Painters preferablly
2007-02-16 00:21:50 · 24 answers · asked by Samantha 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Visual Arts ➔ Painting
And why do you like them?
2007-02-16 01:14:52 · update #1
Rolf Harris
2007-02-16 00:25:05 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I like the work of pretty much all artists (not that keen on surrealism, but it's ok), but I do have a few favourites; Michelangelo (although also a sculptor and architect), Leonardo da Vinci (painter, sculptor, architect and inventor), Claude Monet, Joseph Turner and Raphael Santi (painter, sculptor and architect). I also quite like Vincent van Gogh's work.
If I had to choose between my favourites, it would have to be the 3 Renaissance artists and no, I couldn't choose which one.
2007-02-16 07:19:12 · answer #2 · answered by Paul The Rock Ape 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I love Velazquez. I always have a book of his work open when I am painting . My children often 'Mummy why is the book open at a painting of an old man when you are painting a child ?¨' I love to se how he puts paint on ...really throws it about and it just lands in the right places. I am very aware though how careful one must be not to cary on where these great masters left off by which i mean if you look at all the masters their early work is quite tight and dry and careful like a musician having to learn his notes before he plays with magical abandon he has strummed away like us all . And hard work is a great part of it .
Velazquez was the first real impressionist as he paints what he sees not as michael Angelo who paints as one would feel something.
http://www.phil.uu.nl/staff/rob/2005/hum243/velazquez-las-meninas.jpg and this detail http://www.wga.hu/art/v/velazque/08/0806vela.jpg down load this and zoom in and see it has such energetic brush strokes you would not imagine it from looking at the whole
So there you are, my hero !!!
2007-02-16 04:45:23 · answer #3 · answered by shetland 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Richard Spare, Alexander Calder, Jackson Pollock
2007-02-16 00:25:42 · answer #4 · answered by Good Egg 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I appreciate all the great masters but it's important to recognise the talent of Rolf Harris -he is not just a great entertainer and a superb artist (loved Rolf on Art series when he painted in the style of the Masters) but he's also a genuinely caring person. Rare today.
2007-02-16 00:47:48 · answer #5 · answered by john ray 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
As an artist myself, I'm inspired by the following: Barbara Rae, Peter Lanyon, Sandra Blow, any of the Newlyn and St Ives Group. Love Rothko and find great inner peace in his 'room' at Tate Modern.
2007-02-16 11:17:08 · answer #6 · answered by Mozey 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Raphael, Michelangelo, Ingres, Warhol, VanGogh, Titian
2007-02-16 01:16:46 · answer #7 · answered by howcanibethiskind 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Freda Khalo and Georgia O'Keeffe Two female painters, very feminist based . Freda paints about her life, using animals and childbirth and is Madonnas favourite artist. Georgia O' Keef paints flowers, but on second viewing you realise they are female genitalia. Fabulous
2007-02-16 10:54:07 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Salvador Dali
2007-02-16 00:32:02 · answer #9 · answered by Lost_Lady 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Gustav Klimt and Andy Warhol and Alexander Millar
2007-02-19 00:22:15 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