Favourite painters

[cascadeco]

I'm pretty particular as to what I like, and in general don't like modern art at all (although there are always exceptions). I can appreciate a wide variety on an intellectual and creative level...just would never ever buy most stuff or hang it in my house. I'm mostly about colors and aesthetics, and everything just kinda flowing.

I like Degas a lot. And Monet, but others have already posted several Monet ones in here.

 

[Kanamori]

I'm definitely not a buff, but of the ones I've come across/get El Greco, Velazquez, and Monet are my favorites.

el greco - Google Image Search

 

[Salomé]

 

[entropie]

Cupid et Psyche

 

[Kanamori]

I also like the American Romantic Landscape painters. Cole, Church, and Bierstadt mostly.

Church

Bierstadt

Cole (from the course of empire series)

Also the American Impressionists (Art History class. )

Childe Hassam

. .. . .. .
Trumbull

 

[Phantonym]

There are so many more, of course, but luminism really struck a chord when I took a course on American art some years ago.

My favourites are John Frederick Kensett -

http://www.thecityreview.com/f02pamp6.jpg
http://whitemountainart.com/images/jfk102.jpg
http://faculty.pittstate.edu/~knichols/kensettnear2.jpg

and Fitz Hugh Lane -

http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/kl/images/lumin_lane_lumber_lg.jpg
http://www.illusionsgallery.com/Boston-Harbor-Sunset-Lane-L.jpg
http://www.1st-art-gallery.com/thum...-Breaking-Away,-Vessel-Slipping-Her-Cable.jpg

 

[Kingfisher]

Anders Zorn:

one of his self-portraits:

 

[phthalocyanine]

^ the violin player is excellent. you can feel the movement!

as far as 20th and pre 20th century:
klimt
mucha
konstantin somov
peter paul rubens
virginia sterrett
botticelli
van eyck

i won't bring the thread quality down with vargas just yet.

 

[Spamtar]

Give me hell but I still love my Dali

 

[Ingrid in grids]

Dalí recently showed in my city.
Frida Kahlo, Klimt and Schiele.

Glasgow by Madeline Green

 

[Kingfisher]

yeah, Egon Schiele's drawings are great.
and i like Klimt quite a bit also. his early realism paintings too.
Schiele-

 

[Gish]

William Bouguereau is a definite favorite of mine.

 

[Ingrid in grids]

yeah, Egon Schiele's drawings are great.
and i like Klimt quite a bit also. his early realism paintings too.
Schiele-

They're some of my favourites too! Just going to add more to the Schiele love here-

 

[LEGERdeMAIN]

Cezanne - The Viaduct at L'Estaque

Picasso - Science and Charity

Hooper - New York Movie

Love how Hooper always "casts" solitary figures in large empty environments.

Dali - The Elephants

Rockwell - The Road Block

Goya - The Shootings of May 3, 1808

I tend to be influenced by Spanish artists, much more depth than the French, imo.

 

[Snuggletron]

beksinski

 

[anch]

For me, the favorites are Salvador Dalí and Francisco Goya.

Goya's "Witches Sabbath", 1798

and "Dog"

I've seen them both when I was in Spain and I was just amazed by them and by Goya's art in general.

 

[Litvyak]

Of those who haven't been mentioned:

Frans Widerberg

 

[Phantonym]

I recently discovered the works of Henry Asencio and immediately fell in love with them.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2068/2378041692_028372cf60.jpg

http://www.pengal.com/jpg/iha508c.jpg

http://www.shafferfineart.com/Bliss 16 x 20.jpg

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_5fD7Ci5F1sQ/R3O34vawCgI/AAAAAAAAAlw/Ut_BSFRgb1o/s400/daydream.jpg

 

[Wonkavision]

Renoir
Degas
Picasso
Francis Bacon

Leonor Fini:

Munch
Dali
Giger
Waterhouse
Bouguereau

Gary Baseman:

Mark Ryden:

Camille Rose Garcia:

Henry Darger:

Elizabeth Peyton:

Raymond Pettibon:

 

[Kingfisher]

I recently discovered the works of Henry Asencio and immediately fell in love with them.

i like his paintings.
also he looks very contemporary. like within the last 10 years or so.