for the art lovers. who is your favorite artist?

a reply to: TinySickTears

Monet and Geezlouise.

John William Waterhouse

Whenever we hear the name Vincent van Gogh, we immediately conjure images of The Starry Night or The Starry Night over the Rhone or The Cafe Terrace at Night. However for people who are not huge fans of Van Gogh have not yet witnessed some of his other masterpieces.

His paintings are prolific and so emotionally moving. There is so much one could see in them and most importantly for people like me without much knowledge as far as art is concerned, can also appreciate his works.
I'm no art connoisseur, but I think Van Gogh more than deserved his title of being referred to as one of the most influential artists of the 20th Century.

Albrecht Durer, and Gustave Doré.

"Art does not reproduce the visible, it makes visible." -Paul Klee
Gate of the Deserted Garden
Ad Parnassum
He was the ultimate visual alchemist.

Great thread!

Monet, Van Gogh, and René Richard.

René Richard

Paul Laffoley.

I like Monet and Renoir...

...and that dude who painted the dogs at the poker table on velvet.

Seriously...I like Remington and Russell

Robert Bateman Paintings -

originally posted by: soulwaxer
a reply to: RumLover

I concur! The stuff dreams are made of. That's art.

soulwaxer

It sure is.

Renoir, Monet, van Gogh, Klee, Manet..
Fav is Monet, hands down

Burne-Jones:




Klimt:



Maxfield Parrish:




Aubrey Beardsley:



Rennie Mackintosh:



Giger:


Thanks for the thread, OP, I found a shed-load of beautiful Maxfield Parrish pictures I'd never seen before.

Dan Flavin
Conrad Shawcross
Anthony McCall
James Turell
Henry Moore
Aubrey Beardsley
Byrne-Jones

In no particular order.
I'm a big fan of Minimalism, although by no means are all of these artists considered to be Minimalists.

a reply to: AugustusMasonicus

That's an honor!

a reply to: TinySickTears

Caravaggio is one of my favorite's, as well.

His life was weird. The more famous he got the more vicious and cruel he became. He ended up killing someone.

I think you'd like Jeremy Geddes (not a killer, but... I actually had these around from another ATS thread).





Blew me away when I first looked at these.

originally posted by: Natas0114
a reply to: TinySickTears

Hieronymus Bosch, H.R. Geiger. Crazy stuff, love it.

The Garden of Earthly Delights by Bosch is one of my favourite things...I have it as my mouse mat. Every time I look at it I find something new...

Also, Audrey Kawasaki. One of my all time recent fav's. Her subject is always a beautiful girl.

I hadn't heard of him before this year, but I since doing so, I am very taken with Georges de La Tour.

The Fortune Teller



Brawl



Joseph the Carpenter



The Penitent Magdalene



I find all his paintings, even the solitary subjects, to be full of stories.

originally posted by: geezlouise
That's an honor!

You meant for Monet, right?