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==Most Famous?==

==Most Famous?==

I'm thinking that this page would work better as an essay, rather than a mainspace article, as "most famous paintings" is purely and inherently a matter of opinion, necessarily influenced by education and experience.  That said, I must respectfully disagree with some of your selections.  Just off the the top of my head, I'd say that [http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/seurat/grande-jatte/seurat.grande-jatte.jpg this], [http://blog.lib.umn.edu/snackeru/greet/images/scream.jpg this], [http://nsm.uh.edu/~dgraur/Images/hopper.nighthawks.jpg this], [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/37/WhistlersMother.jpeg this], and [http://www.gvjh.org/~artisland/2006_student_artist/Grimes_michelangelo/jpeg/handstouching.jpg this] are more instantly recognizable than, say, the van Dyck or the Gainsborough (among others).  I would further suggest that many of the paintings you've chosen aren't even the most well-known for a particular artist.  For example, Picasso's "Garçon à la pipe" is far less well known than, say, his "[http://www.artinthepicture.com/artists/Pablo_Picasso/guernica.jpeg Guernica]".--[[User:XavierJ|XavierJ]] 17:31, 16 October 2008 (EDT)

I'm thinking that this page would work better as an essay, rather than a mainspace article, as "most famous paintings" is purely and inherently a matter of opinion, necessarily influenced by education and experience.  That said, I must respectfully disagree with some of your selections.  Just off the the top of my head, I'd say that [http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/seurat/grande-jatte/seurat.grande-jatte.jpg this], [http://blog.lib.umn.edu/snackeru/greet/images/scream.jpg this], [http://nsm.uh.edu/~dgraur/Images/hopper.nighthawks.jpg this], [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/37/WhistlersMother.jpeg this], and [http://www.gvjh.org/~artisland/2006_student_artist/Grimes_michelangelo/jpeg/handstouching.jpg this] are more instantly recognizable than, say, the van Dyck or the Gainsborough (among others).  I would further suggest that many of the paintings you've chosen aren't even the most well-known for a particular artist.  For example, Picasso's "Garçon à la pipe" is far less well known than, say, his "[http://www.artinthepicture.com/artists/Pablo_Picasso/guernica.jpeg Guernica]".--[[User:XavierJ|XavierJ]] 17:31, 16 October 2008 (EDT)