my favourite painter

doc P · 28 Apr 2006, 12:19

of all time

your turn now!

Ozpat · 28 Apr 2006, 12:24

Vincent van Gogh......by far!

Also nice: Herman Brood. Not too sure he was a painter though...

itnAklipse · 28 Apr 2006, 12:27

Unoriginally, Vincent van Gogh. Close to that is a contemporary female artist from the Philippines, Zaballero, whose first name i seem to have forgotten in the last couple of years. But i liked her paintings enough to buy one, which can't be said about Vincent...

Behind those i guess it's David Tibet and myself..

nick the stripper · 28 Apr 2006, 12:31

Salvador Dali

Andy Warhol

Ozpat · 28 Apr 2006, 12:31

itnAklipse wrote:Unoriginally, Vincent van Gogh. Close to that is a contemporary female artist from the Philippines, Zaballero, whose first name i seem to have forgotten in the last couple of years. But i liked her paintings enough to buy one, which can't be said about Vincent...

Unoriginally? So my taste has to be original so that others like my opinion?
No thanks....Van Gogh it is. Original or not. I admire the man's work though I haven't got one.

I got a Brood one though...

Obviousman · 28 Apr 2006, 12:38

Edward Hopper!

Most wellknown for Nighthawks (below), but he did much more great stuff. Have a look here...

Also very fond of Luc Tuymans

Or how about Caravaggio

Or obviously Rubens, Van Dyck and most stuff along those lines...

And many many more...

28 Apr 2006, 12:53

Mark Rothko

paint it black · 28 Apr 2006, 13:05

loads (we collect paintings)

at the moment probably degas again

Izzy HaveMercy · 28 Apr 2006, 13:45

Luis Royo, for his lovely fantasy art.

And Jef Bertels, a Belgian artist of whom we bought a painting some years ago, a very nice guy with a weird, yet beautiful style...

Some works:

IZ.

boudicca · 28 Apr 2006, 15:02

Dash darn it, I was going to start a thread like this, you!

I'm also fond of Caravaggio... who else? Well -

Gustav Klimt,

Aubrey Beardsley

That pervy old bastard Egon Schiele

Jean Delville

And good old Leonardo Da Vinci as well I suppose...

radiojamaica · 28 Apr 2006, 15:08

for me it's the usual suspects:

Van Gogh (guess he's number one...)

Dali

Klimt

Mucha

and Milo Manara knows how to use a pencil too

christophe · 28 Apr 2006, 15:20

To be honest Iâ€™m not very into paintings, its something I appreciate but I know to little of it to have more of a opinion than if I like it or not.
Though some time ago I went to a exposition of this group, and I liked a lot of the things I saw.

SomeKindOfStranger · 28 Apr 2006, 15:26

my dad did a brilliant job of the hallway.
His 'visions of magnolia' was truely a sight to behold....

Badlander · 28 Apr 2006, 15:35

radiojamaica wrote: and Milo Manara knows how to use a pencil too

Thank God you didn't forget ye olde bastard !

Time to revive the old Manara vs Serpieri debate.

While Guido Crepax is just waiting around the corner.

MadameButterfly · 28 Apr 2006, 15:39

So many have been named already!

~ Van Gogh
~ Di Vinci
~ Salvador Dali
~ Herman Brood
~ Karel Appel
~ Luis Royo (his sketch work is amazing!)
~ Fiona Andreanelli and David Costa (their sketch work in Brian Froud's book "good faeries, bad faeries")

Andie · 28 Apr 2006, 15:55

Edvard Munch The Scream...

the feelings and emotion that this picture brings forth in me come from my youth...

John Constable Flatford Mill (on the river Stour)

this is the calm and well being i have found today...less than a mile from where i work...

art, to me, is about who you are...and where you fit in

28 Apr 2006, 16:14

God you're all so figurative

Obviousman · 28 Apr 2006, 16:45

markfiend wrote:God you're all so figurative

I've got a rule and a pen at home myself thanks

Almiche V · 28 Apr 2006, 18:25

Dali and Giger for me, but I'm more into digital art.

I'm studying a Fine Art degree at the moment where anything goes. Although the Turner Prize took the p*ss this year I thought. It's a shed that can be turned into a boat and goes on a journey ffs. If that's art then Michael Palin is an old master....

scotty · 28 Apr 2006, 18:32

SomeKindOfStranger wrote:my dad did a brilliant job of the hallway.
His 'visions of magnolia' was truely a sight to behold....

Big Si · 28 Apr 2006, 20:38

Malcolm Bucknall

Francis Bacon

steamhammerdave · 28 Apr 2006, 21:06

Gerrit Dou

Who I don't think anyone will have heard of

canon docre · 28 Apr 2006, 21:34

Oh yes: Francis Bacon

but as well: Bruegel

Goya:

and Bosch of course.

Egon Schiele

but as well:

George Grosz

and Otto Dix:

daggs · 28 Apr 2006, 23:37

Almiche V wrote:Dali and Giger for me

same here. I went to a Dali museum near barcelona and it was the highlight of the trip as I'd loved his work ever since I saw it and read a huge book on it. He had the museum designed with giant eggs all around it (in true dali fear-of-sex type style) and there was one of his paintings that was so high it's amazing how he managed to keep the perspectives right. He is also a really good sketcher...I saw a beautiful sketch of his that involved hands that became roses and entwined round themselves or something but couldn't find it in any books afterwards. He's also done some big sketches in biro!

I'd love to go to the giger museum, he actually has it designed like his artwork doesn't he. I have a few Giger posters in my room and a friend is lending me his Giger book as mine is all in German and being English i'm not too great with foreign languages i'm ashamed to say

EDIT: Escher is a good artist aswell, his work is abit of a headfcuk

aims · 28 Apr 2006, 23:52

Our maths classrooms are a shrine to Escher. Sadly, that's because of the posters on the walls and not because of the architecture. More's the shame