Your favorite artists are...?

[kitty]

If that topic was here before, shoot me!

Tell me your favorite artists and possible an example of your favorite picture of the same - traditional, modern and maybe "special" meaning cartoonists for example. The special section can also include an artist you find most overrated or boring or simply bad.

traditional = Rembrandt. He just was amazing. My favorite picture is "philosopher in meditation":



(I could explain why, but that would be quite a bit of text)

modern = Yiu Keung Lam. Totally not known but pretty great. His works are modern but not too abstract (I dislike too much abstract alienation) and he is amazing with colors, my favof him might be this of his GF:


(he can be found on myspace)

special = I personally think Andy Warhol is highly overrated... yeah sure he had some good ideas but not outstanding enough to praise him as much as he gets, imo.

speciaspecial = Rhian's Slogs! ^^ Her very best work:

KITTY slog! ;D

[Elliot Kane]

I'm not really visually-oriented, so my actual interest in art is somewhat limited. However, I'll do my best:

Traditional: Salvador Dali, hands down. Insofar as he can be considered 'traditional' that is ;D His art is by turns disturbing and intriguing and it always fascinates me. His Persistence Of memory (Which I could have sworn was called The Persistence of TIME, but never mind) is one very fine example of his downright weirdness.

Modern: Rodney Matthews, who I know has a thread in the section, somewhere

Special: I really like Graffiti artist Banksy, whose work is always designed to provoke thought. He also has a thread in here, somewhere.

Over-rated: Damien Hirst. IMO, the worst of all the 'modern art' crowd in terms of the sheer amount of junk he creates - or has created for him by teams! I'm sure he knows himself that what he is creating is sheer garbage with no true artistic merit whatsoever as he seems to be very smart, but alas this realisation is not shared by the art establishment.

[LaFille]

Traditional artist... I haven't come across any "traditional" artist that really got me yet. I lean towards the classic painters/sculptors though, especially those that use a lot of flowing curves to depict dynamic scenes like frozen in time. I love the classical frescoes seen on the ceilings of important buildings like the Sistine Chapel.



For "modern" artists it's the same, though the first that comes to mind is Wassily Kandinsky. Not because his work attracts more in itself, though some pieces are very beautiful, but because of the research that there is behind this guy's art, what it helps to make understand on the trends that followed and because digging through their complexity can be a quite rewarding experience.



They don't count as "modern" artists, but my favorite ones are actual artists, mostly digital illustrators/painters. The top ones are Collin Bogle and a bunch of illustrators over at the CG Society (the artwork there can get me lost for hours). I have made a few threads about those here.

My "special" favorite is absolutely Ursula Vernon; her artwork is awesomely cute, crazy and hilarious (though a little nerdy maybe), as are her commentaries and the story behind the pics. I highly recommend a visit to her site. She has slugs there too, but they're the pink lizards' pets. ;D

[kitty]

^ checked out the stuff and I really like Ursula Vernon, adorable little creatures she create there, and I do like nerdy

[The Sonar Chicken]

Hmmm... that's hard to say because I've few favourites and instead, my tastes cover styles and certain pieces.

I like: classical Chinese landscape art(those are awesome), some classical Western art(from the different periods like Renaissance and so forth), etc. Also, I like some manga/anime artists and even CGed stuff, photo-realistic art and so forth.

Some of the modern art from Indonesia and Malaysia can be also very cool.

Now, if "art" includes other types:
there were a few Singaporean and international artists' whose sculpture works I liked but sadly, I can't recall their names.

Also, Ferbege's eggs are very beautiful.

Also, like glasswork and architecture.

[kitty]

^ Surely other forms of art count Miss Chicken

I made a course in chinese brushart before - landscapes and all, it's alot of fun and hard to learn.

And Farberge Eggs are ace!

[Flix]

I like John William Waterhouse as I just love women as subjects in classical and medieval settings.



As far as surrealism goes, I probably prefer M.C. Escher for the way he plays with perspective and what the mind "expects" to see.

More Escher:
Perspectives
Tesselations


For the really modern stuff, I've come to appreciate Mark Rothko:

I know what you're thinking: 'Amazing, it's some rectangles in two colors.' But a JPEG doesn't capture the power of Rothko's art. There's a Rothko room in the Tate Modern Museum in London that I stumbled into once:

That's not the room but it was a simliar one. I was sitting alone with these massive paintings for a while and they seemed like solemn, mystical, pulsing gateways (I swear I wasn't on any drugs!)

But speaking of trippy art, there's a form of computer created art I like called Fractals

[kitty]

^ Rothko's art really isn't my cup of tea (speaking of tea - coolest tea picture EVER: )

but I understand what you said about the impressiveness of giant art in a pretty room - you should visit Dresden in Germany and go into the "Zwinger", a giant area with an impressive art gallery. (If one's interested.)

