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― gareth (gareth), Thursday, 12 December 2002 12:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Miro. Got to see some originals a few years ago, and they were frankly AMAZING.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Thursday, 12 December 2002 12:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Probably Wyeth.

― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 12 December 2002 12:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Bridget Riley

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 12 December 2002 12:33 (twenty-two years ago)

kandinsky

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 12 December 2002 12:33 (twenty-two years ago)

klee is quite good too.

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 12 December 2002 12:35 (twenty-two years ago)

JOhn Wayne Gacy

― Queen G (Queeng), Thursday, 12 December 2002 13:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Jel and I are soulmates artistically - those are my two favourite painters, in that order. Other huge favourites: Cezanne, Picasso, Hepworth, Bernini, Monet, Van Gogh, Sesshu, Rauschenberg, Malevich, Newman, Pollock, Riley, Miro, Fiona Rae, Michelangelo... oh, hundreds of them.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 12 December 2002 13:36 (twenty-two years ago)

and perhaps an image of your favourite piece by them

― gareth (gareth), Thursday, 12 December 2002 13:43 (twenty-two years ago)

right now i'm feeling spangly and swirly and commercial, so i'll say alfons mucha. this changes from day to day, so don't take my word on it. probably tomorrow it'll be back to some dreadfully sentimental pre-raphaelite again. i heart ninteenth century art.

― kate, Thursday, 12 December 2002 13:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Pre Pop Warhol

http://www.virginia.edu/artmuseum/WE2001/warhol.jpg

― erik, Thursday, 12 December 2002 14:02 (twenty-two years ago)

stanley spencer, of course.

― Marcello Carlin, Thursday, 12 December 2002 14:05 (twenty-two years ago)

max beckman, i think

― dave k, Thursday, 12 December 2002 14:08 (twenty-two years ago)

*Early* Miro (The Farm, Still Life with Bunny, etc.), Klee, Chagall. I also really like ancient Egyptian art. The exhibit currently at the Museum of Science in Boston is amazing.

― Dave Fischer, Thursday, 12 December 2002 15:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Toss-up between Dore with Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner, Pierre et Gilles or Gilbert and George.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 12 December 2002 16:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Marcello, are you my mum? She Lurves Stan Spencer, makes pilgrimages to the chapel of his and stuff. My favourite at the moment is probably (still) Jenny Holzer, but a perennial wuv is Richard Serra.

http://adaweb.walkerart.org/project/holzer/cgi/pcb.cgi

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Thursday, 12 December 2002 16:27 (twenty-two years ago)

this week

agnes martin, post shot warhol, hobein, chardin,poussion, ruscha, thiebald, bonnard, giotto, bacon, balthus, carvarggio, hesse, cranach,hirst, hockney ca. la,hogarth, rivers, johns,twombly, richard prince, kline, krasner,man ray, minor white, le chapelle,adler, cady and kenneth noland,christopher wool,peyton, duher, blake, fra angelico,and il sodomo.and a million others,

― anthony easton (anthony), Thursday, 12 December 2002 16:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Anthony, do you know Zurbaran?

http://home.hiwaay.net/~oliver/zurbaran.jpg

― erik, Thursday, 12 December 2002 19:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Man Ray

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Thursday, 12 December 2002 19:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Impossible to answer, but Stuart Davis and Henry Darger were the first names that sprung to mind so I guess it's them.

― James Blount, Thursday, 12 December 2002 19:58 (twenty-two years ago)

http://fusionanomaly.net/tessa/saskia4.jpg

― unknown or illegal user (doorag), Thursday, 12 December 2002 20:06 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm going through a bit of an Aubrey Beardsley phase lately. But I also love Alfons Mucha, Caspar David Friedrich, Magritte, Dali, John Martin, Edward Hopper, Francis Bacon, Anselm Kiefer, Man Ray, Goya, William Blake, Klimt, J.W. Waterhouse, Maxfield Parrish, etc.

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Thursday, 12 December 2002 20:08 (twenty-two years ago)

i am resuming my pash on Dagobert Peche
http://www.wm.edu/CAS/modlang/gasmit/ger410/WienerWerkstaette/Fabrics/24.GIF

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 12 December 2002 20:09 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.cakewalkmag.com/images/ruscha.jpg

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Thursday, 12 December 2002 21:03 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm going through a bit of an Aubrey Beardsley phase lately

http://www.rps.org/collectf/book/images/P36B.jpg

great hands=great artist

― erik, Thursday, 12 December 2002 21:07 (twenty-two years ago)

That photo is the very definition of looking down your nose at something, isn't it?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 12 December 2002 21:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Chaim Soutine.

