Lets talk art

[Miss Chicken]

A couple of remarks from the Avatar thread

Firstly by me

Except for Hieronymus Bosch and Pieter Bruegel most of the painters I like are from the 19th century onwards. This is much to the disgust of my sisters who state "How can you say love art and yet not like the Old Masters?"

and then by Niorah

I've had people telling me I'm insane and not an art lover at all because I've always stated that most of the stuff produced by Impressionists and onwards is only good for postcards and bookmarks, so I can relate to your predicament with your family.

As I see it both Niorah and I are art lovers, we just have opposite tastes. Being an art lover doesn't mean you have to like everything, or even like what most other people like.

So I am asking people here to tell us where their passions lie be it in the fine arts, the decorative arts, applied arts etc.

Myself, painting is not be any means my favourite form of art. I am more interested in the decorative arts especially art glass, ceramics and art quilts.

I also like photography. As I am not that good with my hands, photography is the best way for me to express myself artistically.

 

[Goliath]

I don't like any period or movement in particular. I am mostly drawn to particular works of art, regardless of who created them or when, with one exception: I seem to have a particular fondness for the early 20th century, when Western artists were stretching the boundaries of representation, without breaking them completely.

Just looking around my walls and shelves, I have prints and reproductions of the following:

--Umberto Boccioni, Unique Forms of Continuity in Space.

--Marcel Duchamp, Bicycle Wheel.

--Joseph Wright of Derby, An Experiment on a Bird in an Air Pump.

--William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Nymphes et Satyr.

--Francis Bacon, Study after Velázquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X

--Frank Cadogan Cowper, How the Devil, Disguised, Lucretia Borgia reigns in the Vatican in the Absence of Pope Alexander VI, and Cathedral Scene from Faust.

--H R Giger, Li and Li II.

--Gustave Dore, Uberti Addresses Dante, and a couple of vintage prints of scenes from Paradise Lost.

--and Henri Privat-Livremont, Absinthe Robette.

 

[think]

when I saw, and spun the bicycle wheel of Duchamp it was next to the first mouse computer from 1984 which I had used lots of back then and took apart to see their siggies in there. now the mouse is an annoyance or an after thought of time consumption,

Continuity in space, that would be some kind of Bauhaus experiment maybe? lets look at that ohhhh right futurist, like the nude going down the stairs .. mmm the negative space is all wrong but it is ,, pretty

what of the post human movements? or post future's realities and such? where does that have grounding in thought or time for a meaningful exchange of surface effects...

wait we are not there yet .., give me a sec to back track -- woot woot -- ok

anyway most of the Giger thingies are really formal futures from the german pov, imo but the real work lies in creating those three-space examples in a function follows form realisms, yes?

 

[Crusher Disciple]

I loike Reinissance, impressionissts and pre0rapheliaites like ROesette.

b back soon to tealk more on this when I can gype.

 

[Miss Chicken]

I like most of the Pre-Raphaelites except for Rosetti though I guess this is mainly because I don't think his favourite models, Fanny Cornforth and Jane Morris, were all that attractive.

My favourite Pre-Raphaelites would be Arthur Hughes, William Holman Hunt and John William Waterhouse.

 

[Crusher Disciple]

lips are all puffy like karl urbans.

ooh, i live Waterhouse!

 

[Niorah]

As I said in the other thread, as far as painting goes I like it old style. My favourite artists are Titian and Rubens. The only somewhat modern art movement I like is that of the Pre-Raphaelites, with a penchant for Bouguereau, Leighton and Alma Tadema.

I love sculpture too, Michelangelo and Antonio Canova being my masters of choice, Canova especially.

In architecture I simply drool at the thought of the beautiful ville that Palladio designed and built on the Riviera del Brenta. As a child, after visiting Villa Barbaro I asked my mum if we could buy it and move there.

 

[Rincewiend]

I've always like artists like René Magritte or M. C. Esher...
Also some of the older, classical painters like Rubens and Breughel...

 

[Mary Ann]

I'm a needlecrafter so I'm drawn to samplers, quilts and the like. My favourite painting style is impressionist, mostly because of the brilliant use of colour, but also because it translates very well into needlecrafts. The same goes for the Arts and Crafts pieces.

 

[melancholymecha]

I like just about everything except for a few kinds of modern art. Like some of those minimalist paintings & sculpture (though it depends on the piece b/c some I might like for the mood or color they show.)

I also love antiques, I love Antiques Roadshow. And period costume/textiles.

