Art..?

It is only fair that I start the ball rolling...

I adore all Caravaggio, many Dali, some Banksy and the odd Klimt. I would happily live with Rothko or Pollock but would not have Matisse in my house. I have no interest in Van Gogh or Rockwell but I would buy Warhol but I would display them inthe toilet or hallway or stairs in order to deconstruct the myth.

Pretty broad tastes, me. I find realism in all its guises likely to get boring after a while - if living with it daily - so would rather have a Rothko than a Renoir than a Rembrandt than a Raphael, but that doesn't necessarily reflect how I'd rate them qualitatively.

Salvador Dali styled himself "the great masturbater". He was right. Although I might choose a coarser synonym.
A good-with-a-brush plagiarist at best. And he knew it.

A veritable can of worms you have opened here, although at least it's less likely to go god-wards than most...

Rod

Oops Voltaire, sorry. Your post wasn't there when I wrote mine. But I stand by my Dali hatred, I'm afraid. Christ of St John of The Cross is a great painting (although I couldn't live with it). But that's it for me. Sorry.

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Originally posted by rodwsmith:
Oops Voltaire, sorry. Your post wasn't there when I wrote mine. But I stand by my Dali hatred, I'm afraid. Christ of St John of The Cross is a great painting (although I couldn't live with it). But that's it for me. Sorry.

Don't be afraid, art and music are the two great dividers; sprited conversation is how we learn to get along.

Gordon

It is staggering how much information one piece of art can convey...

I don't know if this is allowed, but I love many of William Eggleston's photographic images. The recent documentary about him in BBC1's "Imagine..." series was fantastic.

If you insist on proper painters, I like a lot of Gerhardt Richter's stuff - especially the works based on photographs

Also abstract expressionists like Rothko, Kandinsky and Klee.

For me, Robert Capa and Edward Hopper.





Voltaire : "It is staggering how much information one piece of art can convey..."

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Originally posted by mikeeschman:
For me, Robert Capa and Edward Hopper.

I have a few Hopper prints that I never got to hang up here in Sydney, hope they will find a nice place in my new house in the UK.

Personally I think the question should read, if art had no monetry value which would you have on your wall, because I think value clouds judgement.

I am really into Sarah Grahams work, unfortunatly my bonus this year did not stretch to a print of hers but one day I will have one.

I like this especially:

There are many artists and works of art that I love and admire but would not always choose to live with. The very dark late Rothko pieces are an example, or one of the 'Big Sue' Lucien Freud paintings.

For home though I'll choose either a piece of sculpture, probably one of the Sleeping Muse heads by Brancusi, or (if The Queen would let it out from her collection) a Leonardo drawing, either anatomical or otherwise. The most perfect blend of scientific enquiry, sympathetic observation and artistic expression.

Bruce

We have an Ed Mell - one of my favourite living artists also have some of Joel Greene's work and that of Bruce Cody. As for dead artists I like work by David Barbero, Georgia O'Keeffe, Maynard Dixon (some of Ed Mell's work has hints of MD's work).


If this thread is running next week when I get home I will post some pictures, however if you are interested you should be able to get some info from Google.

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It is staggering how much information one piece of art can convey...

For me, the greatest of all artists is Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso.

He's one of those supreme genii who only come along once every four or five hundred years - probably the greatest artistic genius since Michaelangelo.

There was practically nothing he couldn't do - to have a look at (just part of )his vast oeuvre - the largest of any major artist - go here.

Piet Mondrian. Ever since the he inspired the La Vie Claire jersey worn by Hinault.

Aside from the aforementioned Picasso and Michaelangelo, here are a few other faves.

Giotto (c.1266-1337)



Masaccio (1401-29)



The Lord of Suprematism, the great Kasimir Malevich (1879-1935)

I'd gladly have any of the five artists above on my living room wall, especially Picasso.

As for the ones I wouldn't let anywhere near my house, I can't think of too many, but the list would include:

LS Lowry
Damian Hurst
Banksy
Tracey Emin (and indeed most of those other "Brit Art" tossers)
Jean-Honore Fragonard
El Greco
Howard Hodgkin
Basquiat
William Holman Hunt (fascinating and talented painter, but I just can't abide his daubs!)
Late John Everett Millais
Beryl Cook
Edwin Landseer
Joshua Reynolds in "Hello" mode

Actually, that's rather more than I'd thought!

Good art is what you personally like. I don't need anyone to tell me what is good or bad.They may tell me it is very expensive or fashionable not, the same as good IMO.

I also don't agree that some of those on your list are artists Kevin.

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I don't need anyone to tell me what is good or bad.

I also don't agree that some of those on your list are artists...

I am just kidding Bigh47

Gordon

I forgot to mention one of my favorite artists who I would gladly hang on my walls...

Caspar David Friedrich
German Romantic Painter, 1774-1840

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Originally posted by mikeeschman:

Classic Friedrich..The Wanderer

One of my favorite's is...


and

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Originally posted by Voltaire:
I forgot to mention one of my favorite artists who I would gladly hang on my walls...

Caspar David Friedrich
German Romantic Painter, 1774-1840

Van Eyck’s Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini is a favourite, that I would like to hang on my walls.

But I actually have these on my walls

Anything by:

John Atkinson Grimshaw
Gustav Klimt
Frank Auerbach
Virtually any of the PRB or The Scottish Colourists
Joan Miro
Kandinsky
I really like the Vorticists too
Magritte

The sculpture I would have is Jacob Epstein's Rock Drill. It made a huge impression on me when I saw it on a school trip that stayed with me and it didn't fade on re-acquaintance.

steve

I find that Woman Reading Possession Order from Tom Hunter's Persons Unknown Series pushes all my buttons and serves as a reminder of days passed.



I have a limited edition print Five views butterflies by Robert Davidson and would like more of his work and indeed other works from First Nation artists.