What's your favorite painting/artist and why? - Page 14

BestButchBoy · 08-11-2010, 04:11 PM

For me, Hopper is a master of light.

Apocalipstic · 08-11-2010, 04:26 PM

Ted Williams

Apocalipstic · 08-12-2010, 10:04 AM

I love the Impressionists and paintings of Monet's pond are fabulous. The colors calm me.

BestButchBoy · 08-16-2010, 03:10 PM

Great whimsy combined with simplicity of expression.

jenny · 08-16-2010, 03:13 PM

My favorite is a Deacon Trust piece of an angel in the woods. Now, that sounds pretty and innocuous, but Deacon Trust is an Outsider artist, and the angel looks pretty much like a Power Puff girl with crazy eyes and a blue dress with a white stain on it (which earned her the middle name "Monica")... I love her because she's so completely unexpected and I smile every time I look at her.

Oh, and did I mention there's glitter in the painting? How can you not love fine art that includes glitter???

BestButchBoy · 08-19-2010, 04:49 PM

weatherboi · 08-19-2010, 06:02 PM

i have been exploring the museum of bad art.

turasultana · 08-19-2010, 07:31 PM

I've always loved Franz Kline

weatherboi · 08-19-2010, 08:15 PM

Acquired from the trash in Boston.

BestButchBoy · 08-21-2010, 07:06 AM

"A man paints with his brains and not with his hands."
~Michelangelo

cresnt · 08-21-2010, 09:03 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BestButchBoy

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.

Browsing through everyone's choices of images, I'm struck by your choices. Great assembly of form and texture. Love also the found object piece. Great eye.

Zora77 · 08-21-2010, 11:28 AM

Galahad · 08-21-2010, 02:16 PM

http://www.sadievaleri.com/work_01.html

Another great live female artist.

BestButchBoy · 08-22-2010, 04:42 PM

"A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art."
~Cezanne

Abigail Crabby · 08-22-2010, 04:56 PM

My first love has always been Impressionism

But I enjoy art in all it's forms

I'm especially loving the Mark Langan posted earlier in this thread.

I am drawn to Jackson Pollock - I feel like I can see into his head thru his paintings.

I adore Ruebens

BestButchBoy · 08-23-2010, 05:42 PM

"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance."
-Aristotle

BestButchBoy · 08-27-2010, 03:40 PM

“Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.”
~G. K. Chesterton

Outlaw · 08-27-2010, 04:21 PM

Jean-Leon Gerome (French, 1824-1904)
Pygmalion and Galeta
Oil on Canvas, 35 x 27 in.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York

From Ovid's Metamorphoses, X, in which Pygmalion, a sculptor fell in love with an ivory statue he had carved.

"Pygmalion made offerings to Venus and made a wish. "I sincerely wished the ivory sculpture will be changed to a real woman." However, he couldn’t bring himself to express it. When he returned home, Cupid sent by Venus kissed the ivory sculpture on the hand. At that time, it was changed to a beautiful woman. A ring was put on Galatea's finger. It was Cupid’s ring which made love achieved. Venus granted his wish."

BestButchBoy · 08-28-2010, 05:36 AM

always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
e. e. cummings

Tucker · 08-28-2010, 06:56 AM

08-11-2010, 04:11 PM	#261
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08-16-2010, 03:10 PM	#264
BestButchBoy Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Male ID Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 3,925 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 406 Thanked 5,459 Times in 2,038 Posts Rep Power: 21474854	Love This Piece! Great whimsy combined with simplicity of expression.

08-16-2010, 03:13 PM	#265
jenny Member How Do You Identify?: queer femme Relationship Status: inquire within Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: NJ Posts: 956 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 434 Thanked 1,594 Times in 579 Posts Rep Power: 5091117	My favorite is a Deacon Trust piece of an angel in the woods. Now, that sounds pretty and innocuous, but Deacon Trust is an Outsider artist, and the angel looks pretty much like a Power Puff girl with crazy eyes and a blue dress with a white stain on it (which earned her the middle name "Monica")... I love her because she's so completely unexpected and I smile every time I look at her. Oh, and did I mention there's glitter in the painting? How can you not love fine art that includes glitter??? __________________ "How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." ~ Anne Frank “Life's most persistent and urgent question is: 'What are you doing for others?'” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

08-19-2010, 04:49 PM	#266
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08-19-2010, 06:02 PM	#267
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08-19-2010, 07:31 PM	#268
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08-19-2010, 08:15 PM	#269
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08-21-2010, 07:06 AM	#270
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08-21-2010, 11:28 AM	#272
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08-21-2010, 02:16 PM	#273
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08-22-2010, 04:42 PM	#274
BestButchBoy Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Male ID Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 3,925 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 406 Thanked 5,459 Times in 2,038 Posts Rep Power: 21474854	"A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art." ~Cezanne

08-22-2010, 04:56 PM	#275
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08-27-2010, 03:40 PM	#277
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08-27-2010, 04:21 PM	#278
Outlaw Member How Do You Identify?: Cocksure Preferred Pronoun?: Cotton Candy Swami Relationship Status: Loved and Loving Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Home Posts: 241 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 966 Thanked 498 Times in 126 Posts Rep Power: 6766756	Romance Jean-Leon Gerome (French, 1824-1904) Pygmalion and Galeta Oil on Canvas, 35 x 27 in. The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York From Ovid's Metamorphoses, X, in which Pygmalion, a sculptor fell in love with an ivory statue he had carved. "Pygmalion made offerings to Venus and made a wish. "I sincerely wished the ivory sculpture will be changed to a real woman." However, he couldn’t bring himself to express it. When he returned home, Cupid sent by Venus kissed the ivory sculpture on the hand. At that time, it was changed to a beautiful woman. A ring was put on Galatea's finger. It was Cupid’s ring which made love achieved. Venus granted his wish." __________________ All Rivers Lead To The Sea...

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