Who Iz Your Fav. Artist?

[Jin3]

Tell me who all your favourite artists are. :confident

[Elwell]

Say please.

[sharee]

Sparth, Ukitakumuki, Craig Mullins.

[antquin]

degas, balthus, mucha, andrew wyeth
:yayca:

[Steinmetz]

favourites are M.C Escher and his realistic impossible pictures
and Degas for his great paintings of the human form!

[mark malone]

Peter Howson Scottish Figurative Painter, Alex Kanevsky, sort of Euan Uglow meets Francis Bacon in style and Jenny Saville, large Fleshy paintings...I have a lot more but these are somewhere in my top 5.
Links:

http://www.flowerseast.com/FE/Artists_Originals.asp?Artist=HOWSON

http://home.earthlink.net/~alexhollis/Alex.html

http://www.geocities.com/craigsjursen/jennysaville.html

[Vilin-kamen]

Maybe this will sound oldfashioned, but mine is Luis Royo. :)
And also I like the art of Krešimir Zimonić (known as author of comics and Zlatka series-the retrospective/dreaming filosophical/utopic life of a young girl named Zlatka. She is his muse and inspiration, his best friend who does not exist).

[Jin3]

My favourite artist iz Luis Royo too! And why would that sound "old fashiond"? I also like Dali`, M.C. Escher and I forget.... :wink:

[Jin3]

O yeah...PLEASE!!! :uzi: :uzi2: UZI UZI UZZZZZZZZIIIIIIIIIII!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[haribubba]

atm my fav is bouguereau

[Pixeldragoon]

W. Burt.

[alti]

James Gleason, all the anatomical oldies... um and Giger for being a baddass.

[Steinmetz]

Caravaggio is the bad boy of painting, he even killed someone

[Chingwa]

Waterhouse.

He's so unloved... but he's gettin' more and more lovin everyday...

[koroshiya001]

I'm with you Steinmetz, Caravaggio rocks my face. William Blake has also been known to rock some faces in his day.

[Steinmetz]

who the hell are some of these painters that you people are on about Waterhouse? bouguereau?

The main thing is that people are usually only concerned with a painters work not his life but with Caravaggio there is MORE!!

[VirusArtist]

the old masters: da vinci, michelangelo, rubens, rembrandt, rafael

the new masters: aleksi, frank frazetta, jim lee, adam hughes, travis charest, jason chan, sparth, drew struzan, keth parkinson, paolo serpieri, luis royo, moebius.. too many to mention actually.

[broken lizard]

da vinci, leinil francis yu, damion scott and mike mignola. (i know, a lot of comicbook artists, but comic artists are severly underrated)

[Flake]

who the hell are some of these painters that you people are on about Waterhouse? bouguereau?


If you're not joking you should probably follow these links.
http://www.artrenewal.org/asp/database/art.asp?aid=79
http://www.artrenewal.org/asp/database/art.asp?aid=7

Not a great fan of Bouguereau myself, but Waterhouse rocks ridiculously hard.

Imagine if Soundgarden were doing Black Sabbath covers at Trent Reznors Birthday party- that's how much he rocks.

[Fellah.]

Steinmetz - you call yourself an artist and asks who Waterhouse and bouguereau are? :nohope:

:wink:

[Dizon]

Steinmetz - you call yourself an artist and asks who Waterhouse and bouguereau are? :nohope:

:wink:

I wont blame him though.

[madplanet]

Dali, Rodin, Thomas Hart Benton, O'Keefe, Bernini, Arthur Rackham, Barry Windsor-Smith, Frazetta, Mignola, Glenn Barr, Masamune Shirow...

[Egets]

They are like so many, and what of the ones that I dont even know of, but the ones that I do know !!! are... Edgar Degas, Meissonier, Corot, Renoir, Helene Schjerfbeck, Couture, Albert Edelfelt, Kallen Gallela, Michelangelo, Gregg Kreutz and Norman Rockwell

[Pencilator]

Caravaggio, Brom, Jon Foster, William Turner, Frank Frazetta, Justin Sweet, Paul Bonner, Anders Zorn.... Damn, there is loads of them. And many of them are here on CA. Lovely place, don't you say?

Hugs!

[Egets]

oh yes I forgot the present masters, Frazetta and Bisley are defenately hot !!!

[oracrest]

Thomas Cole - Badass landscape paintings
Mucha
Mike Mignola
Derek Riggs (Future Eddie is by far the best!)
Keith Parkinson
Wayne Barlowe
N.C. Wyeth
Frazetta

[bracomadar]

Frank Frazetta is my favorite artist. Why you ask? It's the women! :)

[Alday.J]

Dave McKean, Ashley Wood, Olivier Vatine and my mother (for made me !)

[Geuseppe]

There are so many artists that are amazing - my classmate back from college, Wes Burt (wes9000) and among masters, anyone with RIDICULOUS skills.

Oh yeah, and Sebastian Krueger:

http://www.joebluhm.com/gfx/paul_newman.jpg

[Steinmetz]

I call myself a GREAT artist and still I don't know who they are.. I might go and read the links now..

