What kind of art do you like?

[JamesSavik]

I have these posters around my house. Having the originals would be wild- they are worth more than the state I live in.

 

I wonder what sort of art others here have/like.

 

 

Van Gogh's Starry Night

 

 

Van Gogh's Irises

 

 

Hokusai's The Great Wave at Kanagawa

 

 

Hokusai's Boy in Front of Fiji

[K.C.]

Cranes Over Moon by Nishimura. This is one of my favorites, It's hanging in the livingroom.

[rustle]

 

Opuncia in Your Face

 

Saved From the Flames, and in my dining room.

[Former Member]

Currently, I'm in love with Beksinski and Jenny Saville

I love how he plays with the scale of things and how he juxtaposes complexity and simplicity. The things he does are a bit gorey and creepy, but that's not what attracts me to them, rather it's his ability to depict desolation.

 

I absolutely love how Jenny Saville applies and layers her paint to drawings. I enjoy how she also works with scale. This painting was really huge. I saw it when it was exhibited at the Phillips Collection... I think I drooled. I recommend some discretion when searching Jenny Saville's paintings. One of my reasons for liking her is that she presents the viewer with things that one might find appalling.

 

Frank Stella is one of my favorite sculptors. His works are musical. Pictures never get close to doing a sculpture justice.

 

One more just so that you guys don't think I'm a total weirdo (even though this might not help my case at all):

A drawing by Leanardo. It's kinda funny, the man was making war machines to kill people, and yet he was a vegan because he didn't like the suffering of animals. I love this because it shows his mastery of everything from the arts to the sciences. My one only hero.

 

Oh, how I wish I owned these.

[Frostina]

Oh!

I'm a little crazy about Van Gogh too. lol

 

I have 3 of his. One poster, and 3 copies, all A4 sized.

 

 

Irises (my feel good painting, this is in my bedroom)

 

These two are just copies: in Charcoal, soo..

 

 

 

And lastly, a copy of a poster that i couldnt get my hands on:

 

 

This hangs in the living room.

[W_L]

Well,

 

 

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, Roman Countryside c. 1830-1831

 

 

Impression (1872), Claude Monet

 

 

View at Rouelles, le Havre (1858)- Claude Monet

 

I am a fan of the landscape and impressionist/post impressionist paintings, color and motion are wonderful emotional elements to a painting, it's expressing more than just details.

[JamesSavik]

Good stuff WL

[ToddYoung]

[PrivateTim]

George Catlin and Claude Monet.

 

 

 

 

[Celethiel]

George Catlin and Claude Monet.

 

 

No Charles M. Russel?

[Celethiel]

I like most artists and Art styles... except some of the modern ones...

 

However since i've already mentioned him

Charles M. Russell

Smoke of a .45 <--- my grandmother had a copy of this.

 

 

Wounded but still comming <---another i've seen a copy of.

 

Last of the 5,000, I like the drawing more then the painting, my grandfather created a wood carving from it.

 

The Exaulted Ruler, a lot of Montana kids helped pay for that to go to the museum when i was a kid.

 

Michelangalo's David <--- i spent a lot of time as a preteen and teen either perving it, or trying to draw him

 

Da Vinci's Vitruvian Man <--- I just like

 

[intune]

Art There are so many things I like. I'm also a big Jenny Saville fan, and I like Lucian Freud (although who doesn't ). I really like impressionist work (Monet, Manet, Renoir, etc) , but I'm also a pretty big fan of abstract expressionism (mostly Rothko). More contemporary, I like:

 

Felix Gonzalez-Torres

 

 

Moyra Davey

David Hilliard

 

 

Sophie Calle

 

There's a lot more but that's what I thought of right away

[Celethiel]

all i have to say on the clocks is i think they'd look cooler as cogs with clocks in them

[Andy78]

I also like Der Schrei der Natur by Edvard Munch (my all time favs of Starry Night and Cranes Over Moon have already been mentioned)

 

[Celethiel]

I also like Der Schrei der Natur by Edvard Munch (my all time favs of Starry Night and Cranes Over Moon have already been mentioned)

 

 

for some reason i always get him mixed up with Picasso

[JamesSavik]

Some modern work:

 

 

Nighthawks- 1942 painting by Edward Hopper. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nighthawks

 

 

Night Fire by Gaziano