Who is your favorite artist?

[Smyat]

El Greco.

So many "favorites" mentioned in this thread already - Van Gogh, Hopper, others. But El Greco, especially his landscapes... well, I think it must be something genetic.

I have 7yo twins, boy/girl, and the girl seems to have gotten a double dose of my visual orientation. We saw the El Greco show at the Met a few years ago and I was carrying her around it - I guess she was not quite four. She was being wiggly and only paying some attention to the gorgeous works, but they clearly caught her fancy.

So we get to the last room and the first thing I see is one of the big portraits, and I'm studying it, my girl looking over my shoulder at something, when suddenly she goes very quiet and still. Then she says a very hushed, "Ooh, pretty" in my ear.

I turn around and for the first time in both our lives we're face to face with "View of Toledo." For five minutes I just stood there, holding her as we both... just looked. It's how I've always reacted to pictures and prints of the painting, but it's also one of those works that no reproduction will quite capture.

It was quite a moment for both of us.

 

[Joie DeVive]

Everyone here has such lovely taste! I've enjoyed seeing your favorites.

Renoir has long been my favorite. I love his portraiture. Those paintings have such a luminous quality about them.

I also have a soft spot for some of Michaelangelo's sculpture, such as La Pieta, Borromini's architecture, and Elvgren's pinups .

 

[Flora]

Francis Bacon. I love the dark beauty in his paintings.

 

[carter]

Here are a few:

M.C. Escher

Rembrandt (etching)

Winslow Homer

Michael Dudash

Salvador Caballero

Clive Madgwick

 

[Dagwood]

I really like Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen. They makes everyday objects into art pieces -you'll never look at ordinary objects the same again!!

Example of a Typewriter Eraser:

Piece of Cake (Oldenburg only):

 

[imoldfashioned]

Here are a few:

Winslow Homer

Homer's watercolors are magical. I especially like The New Novel (1877).

 

[K.D. Lightner]

So many artists, here are a few of my favorites:

Georgia O'Keefe
Edward Hopper
Frank Frazetta
Frank Tenney Johnson
Robert Bateman
Bev Doolittle
Alfonse Mucha


also classics: Renoir, El Greco, Degas, Monet, Van Gogh (and most impressionist paintings and painters) Michaelangelo, Da Vinci, Bernini, and Rodin

There are more.

karol

 

[K.D. Lightner]

Remington and Russell, western artistis along with Johnson. I like cowboy art.

karol

 

[HadleyH]

I like many artists, here is one of my favorites, Amadeo Modigliani(1884-!920)

That's Modigliani in 1915. He represents the spirit of Bohemia of Paris in the first years of the last century , I adore that time and place!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:eusa_clap

 

[LocktownDog]

Rien Poortvliet. Particularly his Dutch farm series.

Richard

 

[HadleyH]

...and for those few who care, I love these two earlier works of Picasso,one from the blue period the other from 1923-24.

 

[Diamondback]

Personally, I like the air and rail art of Stan Stokes and Nicolas Trudgian.

Trudgian, Spirit of the Mountains
D&RGW C-16 pulling out of Ophir, CO

Mustangs Over the Mediterranean
31st FG, 15th AF P-51s over the Italian Riviera

Stokes, California Surfin'
SP Daylight along the SoCal coast

Tahiti Clippers
Boeing 314 (Dixie Clipper) foreground, Martin M-130 (China Clipper) behind)

 

[carter]

What's not to love about those Clippers. I wish they were still flying.
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Here's the Clive Madgewick that didn't post earlier.

One more by Winslow Homer

 

[Harp]

So many "favorites" mentioned in this thread already - Van Gogh, Hopper, others. But El Greco, especially his landscapes... well, I think it must be something genetic.

I have 7yo twins, boy/girl, and the girl seems to have gotten a double dose of my visual orientation. We saw the El Greco show at the Met a few years ago and I was carrying her around it - I guess she was not quite four. She was being wiggly and only paying some attention to the gorgeous works, but they clearly caught her fancy.

So we get to the last room and the first thing I see is one of the big portraits, and I'm studying it, my girl looking over my shoulder at something, when suddenly she goes very quiet and still. Then she says a very hushed, "Ooh, pretty" in my ear.

I turn around and for the first time in both our lives we're face to face with "View of Toledo." For five minutes I just stood there, holding her as we both... just looked. It's how I've always reacted to pictures and prints of the painting, but it's also one of those works that no reproduction will quite capture.

It was quite a moment for both of us.

...a beautiful moment with your daughter, thanks for sharing this. :eusa_clap

 

[Ecuador Jim]

I tend to lean towards any impressionist painter, specifically Van Gogh.