Favourite types of paintings or artists?

[ChickenGuy]

I like looking at landscape art, but I'm no expert on the subject.

Here's a couple each from the classical English landscape painters - Constable and Turner.

Dedham Vale by John Constable, 1802

The Hay Wain by John Constable, 1821

Chichester Canal by J. M. W. Turner, 1828

The Fighting Temeraire by J. M. W. Turner, 1838

 

[JetSetJake]

I really like surrealists such as Dalí.

Likewise, I'm no expert on the subject, but I like when a picture catches my eye and I can find something outstanding in it.

 

[unloadonme]

I like the Pre-Raphaelites. These are a couple of my favourites:

(The Tree of Forgiveness, Sir Edward Burne-Jones)

(Echo and Narcissus, J W Waterhouse)

 

[kevbo]

Abstract expressionism and pop art

 

[metta]

Gregory Colbert -
Ashes & Snow

http://ashesandsnow.com/

Picasso -
Dance of Peace

Mangelsen -

 

[herry1]

I like portteaights (golly messeed that one up) here is one of my favourites.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bernhard_Strigel_003b.jpg

 

[gsdx]

I'll probably take flack for this, but I like Thomas Kinkade paintings. I have a number of them in Jigsaw puzzles.

I did the colour separations for a Kinkade print back in the early 80s and have been a fan since then. He's known as the 'Painter of Light'.

Here are a few samples:

 

[hylas]

oh... the thread ive been waiting for without even knowing it!
im gonna limit myself to paintings and drawings for now... because if were gonna talk about "art" in general, my heads gonna explode.

this is arnold böcklin:

and heres hieronymus bosch:

 

[hylas]

henry darger:

 

[hylas]

egon schiele:

 

[PATMAN]

Hey GSDX, if you like those, you may like Trisha Romance. Very nice and similar style - especially her Christmas paintings. Her Gallery in Niagara Falls, so not too far a trek for you either. I was there a couple years ago

 

[hylas]

ernst haeckel:

ok ok, ill stop.
i know these are all well-known artists, but maybe i still helped someone discover one of my darlings...

 

[gsdx]

Hey GSDX, if you like those, you may like Trisha Romance. Very nice and similar style - especially her Christmas paintings. Her Gallery in Niagara Falls, so not too far a trek for you either. I was there a couple years ago

I've never heard of her or seen any of her paintings, but I like them. She's more 'people' whereas Kinkade is more 'cottage'.

Unfortunately, even if I survived the ride to and from Niagara Falls, I couldn't handle walking around an art gallery all afternoon.

 

[PATMAN]

I've never heard of her or seen any of her paintings, but I like them. She's more 'people' whereas Kinkade is more 'cottage'.

Unfortunately, even if I survived the ride to and from Niagara Falls, I couldn't handle walking around an art gallery all afternoon.

I understand - but it is very small. It's just a house lol. However it's two storey I think, and stairs only (old house)

 

[MJEH89]

Erte

 

[Richardodessa]

I love Abstracts, Impressionalism. This one is my own.

 

[derelictdarrel]

Fransisco Goya.

Brian Shroeder (aka: 'pushead')

Johnen Vasquez

Jonny Crap


Off the top of my head anyway. Can't say i'm heavy into the arts.

 

[ChickenGuy]

UPDATE

Little did I have ANY idea when I mentioned The Hay Wain and The Fighting Temeraire in my opening post that 18 months later, I'd be accidentally stumbling across BOTH paintings, in real, in person, in the SAME ROOM, at the National Gallery in London!

I never even knew they were in there! I was just wandering around and spotted a plan of the building which showed they were both on display!

It's an interesting place to visit, because it's completely free and you can just walk in - it's easy for tourists to find too because it's facing straight onto Trafalgar Square and is a massive building in plain sight.

As for the other paintings on show, I'm not too much a fan of portraits (and there are a LOT of them in there) as I prefer landscapes, but I came across a good room with many scenes of cities like Venice by the painter Canaletto, amongst other Italian landscape artists.

LOL at me pretending I'm an art expert.

 

[star-warrior]

I was in Trafalgar Square and didn't go in the National Gallery... It was Easter, and they put on a Passion Play outside, too many people, so we headed up to Chinatown for a meal...

I've always like this for some reason...

 

[IrishChap]

I love Caravaggio, This one, The Taking of Christ is my favorite mainly because it is the only one I have seen in person.