Favorite artist/art?

[UNODRAGONE]

Who is your favorite artist? What paintings/art captures your eye the most and what art mediums do you adore?



My favorite artist would have to be Georgia O’Keeffe, she had an amazing eye for colors and made death look so peaceful and beautiful.
http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/cc310/tafasul/skull.jpg
Franz Marc is close behind because his paintings portray emotion in amazing colors.
http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/cc310/tafasul/largeblue-1-1.jpg
I also love van Gogh’s Starry Night because of the flow and texture.
http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/cc310/tafasul/renaissance_paintings_starry_nig-1.jpg
Skywatcher by Susan Boulet deserves honorable mention as well.
http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/cc310/tafasul/skywatcher.jpg
I love expressionism paintings the most mainly because of the randomness but I also love still life, seeing an artist take an ordinary object and make it stand out is very captivating to me.

[Chiron Jackal]

Behold, my favorite artist, Blotch! The "artist" Blotch is actually two women, BlackTeagan (draws) and Kenket (paints). They have both drawn and painted on their own but came together in a collaborative effort to create a nice piece to make up for their dog eating a friend's sofa. They discovered they work quite well together. They do indeed do beautiful work, though they have this strange tendency towards creating gay porn.

They kick so much ass that I forgive 'em though.

BlackTeagan's Art
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y19/ThrasherCub/1213239174blackteagan_wishbone-1.jpg

Kenket's Art
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y19/ThrasherCub/1158113370kenket_abycats-1.jpg

Blotch!
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y19/ThrasherCub/1218238484blotch_laughatlife-1.jpg

So, if you're interested in more, you can check out BlackTeagan (http://www.furaffinity.net/user/blackteagan/), Kenket (http://www.furaffinity.net/user/kenket/), and their crazy union of Blotch (http://www.furaffinity.net/user/blotch/) on FurAffinity. Only the Blotch account is updated much anymore but there's some nice art backlogged in the other two. PS, FurAffinity has it set up so that in order to see adult art you need to sign up and change the settings in your user panel, so you're safe from accidentally getting an eye full of gay dog weener.

PS, I will so totally post more classical artists I appreciate. Later. Right now, tasty Blotch...

[LucimOfTheMoon]

Wow, those are pretty cool. Seriously, that takes a rather unique mind.

[Tempest]

I've found a lot of great artists on DeviantArt (http://www.deviantart.com). I've recently discovered Sooper-Deviant (http://sooper-deviant.deviantart.com/), who is an amazing wildlife/landscape photographer. It's hard to pick which pieces to show here, so I'll just go with the pictures I'm biased towards.

http://fc00.deviantart.com/fs25/f/2008/143/4/6/464d38859f87bb784bb4228bc166943c.jpg

http://fc03.deviantart.com/fs44/f/2009/116/6/6/66250a6e27c37d321758fc41da449168.jpg

I also like Minna Sundberg, aka ShadowUmbre (http://shadowumbre.deviantart.com/).

http://fc02.deviantart.com/fs12/f/2006/330/d/2/Unleashed_by_ShadowUmbre.jpg

Leonardo Nierman (http://www.paulrich.net/nierman/index.html) is a fantastic artist. He has an amazing ability to capture emotion and mood simply by using colors in an abstract manner.

http://www.promoarte.com.mx/artists/leonardo-nierman/IAG%20NIERMAN%20GENESIS%2090%20X%20122.jpg

As far as which mediums I like, I like anything that's done well.

[Chriz]

I've always had a thing for Guy Coleach's art.

http://www.iwebc.com/Photos/amo/guysart.com/guy2/Leopards/5.jpg

[fencerabroad]

My favorite is an old sculptor named Bernini. His best work is (in my opinion) The Rape of Persephone. However, in good taste I will leave it so you to google image his name with a warning that a lot of it is in the nude. What he did amazingly though is to make stone look like flesh. For more than Michelangelo ever did.

[kathryn]

My favourite artist...
Is...

ME!

No, just kidding. ;p

These are a few links to my fav's.

Aido (http://www.johnnywander.com/)
Der-shing Helmer, AKA: Alexds1 (http://www.meekcomic.com/)
http://cuson.deviantart.com/

More recently...

Paul Taylor (http://wapsisquare.com/)
http://tobiee.deviantart.com/
http://coelasquid.deviantart.com/
http://sandara.deviantart.com/
http://livio27.deviantart.com/

So, basically, I like digital artists and comic artists.

