Who's your favorite artist?

[SweetZombieJesus]

While I'm quite partial to Van Gogh, Picasso, and other "classic" artists, I have to say my favorite artist is Jackson Pollock. There's something about abstract expressionism that leaves me in awe everytime.

[Breezy du Nord]

1. Picasso, I thought he only did calendars!

j/k. I like Pollock too. I haven't seen the movie yet is it good?

I also like Frida Kahlo and her husband, Diego Rivera. I saw his paintings when I was in Mexico and I loved them.

Unfortunately, my brother got the drawing genes in my family, so I'm more of a spectator than anything,

edit: spelling

[Toby109]

13. Pollock(the movie)is quite good

as is the artist. Hopper, Jasper Johns, Munch, van Gogh. Stark realism is cool...

[Khephra]

2. It's a three-way-tie

Giger, Dali and Escher.

[SweetZombieJesus]

10. You must have some interesting dreams

I wouldn't want to look at any of those three's work while on any mind-altering drugs, that's for damn sure.

[Khephra]

11. You have no idea...

:evilgrin:

I still think it was the one time I watched Videodrome on acid that really did me in.

:evilgrin:

[bicentennial_baby]

3. Mark Ryden

http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:3IDQTuxfJlQC:





Also, Seonna Hong is my newest fave:

[SiobhanClancy]

4. I like Edward Hopper

also Mary Cassett,Titian and Vermeer,to name but a few. I'm an eclectic sort. I even have a soft spot for Maxfield Parrish.

[roughsatori]

14. Then I will confess a fondness for Fraganard and Wateau

Your bravery inspired me.

[Dookus]

5. Van Gogh...

but that's probably because I first visited the Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam on mushrooms. Truly a transforming experience. I've never looked at his work the same way since.

[SiobhanClancy]

8. I can imagine..

one wouldn't be able to look at it from the same perspective,for sure:)

[never cry wolf]

18. Oh my God

that would have been awesome!!! Vincent is mine from a non-altered state of mind to the same museum. (long before he became a fad)

there is also a norwegiam sculptor, Vigelund, who has a sculpture park in Oslo. We pulled in at maybe 5 am after driving all night, foggy, had no idea about the sculptures, talk about a surreal experience!! wish i would have had some mushrooms.

http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:c6u4eCJWWnsC:

http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:TVs-8mzHE_MC:

http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:uGPQNYQWfekC:

http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:Olsxff0NqYsC:

http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:ID3zUl2uCCQC:

[Um_Yeah]

6. Hokusai

[MiddleRiverRefugee]

7. Alexander Calder, William Hogarth, and a French guy named

Daumiere (sp?), and another one named Magritte.

[roughsatori]

15. Honore Daumier, the French illustrator?

Or someone else?

[shance]

9. Renoir

n/t

[newyawker99]

21. Congrats shance!! 900 posts

:toast:

[roughsatori]

12. Vermeer, Pollock, Titian, William H. Johnson, Schwitters

Are among my favorites. I own an Alaxander Calder quache from 1946, (bought before my life crumbled, again) and a signed Mondrian, Litho. The rest of my very small collection is mainly African Tribal Art. I have a 150 year old Massai WarriorMask that I love.

Favorite art book: "Degenerate Art: The Fate of the Avant-Garde in Nazi Germany."

[noiretextatique]

16. i'm partial to monet

and i love william tolliver's work

[pansypoo53219]

17. i have to say

i have a fondness for my own stuff,. but no Miro? Gaugain?

[bloom]

19. I am very fond of Pollacks work as well

I'm also attracted to Kollwitz, van Gohn, Monet (esp. later 20th cent.), Rauschenberg, Munch, Frankenthaler, Krause...

Abstract expressionism is my favorite style as well.

on edit - and Miro and Chagall....

[Rooktoven]

20. Marc Chagall

Color Color Color

(and the occasional goat ;-) )

[noonwitch]

22. Waterhouse, Rosetti, Monet & Artimesia Gentilisia (sp)

I like the pre-raphaelites and impressionists the best. I also like Artemisia because she was the first female admitted to the academy in Florence, she charged a man with raping her and won (in Renaissance Italy), and she painted a series of paintings of Judith with the head of Holfernes, using her rapist as the model for the dead Holfernes (There's one at the Detroit Institute of Arts).

[arwalden]

23. Ron Mueck

http://hirshhorn.si.edu/collection/gallery/mueck.html


When I stood next to this sculpture, I barely came up to his shoulder. It's truly, amazingly, lifelike.

-- Allen

[sujan]

24. Leonardo Da Vinci, Michaelangelo and Rembrandt

[Rabrrrrrr]

25. Rothko, Pollack, Magritte, Dali, Picasso, Rodin, and ME!

Maybe it's ego, but golly, I like looking at my own artwork. But then, when I paint, I paint for me. Thankfully, others like it enough to buy it.

Love the self-referential nature of Magritte, the madness of Dali (and the skill - ever see any of his life-like drawings? Bloody amazingly accurate), the "get lost in it" of Rothko and Pollack, as well as the supremacists (like white on white paintings, or black on black, etc.).

