Astrocloud

What is your favorite painter?

I'm partial to Mark Ryden's work.


Here's also a small sample

CSflim

Probably Dave McKean.

I'll post a link later!

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the_marq

I like Michael Sowa and have several of his prints in my home and office. Interesting fact, he was the Artistic Consutant on the French film "Amelie."

Here's a sample, it's called "Autobahn Sau."

<img src=http://www.poster.net/sowa-michael/sowa-michael-autobahnsau-8600027.jpg">

Hmm, guess I can't hot link that img, well if you are so inclined you can check out his work at this location: http://www.postershop.co.uk/Sowa-Michael-p.html

j8ear

Jennifer Hornyak. A Montreal artist whose work has always left me breathless.

Have one from years ago, which is a stunning potrayal of a man and women in a huge hat with eye popping reds and blues, dining at a cafe like table. Very impressionistic. She seems to have gotten very surreal lately but you be the judge...

http://www.debellefeuille.com/hornyak.html

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I like Salvador Dali.

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platypus

I've got <b>Hans-Werner Sahm</b> hanging in my office.



and Tom Roberts


and d'Arcy Doyle at home.

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Print reproductions of Dali suck. The only way to see Dali is to see the original paintings, and it will blow your socks off.

Personally, I love René Magritte.

Cynthetiq

the family has several Dalis love them ... so does the wife... the Dali museum in St. Peterburg, FL is wonderful.

the Sahm reminds me of Thomas Kinkade whom I like looking at but will never buy, totally oversaturated.

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Halx

I'm a big fan of the fantasy artist Luis Royo. I take a walk through the sci-fi/fantasy section in the book store and I can pick out the book covers he draws without a second thought. He's not a classic artist, but his works are always impressive to me.

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paddyjoe

I've always loved Andrew Wyeth. Stark realism, combined with nostalgic warmth. Hmmm, I think that's the best way I can describe his work. I've tried emulating him with my photography, but definately not an easy task.

Astrocloud

Wow, I've started to look up some of these artists...

Dave Mckean has some very alluring pieces. Check out this one from his website:



Luis Royo is amazing. He really demonstrates passion. There is alot there... but check this one out from his Prohibited Book (again off his website.)



Believe it or not, I've actually got Christina's World up in my Living room. For sheer texture Wyeth nears the top of my list on favorite artists.


Your right Autobahn Sue is funny, strangly moving.


Thanks for all the new artists.

-Eric

tj2001cobra

Heh... I like Bob Ross.

No, I am not joking. I have never EVER sat and watched anything as "boring" as the painting he used to do. I was mesmerized listening to him and watching him turn blobs into trees and mountains. His paintings might not have been world class, but something about his calmness was always welcomed into my life.

PulpMind

hey I was going to say Bob Ross! I just started an appreciation thread for him on another message board.. a wonderful person, who could produce amazing expressions in the blink of an eye..

Alex Gray is deliscious.

Geiger is beautiful.

the great masters are unmatched.. Michaelangelo, Leonardo, Donatello, and Raphael

I remember seeing that Wyeth painting up there, the one with the girl in the field, in a short story book in high school... great, moving story, the painting suited it perfectly..
The Mark Ryden looks very intruiging.. I'll have to find more of his work =)

Derwood

Mark Rothko

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dylanmarsh

I've found a local artist here in Arizona that has blown me away with her work. Check out her stuff: http://www.lisaalbinger.com

Astrocloud

Hmmm

dylanmarsh

well, I can't say I dig the rabbit stuff. LOL

Astrocloud

I looked for Bob Ross's stuff to post here. -It's very difficult to find.

Good Call. I actually saw the Sacred Mirrors exhibit some 15 years ago. I like Grey but feel that he is a little too pushy with his religious views. Anyways here is some new Alex Grey



Geiger is beautiful.

Oh no, another religious nut. This guys religion is a little weird though... I believe it's satanism. Sure I have a Giger book or two floating around my palace. He's a very interesting artist.





