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Who Is Your Favorite Artist / Painter?
Posted by busylizzy • 1/16/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: andrew wyeth, art history, artist, george frederick watts, painter
I have an art blog and every now and then I write an essay about an artist. Some of your are familiar with my Salvador Dali essay. Today I just finished an essay on one of my personal favorite artists George Frederick Watts. This afternoon I just found out that Andrew Wyeth just died. He's especially popular in my area, since he lived out here. So, anyway, who are some of your favorite painters from history?
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I really like H.R. Giger
www.hrgiger.com/-
Yes. I became aware of Giger when he designed the alien and more in ALIEN and have been able to recognize his style ever since.
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Giger is my next project.
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The Giger post is done! busylizzyseasle.blogspot.com/
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i like www.sherinamunaf.net and www.peterpanband.us
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Paul Acker, he is a tattoo artist so mostly what you see when you pull him up is his tattoo work, but when he paints/draws it's absolutely amazing. He is a legend and an inspiration.
Some of his artwork: www.paulacker.com/art_galleries/
Some of his amazing tattoos: www.paulacker.com/tattoos/
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Thanks for the links! As "dark" as his subject matter is, he is a very skilled artist! Do you have any of his handiwork?
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not yet, with great skill comes a great price tag
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bummer...maybe we can take up a collection for you!
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Why would a man want a tattoo of Bruce Willis on his arm??!?!?
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Doll - good question! I have my theories but will hold back from going into the psychological analysis...
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Endlessly - I was unable to find any bio info on Acker so I have emailed him via tattoartists.org asking for an interview. Keep your fingers crossed...
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I too am a big fan of H.R. Giger, however, Dali heads my list. The paintings, the lobster phone, the quotes, the personality... Dali's art transcended the canvas. Dali was art.-
Then you're going to love the movie that's coming out in March!
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Hard to pick a real fav. I like Jean-Michel Basquiat alot.-
I had to google his name. His work reminds me of that of Joan Miro! Similar colors and slightly whimsical/childlike style. Thanks for introducing me to someone new!
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Food Here - I finished my post on Basquiat. Got a bio, videos, music from his band GRAY, and of course some artwork. Thanks for the suggestion.
BTW - Blogger is not cooperating w/ me. It's being weird w/ spacing. Make sure you go all the way to the end where the 1996 video clip is.
Thanks for the suggestion!!!!!!
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Has to be Velásquez because I am obsessed by this painting
users.ach.sch.gr/pchaloul/anagennisi/Baroque/Velasquez-las-meninias.jpg-
What do you like about this picture? All the people fussing over the little girl? That she's looking right at you/the artist? It's a neat picture. Velasquez was so photo realistic. He was better than a camera!
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No what I like about it is how Velasquez plays with your perceptions it's a painting of him painting the king and queen of Spain but instead of doing a straight portrait which they had commissioned him to do he delivers that to them.
We become the king and queen looking out at Velasquez painting our portrait while the maids fuss over the young princess. You can see the painting they were expecting to get on the mirror on the far wall
Absolute genius.
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Rene Magritte. I also enjoy a couple of what might be polar opposites: Marc Chagall and Gorgio deChirico.-
You must have loved Magritte's contribution to The Thomas Crown Affair!!!!!
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I never saw it. But I love his lucidity and the symbolism is terriffic.
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One of his works is integral to the plot! Rent the Pierce Brosnan version asap!
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Gustav Klimt, Hilda Af Klint-
I just adore the Adele Bloch-Bauer (golden lady) picture! I saw a very interesting documentary on it recently. It's such a gorgeous painting!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Adele_Bloch-Bauer_I_Gustav_Klimt01.jpg
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In science fiction art, I like Donato Giancola, Richard Powers, and Virgil Finlay.
In comic books, I like Winsor McKay, Michael Kaluta, and P. Craig Russell.
In illustration I like Arthur Rackham.
In painting I like Van Gogh.-
Wow! You are very aware of who the artists are around you! I'm impressed!
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I happen to like the work done by Diego Rivera
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I had a print of his in my first apartment. It was a huge floral of lillies.
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My mother, my friend Ben, after that
Botero, Dali, Andre Breton, Diego Rivera
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Botero's puffy people are so endearing!
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Cezanne for painting and Rodin for sculpture.-
I like Cezanne's strong colors and slight outlining.
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And the Cubist would never have gotten off the ground without Cezanne. Or Einstein perhaps?
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I believe Picasso called Cezanne "the father of us all."
