Favorite Artist [Archive]

Turinbaar

3rd October 2011, 18:34

I quite like Alfons Mucha and some of the Austrian expressionists such as Oskar Kokoshka and Egon Schiele. I'm not a huge fan of DaVinci or Michelangelo.

I have heard a lot about Mucha at my school. The others are new names to me. From the looks of it, you're into art for look's sake, rather than art with an idea.

What is it about Da Vinci and Michelangelo that is unappealing to you? Is it style? content? Do you know what their thought processes were?

Comrade Gwydion

3rd October 2011, 19:15

DALI! Were the fuck is Dalí in this poll!?

Metacomet

3rd October 2011, 19:17

Leonardo.
Frida
Diego Rivera
Picasso
some Rembrandt

Also a lot of asian art that I am not sure of the artist names.

There really are to many to name and a lot of pieces of art I really like that I don't know who did them

Total

4th October 2011, 08:34

banksy

Rooster

4th October 2011, 09:06

I have heard a lot about Mucha at my school. The others are new names to me. From the looks of it, you're into art for look's sake, rather than art with an idea.

I think being able to visually enjoy art is the main thing about it. I'm just not into conceptual artists. I like a great deal of artists, those are just some of my favourites.

What is it about Da Vinci and Michelangelo that is unappealing to you? Is it style? content? Do you know what their thought processes were?

I've seen DaVinci and Michelangelo and Raphael and Caravaggio (although, I still love Caravaggio) way too many times. It's like eating the same food every day. Eventually you get bored with it.

manic expression

4th October 2011, 11:24

Tough question...here are a few off the top of my head....I'm inevitably going to miss a bunch, though.

Van Eyck: a true master in every possible sense of the word...and then some.

Caravaggio: consistently and emphatically incredible.

Vlaminck: really underrated, I see lots of latent emotion throughout his work in a style that oftentimes lacked that.

Kandinsky: Moscow I has to be one of my favorite paintings, surely one of my favorites of the 20th Century...however, I definitely enjoy his non-abstract stuff more than his fully abstract works.

Vermeer: subtle, beautiful, skillful, evocative...he makes the most everyday genre paintings seem anything but.

Velasquez: artists are still paying homage to Las Meninas, and who can blame them? Valesquez was exceptional in an age chock-full of great painters.

Diego Rivera: even without my political bias, his work is undeniably superb, and further speaks to the core of an experience so often ignored by the "art world".

He Sen: I've never seen his stuff in person, but from what I've seen his work is great. A contemporary artist who can create thoughtful, beautiful, meaningful art...now there's a refreshing change.

Turinbaar

5th October 2011, 05:03

I think being able to visually enjoy art is the main thing about it. I'm just not into conceptual artists. I like a great deal of artists, those are just some of my favourites.

I've seen DaVinci and Michelangelo and Raphael and Caravaggio (although, I still love Caravaggio) way too many times. It's like eating the same food every day. Eventually you get bored with it.

I can see what you are saying, but I think that an idea can enhance the visual content. It does not have to be explicit or propagandistic. For instance, Da Vinci's art stresses the classical idea that a naturalist outlook will give an artist's work the infinite subtlety and depth of nature. I find contrasting Da Vinci's materialism to Michelangelo's idealist outlook roughly parallel to the contrast between Marx and Hegel. Michelangelo saw everything as ideal first, and material body second, whereas Da Vinci, like Marx, had studied Lucretius' De Rerum Natura, and had a certain contempt for the pious. The real reward in studying him is in his notes.

And about eating the same food, I find that is the same with me with Michelangelo, Raphael and a great deal of contemporary art.

Apoi_Viitor

5th October 2011, 12:53

Giorgio de Chirico

OHumanista

5th October 2011, 21:28

Of those I chose Da Vinci but I really like most of them, but I'll go with rooster and say Alfons Mucha is awesome.
My favorite styles are impressionism and and a mix with others, I also quite like modern fantasy art.

