painters

[Cosimo]

hi.

your favourites??

personally i love the works of hopper
not really into abstract, i guess i'm kinda cynical

cub

[God of War]

I have been into fantasy and sci-fi art almost my whole life. I collect alot of work. Below are some of my favourite artists.

Boris Vallejo.
Frank Frazetta.
Julie Bell.
Clyde Caldwell.
Lusi Royo.
Keith Parkinson.
Bob Eggleton.
Chris Moore.
Dorian Cleavenger.
Michael Whelan.
Olivia.
The Hildebrandts.
Jeff Easley.

And here is an excellent art site that I have been going to for about 9- 10 years.

http://www.imagenetion.com/

[Pentangeli]

Frank Frazetta
John Waterhouse
Hieronymus Bosch

[BadCoverVersion]

http://www.hubarts.com/photos/uncategorized/02_clark_percy_3.jpg
David Hockney

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/106/278354797_4640f6a821.jpg

http://www.walkerart.org/walker_images/e_images/04/wac_3589e.jpg
John Currin

http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/exhibitions/francisbacon/images/works/ID_010_lg.jpg
Francis Bacon

http://www.illusionsgallery.com/Lady-Agnew-L.jpg
John Singer Sargent

http://www.normanadams.org/assets/images/GKlimtMother_Child.jpg
Gustav Klimt

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/Egon_Schiele_096.jpg/800px-Egon_Schiele_096.jpg
Egon Schiele

http://www.artbible.info/images/thomas_grt.jpg
Caravaggio

http://blogs.knoxnews.com/knx/mason/Goya.jpg
Goya

http://www.texaschapbookpress.com/magellanslog5/turner/slaveship1840161k.jpg
Turner

[Lazy Boy]

Edvard Munch

http://artmodel.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/munch-weeping_nude.jpg

http://z.hubpages.com/u/32123_f520.jpg

http://luthorblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/1893_edvard_munch_the_scream-wr400.jpg

Guercino

http://randomknowledge.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/et-in-arcadia-ego.jpg

Magritte

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Zr64Z3iYtCQ/SSbKDYdnrsI/AAAAAAAAADQ/vR4ZxwZB5Gc/s400/The-Lovers_1928.jpg

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q8de5nOQkIk/R37duI3AcXI/AAAAAAAAAMw/xgLzfO-5czQ/s400/300px-Magritte_TheSonOfMan.jpg

[Reigh Kaufman]

Lady Version and I share quite similar taste in painters, particularly Hockney - though his recent documentary last week revealed just about zilch!

I do love me some Rothko, Pollock, Hopper, Gericault and Delacroix.

My favourite place in the world, however, is the Art Noveau section in the Musee D'orsay.

[Cop No. 633]

A few artists I really like have been named liked Bosch, Magritte and Francis Bacon. I know he's not strictly a painter but I adore the work of M.C. Escher. Truly one of my favorite artists. I can stare at his stuff for hours.

http://filipspagnoli.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/mc-escher-humanity.jpg

Wassily Kandinsky.
http://www.shafe.co.uk/crystal/images/lshafe/Kandinsky_Fugue_1914.jpg

I also was a fan of Van Gogh growing up.
http://arttoheartweb.com/images/van%20gogh%20starry%20night%20over%20the%20rhone.j pg

[Highspeed]

I'm with you on Escher. Me and my brother are a big fan of his.

[Smarmy Douche]

Having grown up in an "art" town and having had it thrust upon me from a very young age, it took me a while to come to give paint and canvas its due, and it actually came to me by working in a book store as a teenager, a busy one, where I really couldn't read any good fiction with customers coming up one after another, so I flipped through art books. Some painters I like, with some quick examples picked from la Google.

