These qualities are put in the service of a debate, which the artist may be having with himself: What has more value, integrity and the life of the mind, or the material rewards of success? The latter is represented by the gold chain with a medallion featuring Aristotle’s pupil Alexander the Great.
Then there is Rembrandt’s uncanny ability to evoke the innermost thoughts of his subjects through the play of facial expression, or the fall of light across someone’s features. Where can I see it?: The Metropolitan Museum of ArtĪristotle with a Bust of Homer is one of the greatest paintings by one the greatest artists in history, and shows the greatest hallmark of Rembrandt’s style: the interplay of light and dark. Photograph: Courtesy Whitney Museum of American Art, New York purchase, with funds from the Richard and Dorothy Rodgers Fund 70.16 © Robert Bechtle As in the best of the Dutch still-life tradition, ’61 Pontiac is a scene in which the matter-of-fact becomes transcendent. Rather color, as in this self-portrait of the artist with his family, seems to emanate from the surface of the canvas-most notably in the creamy tones of the station wagon that stands just behind the young couple and their small children, unifying them with the composition. However, his paintings have never been characterized by the sharply delineated, dazzling reflections that are such a feature of ’70s Photorealism, a genre he has been often-and wrongly-associated with. His work revels in the light bouncing off that most conspicuous symbol of the era’s prosperity: the family car. Where can I see it?: Whitney Museum of American Artīay Area painter Robert Bechtle could be described as the great luminist of midcentury suburban America. Written by Jennifer Coates, Heather Corcoran, Anne Doran, Howard Halle, Merrily Kerr, Barbara Pollock, Drew Toal and Joseph Wolin. Were your favorites among the chosen? Find out in our ranked list of the 100 best paintings in NYC. After careful tabulation, the results came in. In total, they probably run into a thousands, but we began to wonder what would happen if someone had to pick, say, the best 100 paintings in NYC? Well we decided to find out, and to help make the selections, Time Out New York gathered a jury of 34 art-world professionals-artists, critics, journalists, curators and gallery dealers-and got them to vote on their picks.
That includes here in NYC, of course, where institutions such as the Frick, the Guggenheim, the Met, MoMA and the Whitney possess some of the finest paintings from all periods of art history. Ask just about anyone to name an artistic medium, and they'd probably answer "painting," and with good reason: Paintings make up the backbone of major museum collections around the world.
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