Classic painters...

[Mae]

Who is your favorite classic painter, and what picture of his/hers do you most enjoy and why?

[cowgirltease]

Van Gogh's Irises of course. :)

[Mae]

Severin Roesen's Still Life With Flowers and Bird's Nest (at the Huntington)

I enjoy the detail of the piece and it is very restful.

[jseal]

Mae,

I’m very fond of the Dutch painter, Rembrandt van Rijn. My favorite is Aristotle contemplating a bust of Homer (http://www.abcgallery.com/R/rembrandt/rembrandt36.html).

Rembrandt contrasts the importance of material success, fame, and power, with being true to art. Aristotle is resplendent in the finery provided by his most prestigious pupil, Alexander the Great, but whom the philosopher had failed to form spiritually. He is looking at a bust of the great blind poet Homer. The bust shows us that Homer was poor. What matters more, the material success of a failed teacher or the true art of a pauper?

[Mae]

jseal...My dear sir, you appear to be a true connoisseur.

[BIGbad]

Although I have many favorites one of my top five is Dali

[Lilith]

BigBad i've gone to his museum in St Pete. Amazing to see his work up close.



I love many different artists for many different reasons. I love Klimt's work because he paints like my mind works. When I am looking at something my mind is swirling and racing with a thousand thoughts and he paints the thought right into the painting. In turn which allows my mind to turn off and focus on his work.

[Cheyanne]

LOL! Lil - that first one looks like one of my daughter's slumber parties! I love that one!!! :D

[csjames75]

Wow, those are very nice images. I really enjoyed the reasoning behind why you prefer them as well. This one I bought just after seeing in a poster store. Not sure why it resonates with me, but I've always enjoyed the Harlem Renaissance writers and artists, and William Johnson becomes more interesting to me the more I study him.

[scotzoidman]

My favorite painter is Mel...did one hell of job on my house, & didn't get a drop on the shrubbery...

[Lilith]

Wow, those are very nice images. I really enjoyed the reasoning behind why you prefer them as well. This one I bought just after seeing in a poster store. Not sure why it resonates with me, but I've always enjoyed the Harlem Renaissance writers and artists, and William Johnson becomes more interesting to me the more I study him.
You might be my soul mate. 'Cept my loves go all the way back to Dunbar and Chestnutt.

[wyndhy]

beautiful images
mae- i agreee. the detail on those flowers is tremendous
lil...the color palate of the paintings you chose remind me of your beadwork

i love all types of art and media but my fave is graphite. i can't really tell you why i like this medium the best cause i'm not sure. it's always been my favorite to work with and then, when i was younger, my parents took me to small gallery in soho and they had all graphite drawings on show and i just fell in love.

if i may, i'd like to deviate from the request and show you these from artist laurie lipton

[dicksbro]

I always liked Salvador Dali's "Christ of St. John of the Cross." Perhaps not a true 'Classical' artist, but still a favorite. :)

[jseal]

...still a favorite.

dicksbro,

...and very popular!

[fzzy]

Don't know that mine are so much classic style, but I love almost anything done by Monet, and Georgia O'Keefe ... I think for me with each of these painters it's about the colors they used and the mood that is so much a part of the paintings. I've attached a couple of examples.

[PantyFanatic]

While I like James Abbott McNeill Whistlers’ work, my favorite by far is Square Dance by Frederick Bean Avery.



:rolleyes2

[PantyFanatic]

I just wanted to hang out with the Aristocrat Pixies for a while ;)


:x:

[Lilith]

Don't know that mine are so much classic style, but I love almost anything done by Monet, and Georgia O'Keefe ... I think for me with each of these painters it's about the colors they used and the mood that is so much a part of the paintings. I've attached a couple of examples.
fzzy~ one of the best parts of my trip to Vegas was going to the a Monet exhibit. Seeing his work left me in awe. I relate the experience as to feeling like I was in church.

[Booger]

not sure who did dog's playing poker but that man is a genius

[PantyFanatic]

not sure who did dog's playing poker but that man is a genius
When you're right, you're RIGHT, Boog! :thumb:


















:grin:

[PantyFanatic]

seeing Scotzoid, Boog & I show up here is like having the little clown car roll in, isn't it? :D You just don't know how much is going to come out! :rofl:

[Mae]

Tsk, tsk, tsk...

I'm a fan of Gossamer, myself. :D

[Mae]

And...I am NOT being elitist! Let's just say I am curious, of a nature. Every person has their own preferences. Could be landscapes, portraits, still lifes, abstracts, cubism, cartoons, folk art, charcoal studies...anything. It has been said that "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder."

I have to agree...O'Keefe's flowers are amazing!

Abominable is pretty cute, too.

[osuche]

I've always had a soft spot for Degas.

[jseal]

Mae,

Of course you’re not being elitist. Different art appeals to different people. Different art appeals to the same person. Here’s my all time favorite emotional statement: Pablo Picasso’s "Guernica (http://www.mala.bc.ca/~lanes/english/hemngway/picasso/guernica.htm) ". A powerful anti-war statement - but great art!

