favorite art? artists?

[Angela Harlem]

Awesome. Thanks Acrobat Angel!

 

[major_panic]

Tom Roberts, Australian Landscape painter, Heidelberg School, Shearing the Rams 1888-90:

There's so many more.

The heart and soul of Australia and Australian painting, I'd venture...

 

[TranceEnding]

Jean Joseph Benjamin Constant, 'Glorification de la Musique'

I'm fairly certain this is probably one of my favourite paintings I saw this quite a few years ago in Paris, at the Musee d'Orsay ... I thought it was so beautiful

 

[The Sad Punk]

Gleeson died just recently. He was definitely one of my favourite Australian artists. Seeing some of his original work above five years ago had a huge effect on me, in particular "Spain".

 

[last unicorn]

Whoa, this is always as difficult. I'm an art junkie and love several artists. Lately I've been very much into photography. But one of the most impressive exhibitions I've seen was Edward Hopper in London a couple of years ago. Night hawks is probably my fave from him:

We have a big Hopper exhibition in Vienna right now, I love his work, it's so melancholic and very inspiring.

Apart from that, I also find it difficult to name artists, because I am so so crazy about art and go to exhibitions whenever possible. I'm going to the big Kandinsky exhibition in Munich next. I love the Expressionists, especially the "Blaue Reiter" and "Bruecke" movements. I love the Surrealists ... René Magritte, his work is so awsome. And Chagall .... his work touches something deep inside of me, its spirituality is overwhelming, I saw his huge biblical images some years ago and have a lot of books about him and books that were illustrated by him, I've also seen some of the cathedrals he's done the windows for in Germany and Switzerland. And I love Austrian expressionist painter Egon Schiele, he had a tragic life and died very young but he showed the human being as they really are, in all their vulnerability and hurting.

 

[Angela Harlem]

Gleeson died just recently. He was definitely one of my favourite Australian artists. Seeing some of his original work above five years ago had a huge effect on me, in particular "Spain".

No way! Actually, did I know this already? I first saw him in 1993/1994 on a tour of Australian Surrealists. The exhibition was just fucking awesome. I went to it 3 times. The book which accompanied it was so full of brilliantness. I still flick through it occasionally. His Corrosive Littoral was the basis for a large section of my HSC artwork. It gave me so many ideas, and fed this motivation which I still have in many ways. I'm so glad you get it too, Bonnie.

I forgot to add this one before:
François-Hubert Drouais, 1763-4, Madame de Pompadour at her Tambour Frame:

It was another one which gave me a religious experience when I clapped orbs on it for the first time a couple of years ago. One day, I'll go back and visit it again. I love how the National Gallery has such a comfy seat right in front of her. It's like others have all done the same thing and had to just sit and stare for about half an hour or so. This web image is just so insulting. This painting has detail that would make a mortal cry. It's just stunning. I may have met a match for Van Eyck.

 

[The Sad Punk]

Wow, that's gorgeous! I definitely need to find a larger print of that and check out the detail. I love that, when you're just going through a gallery, thinking oh these are all nice pictures, but I can't get into them, and then one just hits you like that. The last big exhibition I went to was a few months ago now, showing contemporary art by Aboriginal artists. So I went along expecting a lot of dots, and saw this painting by Julie Dowling instead:

National Indigenous Art Triennial '07:Culture Warriors | Walyer

A payback to white artists glorifying their people who committed atrocities against the indigenous. And Walyer is as good as any historical figure to get the romantic treatment. It's absolutely gorgeous and striking when set with all this traditional style artwork surrounding it.

 

[The Sad Punk]

... but, I have to say that Goya's Third of May is probably the greatest and most influential painting of the past two centuries:

I did a speech about Goya earlier this year, which is a pleasure because there's so much to say about his individual works. It's easy to ramble.

 

[Angela Harlem]

Ooh, that's good. I like this one. There's a lot to think about in it, too.

 

[Angela Harlem]

... but, I have to say that Goya's Third of May is probably the greatest and most influential painting of the past two centuries:

I did a speech about Goya earlier this year, which is a pleasure because there's so much to say about his individual works. It's easy to ramble.

Ahhh!!! I did this one in my HSC and compared it to Guernica! Oh, Guernica. How could I forget THAT??? Brilliant works, both of them. I remember the christ-like pose, the white shirt contrasting, the difference in detail of the faces... Some essays, you just don't forget.

Why did I stop studying art? Damn criminals. I hate them all anyway. I want to be surrounded my gorgeous art again.

 

[Angela Harlem]

Ooh, that's good. I like this one. There's a lot to think about in it, too.

