can and should revisit some of their works just

to make me feel a little better with them.

Don't know why, but Wyeths left me a little cold...

[CaliforniaPeggy]

31. And I can't really explain why I like them.

I always thought his skill and his sense of humanity were intertwined.

[mitch96]

33. Dali

Cause that's what I feel inside... like artistic scrambled eggs... but from a distance it looks ok.
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[Miles Archer]

34. Magritte.

Would rather have my essence captured than my likeness. Photo-realism, even impressionism, is cool. But when it comes to art, I lean toward "What the hell is THAT," and I'd rather have Magritte paint the inside of me than Rembrandt paint the outside of me, ya know?

[CTyankee]

38. Of the surrealists, I love Magritte. His works were sneaky and surprising.

I visited the Magritte Museum when I was in Brussels. His "This is not a pipe" is in LACMA which I visited when I was in LA visiting my daughter. Great painting (kinda small tho).

[Buzz cook]

35. This guy

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Marcel Duchamp. If you can't be pretty, be interesting.

[fierywoman]

36. Oh! Sargent.

[juxtaposed]

37. Karl Zerbe, or Sue Coe

[greatauntoftriplets]

39. Renoir.

[mia]

40. Robert Henri.

[edbermac]

41. Bob Ross.

Surrounded by happy little trees.

[lunasun]

44. An excellent choice

[left-of-center2012]

42. Grandma Moses

Hey! I like her.

[Demoiselle]

43. John Singer Sargent for me, too! (eom)

[Nac Mac Feegle]

45. Pablo Picasso, of course

Not only am I rather shy, I'm also quite twisted.

If he's not available; Dali.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

46. Or maybe Van Eyck.

I'd like to look like this:

[BluesRunTheGame]

47. Gauguin or Cezanne

[DangerousRhythm]

48. Andy Warhol