Dumb

5th October 2011, 21:37

Luca Giordano. My favorite works of his have a very harsh, austere feeling; however, since these works happen to be in the same room as La Giaconda (aka The Mona Lisa), nobody ever sees them. :lol:

CommieTroll

5th October 2011, 21:39

Claude Monet or Van Gogh, Impressionism FTW!:thumbup1:

Sputnik_1

7th October 2011, 10:44

Hmmm, i really enjoy post-impressionism, expressionism, cubism etc (well, basically everything since impressionism) but I appreciate the whole history of art, as it step by step keep revolutionizing and helps to understand the way people were thinking in a certain period, what motivated them, their failures, their victories, their passion. I'm trying to paint myself so art is very important to me.
My favorite painters? Frida Kahlo, Van Gogh, Schiele, Cézanne, Dali, Chagall, Toulouse-Lautrec, and many others actually.

Tenka

8th October 2011, 05:45

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederic_Edwin_Church
This one.

Yuppie Grinder

8th October 2011, 06:00

Pablo Picasso all the way. I fell in love with his art as a child, and have loved his works ever since
Plus, he was a communist :lol:
Most cool intellectuals and artists of the 20th century outside of the U.S. were far leftists of some kind. The only important exceptions I can think of are the Italian futurists who were fascists and the Beats who sympathized with Communism but weren't really affiliated with any idealology.

Zealot

8th October 2011, 06:13

http://www.france24.com/en/files/imagecache/aef_ct_wire_image/images/afp/photo_1261152864056-1-0.jpg

J Stalin

Mark V.

8th October 2011, 06:18

Gustave Courbet, Praxiteles and Picasso.

Sputnik_1

8th October 2011, 11:53

I'd have to say Pablo Picasso or Salvador Dalí (I really like surrealist art) even though the latter was a rather unpleasant person from what i've read...

I really like Dali's art as well, but yeah, he was quite an unpleasant guy. He was a supporter of Francisco Franco if i remember well...
But as Orwell wrote:
« One ought to be able to hold in one's head simultaneously the two facts that Dalí is a good draughtsman and a disgusting human being. The one does not invalidate or, in a sense, affect the other. »

Sputnik_1

8th October 2011, 12:00

The others are new names to me. From the looks of it, you're into art for look's sake, rather than art with an idea.

So what you're saying that expressionism is all about look's sake?
Cause it sounds to me like you were confusing impressionism with expressionism (and besides, also impressionism is much more than just "art for look's sake", they revolutionized art in a way never seen before)

SacRedMan

8th October 2011, 20:22

Ilya Repin

One of his famous paintings: http://www.friendsofart.net/static/images/art2/ilya-repin-ivan-the-terrible-and-his-son-ivan-on-november16-1581.jpg

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9th October 2011, 08:31

Francis Bacon. Its disturbing, its weird, it offended people, I like it.

∞

9th October 2011, 08:32

http://www.france24.com/en/files/imagecache/aef_ct_wire_image/images/afp/photo_1261152864056-1-0.jpg

J Stalin

All the things in blue is what Stalin wrote or drew.

Zealot

9th October 2011, 17:45

All the things in blue is what Stalin wrote or drew.

Dunno, I just happened to be reading a news article about Stalin's supposed drawings when I clicked this topic.

Turinbaar

9th October 2011, 18:40

So what you're saying that expressionism is all about look's sake?
Cause it sounds to me like you were confusing impressionism with expressionism (and besides, also impressionism is much more than just "art for look's sake", they revolutionized art in a way never seen before)

Show us an example of expressionism and explain what ideas are expressed. What makes this piece and its ideas revolutionary?

Sputnik_1

10th October 2011, 15:28

Show us an example of expressionism and explain what ideas are expressed. What makes this piece and its ideas revolutionary?

Tell me exactly where i wrote it makes it revolutionary? I just want to make clear that it's not only for "look's sake". It revolutionized art, never said it did same with the society.

Turinbaar

11th October 2011, 01:29

Tell me exactly where i wrote it makes it revolutionary? I just want to make clear that it's not only for "look's sake". It revolutionized art, never said it did same with the society.

Well I meant "revolutionary" in the artistic sense as well, so I repeat, show and tell. And indeed tell what, if not just for look's sake and not for the sake of social commentary, is the point of it? What can really be said of an artistic movement that revolutionizes art but not society?

