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Who's your favorite painter and why?

Ahhh my favorite painter. Very hard to tell between Dali and Rembrandt.

But my favourite 21st century painter is this digital painter:

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This one about the dinner at girlfriend's house is for having you to LOL rather hard.

Let me explain why: Never before I saw an art gallery so heartwarming and touching. If you have a bad day, you just open his gallery and take a look at it. You will have a good day. Open up each correspondent page on the cgsociety forums, the comments are also part of the joy. IMO art is art no matter the technique. Each one of his pieces is a masterpiece IMO

His entire gallery at cgsociety:
http://tiagohoisel.cgsociety.org/gallery/911262/


So promise me guys, take a look at his entire gallery at least once. Check the caricatures as well. YOU WILL NOT REGRET!! Laughs and good humor incoming to you.


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Fallout, that Hoisel stuff is priceless! I almost spit milk all over my keyboard at the depiction of the giraffe sunning its buns! Giraffe? Buns? In the same sentence? In the same picture! I'm an instant fan -- that dinner table scene is like looking at a still from a Pixar film directed by Heironomous Bosch! :D

fallout said:
Ahhh my favorite painter. Very hard to tell between Dali and Rembrandt.

But my favourite 21st century painter is this digital painter:

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This one about the dinner at girlfriend's house is for having you to LOL rather hard.

Let me explain why: Never before I saw an art gallery so heartwarming and touching. If you have a bad day, you just open his gallery and take a look at it. You will have a good day. Open up each correspondent page on the cgsociety forums, the comments are also part of the joy. IMO art is art no matter the technique. Each one of his pieces is a masterpiece IMO

His entire gallery at cgsociety:
http://tiagohoisel.cgsociety.org/gallery/911262/


So promise me guys, take a look at his entire gallery at least once. Check the caricatures as well. YOU WILL NOT REGRET!! Laughs and good humor incoming to you.


:p
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ingoa said:
Caspar David Friedrich

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caspar_David_Friedrich
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caspar_David_Friedrich
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I was lucky to see The Wanderer in Hamburg. It's an image I'm very fond of, but weirdly I like the reproductions better than the actual thing, something about the strokes being too prominent. You could really see how he'd painstakingly rendered everything with layers upon layers, and that took away some of the visceral impact of it. Reminded me of decorative porcelain painting.

But other than that minor let-down, I agree. Fantastic stuff.
 
Helen said:
Many of my favourites have already been mentioned. Just wanted to add a few.

and Gustave Klimt (art noveau) http://www.expo-klimt.com/
I have a fondness for the Pre-Raphaelites as well, Holman Hunt, Millais, Rossetti.
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Ah, Helen, somehow I'm not suprised. The Pre-Raphaelites are all favorites and it would be difficult to pick just one.

They had such an ability to mix magik, beauty, romance, mystery, spirit, with a touch of the medieval, by whom they were inspired.

Anyone inspired by things exotic, ancient, mysterious yet beautiful, would enjoy them.

Julia
 
For landscapes - Canaletto

For Pre-Raphaelites - Edward Burne-Jones

Modern - Theodore Geisel a.k.a Dr. Seuss, not for the books but the paintings.


Illustrators, too numerous to mention but it's a toss up between French Surrealist and cartoonist J. J. Grandville and Edward Gorey. They are both wonderful to collect because they were prolific. (Gorey more so, he's like the Asimov of illustrators.) So it is possible to pick up a book that has plates or drawings that you haven't seen before, even if you have been collecting them for years.

I also have a special fondness for:
Cecil Aldin
John Held Jr. (In my dreams he would have illustrated a Wodehouse collection.)
Sulamith Wulfing Some of the earlier books of her work were printed in Czechoslovakia (famed for richness of color plates until around 1980, still has some great publishers, btw) You could pick them up for a song because so few people had even heard of her. Then Stevie Nicks of Fleetwood Mac started using her work, Wulfing became popular and those books are very dear today.
Arthur Rackham, of course. He's pure madness/genius.
 
ZB,

Next stop; somethingawful.com

Really, really funny!

Julia
 
No championing of Chagall yet? I'm so sad :(... especially since the thread was already Godwined back in post 59...

Kidding. Seriously, my vote's for that ol' coot. When I last visited the Art Institute of Chicago, my friends went to the obvious ones - Monet, Van Gogh, etc. - yet I made a beeline to Chagall's work. His stuff is sort of what happens when a surrealist cubist goes on an acid trip and gets rid of all the rigid geometry, and I love his work because of that.
 
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Greg Broadmore, Hes my inspiration... He works for Brilliant films industry and dose lots of concept artwork. I love his interview. He was never taught never went to school. He was hired at 25 previously working at the time in a movie store. lol..

Then he turned out to produce alot of concept art for such moviees like Lord of the rings, District 9, and the soon to be Elysium which is underway.

Hes my favorite, I speak to him briefly now and the on the internet.

But... Hands down, the greatest modern artist of today is Craig Mullins... His work is goodbrush.com
Best artwork my eyes have ever seen, the use of traditional and digital come about to produce the finnest works ever.

I have a bunch more. But Greg Broadmore is... he has great chrisma and hes soo inventive with stricking bold concepts his style is absolute as well,

Craig mullins, greg broardmore, Theo prines, Feng Zhu, Theres alot to name, I mostly like the living artists of today thou.

But for classical artists.. probably monet.
 
I have a special fondness for Dwight C. Holmes, who was a Texas landscape oil painter, sculptor and architect. He was my great-grandfather. Although he is not a Great Master, he was well enough known and made a decent living at his art. I like his impressionist style over some of the other artists.
 
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