Tilted Forum Project Discussion Community - Your favourite artist, modern and ever

- Tilted Artwork (https://thetfp.com/tfp/tilted-artwork/)

- - Your favourite artist, modern and ever (https://thetfp.com/tfp/tilted-artwork/146755-your-favourite-artist-modern-ever.html)

Your favourite artist, modern and ever

I think there are certainly other valid forms of art than painting, but both of mine are painters, and I make both choices not as an art critic but based on the personal reaction I had to their pictures when I saw them "in the flesh" so to speak.

Modern

Winstanley. I hope you will forgive me showing an example of what he paints. I think the single word that would most describe it to me is haunting. I remember at about age 20 walking round the Tate and coming across a picture of his (a room with a turned off TV and empty seats) and just staring at it for 30 minutes feeling it eating into me, saying something wordless and I think terrible to me.

His paintings to me speak of alienation so powerfully, of lonliness, of institutions, of heart breaking sadness and poignancy... I dont mean to sound pretentious, but it really is to me a fuck of a lot more than a dimly lit empty office

Maybe its again the thing about the yearning for religion - but I couldnt in any number of words say about modern life what this painting seems to say to me. I think it really is like a true image of the soul of a soulless world.

http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/exhib...ghtofficeb.jpg

Ever

Caravaggio

I knew a bit about him before, but the time I really got into him was when I was walking round the National Gallery one Saturday. I'd tagged along with a coach trip from work to London, assuming there was a pub crawl happening, but none did I ended up on my own and so wandered round the National to kill the time... and came across a painting which just struck me dumb. It's of Jesus, at a table with two disciples and the landlord of the pub, just at the moment the disciples realise who he is (he isnt wearing a beard and they dont recognise him) - the lighting, the way he captures the moment and emotion, is just incredible and awe striking. I'm not an incredibly religious person, but to me I guess it did feel a bit like actually looking at the human incarnation of God in the face - which isnt even something I necessarily believe in - but if he was, somehow that felt like what he would have been - if that makes any sense.

After I read and watching a bit more about Caravaggio, I guess he was by any standards a madman, but to me he is the greatest genius of art. He pained things that no one before and since could have done, he pained religious scenes in a way that probably very few people who are ever genius' could even conceive of.

I'm not an expert on art history or anything, but from prints I have seen there are a number of his paintings which simply are stunning.

___

Im not very eloquent about things like this I guess, but please other people post what you feel about your greatest artists. I didnt put up a Caravaggio image, because I guess that most people who are interested in art will know who he is.

Mark Rothko is probably my favorite, though I also enjoy Pollock and Magritte. Renaissance era painting does nothing for me.

It's hard to choose a favorite but I most admire Duchamp for his Readymades.

In Advance of A Broken Arm:
http://www.moma.org/modernteachers/r...ges/mai8_2.jpg

Fountain:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph...8_1183879a.jpg

Great stuff.

My childhood favorite was Keith Haring. I still like him, but nowadays it's not as clearcut. I really like the abstract modern and post-modern stuff, like Deborah Remington (great piece of hers at my local museum), Wassily Kandinsky, etc.

Quote:

Originally Posted by ngdawg (Post 2622469)

Keith Haring.

Alright!

I never get tired of looking at anything by Franz Kline.

Ever would be a toss-up between Monet, Pollock, and Winslow Homer, depending upon my mood.

Modern.
Odd Nerdrum

Ever.
Rembrandt

Honorable Mention.
Rothko

Modern: Henri Matisse

Ever: Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Both for their depictions of people each in their own fascinating ways.

Modern: Esao

All time: Tie between Esao and Dali.

edward hopper
mark rothko

both are modern in the grand scheme,
but could also be considered all time
in that they're part of art history now.

roy lichtenstein is probably the greatest influence personally tho.

Modern - Picasso/Dali (have loved Santiago el Grande since I first saw it as a child)

All time - Vermeer

Far too many to list.

However, I never get tired of looking at Anselm Kiefer's work.

I like all forms of art. I have found a web site that has my favorites painters and sculpters all in one place...If you like traditional work from the best of the best ceck out...Art Renewal Center Scholarships and Programs with On-Line Museum
My favorites are all in the top 50

Going with Gustav Klimt for the moment...

DANAE: