What's your favorite painting/artist and why?

[T4Texas]

Even the least artistically informed person has probably looked at a painting somewhere and said "Hey, I like that" to themselves. Art moves us in ways we sometimes don't even realize. So old or new, whatever style pleases you, tell us about some of your favorite artists or paintings and why they made an impression on you.
I will start by saying my favorite is Edward Hopper. He painted cityscapes and rural scenes usually devoid of people and was active from the turn of the century through the 1960's. I like his paintings because of their emptiness and even when they do have a person in them, it still seems to set a mood that you can imagine looking into the windows of the buildings he painted.

[daisygrrl]

First to mind is the artist Sandro Botticelli (http://www.finearttouch.com/The_Life_and_Work_of_Sandro_Botticelli.html), who sadly threw many of his own pieces on a bonfire during the Medieval period.

The Birth of Venus
http://trilogy.brynmawr.edu/guides/upload/pics/619/botticelli001.jpg

I'll be back to add more later! Great thread, TX!

[Corkey]

Rubin Gogan
Tried to put it up but have no idea how to do it.
Pink Dawn is the name of the painting.
His work is hauntingly beautiful.

[Semantics]

My favorite piece of art is a 1514 engraving by Albrecht Dürer called Melencolia I.

http://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n114/Holly3257/-melencolia_i.jpg

I love the alchemical symbolism and the mysterious iconography. There are many different elements to the engraving that make it so interesting.

[daisygrrl]

del lagrace volcano continues to be my favorite photographer because of ze's subjects, passion, & activism. <clicky--please (http://www.dellagracevolcano.com/classics.html#10)>

[Selenay]

Minor White.


http://www.masters-of-photography.com/images/full/white/white_poplar_trees.jpg

http://www.masters-of-photography.com/images/full/white/white_shadow.jpg

http://www.dptips-central.com/image-files/minor_white_barn.jpg

[Selenay]

Tina Modotti

http://www.sfgate.com/blogs/images/sfgate/beltran/2009/07/24/tina_modotti_staircase624x476.jpg

William Klein
http://icucwiicoishii.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/klein-check.jpg

Josef Koudelka
http://blogs.nyu.edu/blogs/emd5/pi2/koudelka-05.jpg

Weegee

http://www.johnmariani.com/archive/2005/051009/weegee_summer.jpg

And "Striking Worker" by Alvarez Bravo (graphic, so I won't directly post it here)

[Corkey]

My favorite photographer is still Ansel Adams.

[Selenay]

http://refugeesofisengard.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/adamslg.jpg

[QueenofQueens]

My taste is varied. It ranges from symbolism to German expressionism to Dada.
But, Joan of Arc by Jules Bastien-Lepage is my all time favorite painting. It destroys me and buoys my spirit simultaneously.

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y210/queenofqueens/hb_89211.jpg

[Queerasfck]

I like Mapplethorpe
http://studio360.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/mapplethorpe3.jpg

Arbus
http://www.follydiddledah.com/images/diane_arbus.jpg

Warhol
http://www.moma.org/collection_images/resized/524/w500h420/CRI_64524.jpg

Lichtenstein, my fav pop artist.
http://images.artnet.com/artwork_images_496_472789_roy-lichtenstein.jpg

http://atuleirus.weblog.com.pt/arquivo/Roy%20Lichtenstein.jpg

[Sachita]

you know we happen to have two wonderful artist right here at the planet! It would be great if we had their images here.

Metropolis and Key - look at their profile and art. Amazing!

[Rockinonahigh]

I realli dig western art so Orin Mixer is one of my favs,I have several of his signed peices hanging on my wall.
Rockin

[key]

Can you imagine how his work would have matured??? Amazing.

http://www.reproarte.com/files/images/M/marc_franz/0159-0038_der_wasserfall.jpg

http://www.harpers.org/media/image/blogs/misc/franz-marc-tiger.jpg

http://www.infinitereflections.co.uk/artists%20work/Marc%20-%20Deer%20in%20the%20forest.jpg

[Boots13]

Wow! The work by Franz Marc is amazing.

I like Michelangelo. I was moved when I saw the Pieta.
and Sir Edward Burne-Jones , The Depths of the Sea spoke to me.
I also enjoy Blake, his illustrations are remarkable.

There are so many.

[Diavolo]

I could go on all day on photographers, but The Guernica is my favorite single piece of art. The Guernica and all she represents (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guernica_(painting)).


http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/74/PicassoGuernica.jpg

[Diva]

I dare say, I shall be in HERE all the time! I do love this thread! Thank You!!!!

I love the artist of the Pre~Raphealite era, Romantic era, Victorian era and early 20th century artists.....

Lord Leighton's "Flaming June" is hanging over my sofa ~ 4'x4'.....she's amazing. I have had her about 10 years now and every time I study her, I find something new....ohhhhhhhh......to see the original would bring me to tears, I believe!

http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii16/new_cr8ion/Flaming_June.gif

One of my best memories is a 4~day pass to the Louvre....<sigh> Heaven.

[Diva]

you know we happen to have two wonderful artist right here at the planet! It would be great if we had their images here.

Metropolis and Key - look at their profile and art. Amazing!



We have more than 2.....

Queen of Queens....
little man......
Rain.........

There are more.....we have some mighty talented artists among us here on The Planet!

[Medusa]

Gustav Klimt

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_BRuW8SVcJHU/SthDhFRwJqI/AAAAAAAAAEs/eWcm88EXX0g/S660/Gustav-Klimt-Danae-152060.jpg

http://www.artinthepicture.com/artists/Gustav_Klimt/death.jpeg

[Beau]

I don't have a particular work of art that is my favorite, but I revere many artists. The paintings of Marc Chagall truly move me when he paints what I feel about love.


YouTube- Marc Chagall, el amor tierno.

Thank you, M, for opening up this world for me. :stillheart:

[T4Texas]

Wow! What a great lot of art lovers you are! I have enjoyed the posts and the wide variety of art represented.
Several years ago I went to a traveling MOMA exhibit that came to Houston. There were many famous paintings including Starry Night by Van Gogh. I had seen the painting many times in books and frankly wasn't a huge Van Gogh fan. But as I stood in front if it, you could see every single brush stroke and suddenly I felt overwhelmed with emotion. It was like I was standing there watching him paint it and you could feel the raw power, love, pain and desire for perfection all in one moment. I actually started to tear up right there in the museum. I have never felt that way about a piece of art before or since, and feel it was one of those rare moments in life when your soul is truly touched by something.

[Diva]

Wow! What a great lot of art lovers you are! I have enjoyed the posts and the wide variety of art represented.
Several years ago I went to a traveling MOMA exhibit that came to Houston. There were many famous paintings including Starry Night by Van Gogh. I had seen the painting many times in books and frankly wasn't a huge Van Gogh fan. But as I stood in front if it, you could see every single brush stroke and suddenly I felt overwhelmed with emotion. It was like I was standing there watching him paint it and you could feel the raw power, love, pain and desire for perfection all in one moment. I actually started to tear up right there in the museum. I have never felt that way about a piece of art before or since, and feel it was one of those rare moments in life when your soul is truly touched by something.


Yes!!!!

I had the same reaction to Renoir's Water Lilies Series....the museum had benches down the middle of the room so You could take it all in (they're huge....maybe 8' high X 25' long!! ). I remember having to sit down and just weep.

I wasn't alone.


Art is powerful.

[Linus]

For me it's always been Tom Thompson and the Group of Seven. They were a group of artists from the 1920s in Ontario, Canada. My favourite remains Lawren Harris. His stark paintings always make me think of home and the beauty of Canada.

http://www.thegroupof7.com/group_of_seven_order_pages/Harris_Mount_Lefroy_450_902.jpg


http://www.pentictontoday.com/pictures/1127200984036A.jpg


http://peter.risjak.net/pictures/images/pictures/25.gif

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HsN0oPi5hU4/SFHsnaA_G2I/AAAAAAAAAtw/0UEtnVMAoUg/s400/IcebergsDavisStrait1930LawrenHarris.jpg

[Rook]

http://i265.photobucket.com/albums/ii214/amor_en_silencio_77/Salvador_Dali_DAS021.jpg

http://i265.photobucket.com/albums/ii214/amor_en_silencio_77/Dali.jpg
{ Salvador Dali }

http://i265.photobucket.com/albums/ii214/amor_en_silencio_77/MatisseZ.jpg
{ Matisse }

http://i265.photobucket.com/albums/ii214/amor_en_silencio_77/Paul_Cezanne.jpg
{ P. Cezanne }

http://i265.photobucket.com/albums/ii214/amor_en_silencio_77/henrySugimoto.jpg
{ henry Sugimoto }

http://i265.photobucket.com/albums/ii214/amor_en_silencio_77/Kahlo.jpg
{ Frida Kahlo }
*Of all her paintings, this one kept me thinking of my own Mortality...*

http://i265.photobucket.com/albums/ii214/amor_en_silencio_77/diegoRivera.jpg

http://i265.photobucket.com/albums/ii214/amor_en_silencio_77/Flaming_June_by_Fredrick_Lord_Leigh.jpg
* First time I saw this, I stowed away from my Theatre troupe, when Im bored I quickly find entertainment, I was 20, I stood there mesmerized in the Gallery, I can recall even thinking "That's the perfect femme" {hey, I was 20 *shrug*}*

[Gemme]

Lord Leighton's "Flaming June" is hanging over my sofa ~ 4'x4'.....she's amazing. I have had her about 10 years now and every time I study her, I find something new....ohhhhhhhh......to see the original would bring me to tears, I believe!

http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii16/new_cr8ion/Flaming_June.gif



I love this work in your parlor. And yes, from the first time I said it to the end of time, that room will be a parlor to me. It has bookcases, a piano and art. It's a parlor! :raspberry:

[Diavolo]

The name I couldn't think of last night was Richard Avedon. I saw an amazing exhibit of work he shot throughout the West. No one famous in an of them. The collection was called The American West. Full of stuff like this:

http://lickerish.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/sandoval.jpg

He's famous for stuff like this:
http://theindecisivemoment.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/richard_avedon.jpg
But he's so much more.

