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!
What are your favorite famous artists?
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
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John Singer Sargent, Gustave Caillebotte, and Edmund Tarbell.
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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!)
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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 
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tel I know you're a big fan tel, and I think that's quite understandable. I too became interested recently when I realised he painted Lytham Pier near me and I researched him for the event. The little knowledge I have about him has given me a better understanding of his work which previously I had seen as just a bunch of matchstick men, but there's a lot more to it than that. And I think I can dispel the myth that they are easy to paint, they really aren't. Now when I look at his paintings I try to read the story behind them. Since you told me about the Lowry gallery near you I have been wanting to visit. Hubby has promised to take me some time which I am looking forward to. I'm from Yorkshire originally where I lived most of my life and I was born in a back to back terraced house similar to those I imagine Lowry's matchstick men lived in so there is a certain familiarity there that I think I have latched on to. I remember as a young child standing by the open front door on a dark night with the rain coming down, looking up the street waiting for my dad coming home from the docks on his push bike. If Lowry had lived in Yorkshire I might have been one of his matchstick kids!
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TheLandscapePainter There is a film called "Mrs Lowry and son" it stars Timothy spall as Lowry and Vanessa redgrave as his bed ridden mother to whom he has to care for aswell as doing his job as a rent collector, it was only after he had settled his mother for the night that he could do any painting, he would usually start about 11pm until the early hours with only his collection of mantle clocks for company....quite a sad story in some ways.