[draw]

Nature
Ancients
Brunelleschi
Masaccio
Da Vinci Raphael Michelangelo Botticelli
Van Gogh
Bougeareau
Bargue
Vermeer
Velasquez
Rembrandt
Millet
Monet
Ingres
Repin
Degas
Rodin
Sargent
Picasso
Pollock
Mondrian
Anigoni
Whittaker
Manley :yayca:


and Phuzion :x

[Geuseppe]

draw attended an art-history class. :yawn:




;)

[Phuzion]

Hey draw! How've you been?

Hhmmm... fav artists...:

Dead ones:
Alphonse Mucha,
John Singer Sargent,
Norman Rockwell,

Living:
Claire Wendling,
John Watkiss,
Drew Struzan.

yeah, short, sweet, and to the point :P

[draw]

Gday Phuzion - Just a question why do you like Mucha?

[arghmisfit]

Kevin Llewellyn, Puddnhead:P, Justin Kaufmen, Wesley Burt, Dali, Jon Foster, Da Vinci, Sargent, Leyendecker... hmm i need to study art history :blah:

that Sebastian Krueger painting is dope

[Interceptor]

poshspice
poise
dave finch
prostate sunrise
ayami kojima
yoji shinkawa
android
elwell
ds illustration
socar myles

[tensai]

im gonna stick to favorite masters of drawing:

rembrandt - of course a very good painter but i really appreciate his loose, but spot on, ink sketches.

hiroshige - for his compositions, colors and charactirizations of city life, nature and people. edit: and his ghosts!

syd mead - still the best concept designer, but also an amazing drawer, incredible shapes and compositions.

ootomo - well, the black and white art in anything from domu to akira is so impressive it never fails to hurt me...

bill sienkiewicz - for the way he was mixing techniques and textures before we all used photoshop.

koji morimoto - for his juicy, mouthwatering sketches.

oh, and i never understood why dermot powell wasnt on epsiode 3...

tensai

[Phuzion]

Draw:
Hhmm... it seems like you shouldn't even have to ask that question.
Aside from the fact that he was a badass draftsman, painter, lithographer, sculptor and photographer?

Well, is line work was brilliant. It had great variation in thicks and thins; it was simple but discribed the forms so clearly and very sensually.
His pallette was to die for. All beautiful, pure, muted colors, which is what I tend to go in for. He also had an amazing eye for detail and could draw cloth with just line like nobody else. Not to mention his women were gooorgeous. And, AND! The compostions... <3
Then, to top it off... he could draw/paint people, products, landscapes, architecture, and do them all beautifully. And he's done some of the best hands ever. Yeah, he's been one of my main influences since I saw a show of his in highschool.

Gee, I hope that's reason enough. What're your thoughts on Mucha, Draw?

-Daniel

P.S. I'm gonna join Geuseppe there. Sebastian Krueger is amazing! I just checked out work, and WOW! Talk about painting skills, that guy... hot damn.

[loomer]

How can you not like Mucha?! I love that guy...probably one of the best draftsman that ever walked earth...or at least possessed the one of the most fluid line quality.

Favorite Artists ever...shit ..at the moment these guys crush me everytime I see 'em:
Rembrandt
Odd Nerdrum
Egon Schiele
Klimt
Arthur Rackham
Dean Cornwell

[draw]

Draw:
Hhmm... it seems like you shouldn't even have to ask that question.
Aside from the fact that he was a badass draftsman, painter, lithographer, sculptor and photographer?

Well, is line work was brilliant. It had great variation in thicks and thins; it was simple but discribed the forms so clearly and very sensually.
His pallette was to die for. All beautiful, pure, muted colors, which is what I tend to go in for. He also had an amazing eye for detail and could draw cloth with just line like nobody else. Not to mention his women were gooorgeous. And, AND! The compostions... <3
Then, to top it off... he could draw/paint people, products, landscapes, architecture, and do them all beautifully. And he's done some of the best hands ever. Yeah, he's been one of my main influences since I saw a show of his in highschool.

Gee, I hope that's reason enough. What're your thoughts on Mucha, Draw?

-Daniel

P.S. I'm gonna join Geuseppe there. Sebastian Krueger is amazing! I just checked out work, and WOW! Talk about painting skills, that guy... hot damn.

Hey Phuzion

Look I love Mucha, he had superior skill as a designer and he imaged some beautiful sites.

However, IMO great artists see further and deeper, and although I can see his amazing technical skill I am not convinced he saw further. I am not as enamoured with the graphic quality of line in so far as I am more interested with the transcendant quality of an image. I put those artists in my list because they take me to a new place (which just happens to be this place)

Look, I am relatively new to Mucha's oeuvre and it has taken me some time before, to find joy in other artists' whom I now aspire to be like. I will study his work - particularly as so many of the artists I am now influenced by (such as yourself) recommend him.

Hope this helps Daniel

- Mark

PS Are you taking the piss by quoting me or did I help.

[Phuzion]

I was deffinately "taking the piss" there. But I took it off now that we have some more interaction. Some of what you had said was helpful, some I disagreed with, but I'm not out to please eeeeveryone. But as far as the "burn tool bad" statement... well that was a little over shot on your part. Perhaps the colors didn't work out as well, initially, as I'd hoped... but they were no where near the burn tool.

