What's your favorite painting/artist and why?

Gemme · 01-25-2010, 07:54 PM

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Originally Posted by morningstar55

here is a link.... to this awsome artist.....
whom has a huge bright future ahead of him.

Incredible watercolour paintings by boy aged just SIX

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz0dfNf2PMJ

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...-just-SIX.html

I think he's got a really good eye for such a young child.

Diva · 01-25-2010, 08:49 PM

I love this thread cuz it's like our own private Planet Arte Gallerie............... <smile>

Diva · 02-02-2010, 01:14 PM

This sculpture (Veiled Vestal Virgin)....it takes my breath away! I first saw it in the movie "Pride & Prejudice"......sculptor is Raphael Monti, 1847.

weatherboi · 02-02-2010, 01:34 PM

Currently I am in love with the works of Fernando Botero!!!!

daisygrrl · 02-07-2010, 09:48 AM

I like these two for different reasons, of course

This one by Gerda Wegener is very playful to me; her other work more explicitly tackles issues of class.

Raphael Perez's "Two Men" is so warm, in so many ways...

Mitmo01 · 02-07-2010, 10:17 AM

Paul Gaugin takes my breath away--all of his works make me freeze my gaze

Titian is by far my favorite classical master--The Rape of Europa, Danae, and his masterpiece The Venus of Urbino

Mitmo01 · 02-07-2010, 10:24 AM

The Russian Hermitage Museum has a fantastic virtual website and some of the worlds most beautiful paintings in it

http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/html_En/index.html

Diva · 02-07-2010, 10:53 AM

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Originally Posted by Mitmo01

Paul Gaugin takes my breath away--all of his works make me freeze my gaze

Titian is by far my favorite classical master--The Rape of Europa, Danae, and his masterpiece The Venus of Urbino

Here Ya go.....a little Gaugin for Ya...

Toph · 04-26-2010, 09:40 PM

Jacques-Louis David (30 August 1748 – 29 December 1825) most of his portraitures were painted in his own image...very ego maniacal

Eugène Delacroix (French, 1798–1863) The Abduction of Rebecca painted (1846) a scene taken from Sir Walter Scott’s historical novel Ivanhoe

Miss Scarlett · 02-07-2010, 01:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Diva

This sculpture (Veiled Vestal Virgin)....it takes my breath away! I first saw it in the movie "Pride & Prejudice"......sculptor is Raphael Monti, 1847.

Like you I first saw this in Pride & Prejudice. I am absolutely captivated by the work and would love to see it up close and personal.

Hack · 02-07-2010, 01:29 PM

I'm a major fan of Andrew Wyeth, American realist. I also love Winslow Homer.

Mitmo01 · 02-07-2010, 06:09 PM

Diva, the Vestal Virgins has a long and storied history in ancient Rome

They were the Heart and Soul of the city as they tended to the fire of Vesta which was the hearth that was never allowed to die out.....well when Rome was finally sacked the first things the Visigoths did was to cermonially put out the fires of Rome both physically and esoterically starting with the Vestal Virgins....intriguing history

sorry for the derail...

AtLast · 02-07-2010, 06:23 PM

There are so many artists and works I appreciate and love, throughout the centuries.

Van Gough's Starry Night is a favorite.

And I have to say da Vinci's Mona Lisa has always drawn me in.

I have to ad that one of the best things to me at the Butch Voices Conference were the works displayed by queer artists.One woman did some charcoal drawings of a post menopausal, Native American butch that struck me to my soul. Maybe someone will remember her name?

Elizabeth Hoague Cleaveland is a local favorite of mine.

Semantics · 02-07-2010, 07:52 PM

This is such an enjoyable thread. Thanks everyone.

I love Frida Kahlo

My favorite by her is A Broke Column. I'm not going to post a picture because it's a little disturbing.

Another is Dali's The Anthropomorphic Chest of Drawers:

okieblu · 03-29-2014, 01:21 AM

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Originally Posted by AtLast

There are so many artists and works I appreciate and love, throughout the centuries.

Van Gough's Starry Night is a favorite.

And I have to say da Vinci's Mona Lisa has always drawn me in.

I have to ad that one of the best things to me at the Butch Voices Conference were the works displayed by queer artists.One woman did some charcoal drawings of a post menopausal, Native American butch that struck me to my soul. Maybe someone will remember her name?

Elizabeth Hoague Cleaveland is a local favorite of mine.

Do you know if the artist was 2 Spirit also? If so, you might try googling 2 Spirit artists charcoal (or drawing) some version of that. I'd like to know myself now!

okieblu · 03-29-2014, 01:16 AM

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Originally Posted by Diva

This sculpture (Veiled Vestal Virgin)....it takes my breath away! I first saw it in the movie "Pride & Prejudice"......sculptor is Raphael Monti, 1847.

I know this is waay from the original posting date, but, do you remember WHICH version of Pride and Prejudice, by any chance?

hpychick · 02-14-2010, 08:43 AM

Diva - I totally agree!!!

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Originally Posted by Diva

I love this thread cuz it's like our own private Planet Arte Gallerie............... <smile>

JakeTulane · 02-14-2010, 10:06 AM

Georgia O'keefe - Her watercolors are spectacular.

BestButchBoy · 02-14-2010, 10:19 AM

Henri Matisse

Pablo Picasso

Edward Hopper

Georgia O'Keeffe (especially her NY years!)

Alfred Steiglitz

And for more current artists, I have many friends who are painters or photographers. I'm fortunate in that respect. I too am a painter. I studied art in school and visual art and artists are a great passion of mine.

Cool thread!!!

Liquefaction · 02-14-2010, 10:39 AM

I love the colors that were used by Maxfield Parrish!

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