Post your favorite artist

[Buh4Bee]

I would have to say my favorite artist at the moment is Georgia O'keeffe.

I was just going to post her.

[ftil]

I don't know how to insert thumbnail but music and paintings work very well.

Futurism was an artistic and social movement that originated in Italy in the early 20th century. It emphasized and glorified themes associated with contemporary concepts of the future, including speed, technology, youth and violence, and objects such as the car, the airplane and the industrial city. It was largely an Italian phenomenon, though there were parallel movements in Russia, England and elsewhere. The Futurists practiced in every medium of art, including painting, sculpture, ceramics, graphic design, industrial design,interior design, theatre, film, fashion, textiles, literature, music, architectureand even gastronomy. Key figures of the movement include the Italians Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Umberto Boccioni, Carlo Carrà, Gino Severini, Giacomo Balla, Antonio Sant'Elia, Tullio Crali and Luigi Russolo, and the Russians Natalia Goncharova, Velimir Khlebnikov, and Vladimir Mayakovsky, as well as the Portuguese Almada Negreiros. Important works include its seminal piece of the literature, Marinetti's Manifesto of Futurism, as well as Boccioni's sculpture, Unique Forms of Continuity in Space, and Balla's painting, Abstract Speed + Sound (pictured). Futurism influenced art movements such as Art Deco, Constructivism, Surrealism, Dada, and to a greater degree, Precisionism, Rayonism, and Vorticism.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futurism

Carlo Carrà (February 11, 1881 – April 13, 1966), an Italian painter.

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Umberto Boccioni

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Gino Severini (7 April 1883–26 February 1966), was an Italian painter and a leading member of the Futurist movement. For much of his life he divided his time between Paris and Rome. He was associated with neo-classicism and the "return to order" in the decade after the First World War. During his career he worked in a variety of media, including mosaic and fresco. He showed his work at major exhibitions, including the Rome Quadrennial, and won art prizes from major institutions.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gino_Severini

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Joseph Stella (June 13, 1877 – November 5, 1946) was an Italian-born, American Futurist painter best known for his depictions of industrial America, especially his images of the Brooklyn Bridge. He is associated with the American Precisionism movement of the 1910s-1940s.

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Vorticism, was a short-lived modernist movement in British art and poetry of the early 20th century. The Vorticism group began with the Rebel Art Centre which Wyndham Lewis and others established after disagreeing with Omega Workshops founder Roger Fry, and has roots in the Bloomsbury Group, Cubism, and Futurism. Lewis himself saw Vorticism as an independent alternative to Cubism, Futurism and Expressionism.

Wyndham Lewis

[ftil]

I don't like symbolism as many paintings evoke negative feelings. However, it is interesting to see mythology themes.



George Frederic Watts (23 February 1817 – 1 July 1904) was a popular English Victorian painter and sculptor associated with the Symbolist movement.

George Frederick Watts - Paintings (1 of 3)





George Frederick Watts - Sculptures (2 of 3)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJYPnEk_K58


George Frederick Watts - Paintings (3 of 3)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EduwGsF6LFI

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Franz von Stuck (February 24, 1863 – August 30, 1928), ennobled as Franz Ritter von Stuck in 1906, was a German symbolist/Art Nouveau painter, sculptor, engraver, and architect.

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Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (14 December 1824 – 24 October 1898) was a French painter, who became the president and co-founder of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts and whose work influenced many other artists. His work is seen as symbolist in nature, even though he studied with some of the romanticists, and he is credited with influencing an entire generation of painters and sculptors. One of his protégés was Georges de Feure.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Puvis_de_Chavannes

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Jean Theodoor Toorop (20 December 1858 – 3 March 1928), better known as Jan Toorop, was an Indo (Javanese Dutch) painter, whose works straddle the space between the Symbolist painters and Art Nouveau.

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Bertrand-Jean Redon, better known as Odilon Redon (April 20, 1840 – July 6, 1916), French symbolist painter.

[Scheherazade]

Ftil> Could I please ask you just to post links to these videos rather than embedding them into your posts as they are slowing the Forum?

Those who are interested will click on the links and watch them on youtube rather than youtube, I am sure.