As to Mucha. I think he certainly did see deeper than just design. The sensuality he captured in his images could not have been arrived at through design alone. Look at his "Slav Epic". It takes some kind of passion to do 20 paintings in 12 years, the smallest of which is 13x15 feet, and the largest ones are 20x32 feet (that's 2 stories tall!). He did 20 in 12 years while he was still doing other paintings and lithographs. That's more than just a passion for design, don't you think? However, it's fine if his work doesn't speak to everyone. I'll be honest and say that Leonardo's work doesn't really do anything for me, because there are many others since his time that are better. But I certainly respect the fact that he was doing something no one else was in his day. So it's cool if you're not a Mucha nut, like I am, just as long as you accept his skill, which you've already said you do. So it's all good ;p

And man, why don't we have cool slang like "taking a piss". America has stupid slang. And stupid presidents... and stupid people! Yay us!

[Ninja Kinshu]

Todd McFarlane, Erik Larsen, and Yoji Shinkawa.

[draw]

Thanks for the reply Phuzion. I completely agree with you about Leonardo, I like him for his life. Anyway, I do have a tendency to over shoot and apologize for any misunderstanding. I will try and think more about what I say in the future.

- Mark

[sve]

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

Lucas Cranach the Elder
http://www.abcgallery.com/C/cranach/cranach.html ;

Valentin Serov
http://www.abcgallery.com/S/serov/serov.html ;

Isaac Levitan
http://www.abcgallery.com/L/levitan/levitan.html ;

Leonardo da Vinci

Japanese old masters

Ilya Repin
http://www.abcgallery.com/R/repin/repin.html ;

Raphael
http://www.abcgallery.com/R/raphael/raphael.html;

Vasiliy Polenov
http://www.abcgallery.com/P/polenov/polenov.html

Thomas Gainsborough.
http://www.abcgallery.com/G/gainsborough/gainsborough7.html

Francisco de Goya y Lucientes
http://www.abcgallery.com/G/goya/goya.html

Vincent van Gogh
http://www.abcgallery.com/V/vangogh/vangogh.html

Diego Velázquez
http://www.abcgallery.com/V/velazquez/velazquez.html

Mikhail Vrubel
http://www.abcgallery.com/V/vrubel/vrubel.html

Mikhail Nesterov
http://www.abcgallery.com/N/nesterov/nesterov.html

Hans Holbein the Younger
http://www.abcgallery.com/H/holbein/holbein.html

Edgar Degas

Hieronymus Bosch
http://www.abcgallery.com/B/bosch/bosch.html

Karl Brulloff
http://www.abcgallery.com/B/briullov/briullov.html

Pieter Bruegel the Elder
http://www.abcgallery.com/B/bruegel/bruegel.html

Gustav Klimt

Pieter Claesz

Alessandro Botticelli

Impressionists
and many more

[K-17]

Hiroaki Samura, Katsuhiro Otomo, Yoji Shinkawa, Tetsyua Nomura, Yoshitoshi Abe

[fersteger]

Joseph Clement Coll, Franklin Booth, Alphonse Mucha, Katsuhiro Otomo, Iain McCaig, my favorites. Thoughh I pretty much like anything good by anyone.

[arghmisfit]

Jean-Léon Gérôme (http://www.kingsgalleries.com/1024x768/galleries/gerome.htm)

[princeofhappiness]

Hieronymous Bosch,
Grosz,
Monet,
Van Gogh,
Toulouse-Lautrec,
Mucha

[Rascar Capac]

Krikor Khanjian - Armenian artist - 20th century

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b237/Hovig1977/khanjian8.jpg
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b237/Hovig1977/khanjian5.jpg
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b237/Hovig1977/khanjian9.jpg
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b237/Hovig1977/khanjian3.jpg
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b237/Hovig1977/khanjian7.jpg
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b237/Hovig1977/khanjian4.jpg http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b237/Hovig1977/khanjian2.jpg

[Dizon]

ooohhh interesting.

Are you Armenian?

[Rascar Capac]

ooohhh interesting.

Are you Armenian?


Good guess... :vodka2:

[Dizon]

u must be proud of him! Im also proud of my native masters.

[Steve the Dawg]

Simon Bisley(LOBO)
Leonardo Da Vinci(natch!)
Mike Mignola(Hellboy)
Keith Giffen(more LOBO)
Steven Hughes(Evil Ernie)

[Kaylon]

Too many to list them all but....

If I had to single out some artists that have effected me personaly I would have to say...

Brian Froud, Paul Bonner, Frank Frazetta, Kev Walker, Simon Bisley and Bernie wrightson.

Kay.

[Snarfevs]

Rene Magritte - The Australian National Gallery has 'The Lovers' on display but I'm really a fan of Magritte's vast scapes such as 'Chateau' and 'Voice of Space'

Hieronymus Bosch - His unique visions of heaven and hell are an enormous feedstock for the imagination.

Francois Launet - His Cthulhuania is probably exactly the way Lovecraft would have had it.

