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Not a painting as such, but I love drawings/etchings/prints by MC Escher.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a3/Escher's_Relativity.jpg/220px-Escher's_Relativity.jpg
I went to an exhibition of his work recently and loved it, especially as I got to see all his concept drawings and the various iterations of each piece as he worked out how things should fit together. It was great.
My brother has a few Alex Gray prints in his house which are great too. He's probably most famous for doing Tool album art.
I'm also a fan of Escher too
Generally, I am biased against any painting produced with the aid of photographs or a camera obscura. It reduces the preliminary sketching phase to a tracing exercise. I prefer to see evidence of the hand/eye interactions of the individual artist. Hokusai's wood cut prints are a case in point.
I like a lot of Dali's paintings, they are so clever and intricate.
I like Dan Monteavaro, we have this one
I'd like another one of his actually, will probably get one for in here.
I like Damien Hirst's pharmaceutical series
I like Mark Rothko too.
I don't like a lot of the biblical Italian stuff though, it does nothing for me tbh.
I like sculpture too. We have the Yorkshire Scuplture Park about 40 minutes drive away, and that has some brilliant exhibits. Tony Cragg is on at the moment and his stuff is amazing
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-scotland-16137688/never-ending-forth-bridge-painting-finishes
A few people have mentioned M C Escher - he always sounded like a DJ to me - if anyone's never heard of him, he's REALLY worth a look. Not paintings, but really mind-expanding stuff.
He did the famous drawing of the never-ending staircase, for example. And loads of clever geometric stuff.
I love Renoir's luncheon of the boating party mainly for nostalgic reasons. When I was a lad it was on the dining room wall of my uncle and auntie's house; I spent a lot of time staring at it whilst the adult's talked around the dinner table, imagining what was going on and who they might be - brings back warm memories.
This North Korean Propaganda poster:
I absolutely love it- so much so that I've used it as a sound hole label in several guitars and have a 1m wide print of it in our house.
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https://www.dalipaintings.com/images/paintings/the-temptation-of-saint-anthony.jpg
You really need to see it close up though!
(Yes, you do see a Celtic Frost Album Cover in there)
https://s9.postimg.org/qmwl3b7f3/ED1_A3_F8_A-_CF0_E-40_BA-_A35_B-00_E58_ED1_CED7-7726-000006.jpg
You know, it always amuses me how precious the US get about their flag. I mean if this was a US forum people would be spitting blood and you would have been banned (and possibly shot) for posting that. I sometimes wonder who the world's biggest loonies are!
Clearly hipsters have been around longer than we thought.