Do you have a favorite artist or favorite works of art?

[gandpsmommy]

I'd love to see what kind of art inspires others.

[JFS in IL]

I was in Personnel, but also a Security post, behind some smokey glass doors at the end of a corridor in the Prints and Drawings section. Not accessible to the public - I was only to open the locked door for employees. Well, - sometimes I DID let the "public" in...simply because the Powers That Be had chosen to hang an original work by Edward Potthast right in front of my desk! It was a beautiful American Impressionist painting of kids at the beach on a sunny day - and reminded me greatly of playing on the sunny beaches at home in S. Calif as a kid! I was able to find a poster of it in the Museum Shop and it still hangs in our home today! I still can't believe how lucky I was in someone's choice of art for my employee enjoyment!!!!
http://www.artic.edu/artexplorer/search.php?artistname=36254&tab=1&just=1

note it says "currently not on view" :-) but I ogt to view it - daily!

[Soph the vet]

Monet - almost anything
My dd9 is really my favorite artist.

[BamaTanya]

Check out this site:
http://www.romancecollection.com/
My mother brought me one of her pieces when she traveled to Niagara Falls. Then I ordered one of her art books for Mom's Christmas present.
Trisha Romance paints the things most valuable to me: home and family. I LOVE her work.

Of the famous artists, I'd have to say Monet is my favorite, too.

[NicksMama-Zack's Mama Too]

I think there is a surreal sensuality and connectedness in his work.

Hard to explain why one likes certain artists, eh?

[GothicGyrl]

I don't have a favorite one, but I am sure you can guess whom I favor....



Dali. Not only did I grow up roads down from his museum, but his mind is like mine.
(will I get another neg rep for this?)

Dali just does it for me.

[theodwyn]

I love some of Renoir's work and I also love Norman Rockwell's work.

[Jenny in Atl]

These are just a few...

Henri Rousseau
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Van Gogh
Pablo Picasso
Dale Chihuly (glass work)
Debra Fritts (clay artist)
Aggie Zed (clay)

http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i318/aljen1111/photo59.jpg
This is piece by Debra Fritts (my old handbuilding teacher)

[prairiegirl]

I am drawn to the Impressionist's style of painting, especially Monet.


Julia
mom of 3 (8,7,5)

[fishnoises]

I worked at an art gallery for 10 years. We sold mostly prints and poster and did custom framing. We had a huge selection of catelogues people could order prints from. I often had to go through the books to do research. I loved going through those books! New York Graphic Society, Graphique de France, Bruce McGraw,..and many more.
My favorite art is definitely Modern. But I also love Medieval art. As well as the preraphaelites and the post impressionists. My favorite artist is one I studies for years....Picasso. But I also love Van Gogh, Millet, Manet, Renoir and Matisse, and so many others.
The Detroit Institute of Art recently re opened after extensive remodeling, and it is faboulous. It is the 5th largest art museum in the country. Well worth the visit. Come in the summer when Detroit is alive with activites. Beautiful river walk outside the Ren. Cen. And no, it is NOT dangerous!!!!

[ThelmaLou]

Don't know if she's really my favorite, but my mom bought me a coffee table book several years ago with an extensive collection of Jessie Wilcox Smith's paintings. I've really enjoyed that book.

[StacyWithFourRugrats]

of my favorite artist's, John William Waterhouse, The Lady of Shallot. It is a painting based on Tennyson's poem of the same name. There is a picture on wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lady_of_Shalott

[Virginia Dawn]

I like the realism and humor of Norman Rockwell.

I also like Van Gogh. I think it's incredible how the thick chunky brilliant colors can convey the essence of nature.

[Old Dominion Heather]

I think there is a surreal sensuality and connectedness in his work.

Hard to explain why one likes certain artists, eh?

:iagree: I like him too. Very cool. I like all the gold. They look so shiny! :drool:

[Antonia]

I love Van Gogh. I think you can sense his personal torment in even his most tranquil works. Starry Night just transfixes me for some reason. I could stare at it all day.

[Daisy]

I'm an Ansel Adams kinda gal.

I love art. Do not like modern art. I love the impressionists and I love, really, really love ancient handcopied manuscripts. It is my favorite section at the Getty.