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Man after my own heart Rodin - *sigh*
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Picasso would have to be #1 picasso.tamu.edu/picasso/
with Wassily Kandinsky a close second. Picasso had such a huge diverse body of work. www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/kandinsky_wassily.html
Im a fan of myself too! www.Antonioestevez.net-
They were two very busy people! And so are you! Keep up the good work!
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Wow, I have several. Salvador Dali and Marc Chagall plus, my good friend, Hopi visionary artist Dennis Numkena are among my favorites. numkena.com. As a regular post each Wednesday, I feature a different artist in The Turquoise Moon Gallery. -
Hard to pick one...Here are 3 (of many);
John William Waterhouse; www.jwwaterhouse.com/
Robert Bateman; www.robertbateman.ca/
Michael Whelan; www.michaelwhelan.com/-
Love Waterhouse (and that's before I got into art). Whelan's style looks very familiar - does/did he do sci fi book covers?
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busylizzy; Absolutely. He did many of the original "Dragonriders of Pern" novel covers (i.e.; en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragonflight ) & also the art for Meat Loaf's "Bat Out of Hell II; Back Into Hell" (cover here; en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat_out_of_Hell_II:_Back_into_Hell )
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That's it! My BF/hubby read all the Pern novels. That's where I saw the style before!
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HR Giger... Dali...-
I think Giger's in the lead so far...
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A really good one for an article would be Max Earnst. Nearly every publication gets so wound up in his innovations of technique, especially frottage, that they miss the man and his philosophy. I don't think they do him justice.
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One of his pictures that I am drawn to is images.artnet.com/images_US/magazine/features/kachur/kachur7-21-05-13.jpg
It should be scary but it makes me smile -
Now you know what transition is like.
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Sad that no women have been mentioned yet. Here's a couple;
Rowena Morrill; www.rowenaart.com/
Olivia deBerardinis; www.eolivia.com/-
Good point! I really like Rowena Morrill. Can't forget the other ladies - Frida Kahlo, Georgia O'Keefe and more. Here's a link to some lady artists through the years - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_artists
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Roger Dean
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Love the picture, thanks for sharing it with everyone. I checked him out. So many album covers! YES sure liked his work. Here's a link for everyone to check out en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Dean_%28artist%29
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I love so many artists, in so many genres.
Rodin was already mentioned, Van Gogh, Michelangelo, Da Vinci, Calder, Jasper Johns, Duchamp, I can't even think of all the names, there are too many!-
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No, never. That would be awesome, though.
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Vincent Van Gogh
Joan Miro
Yves Tanguy
Andy Warhol
Robert Crumb-
Interesting you mention R. Crumb. I still have the first three original Zap Comix (#0-#2). I paid $.35 for them long, long ago. I'd be curious to know their value today. Any guess?
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Here is a link about Zap Comix - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zap_Comix
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Oh this is a tough one! But in short Vladimir Kush, Salvatore Dali, Monet, Manet, Picasso. These are on the top of my list! -
My favorite painters are Michelangelo, Rafael, Picasso. Really my favorite "art" is architecture, the great historical architecture of the world. For example, the painted monasteries of Romania (below)
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Edvard Munch is my favorite artist by far. I have been a huge fan since i was to young to remember. My favorite works by him however have changed over the years. A painting called seperation is actually my desktop on my laptop and I have the same print on the wall in my office along with 4 others by him.-
Here is a link to Separation 1 - www.jmorganmarketing.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/separation-edvard-munch...
Here is a link to Separtion 2 - muse.calarts.edu/~rjaster/edvard-munch/Paintings/love/separation_3.jpg
So melancholy but, then again, Munch wasn't known for happy, whimsical subject matter.
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Oh... Edvard Munch would also be fun to write about as he had a very strange, lonely and sad life, plus in recent years some art theft (more than one case) with mystery and humor involving his works.
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Thanks for the recommendation! I will dedicate my article to you! Wasn't "The Scream" stolen & recovered awhile back?
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Rudolph Ernst, Ludwig Deutsch, Horace Vernet, Jean-Leon Gerome, Frederick Leighton, John Frederick Lewis .. any of the Orientalists-
Here's a link to the Orientalists - www.orientalistart.net/
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Too many really,here's some of my favs
Caspar David Friedrich
Gustav Klimt
Karl Friedrich Schinkel
Jacek Malczewski
L. S. Lowry
Ando Hiroshige
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
some illustrators i also like
Quentin Blake
Ralph Steadman
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kiki smith. The range of her work conceptually and technically is brilliant. Her pencil drawings are magnificently done, and while some of her work is ugly and disturbing it is brilliant in evoking a visceral understanding and response.