And Japanese and Chinese traditional ink paintings.

Not much for sculpture, normally, but went to a museum here in NYC a couple years ago and they had, perhaps 50 Rodin sculptures, and I was absolutely blown away by them. I've never seen sculpture like his; truly beautiful and inspiring and graceful.

You can see my artwork at link below (and the painting below is mine, as well).

[ikojo]

26. Being a Deadhead I am partial

to Salvador Dali and Escher. When I am not searching for psychedelic influenced art I prefer art that is true to form. Not being all that familiar with the famous artists I cannot rattle off any names.

I also like science fiction and fantasy art...for some cool speculative spaceship art go here: dcmstarships.com.

[blondeatlast]

27. Matisse, Mondrian, and John Singer Sargent.

[Quahog]

28. Sandro Botticelli

The hall devoted to his work in the Uffizi in Florence really changed my life. Yeah, I know "The Birth of Venus" is iconographic to the point that we're all well sick of it, but still. His "Annunciation" and "Mystic Nativity" will make you cry.

Heironymous Bosch was a mad genius. I got to see some of his pencil sketches in Venice, when he was working out ideas for the "Garden of Earthly Delights" triptych. That guy had the jump on the surrealists by several hundred years.

In general, I love late Medieval and Renaissance (the Lippis, Ghirlandaio, Fra Angelico) art... I like the austerity, and the refusal to attempt to create realistic, solid spaces. The High Renaissance and Baroque kind of lose me in all of those clouds, muscles and yards of fabric.

The pre-Raphaelites did some wonderful, haunting things. And the women in their paintings! OK, I admit, I'm shallow. I had posters of Millais' "Ophelia" and Godward's "Dolce Far Niente" in my dorm room in college, and I was hopelessly in love with both of those women.

Yes, I am a hopeless romantic/sentimentalist and an ornamentalist. I don't understand most contemporary art. I like Dali and Tanguy, though.

I also have a respectable little collection of Balinese, Javanese and Sumatran art (wood carvings, paintings, textiles) of which I am extraordinarily fond.

[Squeech]

29. Favorite living artist: Mark Tansey

His paintings embody visual puns, or riddles on art history and/or criticism. He's got one, for example, where Clement Greenberg, Helen Frankenthaler and a bunch of other abstract expressionists are in a small boat on choppy water, watching Jackson Pollock walk away on it! This is not only a comment on how Pollock showed these artists a whole new way of painting, but it's also a subtle joke on the whole concept of the picture plane, that Pollock's vision underscored that the canvas was essentially a surface you could do anything with, including walk on.

His technique is quite odd. His paintings are monochromatic, in a commercial art style from a generation or two ago, and the specific technique starts with coloring his whole canvas that color, then painting over it with white, and daubing and scraping off the white to produce the image. He may add more color from time to time, often in the form of text silkscreened on. He has one painting that's a parody of the notorious image of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Moriarty duking it out on the cliff face, but in Tansey's version, the rock texture comes from that text, smeared just past the point of legibility. And Tansey's title is "Derrida Queries DeMan."

My favorite dead artists include Frida Kahlo, Max Ernst, Auguste Rodin and Hiroshige.

[MissMillie]

30. Georgia O'Keefe (n/t)

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[bif]

31. Balthus

Okay, so I'm a pervert. Also like all the impressionists. Utrillo. Vermeer.

[Character Assassin]

32. Eyvinde Earle

For an overview, go here: http://www.gallery21.com/

For those of you who don't know him, his first claim to fame was hand-drawing the original frames for Disney's Sleeping Beauty, among others.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

33. I can never choose one

I love Remington, Botero, Rivera, Kahlo, Tim Cox, Morath and a whole host of others...I pretty much have favorites in each genre...love Escher...I am jealous of those who can interpret what they see on canvas.

[RetroLounge]

34. Walter (and or) Margaret Keane

http://besmirched.tripod.com/walter.html

[GoddessOfGuinness]

35. O'Keefe...

[blm]

36. mr. blm, Lucien Freud

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[GoddessOfGuinness]

38. Can your art be found online?

I'd like to see it...

[blm]

42. not mine...

MR. blm...but, his site is filled with illustrations right now. I'll pm you when he puts his paintings up.

And thankyou for asking.

[devilgrrl]

37. Giorgio de Chirico & Henri Rousseau

Giorgio de Chirico



Henri Rousseau

Two of the most underrated artists in history, IMHO.

[populistmom]

39. Mary Cassat

But I also love Dali. Kind of me, warm, fuzzy and maternal on one side and a bit twisted and surreal on the other.

[Rick Myers]

40. Dali

I'm a freak!

[Raenelle]

41. Picasso--no one, no one at all, not in this world, is so good with colors

He's the Mohammad Ali (the greatest) of painting. Matisse a close second, again or the colors. And then I just have a very special place in my affection for Marc Chagall--don't know why, really, but he just moves me.

[SPICYHOT]

43. Henri Rosseau

it isn't very famous but the thing he does is vey nice!