Who is your favorite artist?

[Firebird]

There are several good threads on artists-before I continue hijacking’s them, perhaps a renewed thread on favorite artists. I’ll start with two of mine.
Bob Kuhn has been dead over a decade but I still love to look through my book of his works are daydream that I had been part of some of those adventures.
Rien Poortvliet is another genius artist-his book Noah’s Ark is priceless. His personal notes are as interesting as his painting are!
I have many but would like to hear yours, including the local artists from your countries.

 

[BourbonTrail]

Antoni Gaudí is probably my favorite. La Sagrada Familia church is mind blowing, and Parque Güell is whimsical.

 

[fourfive8]

Art as in "on canvas" artists for me is a long list. Certainly would include the giants both American and international.

Russel and Remington. Impressive works, especially when viewed in person!!

I guess my favorites among the masters would include: da Vinci, Rembrandt, Rubens, Van Gogh (although some Van Gogh works I don't care for) and Monet. Many of the impressionist, Paris street scenes, even by some of the unknown "street artists", to me, are spectacular!


The only original art I can afford are a few paintings with western or southwestern themes or by Native American artists. So my affordable favorites would include the following :

Of the minimalist type Native American art, I have a couple by Navajo artists Jimmy Toddy (Beatien Yazz) and Jimmy Toddy Jr. I have other native American works by Duane Dishta from Zuni and Teddy Draper from Chinle.

I have one oil by Carl Redin, a Swedish American artist, known for his Rio Grande Valley-Santa Fe-Taos "southwest" style work.

I have a few oils by Mel Bradshaw who focused on western/southwestern themes.


Dishta, Kachina dancers at Zuni

Draper, Canyon de Chelly

Jimmy Toddy Jr., Navajo winter

Carl Redin, adobe & cottonwoods

Mel Bradshaw- mountain man moving family, Apache lookouts, hunting party returns

 

[freefall]

Gary Larson (Far Side)

 

[Kevin Peacocke]

Larry Norton for wildlife and scenery.
Helene Fischer for a fantastic female voice.

 

[slam8031]

Joel Pilcher Art

Charcoal art and paintings by Joel Pilcher.

joelpilcherart.com

I really like his work also...I have several of his pieces!

 

[Rubberhead]

There are several artists that can trigger an emotional response when I look at their paintings. But the most consistent artist that can on more occasions more deeply pluck those emotional chords is God himself. This is probably why all of us, whether we admit it or not, love the emotions of a hunt so much.

Of course, we're talking about earthly artists. The single painting that most deeply strikes those chords for me is Herb Booth's "Diver Island - Bluebills"...

 

[baxterb]

No painter’s work envelopes me like Winslow Homer. I can (and have) stood in front of his work for hours - the more you look, the more you see.

 

[Art Lambart II]

John Moses Browing

 

[Tundra Tiger]

I am going to contain my answers to wildlife and hunting. I really like the stuff from yesteryear by Philip Goodwin, perhaps because of his use of lever actions and many of his paintings depicted caribou and moose hunts. For straight up wildlife, I am a big fan of Carl Rungius.

 

[Don458]

Albrecht Durer

 

[Kelly G]

Jackson Pollock

 

[Tucketed]

My hunting and fishing partner and brother in law. Kent Lemon

 

[Primal]

I've always been fond of the works by Phillip Goodwin. I know a lot of his art was commercial in nature, but I really like the action it usually portrayed.

 

[fourfive8]

Sooo difficult to pick one or two or several as favorite artists! I guess I went to too many DU and RMEF functions back in the day so kind of got burned out on a lot of the stuff. But I do like Maass and Goodwin.

About 17 or 18 years ago I stumbled upon a small group of large format original African wildlife paintings. Can’t remember the artist but they were excellent!- similar to those posted recently here on this thread and the other one showing outstanding Africa art and being shown I imagine to liquidate an estate. I still have self inflicted bruise marks on my arsicle for not grabbing one or two of them. I was thinking with a stupid narrow mind- “they won’t fit in my house why get them.” Geez how dumb. Should have viewed them as a purely mercenary investment.

And no. I do not have a painting of dogs playing and cheating at poker or a velvet Elvis hanging in my living room. I wouldn’t even hang the dogs playing poker in a man cave room, if I had one!

 

[WebleyGreene455]

Rembrandt van Rijn.

But I will always covet Peter Ellenshaw's assorted paintings (or prints of said paintings) of the Nautilus from Disney's Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.

 

[Rickmt]

Charley Russell , a wonderful western artist who mastered the use of light in his work.

 

[steve white]

Carl Brenders for realism, Bob Kuhn for impressionism, and Charles Frace or Coombs for the big cats--among a few others...

 

[Tanks]

I never go by Amsterdam without going to the Rijksmuseum and admire Rembrandt's "Nightwatch". It just moves me.

 

[F. Vaccaro]

Charley Russell , a wonderful western artist who mastered the use of light in his work.

This, I’ve been to the Charley Russell museum a great place to visit.