 

[Shaytan]

I can't say if I have a favorite period but I'm always very curious when it comes to art and I try to stay very open minded. In that, I'm lucky to live near Paris because we have an intense cultural and artistic life over here. I try to see a lot of exhibitions (painting, photography...). The next exhibition is not going to be very original : I'm going to see the Monet exhibition. It will certainly be the most successful Parisian exhibition of the year.
For the moment, my favorite exhibition this year was Crime et Châtiment in the Musée d'Orsay.

I have also an appreciation for ceramic because it's a cultural heritage : I was born and I grew up in a town very famous for porcelain and ceramic.

 

[BolianAuthor]

Personally, I am very fond of Thomas Kinkade. I like his style of painting, and I love the mood his work conveys.

 

[RJDiogenes]

I like Art, period. As with everything else, my tastes are very broad. Ancient cave paintings, old American Indian art, Minoan frescoes, da Vinci, Bosch, van Gogh, Escher, Rockwell, Gauguin-- I even get a kick out of Picasso. I love modern painters like Whelan, Finley, Saunders et al. I'm a big fan of Pulp art, both the lurid half-naked women kind and the Romantic galactic vistas from when SF was still about the sense of wonder. I also love cartooning. Big fan of comics and comic strip art, from Kirby and Eisner to Wolverton and Aragones to Hart and Larson. The more variety there is, the better I like it.

 

[Holdfast]

I enjoy art, but hate the term "Art lover". It seems to imply Art is a separate entity to be enjoyed on its own idiosyncratic terms, when in fact the most interesting art to me says something integral to the painter and the viewer, not the medium itself. It is symbol-driven emotional engagment; good art is a good conversation. Something in me recoils from the abstraction implied by the separation of Art, and the specific term "Art-lover" from that conversation.

Anyway, I've blogged a bit over time about various works of art I've enjoyed, if you're interested. I fairly often use relevant paintings or sculptures to illustrate posts too.

If I had to pick, I'd probably say that I find painting the most emotionally engaging artform.

 

[Miss Chicken]

In architecture I simply drool at the thought of the beautiful ville that Palladio designed and built on the Riviera del Brenta. As a child, after visiting Villa Barbaro I asked my mum if we could buy it and move there.

My favourite architect would have to be Antoni Gaudi. His designs are so unique.

I love Art Noveau and Art Deco designs.

However my favourite building and in my opinion the greatest work of art is the Taj Mahal.

 

[iguana_tonante]

My tastes are all over the place. Just considering painting, some of my favourite artists (beyond the holy trinity of Italian painters: Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raffaello) come from wildly different eras and styles. In no particular order:

- Renaissance painters Caravaggio, Guidi Reni;
- Various Japanese Ukiyo-e artists (Hokusai being the prime example);
- Again from Japan, Suibokuga school painters (for example Tensho Shubun and Hasegawa Tohaku);
- The one and only Miyamoto Musashi (poet, philosopher, master swordsman, painter: contender for the title of Most Awesome Guy Evah);
- Probably the most incredible painter of all times: Vincent van Gogh;
- Surrealist René Magritte;
- Various Socialist realism works;
- The famous Nighthawks painting by Edward Hopper;
- Suprematist painter Kasimir Malevich;
- De Stijl artist Piet Mondrian (I really like his work);
- Futurist Umberto Boccioni;
- Art Nouveau prophet Alphonse Mucha;
- Pop artists like Roy Lichtenstein or Andy Warhol himself.

And that's just a short list.

 

[Sigh]

To paraphrase a movie... talking about art is like dancing about architecture...

Having said that, I love colors... art just breaks down for me into colors and textures rather than neat little categories. One of my notable favorites is Van Gogh, but I'm not really one for name dropping.

There's an artist I saw recently who did an oil painting of his impression of a bouquet of flowers. But instead of flowers there were colorful rubber gloves and there were little bugs made out of fruit and veggies. I loved it. Whimsy like that makes me believe people will buy traditional media again.

 

[Miss Chicken]

If anyone is interested -

I am currently reading Color: a Natural History of the Paletteby Victoria Finlay. In it the author looks at how different dyes and paints were traditionally made throughout history. Each colour gets its own chapter. So far I have read Ochre, Black/brown, White, Red and am currently starting on Orange. It has been a fascinating read so far and it does look at mention different artists and their works.

 

[melancholymecha]

another thing I love is landscape & wildlife art as well as paleoart, the reconstructuon of extinxt species & their environments.
some cool examples

 

[RJDiogenes]

^^ I love paleoart. Those are great.