BS: Your Favorite Visual Artist

Subject: BS: Your Favorite Visual Artist
From: GUEST
Date: 07 Dec 02 - 09:39 PM

Okay, now I know this is a music site but, hey.... With that said, who is you favorite visual artist.

And then who come in second and third. No fourths, please.

Okay, I'll start.

1. Paul Gauguin
2. Edagar Degas
3. Vincent Van Gogh

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: Your Favorite Visual Artist
From: Helen
Date: 07 Dec 02 - 11:50 PM

1. Grace Cossington-Smith - an Australian impressionist. I love her interior scenes
2. Claude Monet
3. Probably Vincent van Gogh

Helen

Subject: RE: BS: Your Favorite Visual Artist
From: allanwill
Date: 08 Dec 02 - 02:16 PM

Heironymous Bosch;

Tom Roberts (or any artist from the Australian "Heidelberg" school;

Jackson Pollock (purely for "Blue Poles", which I can stare at for hours).

Allan

Subject: RE: BS: Your Favorite Visual Artist
From: CarolC
Date: 08 Dec 02 - 02:19 PM

Right now, Georgia O'Keefe, but that could change.

Subject: RE: BS: Your Favorite Visual Artist
From: harvey andrews
Date: 08 Dec 02 - 02:34 PM

Horst Janssen
Pissarro
Rowland Hilder

But then again there's Klimt,Van Gogh, all the other Impressionists,
my dad......

Subject: RE: BS: Your Favorite Visual Artist
From: GUEST,daylia
Date: 08 Dec 02 - 02:43 PM

Escher - can look for hours and still feel like there's MORE in there

Bateman - IMO still the finest wildlife artist around

Michelangelo - no words required

Awwwww, you mean I can't include Leona ... ok, ok I quit!


                   daylia

Subject: RE: BS: Your Favorite Visual Artist
From: Deckman
Date: 08 Dec 02 - 03:22 PM

Albert Rose, Everett, Washngton, USA. Try albertrose.com. CHEERS, Bob

Subject: RE: BS: Your Favorite Visual Artist
From: Rustic Rebel
Date: 08 Dec 02 - 04:06 PM

Salvador Dali
Rustic

Subject: RE: BS: Your Favorite Visual Artist
From: Matt_R
Date: 08 Dec 02 - 04:18 PM

Claes Oldenburg
Caspar David Friedrich

Subject: RE: BS: Your Favorite Visual Artist
From: open mike
Date: 08 Dec 02 - 04:27 PM

Andy Goldsworthy, whose film Rivers and Tides is showing these days.
He lives in Scotland, but i believe is British--correct me if i'm wrong
brit-cats--and scot-cats--and his art is very temporary
and very "in the moment". my
blickies don't seem to work--somethng to do with netscape 7.0??
and here are places to go to find out more:
http://cgee.hamline.edu/see/goldsworthy/see_an_andy.html
http://www.smithsonianmag.si.edu/smithsonian/issues97/feb97/golds.html
http://www.filmforum.com/rivers.html
he works with nature and most of his
creations are designed to blow or flow
away soon after they are made...very cool.

i also like peter max,
and who is that woman with t6he nature images where
there are faces and figures hidden within the shapes??

Subject: RE: BS: Your Favorite Visual Artist
From: GUEST,Walking Eagle
Date: 08 Dec 02 - 04:39 PM

Judy Chicago. Lee Carter Jr. and a children's book illustrator, Jerry Pinckney.

Subject: RE: BS: Your Favorite Visual Artist
From: GUEST,Fred Miller
Date: 08 Dec 02 - 05:08 PM

The first artist of any sort I really connected to was Leonardo, when I was a small child. I still don't care about much of any of the art-history stuff about it, it was his feeling about weather that got to me. Those soft, evenly lit days, that seem to breath a secret to you, the way they seem well-meant, but achingly a gift you don't quite know what to do with. I was sure he felt it, and that amazed me, the sense of sharing a psychology with some long-dead person. The style is odd--he rarely painted the whites of eyes, and it would wreck the good pictures if he did. Mona Lisa's face is very nearly only 2 colors, black and a golden flesh-tone.

Lately I'm liking Cassat. Also like Matisse, Balthus, Rauschenberg, um, Hopper! Guston, Rothenberg, de Kooning, Clemente, blah blah blah, etc. Tend to hate my own stuff, but trying to be more indifferent.

Subject: RE: BS: Your Favorite Visual Artist
From: Dave Swan
Date: 08 Dec 02 - 05:11 PM

Maillol

John Suazo

Henry Moore

Subject: RE: BS: Your Favorite Visual Artist
From: Dave Swan
Date: 08 Dec 02 - 05:15 PM

Hell, since you asked for rank order, that should be Suazo first.