Okay, I don't really have favorites. It depends on my mood.

[gandpsmommy]

These are just a few...

Henri Rousseau
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Van Gogh
Pablo Picasso
Dale Chihuly (glass work)
Debra Fritts (clay artist)
Aggie Zed (clay)

http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i318/aljen1111/photo59.jpg
This is piece by Debra Fritts (my old handbuilding teacher)

I love Chihuly's glass work! We are fortunate enough to live within driving distance of a conservatory that owns a signature collection with over 3,000 glass pieces. My personal favorites from their collection are some huge floating glass balls that grace some of their ponds. There are also several glass sculptures that hang suspended from the ceiling which are so visually interesting.

[gandpsmommy]

I worked at an art gallery for 10 years. We sold mostly prints and poster and did custom framing. We had a huge selection of catelogues people could order prints from. I often had to go through the books to do research. I loved going through those books! New York Graphic Society, Graphique de France, Bruce McGraw,..and many more.
My favorite art is definitely Modern. But I also love Medieval art. As well as the preraphaelites and the post impressionists. My favorite artist is one I studies for years....Picasso. But I also love Van Gogh, Millet, Manet, Renoir and Matisse, and so many others.
The Detroit Institute of Art recently re opened after extensive remodeling, and it is faboulous. It is the 5th largest art museum in the country. Well worth the visit. Come in the summer when Detroit is alive with activites. Beautiful river walk outside the Ren. Cen. And no, it is NOT dangerous!!!!

I'll definitely have to keep the Detroit Institute in mind. When I was growing up my family used to visit the Detroit area every few years because we had relatives there. Most of them have since moved, but we might make it back someday.

[Meliss]

Here is a link to my favorite painting at the Legion of Honor Art Museum in San Francisco: Young Boy Singing by the Candlelight Master (Theophile Bigot) (http://www.famsf.org/imagebase_zoom.asp?rec=7822312438080005)

[OnTheBrink]

I have two Jack Vettriano prints in my house. I love how he combines whimsy with mystery and abandon. I have "The Singing Butler" in my living room and "Dance Me To the End of Time" in my bedroom.

[Carol in Cal.]

Klimt--for his use of gold, and sensuality
Caraveggio--Madonna
Michelangelo--Creation, etc.
Bufano--for sculpting the essence of nature
Judy Chicago--for her feminism--specifically Dinner Party (which I flew to LA to see when I was 8 months preg!) and Birth Project (which freed me up to start thinking that I might be able to face childbirth after years of being terrorized about it by my mom.)

People I could imagine owning art by:
Sarah Swett--I would love to commission a tapestry by this woman! I think that her details and colors and execution are amazing.
Lyndon Johnson--Bay Area painter who does amazing work with images and Scriptural texts
Alice Scott-Morris--I actually own several of her etchings. They used to be sold at the Renaissance Faire! They are wonderful.

[LG Gone Wild]

and Dali...but mostly Hopper.

[Jenny in Atl]

I loved Hopper as a kid... not sure why, just did.

[Crissy]

Andrew Wyeth. I love the simplicity in his work, and the beauty he portrays in common scenes.

One of my favorite former posters to TWTM shot a photo (actually, her son took the picture) of a nest of baby birds that reminds me of Wyeth's art. She has given me permission to print and hang the photo in my home. I've gotten as far as printing it on a piece of canvas, but I keep changing my mind about the framing.

[Tonyababyrn]

I like the painters Monet and van Gogh. Photography wise, I like Ansel Adams.

[percytruffle]

Yikes, there are too many to choose from. My favorite painter is probably Jan Van Eyke and my favorite painting is the Arnolfini Wedding, but there are others I love too.

Some of my favorite artists and art:

Kathe Kollwitz- for her charcoal drawings depicting the human tragedy of WWII
Norman Rockwell-especially his Four Freedoms
Medieval Illuminated Manuscript like The Book of Hours
Albrecht Durer- for his paintings, etchings, and woodcuts
Pieter Bruegel- for his marvelous scenes of peasant life
Rembrant- for the play of light and shadow and the moody quality of his portaits
Matisse- for his later work in cut paper
Joan Miro- for his paintings
Edward Hopper- for his color, subject matter, and composition, especially Nighthawks
Georgia O’Keefe- for her lovely abstractions from nature and her color palette
Classical Greek architecture- for its beauty and simplicity
Jan Vermeer- for his masterful handling of light and color
Monet- especially the waterlilies series


My favorite group of artists are the northern European painters, German and Flemish. They used a great deal of symbolism and detail. I am also a big fan of illustrators, particularly children’s book illustrators.

