Most critical inspirational images, ever.

These are the images that contain the qualities I most want to achieve with my work. They are important to me because of the emotions they invoke, and for their conceptual basis, more so than the techniques/application of materials. I'll make that post later.

Repin - The most recent favorite.

Pratt

Unknown

Francis Bacon

Odd Nerdrum

Goya

Hussar

Arisman - This is only one selection out of pretty much all his work.

The one James Jean image that really gets to me for more than technique.

Kollwitz

A Ringling grad, Brian Berassi

Nivbed

Like Arisman, these are just a few of the images of Beksinski's that I am in love with. He gets to me in that deep, passionate, haunting way - but he does it with fantasy subject matter, painted realistically enough that a person can connect with it on a base human level. I have a massive respect for this, even though I definately do not want to paint this way.

Caspar David Friedrich

Gericault

This entire etching series had a profound effect on me during precollege when I was still in high school. Goya's "Disasters of War". Each image caries a small phrase, translated from Spanish.

This one is part of a few titled "They Do Not Want To" or "They Do Not Agree", the following are more of the same, with the titles progressing as "Nor Do They" and "Or These".

I hope this is helpful in some way, to people, and it not, for my own memory, then. I would love to see everyone make similar posts. And if anyone has pieces similar to this stuff to recommend, that would be great.