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.