[Aniutuk]

My favorite artists are Jay Naylor and Jeremy Bernal.

[Praecida]

My favorite is an old sculptor named Bernini. His best work is (in my opinion) The Rape of Persephone. However, in good taste I will leave it so you to google image his name with a warning that a lot of it is in the nude. What he did amazingly though is to make stone look like flesh. For more than Michelangelo ever did.

Michelangelo can't be compared; they were two different styles of art and I think they both expressed themselves in amazing ways; Bernini is just known more for his "in-action" type of art, whereas Michelangelo has that "moment in time" type of thing going on.

[Alisolte]

Peter Foucault uses very interesting means of creating his art. If you're curious, check out his wordpress blog here:

http://peterfoucault.wordpress.com/image-archive-artworks-2007-2009/

David Redfern's drawings really interest me. However, I'm not too much of a fan of his assembling work but that's just being I'm not a fan of that sort of art, in general. You can view his work here:

http://www.davidredfernartist.com/

I can't say for sure that these two are my favorite artists, but their work tends to effect me emotionally the most. I really respond to line and value shifts and hope to one day create pieces that can be up to par with these two's works.

[Cahalith]

I have a lot of favorite pieces, and all for veriouse reasons.

The Swing, or The Happy Accidents of the Swing painted by Jean-Honoré Fragonard, happens to be one of my favorite paintings. It is from the romantic era, which is by far not my favorite style of art.

What I like about this particular piece is why it was painted. I found the reasoning behind its creation, and the message it portrays...amusing.


I have two favorite artist,

Frida Kahlo- for her ability to communicate, and the aesthetic quality of her pieces. I also identify with her as a fellow artist and on an emotional level. She has inspired me in many ways, and I have notices similarity in her works and my subject content, though we both execute the pieces differently.

Brian Froud- I love faeries and I enjoy the interpretation of the world of Faeries. He can inspire an emotional response in me, and even the most disfigured faeries are beautify executed

[Fenris_brood]

I got swept by the surrealist movement ever since I got in touch with it, and my favourite painter remains to this day Salvador Dali, I can never decide which one I like best, but among others I particularly like Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening (http://www.virtualdali.com/assets/paintings/44DreamCaused.jpg), also because the title rocks, yeah...

Lately I've been fascinated with works of Bosch, mainly because of his Garden of Earthly Delights...

[Cahalith]

Lately I've been fascinated with works of Bosch, mainly because of his Garden of Earthly Delights...

what do you like about the Garden of earthly Delights?

[Fenris_brood]

what do you like about the Garden of earthly Delights?

Just the expression of it, especially the last panel and the exterior motif when the two sections are closed...I like how the message of the whole piece has remained shrouded in mystery, with so many subliminal messages that it was either very intricately planned or has alot of coincidences...the representations of the several medieval bestiary-esque creatures on the left side panel are so varied that it still shocks me, and the middle panel I just can't begin to follow through the process of establishing all of it, it's simply too much a realization of a talent and awe-strinking dexterity in a surrealistic way for me not to still look over it and find new details I missed...

[MorganaFang]

My favorite artist of the week is...

This Russian fella I stumbled upon recently:

http://kazakdesign.com/works/work.php?work=91

Very cool tongue and cheek art with a great sense of humor.

[D. Michelle Gent]

My favourite artists (or a few of them) are:

Pollyanna Pickering (http://pollyannapickering.co.uk/) - a local lady, wonderful artist and infinitely generous person. She helps wildlife charities - including 'Moonbeam' which rescues Asiatic Black Bears from Bile Farms in Vietnam (to name but one).

Paul Mudie (http://www.paulmudie.com/) - his artwork adorns the back of my novel Deadlier... Than The Male and his Werewolves are particularly haunting.

And last but not least of this list: Anne Sudworth (http://www.annesudworth.co.uk)

[FMtRIS]

Salvador Dali was an interesting artist and an interesting person. He had a pet ocelot that went with him everywhere and at a dinner party scooped the middle out of a loaf of bread that reminded him of a tricorner hat and then wore it as such. He arranged a store front display for a store in New York and then tore it apart after the manager fiddled with it. He was put in jail over the incident but only briefly because a mass of citizens clamoured for his release. It seemed he lived a surreal life much the same as his paintings. His movie, The Andalusian Dog had this horrible looking scene in which it appeared that a woman had her eye cut but it was a trick owing that the close up eye was that of a slaughter market sheep.
Due to my appreciation of big cats, I like his work One Second Before Awakening from a Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Promegranate (1944)