Favorite Post-Impressionist

[Longgrain]

Poll question: Favorite Post-Impressionist

For my art history lecture of the day. Who is it?

1. Paul Cezanne




2. Toulouse-Lautrec




3. Vincent Van Gogh




4. Henri Rousseau





5. Paul Gauguin




Any one i forgot?

Poll result (33 votes)
Paul Cezanne	(3 votes, 9%)	Vote
Toulouse-Lautrec	(3 votes, 9%)	Vote
Vincent VanGogh	(16 votes, 48%)	Vote
Henri Rousseau	(5 votes, 15%)	Vote
Paul Gauguin	(4 votes, 12%)	Vote
Other, please specify.	(1 votes, 3%)	Vote
None, Post-Impressionism is way overated.	(1 votes, 3%)	Vote

[DS1]

1. Gaugin was an asshole

I voted for the Gogh-man

[Longgrain]

3. Yeah he was a jerk wasn't he...

Ditching his family and running off to Tahiti.

[DS1]

4. Yup

[mopinko]

44. yeah,

i envy the guy.

[TahitiNut]

8. Gaugin was a kindred spirit - a Tahiti Nut.

Gaugin didn't slice off his own ear, either.

I must say, however, that i *love* "Starry Night".

[RevolutionaryActs]

2. Hmm I have think about this....

I really do not like that Paul Cezanne painting, so I won't vote for him.

DS1 said Gauguin was an asshole, so I won't vote for him.

The Rousseau painting is nice, but its so drab and just kinda blah, so I won't vote for him.

I like Toulouse-Lautrec's paintings, but they all look the same to me. Same colors and all. He did have an interesting life and that is cool, but I'm not going to vote for him.

So that leaves Van Gogh!

[Longgrain]

5. I have a feeling Van Gogh is going to win this one.

Too many people like that Starry Night painting.

[RevolutionaryActs]

10. You should have posted a different picture.

I still would have voted for him, but maybe people would have had to think about it more?

Is Dali a post-impressionist?

[Longgrain]

14. Dali is usually classified as a Surrealist

Tho I guess everything after Impressionism would be considered "Post" Impressionism. I hate putting painters into groups like this, but that's how the art history books do it.

[nuxvomica]

6. Bless you for including Henri Rousseau

He is my favorite painter of all time, bar none. And The Sleeping Gypsy is my favorite painting too.

[Longgrain]

7. I always liked him too...

Somewhat underrated compared to the others...

I always liked "The Dream"

[saltpoint]

9. Handsome post! Love it. I voted 'Rousseau' but have --

-- no quarrel with any of your choices.

What a fun poll this was.

[Longgrain]

24. Thanks I'm always looking to drum up a little support for the arts.

(And the DU Artists Group )

[saltpoint]

29. Well, count on mine.

We could use someone in the White House who knew a damn thing about the arts, too, as long as I'm on an anti-Bush rant this afternoon.

Well, ok. When am I NOT on an anti-Bush rant?

John Kennedy, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton -- all these folks made sure the White House door had a welcome mat for people in the arts. A President Kerry and Vice President Edwards would have had that mat out there, too.

I surely do not get that vibe from Dubya and Laura, do you?

[Longgrain]

30. There was a guy from my hometown who worked for the White House

I don't remember his name, but it was during the Clinton years, he had a painting from another local that was on loan from the Community College hanging in his office. He aranged for the artist to fly out to Washington and Meet Bill Clinton. It was a big news story for days and days in our little town.

[saltpoint]

34. Oh boy do I like that story. Would that more of them were out there.

Probably more are and I just don' know about them.

This president (no favorite of mine, but he's in the people's office whether I like it or not) should do this:

Have local contractors (NOT Halliburton) build an out-sized igloo-styled wall around the periphery of the White House lawn, roughly a third the distance from the House itself.

The exterior should be landscaped with trees from as many different nations on earth as would like to contribute.

The interior should be lined with paints from those same countries, from all periods of expression, and including sculpture, painting, etc. -- as many genres and mediums as can be accommodated.

It could be an offshoot exhibition venue of the Smithsonian Institute.

It would be accessible to the public only through a spur of the Washington, DC Red Line, say, and security can be extra tight (airport security point style) at the entrance several blocks/miles away -- whatever.

It wouldn't cost very much for a U.S. president to do this and it would do a "world" of good.

[TahitiNut]

11. How about Edgar Degas?

I love his ballet subjects. I realize he's most often associated with Impressionist, but I think he stands apart.

[fluffernutter]

13. i do too. i used to have them all over my room as a kid

funny, i dropped out of ballet in 3rd grade though, lol!

[TahitiNut]

16. I think anyone who's spent any time around ballet schools ...

... or backstage would have to see the incredible perspective of Degas. He shows that thin line between the innocence, awkwardness, grace, and athleticism that's ballet.

