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

http://images.google.com/images?q=ta...ed=0CCEQsAQwAA

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

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MT2gAM-ufk...org_kush_1.jpg

I have a passion for surrealism.

http://images.art.com/images/-/Salva...B10087324.jpeg

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

http://www.encore-editions.com/AAA/v...ila_os_6x8.jpg

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

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

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

http://www.cafepress.com/+starry_nig..._pack,18743199

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.

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

Edvard Saint Juste

A master of light!

http://www.princessleia.com/images/M...per2lights.jpg

Fernando Botero
 

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/r...icture21-2.png

http://i489.photobucket.com/albums/r...icture20-3.png

http://i489.photobucket.com/albums/r...icture18-2.png

http://i489.photobucket.com/albums/r...icture16-6.png

http://i489.photobucket.com/albums/r...icture19-2.png

One artist I really like is Vincent Fantuazzo from Australia.

http://i489.photobucket.com/albums/r...icture22-1.png

http://i489.photobucket.com/albums/r.../Picture33.png

http://i489.photobucket.com/albums/r.../Picture34.png

http://i489.photobucket.com/albums/r.../Picture36.png

http://i489.photobucket.com/albums/r.../Picture37.png

Jonathan Yeo
 

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/r...icture24-2.png

http://i489.photobucket.com/albums/r...icture27-1.png

http://i489.photobucket.com/albums/r...icture25-1.png

http://i489.photobucket.com/albums/r...icture23-1.png

In The DeYoung Legion of Honor...
 

(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...00102355_3.jpg

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

John U. Abrahamson
 

Harness I, II, III


http://www.johnua.com/images/gallery...rnessI_lrg.jpg


http://www.johnua.com/images/gallery...nessII_lrg.jpg


http://www.johnua.com/images/gallery...essIII_lrg.jpg

Pierce me with your arrow of love
 

The Ecstasy of St. Teresa
Bernini 1650 something or another

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...esabernini.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.

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/o...eefe-canna.jpg

http://illusion.scene360.com/wp-cont...ainting_03.jpg

http://illusion.scene360.com/wp-cont...ainting_01.jpg

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

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

@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...eath-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/A...rse236x423.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/g...hp?image_id=86
Moria Gate http://www.john-howe.com/portfolio/g...hp?image_id=78
Boromir http://www.john-howe.com/portfolio/g...?image_id=1700
Beowulf and the Dragon http://www.john-howe.com/portfolio/g...?image_id=2160

Ender D,

Here is a link to the artist: http://puzzles.about.com/gi/dynamic/...Octavio_Ocampo

adolf wolfli
 

M C Escher
 

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.

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

http://www.artinthepicture.com/artis...effe/moon.jpeg

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

http://images.google.es/images?hl=es...ed=0CA8QsAQwAA

http://www.artquotes.net/masters/fre...-a-painter.htm



Lucian Freud ~ A Painter, 1962

Botero, The Bathroom

http://i489.photobucket.com/albums/r...icture17-3.png

Yet, another Edward Hopper favorite of mine:

http://rippleeffects.files.wordpress...ard-hopper.jpg

http://artinvestment.ru/content/down..._moonlight.jpg

Edvard Munch

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)

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

Edward Hopper
 

striking--the cover to criticism for Flannery O'Conner
 

http://www.americamagazine.org/image...nnery-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?

David Hockney
 

http://www.hockneypictures.com/works...ings_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.