Favourite painter?

[George_Bonanza]

I like Edvard Munch the best. Every painter is great, but somehow, Munch just sticks out for me. I saw his "Vampire" painting at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC and I was blown away because I was resigned to the fact that there was no Munch there, and bam! I turn around and there's this great painting and it's by... Munch! I also like Renoir for his bright paintings of Parisians. And Dali of course, everybody loves Dali. Truly one of a kind.

I would love to learn to paint. Not out of any dreams of earning money or fame from it. But I think it'd be ultra-cool if you could just sit down and paint whatever you wanted to decorate your house. That'd be a lot of fun.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

1. Fernando Botero

A man with a plump thing going on and a real advocate of peace in Columbia!

[Cheswick2.0]

66. My friend Michael loved Botero

He had several of his prints.

[wtmusic]

2. Jasper Johns, Shag, Vysekal, Tanguy

[Fenris]

3. Actually I know a lot of people who hate Dali

This was a big controversy in my AP art history class. Half the class liked Dali and the other half hated Dali.

Although it is admittedly somewhat cliched, my favorite painter would probably have to be Van Gogh. I can't really say exactly why. Something about his paintings.

Oh, and Piet Mondrian.

[George_Bonanza]

6. Oh really?

Interesting...

[regnaD kciN]

19. From what I recall...

...Dali was an extreme right-winger. I don't recall if he was an out-and-out fascist, but he was a supporter of Franco, at least later on in his life.

[Rich Hunt]

70. the surrealists hated Dali

When he chose to stay in Spain, other artists called him "Salvador Dollars".

[Coventina]

23. Another Dali hater here

The Pre-Raphaelites have always been my favorites, although I've developed a taste for Frida.
:P

[GumboYaYa]

37. Count me a Dali hater.

I have never felt that thre is much depth in Dali's work. It's kinda "been there done that" once you see one of his paintings.

[MaineDem]

53. I've never liked Dali either (nt)

.

[roughsatori]

4. Too ,many but at the moment: Titian, David, Michaelangelo NT

[Rowdyboy]

5. Van Gogh

ears down

[BrotherBuzz]

7. Hieronymus Bosch

[George_Bonanza]

55. I saw him in an encyclopedia once

It looked like Dali got his influence from it, or whoever came first. Bosch sounds like an older name. There were all these faces with hooks in it and stuff.

[prolesunited]

8. Probably too conventional for this crowd

But I love Impressionists and my favorite is Monet. The Chicago Art Institute has quite a large collection and several years ago did a major exhibit on Monet, assembling the most number of his pieces ever shown together. It was truly amazing.

[Fenris]

9. Not too conventional

Just a popular choice. I think people tend to shy away from what becomes popular because they feel like their chasing a trend. And some are. But there are many who are not. Too conventional would be if you said that Monet made pretty calenders and you were surprised to learn he painted on canvas.

[Rowdyboy]

10. Monet isn't God's son...

He's a nephew so he can get away with anything.

What a talent...

[pippin]

13. Why no women painters?

Why no women painters?

Artemisia Gentileschi? Lavinia Fontana? Elisabeth-Louise Vigee-Lebrun ? Berthe Morisot? Dora Carrington? Rosa Bonheur? Tamara de Lempika? Frida Kahlo? Carmen Lomas Garza? Georgia O'Keefe? etc . etc


Refugees by Tamara de Lempika


Sun Mad Raisins by Ester Hernandez

[Coventina]

24. oooo love Tamara!

Good choice!

[juliemoo]

20. Monet is my favorite too

He really knew how to combine texture, shape and color to create true beauty. I love to buy his prints but nothing can compare to seeing his original works. The texture... True luxury would be to have one hanging in my living room.

[populistmom]

11. Mary Cassat

Could hold her own with those Impressionist boys, yet had her own feminine touch. My kind of painter.

[pippin]

16. So did other women impressionist

The women impressionists like Berthe Morisot (she was Manet's wife) Eva Gonzalez, Suzanne Valadon (she was Utrillo's mother) certainly held their own.. The other American woman impressionist who was widely admired during her lifetime but less known today is Lila Cabaot Perry who was Monet's protege. She was the first American woman to paint in Japan and France--and was part of the colony of artists around Monet in Giverny.


