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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsWho is your favorite artistic painter?
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you can include your favorite if it is not listed. I could have gone on to include others but I didn't want to make to long
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applegrove
(131,795 posts)debm55
(59,711 posts)of her art.
applegrove
(131,795 posts)Columbia. She wrote well too. "Kleewick" is a good book on her canoe trips up the Coast of BC to Indigenous communities to paint at the turn of the 20th Century.
debm55
(59,711 posts)from the western section of Cananda. Thank you.
applegrove
(131,795 posts)of Nova Scotia. Her paintings and life were turned into the movie "Maudie". Here farm scenes are sweet and perfectly rendered folk art. She used house paint.
Emily Carr was more expressionist/impressionist. Not folk art so much.
debm55
(59,711 posts)applegrove
(131,795 posts)3catwoman3
(29,251 posts)and Van Gogh.
CTyankee
(68,101 posts)painting of "Wheat fields with Crows" in Amsterdam a few years ago.
3catwoman3
(29,251 posts)
that surrounds you in the Waterlilies murals is enchanting. Ive not been to Giverny.
I also have been to the VanGogh museum in Amsterdam. In many of the paintings, the paint is so thick that you can see the tracks of the individual hairs in the paint brushes, and the colors or so rich that it looks as if the paint hasnt dried yet.
I look forward to a description of your journey after you return.
CTyankee
(68,101 posts)New Age musical sounds and we were instructed not to speak or just be very quiet. The overall impression was very different from other museums. It was an "experience." And I got it: setting the mood to better experience the art.
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brush
(61,033 posts)de Kooning, Rubens, Braque, Vermeer, Caravaggio, Cezanne, Rembrandt, Hals, Lautrec, Monet, Manet, Basquiat, Motley, Bearden, Lawrence, and on and on.
debm55
(59,711 posts)familiar. i did include the other box for others
brush
(61,033 posts)womanofthehills
(10,942 posts)Most of us loved his loose brush strokes & we actually copied his colors. He was a great colorist. I studied with John Kacere at Parsons - John Kacere & deKooning were both represented by the Alan Stone Gallery - so we, as students, went to many shows there.
My best friend at art school was dating Kacere who was deKoonings friend - so she had many dinners with de Kooning. (That was back in the day when it was fine for a 40 yr old teacher to date his young students).
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De Koonings wife, Elaine, also a painter/printmaker taught at UNM in the late 50s. I think they were separated, but not divorced by then. Univ of NM has works by both de Koonings.
Later, John Kacere became a visiting professor at UNM - and brought 5 of his students with him including me. They all went back to NY but I fell in love with NM and stayed. And
brush
(61,033 posts)texture...you just know it's paint.
Must've been wonderful to experience closeness and learn from art greats like you have. I'm a bit jealous.
LakeArenal
(29,949 posts)This is such an intimate painting. Renoirs friends at a real boating party.
Alphonsine is the smiling woman leaning on the railing; Alphonse, who was responsible for the boat rental, is the leftmost figure. Also wearing boaters are figures appearing to be Renoir's close friends Eugène Pierre Lestringez, a bureaucrat, and Paul Lhote, himself an artist.

