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 Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 9:27 am
Artist, sculptor, architect, w/e My favorite artists are Botticelli and MC Escher. Botticelli is an early Renaissance painter. His famous works include "The Birth of Venus" (my favorite) and "Primavera." Google Search Botticelli "Images"MC Escher is a more modern artist. His famous works are "Relativity", "Ascending and Descending" and "Waterfall". My favorite of his is "Reptiles" Google Search mc escher "images"
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Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 9:31 pm
I really like El Greco, whose actual name was Doménicos Theotokópoulos. He was a Greek artist living in Spain, and the combination of those influences made for some interesting work. Not to mention, his actual technique was extremely good as well. Google Image Search - El Greco
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Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 10:33 pm
Botticelli is pretty good, but I could never go to an exhibition: it'd be saturation of a style that I only partly enjoy. Still, he was a real original, and I can't fault him for that.
My personal favourite artists include Egon Schiele and Kurt Schwitters. I'd like to see an exhibition of Schwitters' work, if I could.
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Posted: Sat Dec 15, 2007 2:27 am
I love works by mc escher. My personal favorites are Metamorphose and Three Worlds. I liked some of the religious statements made by some of Salvador Dali's work but I could never really get into serious art.
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Posted: Sat Dec 15, 2007 12:51 pm
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Posted: Sun Dec 16, 2007 2:10 pm
I adore Escher. When I was young and still living in the DC area, I went to an Escher exhibition. I also got to see a Calder exhibition. I like him as well.
I also like Magritte, Frank Lloyd Wright, Bill Waterson, Studio Foglio, and a couple other comic artists. Because comics are art.
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Questionable Autobiographer
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Posted: Sun Dec 16, 2007 2:14 pm
Banksy. He's an amazing English stencil graffiti (among many other mediums) artist that likes to make political or social statements. Not only is his work controversial, but his style of art is illegal too!
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Posted: Sun Dec 16, 2007 3:08 pm
Awesome.
I have too many favourites to list. A lot of them are architects, but that reminded me of Vinchen.
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Posted: Sun Dec 16, 2007 9:59 pm
Hmm. Well, in no particular order:
Monet
Degas
Manet
Mary Cassatt
Renoir
Rembrandt
Norman Rockwell
Gustave Courbet
I have always liked Monet's art, especially his paintings of the Japanese Bridge, and I got hooked on him in first grade, when my father took me to the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, and I saw one of the water lily paintings. I became obsessed immediately, and begged my dad to buy me a book of Claude Monet's art from the souvenir shop.
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Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2007 2:16 am
*snickers* When I got inked, Birte remarked that if you want to drive a tattoo-artist insane, all it takes is to get yourself an Escher-design. Incidentally, she has one herself.
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Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2007 2:57 am
Cinerea *snickers* When I got inked, Birte remarked that if you want to drive a tattoo-artist insane, all it takes is to get yourself an Escher-design. Incidentally, she has one herself. How much did that cost her, if you know XD
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Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2007 2:05 pm
princess lolifoxxx How much did that cost her, if you know XD
She's a tattoo-artist, so I wouldn't have put it past her to have gotten it for free. I know she did the ones on her legs herself, but the Escher one was on the shoulder-blade.
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Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 6:16 am
I'm not big on impressionism (except Renoir <3) but I'm a huge huge fan of Rodin, and a devotee of the work of Andy Goldsworthy.
I don't mind Banky's work in itself, but it's not art and I tend to laugh out loud when critics assess it as such.
Conceptual art -can- be good, but it's so incestuously inside its own establishment that it often fails to touch the public, and in recent years the corporate grip has become such that I fear for the future progress of British art.
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Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 11:26 am
Invictus_88 I'm not big on impressionism (except Renoir <3) but I'm a huge huge fan of Rodin, and a devotee of the work of Andy Goldsworthy.
I don't mind Banky's work in itself, but it's not art and I tend to laugh out loud when critics assess it as such.
Conceptual art -can- be good, but it's so incestuously inside its own establishment that it often fails to touch the public, and in recent years the corporate grip has become such that I fear for the future progress of British art. Seconded on the Banksy stuff. God, that stuff just irritates me... Because it's on cheap posters and badges. I've never seen any real political point being made other than an off-the-rack populism being exploited to make his 'art' more accessible.
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Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 4:58 pm
princess lolifoxxx Invictus_88 I'm not big on impressionism (except Renoir <3) but I'm a huge huge fan of Rodin, and a devotee of the work of Andy Goldsworthy.
I don't mind Banky's work in itself, but it's not art and I tend to laugh out loud when critics assess it as such.
Conceptual art -can- be good, but it's so incestuously inside its own establishment that it often fails to touch the public, and in recent years the corporate grip has become such that I fear for the future progress of British art. Seconded on the Banksy stuff. God, that stuff just irritates me... Because it's on cheap posters and badges. I've never seen any real political point being made other than an off-the-rack populism being exploited to make his 'art' more accessible.
Well...
If the art world progresses, he is the arse end. If the capitalisation of the art market still has as firm a grip as ever (I fear so) then Banky is a new low to be presumably followed by other, lower-brow and hyper-inane artforms.
Bloody hell I'm bitter..
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