Favorite Artists, Periods and Painting?

[Queequeg]

Indirectly inspired by Martinus' latest gay thread, what are your favorite artists, and your specific favorite painting?

My favorites are Egon Schiele, Gustav Klimt, El Greco, Lissitzky, Malevich, Bosch, Kandinsky, Duchamp, Picasso, Botticelli, Max Ernst, de Chirico, Boccioni, Goya, Blake and Konstantin Yuon.  I enjoy Ilya Repin and Courbet, but I tend to stay clear of visual arts in the Victorian period.

If forced, my top three are probably Schiele, Greco and El Lissitzky.  Please don't murder me on the last one. 

As you can probably guess, my primary areas of interest are all 1400-1620 or 1905-1925.  No slavish adherence to realism, and somehow even artists like Klimt, who built on three thousand years of Western art, manage to make everything feel fresh.  I like the early Romantics for the same reason.  Also a fan of Byzantine and Russian traditional art, Persian miniature as well as traditional Japanese wood painting.  Used to be a big fan of The New Objectivity, but went to an exhibit at the Met a few years ago while stoned and felt really, really sick for a week, as the paintings are just too goddamn disturbing to actually like.  I've yet to find a lot of art from after 1950 that I like, although I love Execution by Yue Minjun.

My favorite painting is

Nude descending a staircase by Duchamp.  Honorable mentions go to Greco's The Assumption of the Virgin (which I have had the pleasure of seeing many times in Chicago), Anything with Two Chicks Doing It by Egon Schiele, and The Birth of Venus by Botticelli.  Mostly because he manages to fit in more visual metaphors for sex in to a canvas than a group of 12 year old boys could even imagine. 

[Admiral Yi]

Rembrandt, The Night Watch.

[Habbaku]

I heavily favor the Baroque-era artists as my favorite, specifically Anthony van Dyck for his extensive portrait work of various monarchs of the period (and before).

One of the best, though I'm undecided if it's my favorite by him, is the famed triple portrait of Charles I :

[Grey Fox]

I see a Robot in Queer's painting.

[The Brain]

Some I like:

Anders Zorn
Nicholas Roerich
Salvador Dali
Rembrandt
John Bauer

[Iormlund]

I'm not that big on paintings, but Impresionism is my favourite period by far.

[The Brain]

katmai is huge on paintings.

[Scipio]

katmai is huge on paintings.

FYPFY.

[Barrister]

I like the work of the Group of Seven.

[Grey Fox]

I like the work of the Group of Seven.

Yeah, those paintings were pretty good at AGO.

[Eddie Teach]

Bosch, Goya, Rousseau

[Barrister]

I like the work of the Group of Seven.

Yeah, those paintings were pretty good at AGO.

I dunno - maybe it's just 'art for people who don't know art' but those were some of my favourites.

[katmai]

Brain and Scips.

[Ed Anger]

The dude that does caricatures at the fair.

[katmai]

The dude that does caricatures at the fair.

The Oversized head ones?