Who are your five favourite Artists?

[Drifterwood]

Could be some interesting lists.

Mine are fairly orthodox.

In no particular order, and subject to change,

Caravaggio
Turner
Picasso
Goya
Francis Bacon

 

[ManlyBanisters]

I'm quite conservative too:

Rembrandt
Cezanne
Caravaggio
Yeats (Jack B)
Klimt

Rembrandt is by far my favourite - the other four, like Drifter's, can vary. This time last year I might have had Dali or Vermeer on that list instead of Cezanne, but then I saw this in person and I damn near fell into it. Made me look at all of his stuff again.

 

[Drifterwood]

Rembrandt is by far my favourite -

I umed and ahed about Rembrandt, and whilst he probably makes my top ten paintings, I just felt he has too many portraits in the same style, so I find him less challenging. Just my ignorant POV.

PS - I considered all yours excpt JBY.

 

[invisibleman]

Could be some interesting lists.

Mine are fairly orthodox.

In no particular order, and subject to change,

Caravaggio
Turner
Picasso
Goya
Francis Bacon

I like:

Leonardo DaVinci (A true artist immerses for understanding and writes it all down.)
Rembrandt van Rijn (his studies on light and shade were amazing.)
Georges Seurat (Devil's in the details. He was really spot on.)
Salvador Dali (Sometimes it is good to have a skewed view.)
Jackson Pollack (With him, haute cuisine would be boring.<==Joke. :biggrin1

 

[Drifterwood]

Considered all yours too Invisi, except Seurat. I have been lucky to see many of his works and they are a great pleasure.

 

[ManlyBanisters]

I umed and ahed about Rembrandt, and whilst he probably makes my top ten paintings, I just felt he has too many portraits in the same style, so I find him less challenging. Just my ignorant POV.

I dunno about ignorant POV - I kind of agree but that's how he fed his family. I love the soul he can paint in his subjects - it's there in every one of those samey portraits too. :smile:

PS - I considered all yours excpt JBY.

There's something other worldly about Yeats's paintings, undefinable - almost like they have a 4th dimension.

 

[Drifterwood]

IThere's something other worldly about Yeats's paintings, undefinable - almost like they have a 4th dimension.

I have just been looking at his work online, same with Seurat. This thread could be great for bunking off work :biggrin1:.

 

[D_Doewell Dadong]

Dali
raphel
monet
turner
and whoever did the painting my dad has a print of but i can't remember its name.

 

[luka82]

Naguib Mahfouz - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Raphael - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Albrecht Dürer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Stevan Stojanovi? Mokranjac - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Milena Pavlovi?-Barili - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[D_Eric Banana]

1 Piet Mondriaan
2 Kazimir Malevich
3 Victor Vasarely
Yes I like geometrical forms, they are so rational that they make me emotional ;-)
4 Francis Bacon
5 Roy Lichtenstein

 

[D_Tim McGnaw]

(arranged according to my own weird aesthetic mapping)

both Cranachs and both Breugels
Albrecht Durer
Jan Van Eyck

Michelangelo
Carvaggio
El Greco (in fact I love most of the Mannerists)
Mantengna
Tiepolo

Ingres
Delacroix

Odilon Redon
Gustave Moreau
Carlos Schwabe
Felicien Rops
Alma Tadema
Harry Clarke

Douglas Pollard
George Lepape
Benito
Rene Bouet-Willaumez

Vasili Kandinsky
Joan Miro
Jean Cocteau
Egon Schiele (the thinker's Klimt)
Man Ray
Amedeo Modigliani
Anton Kolig
Andre Masson
Ronald Brooks Kitaj

The Chapman Brothers
Tracy Emin

(really this is just those I could think of off the top of my head there are sooooo many more, sorry there isn't only five but I couldn't possibly reduce them to that number :redface: )

 

[conchis]

frida kahlo, painter
jorge borges, writer
pedro salinas, poet
stanley kubrick, film director
matt bellamy, musician

 

[monstro]

Anselm Kiefer
Antoine Watteau
Henri Rousseau
Jean-Honore Fragonard
Mark Rothko
Pierre Bonnard

I realize that's six--but I've always had trouble staying in-between the lines.

 

[Drifterwood]

You will do as you are told or suffer the consequences.

I like the Schiele comment :wink: Popular in Australia apparently.

 

[D_Tim McGnaw]

You will do as you are told or suffer the consequences.

I like the Schiele comment :wink: Popular in Australia apparently.

Go on punish me, I deserve it :tongue: Oh and "Australia" ? Oh you kidder :biggrin1:

 

[D_Bob_Crotchitch]

Renoir
Monet
Mary Cassatt
Gregory Reade
J D Hillberry

 

[naughty]

At first thought here are some of my answers., I have many others though. I would like to know others' favorite illustrators ...
Johannes Vermeer
Grant Wood
Frida Kahlo
Tamara de Lempika
Gustav Klimt

 

[Flashy]

Van Gogh
Matisse
Picasso
Monet
Chagall

 

[D_Gunther Snotpole]

Van Gogh
Matisse
Picasso
Monet
Chagall

As good a list as any for duh rubester (though I'm not so sure about Chagall ... wonderful stuff, but it became a schtick).

Then I would add:
Rembrandt
Goya
Vermeer
Cezanne
Renoir

 

[798686]

Hmmm, dunno a huge amount, but:

Monet
Picasso
Dali
Lowry
Constable

That DaVinci and Vermeer aren't bad either, and Roy Lichenstein is cool (thanks LinkyDinky).