Ok, then - what painters are famous that you really like?

[Rabrrrrrr]

I'm big on:

Rothko
Picasso
Vermeer
Jasper Johns
Kandinsky
Pollack
Erte
Parish
Remington


and I'm sure I'm forgetting some others that I really like, and there are a few whose names just won't come to me right now.

[SmileyBoy]

1. Pollock, Van Gogh, Picasso, Edward Hopper...

...and that Ross guy who paints the happy trees on PBS.

[joeybee12]

17. Have you seen the movie "Pollock"?? Great movie, and Ed Harris

really does look like Jason.

[SmileyBoy]

24. You mean Jackson???

And yes, he does look like him.

[joeybee12]

26. Yeah, that's who I mean--and you should go to the Peggy Guggenheim

musuem in Venice.

[Grassrooter]

40. I've seen "Pollock" - Ed Harris so deserved that Oscar.

He was fantastic.

[joeybee12]

72. I'm glad Marcia Gay Harden won

She really deserved that.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

2. On your list, I really like Kadinsky and Remington

"When horseflesh comes high" is one of my fav's.

I really like:
Botero
Rivera
Tim Cox (western artist)
Leger
Picasso

be back in a while..I gotta finish what I am working on.

[grannylib]

3. Kandinsky is great; I also really love Georgia O'Keefe, Monet and Van

Gogh, Dali and Rembrandt.

[Rabrrrrrr]

7. Ah, Dali - one of them I forgot.

Can't stand Monet. Hate impressionism. Don't know why, but maybe it's becuase my eyes are always out of focus, and looking at out of focus things (even photographs) really bugs me.

[Catshrink]

4. I've always liked Rembrandt's self-portraits.

And I was lucky enough to have seen Picasso's La Guernica at MOMA when it was there. Haunting....

[HEyHEY]

5. Seraut

Emily Carr

[HEyHEY]

6. Also not ashamed to say I love Rockwell

[Rabrrrrrr]

8. I, too, like Rockwell

Almost bought a print a couple years ago.

He tend at times towards the nostalgic for a Christian, white, perfect America taht never existed, but I still really like his artwork. Some of it is truly brilliant and good art. I especially love the painting he did of the man looking at a Pollack (which Pollack was actually done by Rockwell, of course - I read an article about Rockwell doing that painting - he had a fun time making it, and did it just like Pollack, dripping paint from above with the canvas on the floor and walking around it, etc.).

[HEyHEY]

9. I have a huge book of his paintings

I mean huge...must wiegh 30 pounds

[Rabrrrrrr]

19. Pink Floyd is like 400,000,000 Rockwells, wrapped into one!

DAMMIT!!

Your band - whatever one you like - is like, maybe, 3 Rockwells.

:spank: :evilgrin:

[HEyHEY]

34. Floyd blows!

That's my new bumper sticker

[Rabrrrrrr]

45. No, Floyd is the defintion of UNBLOW

They are gods! Admit it! Even if you don't like them, which is fine, you have to admit they are "beyond" what any other band has achieved in terms of sheer awesomeness (and I mean "awesome" in the Biblical sense of inspiring awe, not in the claptrap modern sense of meaning "really bitchin', dude")

[pippin]

10. Remember the ladies: Artemisia Gentileschi, Lois Mailou Jones,

Leonora Carrington, Emma Amos, Yolanda Lopez, Lavinia Fontana, Mary Cassatt, Tamara de Lempika, Sofonisba Anguisaola, Berthe Morisot,Dora Carrington, etc., etc.,



Anguissola: Portrait of Her Sister


Morisot: Young Girl at Window



Lois Mailou Jones: Jenny

[susu369]

22. Another woman artist: Rosa Bonheur

As mentioned, Mary Cassatt.

[joeybee12]

11. Van Gogh, Carravaggio, Joan Miro and Michelangelo

Top four.

I could add more.

[maxanne]

12. Georgia O' Keefe

John Singer Sargent
Van Gogh
Benjamen Champney

artists I hope will be famous one day:

Rachael Wentworth Eastman
Holly Manneck
Kathleen Moore

[greendog]

13. A few of mine

Gauguin, O'keefe, Pollack, Klee, Braque, De Chirico, Stella, Demuth and Robert Indiana (his "AmericanDream" paintings)

[SOteric]

14. Rothko, Frankenthaler, Chagall, Modigliani, Soutine, De Kooning

Clifford Still, Marcel Duchamp, Henri Matisse, Vincent Van Gogh, & Paul Gaugin.