[Closeacademy]

I have always loved Edgar Degas. His painting just sort of spoke to me. I think it was mainly the simple ballet pieces. But I also liked some of the photographs he took later in life. I must have half a dozen books on his work.

[Mamagistra]

Yikes, there are too many to choose from. My favorite painter is probably Jan Van Eyke and my favorite painting is the Arnolfini Wedding...

That's my favorite painting, too! :)

I love so many artists: Rembrandt, Dürer, El Greco, many of the Pre-Raphaelites, Mary Cassatt, Picasso, Mark Rothko...so much inspiration and beauty (even in the things we may not initially find beautiful). ;)

[percytruffle]

Isn't that a cool painting?! I am fascinated by the mirror. I've seen his work in person in Belgium and England.


I wanted to add Mark Rothko, Morris Louis, and Mary Cassatt to my list, but it was already far too long.:blink:

[Dana in OR]

the beautiful flowers and the haunting desert scenes. I also have a great fondness for antique botanical drawings.

There are many, many other artists that I love - Degas, Mary Cassat, Renoir, Kandinsky, Wyeth. Too many to name. I was fortunate to be able to see many original works when I was younger and traveled quite a bit. My parents also made it a point to take me to many museums when I was young.

[Jenny in Atl]

Isn't that a cool painting?! I am fascinated by the mirror. I've seen his work in person in Belgium and England.


I wanted to add Mark Rothko, Morris Louis, and Mary Cassatt to my list, but it was already far too long.:blink:

I love Mark Rothko too! It's just impossible to pick one.

[percytruffle]

It's just impossible to pick one.


Yes it is, and the more I think about it the worse it gets! :confused1:

[cin]

I do love Chihuly's work. And a funny story....My dd was 3 when we were in a Christmas shop. They had those fancy glass ornaments and she points and says That Looks like a Chihuly. The lady knew who Chihuly was and about keeled over. I, in my effort to remain modest and not shocked at my dd just casually said, it does sort of look like his stuff, doesn't it, and walked on. :lol: DH had a big cat that ate the canary grin on his face.

[Mrs Mungo]

I love Klimt, Howard Pyle, Van Gogh, I think there are just too many to list!

[Miss Peregrine]

My absolute favorite is "Christina's World" by Andrew Wyeth. I actually love all of his work.

And I would love a Klimt for my bedroom.

[Remudamom]

Big Van Gogh fan here.

[strider]

is Van Gogh's "Starry Night." I have never seen the real thing--I think I would pay a great deal of money to do so though. I love the deep colors, the vivid, alive heavens, the spiritual symbolism.

I also like Van Gogh's other nature paintings, and I loooooove just about anything Monet.

I also like Klimt's nature paintings, and the one that is all gold and shows a man and woman locked in embrace. A lot of Klimt's other work, though, I find repulsive.

I do NOT like Whistler in the least--way too drab.

I find Rembrandt's pencil sketches just wonderful, so full of life and personality.

I enjoy Renoir.

I have a definite weakness for all things Impressionist, though I enjoy art in general.

I also really like sculptures by Munoz.

That's all I can think of off the top of my head.

[Audrey]

I have my Ph.D in Fine Arts history. :001_smile: It used to be that I like the Fr. Impressionists a lot, and Seurat.

But, then... I saw Picasso's Guernica in. real. life. Huge. Nothing like what I'd seen in slides and books. I could find words to describe it, words to explain its history, its importance in the artist's oeuvre, all those unimportant things, but I had no words to describe how it made me feel.

Inspired? Doesn't even come close.