In a Japanese Garden by Lila Cabot Perry


Manet and Daughter by Berthe Morissot

[TreasonousBastard]

26. Oh, yeah-- Cassat!

She and Degas, of the Impressionists.

They painted your soul in their portraits.

[theHandpuppet]

12. German expressionists...

...such as Max Beckmann and (early) George Grosz are among my favorites. I'd have to say, though, that Monet is my singular favorite, while Van Gogh's incredible works must be seen firsthand in order to be fully appreciated.

[Raenelle]

14. Picasso, Matisse, Kandinsky, Chagall

It's all about color for me.

[pippin]

15. Munch Museum

Was lucky to visit the Munch Musem in Oslo last year--it's buried in a very tucked away suburb of Oslo but houses hundreds of his paintings. An awesome experience--he had an enormous range of subjects and there are several versions of his scream. Some of the paintings can be seen on the museum's web site at:

http://www.munch.museum.no/en/artworks.htm

[mrbill]

33. been there, got lost

munch ended up in the loney bin.

is the original of "the shriek" in the surburban munch museum or the national gallery downtown?

been to the museum close to the train station, a copy of the painting was hanging on a north wall, it was much bigger that i expected.

but then, in other travels, the "mona lisa" was a tiny little thing.

[khashka]

17. Picasso

Not that I'm a particular fan (except for Guernica).

What makes me love Picasso was his portrait of Gertrude Stein and when she complained it didn't look like her... his response was "No, of course not, but it will."

And he was right.

Now THAT'S genius.

[regnaD kciN]

18. Van Gogh and Monet...

Oh, Lord, am I predictable and mainstream or what?

;-)

[Bush_has_Parvo]

21. Robert Rauschenberg is my very favorite

probably one of the most important American artists of the last century. I also like Robert Motherwell and Ida Applebroog.

[inthecorneroverhere]

22. impressionists and WPA era social realists

My faves are van Gogh, Matisse, Kandinsky, Renoir, and Thomas Hart Benton. I also like some of the numerous WPA artists of the same era as Benton. Their style is known as 'regionalism' but it's also slightly akin to social realism. Many of the WPA artists depicted social themes connected with the Great Depression. They did it with sensitivity and respect for the persons depicted.

Going back in time, I like John Singer Sargent, but less than I do the impressionists or regional painters.

Actually, Dali and Munch are among my least-faves, along with Andy Warhol, who had absolutely no talent, IMHO. People seem to think these guys made 'social' comments through their art, but their ideas are lost on me between their negativity and absurdity (although there is a place for the absurd in art).

[Melsky]

25. Two of my favorites

Stuart Davis is one of my recent favorites:
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/davis/

I also like Chagall a lot.
http://www.artchive.com/artchive/C/chagall.html

[arwalden]

27. Edward Hopper: I Love His Lighthouses and The Famous "NIGHTHAWKS" Diner

[SiobhanClancy]

30. I love Hopper,too

I have a great print of Nighthawks in the living room...I think the theme of loneliness resonates with me in some way.

[chiburb]

35. Ditto that...

Has always been my favorite too for the same reason.

[SiouxJ]

45. Yes! Hopper is my favorite too!

I love his work! This would probably be my favorite though it's hard to choose:

[Aristus]

63. How about "Office In A Small City"? by Hopper?

I've loved that one since I was a kid. It was cool to see a grown-up daydreaming when he should be working.

[SiouxJ]

75. I think Hopper spent a lot of time

daydreaming, but that's cool. :-)

[bicentennial_baby]

28. Mark Ryden

[kodi]

29. vermeer, the things that fellow did with light and shadows is stunning

my favorite.

[BurtWorm]

34. Good choice!

:toast:

(Pretend it's Grolsch.)

[BigMcLargehuge]

31. Otto Dix and Fitz Hugh Lane

Two completely different styles-

Otto Dix, Dada. He painted extensively about his experiences during the first world war. His work is an unflinching look at the madness of mass slaughter and it's crippled, broken, scarred, reconstructed, and ruined aftermath.

Truly a man who's work MUST be seen.