Yes, yes there is so much here...

Michelangelo



Leonardo



Donatello was actually more known for his sculpture rather than his paintings. Don't get me wrong I was a sculpture major for three years. I love it.

Raphael is also one, much studied favorite.



I think I had that same book in HS...

Mark Ryden's website can be obtained by clicking on the following picture:

bundy

i don´t think any masters list is complete without my personal favourite, Rembrandt.



up close, they´re enough to make you weep.

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Skifter2

I really like Franz Marc





Edit found out how to put pictures in posts..i think

Astrocloud

(Not much found as far as a homesite... try http://www.lowbrowartworld.com/xno_profile.html )

PulpMind

luckily I know some german, and was able to navigate and find this heh:


Some of Alex's work, along with a slew of other contemporary psychedelic artist was on display recently at the Oseao Gallery [of the Senses] here in Seattle... amazing art, none of which I have ever seen online (aside from Alex).. amazing show,and much of it is still on display for those in the area (alongside a fantastic urban & graffity art show)


hah... is he? I don't think his art being dark neccissarily indicates evil intention though...

I swear I saw someone else mentioned this artist before, but I must be blind now.. but I recently found and really love work from Trevor Brown:



thank you!

Mephisto2

Matisse





Degas

fugue_life

Actually I am a huge fan of Anson Maddocks. He did some of the artwork for early versions of Magic the gahtering cards. I haven't played in years so I have no clue whats going on now

I like Justin Bua's artwork and Picasso's blue period as well

I would post pics, but im not that intelligent and haven't figured it out yet

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Astrocloud

You sure know how to pick an obscure artist. This guy is hard to find because Wizards of the Coast seem to own everything he does.... Hmm... Still there is a place in England that sells original artwork from WC artists




(This piece is actually sold out and I wonder how much longer it will remain on their website.)

One more from a fan site:





I've never heard of this guy but I like it. From ]http://www.justinbua.com/







Ah yes, Picasso Blue or "the struggling picasso" (I sure wish my great grandparents "discovered" this artwork and willed some of it to me.)

lordjeebus

Roy Lichtenstein!

anti fishstick

i like hieranymous bosch.
a surrealist of his time. [15th century]



<img src="http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/bosch/delight/delightr.jpg">

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rogue49

I've always loved Da Vinci
God gave that man such talent.

M.C. Escher is amazing...just profound.

Check out this site for inspiration on all artists and their works.
http://www.the-artists.org/

Mr.Deflok

BRIAN FROUD

Astrocloud

I like him too. Here are the other parts of the "Garden of Earthly Delights"



It comes in a three panel set. 2 Panels fold in to cover the central panel... The most wonderful panel that Anti-Fishstick shown was the right panel.

This is the Left wing subtitled "The Earthly Paradise" I believe it is the counter world to what was posted earlier "Hell".

This is the center of "the Garden"



There are numerous analysis on this phenomenal work. I decline to comment in that vast undertaking. However I do think that I've seen this on lone at the National Gallery (DC)... It is much better live than seeing it in plates.

anti fishstick

yes i agree the right panel being the best :-D
i've always liked hellish things better anyway

if you don't mind, i'd love to hear yr comments on the analysis. i'm suppose to do a presentation on him in class and haven't started yet :-x hehe. but any input is welcome. feel free to PM me. if not that's ok . i have resources
edit: its not that i necessarily want you to help me. i'm just interested in this subject beyond just a project and any input would be nice to hear.

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Jadey

Ed Ruscha

Astrocloud

New Guy in My Life. (Okay new girlfriend but why be picky... this is art preference anyway). I bring you:

Douglas Thompson




Pop Clown and Porn Clown


squeaky's parole


No Name Maddox (aka Charles Manson) in Marijuana Seeds

ARTelevision

This piece is in the permanent collection of ARTelevision World Headquarters. We traded artwork several times and this is my favorite.



