Favorite Artist

[DianaBanana]

I love Dali. Looking at his work is like looking at some crazy dreams. Great stuff.

[Mistomeer]

Van Gogh. I'm a big fan of impressionists.

[Back]

Big Dali fan here. Whats cool about his work is the realism of the figures in a dream like world. He had a really strange upbringing also.

Reading a book on Klimt right now. Certainly, I'm a an even bigger fan of the female form. His portraits have studied realism, but again, on a more ornate backdrop. This book says he paints the figures first, nude, then fills out the rest. They have a picture of one of unfinished works that corraborates it.

Having looked through all the Surrealist and Dada art for quite a while, I'm starting to turn towards enjoying classical and baroque renaissance.

[Ravenstorm]

Yes, Dali is excellent and certainly a favorite. Heironymus Bosch (http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/bosch/) is also quite good and, if you like somewhat stranger more macabre work, H.R. Giger (http://www.hrgiger.com/frame.htm).

Raven

[Nakiro]

Michaleangleo (sp? I know its bad).

Yah, the 16th Chapel thing was pretty cool.

[TheEschaton]

I remember, I once saw Guernica in Spain. I've thought Picasso is the best since then.


-TheE-

[Celexei]

Dali - no contest, ever flipped through a Dali Art book at 4 in the mornin on hardcore acid? if not...try it

[Artha]

Dali's cool even without the acid.

[Celexei]

agreed, but with the acid? WOOOHHHOOO

[Kurili]

Degas


Kurili

[Gan]

Bev Doolittle

Norman Rockwell

[Hips]

Jean Baptiste Camille Corot.

[Kitsun]

Uhhh... I like Nene Thomas.

http://www.nenethomas.com/

That was my first instinct when I saw the title of the thread so I'm sticking with it.

[Shadya]

Joel Peter Witkin and Annie Leibovitz

[Valthissa]

Sculpture - Rodin (the gates of hell is just unreal - I saw it in DC some years ago and just stood there for probably 20 minutes, thinking, this man was a genius)

Middle ages - Durer

Impressionist - Van Gogh

living favorite - Missakian ( I have a few of his works)

C/Valth- wishing I had the tools to post some of the art around our house....I love all kinds of art

[AnticorRifling]

I like Monet

The wife loves Van Gough

I can generally find something I like during any artistic movement, I'm very open in my artistic tastes.

MC ESCHER and his crazy ass tesselations.

[TheEschaton]

Sculpture - Rodin (the gates of hell is just unreal - I saw it in DC some years ago and just stood there for probably 20 minutes, thinking, this man was a genius)



Rodin is actually at Buffalo's Albright Knox Museum. They shipped in the Thinker as well. It's pretty damn amazing.

-TheE-