Your Favorite Artists/Artworks?

Since ftil keeps pushing the issue, let's see who are your favorite artists and what are your favorite works of art.

You can limit yourself to 10 each... or go for more if you wish. As an artist and someone who has long studied art history I don't think I could limit myself to less than 50:

1. Michelangelo:

http://i1245.photobucket.com/albums/..._libyan2-1.jpg

2. Peter Paul Rubens:

http://i1245.photobucket.com/albums/...rmentsmall.jpg

3. Rembrandt:

http://i1245.photobucket.com/albums/.../th_sp1659.jpg

4. Pierre Bonnard:

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8048/8...c7fc3200_m.jpg

5. Edgar Degas:

http://i1245.photobucket.com/albums/...psac9808a0.jpg

6. William Blake:

http://i1245.photobucket.com/albums/...ps480acfac.jpg

7. Veronese:

http://i1245.photobucket.com/albums/...ennes400-1.jpg

8. Giorgione:

http://i1245.photobucket.com/albums/...h_shepherd.jpg

9. Titian:

http://i1245.photobucket.com/albums/...oli-titian.jpg

10. Raphael:

http://i1245.photobucket.com/albums/...aphael54-2.jpg

11. Bernini:

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8238/8...47024595_m.jpg

12. Giovanni Bellini:

http://i1245.photobucket.com/albums/...Altarpiece.jpg

13. Pieter Bruegel:

http://i1245.photobucket.com/albums/...pse2725f71.jpg

14. Turner:

http://i1245.photobucket.com/albums/...nRailway-2.jpg

15. Max Beckmann:

http://i1245.photobucket.com/albums/...hio/th_135.jpg

16. Matisse:

http://i1245.photobucket.com/albums/...in_assis-2.jpg

17. Fra Filippo Lippi:

http://i1245.photobucket.com/albums/...th_05adora.jpg

18. Albrecht Durer:

http://i1245.photobucket.com/albums/...ps06f0a0fe.jpg

19. Monet:

http://i1245.photobucket.com/albums/...wl-19062-1.jpg

20. Van Gogh:

http://i1245.photobucket.com/albums/...ps8d1bb80e.jpg

21. Vermeer:

http://i1245.photobucket.com/albums/...ps6f690a7c.jpg

22. Ingres:

http://i1245.photobucket.com/albums/...ps6af27884.jpg

23. Rogier van der Weyden:

http://i1245.photobucket.com/albums/...na_undated.jpg

24. Utamaro:

http://i1245.photobucket.com/albums/...ps037210a5.jpg

25. Vuillard:

http://i1245.photobucket.com/albums/...ps68e6681a.jpg

26. Gustav Klimt:

http://i1245.photobucket.com/albums/...ps34e1640c.jpg

27. Joseph Cornell:

http://i1245.photobucket.com/albums/...ps77d4f98f.jpg

28. Paul Klee:

http://i1245.photobucket.com/albums/...psc7d94f95.jpg

29. Modigliani:

http://i1245.photobucket.com/albums/...ps23ab9186.jpg

30. Diego Rivera:

http://i1245.photobucket.com/albums/...ps2b4f0128.jpg

31. Goya:

http://i1245.photobucket.com/albums/...ps41ced640.jpg

32. Caravaggio:

http://i1245.photobucket.com/albums/...pse7714849.jpg

33. Giotto:

http://i1245.photobucket.com/albums/...ps8687d61b.jpg

34. Heironymus Bosch:

http://i1245.photobucket.com/albums/...ps765a5d8b.jpg

35. Fra Angelico:

http://i1245.photobucket.com/albums/...psa27436ea.jpg

36. Eugene Delacroix:

http://i1245.photobucket.com/albums/...ps110a0c27.jpg

37. Anthony Van Dyck:

http://i1245.photobucket.com/albums/...ps668ad5e2.jpg

38. Edouard Manet:

http://i1245.photobucket.com/albums/...ps8bda3f47.jpg

39. Tiepolo:

http://i1245.photobucket.com/albums/...h_06daphne.jpg

40. Gauguin:

http://i1245.photobucket.com/albums/...ps9896c1d8.jpg

41. Rodin:

http://i1245.photobucket.com/albums/...psdeae0da4.jpg

42. Francois Boucher:

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8187/8...1bc1c4f0_m.jpg

43. Antoine Watteau:

http://i1245.photobucket.com/albums/...pse35a8e66.jpg

44. Pierre Renoir:

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8245/8...8864d6ec_m.jpg

45. Maillol:

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8518/8...b991cc2f_m.jpg

46. Fragonard:

http://i1245.photobucket.com/albums/...ps48d577a2.jpg

47. Friedrich:

http://i1245.photobucket.com/albums/...ps94c22ad7.jpg

48. Corot:

http://i1245.photobucket.com/albums/...psd28c71df.jpg

49. Anders Zorn:

http://i1245.photobucket.com/albums/...psb4c2bd75.jpg

50. Winslow Homer:

http://i1245.photobucket.com/albums/...ps6571017d.jpg

The first 15 or so of these artists are largely set in stone... from then on they might rise or fall depending upon my mood... and some one or two might fall out of the list altogether to be replaced by others.

I'll come back later with a list of my favorite paintings/sculpture.

Many, many. Samples: Van Gogh, Gauguin, Dali, Chagall, Mattise, Picasso, Goya, Monet, Kandinsky, Degas, ...

I'll start with the standard I-don't-know-anything-about-art favorites Picasso, Bosch, and Dali. Especially Picasso. And I can appreciate what Jackson Pollock does.

My girlfriend also turned me on to Goya's The Disasters of War series (which is ****ing stunning), and the work of Klimt.

Like books and music, I go through art phases. Right now, I'm on a Poussin kick.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...me_c._1640.jpg

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Originally Posted by stlukesguild

Since ftil keeps pushing the issue, let's see who are your favorite artists and what are your favorite works of art.

You can limit yourself to 10 each... or go for more if you wish. As an artist and someone who has long studied art history I don't think I could limit myself to less than 50:

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As I said many times, you have the unique ability to make me laugh. Thanks.

It is so easy to make you react. Not a good sign.

My list of favorite artists is long too but I am not going to waste my time for Photobucket or post links. I have much more interesting things to do.
I may post here when I will be inspired to do so. :smilewinkgrin:

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Originally Posted by ftil

As I said many times, you have the unique ability to make me laugh. Thanks.

It is so easy to make you react. Not a good sign.

My list of favorite artists is long too but I am not going to waste my time for Photobucket or post links. I have much more interesting things to do.
I may post here when I will be inspired to do so. :smilewinkgrin:

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Ahh the internet where one can say what one pleases without fear of actual human contact rendering their words ridiculous...

It seems from what I see that St.Lukes did you a favor by answering your question and answering it with detail and thoroughness; and your response was, as is expected when a relative stranger does one a favor, an exercise in cruelty and narcissism.

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Originally Posted by J.Steerforth

Ahh the internet where one can say what one pleases without fear of actual human contact rendering their words ridiculous...

It seems from what I see that St.Lukes did you a favor by answering your question and answering it with detail and thoroughness; and your response was, as is expected when a relative stranger does one a favor, an exercise in cruelty and narcissism.

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LOL! Another person who speaks up on behalf of St. Luke. Don’t you think that St. Luke can argue on his own without your help. It is undermining his intelligence.....if you think otherwise.

BTW, it is your third post. So you are new, or perhaps,...... the answer is more prosaic. :reddevil:

ftil has her own agenda... whatever that may be. Mine, here at least, is to simply explore some of the artists and artworks that I like before the thread is inevitably closed again.:rolleyes:

After a long day in the studio, my studio-mates and I often play something of a game (preferably over beer) is which we are asked to "Name the 10/20 paintings you wish you could own." Often we play with limitations: "Name your 10 favorite paintings by a living artist." "What are you 10 favorite landscape paintings?" "What are your 10 favorite non-Western works of art?"

Perhaps I'll start a similar dialog by asking:

"What are your favorite portraits?"

I'll wait this out for a while, before posting my own rather lengthy list of candidates.

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Originally Posted by stlukesguild

ftil has her own agenda... whatever that may be. Mine, here at least, is to simply explore some of the artists and artworks that I like before the thread is inevitably closed again.:rolleyes:

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Oh, St.Luke you really can make me laugh. So you have accused me of “ pushing the issue”which is not true but your assumptions. Then you have asked me about my list of painters. When I refused…… you have made another assumptions that I have an agenda. I thought that you can do better than that. :lol:

I hope that this thread will never be closed. But it is up to you….if you take a serious, or a better word, an honest look what has happened on your previous art threads. :smilewinkgrin:

Accck!!! An artist I most certainly should have included in my top 50:

Odilon Redon:

http://i1245.photobucket.com/albums/...ps44126137.jpg

http://i1245.photobucket.com/albums/...ps2f218b50.jpg

http://i1245.photobucket.com/albums/...psd258dce4.jpg

Redon was a masterful colorist; his imagery was fantastic and fairy-tale like; he had a poetic... visionary touch, and only Degas handled pastel with a greater degree of absurdness and originality. I cannot help but love his work... which I had the pleasure to see in person in a great retrospective in Chicago some 10+ years ago.

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Accck!!! An artist I most certainly should have included in my top 50:

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Hm….I would never keep him on my list. But I would keep Gustave Moreau as I like many of his paintings and George Frederick Watts’ Hope.

A few of G. Moreau's paintings.

Gustave Moreau, The Tatooed Salome

http://www.the-athenaeum.org/art/full.php?ID=8109


Gustave Moreau, The Apparition

http://www.the-athenaeum.org/art/full.php?ID=8027


Gustave Moreau, Goddess on the Rocks

http://www.the-athenaeum.org/art/full.php?ID=8062


Gustave Moreau, Desdemona

http://www.the-athenaeum.org/art/full.php?ID=8105



George Frederick Watts, Hope

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:As...rt_Project.jpg

Here's mine. It's 194 pictures from my Art History set on flickr. One artwork per artist, including painters and sculptors.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/4725704...7623244816627/

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Originally Posted by mortalterror

Here's mine. It's 194 pictures from my Art History set on flickr. One artwork per artist, including painters and sculptors.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/4725704...7623244816627/

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I have noticed that you as well as St. Luke have posed Turner.I love his art.

A few of his paintings.

William Turner, The Lake of Thun, Switzerland

http://www.the-athenaeum.org/art/full.php?ID=21435



William Turner, Landscape: Composition of Tivoli

http://www.the-athenaeum.org/art/full.php?ID=21451



William Turner, Dido Building Carthage

http://www.the-athenaeum.org/art/full.php?ID=20906



William Turner, Eruption of Vesuvius

http://www.the-athenaeum.org/art/full.php?ID=21447


You have also posted Franz Marc's painting, The fate of the animals I like.

Franz Marc, Fate of the Animals

http://www.the-athenaeum.org/art/full.php?ID=20980


Another of my favorite.

Franz Marc, Tiger

http://www.the-athenaeum.org/art/full.php?ID=20972


I didn't know that he painted Orpheus with Animals.

Franz Marc, Orpheus with Animals

http://www.the-athenaeum.org/art/full.php?ID=63860

As stlukesguild already said, t's very difficult naming just a few artworks and artists.

As I've pointed out somewhere else, I have to say Rembrandt's "The Return of the Prodigal Son" seems to me one of the most amazing paintings ever created; the strenght of the representation, the concise use of symbols, the use of colours, Rembrandt just seems to have the ability of drawing together every element to a perfect, and yet warm, synthesis.

I love everything by Rembrandt, but his last works seems to me the epitome of humanity, the same way as Michelangelo was able to depict the divine, Bosch the degradation and Rubens mythological subjects!
I could say pretty much the same for some of the late works by many italian painters, above all Tiziano and Caravaggio.

Titian's late works seems to me beyond simple beauty, they just seems to have gone through the annihilation of matter, so that it becomes difficult differentiate the artist from his very artwork. Think of Titian's The Flaying of Marsyas and tell me if it doesn't bear a similarity to Michelangelo's own portrait as S.Bartolomeo in his Last Judgment!

Another dense painter I admire very much is, of course, Raphael. Raphael is not the painter I like the most as I feel his conception of art, his divine perfection to be beyond my tastes: that's not to say he is not warm, as he may be as warm as many other great painters if not warmer, but, if you get what I mean, I still feel him someway distant.
Anyway his Madonnas are probably the best ever painted making difficult to choose just one work.

Another painter I truly like is Picasso, but in his case is just impossible to have one favourite work or a most representative one, as he probably was the most variable painter I've ever seen...

1) Frida Kahlo:
http://www.fridakahlo.org/my-birth.jsp (My birth)
http://www.fridakahlo.org/the-two-fridas.jsp (The two Fridas)
2) Salvador Dali:
http://www.salvador-dali.com.pl/Salv...eoskopowy.html
http://www.mcs.csueastbay.edu/~malek...ism/Dali1.html
3) John Everett Millais:
http://www.mcs.csueastbay.edu/~malek...ism/Dali1.html
4) Diego Rivera
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pa...s_Rivera_4.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Di...rt_Project.jpg