[Rabrrrrrr]

20. Oops - I also missed Matisse and Chagall. Include also Miro.

Thanks for the reminder! I knew there were some "M" ones, but I could come up with Monet and Manet, and I'm not much of a fan of them.

[Rabrrrrrr]

21. Crud - also totally forgot about Magritte!!

Don't know how I did that. Definitely one of my favorites!

[joeybee12]

23. If you like Chagall, you must go to Zurich and see...

...the stained glass he did at one of the churches, whose name I can't recall. In-f**king-credible!

Lots of stuff of his also at their main musuem--lots of wealth Swiss dontaed their stash. Free on Wednesdays.

[Astarho]

15. My favorites (some of them anyway)

Dali
Picasso
Bosch
Van Gogh

Titian
Botticelli
Da Vinci
Michelangelo

Tamara de Lempika
Gilbert Williams

and of course this one by Rousseau

[Zomby Woof]

33. that's a great one!

Great list too.

I also like "HoHo The Angry Clown" by an A. Johnson. :D

[Melsky]

16. Stuart Davis

http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/davis/

Lots of others too, I'm to tired to think of them all!

[Jesus H. Christ]

18. Brueghel.

All the little details are just great, the farting demons, the baby-eating dog, etc. It's like an easter egg hunt!

[opihimoimoi]

25. No one in particular, but had the opportunity to see many originals in the

Prado, Lourve, etc thru out Western Europe.

I like um all. Pollack, included.

[Rabrrrrrr]

27. And opihimoimoi's tile art!

Beautiful!!

Though you aren't tchnically famous, in the normal sense of the word, but I thought I'd mention it anyway. I still remember the pictures you posted before. :-)

Come, we feed pretzels to the animals in casa blanca.

[Obamarama]

28. I'll keep my views of modern/abstract art to myself.....

as my tastes lean decidedly toward the classic, and the two genres shall never meet in my mind....that being said, I like:

John Constable - English artist who painted beautiful landscapes of the English countryside.

Eugene Delacroix - the paintings I like most are his most famous: The Coronation of Napoleon and Liberty Leading the People

Speaking of women artists, I really like Rosa Bonheur, who specialized in the portrayal of animals.

Edgar Degas - his paintings AND his sculpture are great

William Bouguereau - his "Birth of Venus" is absolutely stunning.

John Singer Sargent

[LWolf]

29. Van Gogh

O'Keefe
Monet

There are more, but those are the first 3 my brain produces.

[Zomby Woof]

30. Picasso

Goya, El Greco, Dali, Velasquez - all the Spanish masters, classical to cubism, straight portraiture to surreal.

On Edit: Here is "Las Meninas" by Velasquez - a masterpiece of multiple perspectives.

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

31. I made a list for art awhile ago of influences...

Andy Warhol (Pop Art)
Pablo Picasso (Cubism)
Henri Matisse
Jackson Pollack (Abstract Expressionism)
Salvador Dali (Surrealism)
Wassily Kandinsky (Bauhaus Institute, watercolor)
Paul Klee (Bauhaus Institute, watercolor)
Paul Gauguin (Post-Impressionism)
Vincent van Gogh
Edgar Degas (Impressionism)
Edvard Munch (Expressionism)
Piet Mondrian (Modern Art)
Margaret Bourke-White (Photography)
Roy Liechtenstein (Pop Art)
Georgia O`Keeffe (American Art, Folk Art)
Frida Kahlo (Surrealism)
Paul Cezanne (Impressionism)
Claude Monet (Impressionism)
Pierre Auguste Renoir (Impressionism)
Edouard Manet (Impressionism)
David Hockney (Pop Art)
Mary Cassatt (Impressionism)

and my art teacher Katie Casey ;)
So ah, I dunno. Take it from there? :D

on edit: My favorite styles always have to be abstract, modern or pop art. simple but true. and I am a photographer so Bourke-White is my hero!

