What are your favorite artists?

[eleonora]

I love Mark Ryden and Magritte for starter...

What artists have influenced you?

[Longgrain]

1. Gauguin has always inspired me

Philip Gustin and Cezanne too...but I still keep going back to Gauguin.

This is one of my absolute favorite paintings...

[wovenpaint]

8. The thing I remember most about this painting from Art History

class, is that it was meant as a suicide note. IIRC, he used up his paints and it's painted on burlap and off he went to drink poison....didn't work! So back he came...
France would love to get this painting back - but it's too fragile to move. Oh well...I always visit it when I get into Boston.
My favorites are DaVinci, Kandinsky, O'Keefe, Picasso, Josef and Annie Albers...at the moment, anyway!

[Longgrain]

9. Luckily I seen it up close many times...

It has always be inspirational to me. :hi:

[ralps]

2. My favorite artists are Jackson Pollock and Winslow Homer

:hi:

[mopinko]

3. chicago influenced me

chicago artists are a special bunch. i had the priviledge of studying at the school of the art institute with christina ramberg.

she was an amazing painter, and a fabulous person. ( she died of a brain tumor in about 1997?. she was only in her late 40's. brain tumors are sadly common im artists.)
the imagists were a down to earth, in your face bunch of painters, who persisted in doing figurative painting, when all the world, especially new york, had turned to abstraction. quirky, crazy firgures to boot.

roger brown

karl wirsum

ed paschke,

[jdots]

4. do you want it starting with a

i love most art & artists ,can only think of a few i don't find something inspirering in.

[SiouxJ]

5. Hopper and O'Keeffe

I've always been drawn to uncrowded places so I think that has a lot to do with it. I really don't like crowds, traffic, commotion. I also love Hopper's shadows and light. I love O'Keeffe for her maverick spirit, almost as much as her artwork.

[fudge stripe cookays]

6. Gorky, Chagall, Modigliani

I love the bright colors and interesting shapes.

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[bunny planet]

7. Favorite artists

Henry Darger, Frida Kahlo, Vincent Van Gogh, Kara Walker, the Clayton Brothers, Kiki Smith, Caravaggio, Benjamin Jones, Romare Beardon, Jane Hammond, Willie Cole for starters.

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

10. Bearden, Rauschenberg, Miro

David Hockney, Roy Lichenstein, Cindy Sherman, Margaux Lange

I could give a huge ass list, but I believe a random sampling of my favourites will suffice.

[Lorien]

12. I love Miro

I even named one of my cats after him!

I love a lot of the painters from the Flemish school, plus many of the great illustrators of the golden era (particlarly the Brandywine group). I also really enjoy Chihuly's glass installations...my tastes are pretty much all over the place.

[EC]

11. I like most of the ones mentioned here

but my favorites are the Fauvists and Expressionists, being Oskar Kokoschka and Andre Derain, oh and I always wanted to live in a Matisse painting, so I painted my bedroom in that style...MY style is closer to El Greco and Botticelli

Oskar Kokoschka




Derain