Art lovers - please post names of your favorite paintings, painters

jillybean

jillybean

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Mine are:

House by the Railroad, Edward Hopper
Christina’s World, Andrew Wyeth
Clairvoyance, Rene Magritte
The Dreamer, Caspar Friedrich (no relation to Cathe, I don’t think)
Tragedia, Pablo Picasso
ANYTHING by Robert Bechtle
ANYTHING by Georgia O’Keeffe

If any of you could list just a few, this would be most appreciated as I really want to discover some new pieces. Thanks!:)
 
I love anything by the Hudson River School painters especially Thomas Doughty, Thomas Cole, Frederic Edwin Church, and Jasper Cropsey. The autumn landscapes are my favorites--anything with Lake George or West Point.

I love American folk art from the 18th and 19th centuries.

Vermeer--The Lace Maker.

Last but not least--Italian painters from the Renaissance.

Michele
 
I love the late work of Van Gogh. I think he is my favorite painter. I also love his self portraits.

I am also an absolute fan of the work of M.C. Escher, though many question if his work is actually art. Whatever it is, I don't care. I like what he did and I expect to do the same and maybe transfer it to other disciplines and arts.
 
Anything Matisse. I wish I knew the name of my favorite one, but it is in the Barnes Collection. I also love the modern art of Romero Britto. www.britto.com
Also, I can never get over The Sunday Afternoon on the Grande Jatte by Suerat. The Barnes Collection also has one of his HUMONGOUS dot paintings that just blew my mind. It was about 10 feet wide and 8 feet tall and took him 7 years to paint.
 
If you like posters but want to decorate with something a little fancier than posters, I found this art store who will transfer a poster onto stretched mounted canvas and then add texture on top of the transfer so it looks like you have the original painting or an excellent copy. The transfer is $100 or so and the brush strokes are about another $100.
 
Believe it or not, I collect Norman Rockwell paintings. So out of character for me. DH actually gave me an original signed Rockwell lithograph when we were dating as a gift.
 
Hello Amy_b, are you thinking of the Dance mural that Matisse created for Barnes? I love that one also. I think the Seurat painting at Barnes that you are thinking of is titled Models (Poseuses).

I go in and out of favorites, depending on my mood. Right now I'm not into painting, but photography - especially by Andre Kertesz.
 
I love Lawren Harris - he's a Canadian artist, one of the Group of Seven. North of Superior is probably my favourite of his works.

Guernica by Picasso
Horse and Train by Alex Colville

I like lots of Calder's work too.
 
Hey Shelley,

Have you ever heard of Nancy Perkins? She's an artist on PEI. I think she's from the US but now lives on PEI. Anyway, I have one of her paintings--a landscape of PEI. Her earlier works, like mine, were done in the impressionist style. I think she's changed to a more folk arty style now. There's a great art gallery in Charlottetown and I could've spent a fortune in there.

Michele
 
RE: Art lovers - please post names of your favorite pai...

I took an art history class this summer and studied Western European art from the beginning of time up through the 19th century.

My favorite period was the Baroque period and my favorite artist was Rubens. His paintings are full of swirling lines and warm colors and a sense of motion.

I'm not usually a fan of modern art but we each had to present on a 20th century genre and I chose Abstract Expressionism - this is the movement associated with Jackson Pollock. I developed an appreciation for his work too.
 
I am kind of an odd mix. I have loved Norman Rockwell since I was a little girl. I love Maxfield Parish as well....and an extreme of his fantasy escape in my mind is Michael Parks. I actually have several of his prints framed and mounted nicely. No room for them on the walls right now, pre kids you see. When the kids move on, I can bring them back out into a guest room:)
 
Not pantings, but sculpture, and I hope I don't upset you for butting in, but I love Camille Claudel's work, or at least what we have left to appreciate.

I have never felt so moved or tormented.

Marla
 
This is a bit off the beaten path, but Saul Steinberg's March 29, 1976 cover of The New Yorker, "The New Yorker's View Of The World", a gentle poke at the hubris of The Big Apple that has been much-replicated over the years.

A-Jock
 
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