I wrote this about my friend, Keith Haring soon after his death, from complications of HIV, in 1990. We were born in the same town – 10 years apart. I published one of the first pieces that presented his work as serious art – when he was still an unknown graffiti artist getting arrested in New York for surreptitiously doing his work in the subway.

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He was the Avatar of Art. he believed the heiroglyphic images he created were supernatural -- - encoded transmissions from conscious cosmic entities or Entity -- entering him, and through his work, the mind of man was refashioned. He was a religious fanatic, describing himself in an earlier time as a "Jesus freak". Feeling he was born too late to be a hippie, his admiration for the psychedelic edge of Pop culture impelled him to re-create it. At 21, he declared his hero-worship of John Lennon. He considered the moment of Lennon's death as the most significant in his life.

The evolution of his personal philosophy began in the late 1970s, through the turn of the next decade when he drifted away from the world of professional art and hit the street with the young graffiti artists, or "tag writers", whose work and world he unabashedly romanticised, heroised, adored.

The erotic magnetism of these Black, Hispanic, Oriental young men made him risk his life in obvious, subtle, invisible ways: avoiding barbed fences, guard dogs, and the electric third rail to "tag" subway cars in a street-as-studio world of spray-cans, chalk, and marker art; going everywhere mindless of a hint of the fear that a skinny white kid would doubtless experience in the dangerous city; sharing sex and drugs with the fallen angels who would die so young from overdose and AIDS.

He loved their courage. He saw their youth, ethnicity, raw nerve, wild intellect, and sheer talent creating a coursing network of vast and beautiful public painting -- the city infused with brilliance, intelligence, even magical incantation. His favorite, "SAMO", tagged his messages citywide. He imagined him god-like or perhaps actually God.

Keith's exegesis of "SAMO" was a complex cosmological interpretation of the precise locations and exact encryptions of the messages, and their place in cosmology.

He chalked his first image on a subway wall and knew his life would undergo rapid, self-directed, sub/or/super-consciously willed change. And that this change would be in history, as history, as he was in this moment -- innocent and perfect.

He did not claim to know the source of the pyramidal, saucer-shaped and humanoid pictographs he was compelled to compose, but he sensed from the start their metaphysical significance.

He was a singular genius, uncanny not simply in his execution, but in his grasp and visual elucidation of complex, totally contemporary ideas, philosophies, world-views, and in his assimilation of them into his personal creative vision. Increasingly as the eighties progressed, he believed he pictorialized perfect supernatural truth.

He had to work hard though, putting it into words. He was often confounded by the meaning of his evolving imagery. He needed dialog with others in order to comprehend his own messages. He cultivated global multi-media relationships with writers, artists, thinkers. He was, as well, a collaborative presence in the work of his friends. Consciousness and creativity were, to him, connective, communicative, manifold, and paradoxically both isolate and relational.

He was never still and his beliefs were not static. He lived the truth. He died knowing the secret of life. He knew life is short, nothing is real, existence is a dream, living is dying, desire is suffering, fame and fortune are meaningless, religion, politics, and economics are mind-control, conventional thought is mental slavery, and the so-called "real world" is an illusion. He knew in the end nothing matters, yet he knew also love, peace, freedom, the human heart, the mind of the child, and the evolution of consciousness toward conscience, matter more than the history of art.

I know these things and I knew him. In the days before his last day, we renewed our pledge to carry on our collaboration. I sent him my copy of the "Book of the Dead". Then he died.

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Astrocloud

Tetsuya Takabe Anyone?


I like the detail of this japanese artist. There's something about him that I find very appealing.

Astrocloud

I had a question about my last avatar... it was a painting by an artist named Eugene Zenin

streak_56

Tang Yumming...... some of his art work was featured at an exhibit at the Ohio State campus... I love it

KWSN

MC Escher, easily.





















<--- my favorite


maybe not a PAINTER per se, but certainly my favorite artist.

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http://community.webshots.com/s/imag...aHxjVWR_fs.jpg


Frederick Remington. I love his western art.

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