I'm also a big fan of Mapplethorpe, Annie Liebowitz and really, who doesn't love Wegman's silliness?

[Diva]

Maxfield Parrish, early 20th century American artist....this is entitled "Ecstasy".

http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u239/mtnterry/Art/Maxfield%20Parrish/PARRISH-Ecstasy.jpg

[Andrew, Jr.]

I enjoy:
Diane Romanello as a painter
Paul Rhymer as a sculpturer
The Ward Brothers as decoy carvers (L.T. Ward, Jr. & Stephen Ward)

[Diva]

Maxfield Parrish, early 20th century American artist....this is entitled "Ecstasy".

http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u239/mtnterry/Art/Maxfield%20Parrish/PARRISH-Ecstasy.jpg




I hate when that happens! Once more....with feeling!


http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o128/mmlilly/Fairy%20Angel/Maxfield.jpg

[Duchess]

Degas is best known as an Impressionist and was a prominent member, if not the strongest promoter, of the group. He was outspoken about the need for artists to join together and establish a place for themselves as proponents of a new, contemporary artistic sensibility. Degas organized what is now known as the first Impressionist exhibition and planned many of the subsequent shows. He initially called himself and his compatriots "realists," which pointed to their interest in drawing inspiration from their own environments and experiences. The term "impressionist" was adopted later, at the time of the third Impressionist exhibition, despite Degas’s objections to the name. Degas allied himself with other Impressionists, such as Pissarro, met with them at the famous Café Guerbois, and participated in all but one of the eight Impressionist exhibitions.

~www.metmuseum.org (http://www.metmuseum.org)

YouTube- Edgar Degas

[Sachita]

Your lines are more defined but your colors match his exactly.


Can you imagine how his work would have matured??? Amazing.

http://www.reproarte.com/files/images/M/marc_franz/0159-0038_der_wasserfall.jpg

http://www.harpers.org/media/image/blogs/misc/franz-marc-tiger.jpg

http://www.infinitereflections.co.uk/artists%20work/Marc%20-%20Deer%20in%20the%20forest.jpg

[hippieflowergirl]

Can you imagine how his work would have matured??? Amazing.

http://www.reproarte.com/files/images/M/marc_franz/0159-0038_der_wasserfall.jpg

http://www.harpers.org/media/image/blogs/misc/franz-marc-tiger.jpg

http://www.infinitereflections.co.uk/artists%20work/Marc%20-%20Deer%20in%20the%20forest.jpg

have you seen his little yellow horses?

http://www.1st-art-gallery.com/thumbnail/82312/1/The-Little-Yellow-Horses.jpg

[hippieflowergirl]

one of my favorites...for the colors, the drapery work and the pose


http://www.interfaith.org/forum/attachments/media/963d1251400569-the-pre-raphaelites-lord-frederick-leighton-flaming-june

Flaming June - 1895

[Rockinonahigh]

I was wondering if anyone has herd of these artist..Clair Pennington and someone named Berry or Gerry as best as I can make out on the pic wich is of flowers in a vase,not my style but nice anyway.
Rockin

[Corkey]

http://i737.photobucket.com/albums/xx14/Corkey47/07-06-2007-10_thumb.jpgg

Thanks Jack!

[Diva]

http://i737.photobucket.com/albums/xx14/Corkey47/07-06-2007-10_thumb.jpgg

Thanks Jack!

That IS stunning! Lovely!

[Corkey]

http://i737.photobucket.com/albums/xx14/Corkey47/moonrise-over-hernandez.jpg

[T4Texas]

http://www.john-squire.com/art/hopper/lyrics_gas.jpg

Edward Hopper's painting Gas.

[T4Texas]

Yes!!!!

I had the same reaction to Renoir's Water Lilies Series....the museum had benches down the middle of the room so You could take it all in (they're huge....maybe 8' high X 25' long!! ). I remember having to sit down and just weep.

I wasn't alone.


Art is powerful.



Art is very powerful indeed. I also saw Water Lillies at that same exhibit and was really blown away by the size too.

[Corkey]

http://i737.photobucket.com/albums/xx14/Corkey47/georgia2.jpg


This is one of my favorites of hers.

[daisygrrl]

I adore contemporary Jaroslaw Kukowski's work! Click here (http://kukowski.pl/Art-Gallery/Mermaid_Nude_5.html) for my favorite (this may not be work safe?)


These two have always haunted me--and I would really like to see them in-person one day.

John Waterhouse's Lady of Shalott
http://greenmaggit.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/waterhouse_the_lady_of_shalott022.jpg

John Millais' Ophelia
http://library.thinkquest.org/J003425/shakepeare%20art%20web%20page/web%20pags/images/Millais.Ophelia.jpg

[daisygrrl]

La Belle Dame sans Merci (1926) by Frank Cadogan Cowper
http://literaria.net/RP/L1/FrankCadoganCowperLaBelleDame.jpg

La Belle Dame sans Merci by Frank Dicksee (1903)
http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t68/earthly-paradise/FrankDicksee-LaBelleDameSansMerci-l.jpg

[Galahad]

http://www.jialu.com/

I have many favorites. Jia Lu is pretty amazing. There are so many talented creative people in the world I could never have just one favorite.

[Corkey]

http://i737.photobucket.com/albums/xx14/Corkey47/amberDawn.jpg


I was working at the Maui art expo and was blown away by this artist. Nice guy and his studio is in Lahina if you ever get to go to Maui be sure to drop in.

[Lynn]

You've mentioned some of my favorites--
Klimt
Parrish
O'Keefe
Chagall
Degas
Monet
Manet
...

I get really excited about seeing original work. In a museum, I can't always say what will strike my interest at any given time. I especially enjoy studying portraits from different time periods, and I love the detail in the Hudson River School paintings. We spent a long time at a Grandma Moses exhibit. The paintings, interspersed with her own possessions and history, were utterly fascinating.

[Galahad]

http://www.simonebingemer.de/galerie_en/frauen/1/

I get updates from the Women Painting Women blog. Some fabulous painters. Today I realized I had missed one, Simone Bingemer. LOOK LOOK LOOK.

There have been so many great women painters and since of course they don't get much advertisement, I don't see many on peoples favorite lists. There's so many out there who should be recognized for all they have contributed. I am tired of the old dead guys club.

[morningstar55]

here is a link.... to this awsome artist.....
whom has a huge bright future ahead of him.

Incredible watercolour paintings by boy aged just SIX


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1203226/Pictured-Incredible-watercolour-paintings-boy-aged-just-SIX.html#ixzz0dfNf2PMJ


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1203226/Pictured-Incredible-watercolour-paintings-boy-aged-just-SIX.html

[Boots13]

I am attracted to Hiroshi Sugimoto's work.
Meticulous, in a word. http://www.sugimotohiroshi.com/

[Jet]

Pop/Contemporary
Roy Lichtenstein
Vincent Fantauzzo

Masters

Wyeth
El Greco
Michaelangelo
Picasso (cubism)

[Gemme]

here is a link.... to this awsome artist.....
whom has a huge bright future ahead of him.

Incredible watercolour paintings by boy aged just SIX


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1203226/Pictured-Incredible-watercolour-paintings-boy-aged-just-SIX.html#ixzz0dfNf2PMJ


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1203226/Pictured-Incredible-watercolour-paintings-boy-aged-just-SIX.html

I think he's got a really good eye for such a young child. :)

[Diva]

I love this thread cuz it's like our own private Planet Arte Gallerie............... <smile>

:artist:

[Diva]

This sculpture (Veiled Vestal Virgin)....it takes my breath away! I first saw it in the movie "Pride & Prejudice"......sculptor is Raphael Monti, 1847.

http://i422.photobucket.com/albums/pp310/DivaTX54/ART/veiledvestalvirgin.jpg

[weatherboi]

Currently I am in love with the works of Fernando Botero!!!!

http://www.art-for-a-change.com/blog/images/july08/botero_abu_ghraib

http://www.pictures-of-cats.org/images/cat-obesity-21162429.jpg

[daisygrrl]

I like these two for different reasons, of course :)

This one by Gerda Wegener is very playful to me; her other work more explicitly tackles issues of class.

http://the-deli.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/gerda-wegener_02.jpg

Raphael Perez's "Two Men" is so warm, in so many ways...

