Favorite Artists, Periods and Painting?

[Ed Anger]

The dude that does caricatures at the fair.

The Oversized head ones?

Yeah. That dude is awesome.

[grumbler]

Casper David Friedrich



Theodore Gericault

[Razgovory]

Your time in the Navy must have been really weird.


My favorite period looks kinda like this .  It's much better then those bloody ones the ladies have.

[katmai]

grumbler was actually a model for the Gericault painting.

[Sheilbh]

The Spanish Baroque.

Zurbaran:


Velazquez:


Like Quee I'm a big El Greco and Duchamps fan.  I'm also fond of Saenredam:


I'd also throw in some Rothko and Francis Bacon.  Weirdly loads of Francis Bacon paintings are currently stuck in Iran.  The Shah's wife loved collecting modern art and was a big Bacon fan (no wonder there was an Islamic revolution) while the Islamic Republic is less keen on him for a number of reasons.

[PDH]

Giotto. Anything after is too modern for my taste.

[Martinus]

Took me a while to think about it (I'm not that big on visual arts to be honest), but out of artists, I like Caravaggio a lot. Also, the Raft of Medusa (thanks to grumbler for a reminder) is one of my favourite paintings, too. Looks amazing in the Louvre.

[Savonarola]

Despite my allonym, my favorite periods are the Italian Renaissance and subsequent Mannerist movement. 

I have a number of post cards at my cubicle with pictrues of works of art that I have seen.  The ones that get the most comments are the ones of the Cappuchin Cemetery where the bones of deceased monks were used to build chapels.  ()  Second only to that is Benozzo Gozzoli's Journey of the Magi:

[The Larch]

Though I love loads of different artists and periods, I've got a very soft spot for Paolo Ucello's "Battle of San Romano" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Battle_of_San_Romano), a mid XVth piece depicting a battle between Florence and Siena, which follows the Florentine army in the different stages of the battle.

It's a triptic, with one piece in the Uffizzi of Florence, another in the Louvre in Paris and another one in London's National Gallery, and one of the earliest big commisions with a secular motif, as well as a landmark in the development of perspective in paintings.

Edit: Huge pictures removed, way too big for the thread. Just follow the link to see them.

[Pedrito]

Among the others already named:

Picasso


Tiepolo


Caillebotte


Edward Hopper


my beloved Mantegna


No distinct favourite period, but a penchant for archaic and early classical greek art

L.

[Malthus]

Hieronymus Bosch and M.C.Escher.

And the Group of Seven. 

[Tonitrus]

Bob Ross

[Zanza]

I like the expressionist paintings by the group called "Der Blaue Reiter" consisting of Kandinsky, Marc, Macke, Klee etc.

[The Brain]

The dude that does caricatures at the fair.

The Oversized head ones?

Not a caricature.

[BuddhaRhubarb]

Bob Ross

Word.

I also like the old German ( I think) guy who also did that show, way back when.

As far as periods or movements go, there are too many for me to say I have a Fave. i have faves from every period I'm aware of though.

I like a lot of modern stuff, like Richard Atilla Lukacs, Robt Williams, etc, as well as Dali, Picasso.... Van Gogh, probably would top any list I made of painters. I also really like Goya's War etchings, William Blake, Gaugin, Klimt, Matisse, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Hiroshige.etc et al....

There's so much great art.