This quote was to the Dowling post, by the way.

 

[The Sad Punk]

Ahhh!!! I did this one in my HSC and compared it to Guernica! Oh, Guernica. How could I forget THAT??? Brilliant works, both of them. I remember the christ-like pose, the white shirt contrasting, the difference in detail of the faces... Some essays, you just don't forget.

Why did I stop studying art? Damn criminals. I hate them all anyway. I want to be surrounded my gorgeous art again.

My favourite thing about the painting, if I could pick just one, is that the French soldiers look sturdy, like a single, soulless machine, and the Spanish are all complete individuals, in no formation, just crumbling before them.

It's exactly what art needed.

And as for Guernica, I want a big poster of it above my bed.

 

[JCOSTER]

Alfonse Mucha

Mary Cassatt

 

[meegannie]

Edward Burne-Jones
The Last Sleep of Arthur in Avalon is my favourite (why is it so hard to find a picture of the whole thing?). It's absolutely breathtaking in person.

Detail:

Hans Holbein the Younger (I love nearly all early modern portraiture, though)

Jean-Honoré Fragonard's The Swing. I had no idea how small it is, though!

and these random pictures:

 

[europop2005]

Another of my favorite Caravaggios

"The conversion on the way to Damascus"

 

[TranceEnding]

I love Caravaggio too This is favourite, 'Narcissus'

 

[Saracene]

Edvard Munch - Madonna

LOVE French Impressionists - Renoir, Monet, Cézanne, Manet, Degas.

Sandro Botticelli - Primavera

Always liked Peter Paul Rubens and his awesomely OTT baroque goodness,

El Greco - The Disrobing of Christ. His style is so individual and striking.

Ivan Kramskoy - Unknown Woman

Ilya Repin - Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks to Sultan Mehmed IV of Turkey

 

[mad1]

for years I've loved Salvador Dali's art, because you see so much in them. You have to just keep looking at them!

also, for Fantasy Art - Luis Royo.

 

[The Sad Punk]

Excellent painting choice for Rubens, Saracene. And El Greco, too - love The Opening of the Fifth Seal.

So ahead of time. Have we even gotten to that time yet, in fact?

 

[dsmith2904]

Me too. Just wonderful. I was fortunate to see a huge exhibit of his works in Toronto maybe 3 years ago. And there are some good pieces at MOMA that I saw this summer.

I went to a great exhibit about Modigliani and some of his contemporaries a few years ago at LACMA. I haven't seen the movie about his life, though I would like to. Such a sad story.

I also completely adore De La Tour's "Magdalene and the Smoking Flame." I have to sit with her for a while every time I go to LACMA, she's just so beautiful. I want to see the other three De La Tour did in this series at some point in my life.

 

[yolland]

Rothko, Chagall and Van Gogh are my favorite painters. Rothko's works are especially hard to appreciate fully without seeing them in person; I never considered him anything more than 'interesting' until I saw the collection of his paintings at the Smithsonian. My favorite sculptors are Segal, Rodin and Giacometti.

 

[Saracene]

Rothko's works are especially hard to appreciate fully without seeing them in person; I never considered him anything more than 'interesting' until I saw the collection of his paintings at the Smithsonian.

Same here. I saw Rothko's stuff for the first time at MoMA in New York and thought it was absolutely spellbinding.

 

[RedRocksU2]

One of my favorite artist would be Ansel Adams.

 

[angelordevil]

^ His stuff is really amazing...I love black & white photography.

A couple of Canadian favourites:

Ken Danby:

(This one scared the hell out me when I was a kid...I think it was the mask.)

Alex Colville...

I've always been intrigued by this one of his since seeing it on my uncle's wall. As we were discussing it years ago, my cousin, a horse owner/lover, said how disturbing she thinks it is--because the horse appears to be in a losing situation. I view it not quite as literally, and think about the questions it poses. Maybe the horse wins...maybe it's a commentary on the technology of man versus nature.

 

[The Sad Punk]

Didn't mention him before, but Otto Dix is another all time favourite.

On that note, Kathe Kollwitz too.

[wishing I did a printmaking course]

 

[lynnok]

Alexander Calder

Mobile

 

[Ace Rimmer]

Banksy- Graffiti Artist from the UK

 

[pgv]

Anything by Caravaggio and I'm sold, I'm a particular fan of "The Virgin."

As for modern art, I'm quite drawn to all things Tracey Enim.

 

[Pearl]

I adore Van Gogh, Georgia O'Keefe and Salvador Dali.

I have Dali's Persistance in Memory hanging in my room.