Fitz Hugh Lane-

realist who painted nautical scenes from his Lawn in Glaucester Massachusetts. His paintings are so real they even SMELL of the ocean. He had a fascination with fishing vessels (an obsession we share) and the people who make their living from the harvest of the banks.

[Whitacre D_WI]

32. Eric Legge

I've got quite a few of his pieces hanging at the Whitacre homestead.

[noonwitch]

36. JW Waterhouse, and the other pre-Raphaelites

I like romantic feel to the works.

[pippin]

39. Pre-Raphaelite Women Painters

Noonwitch:

Two pre-Raphaelite women painters whose works you might enjoy:



Evelyn Pickering Morgan


Marie Spartali Stillman

[noonwitch]

65. Thanks for the pictures, they're awesome

The second one looks a lot like the woman from Rosetti's paintings, perhaps it's the same model?

[pippin]

69. Marie Spartali Stillman

Noonwitch:

You have good powers of observation! Marie Spartali Stillman was indeed a model not only for Rosetti but she was also painted by Burne Jones. As an artist, she was a student of Ford Madox Ford. She was one of the group of women known among the pre-Raphaelites as "stunners" or exceptiomnlly beautiful women.

Here is another of her paintings:

http://www.artmagick.com/paintings/enlarge.aspx?pid=1758&path=stillman/stillman4

In this other painting where she is the model used by Edward Burne Jones, she is the woman in the middle.

http://www.artmagick.com/paintings/enlarge.aspx?pid=1875&path=burne/burne47

[GumboYaYa]

38. I think Picasso and Rembrandt are the

two most talented painters. I never appreciated Renaissance Art fully until I visited the Rijks in Amsterdam. The Rembrandts there captivated me. I have been a giant fan since I saw his paintings in person.

Picasso is without question one of the most prolific and influential artists of the twentieth century. I'm a little biased here b/c I recently read D. H. Khanweiler's autobiography, but to me Cubism is the most important development in 20th century art. Picasso had such an incredible ability to reinvent himself as a painter, he has to be at the top of my list.

I also enjoy the WPA artists quite a bit. Stuart Davis is one of my very favorite American artists. Add Rothko, Milton Avery, and de Kooning (all WPA artists) to that list as well.

[northzax]

40. thomas kinkade

best painter of the century, hands down.

[roughsatori]

41. You forgot the sarcasm brackets!!!!

I can only hope you are not taking art appreciation lessons from QVC.

[prolesunited]

43. Snarf!

He could be serious, though. Here's an interesting article about the Kinkade brand:

Thomas Kinkade, Painter of Light™, on the other hand, is the leading brand name of Media Arts Group, Inc. MAGI, publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange as MDA, posted $120 million in net sales for FY 1999, a 53 percent increase over FY98’s $82.7 million. MAGI is the first company to create and develop what it calls a "lifestyle brand" around a product — in other words, the personality of Thomas Kinkade.
<snip>

But we had to wait until Kinkade and MAGI to see the process come to fruition — art, freed from its high-culture moorings, has drifted over the century into the arms of capitalism, so much so that in 1999, the entire concept of an artistic being — personality, style, body of work and consumption — is coldly and very quietly manipulated by corporations.

http://flakmag.com/misc/kinkade.html

[northzax]

46. i'm sorry

does my taste in art offend you? the question was 'who is your favourite painter?' I answered, not prepared to be mocked by the likes of you. I guess my likes aren't good enough for you. and people wonder why folks think the Democratic Party is elitist.

as for you, I don't recall mocking your inability to use a comma appropriatly in your subject line. perhaps you are taking grammar lessons from QVC? or maybe, given your rather ordinary citations of Titian and Michaelangelo as favourites, you simply haven't bothered to learn anything about Art. Frankly, I'm suprised you didn't cite the Venus of Wittenberg as your favourite sculpture, since it doesn't seem like you got past the first chapter of your Art History 101 text. how very ordinary.

[prolesunited]

49. I'm sorry if my comments offended you as well

But I would like to explain. I find fault not so much with his actual painting but with the crass commercialization of his work. I hope you had a chance to look at the article I posted.

