Poll...Who is your favorite painter/artist?

Who is your favorite painter/artist?


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Frederick Maxfield Parrish was a particular favorite when I was in college. It was very interesting to me, how well he did the folds in a robe by just foreshortening the dots on the fabric. I remember my friends being captivated by his use of light but I was more intrigued by the way he used color.

I like Artemisia's work, and she had a very interesting life. I did have a copy of the Italian film based on her, loaned it and didn't get it back. I hate when that happens. :mad: That is why I no longer lend books or DVD's. I think it is still a mystery what became of the work she did in England, presumably disappeared during the interregnum. I have a copy of a PBS movie about her on VHS some place. . .
 

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On that list, Rembrandt

tho I was torn for a moment between Rembrandt and DaVinci - I think DaVinci's art and other works are amazing - but you put the emphasis on painting (not exclusively, I know) so I had to go with Rembrandt.

His work is just so alive - I been to the Rijksmuseum several times - and to numerous other art galleries - and Rembrandt is the one who really takes my breath away every time. His work is so vital. So real. So full of passion and sadness, joy and loss - he captures spirit in a way I've not seen in any other painter's work.
 

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The three best paintings I have seen

The Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli. You will find it at the Ufizzi in Firenze (Florence) my second home LOL. Need a restaurant in Florence I am your guy.

Luncheon of the Boating Party by Jean Renoir. Fucking amazing detail and clarity in the faces of his friends. I might lop off my dick to have that talent.

IN the hallway of the Ufizzi, between the main exhibit rooms is a small painting of I believe some gamblers. Don't know the name of the artist but the way its lit, the faces outlined by candle light, the use of shadow and light to create movement in a still life is breathtaking.

If you go to the Abbazia Monte Olivieta in Tuscany some wild frescos by Il Sodoma. Religious paintings with a very sharp gay overtone. LOL.
 

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No, he's just the master of Schmaltzy sentimentalist sh1te

There are SO many people worth mentioning, Barbara Hepworth, Georgia O'Keefe, Faberge, Picasso, Tamara De Lempicka, Henri Rousseau, Toulouse Lautrec...I can go on!

I like most period s and styles. What I look for in art, be that two or three dimensional, is the quality they have for expressing the spirit of the age it was created in...

New artist I require they present to me a well thought through idea executed well. Novelty, turns me off without inspiration, technique underlines tangents....
 

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Hi,

I love this thread but didnt vote in the poll because none of my personal favorities are in there. I tend to have rather quirky tastes. I tend to grow passions for movement and the artists associated with them. I love Romanticism in many of its forms. I love Art Nouveau, the Viennese Secessionists, American Magic Regionalism,Surrealism and Realism,The PaJaMa Group.
In terms of individual artists the ones that come to mind immediately are:

Vermeer,Ingres,David,Goya,Seurat,Toulouse-Lautrec,Tissot,Alma-Tadema,Waterhouse, Catlin,Church,Wood,De Lempicka, Reiss, Cadmus, French, Vickery, Wyeths, MAtisse, Klee,Kahlo,Rivera,Dali, Hart-Benton,Tooker ...

I am drawing a blank but I will think of more later....
 

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Seurat, Klimt and Mondrian all pushed the limits beyond anywhere that others could follow. Brigit Riley inhabits her own visual universe, other people grouped into the op art genre are mere tourists.

Then there is Hopper, a genuine American genius. They held a retrospective in London recently and you could see his musings on the isolation of the individual in the modern landscape moulding the behaviour of the viewers as they huddled closer together the further they got into the galleries.

Each person I was with went in alone, which is the only way to appreciate some paintings. One of his best was missing Gas (1940) - how witty is that at the dawn of the petroleum age ? - That was a shame but it gave me an opportunity to have a joke at a foreign curators expense as I asked him "Have you got Gas" just as some Americans walked past.

I particularly like Hoppers Lighthouses and Petrol Pumps.
 

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Francois Boucher, Gustave Dore, Charles Edouard de Beaumont. I tend to like Baroque and Renaissance, and love erotic art from the past.

I also tend to be attracted to some of the "fantasy" art of today, such as Boris Vallejo, and for a little off the wall BDSM, artists like Ferres.

I dislike abstract art and can appreciate impressionism depending on who it is from.

Love photography, black and whites, especially in erotica and fetishes.

There are more but of course I will not remember until later!
 

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So many are my favorites. Picasso is just amazing. He invents so many styles it is unreal. The museum in Paris is not to be missed if you ever have a chance.

Van Goghs work never touched me until I saw it in person. The depth of feeling actually moved me to tears, prints of his work that looked soul-less in a magazine/poster...in person had so much spirituality to them. I have learned a lot about the man...really interesting. I find his work very masculine and sensitive.

Rembrandt was a great technician of the paint. Matisse uses color like no other...his late work is really a standout and of course proved modern art could be indeed warm. Renior paints only beauty and his ability to add light levels in stunning.

Da Vinci is brilliant on many levels of design....the guy is touched by genius. Vetruvian Man is my avatar baby! The balance of a man caught in an alogrythem of design. Michaelangelo ...sexy as hell and vibrant work beyond what is more comonly believed.

George Seraut...what to say...a scientist and painter that had to stand alone in his own time. When I think of him I of course think of Sunday in the Park w/ George (muscial). Art inspiring art is the best there is in my mind.
 

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Did I forget Mondrian. Love it. Took me until adulthood to get it really. Every building where I live holds his ideas. He influnced sooooo much. Awesome.

Monet and Degas have so much beauty but not just for the subject matter. The constant idea of a series and study of a particular subject have contained many lessons for me in slowing down and seeing change in a single idea...looking at things for multiple meanings...now I'm back to Picasso and cubism for the same lesson. OK OK i'll stop. Cheers
 

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Well, right off the top of my head, of the Renaissance period: Michelangelo and Hieronymus Bosch. Of modern eras: Salvador Dali... impressionists? no one (because I don't like the style)... comic book artists: Gil Kane and Steve Ditko.
 

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Well, right off the top of my head, of the Renaissance period: Michelangelo and Hieronymus Bosch. Of modern eras: Salvador Dali... impressionists? no one (because I don't like the style)... comic book artists: Gil Kane and Steve Ditko.


Thanks for mentioning Bosch I love his work. How about Bruegel?
 

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I adore the works of Caravaggio, Tintoretto, Raphael, Botticelli, Michaelangelo, Da Vinci, Pissaro, Renoir, Degas, Titian, Seurat Marcel Duchamp, Martin Puryear: but only his wood sculptures not the metal ones. :redface: Renoir, Seurat, Klimt and Mondrian, Hopper, Vermeer, Ingres, Dali, Goya, Kahlo, Rivera, Chagall. I could go on . . .