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rilke 04-Nov-06, 21:14	Favorite Painters Name some of your favorite Painters of all time?
amitanandan 04-Nov-06, 23:46	Rassouli A contemporary artist who does mystical arts. I havw cone of his painting as my profile picture
rilke 05-Nov-06, 03:30	Rapahel I have many painters from different periods of time. But let me star with Rapahel during " il renacimeinto" . Rapahel's Madonnas are beautiful to watch; so does the tranquility you feel when you see his Mother and child paintings (Mary and Jesus). His larger paintings such as : School of Athens, Parnassus, and La Disputa; are very interestng how he placed each individual (phllsosphers,poets,a bible charaters; and himself ) into the painting.
rilke 05-Nov-06, 08:21	Velasquez The great Spanish painter who lived during the Baroque period, has always capture my attention becuase of the use of his colors, and his paintings are such vibrant to appreciate. Diego Velasquez ( 1599-1660 ) on his masterpiece "Las Meninas" captures a brilliant optical realism that it was seldom approached before and on his time. The painter represents himself in his studio before a large canvas, on which he may be painting this very picture or, perhaps he is painting something else. His biographer Palomino after viewing this picture, he excalimed "It is truth, not painting."
rilke 10-Nov-06, 14:50	Lautrec Toulouse Lautrec is world famous artist for his scenes of Parisian life at the end of the 19th century. A brilliant draughtsman, he developed a style of strong line and flat color. His series of posters,paintings and lithographs were so popular by inmortalizing the dance halls,brothels,cafes, and theatres of Montmartre, and clients. He was aristocrat, alcocholic and a great artist. Afflicted with physical disabilities; but did not stop this man to live the pleasures of vices of Paris night-life. Street girls and performers live in Lautrec's works. It was Moulin Rouge that Lautrec made his first ans still famous poster. His famous posters are among many: Moulin Rouge la Goulue (1891), Divan Japonais (1892).
rilke 04-Dec-06, 07:46	Jan Vermeer The best known and mostly regarded of the "Little Dutch Masters" is Jan Vermeer (1632-1675)of Delft. Vermer is master of pictorial light, he made the use of mirrors and the camera obscura.His "Young Woman with a Water Jug" are one his finest works.
rilke 08-Dec-06, 09:40	Hokusai Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) was from Japan's new art "Ukiyo-e" or pictures of the floating (or passing world); whose center was in Kyoto. Toward the end of the 17th century the center of production art shifted to Edo and the predominant medium was the woodblock print. A century later Van Gogh and the Impressionst painters were influenced by their work of art. Hokusai brilliant and ingenoius compositions, such as the 36 views of Mt. Fuji made use of striking juxtapositions and bold, linear designs. His famous work "the Great Wave' is part of this 36 views. Nature was the primary subject.
rilke 17-Dec-06, 11:41	Goya Francisco Goya (1746-1828) , the great independent painter from Spain,found no school and whose paintings reflects the cruelty of life. The seeds of realism began with Goya, who manifested the present and prophesied the future.Among his masterpieces: The Third of May(1808) and Saturn devouring his children (1819-23) are good examples of his bitter vision.
rilke 23-Feb-07, 10:09	Rubens The brilliant flemish master Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) preceded Bernini in the development of the Baroque style. He broke away from the provincialism of the old flenish Manerists and seek new ideas. He became a master in 1598 and went to Italy for 2 years later, where he remained until 1608. During those years he formulated the foundations of his style.
rilke 28-Apr-07, 09:48	El Greco El Greco (1541-1614), properly Domenikos Theotokopoulos, as he always signed himself, was born in Crete and worked and trained for 12 yrs in Venice. The paintings of titian,tintoretto and Bassano all influenced on him. He migrated to Spain, and lived in Toledo until his death. Important works: The burial of Count Orgaz (1586), El Espolio (1577-79), The Inmaculate Conception (1607-13).
rilke 07-Jun-07, 13:45	Hogarth, William He was the first British-born painter to achieve international influence and stature: artists such as Holbein,Van Dyck.Lely,Kneller had all been inmigrants. William Hogarth (1697-1764) was an english genius in his art. His famous works are: "marriage a la mode: Soon after the marriage (1743-45), "self portrait" (1745), "the Orgy", "The madhouse" both on 1743. He was friend of Henry Fielding, the creator of "Tom Jones" (novel). Hogarth was the first great comic-history painter just as Fielding was the frist comic-history writer in Tom Jones. Hogarth paintings are no less serious than tragedy.
ribbleton 25-Jun-07, 10:47	Poussin and Ingres, Manet and Bellini. Leonardo Those artists whose work best fitted the conception of painting in whose work the universal human nature, in which I believe in, was palpably present. We see an object in the paint with which a surface is marked, rather than simply seeing the marks. This is as a primitive human ability; it is exercised when we see faces in clouds, for example, or, as Leonardo noticed, landscapes in the stains on a wall. But pictorial perception is a more complex achievement, since what we see in a painting was intended by the artist, who organised the surface in order that viewers should grasp what was meant in putting it there.
