Felix Felix, there is wonderful course in Coursera from Moma about modern art for free, you may be interested.
I am at week 4 now, but it is incredible what are the internal motivations of the modern artist are to create. I am sure I'll appreciate modern art more after the completing the course as I was always struggling with it.
Felix It is called "Modern Art & Ideas"
Sunnylady Recently I saw a few original paintings of an Austrian artist called Franz Sedlacek. Later on I googled his works and I like his style very much. his paintings have a touch of horror. I saw two originals, one of them was called "ghosts in a tree", the other was called "mountain landscape with car". (roughly translated from German to english) Both from the 1930s have really impressed me.
Wiki and internet do not give many photos of his works. But what I saw reminded me of the game "Imaginarium". There are things to think about in his paintings! I like it. But some of those are quite disturbing to make viewer to think about the life and priorities in it.
I think it would be a good thread to refresh before even going into the Event. Can I even replicate something of my favorite artists? It is a difficult choice between favorite artists works and idea to find something easy looking like famous Black Square by Malevich or maybe trying something totally unknown like abstract art.
Oooh good thread here. My favorites are James Gurney and Akiane Kramarik. Gurney did all the beautiful dinotopia illustrations and Akiane painted this gorgeous painting of Jesus. I never buy artwork but this was one thing i actually did order to hang in my house; its called "prince of peace."
James Gurney:
https://www.google.com/search?gs_ssp=eJzj4tTP1TcwqjBMyTJg9OLJSsxNLVZILy3KS60EAF6TCAk&q=james+gurney&oq=&aqs=chrome.1.35i39i362j46i39i362j35i39i362l3...5.-1j0j7&client=ms-android-bell-ca-revc&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8#imgrc=_L3L6-eoCafYWM
Prince of peace: https://images.app.goo.gl/jhqM5K6LuQYtK7AZ8
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Boof, I love this thread as we can learn about other artists from many other genres! I usually go and google every new name! Thanks for sharing links!
Hieronymous bosch, Netherlands....Not the kind of art that appeals to everybody and not the kind of art that is easily immitated but this guys imagination was amazing, perhaps his most famous piece is "The garden of earthly delights" a triptych of immense scale which depicts heaven and hell
Good... Glad you liked it Boof.
John Singer Sargent, Gustave Caillebotte, and Edmund Tarbell.
I remember as a child my class and I visited exhibitions of artists. And then I accidentally saw the painting "Permanent Memory" by Dali and immediately fell in love with all his works. Since then, Dali has been my favourite artist, I believe he is a genius and very much ahead of his time. Now I'm interested in other artists, I began to be interested in them. I accidentally stumbled upon this site Important Artists and surprisingly learned a lot of new information about Monet and Van Gogh. In general, it is exciting for me to read the biography of artists and learn something new about them.
Van gogh and Grant Wood. I loved the Van gogh museum in Amsterdam.
I visited the Dali museum in Barcelona a few years back, it was amazing and well worth a visit
I might be the odd one out here but I don't have any favourite famous artists. The last time I went to a museum was about 30 years ago, I did enjoy viewing the paintings on display, some I liked more than others, but had no idea who the artists were. To be honest, a lot of famous artworks I just don't get. Works by Picasso for example, I just find really strange and not something I could spend time looking at. I do appreciate what goes in to creating a painting, but I honestly don't understand how some of these people become so famous and their creations so valuable. I suppose you could liken it to music, there are lots of different tastes out there, something for everyone, some become rich and famous but they can't please all of the people all of the time. I am pretty dumb when it comes to paintings, my interest was only sparked out of my love of other creative pursuits. When I stumbled across a bob ross video I wanted to have to a go, and that's it. I think to have a favourite famous artist you would need to study them to find out where they are coming from and discover what it is you like about them and their creations. I briefly researched Lowry for the event here and I enjoyed that. Now I appreciate him and his work more than ever. So perhaps I do have a favourite famous artist, perhaps it's Lowry, for now. I think I would need to spend time researching other famous artists and their works in order to appreciate them, but I have very little desire to do so. I know when I see a painting I like and that's about my limit. All of the paintings I like the most so far have not been done by anybody famous. (told you I was odd!)
TheLandscapePainter I am learning new names from each post here, I go and check their works and read only about those whose paintings I liked. I also think that tastes change/expand as we live our lives. I do not understand abstraction and I feel sick after 30 min in modern art museums. But I go there once a while to see how my perception changed. You totally right - if painting talks to you it does not matter who the artist is. There is always something for different tastes.
PS I like to borrow audio guides in museums as it totally changes experience.
TheLandscapePainter Agreed about Lowry, i love his work which could be to do with my Northern England upbringing, his former home in Pendlebury is just up the road from me 
