Favourite painter?

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Fionnan2

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My own favourite painter (out of a very long list) of all time is Caravaggio. I really admire his use of light and the moods he was able to bestow upon the canvas. It would be interesting to hear of other peoples favourite painter.
 
Mostly Monet, Dega, to some extent Van Gog. They always take me back to the vineyards of Provence and the Mediterranean which I love from the bottom of my heart. Or to Paris which always welcomes me with the smell of perfume and summer sun.
 
1. Hieronymus Bosch. Especially The Garden of Earthly Delights. Love the detail.

2. M. C. Escher. I got a print of Waterfall in my office at work.

3. Claude Monet. I sat and just stared at Water Lilies for the longest time.

4. Edward Hopper. I especially love Nighthawks

5. Vincent Van Gogh. I saw Starry Starry Night at the Guggenheim and just went “Whoa!”

6. Hishida Shunso. Yeah, it’s the cats.

7. Raja Ravi Varma. I get lost in his world.

8. Norman Rockwell. Grew up with his calendars. 12 new paintings every year. Ah, memories.

9. C. M. Coolidge. How can anyone *not* like dogs playing poker? Always makes me smile.

10. Olivia. Especially the Bettie Page paintings.
 
(Which I know annoys people who do know something, but oh, well.) I had a hard time pinning it down to one, so here are my completely uneducated opinions:

Tintoretto (I like his luminous feeling)

Van Gogh (I just like "Starry Night", mostly)

Tim and Greg Hildebrandt *ducks*
 
including the British Impressionists - Turner etc.

I also love watercolors, and own a couple of originals by local artists. The climate of the Pacific Northwest makes for landscapes that are best captured by that medium it seems.
 
are nature with:
Albert Bierstadt (and other transcendalists) for landscapes and
Eugine Garin for seascapes

And the human divine with:
Maxfield Parrish
Paul Detlesen
Norman Rockwell
 
Van Gogh, my first art love.
Utagawa Hiroshige
Bethe Morisot
Mary Cassatt
A number of ancient Greek artists
Gustave Caillebotte
Eduoard Manet
Gustave Klimt
Leonardo da Vinci
Salvador Dali

...and any number of artists who don't come to mind at the moment. [crazy]
 
I like landscape art a lot, for similar reasons that I like LotR- it inspires a romantic view of the natural environment. Turner is my favourite with his epic lighting and mythological themes.

Another landscape artist I love is Hokusai, with his beautiful balanced compositions. Though I suppose he's a printmaker rather than a painter.

The most amazing paintings to see in person are probably the works of the old European masters. Rembrant is really incredible, his portraits are always so captivating and lit in a way that doesn't reveal everything and stirs your curiousity.

For something more fun, I like playful abstract art like Picasso and Miro, and a jazz inspired artist called Alan Davie.
 
Although I'm no expert, I love his paintings. I first saw his work in the Houston Museum of Fine Arts. They had a painting called The Elder Sister which both Mr. Eruvande and I loved.
I think we both like the realistic appearance of his subjects.
 
Like "What's your favourite movie", this is a highly tricky question.

So, I'd pick Bosch, Mantegna and Magritte as my favourites, though many others come very close, like Caravaggio, Raphael, or Klimt.
 
It is also capturing the divine through human rapture:).
It is also the forms of trees and the 'dappled' light that passes through them, columns and human forms which amaze me.
 
View of Toledo
I just think that picture's hauntingly beautiful!! I have an art teacher mom, so I kind of shyed away from art like that for a while before it kind of grew on me (you know...trying to be different and all that)- but this one is always my favorite.
 
El Greco was my choice for my very first serious paper about an artist, which I did back in high school, so he will always have a special appeal for me, as it was through his works that my eyes were opened up to the world of art...

The Cleveland Museum of Art also had a few of his religious works which were very meaningful to me when I was a more active church goer. And years later, I was lucky enough to see the View of Toledo at a traveling show that came to (of all places) Toledo, Ohio. I still have a framed print of the exhibit poster!

Hope you got a chance to see some of his works when you did your traveling around overseas earlier this year!
 
The Group of Seven. Canadian artists who painted mostly landscapes up here in Canada. Tom Thomson is probably my overall favourite from the group, also happens to probably be the most popular. His painting titled 'The Jack Pine' is one of my favourites. Thomson died rather mysteriously in a canoeing accident in 1917 at Algonquin Provincial Park. He was an avid canoer and spent a lot of time in the wilderness in the vast Algonquin Provincial Park close to Ottawa, Ontario. According to some stories he spent so much time in the park he was sort of considered a honourary park ranger, and would sometimes give canoe tours. I was lucky enough one year when I lived in Ottawa to visit the National Art Gallery of Canada, where they had a massive Group of Seven display. Just blew my mind. I can just get lost in some of those scenes. Thomson has some cult figure status as well up here, for instance, he is mentioned in the Canadian band The Tragically Hip's song 'Three Pistols'. Anyway, if you like wilderness landscape paintings, just google the Group of Seven, they'll show up.
 
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