Favorite American artist?

[Goathead]

I like Andrew Wyeth. Especially, "Christina's World", Wyeth painted his friends and neighbors, Christina had polio and was unable to walk, there is just something about that painting that really touches my soul. I also like Dionicio Rodriguez, he was a folk artist who specialized in "faux bois", concrete made to look like wood.


On edit: Dionicio Rodriguez was a Mexican folk artist who's primary work is found in the United States, in San Antonio and Arkansas.

[phusion]

1. Not much of a visual art buff...

But I love Alex Grey's stuff:



His website, http://www.alexgrey.com has more

[B Calm]

2. My son

http://www.vansart.com/

[Goathead]

4. I like your son's nature prints

Very nice

[B Calm]

10. Thanks, the Walleye is in my den. I like his architecture drawings.

[progressor]

23. Edward Hopper is a favorite and...

others, including the abstract expressionists - Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline, etc. Also, Jasper Johns, Richard Deibenkorn, Agnes Martin, Robert Irwin, Maya Lin (Vietnam Memorial)...and others, including myself. ;)

[webjamn]

3. Everyone knows the best

American artist is Thomas Kincaid (dripping sarcasm)

[Longgrain]

5. LOL

But seriously Kincaid is the new Van Gogh...we all must surrender to him...

[tuvor]

7. I thought he was the new Rembrandt.

What with being the "Master of Light" and all.

[Blue State Blues]

22. the Kincaid/Republican connection?

the people I know who are Kincaid fans are also conservative christian Republicans ... has anyone explored the connection? Does being Republican give one bad taste in art?

[tuvor]

6. I like the other Andrew.

That Warhola guy.

[greendog]

8. Today it's Charles Demuth

"Figure Five in Gold"



the poem by William Carlos Williams that inspired the painting

"The Great Figure"

Among the rain
and lights
I saw the figure 5
in gold
on a red
fire truck
moving
tense
unheeded
to gong clangs
siren howls
and wheels rumbling
through the dark city

and a related painting by Robert Indiana

[Magrittes Pipe]

9. Eric Legge

[terrya]

11. Mine is Edward Hopper.

I can look at a painting like "Nighthawks" and feel such a sense of time and place in his works.

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[Goathead]

14. Yes, Hopper is awesome

There is something about those depression era artists. I also like Thomas Hart Benton, another depression era artist.

[Bok_Tukalo]

26. Hopper is my favorite as well

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[Solly Mack]

12. Not sure I have an overall favorite. I enjoy Jacob Lawrence.

I'd love to have a complete series of the "Migration of the Negro"

[Tuttle]

13. Irene Hardwicke Olivieri

Irene Hardwicke Olivieri



Tut-tut

[leftofthedial]

15. Wyeth's relative

Peter Hurd

[mcscajun]

16. Winslow Homer…for his watercolors.

Oh My.

http://www.nga.gov/collection/gallery/homerwc/homerwc-55326.0.html

[no_hypocrisy]

17. Edward Hopper

"Nighthawks" is one of my favorites among hundreds.

[Taxloss]

18. Philip Glass.

I would also mention Edward Hopper.

[Spider Jerusalem]

19. Some of my other favourites have already been mentioned...

so I'll name someone a bit more obscure...Albert Pinkham Ryder.

[PartyPooper]

20. I have to vote for Longgrain, especially because he is an "up and coming"

artist from DU.

:D

:hi:

[Blue State Blues]

21. I was going to say Wyeth, then Hopper, but you beat me to it so hmm ...

Cassatt -- gotta think of one of the women. :)

Edited for spelling.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

24. The first that comes to my mind is O'Keeffe

Dark Mesa

[Heidi]

25. Cole Morgan

is an American artist living and working in Belgium.

http://www.kashyahildebrand.org/zurich/morgan/morgan003.html

[CanuckAmok]

27. Diego Rivera and Leon Golub

Not all their works, but much of them.










Golub is a bit hard to take, though, especially as most of his works are menacingly tall, like 12' high and more:

[queerart]

28. Paul Cadmus