[MissMarple]

32. I learned to appreciate Paul Klee this weekend.

There is a great traveling exhibition of the Phillips collection from D.C. in Denver at least until through December. It's good and has a lot of the artists mentioned here.

:D

[Rabrrrrrr]

35. Ah, your wife was just showing me her Klimt!

"Oh, you, too? Yeah, she's showing everybody!"

Just thought of that line.

[BlackVelvetElvis]

36. My favorite artist is Kurt Schwitters

He did magnificent collages, paintings and design
I also love:
Rembrandt
Kandinsky
Van Eyck
Dürer
Picasso
Valesquez
Singer Sargent
Giotto

[GOPisEvil]

37. Rabrrrrrr!

Seriously. Good stuff!

I'm also partial to Kandinsky, Pollack and Parish.

[Rabrrrrrr]

47. Thanks! But I'm not famous yet,

so I'm disqualified.

But I appreciate your willingness to think outside the box and eschew the rules. Going forward, please continue this proactive attitudinal attitude of yours. Is our children learning? With you at the helm, yes they will is.

And again, much thanks!

[GOPisEvil]

55. Well, fame is relative...

...around here you're famous, eh?

OK, so I didn't read the damned rules. :P

[Rabrrrrrr]

59. Yay! I'm famous in a certain segment of Austin!

[populistmom]

38. My two favorites

are Salvador Dali and Mary Cassat.
A bit like me- f*cked and surreal at times and extremely nurturing and warm too.

[Devoir]

39. Bob Ross and Thomas Kinkade

It doesn't get much better than those two.

[Rabrrrrrr]

46. I'm going to kill you now

Meaning no offense, but you obviously are a danger to society.

I bet you decorated your house with http://www.homeinteriors.com and http://www.preciousmoments.com psuedo-faux-Christian-America bullshit paraphernalia.

So sad.

Anyway, I'm sure you understand.

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

69. omg omg omg omg

Thomas Kinkade=Kenny G of the art world

ah ah ah my eyes! my eyes! :D

[Grassrooter]

41. I'm a fan of Dali's work.

"The Persistence Of Memory" is my favorite piece.

[BlackVelvetElvis]

43. Dali fans...

Visit the Dali museum in St. Petersburg, Fla. Amazing!

[Dees]

42. Christian Riece Lassen is special to me....n/t

.

[Kenneth ken]

44. Joni Mitchell

she'a a painter.
she's famous.
I really like her.

and I love mentioning her around here. :D

[Rabrrrrrr]

48. Really? I had no idea. Also reminds me I like Jonathan Winters' paintings

He's very Charles and Ives, but with a twist.

Do you have a link to any Joni Mitchell Paintings? God, I love her voice.

[Kenneth ken]

54. THAT'S why

I Love to mention her; always some one around who will learn something new about her..

try this link:

<http://www.jonimitchell.com/jonihome.html#TheGalleries2>

I don't make pretty links, though I did spend about an hour one night learning how...SoCalDem just laughed at me. :evilgrin:

on edit: if you scroll down to the link about The Mendel, that has the most paintings.

[Rabrrrrrr]

56. Some of those are quite good!

Wouldn't mind having a few of those.

[nuxvomica]

49. Henri Rousseau

Followed by Van Gogh, and then mostly everyone else. It would be easier to list what I don't like.

[bleedingheart]

50. Too hard to pick any one ...

I love the pre-raphaelites as well as the impressionists...I love primitive art as well as byzantine icons....

in fact my house has a piece of artwork from about every kind of style you can think....

I am even embarrassed to admit that i got a kinkade piece (small of a cottage and garden)...that I like because it reminds me of summer gardens....

One of my favorite pieces is a platter that looks like a Platangenat Lady from a tapestry.... (sorry for bad spelling)...I can't figure out how I am going to get it mounted though...its a handmade platter that needs to be mounted but I don't want to damage the plate ...

[YellowRubberDuckie]

51. Jack Vettriano

He's a Scottish painter that does very romantic paintings. My favorite, The Singing Butler, I bought at a poster sale here at school. He's amazing.
Duckie

[DS1]

52. H.R. Giger. End of list.

[scarlet_owl]

53. My distant relative-Diego Rivera

I also love Georgia O'Keeffe and Andy Warhol.

[Lorien]

57. What did you think of the film "Freida"?

I thought it deserved far more recognition than it got.

