Favourite master painter

[Rist]

Name your favourite Master Painters from history.

I have a few I like; however I like especially how Rubens depicts mythology.

[Rist]

Shock.Horror.Lame

[Digital_Blacksmith]

DaVinci....original concept artist, brilliant weapon designer, inventor, and awesome painter.

[jrr]

my favorite painter of all time to have ever held a brush is js sargent.
my second favorite is a tie between llya repin and bill stutte http://stutte.com/ . or is it?

[Renegade89]

I love Rembrandt´s paintings.

Another historic artist i love is Gustave Doré, his illustrations have an amazing fell to them.

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[Farvus]

Pierre Bonnard

[rpace]

Sargent.

[Maidith]

William Turner.

[Favila]

Velazquez

[deepbluehue]

I love Caravaggio, Cezanne, and Rodin.

[Flake]

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=118857

My answers are the same.

[Konstruktion]

Dig this (http://www.artrenewal.org/images/artists/g/Gericault/large/Raft_of_the_medusa_MHA.jpg) painting. And I love Dorés stuff.

[CCThrom]

Rembrandt for me

[Nightblue]

I admire Da Vinci for his amazing science ability and want to be him, but pure painting/drawing technique wise I just love Rembrandt.

[Olof]

Even though the material for discussion in this thread is pathetic, I have to throw in my favourite masters:
Anders Zorn, John Singer Sargent.

[Rabid]

Raphael, especially this piece, he does one of the most basic principles of character design which is putting them into a pose that tells a story or profession of theirs without saying anything....

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/94/Sanzio_01.jpg

and if you are bored, you can read about the individuals here and read their background and see correlations, for example...philosophic master mathematicians/ philosophers and positioning the mathematicians that did their own works based off of the previous work of the other by having them peek over their shoulder or collaborate with eachother...
something that often applies with art just as much as anything else, think of it as a 1500's rendition of a Massive Black workshop ;D

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

[guggemmaneuver]

thomas kinkaid

[Ilaekae]

David Alfaro Siqueiros and Paul Klee

[sve]

Ilja Repin, Valentin Serov, Goya, Mikhail Vrubel, yesterday i was shown a new for me artist Richard Schmid I like very much: http://www.richardschmid.com/

[chaosrocks]

hey ilae..I own a siqueros print..... its quite creepy.

i have to reiterate Sargent

and open a can of worms

Rothko

:P

[Ilaekae]

"hey ilae..I own a siqueros print..... its quite creepy."

I'm jealous.




I learned color and how to paint in acrylics by studying these two guys...

[CCThrom]

Rothko doesn't open any worm-cans as far as I'm concerned... I could sit in front of one of his paintings and stare at it like looking out a window.

Not a painter but, since somebody said the word "print" I have to mention Jacob Llandau here!

[Xenagirl29]

:anime: Ok well my favorite art that i have seen is from a living artist Lorna Wallace check out her gallery http://www.fineartregistry.com/search_results.php?keywords=WALLACE&submit=&submit.x=11&submit.y=4 its pretty neat and if you browse the rest of the site you can see a bunch of other cool atrist that have galleries free with this place. They can also tag and register your work! I have bought a couple pieces my self from there.

[Vhan Juju]

You guys are about to see just HOW BAD I am at art history, but he was the painter, who painted the portriet of the girl in the yellow, and blue cloth looking over her head, and looking behind her sholder.

[Ilaekae]

...ummm...I think that was a hentai manga from about 1997...

[Flake]

You guys are about to see just HOW BAD I am at art history, but he was the painter, who painted the portriet of the girl in the yellow, and blue cloth looking over her head, and looking behind her sholder.

Vermeer?

[Vhan Juju]

Vermeer?

YEP! that name sounds really familliear! that guy, and (I'm going to bucher this poor mans name) "Rembrant..."

[Rist]

Even though the material for discussion in this thread is pathetic, I have to throw in my favourite masters:
Anders Zorn, John Singer Sargent.

Not to be blunt but why insult a topic you have participated in? I cannot quite grasp what is so pathetic about being interested in who other peoples favourite artists are.


Anyway on subject. As a present day artist I have admiration with Alan Lee's work. The artists of Massive Black are also impressive.

[VulgarDragon]

Vermeer?

Ahhh...Vermeer. This artist was way ahead of his time. I am awed by his painting of a plump lady pouring milk...it looks almost like a photograph if you look at it from a distance.

