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Dali and I like HR Geiger's drawings

Im a big fan of the impressionist movement, also surrealism had its good moments. Renoir always comes to mind when thinking of a personal favourite. Theres a local guy who used to have some of his work at my families galery that i loved, it was portraits but they were some of the darkest things id ever seen. Also it may be cliche but I really like Van Gogh. Also Klimt, forgot about him momentarily untill i read over DB's post.


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Many,but above and beyond all: Magritte.

Agreed, good thread this.

For me, I'm a fan of Rothko (this particular example is in the Tate Modern in London)



and Hopper (my fave being Sun In An Empty Room)



On the other hand, I can't stand much of Turner's work. 

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Some of my faves:

Van Gogh

 

Monet

 

Sisley

 

Vlaminck

 

Munch

 

Heckel

 

Lempicka

 

Feininger

 

and above all:

Marc

 

Of course, not even Marc can beat my wife:

See also www.lu-art.com .....

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dude wrote: TE BLOKE WHO PAINTED MY HOUSE WAS PRETTY GOOD!!! CHEAP TO!!!

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

Peace.

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.

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.

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!