Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Van-gogh church

Van-gogh church edit

Vincent van Gogh's painting, The Church at Auvers.

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This is my favorite painting by Vincent van Gogh. For the eye, the painting has a high resolution, beautiful colors and superb detail. For the art lover, there is a great amount of symbolism in this painting. The Church at Auvers represents van Gogh’s feelings for the church after they refused to let him become a priest. One fact to point out about the painting is notice how there are no doors on the church. This shows his feelings of how there seems to be no way for him to get in.

Nominate and support. - ZeWrestler ^Talk 16:14, 27 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]
This image is cropped compared to the original painting. Consider for instance this photo of the painting: [1]. You can notice the colors are also different, but I don't know which photo is closest to the original. Actually, if we are to promote a painting by Van Gogh, I would prefer the photo of The Starry Night. I like the painting a lot, and the photo has even more superb detail. --Bernard Helmstetter 20:53, 27 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]
- Per your suggestion I looked up the picture some more and came up with this picture. I do agree, stary night is a great painting, but besides that fact, another reason, i nominated this is that I wanted to get some more attention to a lesser known van Gogh painting. I do agree about the original version of the painting. I did not realize it was cropped, and i hope this new version that i uploaded is better for the qualifications of becoming a Featured Picture.--ZeWrestler ^Talk 12:52, 29 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. Picture of picture. Unless, possibly, there's something amazing about the reproduction, I don't like pictures of pictures being featured. I like discussions of which painting people prefer even less. Mark¹ 04:03, 29 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]
- There have been pictures of pictures promoted before. They maybe few and far between, but they exist, some recent examples include MuchaDancel898, GreencastleHarbour_2004_SeanMcClean, and Sir_Thomas_More. I believe this painting is on the same playing field as the 3 listed, and therefore is capable of becoming a featured picture. --ZeWrestler ^Talk 12:52, 29 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Support Just about everyone has seen Starry Night before but not as many have seen this painting, and as a featured picture hopefully more people would. Personally, I find this painting and the story behind it Van Gogh's most interesting, and both the images represent it well. Chuckos 15:55, 4 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose paintings by notable artists on general principles. Featured pictures should first and foremost be the original work of Wikipedians, secondarily images which are noteworthy and have not had broad exposure (ie, most NASA stuff) may be featured. I would prefer that a featured image be one that the great majority of viewers have never seen before. Denni ☯ 03:37, 2005 August 6 (UTC)
You say great majority of viewers haven't seen before, that is part of the reason i picked this picture. Unlike Stary Night, this painting is one of his lesser known works of art. --ZeWrestler ^Talk 04:44, 7 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. I was going to support until I read and agreed with the comment left by Denni]. --ScottyBoy900Q∞ 02:52, 8 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted Coffee 05:53, 10 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]