What's your favorite painting/artist and why?
 

First to mind is the artist Sandro Botticelli, who sadly threw many of his own pieces on a bonfire during the Medieval period.

The Birth of Venus
http://trilogy.brynmawr.edu/guides/u...ticelli001.jpg

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

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

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

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

del lagrace volcano continues to be my favorite photographer because of ze's subjects, passion, & activism. <clicky--please>

I Hate Art But I Love Photography.
 

In case it's not abundantly clear, I love photos that don't look like photos.
 

My favorite photographer is still Ansel Adams.

I'm sorry, Ansel, I didn't mean to leave you out.
 

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/y21...s/hb_89211.jpg

a few that come to mind
 

I like Mapplethorpe
http://studio360.files.wordpress.com...plethorpe3.jpg

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

Warhol
http://www.moma.org/collection_image.../CRI_64524.jpg

Lichtenstein, my fav pop artist.
http://images.artnet.com/artwork_ima...chtenstein.jpg

http://atuleirus.weblog.com.pt/arqui...chtenstein.jpg

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!

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

Franz Marc, died at age 36
 

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

http://www.reproarte.com/files/image...wasserfall.jpg

http://www.harpers.org/media/image/b...marc-tiger.jpg

http://www.infinitereflections.co.uk...e%20forest.jpg

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.

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://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...soGuernica.jpg

What a FABULOUS thread!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 

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!

Hands Down.
 

Gustav Klimt

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_BRuW8SVcJH...nae-152060.jpg

http://www.artinthepicture.com/artis...imt/death.jpeg

Marc Chagall
 

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.


[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gi9lVkkFvRI"]YouTube- Marc Chagall, el amor tierno.[/ame]

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

Thanks to All
 

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.

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_...oy_450_902.jpg


http://www.pentictontoday.com/pictur...200984036A.jpg


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

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HsN0oPi5hU...wrenHarris.jpg

http://i265.photobucket.com/albums/i...ali_DAS021.jpg

http://i265.photobucket.com/albums/i...io_77/Dali.jpg
{ Salvador Dali }

http://i265.photobucket.com/albums/i...7/MatisseZ.jpg
{ Matisse }

http://i265.photobucket.com/albums/i...ul_Cezanne.jpg
{ P. Cezanne }

http://i265.photobucket.com/albums/i...rySugimoto.jpg
{ henry Sugimoto }

http://i265.photobucket.com/albums/i...o_77/Kahlo.jpg
{ Frida Kahlo }
*Of all her paintings, this one kept me thinking of my own Mortality...*

http://i265.photobucket.com/albums/i...iegoRivera.jpg

http://i265.photobucket.com/albums/i...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*}*

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...7/sandoval.jpg

He's famous for stuff like this:
http://theindecisivemoment.files.wor...ard_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?

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


http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...l/Maxfield.jpg

My love for ballet and Degas' use of chiaroscuro makes him my favorite painter. My fav painting is Ballet Class, #7 in the video.
 

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

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhAdJdHkiZw"]YouTube- Edgar Degas[/ame]

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

have you seen his little yellow horses?

http://www.1st-art-gallery.com/thumb...low-Horses.jpg

frederick leighton
 

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


http://www.interfaith.org/forum/atta...n-flaming-june

Flaming June - 1895

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

Rubin Gogan Pink Dawn
 

http://i737.photobucket.com/albums/x...7-10_thumb.jpgg

Thanks Jack!

From Ansel Adams moonrise over Hernandez
 

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

Edward Hopper's painting Gas.

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