The incomparable Georgia O'Keefe
 

http://i737.photobucket.com/albums/x...7/georgia2.jpg


This is one of my favorites of hers.

I adore contemporary Jaroslaw Kukowski's work! Click here 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.c...shalott022.jpg

John Millais' Ophelia
http://library.thinkquest.org/J00342...is.Ophelia.jpg

a knight & a faery's child...otherwise "The Beautiful Lady without Pity"
 

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

La Belle Dame sans Merci by Frank Dicksee (1903)
http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t...ansMerci-l.jpg

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.

http://i737.photobucket.com/albums/x.../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.

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.

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.

Photography -
 

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

Pop/Contemporary
Roy Lichtenstein
Vincent Fantauzzo

Masters

Wyeth
El Greco
Michaelangelo
Picasso (cubism)

6 years old!
 

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

http://www.art-for-a-change.com/blog...ero_abu_ghraib

http://www.pictures-of-cats.org/imag...y-21162429.jpg

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/uploa...wegener_02.jpg

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

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SFOPPOn45D...400/rafi30.jpg

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

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

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

http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w...sionism027.jpg

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/fhua000...as-meninas.jpg

I also managed to see Picasso's Guernica on that trip too
http://homepage.mac.com/dmhart/WarAr...a/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=...ed=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?im...a%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?im...a%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.

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

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...

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.

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

I love Frida Kahlo

http://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n...rida_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/n...omorphic-C.jpg

oops- I meant "the" not "a" above
 

I also really love the artwork of Aimee Garcia Marrero:

http://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n...3257/Wall1.jpg

http://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n...aCargaWeb2.jpg

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-...tian_queen.jpg


This is Glenkeeper by Alex Horley

http://imagecache2.allposters.com/im.../10264479A.jpg

Stephen Gjerston - a realist
 

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/...id_Bouquet.htm


http://www.classicalrealism.com/art/...s/Metanoia.htm


http://www.classicalrealism.com/art/...mages/Pals.htm

Diva - I totally agree!!!

Georgia O'keefe - Her watercolors are spectacular.

http://i388.photobucket.com/albums/o...e/O27Keefe.jpg

I have many...
 

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!!!

I love the colors that were used by Maxfield Parrish!

http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u...SH-Ecstasy.jpg

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/n...BoyInMirro.jpg

http://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n.../ron_mueck.jpg

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

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwIkJiauV3U"]YouTube- Ron Mueck[/ame]

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!

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

http://www.fashion.at/culture/2009/t...land3-2009.jpg

Amedeo Modigliani
 

Another favorite (again thanks to MQoQ) is Modigliani.


[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVRN_9pnBYk"]YouTube- Modigliani: L'Ultimo Romantico[/ame]

:rrose:

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.

http://www.tqnyc.org/2006/NYC063370/...d_hopper04.jpg


I would love to be on this sailboat!

Hopper is one of my faves!

Elegance is in simplicity.

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.

Fantasy
 

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...es-posters.htm