Masamune Shirow - Not only do I adore the art and worlds of Ghost In The Shell and Intron Depot, but I'm fascinated by his amazing industrial typographical talents.

Hansrudi Giger - Along with Escher he's one of those artists who are fashionable to like by people with little exposure to other artists but it doesn't mean that he's not brilliant. In the revolutionary genre defining sense.

Aidan Hughes - Responsible for BRUTE! Propaganda, I discovered him through his work on the KMFDM album covers. He's damn fine.

HOON - Really needs no introduction.

Spyroteknik - Drop dead gorgeous art. Proves that colour isn't a requisite of exciting, unforgettable pieces.

Ukitakumuki - Was shocked when I heard he was conscripted. Mind you it probably means that he's going to blow us all away with inspired new military sci-fi when he gets back from hands on experience :D

[sevnraiz]

It saddens me that no one has given accolades to Mary Cassett, yet. Especially all of the folks that said Degas. :yayca:

http://home.eckerd.edu/~oberhot/paris/im-cas-91toilette.jpg

[Tsune]

Arthur Rackham

Franz Kupka

Caravaggio

Rembrandt

Dedo

Dalí

Ingres

Frazetta

god. the list would be neverending.... but those are the ones i thought right away.

P.s Thanks for all the links.. learned about many artists i didn't know.

[Rascar Capac]

oh yeah - how could I forget...Ilya Repin
Ivan the Terrible and his son Ivan.http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b237/Hovig1977/repin.jpg
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b237/Hovig1977/repin2.jpg

[The Shepheard]

Salvador Dali
Van Gogh
Leonardo da vinci

[emesen]

How sad... sargent, sorolla, guy rose, bouguereau, elvgren - john asaro, dan mccaw, scott burdick, richard schmid and howard terpning.

[Rascar Capac]

And Zorn...

[Gilead]

Frazetta is going to stay at the top of the heap for a long time. Not just because he's the greatest ever, but also because he just happened to come along at a time when mass distribution hit it's peak. Everyone has seen his work and been influenced by it. People are influenced by him and don't know that they're influenced by him.
Sargent and Zorn are amazing, but much less accessable.

But since we're talking favorites I'll say:
The Grand Master: Frank Frazetta,
The Branywine school: N.C. Wyeth, Howard Pyle, Dean Cornwell,
The Masters: Sargent, Zorn, Gerome,
The Pulps: Raphael de Soto, Norman Saunders, Jerome Rozen

To me the best paintings are the ones that tell a story, but leave you wanting to know the rest so you buy the book, or just dream up your own stories as I often did when I was a kid.

[Rascar Capac]

People are influenced by him and don't know that they're influenced by him.

that would be me...
Ive probably been influenced by other artists who've been influenced by Frazetta...
as for me - I think I've looked at Frazetta probably once or twice

[Flake]

If you hadn't guessed by my earlier posts, Waterhouse is my favourite, closely followed by Sargent.

Others I like a lot..

Whistler
Vermeer
Klimt
Hokusai
Leighton
Burne-Jones
Rossetti
Ed Hopper
All the Scottish colourists - Caddell, Ferguson, Peploe, Hunter.
Turner
Alma Tadema

and some non-dead ones..
Jack Vettriano
Jeremy Lipking
Linda Bergkvist

[ShroudStar]

Caravaggio - I adore his use of high-contrast darks and lights. His images are absolutely wonderful to look at, admire, and study.

Michaelangelo - He might have exaggerated the musculature of his figures, but did he know how to color and model! Good David sculpture, as well. Scratch the 'good' - it's excellent.

Yoshitoshi ABe - He has a gritty and dark way of coloring for some of the darker anime that he did the character art for, and for his lighter ones, it really feels ethereal. He stands out really easily, too, and because he's not generic, I have to give him dibs.

Yoshitaka Amano - Wonderful watercolors and gold-leafing. Also really unique despite having done anime, and his dreamlike images make me smile or gasp in awe.

Takehiko Inoue - Having seen his recent work on the manga 'Vagabond,' I must admit to bowing down to this man. He has an excellent sense of anatomy, shading, and dynamics. His inking with pen and brush is fantastic, and his watercolors are done so well.

Dave McKean - After reading 'Black Orchid,' I'm in love with his work. Uber-realism, great graphic design and layout, beautiful color palette, and intense images. Looking at the trailer for 'Mirrormask,' I think his creature concept art is also out of this world. 'Violent Cases' is another must-have if I want to study his art.

Natsuki Sumeragi - She paints with a classical Japanese/Chinese flair, has great character concept art, is more based on realism than her counterparts, and her B&W lineart is strong and pleasant. She doesn't screentone her manga much, rather depending on line widths and negative space. I love her style.

Hasumi Miyako - She's also capable of painting and drawing realistically, but then she can switch to anime style without any problems. Her color treatment with pastels and watercolor is really strong, and her compositions are nice to look at.

J.W. Waterhouse - I love classical art, and his is so captivating. (Even more than Dante Rosetti's art, I think.). His colors glow, his subjects are so beautifully painted, his compositions are beautiful, and I love his application of oils. His sketches are great as well.

