Who Is Your Favorite Artist?

Just curious.

I'm still with Monet. But I am so unfamiliar with the current artists and what they are doing. I just have to stick with the old masters.

by Dali

:hi:

in St Petersburg Fla is just fantastic . Every time i am there I take the tour


I love Dali:hi:

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on a postcard from Florida.

She say looks just like me. Hahahahahaha

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Especially The Hand That Feeds.

But my favorite artist changes every couple of months or so.

I also love Van Gogh, Escher



actually it depends on my mood

Love him. LOVE HIM. I still feel a very strange, karmic bond with him.

he's great. No doubt.

He's fantastic. A couple of weeks ago I visited the Art Institute in Chicago for the first time and got to see Nighthawks in person. Damn. It was very cool.

A few years ago I got to see another couple of his paintings in Houston, including this one ...



I have been a big fan ever since.

:thumbsup:

It was in my first Hopper wall calendar (for 1995).

it captures so many of the same feelings as does "nighthawks," but without having been reproduced/distorted/satirized a brazillian times in the last four decades like nighthawks has (as in the poster with Elvis, Marilyn Monroe, Bogey, and James Dean in place of the usual characters at the diner :rofl:)

York - wonderful!

I just looked at the Neue Galerie website. Are you going to see the upcoming Klee exhibit, too?

The Neue is one of my favorite galleries - I studied Art History (among other things)in Vienna, Austria so I am very partial to it.

Vienna, what a cool place to study art history! So Schiele, Klimt, etc. are sure no strangers to you. Grüezi from Switzerland! :hi:

On edit: I just saw your list further down. A good friend of mine was thaught by Kokoschka.

(or Gruss Gott as they say in Austria) We had our Art History classes right in the museums. That's so interesting that your friend was taught by Kokoschka - did he say what he was like? He seemed like a very intense, passionate person - as evidenced by his work.

One of my favorite museums in Vienna was the Albertina. Of course it doesn't compare to the Kunsthistoriches Museum but I loved it anyway.

from my now deceased friend, was that Kokoschko was a very tough teacher. He didn't accept any excuses, and his teachings were always staright on the basics of painting. 'My muse kissed me tonight and I came up with this painting, mirroring my soul' had no place in his teachings. He regarded any artwork as 'work,' not as an impression of your inner self. Like: If you fill your canvases with what you think expresses yourself, you might end up being your only audience ...

Something I always kept for the work of writing, too.

My last visit to Vienna was in, if I remember correctly, 1989, and I didn't have the time unfortunately to go on a huge museum tour. I eneded up in the Kunsthistorische Museum, though.

sublime

I know nada about artwork. Talk about music, writing, I'm fine, but not art. It really is a pity, but... :shrug:

:P :P

Helen Frankenthaler, whose painting was damaged by a kid on a field trip the other day.
her work is hard to appreciate in a net photo, like all art is, but she was an extremely influential modern painter. a pioneer in color field painting. but, since she is a woman, she does not get the recognition she deserves. beautiful paintings and prints. don't miss an opportunity to see them in person.

Its a very visceral thing with me and VvG.

http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/gogh/

I mean Van Gogh's my favorite, thanks for the link.

Let's put in some happy little clouds here...

not bad. I especially like this one: (videoclip)

http://www.youtube.com/w/Experience-the-Joy-of-Painting---%28Almost-Live%21%29?v=AgGZkc7wXMk&search=snl

:-) Ross can paint an entire piece with nothing more than a little piece of sponge :thumbsup: oh, and some paint and canvas :rofl:

that he made his own paints from crushed berries and flower petals, and that he wove his own canvases out of happy little former cotton balls. Yep. That's the way I heard it. ;)

:* warrior woman!

he is a naturalist that spent most of his time in Alaska (he does have those mountains down pat), hubby was just mentioning; his stuff may look completely different up close, but there is no doubt that he has captured the essentials. he likes it when he uses iridescent fillers & primers

:loveya: :*

hubby just seen your item on canvas & wanted me to mention that Caravaggio wove & was said to be able to repair his own canvas, and of coruse restore the paint itself as well...talk about knowing your media :eyes:

some of this pearescent impasto material that I saw in one of my catalogues. :rofl:

Actually, I do keep pigment around here and sometimes make my own paint. But only in summer, because I like to confine the mess to the outdoors. I would _never_ attempt to repair a canvas, though. I know an art restorer across the lake who can take a canvas that has been cat-scratched and make it look like new. :thumbsup: (She also taught me how to properly apply gold leaf.)

hues modulating through the shadow & highlight of Buddha's trumpet mouthpiece and it positively made that area POP OFF the panel, kinda 3-D like, very impressive.

restorers (did i spell that right) do amazing things :thumbsup: course they are prime candidates to become forgers as well :rofl:

I find his program, repeated on our PBS from time to time, very soothing.