debm55
(59,711 posts)gibraltar72
(7,629 posts)debm55
(59,711 posts)Ocelot II
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debm55
(59,711 posts)Thank you fir posting the art.
Ocelot II
(130,249 posts)than Caravaggio's version. Gentileschi was a rape victim and some of her art reflects that experience.
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debm55
(59,711 posts)Ocelot II
(130,249 posts)Gentileschi had been raped, and her Judith and Susanna paintings tell you pretty viscerally how she might have felt about some men. Caravaggio vividly expressed scenes that often featured violent struggles; he himself was inclined toward violence and at one point had to leave Rome because he'd been accused of killing another man in a fight. Art expresses life, and sometimes life is intense and violent - if it were all just puppies and babies and flowers and ballerinas it would be pretty damn boring.
debm55
(59,711 posts)talents, but not the themes. The man in the tub with his wrists slashed is a great example -beautiful work of color and light, but I don't like the theme-suicide. Art is left up to the viewer's interpretation and preferences. My very favorites are O'Keefe for organic paintings and Van Gogh. Each of us have our own likes and dislikes. That is art. One can appreciate the talent, but not like the themes. You may not like Van Gogh. Years ago in HS, I did a collage of newspaper clippings of the Vietnam War on a large shape of the United States. As I finish touch, I painted my hands red and smeared them down the center of collage. It won first prize in an Art Show in Westmoreland County. Alot of people did not like it, but it was not there to hand in my room, but to get my point across about the war. I didn't expect everyone to like it, but to appreciate the message. As a 16 year old I was not prpared for the fallout. but I accepted the idea that not all would like it.
brush
(61,033 posts)for an entirely different art form Film Noir.
CTyankee
(68,101 posts)I'm writing a book on music and art and include one of Artemesia, a proud one of her playing a lute.
And thank you for the last one! The Ghent Altarpiece is a treasure and I finally got to see it on a visit to Belgium a few years back.
I'll let everyone know when my book is ready. I am giving away copies and will send it to DUers who would like a copy.
brush
(61,033 posts)Different Drummer
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debm55
(59,711 posts)The Blue Flower
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CTyankee
(68,101 posts)I wish Peter Shjeldahl had lived to write about him in The NewYorker Magazine.
brush
(61,033 posts)elleng
(141,926 posts)Ocelot II
(130,249 posts)debm55
(59,711 posts)Ocelot II
(130,249 posts)Coventina
(29,629 posts)It depicts fireworks over the Thames.
There was a famous lawsuit over that painting:
The very famous art critic at the time: John Ruskin, said Whistler had "thrown a pot of paint in the public's face."
Whistler sued him over the insult. Lengthy trial, Whistler won, but he was only awarded one British pound in damages.
(Fun art anecdotes are my jam!)
CTyankee
(68,101 posts)The book I am working on now is about art and music, how to portray in paint or sculpture that which you cannot see: music
This book has been fun to research and write. I am hoping to finish it and have it printed and ready for me to present it to my family over the July 4 weekend. I have a great young IT guy help me with the technical aspects of putting the book together. It's a good work relationship and he gets to learn about art history. We're designing a cover right now using part of Chagall's beautiful ceiling at the Garnier opera house in Paris. That ceiling really amazed him!
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debm55
(59,711 posts)elleng
(141,926 posts)Did attend a moving 'showing' of his works, so visited Mystic (but didn't have Pizza!!!)
elleng
(141,926 posts)Albert Bierstadts Lavish Landscapes of The American West
debm55
(59,711 posts)I had so wished I brought my pastels and paper with me. But we were on a tour, so was limited for time.
NullTuples
(6,017 posts)They capture what I love most about the American West.
Bayard
(29,422 posts)I like some of the old Masters, like Renior and Monet. I was an art major way back when.
But also Georgia O'Keefe. Especially because I love New Mexico.

Z.S. Liang's paintings of Indigenous people's lives is a big favorite. I have this signed print of a Navaho girl hanging in our bedroom. The play of shadow and light is wonderful.

I also really like Howard Terpning, and his daughter, Susan (one of her prints in our living room.)
Wildlife art is my mainstay though, even if its not considered high class. It makes me happy. We have signed prints from Carl Brenders and Charles Frace' all over our cabin. I'm looking at this one now hanging over my desk. 26″ x 37″

debm55
(59,711 posts)girl does show a beautiful use of light. The print of the wolves are wonderful , Thank you for sharing,
Duppers
(28,469 posts)I also like these
https://www.exposuresfineart.com/art/majestic-grand-canyon/
Been to The Canyon twice, actually spent the night there.
debm55
(59,711 posts)canyon lite up like that. Didn't wake up earlier enough to catch it. Thank you for the memories.
jmowreader
(53,111 posts)He's the guy who did all the poker-playing dog paintings, in which there is a hell of a lot more going on than one would expect from a painting of dogs playing poker.
debm55
(59,711 posts)Elvis on velvet.
Sneederbunk
(17,425 posts)debm55
(59,711 posts)but everyone sees art differently. Thanks for the response.
ironflange
(7,781 posts)debm55
(59,711 posts)Brother Buzz
(39,844 posts)Sunday Morning in the Mines, is my favorite (It's parked in the Crocker Museum in Sacramento)
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Miners in the Sierras is another one I like (I'm a sucker for red shirts)

debm55
(59,711 posts)Brother Buzz
(39,844 posts)It was a black and white print; I truly fell in love with it when I first saw a color print of it. I don't know exactly why, but the red shirts sucked me in. I also discovered the Bean book image was somehow reversed.
Nahl was German, but curiously, another painter I like is Thaddeus Welch. He was born in Missouri and reared in Oregon, but studied in Germany with his deaf cousin. My cousin has one of his famous 'cow' landscapes, but I have a painting done by his cousin, 'Dummy' Dickeson (an odd prehistoric landscape).

