Who's is your favorite painter!

[Vorsprung]

Rembrandt
Johannes Vermeer
Frans Hals
Jacob van Ruysdaal
Jan Steen
Vincent van Gogh
Piet Mondriaan
Willem De Kooning
Karel Appel
Herman Brood

(no I'm not not a chauvinist )

 

[pinkfloyd]

Salvador Dali

 

[Gina Marie]

I'm not really crazy about modern art

John Singer Sargent's paintings are beautiful..

I also love Andrew Wyeth

Renoir

Monet of course

Boguereau

 

[The_Sweetest_Thing]

Pierre Auguste Renoir: "Why shouldn't art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world"


Dance at Bougival

Girls at the piano

Le Dejeuner des Canotiers

Monet Painting in his garden

 

[unforgettableFOXfire]

Alright, well Ill start out by saying that Im a fan of most of the work of the 19th century. Romanticism, Neo-classicism, Impressionism, Realism, etc, etc, etc. So, heres some examples of the stuff that I like, not all art, and I really focused on John Constable simply because I think he's really really good. So yeah. Enjoy-eth ye thee arte of ages passt. (ok, so maybe thats going back a little too far.. meh)


Antonio Canova

Tiziano Vicellio

John Constable for sure

 

[The_Sweetest_Thing]

Ah more....

I love Monet too...

Nympheas

and for the ballerina in me...
Edgar Degas

The Dancing Class

Dance Class

The Star Dancer

OOohh..and anything by Thomas Kinkade...here are his Paris pictures:

Paris, Effiel Tower

Paris, City of Lights

 

[Sicy]

talented baby!

My favorite painter is daafish.

hi baby!

 

[adamswildhoney]

Wow I like all the photos of the painting, I have seen!

There are some really amazing painters out there that I have never heard of!

*runs away and hides*

 

[daafish]

Caravagio
Dali
Wyeth
Reubens
David
Alex Ross
dahmier


a side note: The man who commissioned the MONA LISA refused it!

 

[senrab]

Sorry

Kinkade:

 

[Naya]

Being an art history student, I love this thread..

My favorite painters:

Artemisia Gentileschi

The most important impressionist female painter, Berthe Morisot

Francisco Goya

Mark Chagall

Henri Matisse

Vermeer

 

[adamswildhoney]

That is really pretty!!!

 

[Kristie]

Salvador Dali... and I even dug up my favorite one

The Temptation of St. Anthony

I saw a Degas exhibit once. The whole ballerina thing just kind of weirds me out.
Thomas Kinkade... they put up about 100 random Kinkade prints in the various engineering buildings on campus. Supposed to lighten up the atmosphere I guess.

Goya I also like very much

Saturn Devouring His Children

mmm, mythology...

 

[Angela Harlem]

Jeffrey Smart: (note not dead)

Ok so Van Eyck is dead...sorry flurry...but I cant not read/talk about artists without thinking of him:

Another dead one, Tom Roberts:

 

[RussellbeStaji]

No pics to post, but Renoir, Tolousse-Lautrec, Monet of course, and Gaugin.

 

[mad1]

Top guy to me, without a doubt is Salvador Dali...


followed 2nd place by ............


aww shit



names just went!

 

[Fritzy]

Antonio Canova

unforgettableFOXfire ~ I have a postcard of this exact statue on my desk. weird. it's so beautiful.

besides me my favorite artists (subject to change) are Mark Rothko (surprised to see him mentioned so many times already), Warhol, Michelangelo (the Pieta is amazing) Da Vinci, Van Gogh (whoever made the comment about seeing his work in person was absolutely right - it cannot be captured effectively in reprints). I also love seeing Seurat and the other Pointillists' work in person, it's amazing how they were able to do that! I also saw a really cool exhibit at the Design museum in London of some web artists earlier this year, but unfortunately I can't recall most of their names. One of them was Bjork's significant other, I want to say his name was Matthey Barney?

 

[dsmith2904]

Modigliani
Monet
Bogureau
Van Gogh
Matisse
de la Tour
Toulouse Lautrec
Waterhouse

I'm basically a 19th century art fan, from Neo-classicism to the Pre-Raphaelites to the Academics and the Impressionists.

 

[Basstrap]

ABEL

 

[Aine]

I'm very much into fine arts and it's really hard for me to choose,
however I'll name a few of my BEST favourites:Van Gough,
Matisse,Rembrandt(especially The Return Of the Prodigal Son and
the portraits - just wonderful!),Mark Shagal,Larionov,Lentulov,
Goncharova,(Russian avantgarde,beg.20th century),French impressionism,.Joan Miro...

 

[dizzy]

Mir?
Dali (there was a thread here way back, I think)
Matisse
Haring
Degas

 

[daafish]

Alex Ross. Comic book artist.

 

[zooshadow]

i have framed versions of the scream and the persistance of memory in my room, so i guess Dal? or Munch.
i watched a doco on Van gogh once poor man he was, hey tha's a pun.. *hides*

 

[WildHoneyAlways]

ACK!! You found my favorite painting of all time. I totally fell in love with this one as a highschool student visiting the Art Institute in Chicago. I could stand in front of it for hours. It is absolutely stunning in person. In college I did a research paper on Berthe and her work.

I also really like Rothko. Someday I'd like to decorate my home with his prints.

I'm also facinated by greco-roman style sculptures.

 

[therulz]

wow...

unforgettableFOXfire ~ I have a postcard of this exact statue on my desk. weird. it's so beautiful.

besides me my favorite artists ....etc...

You know....I have to agree with this> that angel statue is awesome!

 

[anitram]

Paul Gauguin (he lived a really interesting life; I had to write a paper about him in French and it got me hooked). I prefer him to other Impressionists/Post-Impressionists because of his bold choice of colour, rather than the tame pastels Monet et al. usually go for.

Modigliani (I love the unique style)

 

[cell]

Dali has some really crazy, off the wall paintings...I like his work. He was way ahead of his time, in my opinion.

 

[therulz]

fav artist....hmmmmmmmmm

Still me....roflmao...My local art critic tried to tell me this looks like Dali saw a robin fly into a stain glass window....lol...but it is my Abstract impression of The Phoenix on canvas.

 

[therulz]

Wild Horses 48x 64

How about my U2 inspired art?

 

[adamswildhoney]

I like! I forgot about this thread!