best/favorite painters
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Re: best/favorite painters
Gotta see the original in person to be able to fully appreciate its beauty / significance / impact / evocativeness ... (Tick and/or add as many options as you like.)
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I want a Renan Ozturk, who has signed all my prints, but doesn't sell many originals...
http://www.renanozturk.com/#intro
First ascent of Meru, the year after Renan broke his neck and fractured his skull in a horrific fall off the Grand Teton while filming a ski-mountaineering movie.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meru_(film)
http://www.renanozturk.com/#intro
First ascent of Meru, the year after Renan broke his neck and fractured his skull in a horrific fall off the Grand Teton while filming a ski-mountaineering movie.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meru_(film)
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I visited the Menil collection today. They have a lot of nice surreal pieces. Max Ernst of course, and this one by Yves Tanguy which is actually quite good.
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Re: best/favorite painters
Caravaggio. Salome with the head of John The Baptist (c.1607)
Andrew Wyeth: Christina's World (1948)
Francis Bacon: Study after Velasquez (1950)
Andrew Wyeth: Christina's World (1948)
Francis Bacon: Study after Velasquez (1950)
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Re: best/favorite painters
Mine too.Rum wrote:Some great choices above. I went to Art school as a kid. I must say getting to know the history of art was a great opportunity, though I pretty quickly discovered how much bollocks the 'interpretation' of art often involved. I love some of the surrealists and some of the impressionists too, but a forerunner of them both, more the impressionists perhaps, was Turner. I have spent many happy hours in London where many of his paintings are collected in one place (the National). He was way ahead of his time - and impressionist well before anyone knew what that was. He is without doubt my favourite painter.
I used to love Howard Hodgkin's stuff, but these days...I dunno. I just kind of went off it.
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I am terribly fond of Andrew Wyeth.Brian Peacock wrote: Andrew Wyeth: Christina's World (1948)
Just looked him up. Had no idea he'd passed away
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Jeffrey Jones was another favorite of mine.
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Re: best/favorite painters
A fine line between 'art' and illustration in my book. Not always a clear cut one either but some of the above are hovering!
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