Favourite Painters

[mikas-sushi]

Raphael
Sandro Botticelli's Birth of Venus
Georgia O' Keeffe
Van Gogh
Andy Warhol
Piet Mondrian
Ramon Doplon
Oscar Salita

 

[kezangel]

I am a fan of art I prefer Salvador Dali- Surrealism is a way to free your art with your mind, I find it very stimulating, I enjoy using the mind and venturingthrough it or something more imaginative.

 

[rroseselavie]

I just came back from Vienna where i went to a large Egon Schiele exhibition (and a wonderful Goya exhibition as well)
his paintings and sketches are just amazing...I didn´t know before that he also made a lot of landscape paintings- not only half-naked women :-)
I was also amazed by the amount of work he left- for he died when he was only 27

 

[rroseselavie]

This is where i got my nickname from: "rrose selavy" by Marcel Duchamp,
I anticipated in a seminar about him in university, I like him a lot, he made a big impact on modern art in the beginning of the last century...he has a lot of humour in his work...rrose selavy means in fact éros- c´est la vie...i found that quite funny

 

[gius]

I think Schiele is really great too! But I like him most when his work is more like washes than when he uses all that drybrush technique.

John Burningham also makes nice paintings!

 

[`rees]

This is where i got my nickname from: "rrose selavy" by Marcel Duchamp

Marchel Duchamp! LHOOQ!!!

i van Gogh!

 

[lady stardust]

frida kahlo, gustav klimt, picasso, edward munch and so many mooooore...for the moment i'm in love with klimt's work.

 

[Tushka_BeLLa]

Renoir
Monet
Van Gogh
O Keefe

 

[.francesca]

oh i'm so jealous that you saw a schiele exhibit! i'd LOVE to see one!

he's my favorite, along with remedios varo:

all from www.informatik.hu-berlin.de

her work is similar to frida kahlo in many ways, but i like varo better - it's much less ubiquitous, for one, but another thing is that it always seemed less...obvious to me...the subject matter is harder to grasp than kahlo's. but that might also be because i've learned less about varo than kahlo in my various classes.

other favorites:

yoshitomo nara
seonna hong
picasso's blue period
luke chueh

 

[.francesca]

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[lady stardust]

oh i'm so jealous that you saw a schiele exhibit! i'd LOVE to see one!

he's my favorite, along with remedios varo:

all from www.informatik.hu-berlin.de


*please do not quote pictures*


her work is similar to frida kahlo in many ways, but i like varo better - it's much less ubiquitous, for one, but another thing is that it always seemed less...obvious to me...the subject matter is harder to grasp than kahlo's. but that might also be because i've learned less about varo than kahlo in my various classes.

other favorites:

yoshitomo nara
seonna hong
picasso's blue period
luke chueh

mmmm lovely pics!!! i love remedios to, she was such a "fairytale" painter, it's sad that she was so unhappy in her private life.

 

[Multitudes]

I just came back from Vienna where i went to a large Egon Schiele exhibition (and a wonderful Goya exhibition as well)
his paintings and sketches are just amazing...I didn´t know before that he also made a lot of landscape paintings- not only half-naked women :-)
I was also amazed by the amount of work he left- for he died when he was only 27

Yes...rroselavie.. Egon Schiele is fantastic and my favorite draughtsman and painter of all time... an it is an an amazing body of work he left behind in a very short life.. In one of the biographies I have, it says that he was so obsessed with perfecting his line, that he use to sit with a pencil in one hand and a stopwatch in the other, timing him self while he was drawing, so he could obtain the perfect line in the shortest amount of time.. that maybe explains the amount of work he was able to do... The other Painter I really like is Francis Bacon...
Those to for me is the most important artist we have to date... especially because they bothrevolutionized the portrait... and The use of colour(inventing new colours for the flesh which are fare from "nature"), form and the relation between the figure and the field...
The abandoment of simpel configuration is the general fact of modern painting, but what is interesting I think, for both, is the way they break with figuration: it is not impressionism, not expressionism, not symbolism, not cubism, not abstraction... never has anybody broken with figuration by elevating the figure and the field, their solitary wrestlingin a shallow depth, that rips the painting away from all narative but also from all symbolization. When narative or symbolic, figuration only obtains the bogus violence of the represented or the signified; it expresses nothing of the violence of sensation-in other words, of the act of painting. This is why Shiele(Unfortunately in his oilpaintings he couldnt escape the symbolic..) and Bacon is my Favorite painters...

francis Bacon "Selfportrait" From www.ibiblio.org

 

[lumy_]

Some pictures I took with my cameraphone (hence the quality) at a Tom Sachs exhibition:

 

[sw33tricecakes]

Renoir

danse a bouvigal

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[sw33tricecakes]

I also like Toulouse Lautrec's work :]

www.yurimarcialis.it/.../ lautrec/lautrec.html

 

[jabzoog]

Schiele!!
Toulouse-Lautrec!
Demuth

 

[flauxhemian]

echoed jabzoog, i love egon schiele, i saw an exhibition of his in amsterdam and it was just great, especially when all he had to draw on was parcel paper i think i saw the same exhibition as rroseselavie

i adore mark rothko, the way you can see things such as a sunset in his colours and in the lines he draws

i love the texture of jasper johns and how he would take a simple object and make it complicated, like drawing the american flag back to front, and painting on newspaper

<< a simple number made into a painting.......

http://www.brynmawr.edu/visualculture/MMcClure.html

and i love my art teachers work, she approaches landscapes in such a great way... jayne-sandys renton

www.numasters.com

 

[Colette_B]

kurt schwitters (1887-1948)
hannover dada

merz 317. lenox, 1920

kleine dada soirée, 1922

hannah höch (1889-1978)
berlin dada

das schone madchen, 1920

cut with the kitchen knife dada through the last weimar beer-belly cultural epoch of germany, 1920

(arthistory.about, faculty.washington.edu)

 

[kanita]

Edouard Manet
Kees van Dongen
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Henri de Toulouse Lautrec
Gustav Klimt
Egon Schiele

But I am still learning about other artists.

 

[D'Felipe]

My all time favs are....
FRANCOIS BOUCHER

and...
my all time fave...
FRAGONARD!!!