[Mae]

jseal...I have a very dear friend who will be 91 this year. A few years ago, we were talking about famous painters and we got around to Picasso and the changes in his temperment and style. He remembered when Guernica was "released" and told me about the different factions involved and what exactly it had represented. Just an amazing and controversial piece of art.

[scotzoidman]

seeing Scotzoid, Boog & I show up here is like having the little clown car roll in, isn't it? :D You just don't know how much is going to come out! :rofl:
Sorta like looking at Van Gogh's Irises & having one of them squirt ya in the face...

[PantyFanatic]

^^^^
:grin::grin::grin:

:grin::grin::grin:

:grin::grin::grin:

[Booger]

oh I can't for get the clasic Elvis on velvet

[FallenAngel5]

I'm so glad to find other Salvador Dali fans. :) Though I like the ones you guys have posted, The Metamorphosis of Narcissus is my favorite. I'm also a fan of Georgia O'Keefe, she is just amazing.

[Booger]

some of the art I enjoy

[sodaklostsoul]

I love the Blues Brothers!!!!!!!!!

[BIBI]

I like many different artists.....

I tend to admire a picture rather than the person who has created it...



:)

[Lilith]

I like many different artists.....

I tend to admire a picture rather than the person who has created it...



:)
silly girl :spank:

[Mae]

Alright, alright.....eclecticism lives!

[PantyFanatic]

I like many different artists.....
I tend to admire a picture rather than the person who has created it...
:)
*little pok-a-dot car zips thru door, doing figure eights around the room,….. comes to stop with a bump into the white wine & cheese table, spilling four flute glasses of champagne ….. three doors fly open with BIG shoes, water buckets of confetti, red noses and squirting flowers exiting*
:jump:

So do we! :dizzy: :D :spin:

:line:
*jump … spin … crawls under and runs around table in opposite directions looking for Ritz crackers …….. “Let’s go. That’s not-yo-cheese.” ………. doors slam, *POP*, *POOF* …. car zips around room, running over wing tips of mutual admiration society… *HONK-HONK* …… disappears out door*

[BIBI]

Alright, alright.....eclecticism lives!

yes....

but then there are those that are just plain nuts ;)

Ask PF...he knows! :devilish:

[lakritze]

I new if I was a Johnnie cum lately to this thread the work would have already been done.Like FZZY,I love Monet's Waterlilies,big fan of KLIMT and like Osuche,I have a soft spot for Degas's dancers and his sculptures to.

[Mae]

PF? Do you occasionally skip a groove?

[PantyFanatic]

PF? Do you occasionally skip a groove?
OK :(

I’ll leave your thread alone Mae.:wingang:






*ducks as Scotzoid throws the shaving cream pie that hits Mae with the mystic smile* :jester:

[Mae]

Honestly...you two! :rofl:

[Oldfart]

Painters, shmainters.

Leonardo did dead people, Lindsay did lots of tits and Pollock did Blue Poles.

Give me a sculptor anyday, three dimensional stuff (except for the abstracts).

[Mae]

Hi OF. I enjoy sculpture, too. Do you prefer Michaelangelo & Donatello Italian sculpture, or maybe Augustus Saint-Gaudens American pieces? I know you said you're not into abstracts. Bernt Notke did a wonderful St. George and the Dragon in wood. :) I must confess to liking a particular Jackson Pollock that has blue, black and white all over it. I can't remember the title, though.

[WildIrish]

I've always loved the work of the American painter Bob Ross.



I've seen him create and it's amazing. He makes it look so easy!

[Lilith]

You just like his happy little fluffy clouds :p

[Mae]

They're great clouds! And he was always so soft spoken. He could do anything with just a brush and a little paint. And the "little trees lived over here" and "let's put a little rock here". What a terrific guy. :)

[Aqua]

You just like his happy little fluffy clouds :p
No no no... he likes the happy little trees.

:p

[jseal]

WildIrish,

Do you have a url for this artist? I'd like to see his work.

[WildIrish]

http://www.bobross.com


Quick disclaimer...I have nothing to do with the site and as such cannot verify the accuracy of it's content. :D

[PantyFanatic]

You just like his "happy little fluffy clouds" :p
lmao

Don't let him fool ya! :mad:

People like that are witches and warlocks, I tell you! That's black magic to be able to do that! :yikes:

[BIBI]

I've always loved the work of the American painter Bob Ross.



I've seen him create and it's amazing. He makes it look so easy!

Is he the guy with the big bad hair?

I have seen him too and he affects me like Mr. Rogers did with my kids(and me).Don't want to watch, but can't stop watching. :)

He is spellbinding!

He does make the nicest and happiest fluffy white clouds LMAO

[blkcat]

i like European Autobody [woodbridge ontario]

they did a good job painting my classic

[faerie_princess]

Well my own of course............

But after that I'm a Henri de Touloouse-Lautrec fan! his work is great.

