Artist Appreciation Thread

jewels santana · **Joined:** Thu Nov 04, 2004 2:36 pm **Posts:** 10198

the back of my first CD had a picture of me sitting in the Cy Twombly room at the Philadelphia Museum of Art

Cotton · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 6:12 pm **Posts:** 17155

i love that room. actually, there's very few rooms in the PMA that i dislike. other than that fucking EXPENSIVE breakfast place on the ground floor. BOO

ayah · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 12:03 pm **Posts:** 6402

yang shaobin:

Cotton · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 6:12 pm **Posts:** 17155

ayah Wrote:

yang shaobin:

yar, that'll replace the whale in my nightmares.

jewels santana · **Joined:** Thu Nov 04, 2004 2:36 pm **Posts:** 10198

Cotton Wrote:

i love that room. actually, there's very few rooms in the PMA that i dislike. other than that fucking EXPENSIVE breakfast place on the ground floor. BOO

it's a pretty amazing museum.

Billzebub · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 10:26 pm **Posts:** 6459

I dig those ginormous tableaux that David did of Napolean. Kick ass!!!!

ayah · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 12:03 pm **Posts:** 6402

Cotton Wrote:

yar, that'll replace the whale in my nightmares.

sorry 'bout that. this whole series of his "red" paintings hold pretty powerful imagery. i'm really taken by his technique as well. his current work isn't much like this any more.

paper · **Posted:** Fri Jul 29, 2005 1:25 pm

Mark Tansey

Evil Dr. K · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 11:51 am **Posts:** 6327

Yeah, I'm not against modern art at all but my preference is for 18th and 19th century (especially Romantic or Neo-Classical) art.

David of course (I have 'The Sabine Women' up on the wall), Piranesi, Flaxman, Ingres and so many others.

cemeterypolka · **Joined:** Wed Jul 13, 2005 12:40 am **Posts:** 3473

ayah Wrote:

yang shaobin:

that's beautiful.

Elvis Fu · **Posted:** Fri Jul 29, 2005 1:27 pm

Hey now, that's pretty cool.

ayah · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 12:03 pm **Posts:** 6402

i really like mark tansey's work.

jewels santana · **Joined:** Thu Nov 04, 2004 2:36 pm **Posts:** 10198

konstantinl Wrote:

Yeah, I'm not against modern art at all but my preference is for 18th and 19th century (especially Romantic or Neo-Classical) art.

David of course (I have 'The Sabine Women' up on the wall), Piranesi, Flaxman, Ingres and so many others.

David was pretty amazing, and i've never even seen one in person.
i'm sure they are even better that way.

ayah · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 12:03 pm **Posts:** 6402

favorite david:

favorite ingres painting:

while i'm not crazy about all of ingres's (?) paintings i love all of his drawings. master draughtsmanship and he exagerates certain characteristics of people--like hands-- ever so slightly to add a tiny quirky quality to the work.

okay, i'm done rambling on. never get me started on this stuff. back to work

FT · **Posted:** Fri Jul 29, 2005 4:35 pm

I'm so low brow, I think the collected works of Sergio Aragones should be exhibited at The Louvre, and the Sistine Chapel should be repainted by Frank Frazetta. Can someone please loan me some culture???

Dick Meatwood · **Posted:** Fri Jul 29, 2005 4:54 pm

For an art school grad I came away with a very small list of artists that I have much familiarity with. Some of my favorites are Jasper Johns*, Nam Jun Paik, and Max Ernst.

Like a lot of people here, I'm more familiar with "low brow" illustrators and stuff than with fine art.

*for whatever reason, I never liked Rauschenburg (I know I totally f-ed up the spelling) much.

jewels santana · **Joined:** Thu Nov 04, 2004 2:36 pm **Posts:** 10198

FT Wrote:

I'm so low brow, I think the collected works of Sergio Aragones should be exhibited at The Louvre, and the Sistine Chapel should be repainted by Frank Frazetta. Can someone please loan me some culture???

do you know hieronymus bosch?
he's a crazy nut job.

maybe not as funny as Sergio, but close.

MontyTheMongoose · **Posted:** Fri Jul 29, 2005 5:04 pm

FT Wrote:

I'm so low brow, I think the collected works of Sergio Aragones should be exhibited at The Louvre, and the Sistine Chapel should be repainted by Frank Frazetta. Can someone please loan me some culture???

FT · **Posted:** Fri Jul 29, 2005 5:28 pm

Gaping A' Wrote:

FT Wrote:

I'm so low brow, I think the collected works of Sergio Aragones should be exhibited at The Louvre, and the Sistine Chapel should be repainted by Frank Frazetta. Can someone please loan me some culture???

I'm pretty sure that was scraped off Tara Reid's last partner.

d · **Posted:** Fri Jul 29, 2005 6:39 pm

jewels santana Wrote:

do you know hieronymus bosch?
he's a crazy nut job.

maybe not as funny as Sergio, but close.

I was just about to say... where's the Bosch love?

My favorite artist right now is Susan Point, who is Coast Salish and lives in Vancouver. We have several of her prints in my house.

http://www.susanpoint.com/

If we're talking classics though, I always liked Van Eyck's The Arnolfini Marriage. I also like Renoir and Toulouse-Lautrec. H.R. Giger's stuff is creepy as hell but interesting.

Dalen · **Posted:** Fri Jul 29, 2005 6:45 pm

a few of my favs...

jeff soto

joe sorren

eric white

DHRjericho · **Posted:** Fri Jul 29, 2005 6:47 pm

who is the guy who does all the pergatory paintings/drawings?

I like his stuff. I'm not overly familiar with the art world.

I love some of Sanrio's stuff...preferably the badtzmaru period.

d · **Posted:** Fri Jul 29, 2005 6:48 pm

oops, and I gotta pimp out two of my friends too...

http://www.cjhurley.com/
CJ does mostly period interior work these days, but he's done some amazing paintings and gesso panels.

http://www.jinscoe.com/
Jerry started out as a grafitti artist in DC, and he's got a style that's hard to forget.

I've got one of CJ's paintings in my house, now I need to work on buying one of Jerry's... before he gets too famous and I can't afford him!

cemeterypolka · **Joined:** Wed Jul 13, 2005 12:40 am **Posts:** 3473

wow CJ Hurleys gesso panels were amazing.

The Mayor of Simpleton · **Posted:** Sat Jul 30, 2005 1:36 am

Any love for Gerhard Richter? I think his abstract stuff is mindblowing. I want to do stuff like this.

I need to find some time and get painting again. I haven't really done much with my art education in terms of art (but it did get me my seemingly very stable, safe knock-on-wood job as a graphic artist/web designer, so it has that going for it.)

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