[draw]

Rembrandt

[.cfb]

Has no one mentioned Stanislav Szukalski?

http://szukalski.com/images/cecora500.jpg
http://laughingsquid.com/photos/stanislav_szukalski/stanislav_szukalski_007.jpg
http://laughingsquid.com/photos/stanislav_szukalski/stanislav_szukalski_006.jpg
http://szukalski.com/images/stanislav_14b.jpg
http://szukalski.com/images/stanislav_05b.jpg
http://szukalski.com/images/rooster500.jpg
http://szukalski.com/images/stanislav_30b.jpg

[VANGARD]

wow, how strange to find that the ones I like are not a common pick.
I really admire: Enki Bilal (My inspiration), Rebecca Guay, Richard Kane ferguson, Brom, Alphonse Mucha, Ciruelo Cabral ( Argentinian like myself) and some others.

[Rascar Capac]

and...
Herge - the creator of Tintin

[Snarfevs]

wow, how strange to find that the ones I like are not a common pick.
I really admire: Enki Bilal (My inspiration), Rebecca Guay, Richard Kane ferguson, Brom, Alphonse Mucha, Ciruelo Cabral ( Argentinian like myself) and some others.

How could I have forgotten Ciruelo? The only reason any of the Shadow War books sold was probably because of the cover art! Definitely one to add to the list.

[VANGARD]

Wow, I don´t know that books. Its always like that here in Argentina. Good stuff (even the things that involve argentinian artists) somtimes don´t make it to the stores.

[Snarfevs]

Wow, I don´t know that books. Its always like that here in Argentina. Good stuff (even the things that involve argentinian artists) somtimes don´t make it to the stores.

What I mean to say is that Ciruelo's cover art was the only redeeming feature of the novels

Especially this one which was wrapped around the cover of shadow moon:

http://deuxcha.free.fr/images/gallery/region/part/ur02.jpg

[ammoburger]

John Singer Sargent definately my favorite artist of all time. I think he is the best painter that ever lived. in terms of conveying emotion with incredible confidence, he's the best.

[Mythori]

Todd Lockwood.
His dragons are the best i've ever seen.

and Giger, because he's a Swiss too XD *lol*

[MarkHarchar]

Rembrandt, renoir, vallejo, da vinci, greg horn, chris turner

[voraz]

I like the impressionists

Paula Rego
Dagobert Silva

and check my friend Emanuel:
http://www.emanueldesousa.com/

[Brutillus]

Fransisco de Goya
his "black" paintings of the war in spain and other wierd and tragic subjects will just knock you on your ass.

Wayne Barlowe
Pieter Bruegel
Ian Miller
Heinrich Kley
Gustav klimt

Steve Mumford
anyone who has the guts to just get out of his studio and go to Iraq to paint portraits and landscapes of everday life gets my praise.

Marko Djurdjevic (duh!)
Kathe Kollwitz
Odd Nerdrum, too I think

[unknown_epiphany]

Alphonse Mucha and Norman Rockwell also id like to say third best and i actually met this guy was Charles Santore ( his stuff is just amazing to look at in person)

[Rebecca]

Henri De Toulouse Lautrec, and Frida Kahlo

[luke_q]

Luis Royo for sure. The way he can make things glow and shine. Plus i have yet to find an artist to match his pencil sketching skills. Also Tony Mauro, Jose del Nido, Victoria Frances, basically most of the fantasy art greats. Oh and Da Vinci who sets the bar.

[the_allejo05]

the great three.. Leonardo,Michaelangelo and Raphael...

[DMickey]

Some not mentioned.
Kees Bruin - he's alive, I especially like his drawings and my god what he can do with crayons is unbelievable (he paints mostly but has a couple crayon pictures on his site)

Drawing example : http://www.keesbruin.com/artwork.aspx?intArtworkID=54&intGalleryID=14

Crayons: http://www.keesbruin.com/artwork.aspx?intArtworkID=20

Francois Boucher, was a teacher of Jacques- Louis David. http://www.artrenewal.org/asp/database/art.asp?aid=366

Peter Paul Rubens, especially " Fall of the Rebel Angels "
http://www.artrenewal.org/asp/database/art.asp?aid=85

Then Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Alma Tadema, William Bouguereau, Alphonse Maria Mucha, Bargue. There's many others but those are the main influences.


Also for those who have chosen Picasso, Van Gogh, i think i saw Pollock too do you think you could tell me what you enjoy about them? I've tried to give them a shot but they just dont seem "click" for me. Maybe a different view point could help me see something im missing. Picasso i enjoy some of his rose period stuff or his early drawings but thats about it.

[GriNGo]

most of you have some weird but cool tastes. Anyways mine are (in no particular order):

Odd Nerdrum, Sargent, Dali, Lord Leighton, Davinci, Picasso, Rembrandt, Repin, Bougereau, Van Gogh, Egon Schielle, Gustav Klimt, Otto Dix, Durer!, Jackson Pollock, Aubrey Bierdsley, Alphonse Mucha, Ivan Bilibin, Zdzislaw Beksinski, Polish Poster Artists (all of them rock!),Weiner Werkstatte, Margaret Mcdonald, Charles Rennie Mckintosh, Dave Mckean, El Lissitzky, Oswaldo Guayasamín, Julio Larraz, and many many more...

