PAINTERS

Here are some painters I really like...

Salvador Dalí

Rembrandt van Rijn (I have Ayreon to thank for actually finding out his full name!)

Auguste Renoir

Michelangelo

That's all I can think of so far...I'm not a big visual-arts person, usually.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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As an artist myself I love most artists as I repsect what they try to communicate or do through whatever way they feel is appropiate or how they try to master and perfect their style . All movements interest me, however a few of my personal faves are : Salvador Dali, Hopper, Bosch, Tamara de Lempica, El Greco, Munch, Vermeer......the wonders and beatuy of art goes beyond words...

sigod wrote: Cluster One wrote: But are the painters mentioned so far really 'progressive'?

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Cluster One wrote: But are the painters mentioned so far really 'progressive'?

I don't think Dali was overrated, but Max Ernst was definitely UNDERRATED. Strange, seeing he entered a competition whereby artists had to depict the Temptation of St Anthony...Dali entered too, but Ernst won. Tell you anything?

I'm also a fan of Romantic painters: John Martin & Eugene Delacroix!

I did my dissertation on Picasso, still the main man for me, and spent a lot of time studying 20th century modern art. For all his skill as a draughtsman, Dali is massively over rated. In recent years I have come to appreciate the North European Renaissance painters, in particular Bosch, Breughel and Durer.

Incidentally Reed, if you're ever in London check out the Rothko room in the Tate Modern. Those colour field paintings may not look like much on a computer screen, but to see them as they were intended (and they're f***ing YOWGE) is quite a different matter.

Interesting choice of topic DB.

Here is a "short list" () of my favorite painters:

Arp, Bosch, Botticelli, Boucher, Braque, Bronzino, Bruegel, Canaletto, Canas, Caravaggio, Cassatt, Cezanne, Chagall, Church, Constable, Corot, Correggio, Courbet, Cuyp, Dali, Daubigny, DaVinci, Degas, DeKooning, Delacroix, Della Francesca, Donatello, Dubutffet, Duchamp, El Greco, Ernst, Fantin-Latour, Flinck, Fra Angelico, Fragonard, Fra Lippo Lippi, Gaugin, Giacometti, Giotto, Goya, Gris, Grooms, Gropper, Hobbema, Hockney, Homer, Hopper, Ingres, Johns, Kandinsky, Kelly, Klee, Klimt, La Tour, Lichtenstein, Manet, Manray, Magritte, Matisse, Memling, Michelangelo, Millet, Miro, Modigliani, Mondrian, Morisot, Munch, O'Keefe, Oldenburg, Picasso, Pissarro, Pollock, Raphael, Rauschenberg, Rembrandt, Renoir, Rosenquist, Rothko, Rousseau, Rubens, Ruisdael, Seurat, Shahn, sisley, Tanguy, Tintoretto, Titian, Toulouse-Latrec, Turner, Van Dyck, Van Gogh, Vasarely, Velasquez, Vermeer, Veronese, Whistler.

I left out those who were known for "drawings" (from Durer to Escher), sculpture, (from Brancusi to Calder to Moore), collage (e.g., Cornell), and other non-painting media.

Peace.

If I had to have only one artist's paintings in my home, it would be Vermeer, hands down.

Peace.

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