Subject: RE: BS: Your Favorite Visual Artist
From: GUEST,The Big Pink Lad
Date: 08 Dec 02 - 05:22 PM

1. Ted Harrison (had tea with Ted yesterday)
2. Tom McGuinness
3. Norman Cornish

All still alive, born within 20 miles of one another. Amazing.

Subject: RE: BS: Your Favorite Visual Artist
From: Thomas the Rhymer
Date: 08 Dec 02 - 05:46 PM

Goldworthy's installations turned my world inside out when I first saw them! I am deeply moved and inspired by his works... Van Doren is fascinating to me... Michelangelo stimulates my senses to the extreme, and his statues just fill me with the deepest feelings of awe... Cellini is so intense! I have to admit of a love of Rockwell Kent, Norman Rockwell is sweet, Picasso has always opened my mind, and the French Impressionists make life just that much better! ttr

Subject: RE: BS: Your Favorite Visual Artist
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 08 Dec 02 - 10:54 PM

Dale Chihuly, glass artist
Peter King, architectural ceramicist (and friend)
Don Reitz, potter
Howard Finster, folk artist
M.C. Escher
Salvador Dali
Frank Stella

Subject: RE: BS: Your Favorite Visual Artist
From: catspaw49
Date: 08 Dec 02 - 11:00 PM

My son, followed by M.C.Escher. Sweriously folks, I have a boy that will make his way well in an end of that world someday.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Your Favorite Visual Artist
From: J.R. Winters
Date: 09 Dec 02 - 03:27 AM

1 - Vincent Van Gogh
2 - Salvador Dali
3 - Sergei Pachtchenko (Russian photographer)

-J.

Subject: RE: BS: Your Favorite Visual Artist
From: gnu
Date: 09 Dec 02 - 06:22 AM

M.C.Escher and rehcsE.C.M.

Subject: RE: BS: Your Favorite Visual Artist
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 09 Dec 02 - 10:26 AM

Pieter Breughel the elder (and his son wasn't too bad, either).
Vincent Van Gogh
I need time to think about a third...

Subject: RE: BS: Your Favorite Visual Artist
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 09 Dec 02 - 10:47 AM

Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea culpa!

I obviously need to go back to school and learn how to read the instructions carefully. Bobert asked for only three favorites and I listed seven! Please forgive me. I will do anything you ask - as long as it has nothing to do with George W. Bush and oral sex.

Bruce

Subject: RE: BS: Your Favorite Visual Artist
From: GUEST,Taliesn
Date: 09 Dec 02 - 07:32 PM

I have so many that I draw inspiration from or just enjoy that I'll have to pass on the classic masters whose names are familiar and focus on some perhaps lesser known contemporary visual artists/illustrators that "do it" for me.

Architect Frank Lloyd Wright.; To not only see but actually walk around "in" and experience one of his architectural works of visual art is an experience I've always enjoyed to the hilt.

Jim Hensen : Muppet-meister

Brian Froud: the British illustrator that Hensen employed for what he said was his favorite work ;the fantsy film "The Dark Crystal".

Roger Dean: another Brit illustrator designer most know for crafting the fantastic otherworldly Art Nouveau-ish worldscapes and contraptions for the "YES" album covers.

Political Cartoonists Frank MacNelly and Pat Oliphant

Master NY celebrity / show characturist Al Hirshfeld: "The Line King"

Filmmakers Orson Wells , Ridley Scott ,and now Peter Jackson of "Lord of the Rings" well-deserved fame.

Thought i'd broaden the consideration of what we experience as "visual artists".

C'mon Rev Bobert, y'all know all us south-paw artist types are wired all different anyway. ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Your Favorite Visual Artist
From: John Hardly
Date: 09 Dec 02 - 07:50 PM

Eakins
Bierstadt
Innes

Subject: RE: BS: Your Favorite Visual Artist
From: Donuel
Date: 09 Dec 02 - 08:22 PM

Bosche, Escher, Dali, Parrish and me.

Here are some pics I did regarding some forum members yesterday.

http://forums.maestronet.com/forums/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=UBB5&Number=173939&page=0&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=&fpart=1&vc=1

Subject: RE: BS: Your Favorite Visual Artist
From: Donuel
Date: 09 Dec 02 - 08:29 PM

Don Hakman... http://pub173.ezboard.com/fwordsonfirefrm17


I've been playing with new graphic software for 6 months now.

Subject: RE: BS: Your Favorite Visual Artist
From: Alice
Date: 09 Dec 02 - 08:39 PM

I like too many to have favorites, but two
I'll name: Edward Hopper and Rene Magritte.