[Arne S.]

me! -hehe
really cannot mention a single favorit. nearly all the professional artists (alife or dead) have pictures that i love and others that i don´t feel with. i was thinking, but it only would be a long list with "and many more" at the end.

[Evilfluffbunny]

My favourites are:

John Waterhouse
Brian Froud
Alan Lee
Wayne Anderson
Marc Chagall
Arthur Rackham

[demented]

OMs: Al, Caravaggio and Mike

NMs: Wes, Marko, Mentler.

- d.

[Michael Jaecks]

Some not mentioned.
Also for those who have chosen Picasso, Van Gogh, i think i saw Pollock too do you think you could tell me what you enjoy about them? I've tried to give them a shot but they just dont seem "click" for me. Maybe a different view point could help me see something im missing. Picasso i enjoy some of his rose period stuff or his early drawings but thats about it.

I don't know if I can answer this question completely or not, but I can give a compare and contrast example that works for me and demonstrates (I think) the way people understand and appreciate modern art.

Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon were contemporaries. (Bacon is dead, I think Lucian is still kicking it.) In fact, they were more than contemporaries, they were friends. They knew each other, shared some of the same acquaintences and social circles, spent time together and painted portraits of each other. In every way that is measurable by the usual standards, I think its easy to see that Lucian Freud was the better draftsman. In fact, I think he's really great. He's got an amazingly rough way of handling the medium for the degree of refinement he achieves in the finished image. And you get the sense that he really looks at the subject thats set in front of him... thats really important to him. And yet, in every way thats measurable by the usual standards (money made, gallery shows and museum shows and books written about), Francis Bacon was and still is regarded as the better artist. And this was true of Francis Bacon in life and in death; its not a matter of the dead artist finally achieving success. Francis Bacon was widely regarded as one of the greatest living painters for a very long time. And why? The guy, for all intents and purposes couldn't draw a hand to save his life. I'll get to why in a moment, but first, my personal definition of what makes illustration different from fine art:

Illustration exists to make peoples lives a little easier. Fine art exists to make peoples lives a little more complicated. "Easier" and "complicated" are open to interpretation, of course, but in general I think illustration tends to take on the aims of making the viewers life a little more beautiful, a little more enjoyable, a little easier to understand, a little more certain. I could try to imagine what the words "red manticore" mean, or I could look at the illustration on my Magic The Gathering card and get a better understanding of what the words mean. The illustration makes it less work. Fine art, on the other hand, and especially with regards to modern and contemporary art, makes the viewer work a little harder. Fine art takes on the aim of expressing or demonstrating that life is not simple, its not certain, its not easy. It contains confusion, ambiguity, definitions that change with context, uncertainty. Its an unpleasant fact of life. Its a fact some try to avoid. But its real, and that's why its important to the fine artist and his or her appreciators.

Back to Francis. I think Francis Bacon more succinctly contained the enigma of his age than his contemporaries. Now, what the hell does that mean? I guess you could say he more completely embodied the seemingly opposite natures and forces at work around him. He was born into World War, he survived surrealism in Europe, he understood the importance of psychoanalysis and the subconscious, but was never interested in dream or fantasy imagery. He rejected the abstract movements as "decoration" and was a figurative painter yet he rejected "illustration" as something better left to photographers. He considered his work "a shorthand of sensation. People are interested in reality without the boredom of its conveyance." He loathed the idea of being seen as an expressionist and to his deathbead insisted on calling himself a "realist." He sought a "violent fusion, all of the past, all of the present concentrated into a single raw slice of a nerve."

Anyway, its what makes him my favorite artist.

But I like a lot of other peoples picks. Dali was the first I looked at as a kid. Giacometti is great too. That guy would create and destroy and recreate a portrait twenty times before he was done with it.

[Hazamataz]

Many of mine have already been said but heres some of my absaloute favourites

David Roberts,

http://www.travellersinegypt.org/img/images/roberts-gateway-temple-balb.jpg

Joseph Gandy http://www.hughpearman.com/2006/09.html

Casper David Friedrich http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/friedrich/friedrich.morning.jpg

And as for Van Gogh, - Its his drawings that I really like -

For me they show alot of feeling, the fast sweeping strokes of the wind to the
lines of the grass flicking up in praise of the sun. Sometimes it looks drawing was a drug to him.

http://www.vggallery.com/drawings/p_1472a.htm

http://www.vggallery.com/drawings/p_0902a.htm

http://www.vggallery.com/drawings/p_1629.htm

[Egets]

Caravaggio is the bad boy of painting, he even killed someone

really ? Never knew that before !!!!:blah:

[Egets]

Peter Paul Rubens, especially " Fall of the Rebel Angels "
http://www.artrenewal.org/asp/database/art.asp?aid=85




I like Rubens too because his style is so "his own" and because he paints womens bodies that looks like mine when Im naked :D which means he could have adored me then 8)