I like most of the artists already mentioned here...I'm surprised that no one mentioned Bouguereau and Waterhouse.

[Flake]

Ahhh...Vermeer. This artist was way ahead of his time. I am awed by his painting of a plump lady pouring milk...it looks almost like a photograph if you look at it from a distance.
I'm not sure that he would have taken that as any kind of compliment.

.I'm surprised that no one mentioned Bouguereau and Waterhouse.
I mentioned Waterhouse, but you would have had to click a link to see that.

Edit- Post #11, referring to the Lounge thread about this very subject..

[Elwell]

Vhan Juju, get a copy of this (http://www.amazon.com/Story-Art-E-H-Gombrich/dp/0714832472) and read the WHOLE THING.

[kev ferrara]

I have to say it; If your art doesn't look like a photograph it isn't art. I think this notion is unchallengable. So don't even bother responding.

I also think Thomas Kinkaide is the best artist. He's Christian and makes waterfalls. Bob Ross makes waterfalls too, but he died. Nobody makes good art any more.

I once took a photograph that looked just like a Caravaggio painting. Caravaggio cheated by using the camera obscura. Thus, he's not a real artist. I think the photo I took was art though. But normally photos aren't art.

I've taken about more than about more than 50 photographs already and all of them are what I would consider Art. The other one was a picture of my foot for a class.

I think Salvador Dali was actually more of an impressionist than a realist.

Was Sargent really in the army, or was that just his name?

I heard Lucian Freud is related to a guy named Sigmund Freud who has the same name as the famous Sigmund Freud the psychologist. That's an amazing coincidence because Lucian Freud is a painter. I don't think psychologists can paint because they know too much about the brain, so, actually, its not that much of a coincidence.

I want to be frozen like Walt Disney. I bet when Walt Disney comes back from the dead, he'll do more cool stuff like the Matrix, rather than Woody Woodpecker or any of that other stupid crap he shat out on the public.

I await your immediate response.

[Elwell]

Hey Kev, do you like to make werewolf movies, too?

[kev ferrara]

No. I only like documentaries about sea foam.

[Hyaloclastics]

Nicolaos Gyzis (http://www.paletaworld.org/artist.asp?id=8) One of my favourite Greek artists,especially his later period.
Caspar David Friedrich (http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/html/f/friedric/index.html)
William J.M. Turner (http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/turner/)
Fra Angelico (http://www.abcgallery.com/A/angelico/angelico.html)

[Dorkthrone]

No one's mentioned Salvador Dali yet? For shame.
He's an incredibly badass painter. I've always been a fan of surrealism and the strange, and I think that Dali defined the very meaning of the surrealist movement.

[MarkHarchar]

Even though I don't aspire to paint as he did, I can really appreciate Turner's atmospheric landscapes...Although I just got and HD package and the gallery channel had a show about his earlier work and I was like "hmmmm....I thought I saw Turner's work." I guess not. I like his later stuff much better. His early period was a bit more...let's say...pedestrian than his later period.

[VulgarDragon]

Ahhh...Vermeer. This artist was way ahead of his time. I am awed by his painting of a plump lady pouring milk...it looks almost like a photograph if you look at it from a distance.

I'm not sure that he would have taken that as any kind of compliment.

Nah...he's been dead for 300 years so I doubt he would care. Actually, most artists of that time aimed for realism in their paintings. They didn't have photographs back then, so painting was a way to preserve memories of the life then. The best artists tried to have their paintings be realistic as possible. Of course, like modern photographers who airbrushed blemishes, the portraits they painted looked better than the person in real life. I don't know if Vermeer used a camera obstructa or just eyeballed the whole thing, but he captured the light and color so well. I don't feel that the compliment was misplaced.

I have to say it; If your art doesn't look like a photograph it isn't art. I think this notion is unchallengable. So don't even bother responding.

You said it...not me. I don't support that notion.

Oh well, back to the topic.

[arttorney]

"They didn't have photographs back then, so painting was a way to preserve memories of the life then. The best artists tried to have their paintings be realistic as possible."

This post hoc normative statement has inspired me to bring up Hieronymus Bosch.

[Jason Rainville]

Kev's post scared me, until I read Thomas Kinkaide :)

For me, Rubens. Raising of the Cross is neat.