Favorite Painter/Artist

Morrissey:

Damien Hirst. I saw his Physical Impossibility of The Death in The Mind of Someone Living and Mother and Child, Divided, and they're possibly my favourite installations ever.
Tracey Emin is another favourite, although I really like most of the YBA's.

Ooh, I remember learning about those. :XD I'm really not into post-modernism. Can you tell me what attracts you to it? I'm just interested. :tehe:

(Plus, it's slightly ironic that the YBAs are now OLD. :don:)

I really love Degas' paintings too. Andy introduced them to me when I wrote my ballerina story and I just think he uses the most beautiful colour and there's sort of hidden things in his pictures, they're absolutely beautiful but in some there are really dark parts too.

I think I like Claude Monet's paintings... They're simply beautiful.

I'm really into Martin Creed right now.

Best artist ever: Vincent Van Gogh. Seriously! This dude was a GENIOUS! He was crazy, but hardly any geniuses aren't. Or, at least the good ones!

Our most recent art project ~rekindled my love for Surrealism, I think. Dali as an artist and a person(a? i find it incredibly hard to think of him as an actual living breathing genuine person with all the things he came out with), Andre Masson, Hans Bellmer, I'm fairly sure he counts, Rene Magritte because his work was funny-witty and not pretentious-witty, at least I think so, I'm kindof liking Max Ernst but I find him a bit bland.

Away from Surrealism, I'm entirely fascinated with how different artists perceive and paint/draw/whatever their women, especially Egon Schiele, Gustav Klimt, Dali's paintings of Gala, the pre-Raphs, Rubens, Audrey Kawasaki even though her girls look a bit dead behind the eyes/doped up, Fragonard and Boucher, they're just so luxe. And I love paper artworks, like how Peter Callesan does his, they're so tiny and intricate yet so simple. I'd go on forever but I'm not making much sense anyway.

I've said this all before but I love it all so much I just had to repeat it.

James Ensor, particularly his work featuring skeletons, masks, puppetry... macabre and swirly, or something. I don't know what I'm talking about, really, but can only answer that he's my favourite artist (of whose work I know and all that).

Gustav Klimt, Salvador Dali.

Andy Warhol, Salvador Dali, Laurlel Burch (I discovered her when I bought a notebook with her theme (notebooks=my passion)) and one and only CRAIG THOMPSON. I love that guy. He wrote Blankets, the wonderful graphic novel, and is practically thabest :D

Lois Van Baarle
aaaah don't shoot me for not liking Monet or Picasso like most of you ):
But I just love her use of colours, textures and... just everything I guess, haha.
She's my idol, what can I say?

John Singer Sargent anyone?

Alex Pardee, Francis Bacon, Jenny Saville, Lucien Freud, Mark Ryden, Manuel Ocampo, Rene Magritte. Only a few, I have loads of favourites. I don't like Impressionism much, but adore Surrealism alot.

And I guess Gerard Way as well, he has a comic book style - I'm a sucker for comic book-esque artwork. Lindsey Ballato-Way's artwork is pretty good as well, it's disturbingly good. Billy Martin from Good Charlotte does some pretty nifty pictures / paintings and Marilyn Manson's watercolors are wickedly warped. Oh, and Gris Grimly from Creature Feature, I saw a very detailed painting he did on Twitter.

UK People, who watched the School of Saatchi on Channel 4 - I think it was? Some of the contemporary art on there, or any contemporary art for that matter, I find really pointless and tedious. It'd never get through GCSEs / exams.

I honestly and entirely love Dali. Not quite as honestly and entirely as Keith Haring, though. Travis Millard is another great one as well.

Leonardo Da Vinci.

Very partial to Kees van Dongen, a fauve painter. His very beginnings, and late paintings were just fantastic.
I'd say he's my favourite.

I'd have to say Moira Roth. She's not a painter, but I see no reason not to mention her in this topic.

crunchyjello:

aaaah don't shoot me for not liking Monet or Picasso like most of you ):

I think it's weird to name a monolith like Monet or Picasso your favorite artist. It's like saying Shakespeare's your favorite writing. Just ..strangely inappropriate. Picasso is almost inapproachable on a personal level, I think his paintings are interesting, of course, but I can't relate to them in the intiminate manner I relate to Mark Rothko. When I look at one of his paintings it's just him and I, bur when I look at a Picasso, it's him, thousands of tourists, art critics, tv shows, books, postcards, bags, albums, etc. and I and in the presence of such a huge crowd an intimate relationship/understanding with/of a work of art is quasi-impossible, at least to me.

I know it's an obvious answer, but I'm really in to Chuck Close right now.

Amy Brown will always be my favorite artist. <3

Daliii crazy man <3