[percytruffle]

You know, I am not a big Picasso fan, and have actually said so recently on my blog, lol, but, I know that if ever I was to experience Guernica in person I would be moved beyond words. Some art is bigger than the art work itself. The greatest art is a reflection of not only the culture of the time, but is also a wellspring of the emotional anguish or joy of the time. This is the same reason I love Kathe Kollwitz's work.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts on Picasso.

[Lisawa]

I'd love to see what kind of art inspires others.

I have 2 faves... Monet and Degas....:)

[Lisawa]

I do love Chihuly's work. And a funny story....My dd was 3 when we were in a Christmas shop. They had those fancy glass ornaments and she points and says That Looks like a Chihuly. The lady knew who Chihuly was and about keeled over. I, in my effort to remain modest and not shocked at my dd just casually said, it does sort of look like his stuff, doesn't it, and walked on. :lol: DH had a big cat that ate the canary grin on his face.


He is from here... He lives on Vashon Island and has a museum in Tacoma... right next to our WA State history museum.... HIs art work is all over....:)

[Crissy]

He is from here... He lives on Vashon Island and has a museum in Tacoma... right next to our WA State history museum.... HIs art work is all over....:)

Lisa, have you ever been to his studio?
I've heard wonderful things about it.

[Mekanamom]

Big Van Gogh fan here.

:iagree: Me too. Most of the prints in our house are Van Gogh.

[Lisawa]

Lisa, have you ever been to his studio?
I've heard wonderful things about it.


Sadly no......just outside... *Ü* Its so sad to say too because the 3rd Thursday of each month the History museum and his are free after 5 pm.... and I have been to the history museum a ton of times...

I want to go... so does my 15 year old....

We have bumped into him a few times on the South worth ferry.... his eye patch and hair is a dead giveaway! *Ü*

[6packofun]

I really love:

The School of Athens and Madonna of the Chair by Raphael
The Birth of Venus by Botticelli
The Swing by Fragonard
The Embarkation for Cythera by Watteau
The Luncheon of the Boating Party by Renoir (I was blessed to see this and it's gorgeous!)
Rest on the Flight to Egypt and The Return of the Prodigal Son (and several others) by Bartolome Esteban Murillo

Several by Monet (the Rouen Cathedral pieces, poplars, and waterlilies), Sisley and Renoir. I love the sketches of DaVinci. Almost everything by Nicolas Poussin.

And I must say that I'm both enthralled and repelled by Gericault's The Raft of the Medusa and Hieronymus Bosch's The Garden of Earthly Delights. But that's a good thing...art is an experience!

[Crissy]

Sadly no......just outside... *Ü* Its so sad to say too because the 3rd Thursday of each month the History museum and his are free after 5 pm.... and I have been to the history museum a ton of times...

I want to go... so does my 15 year old....

We have bumped into him a few times on the South worth ferry.... his eye patch and hair is a dead giveaway! *Ü*

Hey, we should plan a PacNW gathering at the History Museum and the Museum of Glass before the PS school year is out! We could meet, go our own way if we want, meet for lunch at a specified time...

Hmmm. I think I'll put a little more thought into this. What do you think?

[cin]

We have bumped into him a few times on the South worth ferry.... his eye patch and hair is a dead giveaway! *Ü*


OMG! I would soooo freak if I saw him! :willy_nilly: My daughter would probably start going Choo lee, Choolee

Is he nice? He seems pretty nice in the videos I've watched. But he is on camera....

[Karin]

No one favourite, but since I haven't seen him mentioned (maybe because he's Canadian, although he painted in Paris) I will say that one painting I really like is Paul Peel's After the Bath. I saw the real thing in an exhibition and loved how he used colour. I like how he captured children.

I don't have a real favourite, but I have some I loathe, but that's not for this thread!

[Tutor]

He is a German sculptor and painter. If I could own one piece of his, it would be his painting Star Fall. It is currently part of a private collection, but we were able to see it when we saw the survey of his work, Anselm Kiefer: Heaven and Earth (http://hirshhorn.si.edu/museum/press_release.asp?ID=83), at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, DC last year. I love the use of natural elements in his paintings and sculptures. Beautiful. You can see some examples of his work by going through links at this site (http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/kiefer_anselm.html), but they really need to be seen in person because of his use of texture and the sheer size of many of the works.

I also get lost in many of Van Gogh's paintings. Especially his self-portraits and The Olive Pickers.