Alice

Subject: RE: BS: Your Favorite Visual Artist
From: Bobert
Date: 09 Dec 02 - 09:07 PM

Well, Taliesn, looks as if Donuel and you have somethin' in common. Guess yer gonna have to step up to the plate now with soem of yer stuff...

Incidently, Donuel, I'z not sure what the first site is a ll about but I bookmarked it and will return later. Looked like some interesting new agey Dali stuff.

Bosch, folks? Seem there are a few Catfolk who like ol' Hienonymus. Too much like "Find Elmo" to me with all them fols either partying in the "Garden of Delight" or waiting their turn to burn for partying in the "Garden of Delight". Interesting stuff thou...

Escher, I would guess is equally mentioned for the sme reasons. Folks just like to get into a work and extract information. No comment other than to say that I know that these two artists do hold the attention of folks who also like to burn a little evidence now and then....

No one like Edvard Munch fir that wonderfully portrayed moment of horror in his "Scream"?

Or DuBuffet with his, ahhhhh, Freudian expressionism?

Jasper Johns?

Max Ernst?

Paul Klee?

Oh well, this is interesting...

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: Your Favorite Visual Artist
From: mooman
Date: 10 Dec 02 - 04:35 AM

Lucien Freud

Modigliani

early Picasso
______________

moo

Subject: RE: BS: Your Favorite Visual Artist
From: mack/misophist
Date: 10 Dec 02 - 03:28 PM

What's this crap about only three? I refuse to play if you're going to make the rules impossible.

Subject: RE: BS: Your Favorite Visual Artist
From: GUEST,Foe
Date: 10 Dec 02 - 03:48 PM

Paul Klee
Milton Avery
Emily Carr
Auguste Macke
Gabrielle Munter
Stanton MacDonald-Wright

Subject: RE: BS: Your Favorite Visual Artist
From: Sorcha
Date: 10 Dec 02 - 04:22 PM

Vermeer
Rembrandt
Van Gogh
But Dale Chihuly is just bloody incredible! I like Klee, too!

Subject: RE: BS: Your Favorite Visual Artist
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 10 Dec 02 - 04:26 PM

Yes Modigliani, I find his paintings sad but moving.
ManRay, for almost all his photos
Daumier, for his Don Quixote & Sancho Panza paintings
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: Your Favorite Visual Artist
From: reggie miles
Date: 10 Dec 02 - 04:46 PM

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Heinrich Kley, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Only

Subject: RE: BS: Your Favorite Visual Artist
From: reggie miles
Date: 10 Dec 02 - 04:48 PM

Three! I'm with misophist on this!

Subject: RE: BS: Your Favorite Visual Artist
From: Bobert
Date: 10 Dec 02 - 04:54 PM

Okay, misophist, since I started this thread I'm gonna change the rules. No limitations:

Fire away!

GUEST, Foe: Yeah, I like Paul Klee a lot! I love his "Clowns" and my parents bought a Klee "Clowns" print and put it in my room as a kid and I loved it. Still do. It hangs prominently in my home.

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: Your Favorite Visual Artist
From: Cluin
Date: 10 Dec 02 - 05:02 PM

Fred Varley, Albrecht Durer, Tom Thomson, Andrew Wyeth, Mother Nature, John Singer Sargeant, Robert Ralph Carmichael, Winslow Homer (for his watercolours anyway), Georges Roualt, Geoffrey Holder, Rembrandt, Lawren Harris, Andrew Goldsworthy, Aubrey Beardsley, Jamie Wyeth, Franklin Booth, Jeff Jones, Joseph Mallord William Turner, John Leonard, Michael Robinson, Tom Lovell, Rodin, Berni Wrightson, Farrah Fawcett (at least watching her work), Salvador Dali, Ivan Eyre, Theodore Gericault, Carl Beam, Rockwell Kent...

Subject: RE: BS: Your Favorite Visual Artist
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 10 Dec 02 - 05:24 PM

Norman Rockwell
Gerald Scarfe
Charles M Schultz
John Ford
Charles Rennie MacIntosh
Oh, and all the rest too!!
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: Your Favorite Visual Artist
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 10 Dec 02 - 06:33 PM

This discussion sort of got my artistic juices flowing. Really, I hardly ever look at art or think about it, recently anyway. But since I went online to find some examples of art I like, I decided to turn one of them into "wallpaper" for my computer. I used the winter scene from Pieter Breughel the Younger, which I set up the link for above. It may not be my favorite painting in the world, but it suits the season and my mood right now. I've resolved that, when I get bored with it, I'll find a different painting and do the same thing.