Although it would be nice if you found any artists of that sort that had pieces with revolutionary ideas and consequences for society. It really would be a pity if expressionism suffered from limitations in this area, but then again that may be why I have such limited interest in it as art.

S.Artesian

11th October 2011, 02:28

Picasso. Matisse. Either. Or. Both

Turinbaar

13th October 2011, 18:33

Most cool intellectuals and artists of the 20th century outside of the U.S. were far leftists of some kind. The only important exceptions I can think of are the Italian futurists who were fascists and the Beats who sympathized with Communism but weren't really affiliated with any idealology.

There was at a time a strong socialist current in American art as well, though it was lead more by photographers like Alfred Stieglitz, than painters and beatniks.

Hoipolloi Cassidy

13th October 2011, 18:52

Show us an example of expressionism and explain what ideas are expressed. What makes this piece and its ideas revolutionary?

In fact, there was an extensive discussion in the interwar years between Brecht, Lukacs and a couple others as to whether Expressionism was revolutionary, and if so, how. And there's no lack of Expressionist works that were overtly "revolutionary," viz, being "about" the 1919 Revolution in Germany. (Quite a few Expressionists were directly involved with the Bavarian Republic, incidentally).

Lenina Rosenweg

13th October 2011, 21:11

Ernst Toller was an interesting guy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Toller

One of my favorite artists is Paul Klee, although as I understand his politics were a bit suspect. His painting "The Twittering Machine" is both beautiful and very disturbing at the same time.I've had dreams about it.

I am still learning about art. I like the European Expressionists-Kandinsky, Klee, a great deal. I dislike the later American Abstract Expressionists, except for Rothko and Pollak, at least the stuff done after the late 40s.. I do not like de Koonig

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14th October 2011, 00:21

http://badatsports.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/francis-bacon-1.jpg

http://images.tribe.net/tribe/upload/photo/b1e/1ef/b1e1ef79-af84-4ef0-a79c-8556e95dc830

http://www.satyrsight.com/assets/images/Figure_with_Meat___after_Francis_Bacon.jpg

BE_

14th October 2011, 00:51

I don't really have a favorite artist, but I am into minimalist style art.

∞

14th October 2011, 02:50

Minimalism is probably the most pretentious, shitty, art I've ever seen.

However, interior designers who use minimalist concepts make for very pretty looking homes. Why the double-standard? Its not. Interior designers actually have to get the dimensions precise for it to be aesthetically pleasing. Minimalist "artists" just paint in a few solid colors to manipulate people's feelings and visual pleasure.

BE_

14th October 2011, 03:10

Yeah it can be pretentious, but for some reason i like it. lolol. :laugh:

Turinbaar

14th October 2011, 18:30

In fact, there was an extensive discussion in the interwar years between Brecht, Lukacs and a couple others as to whether Expressionism was revolutionary, and if so, how. And there's no lack of Expressionist works that were overtly "revolutionary," viz, being "about" the 1919 Revolution in Germany. (Quite a few Expressionists were directly involved with the Bavarian Republic, incidentally).

Very interesting. Can you post an example?

Sputnik_1

14th October 2011, 18:49

Well I meant "revolutionary" in the artistic sense as well, so I repeat, show and tell. And indeed tell what, if not just for look's sake and not for the sake of social commentary, is the point of it? What can really be said of an artistic movement that revolutionizes art but not society?

Although it would be nice if you found any artists of that sort that had pieces with revolutionary ideas and consequences for society. It really would be a pity if expressionism suffered from limitations in this area, but then again that may be why I have such limited interest in it as art.

Starting with Impressionism, it basically freed art from academical style, as it never been seen before, but ok, let's talk about expressionism. It shows mainly working class people and their misery, or just simply individual sense of alienation, loneliness. It's also filled with the general depressive mood announcing the coming war. Examples? Van Gogh's "Potato eaters", Kirchner's "Marzela", "Potsdamer Platz", basically everything by Munch and many others.

manic expression

14th October 2011, 22:04

Starting with Impressionism, it basically freed art from academical style, as it never been seen before,
True...but to be fair, we should remember some of impressionism's antecedents who came out of romanticism. JMW Turner (http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/turner/i/slave-ship.jpg) is a good example of this.

