Painting

[Belisarius]

i don't think there is a thread of this kind already here. who are your favourite painters and why?

my personal favs are Dali (surrealism is nice to analyse by psychoanalysis), Munch (he expresses anxiety the best), Rothko (his paintings express something beyond reality, i think, some kind of other world, which i call the womb or the archaic mother (also from psychoanalysis) and Friedrich (his aintings of nature are sublime)

[sunfarstar]

When I was young I like Miro, and later like Giaccometti. Now, I have no idea like who, because of Western contemporary art has no meaning to me. If you come to China, I can introduce a lot of contemporary artists I know, you know, they have existed not only in the field of painting.

[Alejandro C]

Sunfarstar did you see that Giaccometti is the top selling artist in the world now? His sculpture just set the record for most expensive piece of art ever sold... something like 104.5 million. He is a wonderful painter and interestingly also one of the top scultptures. I think his painting are much better than his sculptures, but then I think that sculpture is dead anyway.

I would put as top of my list in no particular order:
Warhol
Basquiat
Giaccometti
Twombly
Freud

As for Munch, Dali, and Rothko.. sorry to disagree with you so harshly but I would put them in the same category as Jeff Koons and Damien Hirst- hacks who have made it their life's work to corrupt and cheapen the only thing that truely deserves to be called holy: art.

[Guerrilla22]

Monet and van Goh pwn.

[Belisarius]

Sunfarstar did you see that Giaccometti is the top selling artist in the world now? His sculpture just set the record for most expensive piece of art ever sold... something like 104.5 million. He is a wonderful painter and interestingly also one of the top scultptures. I think his painting are much better than his sculptures, but then I think that sculpture is dead anyway.

I would put as top of my list in no particular order:
Warhol
Basquiat
Giaccometti
Twombly
Freud

As for Munch, Dali, and Rothko.. sorry to disagree with you so harshly but I would put them in the same category as Jeff Koons and Damien Hirst- hacks who have made it their life's work to corrupt and cheapen the only thing that truely deserves to be called holy: art.
quite ironically i find Warhol utterly terrible:laugh:. i can't find any meaning in his works, while the three i mentioned are filled with meaning.

[Tower of Bebel]

German expressionism is still my fav. Especially Frans Marc's more cubistic paintings (see pics). Also the young Picasso (when he was in France with Bracke).

http://www.anje-art.nl/miniaturen/Om9-%20Dieren%20in%20het%20bos%20%28a%20la%20Franz%20M arc%29.gif

http://images.worldgallery.co.uk/i/prints/rw/lg/1/6/Franz-Marc-Der-Tiger-163250.jpg

[Ligeia]

I like Alphones Mucha's style very much, his figures always looked as if they were comic figures or even Manga figures but those weren't even invented in this time, at least not as highly stylised as he drew figures. For similar reasons I like Erte's works.
Also some Edgar Degas, Van Gogh and Otto Dix. Not to forget Frida Kahlo and her totally introspective painting. As well as Carvaggios paintings full of light and shadow.