What type of art (paintings) do you prefer?

Question

Their is a lot of types. What comes to mind in general is simple art with a simple meaning. Detailed real life depections. Splatters of paint. Complex use of colors. Portraits. The kind that has like 2 red dots in the middle and the rest blank. Weird/unusual art (basquiat). Tell me.

Answer 1

i like pointillisim i love how all the dots just come together and make this beautiful picture

Answer 2

I prefer the real-life types. A painting of a landscape, a person, something that occurs in real life. I really don't care for the abstract stuff. I just don't find blobs of color on a canvas very imaginative or interesting. My imagination is active enough when & where I choose to use it. I don't need to be prodded into having to use it to figure out or even appreciate a piece of art. I don't care if the colors used are appealing to me, or if the size is right to place over my mantle. What matters to me is what I enjoy - that's all I care about. When I get home, it's my sanctuary, and I'm certainly going to have it reflect what I find interesting and beautiful, to suit whatever mood I chose it for. I don't want to have to worry about what it's saying to the rest of the world, let alone have to figure out what it's saying to me.

To me, the kinds of paintings that I don't like remind me of the interpretive dance part of P.E. we had to endure for a couple of days in school. I did not understand how a tree "felt" as it grew from a seed to a full-blown, full-grown tree - I was never a tree. It just took too much thinking, about something I would never, ever care about, so why even bother with it? There are plenty of other things for me to think about. That's how I feel about the kind of art that doesn't interest me. If someone else chooses to enjoy that kind of art & thinking, that's great. That's what makes the world interesting. If the only art out there were the kind I liked, it would be a boring world indeed! The same goes for books, music, theater, television, politics, religion & everything else in the world. Don't you just love variety?

Answer 3

lol i am the opposite. i like paintings that look real. Creating an image that appears soo real almost like a photo really shows how skillful in technique the artist is b/c painting something to look real if very difficult. If the art doesn't look real the audience can imediately point out the flaws. w/ abstract u can't tell if its suppose to be there or not i don't like abstract b/c it can basically be anything. w/ abstract any1 can just throw paint onto the canvas and call it art. How does 1 judge abstract. so in conclusion i like realism. i paint images tat look real.

Answer 4

Modernist paintings, especially Fauvist (French) and German Expressionist. Bright colors, simple shapes, strong compositions. Impasto paintings (Chiam Soutain). Also 20th c. American painters such as Jasper Johns, Robert Raushenburg and Alice Neel.

Answer 5

I enjoy viewing pencil drawings and I hope I am not taking liberties here with the term art. I don't do pencil drawing but I do enjoy viewing them.
Now when it comes to paintings I love the work of Thomas Kinkade. It is fairy tale in nature but simple. I see innocents in his paintings (or prints). I can look at a painting and not get tired. It makes you feel the warmth and makes you wish you were their.

Answer 6

I like art that doesn't make me ask "what the heck IS that?". Call me a Rube, but Jackson Pollock does nothing for me. I can enjoy Dali and Picasso, but I'd rather see a black velvet painting of Elvis, or dogs playing poker than a splash abstract.

Answer 7

I like broken color. Different techniques using brush strokes or not even a brush. Heavy layers. Chaotic simplicity. Realism. Baroque.
Old art, not the religion that it embraces. Salvador Dali, Francis Bacon. Jackson Pollock
I like alot of stuff but not repetitive soup cans. I do not see art in that.

Answer 8

I like realistic depictions but not neccessarily photorealism. I like Rembrandt, Jacques Louid David, Alex Ross, Greg Land and Juan Jimenez.

Answer 9

my preferences are too wide I dont like bowls of fruit, or other silly still lifes,
I like Japanse landscapes, and those cheesy old paintings of dogs playing games, but I also like the scenes of rural america (you know the ones, a house a barn some cows and a creek) I also like tasteful portraits of people who are not looking directly at the painter, ( I have one of a girl lookign down and kinda sad with one boob exposed, I think it was a college project of some kids long ago)
and I like oddball abstract stuff.

Answer 10

Contemporary non-representational that is minimalist, bold and clean.

Realist traditional executed with oustanding skill.

Impressionism of a high standard (not chocolate box art).

Surrealism that is original, skillfully painted, quirky, and doesn't look like fantasy art.

The art of young children.....

Answer 11

Surrealism