Who's your favorite painter?

[matriarch]

By coincidence, just got a text from the Gosling; she's been visiting the Georgia O'Keefe museum/gallery in Santa Fe.

Georgia O'Keefe Museum

 

[CharleyH]

I was reading some about Botticelli tonight....I've always loved his paintings. Such beautiful detail.

Which painters produce(d) work that fascinates you? Why?

20th century artists of all kinds interest me. Although my interests begin in the art, scultures and tools of cave men, really (I believe all art is a succession and nothing is created ex nihilo).

Art Noveau is exceptionally sensual and sometimes sexually bizarre even more so I think than in current culture. The Dadists of theatre, art and poetry, the surrealists ... Andre' Breton, my fave theorist, also abstractionits, and another of my faves, Andy Warhol.

Why Andy?

Well, to put it bluntly, he masturbated on aristocracy, and threw his nose up at high art, and high art responded, "You are BRILLIANT." Can a joke be any more beautiful?

How can you not love artists? As Andre' Breton once said, "Artist can't be anything, but revolutionary."

 

[Subo97]

I love them all, good choices, but I'm a Hudson River School man, myself.

 

[CharleyH]

I love them all, good choices, but I'm a Hudson River School man, myself.

kind bump

 

[nushu2]

Leroy Nieman (sometimes Neiman). Eye candy but not fattening.

Gaugin for the south pacific titties.

 

[McKenna]

My fave is VanGogh.

I like saying Van Gogh (with Dutch pronunciation, of course.)

It's almost as much fun as saying 's-Hertogenbosch.

Language is art, right?

 

[CharleyH]

I like saying Van Gogh (with Dutch pronunciation, of course.)

It's almost as much fun as saying 's-Hertogenbosch.

Language is art, right?

Everyone says WHO, but hardly why.

 

[AppleBiter]

Everyone says WHO, but hardly why.

I don't know that I can really nail down a reason why I like Van Gogh. I just do. His paintings are cool. If that seems shallow, so be it.

 

[AppleBiter]

Language is art, right?

Sure!

 

[cloudy]

Hieronymus Bosch did some cool stuff:

http://perso.wanadoo.fr/maurice.lamouroux/image/gn02a/images/BOSCH,15,GER,%20THE%20GARDEN%20OF%20EARTHLY%20DELIGHTS.jpg

 

[CharleyH]

I don't know that I can really nail down a reason why I like Van Gogh. I just do. His paintings are cool. If that seems shallow, so be it.

I could post a picture. You should know why. you do

 

[CharleyH]

Hieronymus Bosch did some cool stuff:

http://perso.wanadoo.fr/maurice.lamouroux/image/gn02a/images/BOSCH,15,GER,%20THE%20GARDEN%20OF%20EARTHLY%20DELIGHTS.jpg

Jesus. LOL. Thats busy. What do you have to say about it? LOL

 

[cloudy]

Jesus. LOL. Thats busy. What do you have to say about it? LOL

That's the middle triptych from the Garden of Earthly Delights.

Yeah, it's busy, but I think it's one of those you have to look at a section at a time. There's some incredible detail.

 

[Guest]

 

[Halo_n_horns]

While I'll always hold the grand masters of the Renaissance very high in my admiration ...

http://www.die-einherjar.de/volume1/frank_frazetta_deathdealerI.jpg

Frazetta will always be at the top of my list.

 

[SensualCealy]

Id have to say Susor Cote, I absolutely love this picture!

 

[~photoguy~]

the guy from College Pro did a decent job on my living room

 

[sophia jane]

By coincidence, just got a text from the Gosling; she's been visiting the Georgia O'Keefe museum/gallery in Santa Fe.

Georgia O'Keefe Museum

I need to put that on my list of museums I need to visit.

 

[sophia jane]

Everyone says WHO, but hardly why.

I tend not to say who very often, mostly because, while there are painters I love, I focus more on the paintings themselves than on the artist. The pieces I like are the ones that make me feel something, that make me look at something differently, that capture a particular moment or emotion in a new or creative way.

 

[BlackSnake]

My favorite painter is William-Adolphe Bouguereau

http://www.xs4all.nl/~frqnc23/images/p_73_1.jpg

 

[cloudy]

That's beautiful, Blacksnake. His use of light is lovely.

 

[Guest]

That's the middle triptych from the Garden of Earthly Delights.

Yeah, it's busy, but I think it's one of those you have to look at a section at a time. There's some incredible detail.

Good sex should be busy.

 

[Guest]

My favorite painter is William-Adolphe Bouguereau

http://www.xs4all.nl/~frqnc23/images/p_73_1.jpg

Amazing.

 

[Halo_n_horns]

Bumping for the sake of bumping ...

http://www.die-einherjar.de/volume1/frank_frazetta_catgirl.jpg

 

[Rumple Foreskin]

GOYA
http://www.abcgallery.com/G/goya/goya8.JPG
Dona Isabel de Porcel

and, of course,
http://www.city.londonmet.ac.uk/langstud/med/med/week2/maja.jpg
The Nake Maja

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PICASSO
http://www.elicriso.it/le-muse/Picasso.jpg
Guernica.

http://www.poster.net/picasso-pablo/picasso-pablo-don-quixote-2405070.jpg
Don Quixote

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and no collection is complete without a compilation of Tijuana Black Velvet paintings including:
http://www.velvetpaintings.com/Velvet/Tijuana_BlackVelvet_Standards/Tijuana_BlackVelvet_Standards-Images/73.jpg
Dogs Playing Poker

and everyone's all-time black velvet favortie:
http://www.velvetpaintings.com/Velvet/VelvetElvis/slides/Photo%20Library%20-%204189.jpg
Elvis

Just another fine service of:
NO HOPE ENT.
Rumple Foreskin