Art I like.

I admire 'some' of most types of art, it's a constant pleasure to see what artists do.  Over the years I've built up quite a library of art that has appealed, so I thought I'd post some.  Art being such a personal thing, you may well wonder what I see in these works.  It some cases it's the oddness of art that appeals to  Surrealism, or least some of it, intrigues me.   This is by  Adrian Bor ...He doesn't only do surrealism.  Here's a more straightforward painting of his... I very much like art that has a design element in it.  This is by Craig Kosak... I admire realism, including hyper realism, here's two oils by Duffy Sheridan... Frank Morrison does stylized oil paintings of black musicians... Illustration is perhaps my favorite form of art.  These two are by Glen Orbik... Art Nouveau, that style that flowered fairly briefly before being overwhelmed by Art Deco, is another favorite style.  Below, the great Alphonse Mucha.... Back to the weird and wonderful.  Troy Brooks paints stylish elongated ladies in pop surrealist style... The above is in oils, below with coloured pencils... Illustration again.  A P.J. Lynch image for 'A Christmas Carol'... Russian illustrator, Waldemar von Kosak... I love the way Waldemar creates vintage vehicles... More hyper-realism.  Rob Hefferan... I've been painting Alice in Wonderland, a surreal  story that's a cornucopia of ideas that people love to re-imagine.   The original artists work (Tenniel) is revered, so much so that when the brilliant Arthur Rackham illustrated a new version 40 years after the Tenniel version he was slated by many of the critics of the time.  Luckily the public didn't agree with them.  Lewis Carroll was vague about some things, he didn't  describe Alice beyond saying she was seven years old, and curious.  The illustrator Tenniel gave her blond hair.  Carroll also said little about the Mad Hatter, not even if the character was male or  female...it was the mad hatter did this...the mad hatter said that.  This opens things up, which is why it’s a popular subject for artists. Chris Riddell, a British Illustrator worked on the latest Alice book (It hasn't been out of print since it was published).  His Alice is based on Alice Liddell, the young girl Carroll reputedly wrote the book for...she was a brunette. Here's Chris's Red Queen... Chris made his Mad Hatter a woman... ...and why not. If you have any art, of any type, that you particularly like,  please post it. I'll add some more later.

Great selection Peter,  I admire them all.  For many years we had a large print of your first post of Renoir’s dancing at bourville (or something like that), slowly it faded to blue.  I’m a fan of his earlier work.  Love Le Brun’s work too, I think you introduced it to me in another thread.  The Razumov paintings are charming.  Sometimes I think such work is undervalued in the craziness of the art world.  Chocolate Box art is the usual derisive term used, but not by me.  I like art deco too.  The one you’ve posted may well be ai.  Deco and Art Nouveau (like the Mucha I posted above) are routinely pillaged by the ai brigade.  It’s getting better I’m afraid…but computer software produced pictures produced entirely by the machine aren’t art in my opinion.  Things can only get worse in that area.  Sad.

A few more. Drew Struzan (above) is a famous movie-poster artist.  He did all the Indiana Jones posters. The above abstract is digital art made by an artist (not ai).  I love it. I personally have no interest in making still-life and flower paintings, but that doesn't mean I don't appreciate such art made by others.  Below are two examples I really like. Picasso is an artist who divides opinion, but he covered such a large range of genres I find much of it very appealing...here's two I like... Now I'd better draw something.

Ford Maddox Brown is a good choice too Andrew.  When you do something like this you realize just how many brilliant artists there are whatever your taste.  What always gets me with ‘the last of England’ painting is that you could miss the fact that the woman is holding a baby under her cloak…that tiny hand is the only clue.  Another of his paintings I really admire is called ‘work’ I think.  I’ll have to find it.

A double post, courtesy of my sausage fingers.

Yes, I saw it.  Fabulous.  Thought I’d commented on it, but hadn’t, so I’m glad you mentioned it.  I must be going ga -ga.