Best Paintings of all Time

This next painting isn't about a famous painter, or great skills, and it doesn't even represent a particular painting style. I added because of what it depicts. In this case, 103 of the most famous figures throughout history. A subtle analysis from the title of the painting might suggest that they all might be in hell, which is a little creepy considering that some are still alive. Besides that, not much else needs to be said, only admired.  And here it is, 'Discussing the Divine Comedy with Dante' by Dai Dudu, Li Tiezi, and Zhang An.

A painting that might be considered a "crazy" adition to my favorites list is Lucian Freud's  'Benefits Supervisor Sleeping'. In this fantastic work you can see all kinds of different skin tones that a naked body possesses. It makes for a much more organic look in my opinion, and much better than all those sleeping Venus with their smooth unblemished skins. Besides, I think that the lady he painted was having bad dreams which is something we can relate much easier in place of the bored spoiled Venus's.

The thing with Lucian Freud's portraits are that they are like an excruciating exercise of capturing the truthful essence of what he is depicting. No photograph or even an enhanced by photoshop picture can replicate this honesty. That's how good he was. He didn't just capture the surface, but all the many layers of his subject, be it physically or emotionally.

It was not something new for Egon Schielle already had done that decades earlier, but that doesn't take anything away from Lucian in my opinion.