Here's how to change wallpaper, assuming you use Internet Explorer and Windows: find a picture you like – preferably a big one that nearly fills your screen and has about the same height-to-width ratio as your screen – "landscapes" work better than "portraits" – and right-click on it. In the little menu that pops up, click on "Set as Wallpaper."

Then minimize any windows you have open, and right-click anywhere on your desktop. In the menu that pops up, click "Properties." Then you should see the "Display Properties" screen with the "Background" tab already selected. Be sure "Picture Display" is set to "Stretch."

You might also want to select the "Appearance" tab (on the same "Display Properties" menu) and set your desktop color to something that doesn't clash with your wallpaper. Voila!

Subject: RE: BS: Your Favorite Visual Artist
From: Rapparee
Date: 10 Dec 02 - 06:48 PM

Klee, Rembrandt, Van Gogh, Gaugin (before Tahiti), Escher, Cassatt, Crowe, Arp, Cho, Watterson, Amend, Pollock, Rodin (not "Thinker"), Wright (especially "Kaufman House"), Rockwell, and that just barely scratches the surface.

Subject: RE: BS: Your Favorite Visual Artist
From: kendall
Date: 10 Dec 02 - 09:26 PM

Rembrandt. No one else could use light like he did.
Titian
Andrew Wyeth

Subject: RE: BS: Your Favorite Visual Artist
From: Bobert
Date: 10 Dec 02 - 09:54 PM

Kendall: Yeah, Rembrandt was very good with finding those light sources which seem to not be possible. I think there were a few folks experienmenting in the latew 1600's with that mysterious source of light. Goya's "The Third of May" stands out amoung them...

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: Your Favorite Visual Artist
From: YOR
Date: 11 Dec 02 - 01:11 PM

I guess I'm more contemporary.

M.C. Escher
Alexander Calder
Ansel Adams

Subject: RE: BS: Your Favorite Visual Artist
From: GUEST,Foe
Date: 11 Dec 02 - 01:21 PM

Yeh Bobert - Klee is my god - I'm now hanging on my wall three Klee collotype/pochoir prints that were done back in the 30's. They actually belong to my daughter who enherited them from her aunt. Another artist I forgot to mention in my list - Joseph Cornell. A true master. I can get lost in his boxes.

Subject: RE: BS: Your Favorite Visual Artist
From: Kim C
Date: 11 Dec 02 - 01:22 PM

Vincent Van Gogh
Charles Russell
Frederic Remington

Some days the order changes.

Subject: RE: BS: Your Favorite Visual Artist
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 11 Dec 02 - 02:48 PM

Forgot Turner, unsurpassed in his field.
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: Your Favorite Visual Artist
From: GUEST,Fred Miller
Date: 12 Dec 02 - 10:25 AM

My wife's fave has always been Klee. I've never been able to stand Modigliani, makes my skin crawl, makes me think how much I like Lehmbruck, (sp?) a comparison of stylized vs. style, to me.

Of Impressionists I vastly prefer Monet to Renoir, whose pictures seem dainty yet worried about drawing. Also can't stand French attempts at abstract expressionism.

Subject: RE: BS: Your Favorite Visual Artist
From: mack/misophist
Date: 12 Dec 02 - 11:53 AM

Stan Washburn - the only living member of the North German Renaissance
Hans Bellmer - sick, but a beautiful draughtsman
Paul Klee - the cartoonist, not the fine artist, check him out
Gutzum Borglum (sp?) - for scale, if nothing else
Hans Baldung Grunwald - Bosch's more talented cousin
Ernest Barlach - an angelic wood carver who belongs here anyway
Kathe Köllwitz - his best buddy
I won't say Frieda Kalo (sp?) - I refuse
Le Douianier Rousseau
Miyamoto Musashi - who did everything better that you or I could
Ando Hiroshige - Needs no introduction

Subject: RE: BS: Your Favorite Visual Artist
From: Bobert
Date: 12 Dec 02 - 12:57 PM

GUEST, Foe: What os cooltype/pochoir? I have looked at my Klee up close and it almost looks like an original sarigraph (silk screening). it was puchased around 1940 and mom swears its just an offset printing type of print put I've always had my suspicions that there was more to this print than that.

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: Your Favorite Visual Artist
From: Micca
Date: 12 Dec 02 - 01:23 PM

Utamaro, for the "12 hours in the tea houses"
Rodin, for the "Fallen angel"
Hokusai for the "36 views of Fuji"
Monet for the "waterlilies"
Turner, for "Norham castle, Sunrise"
Waterhouse for " The Lady of Shallott"
Epstein for "The Annunciation"
Naum Gabo, for some of his string and perspex constructions
Unknown Celt for the "Gundestrup Cauldron"
Unknown Greek for teh " Horses head" from the Metope from the Parthenon(part of the Elgin Marbles)