speaking of art... what is your favourite?

[Mandocaster68]

Being from Iowa, I have an affection for Grant Wood. He's one of us and painted things that are so familiar to rural Iowa.

A few years ago, I was able to play a Porchfest gig from the porch of the house featured in American Gothic. I should have worn bib overalls!

 

[dented]

My family member David Marcet. He has a guitar body of mine ready to paint. I'm giving him a neck so he can match the headstock.

 

[mark64]

So many! Dutch masters, Edward Hopper, Winslow Homer, Van Gogh, Salvador Dali, Cezanne, Monet and many others.

 

[Swirling Snow]

David Addison Small and Mati Klarwein, who studied under Ernst Fuchs, who was a devoted to Salvador Dali, who worshipped Leonardo Da Vinci, and they all despised Pablo Picasso!

Picasso used house paint on newsprint to cash in on his fame.

 

[Engine Swap]

"Trouble in Frisco"

 

[hemingway]

The National Gallery here in DC had a show of Mark Rothko's black paintings about twelve years ago, and for reasons that are literally impossible to put into words, it was the most emotional experience I've had interacting with art. Absolutely overwhelming.

Yeah, you see them in books and you think, so what. Then you see them in person and it's something else.

 

[Dostradamas]

Monet's Houses of Parliament was one of many that moved me in Paris and Amsterdam.
This one the most by far

 

[rand z]

Andrew Wyeth.

 

[buster poser]

The National Gallery here in DC had a show of Mark Rothko's black paintings about twelve years ago, and for reasons that are literally impossible to put into words, it was the most emotional experience I've had interacting with art. Absolutely overwhelming.

NGA is amazing, I remember that show and his works you gotta see at the original scale. It was in the East/modern building iirc? They have some massive scale LeWitts in the permanent collection there as I recall.

I worked two blocks from there 2007-2010 (and six blocks from 2004-2006), just pop over for lunch. Last thing I went there to see specifically was Lavender Mist circa 2018 or so. Loved my time in that area and working for Mr. Smithson's outfit. National Portrait Gallery/American Art is a hidden gem, ditto Freer-Sackler Asian and African. Hirshhorn. World class five or six block area.

 

[tintag27]

I don't have a favourite artist or even a favourite genre. But I'm happy to have a chance to show this lovely work by Vermeer (famous for his Girl with a Pearl Earring). I love this one 'The Little Street', for its humble subject and how it just feels so alive... a magical work!

 

[Engine Swap]

David Addison Small and Mati Klarwein, who studied under Ernst Fuchs, who was a devoted to Salvador Dali, who worshipped Leonardo Da Vinci, and they all despised Pablo Picasso!

Picasso used house paint on newsprint to cash in on his fame.

 

[Greggorios]

Paul Klee
Piet Mondrian
Edward Hopper
Jim Dine

 

[Addnine]

Kandinsky in his early Fauvist period, Francis Bacon, Blake's etchings, Modigliani.

 

[Killing Floor]

I love Degas. I am not a visual artist. Even my stick figures look like my crayon broke. So my critical analysis is poor to awful regarding any painter. But the way Degas captures motion with shadow is really appealing to me. Even subtle facial expressions, he was able to articulate the life of his subjects. He was able to animate his stills.

More modern I love Marc Chagall. So much joy in his work but not forced. You see Chagall’s dreams and marketplace works and feel some kind of happy. Look, there’s a whole lot of crazy going on here but it’s also incredibly witty and joyous.

 

[HaWE]

I like Carl Spitzweg

 

[Oxidao]

True Genious

May 2015. Little museum in La Coruña, where Pablo moved from Malaga when a child.

I'm Pablo also
Juan Pablo

 

[Telekarster]

I love surrealism, post modernism, impressionism, cubism, etc.

I know Mr. Oliveira personally, from when he first started out, and here's his art

Joshua Oliveira Art

My style differs from others in the way I unify graphic design principles of shape, color, and balance, with interlocking illustrative abstractions in such a way that it creates an optical dialogue between the art and the viewers undiscovered self.

joshuaoliveiraart.turnpiece.net

I know the son of this artist

Walter Quirt - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Walter Quirt

americanart.si.edu

Besides these guys, some of my other favorites are:

Chagall
Picasso
Renoir
Matisse
Dali
Cezanne

 

[hemingway]

I don't have a favourite artist or even a favourite genre. But I'm happy to have a chance to show this lovely work by Vermeer (famous for his Girl with a Pearl Earring). I love this one 'The Little Street', for its humble subject and how it just feels so alive... a magical work!
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That's just perfect

 

[hemingway]

I love Degas. I am not a visual artist. Even my stick figures look like my crayon broke. So my critical analysis is poor to awful regarding any painter. But the way Degas captures motion with shadow is really appealing to me. Even subtle facial expressions, he was able to articulate the life of his subjects. He was able to animate his stills.
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More modern I love Marc Chagall. So much joy in his work but not forced. You see Chagall’s dreams and marketplace works and feel some kind of happy. Look, there’s a whole lot of crazy going on here but it’s also incredibly witty and joyous.
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Degas. Genius.

 

[telleutelleme]

When I came back from SEA I visited the newly opened Keanne Gallery on Broadway in San Francisco. I bought a print of a large eyed girl and poodle. One of many variations they had for sale. I remember there were several setups showing pictures of children behind barb wire and other staged images, all with his wife's large eyes. I liked it a lot back then. It seemed to fit in with all the Starship posters of the time, very San Francisco.

I still like what I bought and it hangs in my music room. I however have been drawn to impressionists in later life and immensely enjoyed visiting the Musee D'Orsay in Paris. I suppose Matisse, Monet and Manet are my favorites. Especially Monet.