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As a consequence of taking part in the February challenge I have spent quite a lot of time looking at artist particularly the old masters etc. I needed to select a painting for the other participants to guess , well what a choice I decided to use my favourite artist, but will add that there are so many I like and whose work I admire . For me the outstanding artist is Peder Mork Monsted a Danish painter who is well known for his Scandinavian landscape, I like his realistic looking trees etc.
He generally paint hyper realistic scenes but like a lot of other artist he has many different styles and subjects. I like he work but realistically I know I cannot copy his work as it’s far to detailing for my artistic skills . I have selected several as examples , I would like to know who is your favourite artist and why have they influenced your style. I would like to see there work , and view them, knowing what influenced you.m
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by Paul (Dixie) Dean
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What attracts me to an artist is colour , texture and probably figurative, though I do like some abstracts and impressionistic techniques. That’s quite a range isn’t it? Oh, and mood and atmosphere are important. I couldn’t say one particular artist, although you know I love JSS😄 - his oils and his watercolours.And I’m always finding new names to like. I’ll go and put together a selection and come back.
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I have many favourites, Caravaggio being at the top. Sargent, Klimt, Shishkin, Bonheur, Dolci being just a few. Since going down this path in 2020, I have been learning so much about so many artist. I've just added Royo to my list of favs. I love them all. I don't have a particular style I prefer from another because I find them all interesting. I love all mediums, all styles, all era's of painting. A painting has to make me stop in my tracks and say, wow. Then, I look at it with close inspection and detail. Then my thought's are drawn away from the wow factor and I'm looking at the technical detail in it. I'm trying to see how, maybe, that one dot of paint or the way the brush stroke falls and how the paint has been moved about and how that, has been a pure genius move on the part of the artist. How their experience, creativity and genius has combined into them, painting a masterpiece. Here are four but I could choose thousands as I am amazed by them all. Caravaggio, St Francis of Asissi in Ecsatcy. Gustav Klimt, Mother and Child. Auditorium in the Old Burgtheater Vienna. Ivan Shishkin, The Rye.
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by Denise Cat
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Some brilliant artist and superb paintings mentioned Denise. There are a lot of artists who I like and admire their work , I think the problem is there are so many wonderful painting that when I see one I like it becomes a favourite , until something else catches my eye. I consistently like Monsted work and I think it’s because I love trees and his are so good .
I have a soft spot for a lot of British watercolorists, also the Northern Art School , there are so many brilliant artists both past and present in this country, and I include some of the people on POL in that statement. I do like a lot of art from around the world including some of the so called indigenous art often quite basic but nonetheless beautifully done.
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If I have one over all others, it's Corot. But then, there's Rembrandt, Repin, Levitan, the aforementioned Monsted (whom I only discovered recently), van Gogh, and ever onwards we go. I tend to like pictures with strong elements and not too much distraction - but there will be hundreds of exceptions to that.
It'd be much easier to compile a list of painters I do NOT like - there are far fewer of them.
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Great works featured. It's a tall order picking one from so many artists I admire. If I have to it'll be Ronald Searle...big surprise. I grew up looking at his work. He has a wonderfully imaginative style...instantly recognisable. Someone who knew him and watched him working, said he didn't worry about mistakes, he left them in. I guess he was getting so much work he didn't have the time to fuss.
Oh to be able to draw buildings like this.
He produced books galore. Above from one about dogs. This is very Ralph Steadman, another artist I admire, but Searle is earlier than Steadman.
Above from a book about wine drinkers. How to depict a legless drunk. Priceless.
Above from a title sequence for a Scrooge film. Wonderfully casual, wonderfully accurate. I give up.
One of many book covers. It seems effortless.
He did straightforward cartoons too.
A rude homage to Hockney's 'A Bigger Splash.'
These are random selections from pics saved from the internet. I've yet to find something of Searle's that I don't like. Sadly for me, most of his books are out of print. I haunt old bookshops. (He did the St Trinions books by the way.)
Ronald Searle...a genius.
Oh to be able to draw buildings like this.
He produced books galore. Above from one about dogs. This is very Ralph Steadman, another artist I admire, but Searle is earlier than Steadman.
Above from a book about wine drinkers. How to depict a legless drunk. Priceless.
Above from a title sequence for a Scrooge film. Wonderfully casual, wonderfully accurate. I give up.
One of many book covers. It seems effortless.
He did straightforward cartoons too.
A rude homage to Hockney's 'A Bigger Splash.'
These are random selections from pics saved from the internet. I've yet to find something of Searle's that I don't like. Sadly for me, most of his books are out of print. I haunt old bookshops. (He did the St Trinions books by the way.)
Ronald Searle...a genius.
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My tastes (like my musical tastes) change all the time, and most artists that I really like are little known or unknown. There's a few on the gallery that really stand out for me.
I like a picture if it passes the question, 'Would I hang it on my wall?'. That would be a 'no' for such as Dali, Warhol, and many of the old masters. Whilst I do appreciate and admire the skill that went into (most of) them, I just don't like looking at them.
Currently, I really like a watercolour artist from Northumberland who paints random subjects, and a collage artist from Sheffield!
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Sorolla is one of my favourites, saw his London exhibition a few years ago which was the best I’ve seen.
Terrific light and colour, and amazing whites!
I like most of the impressionists, and more recent artists John Lines, John McCoombs and Norman Cornish.
Like Lew I love Ronald Searle and his amazing work. In general I like a painting with a story.
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What’s enjoyable about this thread for me is seeing the artists you all mentioned, most I have seen and heard of before, but this time there the as slight difference. When someone tell you they like a artist and why I think we look at them slightly different than we maybe would have done. I have looked at all the people mentioned and must admit to seeing them a bit different, because I have looked with your views in mind. What prompted this in the first place was the excellent competition thst a lot of us are having fun with , I decided to start this one as it would have been inappropriate to ask the question in the competition thread , please keep them coming.
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Although I love the work of groups such as the Impressionists and the Scottish Colourists and like many of their paintings individually, there isn’t one artist I could call a favourite. Two of my most favourite artists are illustrators rather than painters - Arthur Rackham and Roger Dean. The latter may not be widely known but he was an illustrator of album covers in the 70’s and produced a lot fantasy pieces which I love. I also yesterday came across an American Contemporary Impressionist (Erin Hanson) whose colourful work really appeals to me. Hers is the last image below.
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by Jenny Harris