top ten paintings

Recently someone polled for 10 'modern' painters, but I thought , how about your 10 top paintings. This might show better than any post how you view

Er sorry, this post should have been in my draughts folder. It's a little rushed, although the main portion is ok, but I was going to include my top 10. Never mind NH

You haven't included them - still rushed then?

I am pleased that I don't have a top ten paintings, there are far too many that I could consider for the position!

Mmmm. 10 is kinda not enough.

It would be very difficult to select. Almost impossible. What is 'top' ? there are dozens of factors that can form this

Crows on a corn field is as exciting. There was a nice graffito left in a gents where one urinal had been removed for repair - 'Duchamp was here'.

Yeah, I hope your thread goes farther than the original did!

So why not help your hope along by contributing an interesting, shocking, boring or unusual idea relating to the list?

I wonder why we don't ask people for their top seven or top forty two pictures. What, anyway, is this peculiar idea of wanting to have scores, with winners and losers over such a huge area?

Wouldn't it make sense to ask what one considers the top X number of Chinese brush paintings depicting pandas, or the top X number of painter X's oeuvre, or the top X number of equestrian bronze sculptures drawings?

Asking if the top Chinese brush painting depicting a panda should be ranked higher or lower in the top ten relative to the top drawing of an equestrian statue seems to me a rather extreme form of daftness.

I suppose that it might be useful for hoi polloi to know the top ten so they can treat art like soccer and claim to understand it by naming which artists, or paintings won division one.

No, really, I am still compiling my list. I thought I had saved the message to the 'draughts' folder. As I have said, a compilation of paintings would give a new light on where someone is coming from. The discipline of having to prune out one great painting from another might give fresh inspiration the the age- old and never-ending question 'what is art?' N.H

Ah, the hoi polloi! Damn them for their ignorance, would that they be as informed as thou. N.H

I thought it meant our personal top 10. My top ten are paintings that may have no relation to world art history and development, or even skill (though I'd hope they do). But they are the ones that inspired, informed, and just pleased me. Not sure I can come up with 10 off the top of my head but here's a start:

In no particular order: 1. Many many photographs by Dave McKean ('Queen' is just one of the best) 2. 'Combing the Hair', Degas (the red one) 3. 'the White Girl (Symphony in white No. 1)', Whistler 4. The submarine, Paramarenko (sculpture) 5. 'Snow Storm', Turner 6. Venus de Milo (sculpture) 7. Rembrandt's self portrait etchings (sorry, hard to choose just one) 8. Chagall's blue window in the Art Institute of Chicago

Hmm... that was fun!

The exercise is as ridiculous as the thread I tried to get started on 'Top ten LIVING artists.' All that did was generate a couple of replies of personal biases - nothing to do with who the REAL big names today are.

Same thing for listing paintings. Everyone has their personal bias, so what are you going to prove? Even the most 'with it' art magazines can't agree on 'top ten' lists. Doing so in a forum such as this is an exercise in wishful