Favorite Artists?

[Rebecca]

Does anyone have a favorite artist? What kind of medium does s/he work with? What do you find most appealing about his/her work?

Rebecca

[Ransom v. Unman]

I assume we're talking about visual arts, or otherwise I think we all know my answer would be J.R.R. Tolkien. :p

*Ahem*

Aesthetically, I appreciate the work of H.R. Giger a great deal, but his subject matters have completely turned me off by this point. Back in the day, however, he was bar-none my favourite artist.

I greatly appreciate the works of Goya, Füseli, Bosch, Escher, J.W. Waterhouse, N.C. Wyeth, Caravaggio, Dürer, Holbein, El Greco, Jacques-Louis David, Rembrandt, Van Eyck, and any number of anonymous Medieval European and Japanese woodblock artists.

Oh, and "Sailor Jerry" Collins, too. I adore his artwork, and art it is, regardless of what high-brow snobs might say.

Anyway, as you can tell, my tastes lean towards Romanticism and Medieval art. I'm not really much of a fan of Renaissance art, though I do appreciate the immense talent behind it. I'm not a fan at all of most modern art (surreailist art and some forms of Weimar Dadaism being the great exceptions) but that's pretty much what I'd put it down to. Tattoo art, obviously, counts for a lot, too.

Among my own personal acquantances, I highly admire the work of David and Steven Assel, John Kantz and Dave Quiggle.

Google them if you don't know about them. :)

[Keith Wallis]

It has to be Turner for me.

[Ransom v. Unman]

Heh...

I also just realised I forgot Ralph Steadman. It's not so much his talent that amazes me as his style and subject matter. Definitely some of the best art the "post-modern" era has to offer.

[Cymrugirl]

I'm not very educated in art but I do have a spattering of cards that I collect of pieces that I really enjoy. I can say I'm a huge fan of Escher, Da Vinci, (though the code book nearly put me off his work for a while - Dan Brown turned Mona into Ronald McDonald) Dale Chihuly, Frank Lloyd Wright, Stickley, Rembrandt, Maurice Sendak, Annie Liebowitz (sp?), (some) Dali, and numerous pieces whose artists I could never name. I happen to like Tolkien's paintings of his own stories. I have one over my mantle of Bilbo floating downstream, and a picture of his Smaug hanging in my kitchen. G.K. Chesterton also did some great illustrated prints of mystical creatures.

I'm sort of a big fan of literary artists and frame and collect bookart for my house.

I used to adore Monet (not much at all anymore) and read a book on his workshop. I noticed Japanese artwork ALL over his house and thought the connection fascinating. My only experience with had been in velvet elvis type asian restaurants. But then, I discovered its beauty at a Smithsonian exhibition years ago and fell in love with it.

Every decade, my tastes seem to shift. For most of my younger years, it was all things Egyptian. I wanted my home to look like Indiana Jones'. I suppose it does now - with a modern literary tweak. I don't know that I'll ever desire the collection of mummies and ebony carved statues that I used to want. I still think it's beautiful.

[FireFeet]

I love abstract art. It's like there are stories being told and songs being played underneath the colours.

A few of my favorite abstract artists are: Rabi Khan, Wassily Kandinsky and Gustav Klimt.

[Timber Wolf]

Well as I am into photography, Ansel Adams and Leonard Lee Rue III come to mind.

[mbeachbum]

Though I'm not as knowledgeable in this area as the rest of you, I do have a favorite artist - Terry Redlin. I enjoy his work because he paints mostly country scenes of everyday people, to which I can relate. His use of light is amazing to me. I greatly prefer him over the so-called "painter of light."

[Phy]

Though I'm not as knowledgeable in this area as the rest of you, I do have a favorite artist - Terry Redlin. I enjoy his work because he paints mostly country scenes of everyday people, to which I can relate. His use of light is amazing to me. I greatly prefer him over the so-called "painter of light."

Word, and word again.

[mel3]

Freidrich.