2007-05-15 14:18:57 · 14 answers · asked by Buffy Summers 6 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Visual Arts ➔ Painting
Ryan M. is NOT alone in loving Winslow Homer. I LOVE Winslow Homer. Also Edward Hopper. Also John Singer Sargeant. Chuck Close - AMAZING.
2007-05-15 15:02:49 · answer #1 · answered by ckswife 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thomas Hart Benton would be my pick, (as well as Georgia O'Keeffe, but someone has already chosen her!)
He lived from 1889–1975, was an American regionalist painter, grandnephew of Sen. Thomas Hart Benton and son of Congressman Maecenas E. Benton. In 1906 and 1907 he attended the Art Institute of Chicago and at 19 went to Paris, where he remained five years. On his return to the United States, he designed movie sets, managed an art gallery, and continued to paint. The best-known American muralist of the 1930s and early 40s, he executed murals for the New School of Social Research (later sold) and the Whitney Museum, both in New York City; the Missouri statehouse, Jefferson City, Mo.; and the Postal Service and Dept. of Justice buildings, Washington, D.C. He is noted for his dramatization of American themes. His style is graphic, strong in color, repetitious and insistent in the use of rhythmic line. July Hay (1943) is in the Metropolitan Museum. Benton taught painting at several colleges and art schools.
He painted amazing paintings during the depression that really gave me a sense of what life was like during that bleak period of American history.
2007-05-16 01:12:48 · answer #2 · answered by r k a S 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The easy answer is Edward Hopper. But everyone thinks that.
There is a living artist I've been following, Bernadette Bradshaw. Some of her stuff is amazing. She paints with thread. Yep, she loads the correct color thread into her zig-zag sewing machine and just goes for it on the canvas. I have her "Blue Madonna." Several people have asked to buy my "blue," but I am not selling. All the sadness in the world are in those eyes.
2007-05-16 04:43:45 · answer #3 · answered by Owl Eye 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I love Winslow Homer, strangely enough. I think I'm one of the few. I just find his images of the majesty of water and those big, dark, doomy storm clouds so fascinating. You just look at one of his works and get the shivers.
He's so good at painting things just as he sees them. It's not always a realistic way of looking at things, but colors are always distorted perfectly to give his paintings a dreamlike quality.
Look at The Gulf Stream:
http://oceanworld.tamu.edu/students/currents/images/gulf_stream_1.jpg
See the insignificance of the man and yet how he still plays a major role in the painting? I just love it.
2007-05-15 14:24:11 · answer #4 · answered by Ryan M 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I like Michael Atkinson out of Texas and his southwest pictures. Including ones with American Indians, western cowboys, and many desert scenes, Atkinson includes in subtle form birds in flight. The colors in many like his Sunrise Canyon "pop" to brighten any room.
2007-05-15 14:28:32 · answer #5 · answered by banananose_89117 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Howard Pyle, NC Wyeth, Thomas Eakins, JC Leyendecker,
Andrew Wyeth, Edward Hopper.
Ok - I know that 's more than one. And Leyendecker was born in Germany before he came to America.
2007-05-15 14:48:57 · answer #6 · answered by anonevyl 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I like Edward Hopper... and Norman Rockwell
2007-05-15 14:38:03 · answer #7 · answered by willow oak 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Always has been Georgia O'Keefe...her gigantic, magical
flowers always made me feel that I had transformed into
a bee and was buzzing in for the pollen.
2007-05-15 14:24:54 · answer #8 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Georgia O'Keefe.
2007-05-15 14:21:22 · answer #9 · answered by daljack -a girl 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Eric "Doc" Hammer
his painting style is similar to those of old renaissance masters.
2007-05-15 16:12:40 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