Favorite Artists?

[captainofbeef]

Which artists are your favorites and what are your favorite works by said artists?

[captainofbeef]

I love him as well. Munch is my personal favorite. I was elated to see one of the versions of "Scream" when I visited the Metropolitan in New York.

[sacrilegend]

Pieter Bruegel


The Triumph of Death


The Fall of The Rebel Angels

The Elder

And one that I forgot the name of, and can't find...

My favourite artist at the moment though, is Hieronymus Bosch.

Thsi is my favourite triptych by him:


It's omni-title is The Garden Of Earthly Delights, but the first painting depicts Paradise (Eden), the middle: The Garden of Earthly Delights, and the last Hell.

Other favourites by him include The Crucifixion, Anbetung


Das Jungste Gericht

[sacrilegend]

I remembered the name of my favourite painting by Pieter Bruegel. It's called:

Netherlandish proverbs

[sacrilegend]

I had it in a book, where it covered two BIG pages, and it had notes on different things going on. I like when you could just stare at a picture for ages and never get bored, that's why I like these. And the Bosch triptych is just the most amazing piece of work I've ever encountered, and also the best example of patience and discipline. If you look carefully, there isn't one millimetre of this painting that didn't reciece all of his attention. I'll teach you to like this! It's just fascinating. I think my liking these paintings has to do with my passion for knowing things and my intense hatred of boredom. Here are a few bigger ones of the triptych, some are zoomed in, use the original as a guideline:

[Nomansvally]

I don't like Bruegel's paintings... Too apocalyptic and middle age for me. I love abstract and beauty on canvas. ;D

My favorite artist is for the moment Michael Parkes.

Favorites:

The Creation


Gargoyles


Tuesday's Child


Water Music


Also, I like abstracts by Joan Miro, Wassily Kandinsky and Alfred Gockel very much.

Alfred Gockel's Tickle Your Fancy I.

This painting is one of my very favorite paintings.

I can mention that a bunch of Max Ernst's surrealistic paintings and just few Salvador Dali paintings like MeditativeRose 1958 and NatureMorte Vivente do me good.

[sacrilegend]

Those seem like paintings I'd like. I hate geometric abstract art though, so I don't really enjoy the last painting you posted. I love Tuesday's Child and The Creation, they're beautiful.

I like the idea of a lot going on in paintings, and the "fuck you" the the general direction of the people. Do you like Bosch's triptych?

[PTAhole]

Monet is probably my favorite at the moment.

[Nomansvally]

sacrilegend said:

Those seem like paintings I'd like. I hate geometric abstract art though, so I don't really enjoy the last painting you posted. I love Tuesday's Child and The Creation, they're beautiful.

I like the idea of a lot going on in paintings, and the "fuck you" the the general direction of the people. Do you like Bosch's triptych?

I see. For me Bosch's triptych are too much. Besides Middle age paintings are so diabolical and apocalyptic, I can't stand them. I like to watch a painting with sparkling beauty not inferno. I admire the artist for being able to express his visions, but I prefer minor settings, a small number of characters/objects/subjects that are very detailed and beautiful.

[sacrilegend]

I can understand perfectly where you're coming from, but I'm just the opposite. My motto is boredom = death, so I need a lot of stimuli and things to look at, and the uglier things are the more I am fascinated by them. I like to find beauty in the grotesque.

[Nomansvally]

All right, so is gothic art more like your thing?

by the way what's the picture over "Time for cake and sodomy.", the profile picture?

[sacrilegend]

Ah well, I'll have to see some more to decide that! It's Antony and The Johnsons, I don't know exactly WHAT, but it's something to do with them.

I like things that freak people out, and I don't necessarily look at art for the beauty, but for the thoughts that went into them.

I recently discovered this masterpiece that a lot of thought has went into, is very symbolic and also recurring, and is also incredibly beautiful:


The Awakening of Conscience by William Hunt. Give me a chance and I can pick this painting apart on almost fifty pages.

I like when you can think about paintings and identify things in them and just look and look and look forever.