If you could walk into any painting and actually experience the moment it depicts, which would you choose?

Answer 1

mine would be any of josephine walls painting, she has pictures inside of pictures, they are awesome, and it would be a nice place to hide, also, salvadore dali has some great art, I love the melting clocks, that would be cool to go into, just like a house of mirrors, and there is one painting I would love to go into but I don't know who the artist is, it's an escalator and there is water all around it and I believe there may even be a man in the picture, what I want to know is where that escalator goes to, and I would love to take a ride on it.

Answer 2

"Marseilles Bay" - Paul Cezanne

"The Café Terrace on the Place du Forum, Arles, at Night, c.1888 " - Van Gogh

There is actually a story re: Van Gogh's Paintings that I find absolutely adoring. Not really a story but kind of how I would think he fit his life into a sequence of sorts.

Van Gogh had done a couple paintings of his bedroom -- I cannot find the one that has the flowers in it online but have seen it

There is the famous sunflowers and blue iris paintings --- both of these pictures were done in his bedroom in which another painting was created. Above his bed you will find his self portrait and a picture of his lover ... when you look out the window you see the cafe Terrace .... when you look up at the sky outside of the window of his bedroom there is the beautiful scenery of the starry night.

Oh for the earlier post re: the melting clocks -- Salvador Dali

Answer 3

I'd choose Andrew Wyeth's "Christina's World". It would be nice to talk to Christina Olsen -the crippled woman crawlling in the foreground of the painting. Christina has been the subject of a lot of Andrew's watercolors and it must have touched Wyeth to learn that she has been a polio victim since she was very young. Whenever I looked at the painting I always felt some pity for Christina that she wasn't able to really 'experience' the world at large but if one really get to the bottom if it, is she really missing a lot? Would it make her happier to know about the wars,the indifference,injustice, the decadence and corruption that engulfs the world? I would like to have a few minutes with her and perhaps I would learn more from her than she would from me.

Answer 4

The melted clocks by DALI (is the answer to the above question).


Mine would be an painting depicting an erotic scene (best a series of pictures) involving beautiful women.

Answer 5

So many great answers ahead of me, so I'll say "The Persistence of Memory" by Salvador Dali. Granted, I will need a whole lot of wine and possibly some, uhm, mushrooms (cooked of course) to fully enjoy the moment it depicts...but wow what a painting to experience.

Answer 6

Awesome question

I would have to pick Raphael's "School of Athens". How cool would it be to wander around a scene like that. Maybe sit down next to Michelangelo or bump into Plato.


Or for something totally different...anything by Jack Vettriano.

Answer 7

Living Waters by Thomas Kinkade http://www.kinkadecentral.com/paintings/tk2005b-acg-livingwaters.htm as long as I had my camera with me. I would love to be on a landscape with those vibrant colors!. I'd be walking around alone peacefully with my thoughts. So relaxing!

Answer 8

I always wanted to know what the expression of the Spaniards face was in "man with the golden helmet" was all about. I have my theories.

Excellent question BTW.

Answer 9

I would choose the Dog's Playing Poker. They know how to Party!

Answer 10

That's a great question.
I love aboriginal art, it would be weird, wonderful and whacky to be part of that art. Probably freak me out.