[maddy]

I enjoy Monet (have Nympheas, effet du soir and La Seine a Giverny in my living room), I also really enjoy O'Keefe and I think I will get some of her reproductions in my next re-dec.

A more contemporary artist that I enjoy is Robert Duncan.

[Oldfart]

Mae,

I love the classics, Michelangelo Buonorotti et al, and some of the neo-classicals.

There is something about a naked bronze nymph.

[Oldfart]

BTW, did no-one mention Escher?

[Mae]

Nope. Not until you just did. :) His prints are fantastic! I like the one with the perpetual staircase. Another print is of him and his wife? (I think, not sure), and their heads are peeling like and apple peel. (Make sense? :o )

[Oldfart]

His fish that turn into birds and the other evolutions are sooooo cool.

[PantyFanatic]

I like his self-portrait holding the reflective sphere

[Mae]

AHA! Found the title of the three Escher prints I have."Bond of Union" (peeling heads), "Relativity" (perpetual staircase) and "Three Worlds" (the fish and trees).

(Small note: In the animated series "Futurama", Bender the robot falls down the staircases in an Escher print...non-stop.) :rofl:

[Mae]

Sporting a new avatar...for a brief time...as a nod to PF.

[PantyFanatic]

Sporting a new avatar...for a brief time...as a nod to PF.
Rodin smiles mystically. ;)

[Mae]

Wolves took over again. :)

Thank you, PF.

[jseal]

For the Salvador Dali fans,

Salvador Dalí died of heart failure this day in 1989 at Figueres, Spain. He was buried in the crypt of his Teatro Museo.

[lizzardbits]

My favorite artist is Albrecht Durer. He was a german printer in the rennaisance. He also painted, but i love him for his print work, amazing--just absolutely amazing! My favorite painting is a self portrait, and in it he looks what is commented as Christ-like. Well if you watch Bram Stoker's Dracula, there is a scene towards the beginning in Vlad's Castle that there is a portrait up on the wall, a very good image of Gary Oldman in Albrecht's pose. My favorite prints are Melancholia I, The Four Horsemen, and St. Jerome in his Study. All were painstakenly cut prints out of metal or wood. All the detail, amazing.

*Lizz Raises her wine goblet* "To you, Albrecht, where ever you are!"

[Aqua]

Not classical, but one I enjoy is Steve Hanks. Very sensual and lifelike paintings. :)

[lizzardbits]

wow! those are beautiful, Aqua!

Jeez i just love this thread! ( of course i WAS an Art and English Education major for a while, LOL)

[PantyFanatic]

Glad I could contribute to your enjoyment Lizz. :D











:rofl:
( of course I WASN’T an Art and English major.)

[darogle]

My dad. Ok, I may be a bit biased, but he really is an incredible painter. He does AWESOME seascapes! :D

[Mae]

Darogle...Seascapes are a rarity anymore. Congrats to your dad!

Avatars need a little jolt now and then. Hope everyone is doing well. :)

[Lilith]

My dad. Ok, I may be a bit biased, but he really is an incredible painter. He does AWESOME seascapes! :D
is ok to be biased...my grandmother is actually a fairly well known artist in her genre and I love the paintings she has given me although they are nothing like the style of other artists I admire.

[Mae]

Ooh Lilith! Like the avatar!

[lizzardbits]

My dad. Ok, I may be a bit biased, but he really is an incredible painter. He does AWESOME seascapes! :D


Umm Yeah i fully, totally agree with you, darogle, he does do an awesome job at painting seascapes! I love how you can see the light shining through the top wave. Absolutely gorgeous!

[lizzardbits]

*bump* Any other Pixies want to contribute? i love art and would like to see somemore of your favorites!

[waltaja]

Starry Night, Van Gogh has always been a favorite (Don McLean did a good song too)

And I always like Frida Callo (spelling) I remeber reading about her in Espanol Uno in High school and I liked her work

[rockintime]

"The Lighthouse at Honfleur" painted by Georges Seurat

[Mae]

I have been looking back through this thread and still find it quite interesting with all of the diverse artists and mediums. I was thinking of Peter Max. Vintage Peter Max. Anyone else like his work?

http://cgi.ebay.com/Great-PETER-MAX-Pop-Art-Poster-MIDNIGHT-DREAM_W0QQitemZ160047212381QQihZ006QQcategoryZ28009QQtcZphotoQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem#ebayphotohosting

[jseal]

Mae,

A Blast from the Past! Yes'm, I do.

[dicksbro]

*little pok-a-dot car zips thru door, doing figure eights around the room,….. comes to stop with a bump into the white wine & cheese table, spilling four flute glasses of champagne ….. three doors fly open with BIG shoes, water buckets of confetti, red noses and squirting flowers exiting*
:jump:

So do we! :dizzy: :D :spin:

:line:
*jump … spin … crawls under and runs around table in opposite directions looking for Ritz crackers …….. “Let’s go. That’s not-yo-cheese.” ………. doors slam, *POP*, *POOF* …. car zips around room, running over wing tips of mutual admiration society… *HONK-HONK* …… disappears out door*

:roflmao: