Da Vinci
Turner
Klimt
Rothko
Vija Celmins
Murakami
Robert Longo (The director of the terrible Johnny Mnemonic believe it or not; I have no idea how he landed that one random pop culture gig. Longo cannot be appreciated except in person: he does large scale charcoal drawings that are so fine they look like photographs unless you are two inches away from them).
Duane Hanson
Chris Ofili
John Currin
Jeff Koons
Antonio Gaudi
and my friend Jennifer Tomaiolo
and Sara Reiss, my fiancee (who will have a new website up shortly with lots of her work)
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is it just a coincindeence that you like many of my favorites too? hmmm... or is it many of the museum visit have been with me?
i'd add:
Paul Klee
Heironymus Bosch
Jan Van Eyck
Robert Campin
Rogier Van der Weyden
(last 4 names... i have a soft spot for 13th c. Flemish painters :)
Francisco Goya
Shazia Sikkander
Kara Walker
Ernesto Caivano
i'm sure i am forgetting someone i adore...
How about Mucha, Schiele, Klimt and Munch?
Don't have time for a long post, so just the one that immediately popped into my head.
PS. Casanova has been optioned as a movie.
Even though he is more known for his sculpture, I'm a big fan of Alberto Giacometti's drawings and paintings. Dark, sketchy, and brilliant.
Am I at total philistine for having nothing for this list? Uhm, I like that painting with the melting clocks?
Geoff,
Is the Murakami you list Hiroku Murakami the author? My friend Shaun is always raving about that guy.
Scott: no it is Takashi Murakami
to these I would add:
Julie Mehritu
Helen Frankenthaler
Lee Bontecou
Egon Schiele
Henri Matisse
El Greco
Velazquez
and
Mucha
btw, the guy who paints the melting clocks is Salvador Dali. I have no patience for surrealism.
Sara,
I know Dali painted the melting clocks... I also know the work is titled "The Persistance of Time" ... I was just bein' silly :)
As mentioned above - Salvador Dali is a favorite of mine - as is M.C.Escher and Goya.
Goya's horrific imagery still resonates today.
sorry, you never know with art. especially imagery that has become part of everyday pop culture. while pretty much everyone knows andy warhol, every one else ('cept maybe damien hirst?) is up for grabs. I didn't mean to insinuate that you were dim, I was just trying to be helpful. Mine is a small and lonely field.
i stand by my earlier statement about having no patience for surrealism. although I am partial to this one Magritte that is in the Peggy Guggenheim museum in Venice. The one where the house is painted as if it were nighttime, but the sky behind it is daytime blue. Tis pretty.
Christian - thanks. I am adding Klimt. I forgot about him. Oh, and Duane Hanson.
Pablo Picasso, Francisco de Goya, Joan Miró, Salvador Dalí (his Disney movie is worth checking out), Diego Velásquez (can you tell I was a Spanish minor? They used to teach us conversation by making us talk about art), Mary Cassat, Edgar Degas, Gustav Klimt, Edward Hopper, Wassily Kandinsky. Also, whoever illustrated Rainbow Fish. And William Blake's prints are unbelievable.
i second sara's Lee Bontecou
y'know. I would throw Gerhard Richter on my list.
OH! and Andy Goldsworthy!!!
thanks for seconding my Lee Bontecou. We did go to her school after all...
remember alan?
he was convinced all andy goldsworthy's ideas were stolen from his work...
I saw the Murakami exhibit in Brooklyn this past spring. Very excellent!
I always see art, expect to remember who painted it, always forget. I was going to sit this out but I like plenty of what other people have listed, so.
Heironymus Bosch
Jan Van Eyck
Robert Campin
Rogier Van der Weyden
(Thanks Jennifer, I would've forgotten those last two! I'd also add Pieter Jansz Saenredam.)
And continuing the Northern European tip:
Annemarie Busschers
Manfred Juergens
Goya
Schiele
Blake
Hogarth
Walter Sickert
Weegee
Diane Arbus
David Shrigley
Robert Crumb
Gary Panter
Ron Rege Jnr.
Jerry Moriarty
That's all I got. But plenty to look up from other people! Neat.
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