[Longgrain]

15. As stated above in aother respose

I hate putting artists into groups like this, It's so hard to draw the line. The website I was working from had those five under Post-Impessionism. Degas was considered an Impressionist as was Monet, Renoir, and Seurat.

[fluffernutter]

12. it's hard to choose - they are all so talented in their own right

you chose some excellent paintings, i love them all.

[Longgrain]

17. Thanks, you know I love a good art thread...

and I thought I'd do something a little different than the usual Vainty Post.

[SarahB]

18. Mary Cassatt

My favorite is entitled Sleepy Baby:

[fluffernutter]

19. i have some Cassatt prints as well as some Klimt prints

they are two of my favorites right now.

[Longgrain]

20. I didn't forget Cassatt.

I always thought of her as an Impressionist rather than a Post-Impressionist. Crazy thing this classification of art.

[SarahB]

21. Yeah...

She was kind of on that line I guess.

[Longgrain]

22. It seems I also left out Matisse

But he's usually classified as a Fauvist...

[FuzzySlippers]

25. Nope. I think you were right

to leave out Matisse. How ya doin' Longgrain?

[Longgrain]

27. Great to see you again Fuzz

I'm doing great today. Had kind of a rough week both here on-line and in the world outside of the net, but I'm back to normal and ready to relax.

[Mr. McD]

23. Vegetable Garden in Montmartre

http://www.vangoghgallery.com /

[Longgrain]

31. Wow thanks for that Link

I'm going to have to look into that Complete Works CDROM

[JimmyJazz]

26. .

[Longgrain]

33. I almost didn't see you there Jimmy

What with the DU photography contest and all.
Always great to have you bless one of my threads with your presence.

[miss_kitty]

28. I like them all

Can't pick just one
I saw 'Starry Night' at MOMA and it was a mind blower-actually everything there was. I was attending Cornish School of the Arts here in Seattle and I'd been looking at stuff on a slide screen and had NO IDEA the scale difference-ie, 'Starry Night' is tiny, 'Les Demoiselles d'Avignon' is huge. They also had the 3 huge Water Lily panels of Monet's reunited for the first time in 80 or so years. He had painted them for France, and France said "Non merci."

I almost touched stuff it was so alluring-which brings to mind the 'Starry Night' incident. I was waiting to get to view it from the front, because some ignorant hayseed had planted herself in front of it breathing on it-she reached out, touched it and said "Ick. I dun't lahk it." No guards tackled her. Here I am, restraining myself from touching the Brancusi sculptures, The Jackson Pollacks, Everything, and this ass TOUCHES 'Starry Night' cuz she "dun't lahk it" I could have kicked her ass. Instead I said, "Move yer ass then, stupid, because there's a lot of us here that DO 'lahk it!'" I'm sure she thought I was mean It was all I could do to KEEP from touching it-it's so textural and the colours are amazing.

[TahitiNut]

32. You'd love the old Jeu d'Paume, now Musee d'Orsay

I'll never forget my visits to the Jeu d'Paume when it was in the Tuilleries. Absolutely breathtaking! Literally! The joy of each and every masterpiece - to incredible color - the feeling - the beauty.


(Sorry for any French mispellings.)

[Magrittes Pipe]

35. Cezanne, followed closely by Toulouse-Lautrec and Gaugin.

Though I like Matisse better than any of them (and yes, you were probably right to omit him, even though I despise over-genrefication of the arts).

Van Gogh is overrated due to his *unusual* biography. Much like Rimbaud. Which is not to say that he was a bad painter any more than Rimbaud was a bad poet; but neither was as good as his reputation.

[Longgrain]

41. Exactly. Someone stated above that they

wouldn't vote for Gauguin because he was an "asshole" while I find him amazing (my favorite painter BYW). I made my judgment based on the painter, not his life story...

[AmandaRuth]

36. Van Gogh,

Gotta love 'em. I mean, he is the suffering artist. I remeber Mom having a copy of his Sunflower painting, and we did a picture of that one in fourth grade.

[Longgrain]

43. Van Gogh? Suffering artist?

You should met us some time...

[greendog]

37. Gauguin or Van Gogh...

...hard to choose between the two.

[SOteric]

38. Henri Matisse and Marc Chagall

[Longgrain]

39. Two of my faves!

Finally saw this, since I rarely look at anything on page 2 anymore.

Thanks for posting them.

Especially Chagall since no one else mentioned him yet...

[hickman1937]

40. I voted for Van Gogh because

he's one of the few artists that I have a gut reaction to. I like and appreciate a lot, but he's one of the handful that stun me.

[Longgrain]

42. Yeah Van Gogh seems to be the fave...

I'm still for Gauguin with Cezanne being a close second but...

[mopinko]

45. the fave

they don't call it recognized for nutten. people are funny that way.

i voted for lautrec. i love the fierce energy of his work.