One of my favorites:

One of mine

Dovima with Elephants by Richard Avedon

The same photographer who shot my country's flag:

Gotta Love Dali

Or Magritte.

Keeping with the cowboy/cowgirl theme,

Gil Elvgren's:

Stuff by my best friend's favourite artist, Alphonse Mucha:

Apocalyptic Journey

Homer, the blind poet, lent his eye to the Spartan King who melted his broken heart into a lake of tears distilled through a consenting Venus.

On this tearful suffering surface sailed Paris with his Helen towards his tragic destiny. The menacing shadow of the Greek fortress (on the right) and the towering prophetic Cassandra (in left rock column) could not perturb the tranquillity of the crossing nor the expectations of the two lovers. If Paris, knowing his fate, would be asked once again to choose between achieving glory on the battlefield (Juno's promise), ruling vast and rich kingdoms (Minerva's promise) and conquering the heart of the fairest woman in all the world (Venus' promise), he would choose Helen for it is in love that man achieves his human dimension and in grief his own redemption.

Joseph Cusimano

Please note that this is not a composite!

Its a genuine photograph with a very clever set-up.

And another one from the same site.

Hieronymous Bosch - not a modern painter surprisingly. He never did explain his bizarre imagery and his unique scenes, other than a title or two. Very surreal for the 15th-16th centuries.

Center panel of triptych: Garden of Earthly Delights



A detail from the right wing of the triptych

National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, DC opened earlier this year. The architecture is art in itself.



So many beautiful shots of the museum at Peter Beers' website

Sascha Körner

Great thread btw!

I'm an apreciator of the Group of seven... particulary

Tom Thomson




A. J. Casson


A.Y. Jackson


and Lawren Harris.




I also adore Norman Rockwell.

Luis Royo

C6, I come here just to browse and think sometimes. Goes well with music.

There's very cool stuff posted here. :)

Just you wait, C6, more on its way. Almo put me onto this sculptor/multimedia artist - Andy Goldsworthy. Awesome!

I like the one on the beach but would be concerned with its ability to hold up to weather. ;)

"River Tree" by Joseph Hyde

John Sloan
The City from Greenwich Village, 1922
Gift of Helen Farr Sloan
1970.1.1

this is very random in my opinion. i have more of this series if you guys wanna see.

Bring on the drawrings, NFN!

Shay - that artist's style reminds me of Chris Van Allsburg, who does children's books like the Polar Express.



And Just A Dream

this isnt part of the above series but its funny


more funny



wish all the pictures ove doone myself with photoshop werent back in montana on my parents computer.

Martin Johnson Heade
Cattleya Orchid and Three Brazilian Hummingbirds, 1871
Gift of The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation

Close up of the flower

Fansi Artworks are the original creations by Ansi Grunewald, an artist currently living in Belgium.
Portrait of Jessie, Brindle

Moulin Rouge
Henri de Toulouse Lautrec

Monte Dolack is one of my favorite artists. very well known in montana and even more so in the missoula area.
heres a few of my favorites of his...



this one is of glacier national park. totaly awesome place




University of Montana in missoula



Big Medicine

Viktor Shvaiko
"A Bon Chabrot"

wow, theres just so much detail in that.

Check out the gallery, all his work is very detailed

Viktor Shvaiko

More Dolack, these are some of his commical paintings...

great stuff. i realy liked "Leon De Lyon"

I love the bright colors
Michael Godard
LOUNGE LIZARDS

H.R. Giger, my favorite artist of all time. He designed the Aliens.



P.S., sorry the image is so big.