I clicked that link above and came accross this painting which I have never seen before, Im completely stunned now ! I may just have to do a serious study about this its very fascinating, I most especially like her facial expression and the relaxed contented atmosphere overall-ly, AND the flower bouquet on the left corner (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) and in general their bodies are very Michelangeloishly powerful and dynamic and massive and expressive and realistic while exaggarated

I mean this :

The Union of Earth and Water -painting (http://www.artrenewal.org/asp/database/image.asp?id=1264)

[Egets]

oh yeah - how could I forget...Ilya Repin
Ivan the Terrible and his son Ivan.the whole painting (http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b237/Hovig1977/repin.jpg)closeup (http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b237/Hovig1977/repin2.jpg)




:dur: :x Wow what paintings and what an expression, the time when human life meant everything to ppl, now somebody dies you just shrug your soulder and go your way, how lame life has become to us :S

[DMickey]

Originally Posted by Neorepto
I don't know if I can answer this question completely or not, but I can give a compare and contrast example that works for me and demonstrates (I think) the way people understand and appreciate modern art.


Thanks Neorepto for your explaination it's nice to see another persons view. Though i've studied Pollock, Jean-Michael Basquiat, and Picasso in school I never really got into their art, they lived interesting lives but I wouldn't stop and "aww" at there work. The art they make is harder to interpret and i've liked some of the messages portrayed behind their work I just don't like how they executed it. The example with Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon, I would be one that would tend to lean towards Lucian Freud art heh, though I understand what your saying.

For myself I always thought contemporary art was more about the person, their lives always seem more interesting to me then their art whereas people like Caravaggio, for example, the art drew me in right away and I wanted to learn more about his art and his life afterwards which made the first pieces even better after a second viewing, like the portrait of David and Goliath he included his head as the beheaded goliath.

I always like to learn about other peoples reaction to art I may not like so thanks again, it really helps. Though its not changing my preferences at least I can gain some appreciation for the artists and what they did.


Hazamataz, nice links - see now I can say I at least like something made by van gogh.


Originally Posted by Egets
really ? Never knew that before !!!!

Yea Caravaggio was known to get in a lot of fights, I think the reason he killed the person was because of the score in a Tennis match, if i remember correctly, so its safe to say he had a temper. He fled afterwards and was later pardoned by the pope and allowed to come back to Rome.

And the Rubens painting you like, there's 16 other pages on the site filled with beautiful paintings like that one heh. I can't stop looking through them all. I like his chalk drawings too, good for learning.
http://www.artrenewal.org/asp/database/image.asp?id=17169

[v0rbiss]

The usual stuff: Rembrandt, El Grecco, Duhrer, Van Gogh, Watteau, Van Dongen, Sezanne, Gaugin, Ingres, Vrubel.
I won't bother with links, for obvious reasons. ;)

[GriNGo]

Damn I forgot Lucian Freud! Very recommended!

[Mr Man]

Oh christ ive got a massive list and most of them are from CA.
I like different artists for different reasons.

Marko, Wes, Kevin llewelyn, Insane visions, steaktron, and fellah if in terms of sketches and characters.

Shawn barber, Mike hussar, Coro kauffman and Doug chiang for painting.

Nicolas, synthetINK (dont know real name), N8 Van Dyke for inking.

Aleski briclot, Jason chan, Android, manley, vyle and Matt Dixon for digital work.

Theres probably a shitload more but theres too many to count.

[Michael Jaecks]

Thanks Neorepto for your explaination it's nice to see another persons view. Though i've studied Pollock, Jean-Michael Basquiat, and Picasso in school I never really got into their art, they lived interesting lives but I wouldn't stop and "aww" at there work. The art they make is harder to interpret and i've liked some of the messages portrayed behind their work I just don't like how they executed it. The example with Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon, I would be one that would tend to lean towards Lucian Freud art heh, though I understand what your saying.

http://www.artrenewal.org/asp/database/image.asp?id=17169
Yeah, modern art is a funny business. I think its important to point out that people like Picasso and Pollock actually could draw. Picasso was a brilliant draftsman very early in life. And I was surprised one day to pick up a book of self-portraits to see Jackson Pollock do it early in life too. Its hard to understand why someone could consciously reject the ability or desire to draw well. But artists like these have a drive to create something "new", to speak more directly to the issues of their age, and a lot of times that means rejecting the old, which often to them means classical drawing skills. On the other had, Francis Bacon again did not have this kind of training. He saw abstract expressionism growing legs and starting to take a foothold on modern art when he started (rather late in life) to paint. In some respects, he was looking for a middle ground between the power of the brushstroke and the need for the tension created by having a figurative subject.

Anyway, its good to discuss these things I think.

and I'm going to add Hans Bellmer to the list of favorites. Now there was a real nut. ;)

[rogfa]

For contemporaries, I like William Whitaker (http://www.williamwhitaker.com/), Jeremy Lipking (http://www.lipking.com/), Carl Dobsky and Puddnhead (http://www.puddnhead.com/).

[Egets]

Yea Caravaggio was known to get in a lot of fights, I think the reason he killed the person was because of the score in a Tennis match, if i remember correctly, so its safe to say he had a temper. He fled afterwards and was later pardoned by the pope and allowed to come back to Rome.