― estela, Thursday, 12 December 2002 21:51 (twenty-two years ago)

for jean cocteau, he could make beauty from everything, even with a gun, as long as it lays in beautiful hands.

http://www.afterimagegallery.com/cocteaul.jpg

― erik, Thursday, 12 December 2002 23:30 (twenty-two years ago)

oh yes- i wrote a longish poem about as Zurban in the british musuem. but then lost it when my computer crashed

― anthony easton (anthony), Thursday, 12 December 2002 23:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Kandinsky, Oskar Fischinger, Ferdinand Leger

― Chris Barrus (xibalba), Friday, 13 December 2002 00:43 (twenty-two years ago)

London ILXers-does anyone know about a supposedly "free" 24 hour exhibition happening at the Hayward tonight? A friend just texted me so details are foggy, but the words "possible free beer" are discernible amongst the scrawl.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Friday, 13 December 2002 10:50 (twenty-two years ago)

friend just texted me so details are foggy

Marilyn Monroe in Some like it hot: IT'S THE FOG THAT COUNTS!

I like Bjarne Melgaard.

http://www.hetdomein.nl/deVerzameling/data/beelden/installatie/melgaard/97003.jpg

― erik, Friday, 13 December 2002 11:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Gareth here is my long-delayed post!
I like a lot of various movements of 20th century art. I am always learning more about it, so none of my opnions right now are final, which is good.
I don't necessarily agree with everything said in their manifesto, but I love Italian Futurism nontheless. Here are some favorites:
Russolo "Music"
http://www.unknown.nu/futurism/images/russolo.jpg
Russolo "Solidita nella nebbia"
http://progenlab3.dst.polimi.it/disegno/D802MVPK/russol.jpg
Sant'elia (Couldn't find title)
http://chimera.roma1.infn.it/GIORGIO/futurismo/elia.jpg
Carlo Carra and Boccioni are good, too, but I couldn't find the right pictures via the google image search.

One of my earliest heros was James McNeil Whistler. He painted a beautiful series of Nocturnes, most of which were here in DC many years ago when his exhibit was passing through. Out of the ones available online, here is one of my favorites:
"Nocturne in Blue and Gold: Old Battersea Bridge"
http://digilander.libero.it/webpainter/amjap/Nocturne%20in%20blue%20and%20gold%20old%20battersea%20bridge.jpg

I will stop here for now ;-)

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Saturday, 14 December 2002 06:11 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/news_comment/weekinfocus/images/pier.jpg

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 14 December 2002 06:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Where to begin?

about 1900-1930 or so, for the most part.
Futurism R0x0r for sure.
http://busa.village.virginia.edu/images/st_mind2.jpg
(Boccioni)

As does Russian Constructivism.
http://chimera.roma1.infn.it/GIORGIO/ futurismo/aeroplan.jpg
(Malevich)

And American Precisionism.
http:// www.butlerart.com/pc_book/ images/Niles_Spencer.jpg
(Niles Spencer)

― webcrack (music=crack), Saturday, 14 December 2002 07:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Damn.

― webcrack (music=crack), Saturday, 14 December 2002 07:35 (twenty-two years ago)

the painting not the artist,

http://members.rott.chello.nl/e.visser25/frederic2.jpg

the whistler is beautiful, aaron.

― erik, Saturday, 14 December 2002 10:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Roger Dean.

