favorite artists & artworks

dreamncolor

so much to love and admire. link us up to your faves: painters, sculptors, photographers, multi-media artists, whatever. what makes you feel & think.

i'll start with a few fave photographers:

http://www.staleywise.com/collection/doisneau/doisneau.html#

http://www.imogencunningham.com/index2.html

http://www.afterimagegallery.com/bresson.htm

V V

ww yes , well some old fav's for me Billy Viola i love everything he does
http://www.billyviola.com

here one of my all time fav's ever i could look at it for hours lol

Abookamongstthemany

Eric Drooker my favorite at the moment



http://www.drooker.com/graphics/index.html

mookie blaylock 10

ansel adams has always been my favourite photographer...although i must say i have a great deal of respect for the many photographers who post their work here, as you are all very talented...i hope i don't offend anyone, but i think that scubascott posts some of the best work i have seen in a long time. incredible pics, mate!

as far as paintings go...my three faves...

leonard peltier's "protector of the woods"...

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b379/segmentedpaintings/protector.jpg

mark ryden's "rose" (featured on the TLC's tattoo show miami ink...click on "rose42" in the gallery...)

http://www.markryden.com/paintings/index.html

van gogh's "la nuit d'etoile"...

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b379/segmentedpaintings/lanuitdetoile.jpg

mookie blaylock 10

...and good thread dreamncolor...:)

mookie blaylock 10

Abookamongstthemany wrote:

Eric Drooker my favorite at the moment



http://www.drooker.com/graphics/index.html

phenomenal work! thanks for sharing that link abook. it's eerie...but i have a sketch that i had planned to turn into a painting that is virtually identical to "grass roots"... the only difference being that mine had a clock in it and the fingertips are turning to sand...otherwise, as i said, eerily identical...

Scubascott

mookie blaylock 10 wrote:

mark ryden's "rose" (featured on the TLC's tattoo show miami ink...click on "rose42" in the gallery...)

http://www.markryden.com/paintings/index.html

Holy shit! I'm glad this guy found an outlet through his paintings. I hate to think how he'd express himself otherwise. Great stuff though. Scary as hell.

mookie blaylock 10

Scubascott wrote:

Holy shit! I'm glad this guy found an outlet through his paintings. I hate to think how he'd express himself otherwise. Great stuff though. Scary as hell.

beautifully twisted, isn't it?

V V

ok sorry that bill viola didnt work this one is good ......

http://www.sfmoma.org/espace/viola/dhtml/content/fr_menu_dhtml.html

V V

and keep em coming its great to find new artists ty dreamin

IrishAngel

holy shit, who is going to hang this stuff in his house.... do you get the feeling of child abuse somewhere in his head???? i'm leaving the light on tonight

civ_eng_girl

Michealangelo - David, Pieta, Sistine Chapel Ceiling.... all of which I got to see in person in Italy last spring... be still my heart!

Modigliani - a couple of favorites....
http://www.abcgallery.com/M/modigliani/modigliani56.html
http://www.abcgallery.com/M/modigliani/modigliani5.html


Mary Pratt - a canadian painter of realism... i was facinated by her stuff which i saw at the McMicheal... I stared at it up close and still couldn't beleive it was painted.... and I love that her subject is often raw meat...

These three hang in my kitchen:
http://www.heritage.nf.ca/arts/agnl/prints/0466b.html
http://www.heritage.nf.ca/arts/agnl/prints/0401b.html
http://www.heritage.nf.ca/arts/agnl/prints/0465b.html

dreamncolor

V V wrote:

here one of my all time fav's ever i could look at it for hours lol

is this , i want to say, barbara openheimer? openwal? something like that? i remember it well, a surrealist artist i believe, and imaginatively enough.....entitled fur cup. haha.

one of my most fave sculptoers, british, henry moore:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:HenryMoore_RecliningFigure_1951.jpg

http://www.henrymoore.com/

dreamncolor

another fave sculptor, alexander calder:

wolfbear

These are all great posts. Great thread. Besides PJ posters, we collect animal wildlife prints. Below are some we have.

