BoroughGal Posted February 14, 2006 Share Posted February 14, 2006 I also like Dali. Have been to visit his museum Figueras which was a wierd but wonderful experience. I've been here too, some time ago, I would agree that it is a very interesting experience, it's quite a distance from Barcelona though, if I remember rightly? I remember a beautiful coastal train journey that took a couple of hours or so (although I believe there is a more direct, less picturesque route) and stayed in a lovely place called Roses, would recommend...! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hacker Posted March 31, 2006 Share Posted March 31, 2006 Salvador Dali, without a doubt. I'm going to Barcelona this summer and will be visiting the dali museum. Has anyone been? I can't wait Also, Andy Warhol, Chris Brace, Milladio all have interesting styles If you're going to Barcelona make sure you go to the Miro Gallery on Monjuic. It is the best gallery in the city for my money, although since I last visited (94) they've built a new Modern Art gallery in the Raval district too. If it's a sunny day go up to the flat roof and look across the city. Beautiful. Interesting thread this. My favourites are Turner, Jack Yeats, Goya, Rembrant, Matisse and my all-time favourite Paul Cezanne. I long thought of Constable as just a kitchzy chocolate-box artist until I caught his exhibition at the Millennium Galleries a couple of years ago. It blew me away. He was nothing of the sort. Huge, daring canvasses with amazing skies. Zinc white knifed across the canvass in a style that would have been completely unseen at that time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benjimimo Posted March 31, 2006 Share Posted March 31, 2006 Rolf Harris and the dude from art attack...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
venger Posted April 1, 2006 Share Posted April 1, 2006 Being decidedly low-brow, and very definately not an historian, I admire the works of the Arts and Crafts movement for their beauty, rather than the motives for creating them. I know little about whether or not the works were created 'for the masses'. I do know that both Ruskin and Morris were active politically as well as artistically. Ruskin especially championed social welfare, demanding better housing, education etc for the working class people. Sure, full credit for their motives, the intention was for creating beautiful crafted works for the common man but was impractical and unrealistic. Their work was something of a rejection of the industrial boom and wanted to hold craftsmanship and idealism. This never worked, The majority who could afford hand crafted works where the wealthy 'filthy rich' to quote Ruskin I believe... Macintosh and the Bauhaus were champions of the modern age that was to come, embracing the machine and new technologies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rad Posted April 1, 2006 Share Posted April 1, 2006 I like Mark Rothko, Roy Lichtenstein and Bridget Riley for their use of colour. Also like some Rembrandt, Dali, Von Gogh - the usual suspects. As for contemporary artists, Tracey Emin is interesting as a character but the work of hers I've seen doesn't quite live up to that which is a shame. I liked the Pharmacy stuff that ?Damien Hirst did too. I also really really like arty photography but can't for the life of me remember the names of those I like best. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Draggletail Posted April 1, 2006 Share Posted April 1, 2006 I quite like some of the work of Joan Miro. There is one particular work by Jackson Pollack I like - a really wide, narrow painting where he 'drizzled' paint - full of movement and 'flow' Can't find it on the web, (don't know the title) I would love to have a repro of that on our living room wall, but Mrs Draggle wouldn't..... Anyway, a couple by Joan Miro. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v391/draggletail/miro/miro.jpg http://www.poster.net/miro-joan/miro-joan-the-singing-fish-8700408.jpg Yeh, I know, a child could do it etc. He did 'proper' paintings too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
funkymiss Posted April 1, 2006 Share Posted April 1, 2006 I like landscape art and I love many of the cornish modern artists. My fave is Kurt Jackson http://www.kurtjackson.co.uk/Kurt_jackson_paintings_exhibitions.htm - lots of mixed media, incorporating sand and soil and splattered paint - vibrant and chaotic but really serene and warm. Love it. For my A level I did a study on him and he wrote a really inspiring letter to me about his work, how he does it and what inspires him. And he sent me a book too! (how nice is that?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Prime Posted April 2, 2006 Share Posted April 2, 2006 Bacon and Hockney are my favourites, both evoke certain feelings that are hard to place. Many of the more long standing artists seem to produce only 'chocolate box' photographic images at first glance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ANGELUS Posted April 2, 2006 Share Posted April 2, 2006 HR Giger for me. I love the dark brooding of it all Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teabag Posted April 2, 2006 Share Posted April 2, 2006 At the moment I am really fascinated by Jan Van Eyck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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