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I like Yves Klein. A lot of the time he just painted blue. It was a very nice shade. -
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John Singer Sargent
Wonderfully complex whites
A long-gone era
www.artcyclopedia.com/masterscans/sargent-nonchaloir-repose-mid.html
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I love the portraits - the clothing and hairstyles of that era, I just adore but my favorite picture is of the little girls in the garden, CARNATION, LILY,LILY, ROSE www.allposters.com/gallery.asp?aid=85097&apnum=305648&LinkTypeID=1&PosterTy...
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I'm no art connoisseur so my opinion shouldn't mean much on this. But I am biased to Fernando Armosolo, a national artist from the Philippines. His work captures the vanishing landscape of the old countryside. He is brilliant at mixing colors to create breathtaking lighting effects. It's been said he can draw the same scenery over and over and changing only the hues to show when it was daytime high noon or dusk. He is that brilliant. His patriotism is a breathing element of his work and I love him even more for that. One of the greatest filipinos who ever lived. Check out his bio at wikipedia...
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You don't have to be a connoisseur! Either you like something or you don't. It's from the heart/soul. Never "like" something because some "expert" told you to do so!
Armosolo is a great talent with many awards. Thank you for introducing a non-European to this discussion!
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John William Waterhouse is my favorite. I also love many paintings by other Pre-Raphaelite artists. -
We could use some more Asian, African and South American artists on this discussion! (please)
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American I love the brushwork of John Singer Sargent, everyone should see the Oyster Gatherers, or whatever its called, women on the beach. and the watercolors of Maurice Prendergast. European I love the mind and playfulness of Marcel Duchamp. South American, Brazilian Roberto Matta was a very good surrealist. For illustrators, N.C. Wyeth, first in the family clan, was terrific, the family's best artist! There's a guy online at Decadent Tranquility doing the best computer art I've seen, very ethereal and dreamy stuff.
I have a degree in painting and drawing from UGA, my artwork is at josesinclair.blogspot.com - please check it out, leave comments!
good discussion! -- Jose, aka Jman-
Thanks for more ideas. I'll have to check out your blog as well!
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i absolutely love EGON SCHIELE. if he was still alive, i would fervently stalk him and shamelessly throw myself at him, despite the very likely possibility of contracting a venereal disease from his...paintbrush???-
He has a very interesting life to write about!
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i think he painted it instead. he was an incredibly sick man, but utterly brilliant in ways that, i think, few realize.
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H.R Geiger and Boris Vallejo-
I met Vallejo many years ago at a sci fi con.
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What was he like in person?
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Nice, happy, mild mannered person. He said he liked to hang out with bodybuilders and that's who he kept picking for models. He said that the people in his artwork are pretty darn close to what the models looked like.
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I can imagine that - he's pretty good in my opinion. Not that I'm knowledgable in art but I do like his work and can appreciate the detail that goes into it.
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I think doing humans is really hard. He gets the proportions and faces perfect and he's realistic. And he's very detailed to being photographic realistic. That's very hard to do and takes alot of time.
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Especially getting all the muscle detail and shadowing just right
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I took Life Drawing in college (yes, naked people) and there's so much to do to make it all come together right.
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John James Audubon -
Edward Hopper. Matisse. Degas. Raphael. Lichtenstein. -
Jackson Pollock!
I look at his artwork and think, why didn't I think of that that?
In amidst of the greatest recession in decades, one of his painting's tops $140 Million. ArtPaintings.info
painted in 1948. Fascinating and very impressive to admire, but
to become one of the most expensive paintings ever sold has me mesmerized in what makes it worth the price of a Kings Ransom for a single painting?
I would love to own a print of any of his paintings. Just don't think I will ever pay over $100 Million Dollars for any painting. -
My favourite are Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres and Dali. I also like Karl Briullov, Aivazovsky, Van Gogh, Rafael, Da Vinci and Michelangelo. -
Turner, Monet & Dahli oh and I guess I should also say myself -
NutriGirl & CrystalRaven - thx for your imput. I've already covered Dali (several posts).
I am slowly but surely going down the list, trying to write about every artist. Right now I'm waiting for an email back from a tattoo artist b/c there's no bio for him to be found on the internet.
My current project is a graffiti artist. Should be done in a few days. -
Vincint Van Gogh
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