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SFOPPOn45D0/RrxIR39_c0I/AAAAAAAAAo0/WE0y38sBp0I/s400/rafi30.jpg

[Mitmo01]

Paul Gaugin takes my breath away--all of his works make me freeze my gaze

Titian is by far my favorite classical master--The Rape of Europa, Danae, and his masterpiece The Venus of Urbino

[Mitmo01]

The Russian Hermitage Museum has a fantastic virtual website and some of the worlds most beautiful paintings in it

http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/html_En/index.html

[Diva]

Paul Gaugin takes my breath away--all of his works make me freeze my gaze

Titian is by far my favorite classical master--The Rape of Europa, Danae, and his masterpiece The Venus of Urbino


Here Ya go.....a little Gaugin for Ya...

http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w47/pizzaman1222/impressionism027.jpg

[Daktari]

some amazing artists already mentioned here. I'd like to share some of my favourite artists/paintings/sculpture/arty architecture with you too.

I travelled to Madrid just to see several of my favourite paintings

This was the one that made me take the trip - Las Meninas by Velazquez (I was surprised to discover how small the painting is)
http://exterior.pntic.mec.es/fhua0001/tutelageo/Viajetoledo/velazquez-las-meninas.jpg

I also managed to see Picasso's Guernica on that trip too
http://homepage.mac.com/dmhart/WarArt/Picasso/Guernica/Guernica.JPG

I am a fan of the Dutch Masters - the delicacy of light in many of the paintings is just awesome.
http://images.google.co.uk/images?q=dutch+masters+paintings&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=0gZvS6X7PN7KjAehjvDrCg&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=1&ved=0CBQQsAQwAA

I was mightily impressed by Rembrandt's The Night Watch which is at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, mainly because it must be the biggest painting I've ever seen also because of that luminosity of light Rembrandt was so good at.
http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.rijksmuseum.nl/images/news/rijks_tefaf_wand_nachtwacht_final5%3Flarge&imgrefurl=http://www.rijksmuseum.nl/nieuwsenagenda/nachtwacht-ontrafeld%3Flang%3Den&usg=__rPhi4E5y33lQVBufkor724-wdd4=&h=320&w=427&sz=28&hl=en&start=13&um=1&itbs=1&tbnid=TC39pjNqzX1OnM:&tbnh=94&tbnw=126&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dthe%2Bnight%2Bwatch%26hl%3Den%26clien t%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26sa%3DG%26um%3D1

Barcelona is almost an whole town art installation. Parc Guell is amazing and is one of those places that you absolutely must visit at least once in a lifetime.
http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www-ma2.upc.es/~geomc/events/socg2002/parcGuell.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www-ma2.upc.es/~geomc/events/socg2002/ParcGuell.html&usg=__MpjHLrLiTaVeHTsQow0x3NP9o3A=&h=403&w=609&sz=90&hl=en&start=1&um=1&itbs=1&tbnid=tcysIAFW2PTBTM:&tbnh=90&tbnw=136&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dparc%2Bguell%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfir efox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26sa%3DG%26um%3D1

as is Sagrada Familia - also in Barcelona. Started in 1882 by Antoni Gaudi it is still being built and one of those places that you can go back to over the years and watch it's progress.
http://www.sagradafamilia.cat/sf-eng/index.php

Thus far Ingress and I haven't managed our usual trip to London at the start of the year to take in whatever exhibitions are currently showing and I don't think we will get a chance until after her Post Grad Cert. in Education (teacher training) is over. I particularly enjoyed the Annie Liebowitz retrospective at the NPG last year and Shibboleth at Tate Modern the year before.

I would just love to go to the Guggenheim in Bilbao, the Uffizi in Florence and of course the New York Guggenheim too.




apologies for the long links.

[Miss Scarlett]

This sculpture (Veiled Vestal Virgin)....it takes my breath away! I first saw it in the movie "Pride & Prejudice"......sculptor is Raphael Monti, 1847.


Like you I first saw this in Pride & Prejudice. I am absolutely captivated by the work and would love to see it up close and personal.

[Hack]

I'm a major fan of Andrew Wyeth, American realist. I also love Winslow Homer.

[Mitmo01]

Diva, the Vestal Virgins has a long and storied history in ancient Rome

They were the Heart and Soul of the city as they tended to the fire of Vesta which was the hearth that was never allowed to die out.....well when Rome was finally sacked the first things the Visigoths did was to cermonially put out the fires of Rome both physically and esoterically starting with the Vestal Virgins....intriguing history

sorry for the derail...

[AtLast]

There are so many artists and works I appreciate and love, throughout the centuries.

Van Gough's Starry Night is a favorite.

And I have to say da Vinci's Mona Lisa has always drawn me in.

I have to ad that one of the best things to me at the Butch Voices Conference were the works displayed by queer artists.One woman did some charcoal drawings of a post menopausal, Native American butch that struck me to my soul. Maybe someone will remember her name?

Elizabeth Hoague Cleaveland is a local favorite of mine.

[Semantics]

This is such an enjoyable thread. Thanks everyone. :)

I love Frida Kahlo

http://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n114/Holly3257/frida_kahlo.jpg

My favorite by her is A Broke Column. I'm not going to post a picture because it's a little disturbing.

Another is Dali's The Anthropomorphic Chest of Drawers:

http://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n114/Holly3257/Salvador-Dali-The-Anthropomorphic-C.jpg

[Semantics]

I also really love the artwork of Aimee Garcia Marrero:

http://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n114/Holly3257/Wall1.jpg

http://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n114/Holly3257/LaCargaWeb2.jpg

[T4Texas]

I also like fantasy art. This is Egyptian Queen by Frank Frazetta who has been around for years as a comic illustrator and painter.

http://www.excellentvirtu.com/frank-frazetta-egyptian_queen.jpg


This is Glenkeeper by Alex Horley

http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/adc/10264479A.jpg

[hpychick]

many many unknowns...

I love Stephen's ability to capture a model so well that you believe you are looking at a photograph.


http://www.classicalrealism.com/art/Masters/Gjertson/Images/Orchid_Bouquet.htm


http://www.classicalrealism.com/art/Masters/Gjertson/Images/Metanoia.htm


http://www.classicalrealism.com/art/Masters/Gjertson/Images/Pals.htm

[hpychick]

Diva - I totally agree!!!

I love this thread cuz it's like our own private Planet Arte Gallerie............... <smile>

:artist:

[JakeTulane]

Georgia O'keefe - Her watercolors are spectacular.

http://i388.photobucket.com/albums/oo329/JakeTulane/O27Keefe.jpg

[BestButchBoy]

Henri Matisse

Pablo Picasso

Edward Hopper

Georgia O'Keeffe (especially her NY years!)

Alfred Steiglitz


And for more current artists, I have many friends who are painters or photographers. I'm fortunate in that respect. I too am a painter. I studied art in school and visual art and artists are a great passion of mine.

Cool thread!!!

[Liquefaction]

I love the colors that were used by Maxfield Parrish!

http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u239/mtnterry/Art/Maxfield%20Parrish/PARRISH-Ecstasy.jpg

[Semantics]

I was in Fort Worth several years ago and saw an amazing exhibit by hyperrealist sculptor Ron Mueck.
The pieces were so life-like that you expected them to open their eyes or move at any second.

http://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n114/Holly3257/RonMueckCrouchingBoyInMirro.jpg

http://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n114/Holly3257/ron_mueck.jpg

Here's a cool youtube collage that someone made of his art:

YouTube- Ron Mueck

[Galahad]

Slow Painting; A Deliberate Renaissance
Oglethorpe University Museum of Art

The artists in this exhibit are amazing. The writing/ manifesto was inspiring. The artists names are listed, go to their sites. Although sadly there were only a few women showing. The websites are a great lesson.

I am in love with Paul S. Brown's paintings of skin. I feel like I could touch and sink into the subjects. Painting skin is a big thing for me right now, that and hands. Check out White.
Happy Valentines Day

http://www.paulbrownpaintings.com/

[Diva]

Slow Painting; A Deliberate Renaissance
Oglethorpe University Museum of Art

The artists in this exhibit are amazing. The writing/ manifesto was inspiring. The artists names are listed, go to their sites. Although sadly there were only a few women showing. The websites are a great lesson.

I am in love with Paul S. Brown's paintings of skin. I feel like I could touch and sink into the subjects. Painting skin is a big thing for me right now, that and hands. Check out White.
Happy Valentines Day

http://www.paulbrownpaintings.com/


Dear God! He is amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank You!

[weatherboi]

I was just introduced to Tom of Finland. I am thinking he is one of my new favorites!!

http://www.fashion.at/culture/2009/tomoffinland3-2009.jpg

[Beau]

Another favorite (again thanks to MQoQ) is Modigliani.


YouTube- Modigliani: L'Ultimo Romantico

:rrose:

[roy g biv]

Henri Matisse

not so much his plain simple ones, but the colorful ones with multiple patterns are SOOOOOOOOOOO appealing.

If you love Henri Matisse, go to Baltimore Art Museum to see what I believe is the largest collection in this country.

[BestButchBoy]

http://www.tqnyc.org/2006/NYC063370//edward_hopper04.jpg


I would love to be on this sailboat!

Hopper is one of my faves!

Elegance is in simplicity.

[daisyfm]

Great idea for a thread thanks T! I am not an artist but I will share my faves.

Jackson Pollock I really connect with his work and with his intense sadness.

Tamara Lempicka, an amazing woman artist, wayyyyy ahead of her time and place, way underappreciated as most women artists were/are. I really love her women and the little-hint- of-Butch in her work.

