Art that you like

[karlhenning]

Lovely work, though I wonder (as with De Chirico) if she did not go back to the same well a few times too many.  She succeeded better at freshness, though, than Giorgio, I think.

[pjme]

She definitely was a very talented craftswoman - and had a knack for rich admirers & patrons , ca 1940-1950. But with the advent of Abstract Expressionism (growing old herself...), she was quickly forgotten. only in the 1970ies she was rediscovered - gradually becoming an icon of "good taste & wealth". Her late work ,as shown in "Passion by design" by Kizette de Lempicka, is still well made, but lesss individual.

[karlhenning]

She definitely is a very talented craftswoman -

Absolutely.

[Siedler]

Profound expressionism by George Grosz:
Suicide (1916)

Explosion (1917)

Cain, or, Hitler in Hell (1944)

[Catison]

Profound expressionism by George Grosz:
Suicide (1916)

Explosion (1917)

Cain, or, Hitler in Hell (1944)

I can't see these images.

[pjme]

Neither can I..But then one of the images I uploaded disappeared again. Will remedy later.



luc tuymans is a belgian artist gaining steadily recognition. He had a big show in London/Tate Modern last year.

[Siedler]

I can't see these images.

Let me try again. 

[Heather Harrison]

I like art that makes my brain hurt.  The surrealistic style is one of my favorites.  Here is a famous example:  Salvador Dali's "The Persistence of Memory".  I have a poster of this one hanging in my cubicle at work.



Heather

[Lady Chatterley]

Surrealism,I like Frida Khalo

[mahlertitan]

speaking of surrealism, has anyone seen any of Bunuel's Films? aren't they simply brilliant?

[Mozart]

I dunno what exactly people look for in paintings but the one artist I like is gustave caillebotte. I have no idea how to say his name but he has a few things I like. This is my favorite

[Mozart]

Heres another I adore.

[Greta]

I'm a BIG art lover...hhmm, so many to choose from. 

I like to support contemporary artists and have made some great finds on the site AbsoluteArts.com

I really like the UK artist Ulrich Osterloh:
Here's his piece "Cosmic Music" (I adore that name!) from 1997:



And "Icon Mother and Son" (1997)



That wispy image of the mother holding her child is sublime. All his abstract stuff is gorgeous, full of vivid, liquid color.

Another big fav is Berge Missakian, a Canadian artist, who always features musical instruments in his bright whimisical Cubist paintings:

"Blue Jazz for Matisse"



"Stan's Afternoon Jazz"



And his prices really aren't bad! If I had some extra money lying around, I'd surely buy one of those.

[Maciek]

Mozart (or should I call you Wolfgang? ), I loved that On the Champs Elysees!

Actually, I liked all of the paintings posted so far. Thanks, everyone!

I'm not a particular fan of academic art (though I do like some of it) but a recent series of Acte Préalable CD covers has brought back to me the Polish painter Henryk Siemiradzki (who is reproduced in most school textbooks, so people like me quickly learn to ignore him ).

I now particularly like his two paintings of Christ.

Christ and the Samaritan Woman (a slightly earlier version of this exists, from 1885, but it is far inferior):


And Christ in the House of Martha and Mary:


You can see more of his paintings here, here, here, and here.

Also Strange Garden by Józef Mehoffer (quarter of a century younger) is quite an exquisite painting:



Maciek

[MishaK]

Let me try again. 

Siedler,

I think you would like this CSO presentation about Bartok's Miraculous Mandarin.

http://www.cso.org/main.taf?p=15,3

[Danny]

[pjme]

Malczewski, Jacek (Polish, 1858-1929)



Hi Maciek, the 19th century definitely gave rise to some very strange artists in Poland....But, then we have melancholy Fernand Khnopff, crazy Antoine Wiertz ( his house/museum lies in the shadow of the European Commission headquarters...) and Félicien Rops, the "érotomane"...

[pjme]

Fernand Khnopff

La caresse

[pjme]

Antoine Wiertz

Premature burial

[pjme]

Félicien Rops

"Pornocratès"