The Impressionists and Post-Impressionists inspire me the most. My favorite painting is Van Gogh's "Starry Night" -- yeah, I know, it's so familiar and pops up now in so many prints and on so many design items. But I've seen the original up close, at its home at the Museum of Modern Art in NYC, and it blows me away - just the detail of the paint strokes, the way some of the canvas even shows through, it's like Van Gogh just threw the paint on there. I could feel the energy of that coming through... By the way, I've heard that the Louvre is overrated, that the best ones to visit in Paris are the d’Orsay or the Picasso. In NYC everyone goes to the Met, but MoMA is my favorite, hands-down. I can spend an afternoon there.

Dali. Vermeer. Giger. James Gleeson. Banksy.

VanGogh, usually his lesser known works. "The Sower," "Skull with Burning Cigarette," "Autumn Garden," and "A Pair of Shoes II" are favorites.

The Anolfini wedding is my favorite painting. It seems like the artist had so many secrets. What’s with the shoes? The dog? Milady’s bump... and of course the artists hidden self portrait.

I have a book of various artists. These are four:

1. Dorothea Tanning's The Truth abouts Comets and Little Girls
2. Casper David Friedrich's The Wanderer above the Sea of Clouds
3. Albrecht Durer's Melancholia
4. Jacques-Louis David's The Death of Marat ( i don't have this one)

Salvadore Dali for me all the way. His view, insights, forward thinking with a foot in the history. 2nd would be H.R Giger and his works covering birth, inception and death. Facinating a person could grow up in the Alps and become a tinted (very) glass to look through.

I recently visited an art museum in Richmond, Virginia. They had a Warhol(Triple Elvis), a Pollock, and many more. I like the Impressionists, though, more than most modern painters.
My dream is to visit Florence and the Sistine Chapel(been to Rome but not enough time to get there). The ancient sculptures and artifacts in both Rome and Athens were most exciting. Also the Cairo museum.

I'm not that much into art, but I do like "Starry Night" by Van Gogh and "The Persistence of Memory" by Dali.

I did get a chance to see Van Gogh's "Irises" when it was first displayed at the Getty Museum in Malibu, many years ago. Bit I like the Getty more for the historical artwork, particularly Roman statues.

I was there for a whole day and didn't see nearly everything so you missed a LOT...unlike a "SEAL", I'm pretty sure you didn't see those terrorists hiding over there in the corners. lol. There is more than enough to see in De Louvre if you are taking your time. But as you said...if it bored you, it's not that you saw everything, you just weren't interested. I like art that has hidden messages in it. My brother, who is bipolar, creates this amazing type of art (usually very dark themes)...but he's only artistic when not taking his meds.

I love artwork.