I am a bit of an amateur painter myself and most what I've done has been inspired by Pollack.

I find the seemingly random quality of his work comforting and disturbing at the same time. My faves are "One" (of course, lol) and "Full Fathom Five" which I was lucky enough to be able to view at the MoMA in NYC last time I visited.

I almost got kicked out for using my flash to take photos of both of them, lol. It was very embarassing (my camera sucks and couldn't get a decent shot w/o the added light).

last weekend. It was black on canvas and was really very interesting.

I've yet to view any of his work in person, but may get the chance this summer when we take a trip to the city with our daughter. It will be both their first time to the city.

Edvard Munch
Oskar Kokoschka
Gustav Klimt
Max Beckmann
Lucien Freud
Georgia O'Keefe
Vincent Van Gogh
Henri Matisse
Frida Kahlo
Edward Hopper
Childe Hassam

That's just the painters - photography and sculpture would be another thread.

Not only is he a wonderful painter, he's a really nice guy. I studied with him a few years back.

--IMM

It was a river scene - bare trees with the river behind them. And the water shimmered. It was absolutely beautiful.

that painting of the wicked little cqat pulling back a cutain to reveal a gil in bed?

Does anyone know what I'm talking about?

I remember that painting fom a book, and I would like to see it again and othe works by the atist.

Thanks.

but there's a guy named Mark Tansey I like very much. His work is a series of well-intentioned jokes about art history and theory. For example, he's got one called Victory of the New York School, where a European "army" of artists in World War I uniforms-- people like Dali, Picasso, and Magritte-- formally surrender to an American army of Jackson Pollock and his abstract-expressionist colleagues, wearing WWII uniforms.

There's another one where Pollock is walking on water, while his friends (including critic Clement Greenberg and painters like Helen Frankenthaler) are watching from a small boat. The joke is not just that Pollock showed the way to a whole new mode of expression, but that for Pollock, there was nothing special about the canvas, it was no more and no less than a flat surface, whether to paint or to walk on.

Part of the deal is that Tansey's work does lend itself to this kind of verbal explanation, and I have been accused (with some justification) of having a deficient visual aesthetic, so I appreciate an artist whose work translates to well to the written (or spoken) word. But I like his style too: he works in monochrome, in a style deliberately modeled after mid-century textbook illustrations.

I like a lot of surrealists too: Dali, Kandinsky, DiChirico, Duchamp. I love Frida Kahlo. And for all you Frida fans, I'd like to recommend another painter, Remedios Varo-- not so much pain, but a similar fantastic depiction of personified aspects of her own inner reality.

both are awesome.

http://home.att.net/~amcnet3/gnagy/jongnagytexts.html

I BELIEVE that you have unexplored talent. My conviction grows stronger every year as I find thousands of people just like you searching to express something. If you have not made a professional career of art I'd like to talk to you all the more.

http://www.institutdrahomira.com/julienpacaud



I'm also a fan of Rene Magritte, Francis Bacon, Dali, Max Ernst. Big fan of surrealism.

Also:
Dustin Amery Hostetler - http://www.upso.org
Audrey Kawasaki - http://www.audrey-kawasaki.com/main.htm
and Luke Chueh - http://www.lukechueh.com/index.html

I love those guys as well.

Norman Rockwell, Albert Bierstadt and James Whistler

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Judith I, Water Serpents I and The Three Ages of Woman are three of my favorites. It isn't unusual to come across an artist who loves to paint the female form, but with Klimt, his adoration and respect for the women he painted is breathtaking.

There is an artist from the 1920's-1930's that was sort of like Hughes. Usually his scenes were pretty gothic of women at night, and hell if I can remember his name now. If anyone can help, it would be greatly appreciated. It is driving me batty.

Rembrandt
Goya
Aubrey Beardsley

...without a doubt.

Painter, musician,poet, actor/actress? I like Neil Young. He's multi faceted and damn good to boot. I also like Grant Wood. He was an Iowan and so he was all right. Of course, Al Pacino and Jack Nicholson are quite good as well.

I hear he has a new piece of bedpan art, the George Bush bepan of shame, available below:

This is a self portrait of him going in the door of his old plantation house.
He is in his eighties and paints like a fiend.

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