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I’d love to know what are some of your favourites. I’m very much into Francis Bacon, Lucien Freud, Frank Auerbach, that gang, amongst so many others. |
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Since forests and good paintings feel very similar to me/trigger the same aesthetic reaction in me, I'd say that my favorite "painter" is whatever forces created the designs of all those beautiful plants and birds that make up forests. Then I like lots of medieval paintings because I like the "minimalistic" approach - there's nothing in the pictures besides the existentially most important things. It's like staring at Being as such - expressed in weird symbolism. Then I like Lucien Freud very much, and I find it VERY WEIRD that his paintings really look (at least to me) like Sigmund Freud's texts feel. I can't tell why. It's not only the nudity/sex. I also used to be a big fan of Malevich. I had two large copies of his suprematist paintings in my flat for a long time. I still like him, but the effect on me has sort of "worn off" a bit. |
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ooh god, if you'd asked me when i was 19/20ish i'd have filled the reply box but my memory isn't what it was. just off the top of my head, katharina grosse, jenny saville, robert rauschenberg, fiona rae, chris ofilli, mark rothko. used to have stacks of art books i could flick through but they're all boxed up at my flat at the mo |
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Issac Levitan, John Atkinson Grimshaw, Mikalojus Ciurlionis |
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Ah yes, Issac Levitan is very good. You should all post links to some of your fav paintings, too, to make this thread even better |
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wow WOW wow, those are fantastic and I don't know them at all! Love what they do with light, especially Grimshaw. I guess I'm not mainly a visual arts guy, I used to like grotesque and macabre stuff like Beksinski but now I find that just gauche, boring. I do like Lucian Freud, also Goya and especially El Greco. Freud captures an honest, flawed and fragile humanity that is very touching. |
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yes i like the sense of expansiveness, monolithic clouds in his paintings, also very beautiful woodlands |
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cheers mate, im glad i replied in this thread now |
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vincent van gogh -- speakes to me more than anyone. i remember listening to aphex's "4" on as many doses of lsd back in college. everything looked like a van gogh painting. i went out on the porch on the 3rd story and it was wind blowing around snow and that was absolute tops. i am pretty sure i cried. i had a van gogh painting hanging in my growing up. when i was six, we went on vacation to california and i came back home to find it had mysteriously fallen off the wall and the glass shattered. years later, i went on a high school trip to france and it was like he'd painted. god bless france's ocd maintenence of historical sites. wassily kandinsky -- i was trying to do for before i found him and realized he's way further than i'll ever get louis wain -- idm before idm was idm |
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does escher count? |
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leonardo da vinci is more a general idol than a favorite painter. OF DEVICES FOR PAINTERS 173 a new device for consideration which, although it may appear trivial and almost ludicrous, is nevertheless of great utility in arousing the mind to various inventions. And this is that if you look at any walls spotted with various stains or with a mixture of different kinds of stones, if you are about to invent some scene you will be able to see in it a resemblance to various different landscapes adorned with mountains, rivers, rocks, trees, plains, wide valleys, and various groups of hills. You will also be able to see divers combats and figures in quick movement, and strange expressions of faces, and outlandish costumes, and an infinite number of things which you can then reduce into separate and well con- ceived forms. With such walls and blends of different stones it comes about as it does with the sound of bells, in whose clanging you may discover every name and word that you can imagine. |
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edvard munch was good at painting how i feel some days |
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is not as earth-shattering as some but never dull |
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i never really particularly liked picasso's stuff. raphael somehow managed to do photographs with a paintbrush and i find that infinitely more mind-blowing. marilyn manson's paintings are good for a lol. like someone gave art materials to a mental impatient for theraputics |
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dali was a daft genius. "i don't do drugs. i am drugs" |
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done with roland cowbell |
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Woah, those are good. I never heard of them either, and I went to art school (but hey, what's that about?). I'm kind of glad I didn't see Levitan before because paintings like are almost exactly what I was trying to do (obviously not remotely as skillfully) - large "skyscapes" with a minimal bit of land at the bottom. I've always liked landscape art and just going through his work now ... he's skipped straight to the top of my favourite landscape artists. THANKS. It actually makes me want to try painting again. An artist that I did come across while I was at Art School, which really pulled the rug from under me, was Ed Ruscha. I was doing these landscapes with words/slogans over the top, then I pick up a book on Ruscha and OOOOOOooooh and a . I love the ones with . My favourite painting is by Max Ernst. I do like the Surrealists, I know it can be corny, but I love the atmosphere of the painitings of de Chirico, the |
