The ART Thread: From Da Vinci to Warhol

[Thomas]

I echo the love for Richter and Miró. - Among my Danish favorites are Hammershøi, Olafur Eliasson, Asger Jorn and Allan Otte.

[kupo]

James Rosenquist's I Love You With My Ford might be my single favorite painting:



Glad to see you mention Hockney, Cricket, as A Bigger Splash is also one of my faves:



Also a fan of Ruscha:


Love surrealists like Dali, de Chirico, Magritte, Tanguy.

Marcel Duchamp will forever be one of my absolute favorite artists, period:


And I'm a HUGE fan of street art. And, while he's almost too predictable an answer to give, I absolutely believe banksy is one of the greatest living artists working in any medium:

[Thomas]

I absolutely adore Magritte.

[Ciro]

Magritte is also one of my favorites

I love all his works, but my favorites are probably

[Thomas]

Son of Man is my favorite. I see sadness, humor, hilarity and tragedy.

[Cricket]

Max Ernst is one of my favorite surrealists.





kupo, no Roy Lichtenstein?

This has always been one of my favorites:

[affy18]

Magritte is astonishing. One of the most unique and profound visionaries I can think of. Makes me see the world in a new, different light.

[siowafc]

I saw this at an exhibition earlier this month and I think it might be my favorite painting of all-time:

[flibber]

Magritte is astonishing. One of the most unique and profound visionaries I can think of. Makes me see the world in a new, different light.

Heh, I was about to post this.



Magritte is the best.

[Bean]

Vermeet, Rembrandt, and Hopper are my favorite artists. Their play with light and framing is just the best.

[kupo]

kupo, no Roy Lichtenstein?

lol, how could I forget? Really, Lichtenstein and Hopper sort of go without saying for me.

My fave Lichtenstein is probably the one in my siggie, but I also really love Drowning Girl.

And with Hopper, I really could post pretty much anything. Some of my favorites would be Nighthawks (of course), Chop Suey, Summer Evening, New York Movie, Night Windows, and Automat.

[Ciro]

Stepping outside of my 1800's-1900's comfort zone, I'd say that the single most beautiful/moving/emotional piece of art I've ever seen is the image of the Madonna con Bambino from Caravaggio's Rest on the Flight into Egypt. The whole picture is very beautiful, but when I saw it for the first time at the Doria-Pamphilij Gallery in Rome I stared at that detail for a good 30 minutes. I love how serene the baby looks, while Mary looks worried and tired, but the combination of the two still has so much grace, harmony, and actual, human love between a mother and her son rather than the mystic relationship you see between the two in other paintings from that era.

[Critix]

Fun fact: Edward Hopper was born and raised in my hometown. So I would be biased, but I do love his artwork as well!

[Aldo]

Fun fact: Edward Hopper was born and raised in my hometown. So I would be biased, but I do love his artwork as well!

I think Hopper is the quintessential American artist. His subjects are deeply related to what modern US is and I cannot imagine someone like him being born somewhere else. Amazing lightning, plus some really interesting study on cities and buildings. OMGWINDOWS!

Love him

[ladylurks]

I'm partial to Georgia O'Keefe - not the flowers so much, but her trees, cityscapes, and some of the desert landscapes.

[Capt. January]

Mona Lisa never impressed me much, but I always liked this DaVinci:



Van Gogh:



Bastien-Lepage's Joan of Arc (couldn't find a smaller sample):



Dali:



Bracque:



Stanton MacDonald-Wright:

[McTeague]

I like kupo's taste (Duchamp! I adore him), and I concur with Ladylurk's love for Georgia O'Keffe's cityscapes, which I obsessed about for some years.

On the pop artists, I love Rosenquist and Hockney, but my favorite is Wesselman. I'd say Lichtenstein is my least favorite, lol, sorry, but I still like him a lot.

But Wesselman is the best.





I also like Kitaj a lot, although he's not normally considered as strictly "pop"



I join the chorus of adoration for Magritte, and I'll even add a silly, childish, petty claim: I saw him first! I've adored him since I was like, 11 years old and saw one of his paintings in, lol, a religion book. So disquieting.

I'd say my absolute favorite painter of all time is Rembrandt, though, whose spirituality (OMG, Transcendentalia) beats to me the style of any other painter.

Like, I gasped and almost teared up a bit when I first saw this:



Or this:



Or this:



... and it surprised me, a lot, to see a somewhat similar spirituality in Nolde's masterpiece:





Sadly I don't have the time or money to truly follow contemporary art, but of what I've casually seen, I've loved what Os Gemeos do. Well, the garffittis is not what I've been able to see, except in pictures, as they don't go to museums, but their paintings and installations, which are great too. One of the best feelings I remember watching/experiencing art is putting my head into one of their head boxes. Have you seen them? It's a head-sized cube hung from the ceiling (with a guy's head painted in the outside of said cube), and inside the cube, everything is covered with mirrors, with small, colored lights in strategic places, and some soft chill-out music playing. It was such a surprise. Instead of watching some psychedelic piece, you were suddenly IN a psychodelic dreamscape, absolutely removed from reality, totally like being in a dream, with the added pleasure of being conscious of it.

This is the outside:



and this is the closest a picture can come to showing what it is to put your head inside:

[Akmart]

Hats off to you guys, All of you have done a great job which i can't explain in words. I love art , designing and graphic work, i am also working in a signage company where we make such kind of graphics to our customers. From these photos i get many thing which are good for my work. Thanks to all of you.

[Akmart]

Really awesome work you guys did here. This is called the real art which i never seen before. Thanks for sharing here.