Your favourite artist and Painting

[Kyriakos]

Great paintings, and so serene

[Emil Miller]

Yes it's pretty different, but if you look at dates you discover that the laundry was created 15 years later.

Yes, it's this aspect that is causing a lot of trouble on the 'Guess the Painting' thread.

[Sebas. Melmoth]

Find much of Signac's work very restful. For example,
http://www.paul-signac.org/The-Harbo...888-large.html

Ditto many of Hopper's works:
http://www.museumsyndicate.com/item.php?item=9653
http://www.museumsyndicate.com/item.php?item=470

On the wall I've a nice framed litho from Nederland of Escher's Three Worlds.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Worlds

[Emil Miller]

Find much of Signac's work very restful. For example,
http://www.paul-signac.org/The-Harbo...888-large.html

Ditto many of Hopper's works:
http://www.museumsyndicate.com/item.php?item=9653
http://www.museumsyndicate.com/item.php?item=470

On the wall I've a nice framed litho from Nederland of Escher's Three Worlds.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Worlds

I don't think Hopper can be overrated. It was said of Monet that he was 'only an eye'. As far as mid-20th century America is concerned, Hopper is his equivalent.

[DanielBenoit]

Kazimir Malevich

[Emil Miller]

This one's called Red Square, guess what your's is called ?

http://www.kazimir-malevich.org/Red-Square.html

[stlukesguild]

I must say Malevich never did anything for me.

Among my favorites of Modernist painters I would have to count the German, Max Beckmann. One of his best would have to be Bird's Hell:



This painting was clearly a comment on the rising violence of the Third Reich. The "Sieg Heil" salutes are unmistakable, and the eagle and fields of red in the background clearly suggest the symbols of the Nazis. The image strikes me as clearly suggestive of medieval art: Images of violence echo the medieval martyrdoms, while the crude, child-like figures crammed in a shallow space recall the horror vacui of medieval sculptural figures jammed in a shallow architectural space on the Gothic and Romanesque churches. The brilliant color offset by heavy bituminous black outlines echoes nothing so much as the medieval stained glass windows with their black lead contours. The contrast of the sheer visual splendor with the horror of the imagery is quite unnerving... especially on the large scale on which this and other such paintings were created.

[Kyriakos]

Very nice painting

[Emil Miller]

Very nice painting

Yes indeed, just the sort of painting to put in the bedroom of a particularly fractious child.

[Kyriakos]

Yes indeed, just the sort of painting to put in the bedroom of a particularly fractious child.

Children are traumatised, as you meant i gather, from such images, but for me it is nice to see something like that, since i like expressionism, and portrayals of violence done in that style

The only thing i dont like in this painting are the sieg heil's, it makes it too obvious, which narrows down the scope of the work in my view.

[DanielBenoit]

I must say Malevich never did anything for me.

Among my favorites of Modernist painters I would have to count the German, Max Beckmann. One of his best would have to be Bird's Hell:

Yes, Beckmann's definitely my favorite among the Expressionists.

I particularly like Four Men Around a Table which seem to illustrate a vain yet sinister bourgeois.



The guy at the bottom left looks like T.S. Eliot to me


Also, I've always thought of Beckmann's Bird's Hell alongside Bruegel's masterpiece The Triumph of Death. Both horrifying representations of atrocities occurring during their own times.

[Emil Miller]

This is an especial favourite of mine; Raoul Dufy' s The Orchestra at Arles.

[seanartfan]

Two of my favorites:

Michael Kalish Art

I love the use of old license plates as a medium for creating portraits of American pop icons.

and

Chuck Close Prints (I love his photorealism)


Amazing how detailed the painting of Brad Pitt looked. I actually thought it was a photograph the first time I saw it on the cover of that magazine.

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[stlukesguild]

Are you sure the Brad Pitt image is a painting? Chuck Close hasn't painted in such a photo-realist manner since his catastrophic spinal artery collapse in 1988 left him severely paralyzed. His works since then are far more loose:



However, the artist has made any number of photographs (as he has done for years) of various sitters... many of whom are well known figures or even celebrities... such as Kate Moss:

[stlukesguild]

Yes, Beckmann's definitely my favorite among the Expressionists.

I particularly like Four Men Around a Table which seem to illustrate a vain yet sinister bourgeois.



The guy at the bottom left looks like T.S. Eliot to me

The guy on the bottom right is actually the artist himself. The figures are each clad in warm garb and gathered around the candlelight clutching a fish, a turnip, and other food stuffs. The painting, done during the war, certainly conveys something clandestine as Beckmann and his friends gather in secret and try to keep warm and enjoy each other's company as well as their simply repast at a time in which any such gathering was illegal and dangerous. The painting certainly alludes to the images of Christ at Emmaus ( especially the image of the fish) and the secretive meetings of the early Christians in the Roman Empire.