[scarlet_owl]

58. Didn't see it. Lots of folks say it is great, and it looks good,

but I just don't see that many movies. I'm more of a reader. Perhaps I'll rent it one day.

[Lorien]

64. Ah! You should rent it if you are more of

a reader than a movie fan. I stopped watching commercial television, and only see a few movies every year, but I have a massive libary that keeps me well entertained and informed. "Freida" is far more cerebral than most mainstream movies, and a must for artists and art lovers.I think you'll love it!

[scarlet_owl]

66. Thanks for the suggestion.

I'll look for it next time I'm at the video store.

[Fridays Child]

62. Ding Ding Ding! You get the prize for spelling...

...O'Keeffe correctly. Omitting one "f" was the only error I made on my college art history final. Since then, I've never forgotten the correct spelling.

[scarlet_owl]

63. See, I can do some things right!

I took lots of art in school and I never forgot that either.

[kayleybeth]

60. Van Gogh

and Monet, and Gaugin, and Bosch, and Dali.

[Fridays Child]

61. Klimt, Mondrian (pics)

[Philostopher]

65. Dali, Degas,

Seurat, Miro
Mondrian.

Just remember -- if it's green, it ain't Mondrian!

[jpgray]

67. Monet--just brilliant. (nt)

[trackfan]

68. I especially like, in no particular order,

Picasso
Durer
Rembrandt
Pollack
Sargent

[Squeech]

70. Mark Tansey

His paintings are very representational, in fact they look like (and use a monochrome technique derived from) old textbook illustrations of the '40s or so. Most of them involve jokes or conundrums from art history or art-critical theory. There's one where several people in a rowboat are watching Jackson Pollock walk on the water, which works on several levels: as a metaphor for the originality and audacity of Pollock's achievement; the idea that for Pollock, the picture plane was just a flat surface and you could do anything with it; and that the people in the boat (critic Clement Greenberg and several other abstract painters like Helen Frankenthaler) considered that Pollock was so hip that he probably *did* walk on water!

But many of them are also cool as images. One called "The Bricoleur's Daughter" shows a young woman with a flashlight, peering at this huge workbench overflowing with random junk. The way the (dim) light hangs over everything is lovely.

I'm also a big fan of some of the lesser-known surrealists. There was a woman named Remidios Varo, a Spaniard who fled the Revolution, then ended up in Marseilles trying to get away from the Nazi/Vichy regime. Finally she was able to escape to America, settled in the Southwest, and finally had time to paint! Her stuff involves small elfin women (looking remarkably like herself) doing magical things, like playing sunbeams like cello strings, or drawing birds on an easel and watching them fly away.

[kanrok]

71. I like Joe Moske

he recently painted my kitchen. Did a great job. I'd hire him again....hey wait...you meant "artist" not "painter" didn't you? Oh, never mind.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

73. Dali!

Powerful, creepy symbology. I'm a sucker for twisted surrealism.

74. no one has mentioned

Franz Marc
who was the other half of the Blue Rider movement with Kandinsky.
I have always thought that the stuff that Marc was doing at the same time as Kandinsky is actually more interesting. Kandinsky didn't go completely abstract until the 1920's after Marc's death. Marc was killed at Verdun, a great loss.
He was painting camouflage for the army.
It would have been interesting to see what direction Marc would have gone if he had lived.
One of those cases where war takes so much from culture, similar to Apollinaire's death.
Sometimes it doesn't and we are lucky. I'm thinking of Hendrix who was a paratrooper during the Vietnam war, but survived to change music.

[salmonhorse]

75. Wee Goody, Fun!!!

Hmm, let's see:

Raphael
Leonardo
Alma-Tameda
Rauschenberg
Vermeer
Dali

[supernova]

76. Who don't I like

I love, adore, scream for art! I'm very visual so images tend to stay with me. I live with them.

Klimt
Munsch
Rodin (yes, I know it's sculpture)
Seurrat
Cassat
Dali
Piccaso
Kandinsky
Mucha (even his ads are works of art)
Vermeer (still mad I couldn't get into the exhibition at the National Gallery in '96)
Erte
Hopper
Holbein the Elder and Younger
Frida Kahlo

I'm probably leaving a lot off the list, but just an idea.