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Who is your favorite artist--or least favorite artist?

Music related? Or drawing/painting/sculpting/sketching/molding/a-bunch-a-other-things??

My favorite artist is Van Gogh. I find it thrilling that his painting Sunflowers sold to the Japanese for more money than any other painting. (was a few year ago so may have changed by now) I am also inspired by Georgia O'Keeffe and read a book about her life while I lived in NM which was super interesting. She was quite a character. If anyone came to her door with a cold she would slam the door in their face! as she had an unusual immune system and was unable to get out of bed for months once after such an encounter.
My least favorite is probably Kandinsky (msp).
About a month ago I bought An American Vision Three Gene4rations of Wyeth Art and I also love the work of all these and the book has some paintings I have never seen before.
My favorite singer right now is Loreena McKennitt and her song Night Ride across the Caucasus (msp) makes me think of one of the books of Norah Lofts from her Homecoming trilogy when he rides across the mountains between Spain and France as they escape. He escapes with a "wild" woman from North Africa who can really ride. Listen to it if you get a chance while reading the book and let me know what you think?
Alice

Bells wrote: "Music related? Or drawing/painting/sculpting/sketching/molding/a-bunch-a-other-things??"


Anything goes. jess

my favorite (lyk painting) artist is Jackson Pollack

i like (artist-cartoonist, really) Charles M. Schulz

i like Katy Perry on some songs, Natasha Bedingfield (music)

Yui, I don't know anyone who doesn't like Schulz. Is there anyone here who doesn't?

Salvador Dali. My favorite ever.
#2: Botticelli
Least favorite: I'm sorry... Picasso.

Music artists: Amy Winehouese (hate her way of life), Justin Timberlake, Natasha Bedingfield, Audioslave (i think they are not together anymore)
=( and there are so many others but i don't want to bore you. And like "deleted member" i changes depending on my mood.

We are fortunate to have the Dali Museum in our city and it is always fascinating to attend. The last exhibition I attended was about Dali and women; it was interesting to say the least. Evidently, Dali though the was a girl up until the age of 4 or 5. There is an evocative picture of a (clearly) female child lifting up the ground like a blanket to expose a sleeping dog. You have to spend time with the art to truly appreciate the combination of techniques he mastered.
I would often spend my afternoons at the Prado in Madrid staring at the Goyas. El Greco and Velasquez were wonderful for the depth they painted, but for sheer awe inspiring power, Francisco Goya is amazing. I brought a copy of his Witches' Sabbath home and framed it in a dark gray. It is chilling and wonderful at the same time.
In the mid 90's I was on an assignment in Missouri (spelled correctly, pronounced wrong) and I caught a traveling show of the impressionists in KC. It was the first time I had seen them together IRL and I was stunned by their beauty. I brought home a print of Monet's A Bar at the Folies-Bergère because I might well have been the girl in the painting. I still find it a stunning portrait of modern life.
I came to appreciate Picasso and actually bought a litho of Woman with a Dog (wrestling) because it was so impressive to me... and it was a good (early) litho. Guernica, which is at another museum in Madrid, is very powerful also. When you see it, your heart sinks as it is so impressive in its message. I do not care for most of Klee but I love speaking about him because his name is so much fun to say:)
Lastly, I think a very profound set of works was Marc Chagall's stained glass windows in the Fraumunster in Zurich: simply breathtaking! I wish I could see the windows in the hospital in Jerusalem and St Stephens in Mainz. I had his wine label on the '70 Mouton Rothschild, but a bf threw it away "because it was empty." Arggh!!

Yes, you guys are very lucky!!
Unfortunately i haven't visit the one in Madrid but last year i had the pleasure of visiting the Dali Museum in St. Petersburg, FL. and i was sooo happy! Seeing his paintings in a book is great but seeing them right in front of my eyes was an overwhelming experience!!!

Rhonda you are very lucky to travel to Madrid and see the Goyas! i envy you in a good way!