― Joe (Joe), Saturday, 14 December 2002 11:17 (twenty-two years ago)

i like that futurist flashing bowtie

― bob zemko (bob), Saturday, 14 December 2002 13:52 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.artforall.co.uk/thumb/RHGC1.JPG

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 14 December 2002 14:52 (twenty-two years ago)

so few contemporary artists here :/

francis alys for instance: he made walking into an art form, like walking through the streets with a thread of his woollen sweater attached to his home, so the garment slowly dissolving while he walks.

or pushing a big ice block through mexico city till there is no more left than a teeny weeny ice cube a drop of water

http://members.rott.chello.nl/e.visser25/diapo3.jpg

or walking around with a bucket of paint with a hole in it (his work has some belgian humour in it, he comes originally from belgium but he works in mexico)

http://members.rott.chello.nl/e.visser25/alys1square.jpg

another work where he invited ppl to stand in the shadow of a square and move around with it.

he also makes tiny little drawings on tracing paper and small apintings of a man and a dog (biot like the saskia leek one above)

― erik, Saturday, 14 December 2002 15:51 (twenty-two years ago)

"the whistler is beautiful, aaron."
yes it is. I have heard that he painted all of the Nocturnes in a boat on the Thames at night. I am not sure, though.

more paintings!!!
Rosso Fiorentino "Deposition" 1521
http://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/cjackson/fiorentino/fiorentino8.jpg
panels from Grunewald's Isenheim altarpiece. 1515, I think.
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~garden/art/grunewald1.jpg
http://graphics.lcs.mit.edu/~fredo/ArtAndScienceOfDepiction/ScottColorTalk/images/hue/grunwld2.jpg

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Saturday, 14 December 2002 17:28 (twenty-two years ago)

of living artists, dave mckean's my fav right now

http://www.bulletsofautumn.com/mckean-art/pv_goldnude.jpg

― dyson (dyson), Saturday, 14 December 2002 17:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Dyson is the first to mention an artist who has produced work for me! Dave McKean did a cover for my magazine years ago! He's not even one of my favourite comic artists, by a long way.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 14 December 2002 18:11 (twenty-two years ago)

I've got lots of favorites, but my all time favorite is Yves Tanguy:

http://www.artsconnected.org/artsnetmn/inner/tangy01d.jpg

― A Nairn (moretap), Saturday, 14 December 2002 21:38 (twenty-two years ago)

http://fusionanomaly.net/yvestanguyindefinitedivisibility.jpg

― A Nairn (moretap), Saturday, 14 December 2002 21:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Salvidor Dali.

And most surrealism for that matter.

― David Allen, Saturday, 14 December 2002 21:43 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't really like Dali too much, or surrealism as a whole, but I like Tanguy lots. It think it's because of the simplicity of his works. Not much to think about; just straightforward aesthetic pleasure.

― A Nairn (moretap), Saturday, 14 December 2002 21:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Aaron,

pasolini made a film abt the rosso fiorentino painting. it's a short film with orson welles as a filmdirector and the only thing I remember is that they make a live stage version of the manierist deposition:

http://www.pasolini.net/ricot05.jpg

― erik, Saturday, 14 December 2002 21:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Am I alone in thinking that art has gone to shit recently? I mean, within the last 3 to 5 years. It just seems that art has become chic, which has drawn in a lot of real crap.

I'm probably alone.

― David Allen, Saturday, 14 December 2002 23:49 (twenty-two years ago)

pasolini short film=LA RICOTTA

is not a stage version but is k00L & has a talking dog.

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 15 December 2002 05:22 (twenty-two years ago)

All-time: probably Picasso, with a special "not nearly as good but gets me right here" for Duchamp and Joseph Cornell.

Contemporary or contemporary-ish: Chris Ofili (!!!--God this guy is good), Matthew Ritchie, Nam June Paik.

― Douglas, Sunday, 15 December 2002 05:46 (twenty-two years ago)

erik i will look out for that film, and RJG, thanks for getting the title!

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Sunday, 15 December 2002 17:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Douglas, Chris Ofili gets the British pavilion in Venice this summer.

I like: Frida Kahlo, Jenny Holzer, Barbara Kruger, Hannah Starkey. Ask me in a week and it will change.

― suzy (suzy), Sunday, 15 December 2002 21:19 (twenty-two years ago)

ten years pass...

Please include a representative image if possible. Thanks!

― Iago Galdston, Friday, 31 May 2013 00:11 (twelve years ago)

Oh shit, sorry, i was creating the same post after searching "favorite" and not getting this one....anyway, Walker Evans!

― Iago Galdston, Friday, 31 May 2013 00:12 (twelve years ago)

The extraordinary art of Vsevolod Borisovich Ivanov

― ghosts of erith spectral crackhouse slain rudeboy (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Friday, 31 May 2013 00:14 (twelve years ago)

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