To me, art should speak to the soul. It should not be a product to mass marketed based on demographics and marketing studies. To me, that type of art is what Britney Spears is to music. Okay and appealing in its own way, but it fails to transcend its audience.

I also see exploitation of the masses in the Kinkade empire. He is, after all, the Christian artist and I think the use that to their advantage every bit as much as the televangelists collecting money for their own gain under the guise of spreading the word of God.

Also, his works are merely highlighted prints sold at inflated prices and I'm sure the bottom will drop out of that market and people who thought they had purchased works of art will be left with nothing more than pretty pictures.

So, my comment wasn't directed as much at your artistic tastes as it was at the whole concept of Kinkade. Sorry for not being more clear.

[northzax]

54. your comments were not the offensive ones

you made an arguement based on knowledge and research, and commented on the artist involved. The post I replied to, and the one that offended me, was the elitist yet simplistic response to my original post, the one that had nothing to say except about me. I always welcome debate based on facts, knowledge and experience, such things make us better people; but a gratuitous personal attack (from someone who I will wager cannot maintain a real discussion of art or experience of art with myself) is a waste of bandwidth and unworthy of this board. phony elitism will get us nowhere.

[peekaloo]

42. Rene Magritte

my favorite surrealist.......took a while to warm up to his work.

[NashVegas]

44. Matisse, Klee, Neel

Color is good for you!


More -

http://www.artchive.com/artchive/M/matisse.html#images

also -

I love the humor that comes through Paul Klee's work.




For the women, Alice Neel was amazing.

[theemu]

47. Balthus

[skippysmom]

48. I can only choose one?

Here's a list of my top 10, in no particular order:
Rembrandt
Vermeer
Hopper
Homer
Sargent
Renoir
Monet
Cezanne
Church
Copley

Edited to add O'Keeffe. Incredible.

p.s. not to pick nits, but Morisot was Manet's sister in law, not his wife.

[watercolors]

50. Georgia O Keffe

my favorite , she looked at life on a grand scale. As an artist I have many favorites of todays artist, Birgit O Conner, Areta Pech, Jan Kunz and Tom Lynch, all grat watercolorist.

[kid shelleen]

51. Peter Max and Margaret Keane

[MaineDem]

52. Renoir and Hopper

There's a small portrait by Renoir at the Met in NYC of a 5-year old girl. I'd swear it was a photograph. It's just inspiring!

And I have a large Hopper here of the Two Lighthouses in Cape Elizabeth. I know that site very very well and the painting is almost perfect!

I'd have to say those two are my favorites today. That changes.

[jus_the_facts]

56. Monet.....

:loveya:

[mitchum]

57. Egon Schiele

[Blue-Jay]

58. Bob Ross

hahaha

[Sufi Marmot]

59. Damn, you beat me to it...

I always loved those "Happy Little Trees"... ;-)

And I can't be the only one who is fond of that Blue Dog.

[NJCher]

60. Klee for me

also Chagall:



and Calder:




Cher

[Unknown Known]

61. Jackson Pollack, Rembrandt & Eduard Manet

I know - it's a strange group! Sorry, but I do love these painters.

[prolesunited]

62. What a fantastic thread!

I'm going to bookmark this. There are a few artists mentioned here that I want to take a closer look at.

[Aristus]

64. All time favorite: Vermeer; with Edward Hopper as a close second.

Favorite painting: Vermeer's 'The Milkmaid'. Astonishingly beautiful.

[pippin]

72. the milkmaid

Sublime!

[pippin]

73. Hopper Morning

[chefgirl]

67. Oh, such a tough subject....

There are a few that are eternal for me:

Michaelangelo
Renoir
Van Gogh

But I also seem to have phases where I'll really be taken with someone or others work for a while.

Been enamored with Jackson Pollack for a while now and most recently, Frida Kahlo.
I think I want to rediscover Georgia O'Keefe soon too. Oh, and Magritte.

-chef-

[Cheswick2.0]

68. kandinsky

[Seneca]

71. Kelly Moore

Whenever I need a new coat in the kitchen, this is my favorite paint!

[Section_43]

74. Miro. Klee. Picasso.

& the late, great John Galey...a personal friend.