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[Bleep1673]

Who is you favourite artist/sculputer and what is your favourite painting?

Mine is the Umberellas by Renoir, National Gallery
although I do love Seurat Bather at Asniers , and Joan Miro Miro: The Garden

[tonyXIII]

Adolphe Valette. Almost any of his images of early 20th century Manchester are good for me, but there is one of a shadowy figure standing by the canal during a thick fog. It so reminds me of the fog in Manchester when I was a child in the 50s and 60s. The figure shows elements of what later became Lowry's style. Sadly, my wife hates the stuff and won't let me put it on a wall, so it's all hidden in one of our cupboards.

[gingerjon]

Vilhelm Hammershøi

For example:

[WearyRhino]

I love the work of John Atkinson Grimshaw - not the pre-Raphelite fairy stuff but the later city nightscape/moonlight stuff of Leeds/London.

I used to own a piece by Ralph Freeman, a St Ives based artist who has done a lot of work influenced by survival of the holocaust often incorporating genuine documentation. Very moving stuff.

I am unmoved by traditional portraiture or landscapes and have yet to be truly impressed by any of the traditional 'masterpieces' that I have seen. Although,as I lived with a 2' x 3' copy of 'The Haywain' as a kid I was blown away by the actual size of the real thing.

[l'angelo mysterioso]

stanley spencer
wyndham lewis
monet
tracey emin
bridget riley
picasso
edward hopper

[Bleep1673]

This of Salvador Dali is about 12 inch square, the detail that went into it is amazing close up, in Madrid

http://en.wikipedia....efore_Awakening

[WearyRhino]

stanley spencer
wyndham lewis
monet
tracey emin
bridget riley
picasso
edward hopper

Yes, Bridget Riley - I used to have a 'Bridget' above my desk in my office at work on loan from the Arts Council Collection. We use to have an Eduardo Paolozzi in the photocopying room too!!

[paley]

Yes, Bridget Riley - I used to have a 'Bridget' above my desk in my office at work on loan from the Arts Council Collection. We use to have an Eduardo Paolozzi in the photocopying room too!!

And several Cy Twomblys in the creche - at least they looked like his work

[Phil]

The Pre-Raphaelites, don't know why but their stuff touches something in me.

Edited by Phil, 14 August 2011 - 10:05 PM.

[Futtocks]

This is a very useful resource for art lovers - The Artcyclopaedia website.

[Stevo]

I like some of Goya's work - for me he was way ahead of his time, and his paintings capture many of the darker truths of modern human existence.

Also love Kandinsky - to me his best paintings are like draftsmen's sketches, but realised with the colour and expressiveness of children. I find them hugely enjoyable.

[terrywebbisgod]

Bob Ross.
John Atkinson Grimshaw.
Monet.
Picasso.
Dali.
Keith Haring

Edited by terrywebbisgod, 15 August 2011 - 01:33 PM.

[paley]

Bob Ross

He (from the grave) has a facebook page - you get updates about happy trees.

[Phil]

Vilhelm Hammershøi

For example:

I like that very much

[Futtocks]

Edvard Munch was an interesting painter, and deserves to be known for more than just 'The Scream'. Here's one if his Madonnas.

[WearyRhino]

Edvard Munch was an interesting painter, and deserves to be known for more than just 'The Scream'. Here's one if his Madonnas.

There's definitely a gag in there somewhere!

[Futtocks]

Moving on to commercial art, I have always loved the really stylish poster artists like Cassandre, Mucha and Erté.

[Honor James]

Impossible to choose just one (or even one hundred] but here are four.


Miguel Angel Buonarotti .... incomparable genius


Paul Gauguin - Ta-Matete `We will go to the market'


Jan Vermeer - Girl with a Pearl Earring


Claude Monet - White Water Lillies


LS Lowry - (one among many called) `Street Scene' (these people in this street just being normal)

:-)

Edited by Honor James, 15 August 2011 - 03:23 PM.

[Honor James]

and ..... how could I have forgotten to put him in?





Joseph Mallard William Turner - master of atmosphere, master of the light, master of the seas and as yet unmatched British genius

[tim2]

As a collection, or collections, I really enjoyed the Musee d'Orsay in Paris. Great setting (in the old railway station) and a really well laid out set of exhibitions plus some great paintings, especially impressionists.