Favourite painters

[Synarch]

Caravaggio: Image:Judith Beheading Holofernes by Caravaggio.jpg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Velazquez:

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Gericault:

Image:Théodore Géricault - Le Radeau de la Méduse.jpg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Noel]

Akseli Gallen-Kallela - The Forging of the Sampo

 

[Nihilen]

Velazquez:

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My favourite Velásquez is the portrait of the pope Innocent X only because Francis Bacon was obsessed by it, which influenced him to paint his pope series based on Velásquez's model:

A couple other Bacon pope studies:

I'm such a pseudo-artprofessor.

 

[Synarch]

My favourite Velásquez is the portrait of the pope Innocent X only because Francis Bacon was obsessed by it, which influenced him to paint his pope series based on Velásquez's model:

I'm such a pseudo-art-professor.

You're just a pretentious fuck.

But honestly, that is very interesting. I love that painting. I do confess to being a little bored with conceptual art. I go for something depicted well and in a singular manner over concept every time.

 

[Nihilen]

I'm interested in all of them, I'm very open-minded when it comes to art, my interests keep shifting, from figurative to conceptual to abstract etc.

Except for aesthetic decorative crap, it's repulsive and nauseating.

 

[Eileen]

hieronymus bosch, who i would have said even if synarch hadn't posted his most recent pic

remedios varo

 

[Synarch]

I'm interested in all of them, I'm very open-minded when it comes to art, my interests keep shifting, from figurative to conceptual to abstract etc.

Except for aesthetic decorative crap, it's repulsive and nauseating.

+1

That is S-type art. Any great female painters? Kahlo? Cassatt?

 

[Nihilen]

hieronymus bosch, who i would have said even if synarch hadn't posted his most recent pic

That's not a Bosch painting, that's Matthias Grünewald, one of my ultimate favourite gothic painters...he's tied with Bosch.

 

[Nihilen]

+1

That is S-type art. Any great female painters? Kahlo? Cassatt?

Hmm..I like a couple of Kahlo's paintings, mostly 'My birth', can't post it here, it would be deleted...It's graphic and could be viewed as gross for some.

But I can't think of any that I would put in my top 100 at the moment.

 

[Eileen]

That's not a Bosch painting, that's Matthias Grünewald, one of my ultimate favourite gothic painters...he's tied with Bosch.

Damn it! Guess I grabbed from Google too fast. Looked Boschy. I'm impressed with your encyclopaedic knowledge of freaky art, though!

 

[Nihilen]

Damn it! Guess I grabbed from Google too fast. Looked Boschy. I'm impressed with your encyclopaedic knowledge of freaky art, though!

If it's freaky enough, it'll get stuck in my brain, eternally.

It was a lucky catch, practically no one ever mentions Matthias Grünewald, though he was probably one of the first predecessors of 'expressionism', centuries before the movement was created.

Bosch was the same for surrealism.

I love his crucifixions mostly, here are a couple details:

 

[Noel]

Nihilen, who did this one? I don't know the author.

 

[Synarch]

Nihilen, who did this one? I don't know the author.

Looks like Gustav Dore's engravings for Don Quixote.

 

[Nihilen]

Portrait of J.Y.M II - Frank Auerbach

There's a quote by John Singer Sargent I found amusing:
"Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend."

Yet his paintings seem very aesthetically soothing and practically uninteresting, this quote seems to work better considering the painter above for ex.

I liked this painting of his though, mostly because of the ecstatic(?) humanoid(?) in the background. This creepy weirdo looks suspicious.

 

[Totenkindly]

Off the top of my head:

Waterhouse
Dore
Goya
Harry Clarke
Alex Ross
Dave McKean
HR Giger
Da Vinci
JMW Turner
Darrell K. Sweet
Michael Whelan
John Constable
Francis Bacon
Gustav Klimt
Edvard Munch
Alphonse Mucha
Aubrey Beardsley
Caspar David Friedrich
John Collier
Bill Sienkiewicz
Barry Windsor-Smith
Michael Zulli

 

[Blackmail!]

By far, Paul Klee is my favorite painters. Each time I cross one of his works, even a very small watercolor in a large museum room, it captures my sight and the outside world vanishes. Abstraction is so difficult to master well.

Close to him, I also like Nicolas de Staël:

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And among others, you have Albrecht Dürer:

And Jacob van Ruysdael

And Willem de Kooning:

And Claude Monet, of course

 

[Wild horses]

Monet... I hate to be so cliche but I always have loved him since I first saw one of his paintings when I was really little and always will...His scene of Paris in the winter is magical

 

[Blackmail!]

His scene of Paris in the winter is magical

One century ago, we usually had snow in Paris each year, and the Seine would often freeze. Monet painted that many times.

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Today, with global warming (for those who don't think this phenomenon is true)... well... when we have -2°C in Paris (->28°F), we say it's "very cold" here. And we have palm trees growing everywhere in gardens and even as street trees.

So you know, even impressionist paintings can be used as a proof something is deeply wrong with climate.

 

[Nihilen]

By far, Paul Klee is my favorite painters.

Interesting selection -except for Jacob van Ruysdael, sorry, but nah...- mostly Paul Klee. I just re-embarked researching him yesterday. I think that's one to ponder upon, very 'ambiguous':

The twittering machine.

 

[Lady_X]

bumping cuz i wanna see more too