http://img196.imageshack.us/img196/5416/caspardavidfriedrich013.jpg
Caspar David Friedrich

http://img107.imageshack.us/img107/9877/800pxtheplayszeneinhaml.jpg
Edwin Austin Abbey

http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/ee255/zichi/blogger/whalebone-farmhouse.jpg?t=1247181433
Don Van Vliet a.k.a Captain Beefheart

http://nga.gov.au/conservation/paintings/IMAGES/LRG/92052.jpg
Enzo Cucchi

http://fractalontology.files.wordpress.com/2007/10/philmusart-dali-figure-1.jpg
Salvador Dali

http://www.brown.edu/Courses/HA0293/images/Pereira_fig2.jpg
Aaron Douglas

http://gandt.blogs.brynmawr.edu/files/2009/01/hr_giger_birthmachine.jpg
H.R. Giger

http://frightfiction.com/files/images/Hokusai_Katsushika_ghost.jpg
Hokusai

http://www.igorstshirts.com/blog/conceptships/straub_2.jpg
Philip Straub

http://www.robotwalrus.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/protector-b.jpg
Andy Kehoe

Of the folks already mentioned, I really like M.C. Escher and René Magritte.

[Tagia_Romero]

Some wonderful picks here. Here are my own:

Jonathan Earl Bowser

http://iasos.com/artists/jbowser/=Isis-ChildOfEarthAndSky-2.jpg
http://radhasoamis.freeyellow.com/j002l.jpg

I love the theme of mythic naturalism.

Vermeer

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/archive/0/0f/20061028113220!Jan_Vermeer_van_Delft_001.jpg

[Cosimo]

you peeps are nuts. some strange choices indeed, good job!

oh i likes whistler also

http://img522.imageshack.us/img522/3578/90553637.png

one of my favourite paintings

[Cop No. 633]

I went to Portland recently where they had an Escher exhibit. It was great. I had a blast seeing some of his prints up close. Seeing Metamorphoses III in person was amazing. It's nice to really appreciate its size in person. Also seeing his designs on playing with infinity was fun. It was a privilege to see his work.

I also recently got into another artist whose work really blew me away: Henry Fuseli. Just an all around amazing painter who captures realistic looking nightmarish images. He shot right up to become a new favorite.

http://thanasis.com/Oedipus_Cursing_His_Son_PolynicesHenryFuseli.jpg

http://web.utk.edu/~misty/witches.jpg

http://www.malaspina.com/jpg/fusili.jpg

http://www.mfanow.org/jblog/uploads/image/752px-john_henry_fuseli_-_the_nightmare.JPG

This last one is his most famous, which was recreated for the poster of Ken Russell's Gothic. I thought that was pretty cool.

http://www.aullidos.com/imagenes/caratulas/30236543.jpg

[electriclite]

My inspirations:

Alan Lee
http://img-fan.theonering.net/rolozo/images/lee/G_Lee26.jpg


Van Gogh
http://kaizentral.typepad.com/.a/6a00e54fa8a263883301156f94d75f970b-800wi

Modigliani
http://www-cgrl.cs.mcgill.ca/~godfried/photos/modigliani.gif

Klimt
http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff271/Marxo_Grouch/Klimt/Klimt-GoldFish1901-02.jpg "The Goldfish" aka "To all the Haters!"

Mucha
http://www.artchive.com/artchive/m/mucha/mucha_moet.jpg

John Singer Sargent
http://www.csfineartscenter.org/uploaded_images/Sargent-782151.jpg
I tried to duplicate this painting one in college... I would have to live 3 lifetimes in order to get the man's technique down. A MASTER.

Romaine Brooks
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_INZGZaFc5LM/STTdKlsRLiI/AAAAAAAACGg/hLvxb3E9U28/s400/Romaine_Brooks_-_Una_Troubridge.jpeg

John William Waterhouse
http://swittersb.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/john_william_waterhouse_-_hylas_and_the_nymphs_1896.jpg


Egon Schiele
http://imagecache5.art.com/p/LRG/7/734/DQ1Z000Z/egon-schiele-the-artists-wife.jpg

James Jean
http://gallerydriver.com/Art/vanity_72dpi.jpg
He did the Prada 2008 ads and even had his work painted in their stores, as well as the covers for the comic series "Fables".

I know I'm forgetting more. I'll probably post the rest later.

[Cronos]

Boris Vallejo
Frank Frazetta
H.R. Giger
Luis Royo

http://img339.imageshack.us/img339/1149/zdzislawbeksinski103.jpg
Zdzisław Beksiński