PAINTERS

maani wrote: 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.

how could I forget my dutch favorite vermeer!!!!!
I've let some out here...

Cluster One:

You jest, of course, re whether any of these painters are "prog."  However, there is a potentially legitimate answer here.

The "proper" question would be: Which artists, or period, would be most "representative" of prog?  There seems little argument that the surrealists would lead here, since they come closest to the "fantast" element of prog.  Thus, Dali, Magritte, Canas, Cornell, and especially Bosch (and also, perhaps, Ernst, Braque, Picasso, Mondrian et al) are probably closest to "prog."

As an aside, I used to date Max Ernst's granddaughter.  A lovely lady, and a very fine artist in her own right.

Peace.

Being my mother an art dealer, I learned to love painters of different eras, styles and nations maybe except movements as the cubism which I don't understand, but some of favorites (including Peruvians) are:

Rafael Sancio

Francisco de Goya y Lucientes

Albert Durer

Michelangelo Buonarotti (Mainly a sculpture, but the Sixtine Chappel is a wonder)

Vincent Van Gogh

Auguste Renoir

Antonio Allegri (Il Corregio)

Carlos Baca Flor (Perú)

Daniel Hernandez (Perú)

Iván