You should play Auditorium sometimes, reminds me of your trippy art

[Ubereil]

I like the Cure... wait, wrong forum...

Übereil

[kitty]

^ aha, so medieval pessimism is your thing?

[Elliot Kane]

Knowing Ube I'd say that was pretty certain, yes... ;D

[LaFille]

Fabergé eggs... I admire the craftsmanship and luxury of those, but they almost always look too... Bling-bling for those to be objects I would like to see elsewhere than in a museum or castle setting. ;D

Classical Chinese painting and calligraphy I like. I have never seen Malay/Indonesian modern art though. Sculpture is widely considered a traditional art on par with painting; for architecture it's more nuanced, given the very utilitarian purpose of the creations (like clothing design, jewellery, etc.). As soon as the end is expression through matter, it's art, though. One architect that I'm highly impressed by is Antoni Gaudi I Cornet; if you don't know it, check out the Sagrada Familia and the Park Guell in particular. If that's not art...

Fractals I find interesting too, but I'm picky on those I really like; delicate fractal flames like in your picture I like though. There's a freebie app to create those here: www.apophysis.org/ and there are a variety of presets to start from around the web, notably on Deviant Art. Tons of fun and pretties. ;D

[Glance A'Lot]

Some of my favourites have been named already, like Dali, Escher and Gaudi (!) - I'll add two.

In the Michelangelo/Rembrandt league: Albrecht Dürer

A painter, but more so an undisputed master engraver beyond his time and a prolific teacher who wrote in German (on Measurements and Human Proportions) like his contemporary Luther


The Lamentation of Christ


The Praying Hands


Young Hare

And in the modern league: René Magritte

Belgian, who became well known for a number of witty and thought-provoking images.


Not To Be Reproduced
A Portrait Of Prince Edward James


The Human Condition


Time Transfixed

[kitty]

Somehow I expected someone to bring up Duerer - and of course a fellow German

Love the Time Transfixed painting, saw it once on a coffeebox.

[LaFille]

Mar 24, 2009 15:17:08 GMT Glance A'Lot said:

The Praying Hands

Aha... That is an image I've come across a good few times and that I didn't know where it was from. There's something about it that appeals to me.

Time transfixed... Inspiration for J.K. Rowling?

[Galadriel]

Hard topic for me, I have a soft spot for soo many artists, from classic to modern, from fantasy to real life art, from cubism to art nouveau etc.
I like one artist for their surrealism, like Salvator Dali or Rene Magritte for example, another one for the fantasy like Josephine Wall or Jessica Galbreth, Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin for their post impressionism and Pieter Paul Rubens for his Baroque style.
As for cubism I like Picasso. I can go on and on with my list. Lets just say, if I see a work of art and I can use my imagination on it, I like it ;D
Oh and Kitty, I love Rembrandt too, that's why I named my son after him

[kitty]

Mar 28, 2009 9:14:14 GMT Galadriel said:

Oh and Kitty, I love Rembrandt too, that's why I named my son after him

Whoa, you must have the coolest son in the friggin world! ;D

[Glance A'Lot]

Fille mentioned the Fabergé eggs, which reminded me to put some notice on the Green Vault in Dresden. Personally it impressed me more than the crown jewels in the Tower of London.

Though a number of jewels in the latter are bigger, the variety of exhibits and the craftmanship displayed in the Green Vault is outstanding. The extravagance of August II (and what it cost his treasury = his tax paying people) is shown by the fact that several single pieces of the exhibition did cost as much as building a whole palace.

The exhibit that fascinated me personally the most however for his craftmanship, was not a jewel or a statue, but an earlobe incorporating a cherry pit (Yes, really, one of those you spit out when eating cherries) in which are carved 185 faces of which 113 are recognizeable - It was made around 1589!

Picture Gallery of the Green Vault in the Dresden residence

[kitty]

^ Oh I saw that, that IS impressive! They put up magnifying glasses so you can see the details, it's nuts.

When we talk about Dresden's art, we should talk about the Zwinger itself. The Zwinger ("ts-wing-air") is a palace, it inherits a Glockenspiel made of Meissen porcelain, the mathematical-physical salon (a museum showing technical toys that former emperors enjoyed), the museum for minerology & geology, a porcelain collection, the chamber of armor (my personal favrite! It shows various clothes, weapons, pictures and armors from knights between the 16. & 18. century, it makes me squee everytime I'm there ;D), the New Masters Picture Gallery and, most importantly, the Old Masters Picture Gallery which shows works from the 15. to 18. century, focusing on italian works and - espcially from the 17. century - dutch & flemmish artists. (It also has german, spanish and french artists in it's collection). It is pretty damn impressive. (And you don't have to be quite because it's so huge, you hardly meet someone when walking through ^^)

Here some pics of my favs from all museums & galleries:

[The Sonar Chicken]

Whoa, nice pictures there. Btw, the one where the baby's arm has been torn off... yikes... lol.