Foo - Art lovers - who do you consider to be your favourite painters?

Here are a few of my favourite Canadian artists. I'm a big fan of the 'Group of Seven' artists, Tom Thomson and Emily Carr. Of non-Canadian artists, I would have to say Monet.

Tom Thomson: 'The Jack Pine'
http://www.groupofsevenart.com/Thomson/Tom_Thomson_The_Jack_Pine_Framed.html

Lawren Harris: 'Lake and Mountain'
http://www.groupofsevenart.com/Harris/Lawren_Harris_Lake_And_Mountain_Regal.html

Emily Carr: 'Painting the Canadian Soul'
http://www.lackenbauer.ca/Hist103/7-1_Carr.htm

Claude Monet
http://echostains.wordpress.com/2010/03/22/art-quotes-monet-into-the-light/

My favorite Canadian artist is Bill Mason, of course.

http://davidsheffield.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/billmason.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3368/3662429475_68c93a4a3e_z.jpg
Wyeth

Viviano Codazzi.

http://www.trollart.com/trollart_toplinks/galleries/90s/images/016.jpg

Ray Troll

Here are a few of my favourite Canadian artists. I'm a big fan of the 'Group of Seven' artists, Tom Thomson and Emily Carr. Of non-Canadian artists, I would have to say Monet.





Paul Rudolph, a Sarasota, Florida legend.

http://photos0.michaelsaunders.com/sara/3936777.1.jpg

You want artists or "painters"? Paul Rudolph was an artist who used the Mid-Century Modern as his canvas. These "paintings" are all over Sarasota, FL. I have been honored to have been invited to tour about 9 or 10 of these homes. Marty Lieberman is a real estate agent here in Sarasota who only lists these Mid-Century Moderns on her website:
http://modernsarasota.mfr.mlxchange.com/?Page=7987573

These homes are as much an expression of art by Rudolph as Carr or Harris is.

Actually I was hoping for painters. I had just come back from an art opening for a local painter and was in the mood for seeing what other's consider to be good art. Although I agree with you that art comes in many different forms, including architecture and landscaping.

Giotto, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Kristiana Parn

Giotto, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Kristiana Parn

Not being religious, I still love iconography. Giotto being one of the masters. I've tried convincing my wife to try her hand at painting religious imagery from her past - Ukrainian Orthodox. Their churches were adorned with gold statues. We did a tour through Saskatchewan taking pictures of various Orthodox churches which I'm hoping inspires her some day.

I can appreciate Tanner's skill, however I prefer a looser style to painting ... except for the above iconography.

I had not heard of Parn before so I googled her work. I recognize her rabbit figures, or at least I assume she's the originator of those figures???

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Not being religious, I still love iconography. Giotto being one of the masters. I've tried convincing my wife to try her hand at painting religious imagery from her past - Ukrainian Orthodox. Their churches were adorned with gold statues. We did a tour through Saskatchewan taking pictures of various Orthodox churches which I'm hoping inspires her some day.

I can appreciate Tanner's skill, however I prefer a looser style to painting ... except for the above iconography.

I had not heard of Parn before so I googled her work. I recognize her rabbit figures, or at least I assume she's the originator of those figures???

I'm with you on the religious stuff. Clearly religion has been a prime inspiration for some of the world's most stunning art. Certain scenes like the Annunciation have been interpreted so many ways, so many subtle nuances expressed. I love Tanner's because for me, it injected a realism to that event I'd not seen before.

Giotto just represents such a quantum leap - technically and cognitively. For me, that is the onset of the Renaissance right there.

Re: Parn - yes to the best of my knowledge. She has a great eye; I love her photos also.

Re: Parn - yes to the best of my knowledge. She has a great eye; I love her photos also.

Photography is painting with light. And on that note, Harry Callahan is my favorite.
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cjW0GB1Y9BU/TJHgM9Ex5qI/AAAAAAAAAsg/UlqHGmk8NbI/s400/Harry+Callahan+1.jpg

Gordon Parks and Dorothea Lang are high on my list too.
http://www.art2art.org/exhibitions/parks/ali.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3079/2888922334_7f6c22a010.jpg

Paul Cezanne

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_uw9CQVXKCnk/TTQZecyynxI/AAAAAAAABek/ZjYtNaRk7q4/s400/3848437.jpg



Edward Hopper
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/hopper/street/hopper.nighthawks.jpg

I got a real appreciation for Munch recently

http://www.abcgallery.com/M/munch/munch159.jpg

Max Ernst
http://fusionanomaly.net/maxernsteyeofsilence.jpg

Paul Klee

http://jesseturri.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/klee11.jpg

Dali all the way for me.

Love Monet, as well.

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Damn. Beat me to it.

^^^
Was he a painter or performance artist?

He was a great painter and a chain smoker. http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?_adv_prop=image&fr=sfp&va=bob+ross

He loved painting mountains and forests and rivers. He had an unsual flair that really only can be picked up by actaully watching his PBS shows or watching the parody that Family Guy did of Bob Ross.

Van Gogh's - Starry Night is beautiful to me

There are lots of others though

+1 for Wyeth

Edward Hopper
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/hopper/street/hopper.nighthawks.jpg

Beautiful

Beautiful

Don't they use that photo in a movie somewhere.

Don't they use that photo in a movie somewhere.

It's been used in a ton of things and as influences. It's pretty rad..skyping pumpkin

Vicente Manansala (and not just because we are related) - National Artist of the Philippines

http://iloko.tripod.com/Manansala/Marketscene_Manansala.jpg

http://iloko.tripod.com/Manansala/stilllife1950.jpg

http://iloko.tripod.com/Manansala/charcoalrn1.jpg


Dennis Hollingworth

http://images.artnet.com/artwork_images/618/387883.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2404/2426142271_9f0a6a7946_z.jpg

Cy Twombly

http://www.fadwebsite.com/wp-content/uploads/cy-twombly-chicago.jpg

I also have grown to appreciate the work of Hieronymus Bosch.

Photography is painting with light.

well put!

Vicente Manansala (and not just because we are related) - National Artist of the Philippines

http://iloko.tripod.com/Manansala/Marketscene_Manansala.jpg

http://iloko.tripod.com/Manansala/stilllife1950.jpg

http://iloko.tripod.com/Manansala/charcoalrn1.jpg




very nice!

Another Hopper fan here. Two of my favorites:

http://i2.squidoocdn.com/resize/squidoo_images/590/draft_lens6816292module55838152photo_12522068211951_edward_hopper_first_row_orchestra_a.jpg

http://i3.squidoocdn.com/resize/squidoo_images/590/draft_lens6816292module55838132photo_12522067271943_Summertime_Hopper.jpg