[Julien]

I am a big fan of Michael Parkes. His work involves fantasy, with vibrant colors and strong women. I love the "look" of his work. Since I'm not an art historian or critic I don't know the terms to describe his work. What I like is the smooth hardness of his work. He also does sculpture.

http://www.art.com/gallery/id--a7648/michael-parkes-posters.htm

[BestButchBoy]

Tamara Lempicka, an amazing woman artist, wayyyyy ahead of her time and place, way underappreciated as most women artists were/are. I really love her women and the little-hint- of-Butch in her work.

Tamara de Lempicka is one of my favorites! I'm a huge Art Deco fan.

http://images.google.com/images?q=tamara+de+lempicka&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=WnuVS5nqGM2VtgfK5MDUCg&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=1&ved=0CCEQsAQwAA

A lot of her work is on display at various and sundry galleries in Provincetown, MA.

[Diva]

Pre~Raphaelite, Dante Rossetti (brother of Victorian poet, Christina Rossetti)

Venus Verticordia, 1864-68

http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e136/gothicearthangel/Dante_Gabriel_Rossetti_Venus_Vertic.jpg

[NJFemmie]

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MT2gAM-ufkE/SxPkWf6OelI/AAAAAAAAADU/JV2tjHAjASc/s1600/070920_blog.uncovering.org_kush_1.jpg

I have a passion for surrealism.

http://images.art.com/images/-/Salvador-Dali/The-Ship-c-1943-B10087324.jpeg

[NJFemmie]

... and I also have a passion for the classic artists.... esp. Victorian era (architecture, sculpture, et al..)

http://www.encore-editions.com/AAA/vicart5/Sir_Frank_Dicksee_-_Leila_os_6x8.jpg

There is no "favorite" ... just what moves me at any given time.

[AtLast]

Been a bit taken with these of late....

http://www.cafepress.com/+mona_fr_bulldogbrin_framed_panel_print,273416428

http://www.cafepress.com/+starry_night_french_bulldog_7_greeting_cards_pack ,18743199

[Galahad]

NJFemmie, Do you have the name of the Cloud Balloon artist or a link to where you found it? I have been looking for it for some time now.

[weatherboi]

http://www.homoerotimuseum.net/ame/ame03/301.jpg

Edvard Saint Juste

[BestButchBoy]

A master of light!

http://www.princessleia.com/images/MyImages/essays/hopper2lights.jpg

[Jet]

I appreciate art and have many favorites. It all depends on medium, style and subjects. Fernando Botero from Latin America I like, especially his still life, although The Bathroom (four down) is considered one of his best known.

http://i489.photobucket.com/albums/rr257/lionoflionsman/Picture21-2.png

http://i489.photobucket.com/albums/rr257/lionoflionsman/Picture20-3.png

http://i489.photobucket.com/albums/rr257/lionoflionsman/Picture18-2.png

http://i489.photobucket.com/albums/rr257/lionoflionsman/Picture16-6.png

http://i489.photobucket.com/albums/rr257/lionoflionsman/Picture19-2.png

[Jet]

One artist I really like is Vincent Fantuazzo from Australia.

http://i489.photobucket.com/albums/rr257/lionoflionsman/Picture22-1.png

http://i489.photobucket.com/albums/rr257/lionoflionsman/Picture33.png

http://i489.photobucket.com/albums/rr257/lionoflionsman/Picture34.png

http://i489.photobucket.com/albums/rr257/lionoflionsman/Picture36.png

http://i489.photobucket.com/albums/rr257/lionoflionsman/Picture37.png

[Jet]

Another artist extraordinaire is Jonathan Yeo of Britian. The collages of Bush's face and the woman's figure were made from clippings of porn magazines.
The oils are Tony Blaire and Dennis Hopper.

http://i489.photobucket.com/albums/rr257/lionoflionsman/Picture24-2.png

http://i489.photobucket.com/albums/rr257/lionoflionsman/Picture27-1.png

http://i489.photobucket.com/albums/rr257/lionoflionsman/Picture25-1.png

http://i489.photobucket.com/albums/rr257/lionoflionsman/Picture23-1.png

[socialjustice_fsu]

(San Francisco) hangs the painting:

The Russian Bride's Attire

1869

Oil on canvas, 110 x 147 in. (279.4 x 373.4 cm)

Artist: Konstantin Makovsky (1839 - 1915)

Due to it's magnificent presence it as if you are standing in the room with the wedding party. If to only hear the words being bantered about...

Give me a day at The Legion and I feel I have seen a part of heaven.

[Cyclopea]

(San Francisco) hangs the painting:

The Russian Bride's Attire

1869

Oil on canvas, 110 x 147 in. (279.4 x 373.4 cm)

Artist: Konstantin Makovsky (1839 - 1915)

Due to it's magnificent presence it as if you are standing in the room with the wedding party. If to only hear the words being bantered about...

Give me a day at The Legion and I feel I have seen a part of heaven.

Very nice!
http://www.insecula.com/PhotosNew/00/00/10/23/ME0000102355_3.jpg

[Venus007]

I love the Pre-Raphaelites in General but
"Flaming June" Lord Fredrick Leighton in particular
http://persephone.cps.unizar.es/~spd/Pre-Raphaelites/Big/FlamingJune.jpg


The first time I saw it I was still closeted and I was at my fiance's house, it was in an art history book that I was looking through while waiting for his mom and sisters to finish cooking dinner. I was mesmerized by her body through the fabric especially her nipple. I looked at the picture so long that my then fiance came over and stood behind me to see what I was looking at, he must have stood there for 5 min before I noticed.

[Gemme]

I love the Pre-Raphaelites in General but
"Flaming June" Lord Fredrick Leighton in particular
http://persephone.cps.unizar.es/~spd/Pre-Raphaelites/Big/FlamingJune.jpg


The first time I saw it I was still closeted and I was at my fiance's house, it was in an art history book that I was looking through while waiting for his mom and sisters to finish cooking dinner. I was mesmerized by her body through the fabric especially her nipple. I looked at the picture so long that my then fiance came over and stood behind me to see what I was looking at, he must have stood there for 5 min before I noticed.

This is a beautiful piece of work. A couple of my friends have copies of it.

[weatherboi]

Harness I, II, III


http://www.johnua.com/images/gallery/darkworks/HarnessI_lrg.jpg


http://www.johnua.com/images/gallery/darkworks/HarnessII_lrg.jpg


http://www.johnua.com/images/gallery/darkworks/HarnessIII_lrg.jpg

[Venus007]

The Ecstasy of St. Teresa
Bernini 1650 something or another

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e4/Teresabernini.JPG


I love this sculpture for the faces, the calm delight of the angel with the arrow about to relieve the panting straining anticipation of St Teresa (as evidenced by her orgastic expression) I love religious art that parallels the divine penetration with a more carnal one.

[JakeTulane]

This is a Georgia O'Keefe painting titled Red Canna. This painting was used in the Human Flower Project. There is a part of it that speaks to Me.. because of the fiery image it conveys. In using it for the Human Flower Project - My take on that would be the painting depicting blood red.. almost to the direction of our own red blood cells.



http://i388.photobucket.com/albums/oo329/JakeTulane/okeefe-canna.jpg

[Diva]

Michael Parkes........his work amazes and astounds me....This is entitled "Venus".

http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o109/dizzydreams/michaelparkesVenus.jpg

[Daywalker]

Back in the 70's I used to visit record shops in the neighborhood and would
peruse through the posters and seem to get personally attached to a few that
were by an artist named John Pitre. Still, to this day..I have a 3 part series
of posters that I saved my pennies to buy as a kid, one that hangs next to
me as I type called 'A New Dawn'. It can be found here on his site:

http://www.johnpitre.com/socio.html

:weedsmoke:

I also own the ones titled 'Overpopulation' and 'Restrictions'.

I wrote to John last year and he was amazed that I still had the originals.
He also offered to sign and frame the 3 as new prints for 90 bucks
each...which I thought was cool of him to offer,
just don't have the extra funds to do so.
:beatnik:
But it was awesome to have found his site,
and to know that he is still creating stuff today.
:dance2:

http://www.artbrokerage.com/art/pitre/_images/pitre_334_1.jpg

:daywalker:

[SuperFemme]

http://illusion.scene360.com/wp-content/themes/sahara-10/submissions/painting_03.jpg

http://illusion.scene360.com/wp-content/themes/sahara-10/submissions/painting_01.jpg

[BestButchBoy]

Edward Hopper painted New York Movie as an oil on canvas in 1939. It is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

http://www.edwardhopper.info/i/New_York_Movie.jpg

[BestButchBoy]

I did a version of this for a class in which we were to have a visual conversation vis a vis existing works of art. Certainly inspires one to think creatively. Nonetheless, this is, in my opinion, a great drawing. Picasso is another fave.

http://www.nga.gov/images/noncol/torsofs.htm

[EnderD_503]

@SuperFemme, do you happen to know who did that first Don Quixote themed painting you posted? I really liked it and would love to see some of the artist's other work.

http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/bosch/death-miser/death-miser.jpg
Hieronymus Bosch - Death and Miser
All his paintings are really huge, believe it or not this is one of the smaller ones. If it's still too big lemme know and I can just drop a link in instead.

http://www.vaasapages.com/pics/art/AkseliGallenKallela/kullervos_curse236x423.jpg
Akseli Gallen-Kallela - Kullervo's Curse

http://www.webexhibits.org/pigments/intro/i/ThorZ.jpg
Marten Eskil Winge - Tors strid med jättarna/Thor's fight against the giants

I really like John Howe's art as well. He does mostly Beowulf and Tolkien/fantasy themed stuff. His site blocks you from left clicking so here are a few links to some favourites.