Enchanted Forest and Out of the Darkness by Collin Bogle:

http://www.collinbogle.com/index.html

And these two by Morten Solberg:

http://www.mortenesolberg.com/Bad_Water_Bear.htm

http://www.mortenesolberg.com/Arctic_Solitude.htm

V V

u know dreamin , i'm so bad, that is really a huge fav. of mine and i can never remeber her name , i will look it up !

love the alexander calder sculptures

cegirl also love the eggs pic, but being a veggi dont go for the rest LOL

V V

heres some i love to

http://www.walkerart.org/archive/B/A87309E5CA77C4186162.htm

http://www.adrianpiper.com/piper8.index.html

http://www.kemperart.org/exhibits/PastExhibits/ChristianBoltanski.asp#

dreamncolor

one of my MOST favorite painters, ever.....russian, marc chagall:

http://www.mcs.csuhayward.edu/~malek/Chagal.html


talk about dreamlike imagery....gorgeous.....

civ_eng_girl

dreamncolor wrote:

cool! this one is at the Art Gallery of Ontario, here in Toronto....

what i love about this sculpture is how well "loved" it looks.... see the bronze at the bottom of circular opening?? how it's all worn smooth and shiney? That's from people sitting on it, and sliding off... it's a great sculpture to climb around and through...

yes, my butt is one of those that have polished that bronze...

civ_eng_girl

V V wrote:

cegirl also love the eggs pic, but being a veggi dont go for the rest LOL

haha! that one of the chickens is pretty "raw", huh? actually, the reason i have that one in my kitchen is becuase i have a Coca-cola theme in my kitchen, and when I saw one of Mary's painting with a Coke box in it, i had to print it out!!

civ_eng_girl

Kayo O'Young is a fairly well known Canadian potter...

i couldn't find any decent pictures of his work... i wish he had his own website... but here's something:

http://www.jasperoriginals.com/Artist_pages/OYoung/OYoung.htm

I have about a dozen of his pieces scattered about my living room...

stuckinline

one of my favorite photographers:

http://forums.pearljam.com/showthread.php?t=158021

stuckinline

and one of my favorite artists:

http://forums.pearljam.com/showthread.php?t=149076

dreamncolor

civ_eng_girl wrote:

Kayo O'Young is a fairly well known Canadian potter...

i couldn't find any decent pictures of his work... i wish he had his own website... but here's something:

http://www.jasperoriginals.com/Artist_pages/OYoung/OYoung.htm

I have about a dozen of his pieces scattered about my living room...

great stuff! i love really well done pottery, one of my fave crafts. when i was up in edmonton for pj i stayed on a few days, checked out many of the local galleries. i bought a beautiful silver box and a gorgeous pottery vase, all made by local artists. i love supporting the local art community in any place i visit, best kind of souvenir you can possibly get imho.

mookie blaylock 10

gluten919 wrote:

one of my favorite photographers:

http://forums.pearljam.com/showthread.php?t=158021

i'll second that gluten!

mookie blaylock 10

gluten919 wrote:

and one of my favorite artists:

http://forums.pearljam.com/showthread.php?t=149076

pipe down over there! ...seriously though, that's very kind of you!

dreamncolor

V V wrote:

u know dreamin , i'm so bad, that is really a huge fav. of mine and i can never remeber her name , i will look it up !

i just looked, i was close. meret openheim. don't know where i got the barbara from, but i am impressed with myself that i had the last name so close. ha. i was pretty sure it was called fur cup, but i stand corrected: luncheon in fur 1936.

V V

o thank you

maybe u were thinking of barbara hepworth ?

dreamncolor

V V wrote:

o thank you

maybe u were thinking of barbara hepworth ?

quite possibly. also, there is a genius female graphic artist, barbara kruger, so who knows. i am amazed that i remember any artists' names anymore, far, far, far too many rattling around my head.


another fave painter, another surrealist, belgian, rene magritte:

http://www.abcgallery.com/M/magritte/magritte16.html

http://www.abcgallery.com/M/magritte/magritte59.html

http://www.abcgallery.com/M/magritte/magritte68.html

*given*to*fly*

gluten919 wrote:

and one of my favorite artists:

http://forums.pearljam.com/showthread.php?t=149076

i agree that guys paintings fully blew me away

decides2dream

a real fave painting....gustav klimt : the kiss
not the best reproduction. much more luminous, and sharp - haha - elsewhere, but the only image i could manage to copy/paste here.