And Your Favorite Painting?

[20rogersc]

Good call, Banksy's great!

Yeh, who I was going to say.
A couple of my favourites . . .

::20ROGERSC::

 

[PlaceofDis]

there are a lot of painters that i love. Dali, Esher, Picasso, Van Gogh, but i think right now Alex Grey has some of the most interesting work going for him. and he uses some pretty cool surfaces for his paints such as linen with oil paint. awesome guy.

 

[Plymouthbreezer]

La Persistencia de la Memoria because of the painting itself and the meaning behind the painting.
-Chasen

That's right up there on my top 10. I <3 Dalí.

I also love anything that's photorealism:

 

[Greencardman]

I have quite a few that I love, but probably the favorite is "The birth of Venus" by Botticelli. (The Adobe Illustrator girl for those of you who don't know where she came from). I also like Piet Mondrian's stuff, which looks deceptively simple yet strangely interesting. And lastly, Peter Behrens and Alphonse Mucha, which don't really count I suppose because one is a woodcutting and I think the other was done for a pack of cigarettes (well, painted to go on one, he didn't actually get paid a pack of cigarettes I suppose).

 

[katchow]

Cool thread!

My avatar is based from a painting made by my favorite artist -Joey Slaughter.

wow, i just checked out some of his work. pretty amazing. i always thought your avatar was a piece of Klimt painting

 

[devilot]

I realize this thread is over a year old...

...but I figure it's worth reviving.
Someone recently reminded me that an important part of life is appreciating beauty...

Note: All the images are clickable thumbnails, click for larger versions.

Last fall, I went to the de Young in SF and just absolutely fell in love with Wayne Theibaud's Three Machines. A detail shot I took myself:



And I have yet to see any in person, but I have grown quite fond of some of Milton Avery's works.

 

[Allotriophagy]

I like anything with loads of detail; something you can find something new in every time.

So the top two would be these. Allegorical and also important for non-artistic reasons.

Bosch's "The Garden of Earthy Delights" :

And Brueghel's "The Triumph of Death" (I also really like the title) :

But probably my favourite artist is Avril Paton, whose work is of things I have actually seen and were once surrounded by. They're very comforting. The following two are on my walls :

I saw the full-size original of the last one in Glasgow - it's huge and so detailed. 48" x 60"!

 

[siurpeeman]

Edward Hopper, Nighthawks...

one of my favorites. another is starry night, which is the design of my credit card. as for my absolute favorite, it's a bit of americana. norman rockwell's freedom from want.

 

[BoyBach]

JMW Turner: Fishermen at Sea

 

[jdechko]

Starry Night is among my favorites, along with the Creation of Adam Detail on the Sistine Chapel, which is my favorite.

 

[OwlsAndApples]

2 of my 5 favourite artists have already appeared (Bridget Riley, I have 'fall' on my wall) and Hopper. Also to help Blue Velvet out, Sonia Delaunay has produced some fantastic works!

I love Julian Opie's work and David Hockney, just brilliant

I am going to see the Guernica in a couple of weeks, which is defintely up there in my faves:

I can't leave out the Bauhaus artists, so here's Feininger's Sailboats:

 

[FrankieTDouglas]

My favorite paintings are by a fellow MFA student at LA Tech, Joshua Chambers. I've never really been a big fan of paintings, but I really, really dig his stuff!

The first one I'm showing is my favorite one by him, while the two others are some others that I really enjoy.

 

[Ugg]

Way more intriguing than the mona lisa and can be viewed at arm's length instead of over the heads of hundreds of other museum visitors.

 

[spicyapple]

I'm going to pretend I know enough about Art and Art history to have a favourite, so here it is...

I chose Emily Carr's paintings because she was the first artist I ever studied in-depth as part of our curriculum.

 

[mariahlullaby]

I am also a fan of Magritte:

Always been my favorite.

 

[thedude110]

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I've taught that painting so many times -- a great way to get kids to grapple with questions of appearance and reality.

One of my favorite teaching memories is using that painting and some Gertrude Stein to try to convince a group of 18 year olds that the table I was sitting on didn't exist. Made some real headway, except with all those practical people.

 

[obeygiant]

I love this Carravagio of Bacchus. I believe its also a self-portrait.
He looks like such a partier.

http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/caravaggio/bacchus.jpg

 

[joshua chambers]

thanks for the compliment andy bloxham. i think i teared up a little when i saw this.

i think the photo of you hiding in the alley is my favorite on you site: www.andybloxham.com
joshua chambers
www.joshuachambers.com

 

[Melrose]

Nighthawks has got to be one of favourites.

Perhaps my favourite for style and light is Maxfield Parrish:

The Girl with the Pearl Earring by Jan Vermeer

I love Vermeer's style.. His one of that woman in the red hat is good also.

Magritte, Seurat, and Turner.

 

[robanga]

My Favorite

 

[tkermit]

Currently one of my favorites:

'Pygmalion and Galatea' by Jean-Léon Gérôme