Hoipolloi Cassidy

15th October 2011, 01:05

Very interesting. Can you post an example?

Good grief, there are so many, and so many passed through a political phase after WWI. Off the top of my head, Kathe Köllwitz (a staunch Commie), Max Pechstein, Otto Dix, George Grosz, Lionel Feininger (whose well-known “Cathedral of the Future” was originally titled “Cathedral of Socialism"), etc. Not to mention Ernst Barlach, a fine Expressionist who was used by the Nazis. Read Joan Weinstein. The end of expressionism. Art and the November Revolution in Germany, 1918-19. University of Chicago Press 1990. A superb survey from which comes the following cartoon, poking fun at the posturing of the artists of the Bavarian Republic:

"The curve, the primary form of capitalism is overcome. The new day dawns. Threateningly, the cubes march through the universe."
http://i226.photobucket.com/albums/dd258/TheOrangePress/Munich-1919-1.gif

Turinbaar

16th October 2011, 19:39

I've just found some sketches by Rosa Luxembourg. They're actually quite good.

http://www.revleft.org/vb/picture.php?albumid=615&pictureid=8635

http://www.revleft.org/vb/picture.php?albumid=615&pictureid=8634

Elsa

4th January 2012, 19:31

Could you post them here or give us a link?

My favourite artist is Egon Schiele, but I like also Albrecht Dürer, George Grosz, E. Munch, El Greco, Rembrandt, William Turner, J.L. David and some paintings from Middle Ages (e.g. by Matthias Grünewald)

Ele'ill

6th January 2012, 22:55

Brian Andreas

Sam_b

6th January 2012, 23:10

My favourite artist is Alfonse Mucha.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_j9VUmBswTWg/TRGnF6yAqpI/AAAAAAAAAQA/iJH4BPerVaY/s1600/Alphonse-Mucha-art-painting-Madonna-of-the-Lilies.jpg

MotherCossack

7th January 2012, 01:55

I like munch and rolf harris and breugal

SacRedMan

7th January 2012, 07:03

Salvador Dali too:

http://wallpapers.free-review.net/wallpapers/12/Sleep_-_Le_Sommeil_Salvador_Dali.jpg

brigadista

7th January 2012, 11:23

at the moment
Luis Eliades Rodriguez and I unintentionally and unexpectedly met him in Cuba..

http://www.noa-art.com/Eliades/index-eliades.html

blake 3:17

10th January 2012, 02:29

Sorry, but that's a terrible list.

Veovis

17th January 2012, 12:29

My favourite artist is Alfonse Mucha.

Seconded! There are also a few pop-culture references in his style floating about. Anyone used to watch Reboot?

http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2010/022/7/d/ReBoot_Mucha___Hexadecimal_by_EmpressHelenia.jpg

seventeethdecember2016

17th January 2012, 12:40

Pablo Picasso. :)

00000000000

17th January 2012, 13:28

H R Giger...was hooked from the first time I leafed through a book of his works that my older sister had.

bcbm

17th January 2012, 20:36

off this list i'd go with van gogh, his stuff is just genius and his life is incredibly interesting. there is a new biography of him that i really want to check out.

other favorites are caravaggio, bernini, goya, david, gustave courbet

Princess Luna

18th January 2012, 05:45

motherfucking MC Escher

http://www.mcescher.com/Biography/lw306.jpg

Zukunftsmusik

5th March 2012, 19:59

I like expressionism and some cubism and maybe pop art. Maybe even some realism or impressionism, but it depends. I tend to like some ugly stuff. I think maybe my favourite artist is Otto Dix, he painted some ugly stuff. He has a series of itchings (i think it's called) called the War or something. And he can really make women look ugly.

You'll have to google him, when i upload pictures something is fucked up.

Ele'ill

22nd March 2012, 01:51

http://www.drooker.com/drawings.html

I think I forgot to post this here.

The art he does makes me less afraid and makes me feel less alienated.