The Argonath http://www.john-howe.com/portfolio/gallery/details.php?image_id=86
Moria Gate http://www.john-howe.com/portfolio/gallery/details.php?image_id=78
Boromir http://www.john-howe.com/portfolio/gallery/details.php?image_id=1700
Beowulf and the Dragon http://www.john-howe.com/portfolio/gallery/details.php?image_id=2160

[SuperFemme]

Ender D,

Here is a link to the artist: http://puzzles.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octavio_Ocampo

[Diva]

Another Maxfield Parrish from the '20's......

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v397/warrrreagl/Mxsmlda.jpg

[hippieflowergirl]

http://adolfwoelfli.ch/content/uploads/bon_ami_copy2_lg.jpghttp://adolfwoelfli.ch/index.php?c=showPic&lang=e&level=4&sublevel=5&id=189&parent_id=103

[Jedi]

I saw one of my fav artists....M C Ecsher at a local exhibit this weekend. One of my alltime favs. Could have been an ispration..I learned a lot about him.

[BestButchBoy]

Classic Georgia O'Keeffe New York years---one of my favorites. Great composition, and well, composition is everything!

http://www.artinthepicture.com/artists/Georgia_Okeeffe/moon.jpeg

[rockybcn]

Osias Beert...his still life paintings are phenomenal.

http://images.google.es/images?hl=es&q=Osias+Beert&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=zfi-S9elC8j__Qae-9TwBg&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=1&ved=0CA8QsAQwAA

[Gemme]

http://adolfwoelfli.ch/content/uploads/bon_ami_copy2_lg.jpghttp://adolfwoelfli.ch/index.php?c=showPic&lang=e&level=4&sublevel=5&id=189&parent_id=103

I would love to have this as a background on sheets of paper for my penpal and craft projects. Lovely!

[BestButchBoy]

http://www.artquotes.net/masters/freud-lucian/freud-painting-a-painter.htm



Lucian Freud ~ A Painter, 1962

[Jet]

Botero, The Bathroom

http://i489.photobucket.com/albums/rr257/lionoflionsman/Picture17-3.png

[BestButchBoy]

Yet, another Edward Hopper favorite of mine:

http://rippleeffects.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/nighthawk-by-edward-hopper.jpg

[BestButchBoy]

http://artinvestment.ru/content/download/news/20090306_moonlight.jpg

Edvard Munch

[always2late]

My favorite artist is Gustav Klimt. I love all his work, but one of my favorites is "Danae". I am technologically challenged and I'm not sure how to post a pic of it here. But here is a link.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dana%C3%AB_(Klimt_painting)

[BestButchBoy]

My favorite artist is Gustav Klimt. I love all his work, but one of my favorites is "Danae". I am technologically challenged and I'm not sure how to post a pic of it here.


http://tarotreiki.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/danae.jpg

[BestButchBoy]

http://www.newsmakingnews.com/art/arthoppergroundswell.jpg

[daisygrrl]

http://www.americamagazine.org/images/articles/flannery-book.gif

I'm not sure about the creator, but this is magnificent...I've always been "drawn" to O'Connor's work and her own conflict with christianity....

The crit book is entitled "Obedient Imagination"--apt, eh?

[BestButchBoy]

http://www.hockneypictures.com/works_paintings_90_12.php




I am particularly fond of Hockney's photography, however, I also appreciate his simplistic (and similarly stylized) paintings. Geometry seems to play a key role in a lot of Hockney's pieces. Check out this web site, if you so desire.

[BestButchBoy]

http://www.artexpertswebsite.com/pages/artists/picasso/Picasso_PortraitOfTheArtistsMother1896.jpg

[BestButchBoy]

http://www.artistsguilds.com/art/Chagall.jpg




In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.—Marc Chagall

[Diva]

Waterhouse
http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x189/tdevine7/waterhouse.jpg

[BestButchBoy]

http://www.michaelarnoldart.com/paulKlee-RedBalloon.jpg

[Down2marsboi]

I can RELATE to MOST art forms and ARTISTS...But I do have to say that I LOVE Vincent Van Gogh, Marcel Mouly, and of course Peter Max.

[DapperButch]

you know we happen to have two wonderful artist right here at the planet! It would be great if we had their images here.

Metropolis and Key - look at their profile and art. Amazing!

We have more than 2.....

Queen of Queens....
little man......
Rain.........

There are more.....we have some mighty talented artists among us here on The Planet!




Yep! I just purchased/received one of Met's paintings...amazing stuff...

I will need to look to see what others have up!

[Jet]

wow Peter Max! Are you old like me?
he was really popular back in the day and he's doing stuff!!!

[Cyclopea]

http://voidmanufacturing.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/hans-bellmer.jpg

http://balkon.c3.hu/balkon04_07/images/unheim_Bellmer.jpg

http://anartjunkie.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/hans_bellmer_1.jpg

[WILDCAT]

... just "Frida".


:wheelchair:


:stillheart:

[Cyclopea]

Hans Bellmer is not "my favorite"- don't know that I have a "favorite".
But one I love. :)
I likes me some surrealism!

[Cyclopea]

... just "Frida".


:wheelchair:


:stillheart:

I like her too!
http://www.abcgallery.com/K/kahlo/kahlo3.jpg

http://z.about.com/d/arthistory/1/0/o/b/fk200708_03.jpg

http://lisawallerrogers.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/a-few-small-nips-by-frida-kahlo-1935.jpg

Another great surrealist!

[Cyclopea]

For some reason the link to Kahlo's "My Birth" failed, above...
Let me try again:
http://lh6.ggpht.com/_SUBGzd1BG60/SXVnl2VhDAI/AAAAAAACDeM/OAkYj4QnB2I/Kahlo,+My+Birth+1932.jpg

Fun Fact: Pop artist Madonna owns the original..

[BestButchBoy]

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/120/304054111_cf70fc2f2e.jpg?v=0


How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these. - George Washington Carver

[Down2marsboi]

wow Peter Max! Are you old like me?
he was really popular back in the day and he's doing stuff!!!


Let's JUST say I'm YOUNG at HEART...Forty something. *lol* No, I actually saw SOME of his Work about 5 or 6 years ago and really liked it.

[Cyclopea]

pVSUtX79Og0

[Cyclopea]

39j7bypVxL8

[BestButchBoy]

http://media.nowpublic.net/images//fc/2/fc26225bb4f25a4ccc90b0c16c499751.jpg

[Nat]

What a hard question! I seriously don't have a favorite.

Right now, I'll pick The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch

http://lchris32.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/bosch_garden_earthly_delights.jpg

He was just so random and so ahead of his time.

http://morris108.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/bosch-garden.jpg

http://channelalex.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/mr763the-garden-of-earthly-delights-hell-right-wing-of-triptych-c-1500-posters.jpg

http://www.hieronymus-bosch.org/Triptych-of-Garden-of-Earthly-Delights-(right-wing)-(detail-1)-c.-1500.jpg

http://www.artnewsblog.com/images/earthly-delights-1.jpg

http://www.naomirae.com/images/Bosch_Detail_from_Garden_of_Earthly_Delights_1996. jpg

[Massive]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f5/Basilpot.jpg/365px-Basilpot.jpg

This hangs in the Laing Gallery in my adopted home town of Newcastle Upon Tyne, it's free to go in to the gallery, so I've been known to stand and look at it for hours on end ...

[Nat]

I also love Edvard Munch's Madonna

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~museum/armory/galleryk/K_197_245b.b.jpg

[Nat]

One of my favorite poems (with images added)

Museum Piece

The good grey guardians of art
Patrol the halls on spongy shoes,
Impartially protective, though
Perhaps suspicious of Toulouse.

http://static.royalacademy.org.uk/images/width370/z-mon-17-44-47-monprints-la-832.jpg

Here dozes one against the wall,
Disposed upon a funeral chair.
A Degas dancer pirouettes
Upon the parting of his hair.

http://dakotadisco.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/degas2.jpg

See how she spins! The grace is there,
But strain as well is plain to see.
Degas loved the two together:
Beauty joined to energy.

Edgar Degas purchased once
A fine El Greco, which he kept
Against the wall beside his bed
To hang his pants on while he slept.

http://www.artchive.com/artchive/e/el_greco/thumb/el_greco_peter.jpg

— Richard Wilbur

[Nat]

The Ecstasy of St. Teresa
Bernini 1650 something or another

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e4/Teresabernini.JPG


I love this sculpture for the faces, the calm delight of the angel with the arrow about to relieve the panting straining anticipation of St Teresa (as evidenced by her orgastic expression) I love religious art that parallels the divine penetration with a more carnal one.