rilke 26-Oct-07, 12:28	Michelangelo Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564), is a far more complex personality than Rapahel.His jealousy of Rapahel, his dislike of Leonardo, and his almost continuous difficulties with his patrons are well known. But he is an inspired genius and a universal man, the ideal characteristics of the Renaissance world.He was an architect,a sculptor, a painter a poet and an engineer; Michelangelo thought he was first a sculptor. His famous works : David (1501-1504),Moses (1513-1515), The dying Slave (1513-1516),The Bound Slave (1513-1516) among his others sculptures. The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel; one of the great paintings of the world. Taking the themes of The Creation, Fall and the Redemption of man; Michelangelo spread a colossal decorative frescos with more than 300 figures . A long corridor of narrative panels.
illinawek 01-Nov-07, 06:04	JMW Turner Is my personal favorite. He anticipated the impressionists by over 50 years.
ribbleton 18-Mar-08, 10:41	c'est mon dada. Theo van Doesburg Arithmetic Composition" (1930) "Beautiful as the chance encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on a dissecting table."
el_stevio 18-Mar-08, 11:20	Kandinsky I'm partial to some of his work. Especially 'several circles', which reminds me of looking into the night sky at the universe you will never know...
rilke 23-Mar-08, 21:47	Whistler James Abbot McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) was a born in Massachusetts, brought up early on in Russia, then at West Point. He went to to Paris, where he was influenced by the works of Courbet.In 1859 he went to London, and his famous painting "White girl" (1862) was a scandal such as the landmarks as Manet "Dejeuner sur l'Herbe" as his women paintings reflects the same characterizations of the Pre-Raphaelites Rossetti. His preferred title for "The artist's mother" (1872) is one of the most famous portraits of the 19th century. In its tonality we echoes the colors of Velasquez, but its flattened space, and his calculated arrangements disposition (arrangements)across the picture plane. Other works: The Falling Rocket (1874) and Venetian palaces (1879-80).
rilke 23-Nov-08, 22:35	Joan Miro Woman in front of the sun (1925),oil in canvas. A mysterious painting with incredible colors . Born in Spain, Miro is one of the greatest Surrealist painters of the 20th century.
nf7mate 15-Dec-08, 15:23	El Bosco Hieronymus Bosch (1450-1516) The Garden of Earthly Delights is his best known work, but many of his works are fascinating as well. His style includes the use of outrageous images, often with amazing detail. His works usually tell a story, but with all of the unusual allegories, it is often difficult to understand. I find his works captivating. Other interesting works are The Extraction of the Stone of Madness and Marriage Feast at Cana.
rilke 20-Jun-09, 10:53	Courbet Gustave Courbet (1817-77)a French painter and part of the movement known as Realism in the arts formulated with most consistency and authority in France between the 1840 and 1880. As Romantic painting had seemed summarized in the work of Delacroix, so Courbet is the archetypal of a painter of Realism. "Painting, claimed Courbet, "Is an essentially concrete art, and can only consist of the presentation of real and existing things". His great works: The Artist's Studio,The Bathers, The stone breakers,A burial of Ornans,etc.
obsteve 20-Jun-09, 11:31	Picasso Truly disturbing stuff. Check out this 3d journey into Guernica www.youtube.com
gamblingpawn 25-Jun-09, 11:55	Jackson Pollock I only need one sentence to describe how great he was...and here it is.
coopershawk 27-Jun-09, 23:02	Steve The 3d version of Guernica is excellent. Thanks for pointing it out.
nf7mate 30-Jun-09, 12:37	Daniele Crespi Italian Baroque painter. Wonderful coloring. The contrast of flesh tones among the different characters in his paintings often tells a story in itself. My favorite work of his is The Conversion of Saint Paul, which hangs at my local museum.
dragonia 23-Feb-10, 14:14	Franz Marc The Tiger 1912 Oil on canvas Stadtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich The paintings Franz created in this period were as a result of his own growing distinctive style. He fused Cubism and Futurism and inter-meshed animals and environments. www.artyfactory.com
bwthemoose 23-Feb-10, 17:32	T urner in particular the great watercolors he did of landscapes in Britain
tmatsai 24-Feb-10, 22:48	Dali If I have to pick just one favorite, I'll say Salvador Dali. No particular reason, except that the way his work twists reality delights my sense of the absurd.
rilke 23-Jul-10, 15:11	Cezanne, Paul The Forefather of modern painting. "La Montagne saint Victorie" one of his masterpieces.
hebrit 05-Aug-10, 19:03	Mondrian His purely abstract lines have always fascinated me, even if I am not really attracted to modern abstract art. tmatsai's choice is also one of mine : Dali : dreams put on canvas.
chessman48 06-Aug-10, 12:07	Rembrandt I am surprised that nobody has mentioned Rembrandt. He was a magnificent portraitist and left a unique series of self portraits charting the changes in his appearance and his attitude towards life. We have a fine example near us at Kenwood house in Hampstead, North London. Actually if you have a spare day in London you could do worse than visit the old villages of Hampstead and Highgate. You can go to Keats House and then walk over the Heath to Kenwood which has a great collection of old masters, including a Vermeer.
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