I also love black and white photography, although I do not have a favorite photographer. And one of my favorite things to do is walk through graveyards to look at the artistic and sculptural elements of the gravestones. I am currently taking some black and white photographs of gravestones in our church graveyard. I may take some rubbings to frame, also, but I want to check with some preservationists before doing this with older stones.

[Rebecca in TN]

My favorite artists are Claude Monet, Mary Cassatt and Henri Fantin-Latour. I just discovered some of Fantin-Latour's paintings in the last year in a museum in Memphis and I was drawn to how real they are. My daughter and I did not care for art until we started homeschooling 9 years ago and now we love to go to art museums every chance we get (which unfortunately, because of where we live, is not very often).

[Colleen]

I love Chihuly, too. Among other things, he provides balance to well-known Tacomans like, um, Ted Bundy, so those of us who grew up 'round these parts can actually admit to our roots.;)

[Lorna]

John Everett Millais,
Here is 'Lorenzo and Isabella' - which I feel I own. I was able to go and stare at it a lot in the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool and nobody else ever seems to notice it. You can read more about it here. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabella_%28Millais_painting%29)
http://www.victorianweb.org/painting/millais/paintings/isabella.jpg


Allan Ramsay. The greatest painter of the Enlightenment, in my opinion. He painted Hume and wrote essays. Most importantly of all, he painted people as they truly were. I love how his sitters look as real now as they did in the 18th century. His work makes me cry. For example, there is a portrait of his son, feverishly painted after his premature death as a young child. His grief briefly left him as he painted. When the picture was completed his grief returned.
His work is filled with love and respect.
This is a self-portrait. My son is partly named after him.

http://www.nationalgalleries.org/media_collection/5/PG%20727.jpg

[Colleen]

In terms of painting alone, I have a wide range of favorites. Different works appeal to me for different reasons ~ and may even appeal to me less or more depending upon my mood. I love anything by Pieter Bruegel or Jan Vermeer. The same is true of Kandinsky. And then there are some artistis who have just a handful or even one particular work that speaks to me. I wouldn't list Childe Hassam is among my top ten, for instance, but his "Boston Common at Twilight" is absolutely lovely.

One of my favorite poems is Auden's "Musee des Beaux Arts"; I love the tie-in to Bruegel's painting.

About suffering they were never wrong,
The Old Masters; how well, they understood
Its human position; how it takes place
While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along;
How, when the aged are reverently, passionately waiting
For the miraculous birth, there always must be
Children who did not specially want it to happen, skating
On a pond at the edge of the wood:
They never forgot
That even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course
Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot
Where the dogs go on with their doggy life and the torturer's horse
Scratches its innocent behind on a tree.
In Breughel's Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away
Quite leisurely from the disaster; the ploughman may
Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry,
But for him it was not an important failure; the sun shone
As it had to on the white legs disappearing into the green
Water; and the expensive delicate ship that must have seen
Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky,
had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on.

[Lorna]

Here is a link to my favorite painting at the Legion of Honor Art Museum in San Francisco: Young Boy Singing by the Candlelight Master (Theophile Bigot) (http://www.famsf.org/imagebase_zoom.asp?rec=7822312438080005)


You would love El Greco's (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/El_Greco_-_Allegory,_Boy_Lighting_Candle_in_Company_of_Ape_a nd_Fool_%28F%C3%A1bula%29.JPG/794px-El_Greco_-_Allegory,_Boy_Lighting_Candle_in_Company_of_Ape_a nd_Fool_%28F%C3%A1bula%29.JPG) paintings by candlelight...

[Karen sn]

Picasso for me too. I have a replica oil of a mother nursing her baby and then a line drawing profile of a young woman who I think looks like me.
His work is so varried.

[Lizzie in Ma]

Especially the ones of children. They make me feel "soft" inside.

[Angela in TN]

I really love:

The Luncheon of the Boating Party by Renoir (I was blessed to see this and it's gorgeous!)


I have that hanging in my bedroom and it is really my favorite. I am such a people watcher and the frist time I saw this painting (at a D.C. museum) I couldn't walk away. I feel connected to Renoirs work which is why art is so wonderful!