One of my absolute favorite sculptures

[Licious]

The Kiss. Klimt. Oldie, but a goldie (and I do mean gold, lol)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gustav_Klimt_016.jpg

[Nat]

I guess I'll stop my posting orgy after this, but I wanted to add the Nike (or "Winged Victory") of Samothrace. She may be headless, but she's powerful and magnificent. She's from the 3rd century BC.

http://www.fantasyarts.net/images/angwingedlg.jpg

http://www.bankofathens.co.za/home/images/nike.jpg

http://www.dl.ket.org/humanities/sculpt/images/nike_.jpg

[Licious]

Hmm...seems I still make mistakes when I put the url in the image thingie for the jpeg thingie ... anyone can pm with instructions, greatly appreciated. :blink:

[scootebaby]

while living in Philadelphia i got a chance to go to the Museum of Art there. This painting caught my attention and i have loved it since!
http://www.peterpaulrubens.org/101227/Prometheus-Bound-1610-11-small.jpg (http://www.peterpaulrubens.org/101227/Prometheus-Bound-1610-11-small.jpg)


"Promethus Bound" by Peter Paul Rubens!

[Toph]

Jacques-Louis David (30 August 1748 – 29 December 1825) most of his portraitures were painted in his own image...very ego maniacal

Eugène Delacroix (French, 1798–1863) The Abduction of Rebecca painted (1846) a scene taken from Sir Walter Scott’s historical novel Ivanhoe

[Diva]

Dante Gabriel Rossetti
(late 1800's)
Pre~Raphaelite

http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e136/gothicearthangel/Dante_Gabriel_Rossetti_The_Day_Drea.jpg

[BestButchBoy]

http://www.vggallery.com/painting/f_0066.jpg

[BestButchBoy]

http://blindflaneur.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/mary_cassatt_in_the_opera_1880.jpg



At Boston's Museum of Fine Arts

[vixenagogo]

http://www.yellowbellywebdesign.com/hoch/tamar1.jpeg

hannah hoch
-tamar 1930

Tamar depicts a mannequin figure of a women seated, arms crossed, looking down at a sea lion. Ultimately the pose suggests a domination over the sea lion which is much smaller in scale compared to the mannequin. Yet the tamer appears to sit in a meditative pose, while the sea lion engages the viewer with a sly, uncanny gaze. Upon closer inspection the seal lion is wearing makeup, and the mannequin appears porcelain like and looks quite passive. Moreover, the eyes of both sea lion and mannequin look almost the same, unifying the two images. These contradictions promotes confusion about who really is dominant the mannequin or the sea lion.

Hoch poses the question which pair of eyes is engaging the viewer. First we see pair of eyes and then the other. In this way the viewer is confused between subject and object.. Hoch uses this confusion in terms of gender, posing

[BestButchBoy]

http://www.wallcoo.com/paint/Matisse/images/Henri_matisse_Paintings_ml0008.jpg

[Passionaria]

I recently discovered her work. I love the sensuality mixed with powerful representations of women.......

http://www.pengal.com/jpg/iluj0540.jpg

http://www.pengal.com/jpg/iluj0528.jpg

http://www.pengal.com/jpg/iluj0504.jpg

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_03xx2zG4d0I/SZNVvdrckyI/AAAAAAAAGcc/Vt0FhBqRrjg/s400/006+Jia+Lu.jpg

[Cyclopea]

http://phomul.canalblog.com/images/Robert_Frank_metropolitan.JPG




http://www.lizkuball.com/blog/images/070324-Robert_Frank_02.jpg




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[BestButchBoy]

http://www.artsconnected.org/media/4e/07/9fa4eab242929fee1a55c45e1de7/1024/768/1660.jpg

[Duchess]

FCYjSYfH5zI

[BestButchBoy]

http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/ll197/ole_willers/matisse118.jpg

[BestButchBoy]

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_5nQV6m3uPno/SK7YhneLN6I/AAAAAAAAC8g/5yTBqjzPISQ/s400/Mary+Cassatt+sleeping.jpg






A long time ago I gave my late mother a card with this painting for Mother's Day. She liked it immensely. It reminder her of me and her. This is the most influential reason why I like this painting.

[*Magic_and_Silk*]

I have two favorite artists.
Both are Surrealists.
Dorothea Tanning and Salvador Dali.

My favorite painting used to be "The Lady Of Shalott" by Waterhouse.

Now, I have seen so much Art that I can not commit to one favorite painting without qualification. I think it would depend on the category. But, I won't bore you with details.

[violaine]

chiura obata -

http://www.askart.com/AskART/assets/member/687/68719/6541_86627_GallopingHorse.jpg


his trees, mountains, oceans, moonlight, clouds, snowscapes, teachings, - everything -

http://www.hanga.com/artists/chiura-obata/images/obata.gif

[BestButchBoy]

http://lisawallerrogers.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/madame-x.jpg



More about this painting: http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/16.53

[BestButchBoy]

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/images/h2/h2_10.228.1.jpg



Wish I were there right now!

[BestButchBoy]

http://www.softpedia.com/screenshots/John-Singer-Sargent-Screensaver-235-Paintings_2.png

[Andrew, Jr.]

Diane Romanello - any of her works. You will enjoy her. :flowers:

[Cyclopea]

http://www.allthingsbeautiful.com/all_things_beautiful/images/themythofpalestinepart_1.jpg

http://www.mess.net/galleria/dix/1919moonwoman.jpg

http://homepage.mac.com/dmhart/WarArt/Dix/WarTriptychDetail.JPG

http://martalikesnoise.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/otto-dix.jpg

[Cyclopea]

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1331/568200071_94c6f995ac.jpg?v=0

http://sexualityinart.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/romaine-brooks-una-troubridge-1924-a.jpg

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XwRCoG9Isd8/S1HS3Yr9lPI/AAAAAAAAKHA/zpIBIdgQdPo/s640/Romaine+Brooks.jpg

[BestButchBoy]

http://www.nesegallery.com/parthenon/triglyphs/store/products/To%20Meet%20Thine%20Consort%20Carrie%20Graber.jpg

[Oneida]

Grant DeVolson Wood (February 13, 1891 – February 12, 1942) was an American painter, born in Anamosa, Iowa. He is best known for his paintings depicting the rural American Midwest, particularly the painting American Gothic, an iconic image of the 20th century.

"American Gothic” depicts a farmer and his spinster daughter posing before their house, whose gabled window and tracery, in the American gothic style, inspired the painting’s title. The models were actually Grant’s sister Nan and their dentist. Wood was accused of creating this work as a satire on the intolerance and rigidity that the insular nature of rural life can produce; he denied the accusation. American Gothic is an image that epitomizes the Puritan ethic and virtues that he believed dignified the Midwestern character.

http://www.dailyartfixx.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/American-Gothic-Grant-Wood-1930.jpg



You can also see American Gothic in 3-D on Michigan Avenue, Downtown Chicago. You might be as tall as the suitcase.

http://www.fadingad.com/blog/chicago/chicago_american_gothic.jpg

[BestButchBoy]

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_TJkl-F6aTHU/ShM1rifNI9I/AAAAAAAAACg/rccdjPs4pGQ/s400/picasso_bull.jpg

[BestButchBoy]

dipFMJckZOM&feature=related

[BestButchBoy]

http://www.gallery280.com/images/artists/graber/Stiletto.jpg

[Tucker]

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y86/lovecausessuicide/charlotte-lj-cls.jpg


http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y86/lovecausessuicide/c-07-11x7.jpg


http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y86/lovecausessuicide/austra-octogirls.jpg

[Oneida]

http://www.som.com/resources/content/5/0/4/4/0/9/0/8/images/ChicagoCivicCenter_Picasso.jpg

[Oneida]

Brazilian artist Nele Azevedo created 2000 ice sculptures and placed them on the steps of Berlin Opera Hall to melt in order to raise awareness of global warming.


http://whitenoiseofeverydaylife.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/melting-ice.jpg?w=578&h=377

http://whitenoiseofeverydaylife.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/ice-sculptures-by-brazilian-artist-nele-azevedo-melt-on-the-steps-of-berlins-concert-hall.jpg?w=457&h=306

[Oneida]

http://www.todayandtomorrow.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/dvdp.gif

[gotoseagrl]

Edward Hopper

love realism. his work hits home.

http://blogs.tympanictheatre.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/hopper.jpg

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_h5OBr__m1rs/SiNiOJa5ntI/AAAAAAAAASY/HUlkljZq1XU/s400/edward-hopper-rooms-by-the-sea-10769.jpg

http://www.150.si.edu/images/10girl.jpg

[gotoseagrl]

Rene Magritte Les Liaisons Dangereuses

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DtsajQefh2s/RrLSmgsGsVI/AAAAAAAAGq8/TzqN4JZ88as/s400/Magritte,+Liaisons+dangereuses,+1936.bmp

[BestButchBoy]

http://www.artknowledgenews.com/files2009dic/John-Singer-Sargent-The-Derelict.jpg

[femmedyke]

This piece was created for me by my beloved for my 31st birthday. It really takes me to my happy place. . . Truly one of the most touching gifts I've ever received

[ l o v e ]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v651/cruel2bekind/brag.jpg

[BestButchBoy]

http://www.oceansbridge.com/paintings/artists/recently-added/amedeo-modigliani/big/amedeo-modigliani-XX-Madame-Georges-van-Muyden-1917.jpg


Simplistic. Rudimentary style. Yet, compelling.