And the Rubens painting you like, there's 16 other pages on the site filled with beautiful paintings like that one heh. I can't stop looking through them all. I like his chalk drawings too, good for learning.
http://www.artrenewal.org/asp/database/image.asp?id=17169



I have that kind of uncontrollable bursting nature too, I in normal circumstances go from one extreme to another and its usually not very welcome, for some reason if you are "civilised" no matter which country we go its seen bad thing when you dont control your emotions very well, I heard from it first time in my childhood, that is why I really enjoy watching ppl like Nikki in Big Brother she is so cute because she is totally letting it flow anyhow, to me I like ppl who are outbursting and I dont really trust ppl who are holding back too much, I think I have now recently learned to control myself but God for bid if there was not economical reason I will be as craezy as ever, might be better remain poor and controlled so that I dont go aroudn killing ppl too tehe !!!

Well, now that money rules a lot, we have all kinds of behaviour etiquettes, it keeps things in control but at the same time you can see ppl suffer from the inside, because what is so essential to us humans are feelings, we ought to be able have the freedom to express our emotions EXACTLY the way they are without filtering them to any purpose at all, like for me, holding my feelings inside sometimes makes me so hostile that one day it could just burst in to your face, the same thing with laughter if I feel like laughing but Im not aloud it might just come out in weird places, in fact I find myself more than often suppressing my true emotions because its just not adult u know, and every single day I hate it and wished I found a place where people can be themselves without been stigmated as immatures or something grrrrrr I hate growing up and I hate emotional nazies :upset:

[asoir]

HPX's sketches seem fairly genius-esque to me...
Jean-Léon Gérôme is probably my favorite, Cairo + Egypt generally has always been incredibly beautiful in my eyes.

[DMickey]

Originally Posted by Neorepto
Yeah, modern art is a funny business. I think its important to point out that people like Picasso and Pollock actually could draw. Picasso was a brilliant draftsman very early in life. And I was surprised one day to pick up a book of self-portraits to see Jackson Pollock do it early in life too. Its hard to understand why someone could consciously reject the ability or desire to draw well. But artists like these have a drive to create something "new", to speak more directly to the issues of their age, and a lot of times that means rejecting the old, which often to them means classical drawing skills. On the other had, Francis Bacon again did not have this kind of training. He saw abstract expressionism growing legs and starting to take a foothold on modern art when he started (rather late in life) to paint. In some respects, he was looking for a middle ground between the power of the brushstroke and the need for the tension created by having a figurative subject

I knew about Picasso's ability to draw but not Pollock, interesting heh. It's important to look at their art knowing they were trying to do something new, they definatly challenged traditional methods. I respect that they had these idea's and were guttsy enough to try them out, I just don't like the result. Taste differences is all I suppose heh. Hans Bellmer I actually like his drawings they flow well if that makes sense, though some of his paintings just outright scare me lol. It seems I like the artist more when they show signs of there capability to draw in there paintings, they do something new but you still get that hint that they know what there doing and not just randomly throwing things on the canvas.
Thats why if I had to pick a favourite Picasso painting it would be in the rose or blue period versus, well, all his other periods.
Again a link heh, Picasso painting I actually enjoy - http://deokjin.ms.kr/jart/picasso/images/picass4d.jpg
....and Hans Bellmer drawing, a little graphic, though its Hans Bellmer so.. yea
http://sauer-thompson.com/conversations/archives/BellmerH1.jpg

Always fun to discuss art and its creators.

[Gbertek]

Davinci.

[Nerdlinger]

Anders Zorn is just one of those genius's that knew how aesthetics worked and how to get a rustic picture.

[Myako]

My top fav`s old: leonardo,rembrandt and michelangelo
new: Christopher Vache , Thomas King, Thomas Kinkade (the puzzles are to great >.<),jason chan, vyle,sparth, amano and nomura

[bijarts]

Hazamataz, nice links - see now I can say I at least like something made by van gogh.

Have you ever seen his work in person? If you have I am be surprised by your stance, if not than I think you will change your mind when you do:)

[DMickey]

No, I havent seen a Van Gogh in real life - Picasso yes however. It might change my mind i'll know when I see one heh.

[BRANDISH]

My favorite painter is Rubens

[arttorney]

van Gogh (he killed somebody too) That Mulberry Tree that's in the Norton Simon Museum is frikken hypnotic.

Ludwig Meidner (apocalyptic landscapes that rocked)
Egon Schiele
Aidan Hughes (I was hooked by that drawing on the "Split" album cover)
Wassily Kandinsky
Victor Hugo
Charles Sheeler
Moebius
Otto Dix
El Greco

[PhantomBlaze]

EVERYONE ON CA! :yayca:

[Ilaekae]

A lot actually...but the heaviest influences on me have been...

Siqueiros
Moebius
Klee
Kline
Pollock
Picasso
Calder
Cassatt
Hiroshige (and others of sim. ilk)
Kollwitz
Shawn
Bilal

and just about every serious surrealist with the exception of Dali, and a thousand unknown wall, fresco, and artifact painters, as well as icon makers.