Goodreads Artists discussion

Favourite art movement?

Visual art - surrealism. I'm a Dali die hard fan.

Late Gothic, and Pre-Raphaelite.

Um. Impressionism?

Oooh, I love me the pop art. Roy Lichtenstein and Alex Katz are probably my absolute favorite artists of all time, but I also love David Hockney and Patrick Nagel--who seems very pop art-ish to me, even though he didn't live in that era.

Special mention goes to Pascal Croci the comic book artist, and probably a thousand manga artists, and...and...I could probably bore you all day with my favorites. Did I mention Horse Blinders? Never mind, I need to get back to this dystopic pea book I'm reading. It's awesome!

I think this one is Pre-Raphaelite, it's certainly romantic era. The Dance of Salome by Gustav Moreau. It always reminds me of that song by Siouxie and the Banshees "Bring me the Head of the Preacher Man"

I love Moreau! Apparently Andre Breton considered his art to be a forerunner to Surrealism.

My favourite movements would be: Surrealism (especially the female artists), Dadaism, the art of the fin de siecle (Art Noveau). The Blue Rider printmakers, hmm, the Mexican Realists, heaps more I can't think of at the moment.

Least favourites would include Postmodernism, which I foolishly took an extra unit in at art school.

How about Kangra painting? It's the traditional form of art from the valley neighbouring mine. Personally I hate it, which is pretty astounding coming from someone like me, who likes everything antiquated.

Looking it up now. :)

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