[Zora77]

http://echostains.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/dorothea_tanning_.jpg

[Zora77]

R and Zoe

http://lh3.ggpht.com/_os78kZMn4L0/SrGwru4nPzI/AAAAAAAABRI/BbjzRPdaVhc/r+and+zoe+2005.JPG

Transformer

http://lh3.ggpht.com/_os78kZMn4L0/SrGwr8faqfI/AAAAAAAABRM/0i6RHZEqGnU/Transformation++%231+2009.JPG

Woman With Bird

http://lh6.ggpht.com/_os78kZMn4L0/SrGwqhjO11I/AAAAAAAABQ4/FWdWONsAz3c/Woman+with+Bird+%231+2009.JPG

[BestButchBoy]

http://jemima.files.wordpress.com/2007/01/cgsunlitpoetry.jpg

[Nat]

Edward Hopper

love realism. his work hits home.

http://blogs.tympanictheatre.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/hopper.jpg



This is how I feel this morning

[Diva]

The Dancer by Douglas Kent Hall

http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa111/hamish_06/AB6326.jpg

[*Magic_and_Silk*]

The Dancer by Douglas Kent Hall

http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa111/hamish_06/AB6326.jpg





Diva,
This is absolutely beautiful.

[BestButchBoy]

http://www.artrepublic.com/attachments/image/523/13523/13523.jpeg

[Diva]

I adore Mary Cassatt....... "At The Theatre"
http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff260/Humanities_2007/theater.jpg

[afixer]

not my favorite but I likes it a lot.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/71/The_ManTree_Bosch.jpg

[afixer]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/80/GardenED.jpg

[Kätzchen]

http://www.paintingsite.net/images/renaissance_history_the-birth-of-venus.jpg

The Birth of Venus by Alessandro Botticelli (c. 1485-1486) ...
for its symbolization of love, beauty and fertility - the noun form of "Venus" in Latin means love and desire - shares a connection with venerari (meaning - to honor, to try to please) and venia (grace, favor)


http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4f/Stained_Glass_at_Incarnation_Catholic_Church,_Glen dale,_California.JPG

Stained glass window located at the Incarnation Catholic Church in Glendale, CA.

I totally love art from the renaissance period and stained glass windows in chapels or cathedrals - I would really like to travel in extensively in the US and in Europe to see collections of art and visit as many architectural treasures as possible, someday!

[BestButchBoy]

http://www.cel-ebration.com/TONY%20BENNETT-%20GOLDEN%20GATE%20BRIDGE%20-%20LTD%20ED%20c%20ARTIST.jpg


ART IS FULL OF SURPRISES.

[dark_crystal]

Joseph Cornell, all of it, here is one example called "Tilly Losch"
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/12/14552282_c9b694806a.jpg

[gotoseagrl]

Sun in an Empty Room 1963

http://fineartamerica.com/images-medium/sun-in-an-empty-room-oil-painting-reproduction-handpainted-hopper-edward-.jpg


Cape Cod Morning 1950

http://www.tate.org.uk/images/cms/12775w_crewdson_1.jpg

[JustLovelyJenn]

My Grandmother had this Mary Cassatt hanging in our area of her home when I was a child. Its always been one of my favorites.

http://i204.photobucket.com/albums/bb77/JustLonleyJen/paintings-by-mary-cassatt-6.jpg

[Spirit Dancer]

Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Lilith
http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii295/Violetine/Pre-Raphaelite%20Art/lilithdanteGabrielRossetti.jpg
An artist and poet love his work

[Spirit Dancer]

Alma Tadema
The women of Amphissa
http://i651.photobucket.com/albums/uu240/arscenica/Sir%20Lawrence%20Alma%20Tadema/thewomenofamphissa.jpg
I love the artists of
The Pre-Raphaelites Era

[BestButchBoy]

http://www.treadwaygallery.com/ONLINECATALOGS/MARCH2005/paintimages/0806.jpg

[Enigma]

~Johann Heinrich Fussli~


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[BestButchBoy]

http://www.allartclassic.com/img/Pablo_Picasso_PIP025.jpg

[BestButchBoy]

http://www.parisreview.com/images/media/5301_iimgprint_large_bourgeois3.gif


R.I.P. .... http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/31/louise-bourgeois-artist-and-sculptor-is-dead/?src=tptw

[daisygrrl]

http://faculty-staff.ou.edu/L/A-Robert.R.Lauer-1/salome_aubrey_beardsley.jpg

http://www.suspectguru.com/images/museum/6a00d83452159069e200e55081ce2d8834-800wi.jpg

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1406/577148675_e270a8a48d.jpg

Not-so-work-safe (http://uwe.endingthealphabet.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/aubrey-beardsley-lysistrata-04.jpg) <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<clicky at home

[Enigma]

~Women in Art~


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by Philip Scott Johnson

500 Years of Female Portraits in Western Art

Music: Bach's Sarabande from Suite for Solo Cello No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007 performed by Yo-Yo Ma

Nominated as Most Creative Video
2nd Annual YouTube Awards

[Diva]

Rubens

http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q271/o0Mistress0o0Amber0o/Art/RubensArrival.jpg

[Galahad]

http://womenpaintingwomen.blogspot.com/2010/06/karen-kaapcke.html

Today on the Women Painting Women blog
http://www.karenkaapcke.com/

[BestButchBoy]

http://www.florence-tourism.com/web/images/david.jpg


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


Located in Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence, Italy.

“Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.”
Michelangelo

[little man]

http://www.oceansbridge.com/paintings/artists/special/big/sadak_in_search_of_the_waters_of_oblivion_by_john_ martin_1812.jpg

this painting hangs at the st louis art museum. it's always a treat to see.

[Diva]

This lovely Monet makes me want to live there....looking out over the ocean.....

http://i943.photobucket.com/albums/ad273/valentinjouno/monetvareneglisebirm.jpg

[chefhottie25]

Jean Michel Basquiat. Basquiat is was a brilliant postmodernist/neo expressionist artist. Check out Maya Angelou's book Life Doesn't Frighten Me. His intense paintings paired with her words...it is amazing.

[Lady_Wu]

I like Edward Hopper. His realistic yet haunting pictures speak today as much as they did to his time. My favorite picture of his is of a man in alone in a dinner looking across the area. His image of reflection and almost despair speak to me of the way people must feel now, with all the unemployment, foreclosure, etc.
If I knew how to put a picture in a post, I would put that one.
Lady_Wu

[Passionaria]

http://dcscorpiongirl.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/frida_broken-column1.jpg

http://www.imageofsurgery.com/KahlotreEM.jpg

http://rawartint.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/fridakahlowithouthope.jpg


http://lisawallerrogers.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/the-love-embrace-of-the-universe-the-earth-mexico-me-diego-and-mr-xolotl-1949.jpg

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In the face of it all, she lived and loved passionately, without apology, she knew she was worthy of LOVE.
Now that's a real WOMAN, I want to be like her......................

[BestButchBoy]

I like Edward Hopper. His realistic yet haunting pictures speak today as much as they did to his time. My favorite picture of his is of a man in alone in a dinner looking across the area. His image of reflection and almost despair speak to me of the way people must feel now, with all the unemployment, foreclosure, etc.
If I knew how to put a picture in a post, I would put that one.
Lady_Wu


http://rippleeffects.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/nighthawk-by-edward-hopper.jpg

Allow me, it's one of my favorite paintings.

"Nighthawk" by Edward Hopper.

[gotoseagrl]

I like Edward Hopper. His realistic yet haunting pictures speak today as much as they did to his time. My favorite picture of his is of a man in alone in a dinner looking across the area. His image of reflection and almost despair speak to me of the way people must feel now, with all the unemployment, foreclosure, etc.
If I knew how to put a picture in a post, I would put that one.
Lady_Wu


seems to be his most recognizable piece and i agree - the recurring theme of alienation/solitude depicted via these rich "slice of life" images with striking perspectives is what drew me to his work. does hit home.

[BestButchBoy]

http://www.artquotes.net/masters/picasso/picasso_chemise1905.jpg

[BestButchBoy]

http://www.metmuseum.org/works_of_art/collection_database/modern_art/erotic_scene_known_as_la_douleur_pablo_picasso/objectview_enlarge.aspx?page=248&sort=0&sortdir=asc&keyword=&fp=1&dd1=21&dd2=0&vw=1&collID=21&OID=210003565&vT=1


Picasso often painted erotica in his early years. Over 100+ years later, it displays in one of the world's most important museums. Progress.

[rawk]

I did not even know this painting existed until I wandered by it at the Art Institute of Chicago, in 2003. It reminds me of alone time when I was a kid...and is a very candid scene. I've since read up on Balthus to discover he was somewhat of a perverted voyeur; but this piece is just incredible.

http://www.artchive.com/artchive/b/balthus/balthus_patience.jpg

[rawk]

When I visited Paris last December, I could not take my eyes off this craft. She is on the way to Mona Lisa; and I spent around 1 minute at Mona Lisa...and 20 staring at, photographing, and musing on Nike.


