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Favorite Artist?

Tony

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Who is your favorite artist?

What is your favorite style or movement?
 
KelvinG said:
Artist: Piet Mondrian

Movement/Style: De Stijl
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Good one!! But why is that your favorite?

For its time it was cutting edge, but dont you find it a little TOO simple and restrictive?
 
Tony said:



Good one!! But why is that your favorite?

For its time it was cutting edge, but dont you find it a little TOO simple and restrictive?
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I like it cause it's simple. The strict geometric forms and minimal use of color and shape are relaxing to me. I have one hanging above my computer that I'm looking at right now (No, not an original!!). It blends into the room nicely. I'm something of a minimalist, I suppose.

Of course, this is but one art movement that I like. I'm a big fan of dadism/surrealism, and expressionism.

On a recent trip to London I saw some Van Gogh's work and was blown away by the vibrancy of the colour and brush stroke. You have to see a Van Gogh close up to appreciate how amazing it is.

How about you, Tony? What's your favourite?
 
Caravaggio - hands down.

All of his work is superb and his use of chiascurro is even better than Rembrandt's imho.
 
Ben Hampton. Being a minimalist, Ben Hampton’s work is the only thing in my home that could be described as decoration. I enjoy bare surfaces and bare walls with the exception of a well placed print. Most of Hampton’s scenes are depictions of landscapes of the southeast and many of Chattanooga, TN’s (from whence I come) land area. His use of understated colors and the rustic, even “ugly” (twisted trees, and such), quality of some of his scenes fit well into my minimalist preferences.
 
Well, at the risk of sounding mainstream, I have to say Salivdor Dali and Surrealism. I have a poster of "Temptation of St Antony" on my wall. I'm surprised this painting hasn't been adopted by the religious movement: It's portrayal of a wizened man with a fragile cross holding off giant monsters with one hand on a rock pretty much sums up what Christianity should be about.

However, I suspect your modern-day Christian would be more comfortable with the image of a large tank crushing cockroaches under the tracks.
 
van Gogh and Mondrian are both great choices. Van Gogh is sort of funny--everyone makes such a big deal about him, you almost have to ask how his paintings can live up to expectations. But then when I see one of them in person--or even just a decent reproduction-- I think, "Wow."

I'm pretty fond of Whistler.
 
Richard Serra, Laurence Weiner, John Copelans.

All for different reasons.
 
Maxfield Parrish, Roger Dean, Frederick Church and Norman Rockwell. It took me a looooong time to appreciate Rockwell because of his subject matter. But once I got past my ignorance about what he was trying to accomplish, I found he had an uncanny eye for detail. His tables and books and food exsited in real space and time. His paintings just didn't suggest things, they were there. I don't know if I'm explaining it clearly enough, but what an eye he had.

And Maxfield Parrish doesn't get nearly as much recognition as he deserves!!!

Michael
 
Marc Chagall

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Alberto Giacometti

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I like Jackson Pollock's work. They call him an abstract expressionist but really he's a surrealist. I just like the light and texture of his work, and the way his pictures could be anything from satellite photos of the earth to skin cells seen through a microscope. Or even paint thrown randomly at a canvas.
 
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