Dr Doom

22nd March 2012, 02:42

heironymous bosch is pretty cool

http://www.ricci-art.net/img002/771.jpg

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-O7v9uHjQUTY/TjXN32KNZHI/AAAAAAAAAa4/_m0EQZoJqiQ/s1600/Enter+the+Garden+Earthly+Delights.jpg

El Oso Rojo

3rd May 2012, 01:36

http://5election.com/2010/07/17/jiraiya-the-cool-japanese-bara-artist/

Bostana

3rd May 2012, 01:54

I am love the renaissance so Leonardo Da Vinci

LeftAtheist

3rd May 2012, 01:59

Wassily Kandinsky.

roy

3rd May 2012, 12:10

Brueghel and Bosch are very, very cool.

From modern times, R Crumb is best.

Actually, Jacek Yerka is also extremely badass.

Dennis the 'Bloody Peasant'

3rd May 2012, 13:53

H R Giger, since I was 11...just love the detail, the weird and wonderful creatures and meldings of fuck-knows-what.

Brosip Tito

3rd May 2012, 14:35

I'm not that into art (the painting and sculpting, etc), but M.C. Esher's Crazy Stairs was always something I watned on my wall.

Deicide

3rd May 2012, 14:50

Francisco Goya, hands down. He ain't even on the list :crying:

Ocean Seal

3rd May 2012, 15:05

Why are Ninja Turtles choices?
In all seriousness my favorite artist is Michaelangelo, and I don't know who my favorite TMNT is.

Left Leanings

3rd May 2012, 22:07

I am very fond of the work of the American photographic artist, Diane Arbus. She photographed people who were often regarded as odd or different by mainstream society, and were somewhat marginalized.

I have her retrospective, Revelations, compiled by her daughter, Doon Arbus.

Here is a link to some of her images:

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=diane+arbus&hl=en&rlz=1T4ADFA_enGB424GB424&prmd=imvnso&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=yvKiT-2VJ8rg4QTYyPyGCQ&ved=0CDYQsAQ&biw=1280&bih=685

Another artist I like is Edward Hopper. He was my maternal grandfather's favourite artist:

Here also, is a link to some of his works:

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=edward+hopper&hl=en&qscrl=1&nord=1&rlz=1T4ADFA_enGB424GB424&prmd=imvnso&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=XPOiT6n_HYTc4QT5l9yjCQ&sqi=2&ved=0CG4QsAQ&biw=1280&bih=685

zoot_allures

3rd May 2012, 22:21

Of the ones you listed, Jackson Pollock (second would be Rothko). I'm not sure there are any artists I like more than Jackson Pollock, but there are plenty I like just as much; here's a few favourites:

Cy Twombly
Joan Miro
John Cage
Paul Klee
Peter Lanyon
Robert Motherwell

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8th May 2012, 01:59

O'Keffe <3

http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ljxpiykP8A1qghk7bo1_400.jpg

Left Leanings

8th May 2012, 11:28

Wassily Kandinsky.

Kandinsky is a well cool artist. I have a small book, with lots and lots of his works. I spend ages just looking at them :)

Yazman

8th May 2012, 12:53

H.R. Giger, followed by Heironymous Bosch!

Althusser

8th May 2012, 13:10

This thread makes me feel painfully uncultured.:sneaky:

hatzel

8th May 2012, 22:11

I'm really getting into José Rodríguez Fuster lately...

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f5/A_caballo.jpg

Deicide

8th May 2012, 22:12

http://www.rjgeib.com/thoughts/wouk/goya1.jpg

Brosip Tito

9th May 2012, 01:16

http://d.awesomemyspacecomments.com/5/4f023700ad95a.jpg

∞

9th May 2012, 02:11

Wassily Kandinsky.

You reactionary bastard.

Turinbaar

9th May 2012, 06:40

I've recently written an essay on the photography master Imogen Cunningham if anyone is interested.

http://www.revleft.org/vb/blog.php?b=7815

Sosa

13th May 2012, 03:22

duchamp

BookMarx

17th May 2012, 21:33

I'm a big fan of Courbet. His paintings were sort of playful, but also held a lot of personal significance. Plus, he painted portraits of people like Baudelaire and Proudhon, and he was also in charge of the arts during the Paris Commune.