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that van gogh bedroom makes me feel claustrophobic, or at least like that feeling you get before you decide to go for a walk. |
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nice one, yes great example its like something from the minds eye, how you remember seeing something |
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I like beksinski like giger, but I guess I have to be in a certain mood to appreciate it |
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HR Giger Dado Mark Ryden Basquiat Jean dubuffet Keith haring |
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dali |
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I don't know if its true but I heard dali slept with his keys in his hand above a metal tray and when he was nodding off completely he would drop the keys and wake himself up so he he would remember the weird things was just dreaming about |
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David Hockney, Matisse, Lucien Freud & Francis Bacon. |
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Didn't even read the OK, marry me russell |
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Have you seen Loving Vincent? Also watch the Edvard Munch documentary by Peter Watkins, its amazing. |
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I heard that about da Vinci but he had special metal balls that flanked (like love balls) |
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I don't know if its true but I heard dali slept with his keys in his hand above a metal tray and when he was nodding off completely he would drop the keys and wake himself up so he he would remember the weird things was just dreaming about my father told me of a similar psychological experiment performed on cats, regarding REM sleep. a cat would be scientifically marooned on a floating platform, precariously balanced in a tub of cold water. should the cat fall asleep, the balance would be lost, and the poor puss would be spilled into the drink. this was designed to keep the cat from sleeping. after about twenty or thirty hours, the cat was clearly reacting to things that were not there. |
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Oh let’s! Lately I’ve been fascinated by George Bellows’ landscapes (rain on river being a particular one for me). I love the way you can skip from viewing it as you would a picture (landscape) to merely seeing paint and brushstrokes, sometimes seeming erratic. |
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Thank you for all your lovely posts btw! Some “lovely stuff”. Yeah peeps, Goya! |
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Didn’t know these. I do like what I’m seeing from the latter two! |
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Trust you to talk about the forest! Lol Me and a shrink I used to see would joke that our favourite Freud was Lucien. |
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Yes of course! Nice one Belb. Yes I think Basquiat deserves to be in this thread; highly influential too. Haring was important, first guy to do “street art” I would say. I love the fact he was basically tagging at the start. Left too early. Glad no one has mentioned Pollock. Lol |
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hieronymus bosch |
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I like Inferno Musicale |
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Giuseppe Arcimboldo |
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I like looking at that "Rain on the river" painting and listening to Silent Hill ambient music. |
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I shall try looking at it while listening to that Walker Brothers track. |
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Ha ha! You've given some big names; I’d have to agree with Van Gogh. My favourite work by Dali is actually a film (not the Bunuel one) where you see weird and wonderful worlds until the camera pans back to reveal a pen. |
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Bump! I want moooore! |
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Eric Fischl |
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i'll see your eric fischl and raise you a michael majerus |
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and if we can expand things to sculpture and installation lets have mona hatoum, rebecca horn and sarah lucas |
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omg how much do I have to pay to be killed inside |
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(sorry if that sounded dismissive, I saw that sculpture and immediately thought a) I want to be inside it b) but that would probably kill me and c) hmm, that wouldn't be a bad way to go) |
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Is she the woman who molded the inside of derelict buildings? |
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You mentioned him before and I answered! Fischl is pretty great with lighting, I love those lines in the Broad; but I’m not always a fan of his depiction of humans. |
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He’s quite “today” isn’t he? I wish he’d stop using slogans (or anti slogans). That Pokemon one is quite good but the “catch em all” ruins it for me. You can’t really escape what you’re seeing, yet I’m sure he’d be quite good at that. I feel that there’s restraint as a result of his concept. |
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I do sound like a wanker, I’ll admit. |
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