consider_this
(2,847 posts)Is one of many faves for me, here's an example:
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debm55
(59,711 posts)Coventina
(29,629 posts)I wish his career hadn't been cut so short.
Ptah
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Bayard
(29,422 posts)I have really enjoyed this thread, and seeing other people's art choices.
debm55
(59,711 posts)choices. I love the posted paintings by our posters and the range of their tastes.
Coventina
(29,629 posts)Right now, I'm covering the Post-Impressionists in one of my classes and I was reminded how much I love Henri Toulouse-Lautrec.
Here's his painting of a queer couple dancing at Le Moulin Rouge
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debm55
(59,711 posts)top hat on.
brush
(61,033 posts)I once worked on an art staff at a newspaper along with other designers, illustrators and cartographers.
One of the retouch artists was a cut-up who enjoyed his "beverages" shall we say. We called him Too Loose La Wreck...and the nickname fitted him.
debm55
(59,711 posts)GoneOffShore
(18,016 posts)debm55
(59,711 posts)only the second time I put a poll. I love all the paintings people are posting for various reasons.
malthaussen
(18,549 posts)But the list is extensive. "Favorite" is problematic, since much depends on subject matter. One of Monet's million haystacks cannot beat Rembrandt's "Night Watch," for example.
-- Mal
Chakaconcarne
(2,779 posts)Niagara
(11,709 posts)I have several pieces of Dominic Davidson cottages. Not original work mind you.


I'd love to have a few pieces of Marilynn Dwyer Mason bear art, but not at $700 for each piece.

I have a piece of Charles Wysocki on a wall.

I'm looking to replace 2 to 3 pieces of signed Marty Fyne Kitchen Cat series, so if anyone would want to part with those pieces, please let me know. They were available in 1994 and I don't currently have a photo of what I'm looking to replace. The frames are roughly 8"x8".
debm55
(59,711 posts)one time the rooms were all decorated with folk art and primatives.
ProfessorGAC
(76,528 posts)Something about his work does it for me.
debm55
(59,711 posts)Glorfindel
(10,175 posts)debm55
(59,711 posts)Very much in the style of Rubens
Glorfindel
(10,175 posts)Several of his paintings have been turned into really fantastic Christmas cards. I have sent them several years and people always seem to enjoy them.
yardwork
(69,267 posts)debm55
(59,711 posts)Different Drummer
(9,083 posts)he's not the only one. I also like Rembrandt and Dali.
debm55
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Different Drummer
(9,083 posts)Salvador Dali's "The Persistence of Memory" on them.
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debm55
(59,711 posts)Different Drummer
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debm55
(59,711 posts)Different Drummer
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debm55
(59,711 posts)GReedDiamond
(5,540 posts)Duchamp, The Bride Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors, Even, aka The Large Glass.

Germs, Star Spangled Bummer, CD cover art for my band, Benedict Arnold & The Traitors, 2008.

I have the original, and many more works by Germs.
He's also in the permanent collection of Cheech Marin's "The Cheech" museum of Chicano art.
debm55
(59,711 posts)GReedDiamond
(5,540 posts)...along with some signed/numbered limited edition prints. I also have sculptural objects, such as Germs floor lamps.
I started collecting Germs art about 18 years ago, when the prices were more affordable than they are now.
I will try to post a picture of my "gallery" later today.
Tikki
(15,110 posts)Tikki
debm55
(59,711 posts)Tikki
(15,110 posts)My favorite is of Twittering Machine.
But I dont have real print of that just a small copy I made and framed.
Tikki
lucca18
(1,462 posts)I love his use of color and subjects.❤️
Henri Matisse called him one of the greatest painters among us
debm55
(59,711 posts)Modernism. Do you have any of his prints?
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petronius
(26,695 posts)But the list could get longer if I had a better memory...
Different Drummer
(9,083 posts)I should have mentioned him with my other posts.
AnnaLee
(1,378 posts)Mopar151
(10,348 posts)Gene Winfield