Painters and Artists

musicismylife78

Who are some of your favorite Painters and artists? Favorite artistic movements? Favorite individual pieces of art?

I really like Van Gogh

RazzyLane

Jack Vettriano's a fave of mine.

He's frequently knocked for not being the most technical, but every painting I see makes me stop and think.

decides2dream

used to have a htread on this very topic with sooo many excellent replies on the art wall on the old board, but when i just went and searched...doesn't seem like it made the move over here. :( too bad, it was such a great thread!


i don't have *A* favorite artist of any media....but off the top of my head here's a couple:

painter - marc chagall - gorgeous, dream-like imagery.....beautiful coloration!
sculptors - alexander calder and henry moore....also alberto giacometti, oh and brancusi....sooo many!
photography - eva rubenstein, imogen cunningham, edward weston, so, so, so many brilliant photographers!

i am sue to revisit with more and more.....there are just so many great artists out there!

La Menina

Oh so many artists so little time.

Favorite artists: Anselm Kiefer, Rachel Whiteread
Favorite painters: Cecily Brown, Fiona Rae
Favorite movement: Minimalism - I've been thinking a lot about the impact it had on the aesthetic landscape of the last few decades.

My main interest is contemporary, but here lately I can't get enough of some of the dark stuff from Goya, Soutine, Bacon and Freud.

Favorite work:
Las Meninas - Velazquez (the avie gave that away, I know) I've gone back to this painting so many times in my life I finally had to cave and face the fact that for all of my talk of post modern and contemporary sensibilities, my favorite painting is many centuries old. Everything about it makes total sense and then none at all. It's radical and displays an awareness beyond it's composition. It's the beginning of something.

Thoughts_Arrive

Picasso.

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If I had to pick just one, I'd probably have to go with Van Gogh.

As for living artists, has anyone heard of this guy called Ryan Singer? If not, check him out here: http://www.maniaverse.com/ryansinger/departments.html.

He's kind of a Native American pop artist. Here are some of his paintings. My favorite one - "Generations" - is too big to post.

"Sheep Is Good Food"


"The End of the Carousel"


"12 Ways to Stereotype an Engine"

beachdweller

My favorite artist is Joseph Mallord William Turner. He has a great wealth of work from oils to waters. His Venice waters are favs of mine, but it's his land and sea scapes that I really love. "The Slave Ship" is one of my favorites of his, it had a poem that accompanied it also, and it depicted an 18th century practice of dead and dieing slaves being thrown overboard of ships before the voyage was over, this way they could collect on insurance for drowned slaves. I loved this from Turner, it was a political statement and Turner was a part of the abolitionist movement. the more I learned about the man, the more I realized how PUNK he was. Anyway, that was my introduction to him, still one of my fav's, but there are also many others like the eruption of vesuvius and chichester canal.

I also love Picasso's blue period