I guess I'll stop my posting orgy after this, but I wanted to add the Nike (or "Winged Victory") of Samothrace. She may be headless, but she's powerful and magnificent. She's from the 3rd century BC.

http://www.fantasyarts.net/images/angwingedlg.jpg

http://www.bankofathens.co.za/home/images/nike.jpg

http://www.dl.ket.org/humanities/sculpt/images/nike_.jpg

[JakeTulane]

This painting is called Cliff by Monet. Normandy was the region that Monet loved, and this was painted by him there. To Me.. the serene... the warmth of the painting is what strikes Me.



http://i388.photobucket.com/albums/oo329/JakeTulane/cliff.jpg

[JakeTulane]

Georgia O'Keefe is My all time favorite artist. I love her watercolors especially. The depth in each painting of her's just "wows" Me. This is a pastel that she had done. I was fortunate enough to see her works in a museum out West a few years ago. It is a moment in time I will always remember. The same for visiting the Ansel Adams museum in Monterey, CA.

This one is called Blue Flower and was painted in 1918.



http://i388.photobucket.com/albums/oo329/JakeTulane/3cm423.jpg

[BestButchBoy]

http://www.winslow-homer.com/Sloop,-Bermuda.jpg

[bright_arrow]

http://www.vangoghgallery.com/catalog/image.aspx?fn=images/0474.jpg

Van Gogh has always been a favorite, and particulary his Starry Night and Starry Night Over the Rhone.

Anything related to stars I absolutely love, and the colors captivate me.

[BestButchBoy]

http://cinnabarswan.com/oldsite/parrishs.jpg

[gotoseagrl]

Philosopher in Meditation Rembrandt

http://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/34900/24-00Fall-2001/NR/rdonlyres/Global/8/84746603-B201-4745-978A-8ACF53DC9726/0/chp_rembrandt_meditation.jpg

love Rembrandt lighting.

[BestButchBoy]

http://normandus303.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/matisse-odalisque.jpg

[Enigma]

~ Joanna Chrobak ~


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Born in 1968 in Poznan, Poland, Joanna Chrobak's pale, androgynous subjects strike mystical poses, like deities from another world. They are crowned and surrounded by dream symbols, and wordlessly implore us to decode their messages....

[gotoseagrl]

http://hoocher.com/John_Atkinson_Grimshaw/The_Lady_of_Shalott.jpg

The Lady of Shalott John Atkinson Grimshaw

[BestButchBoy]

Skyscraping! Three fantastic pieces from the New York years.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_jHGfr2_8g_Y/SczzgDumhcI/AAAAAAAAAiM/Q4NcYhWNkuQ/s1600/okeeffe.jpg

[BestButchBoy]

http://www.itsromanticpaintings.co.uk/images/aLoversatLowtide.jpg

[Chancie]

http://www.artwithoutpretense.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/John-Singer-Sargent-Fum%C3%A9e-d%E2%80%99ambre-gris.jpg

[Nat]

http://artpassions.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/ppk26_exquisite.jpg

Exquisite Fairy Dancing " from Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens: Arthur Rackham.

http://artpassions.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/psyche_golden_box.jpg?w=450&h=694
"Psyche Opening the Golden Box" by John William Waterhouse
(I'd rather this be Pandora in a way - I had forgotten that Psyche opens a box too. :))

[Nat]

I do love children's book illustrations. and maybe specifically involving mice?

Brambly Hedge

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_FnMnkE9HtUM/SrKSKSvk6GI/AAAAAAAAB38/3zcar5KrMb8/s400/bramblyfall3.jpg

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61C1PXFXW0L.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3241/2753520396_2fae59ecfc.jpg?v=0

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Beatrix Potter

http://www.aestheticrealism.net/Aesthetic-Potter/TailorMouse-web.jpg

http://www.fiction.us/potter/tailor/tailor_files/24-tb.jpg

http://www.fiction.us/potter/tailor/tailor_files/12-tb.jpg

http://www.fiction.us/potter/tailor/tailor_files/28-tb.jpg

okay so here's the whole story with illustrations (http://www.fiction.us/potter/tailor/tailor.htm) for anybody else who loves this little story

[Damara]

~Tim Cantor~

Swan Lake - Rome

http://img197.imageshack.us/img197/5192/ballerinagt.jpg


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Three Wishes

http://img63.imageshack.us/img63/8918/threewishes.jpg


You can observe a sound and find sincerity in one’s own expression
I could be wrong, but I think you can see one’s soul
In their answer to one question
A question that has been written in each culture and creed
It is a question put forth by children age three
And pondered by elders
Over afternoon tea
This question is posed in both city and sea
This is the question as painted by me…

Given three wishes
What would they be
?
Three answers find way in this single depiction
Sent through the creatures I have rendered and written
To whom speaks my thoughts as they utter three wishes
They arrive by the senses as three wishes are listed
Three wishes
Painted
Colored and Rubbed
My first wish is to be friends with the wickedly snubbed
So those that seem strange and fall viciously dubbed
Can live in a world
Knowing they too can be loved

The second is at odds with the first wish of three
For it is picked by the sight of man’s natural decree
The next wish is that we could all be masked at first
So the features of blood could not be judged by birth
It seems that this wish is for peace on earth
But this is a wish to break a long living curse
So all living things
Can design their own self worth

Wish number three is for my bride and me
My most yearning wish as I sip this black tea
I want us to be breathing
When a hundred years have surpassed
Yet my true wish is to be watched by the lives that have passed
And to know that when dead
We continue to last
This is the wish I most wish that could be

Undying love

Is my wish number three

[BestButchBoy]

http://www.massculturalcouncil.org/gallery/samples/AmySudarsky8.jpg

[*Magic_and_Silk*]

Salvador Dali!!!!!!!!!!!!

He is my favorite painter because he was an original, he did not follow the rules and he never let anyone tell him what he should paint. He just DID IT! He painted from the subconscious and from the realm of dreams.

This is "SWANS REFLECTING ELEPHANTS"

http://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k285/sagedahlia/dali.jpg

"THE TRANSFORMATION OF NARCISSUS"
http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c143/jackfoe/Dali/Dali.jpg

[BestButchBoy]

http://www.wallcoo.com/paint/Matisse/images/Henri_matisse_Paintings_ml0006.jpg


Eventually, Matisse developed an unmistakable style.

[BestButchBoy]

http://www.treehugger.com/mark-langan-art.jpg

Mark Langan is an artist whose medium is the cardboard boxes tossed by his neighbors. The corrugated edges create a surprisingly intriguing texture and flow the pieces. Very cool.

[Gemme]

http://www.treehugger.com/mark-langan-art.jpg

Mark Langan is an artist whose medium is the cardboard boxes tossed by his neighbors. The corrugated edges create a surprisingly intriguing texture and flow the pieces. Very cool.

This is flippin' awesome.

[Toughy]

I am a lover of the Impressionist and abstract painters. Can't say I have a particular favorite although I have a great love for Georgia O'Keefe's paintings from her time in New Mexico. It feels like home to me....which makes sense because I am a native New Mexican.

Matisse, Frida Kahlo, Dali, Monet........

If anyone is ever in Washington DC, I highly suggest you go to the National Museum of Women in the Arts http://www.nmwa.org/ This is my favorite Museum in DC.

[Boots13]

Every time this thread pops up I think, with no hesitation, about mom. She's been involved in art for ages, masters in art history, had a dream of opening a gallery with international recognition (which she accomplished) , and really never followed the rules...shes done textiles, oil, pastel, carving, clay, looms, photography and some of the stuff she's created leaves me scratching my head...but I think art is supposed to do that.

She's is my favorite.

I'll post a temp pic in the gallery -

[Isadora]

http://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n111/DeborahIsadora/paintings-by-mary-cassatt-3.jpg

[BestButchBoy]

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/131/373400790_72b720ed3c_b.jpg

[Isadora]

http://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n111/DeborahIsadora/OliveGrovef0585.jpg

I have this hanging in my office.

[Isadora]

http://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n111/DeborahIsadora/Renior.jpg

[gotoseagrl]

http://www.painting-palace.com/files/145/14500_L_Arc-En-Ciel_f.jpg

L' Arc-En-Ciel Jules Breton
1883

[Mitmo01]

http://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n111/DeborahIsadora/OliveGrovef0585.jpg

I have this hanging in my office.

This is interesting...I quite like the movement and the colors

[Mitmo01]

http://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n111/DeborahIsadora/OliveGrovef0585.jpg

I have this hanging in my office.


I did not realize this was a Van Gogh even though it was in the title lol.....MY god i Need that hanging on my wall I love it

[Isadora]

http://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n111/DeborahIsadora/StaryNight.jpg

I love these paintings. The Institute of Art in Chicago has an amazing Impressionist exhibit filled with Van Gogh's, Monet's Cassatt's Reoir, Manet, and Marisots. If you have never been it is a must see.

[Isadora]

http://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n111/DeborahIsadora/Tolliette-berthe-morisot-.jpg

[Isadora]

http://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n111/DeborahIsadora/NanabyManet.jpg

This is the courtesan Nana, which Manet painted. He liked to paint "real" people.

Impressionism... color, movement, painting from feeling not for accuracy...lots of painting of ordinary people (rather than only the rich having portraits painted)...

Impressionism was shocking and vulgar. It was too emotional to violent, to bold....!

[Isadora]

I did not realize this was a Van Gogh even though it was in the title lol.....MY god i Need that hanging on my wall I love it

It is lovely. I look at it every day and marvel. The original is huge ummm globs of paint and colour. It is amazing in so many ways.

[Soon]

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kpj3a7jDar1qzewxgo1_r1_500.jpg