Art and Artists

[Salar]

I had to think about where to put this thread and it doesn't really fit into any other category and picture perfect is for your own art work.

Anyway who are your favourite artists and art peices.
My favourite artists are salvador Dali and Van Gogh.
My favourite painting of all time is Van Gogh's Starry Night
http://www.lip.pt/~catarina/starry-night.jpg

Starry night over the rhones (i saw this in melbourne last year and i sat in front of the painting for hours)
http://demimparati.blogs.sapo.pt/arquivo/Starry Night over the rhone.jpg

Picasso's Child with a dove
http://images.easyart.com/i/prints/rw/lg/2/5/Pablo-Picasso-Child-With-A-Dove-25639.jpg

I'm a maniac about dali so be prepared to get tripped out
i have too many favourites from dali, here are a few

http://www.jigsawgallery.com/prodpics/ED12461.jpg
http://www.deskpicture.com/DPs/Art/DaliTable.jpg
http://www.consciencia.org/imagens/banco/Dali/pic09.jpg
http://www.revilo-oliver.com/Kevin-Strom-personal/Art/Dali_CorpusHypercubus1954.jpg
http://www.msubillings.edu/art/imag...oiled_Beans_Premonition_of_Civil_War_1936.gif
http://www.fantasyarts.net/Salvador_Dali/Salvador_dali_meditation_on_the harp.jpg
http://www.mcs.csuhayward.edu/~malek/Surrealism/dali3.jpg
http://chem.lt/kitaip/kitaip_20030630/4_2.jpg
http://torta.hu/images/art/Dali 14.jpg
http://www.mcs.csuhayward.edu/~malek/Surrealism/dali6.jpg
http://www.colorado.edu/Sewall/kit/Enchanted Beach with Three Fluid Graces (Salvidor Dali).jpg
http://aal.ucsd.edu/reserves/va22/079887.jpg
http://www.interet-general.info/IMG/dali74.jpg
http://www.gallery.academy.am/Salvador Dali/Dali_2.jpg
http://www.gamenavigator.ru/pub/savers/dali05.exe.jpg
http://gritt.simonsen.person.emu.dk/Dansk/Erindringens bestandighed.jpg
http://gritt.simonsen.person.emu.dk/Dansk/Melankolsk atom- og uranidyl.jpg
http://www.geocities.com/d_arial/1939_07dali.jpg
http://www.spiritualite2000.com/Archives/2003/Arts/Dali/images/137_jean_croix_png.jpg
http://www.rasiel.com/haggis/1024/dali17.jpg
http://image09.webshots.com/9/9/89/16/125998916SmOdck_ph.jpg

probably his most famous painting, the persistance of memory
http://gritt.simonsen.person.emu.dk/Dansk/Erindringens bestandighed.jpg

and one of my personal favourites (though there are soooo many)
Geopoliticus Child Watching the Birth of a New Man
http://dali.urvas.lt/forviewing/pic12.jpg


if you want more dali pictures:
http://Dali.urvas.lt
http://www.virtualdali.com/

 

[Amara]

I like this guy, John Waterhouse. We have a print of this painting in our house;
http://www.artofeurope.com/waterhouse/wat10.jpg

I think there is nothing better than the classics like Da Vinci and Michelangelo.

One of my favourite artists is Auguste Rodin, his sculptures are bold, masculine and emotionally revealing. I dont know what my favourite is though:
http://images.google.com.au/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&q=Rodin

Persistance of Memory is one of my favs too.

 

[Missy "C"]

I like artists from the Romanticism cause they show their feelings without following any rules, it's a rejection to all the other movements before. And I think art changed a lot since Romanticism, cuz from that moment what we call now Modern Art appeared. One of my favourites is William Turner: http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/turner/

'Rain, Steam and Speed':
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/turner/i/rain-steam-speed.jpg

From this movement I also like Friedrich a lot:
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/friedrich/

The Tree of Crows
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/friedrich/tree.jpg
Wanderer above the Sea of Fog
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/friedrich/friedrich.wanderer-sea-fog.jpg


And Surrealism is my favourite movement. I like Dali a lot too, but I don't think it's necesary to post any more links, but Magritte is incredible too:

Time Transfixed:
http://www.atara.net/magritte/30s/time-transfixed.html
The Blank Check
http://www.atara.net/magritte/60s/blank-check.html
This is not an Apple:
http://www.atara.net/magritte/60s/not-an-apple.html
The Lovers
http://www.atara.net/magritte/20s/lovers.html
Clairvoyance (Self-Portrait)
http://www.atara.net/magritte/30s/clairvoyance.html
The Human Condition:
http://www.atara.net/magritte/30s/human-condition.html


Btw, nice thread, I love art

 

[Preach]

i am not into painted art. i know it's an artform full of feelings and deeper meanings and whatever, and that to fully understand and appreciate it you have to look at it not just as a picture of something, but how that picture relates to the artist and blah blah blah lol. i am not, and never was much a sucker for paintings. maybe i'm not sophisticated enough. i prefer simpler artforms. some of the ones you guys posted up are pretty cool, though.

 

[Ghetto_Ghost]

i like the van gogh ones
the Dali ones are over my head

 

[Troublesome1996]

Im a big fan of this artists work, its called "Home"

amazing, im speechless. :thumb:

 

[ArtsyGirl]

Myself ofcourse

But serious now, I dont really get into many artists I really love surealism though!

 

[Bender]

These caught my eye during my visit to the Laing art gallery in Newcastle:

First Two peices by John Martin.

The Bard:
(This painting is huge, taller than me)

The Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah:
(this one the same, is huge)

and,

Vincent Van Gogh's Chair:

 

[whazzzupdude]

Does anyone know the name and artist of the painting where the person puts the hands, palm-inwards, on both cheeks and sort of does that 'Scream' face. I think it also has a chaotic background. Thanks in advance.

Sorry if its in those links. Too lazy to check.

 

[Salar]

The Scream by Edward Munch
http://homepage.psy.utexas.edu/homepage/faculty/Telch/images/Scream.jpg

See there are different styles of painting, the scream is expressionism (expressionist).
Van gogh, monet and the like are impressionists
Salvador dali was a surrealist

expressionism the total opposite of impressionism. Generally impressionism is beautiful wihle expressionism is horrific and captures a reality that impressionism misses.