Who are some of your favorite artists? As in painters, sculptors, and/or photographers.

Posted by: TomI like Kandinsky a lot.

What do you like about his work in particular?

• Hieronymus Bosch
• John Martin

Posted by: olly

If i had to pick ten favourites this is them but I'm more interested in individual works than an artist oeuvre, I love Henri Rousseau but alot of his work I don't like at all.

• Eric Ravilious
• Hendrich Goltzius
• Henri Rousseau
• George Grosz
• Walter Sickert
• William Hogarth
• Patrick Heron
• J. M. W. Turner
• Vincent Van Gogh

 Turner and Van Gogh are two of my favorites. I like most of the Impressionists and Renaissance artists as well as Caspar David Friedrich, Francisco Goya, El Greco, Eugene Delacroix, and dare I say it .           .             . Norman Rockwell.

That's just off the top of my head though.

Posted by: dimabbqIf we are talking about music, is every piece of music considered "art"? What are some of your favourite pieces of music?

 I would consider an album like Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd to be a piece of art and worthy of comparison with the work of the "great" composers.

I didnt know Kandinsky painted his frames, it must be great to see so much of his work together. Have visited the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam a couple of times and thats awe inspiring to see so much of his work collected together the man must have been a painting machine. Here is a Howard Hodgkin, another chap who likes to paint his frames..

Here's a few films about real artists, though not necessarily biopics

Andrei Rublev - Tarkovsky masterpiece
Van Gogh - 1991 Pialat film 
Vince & Theo - Altman picture
Dreams - section in Kurosawa film with Scorsese playing guess who - VVG
Moon and Sixpence - Gaugin as told by Somerset Maugham
Basquiat - Schnabels first film
Pollock - Ed Harris directs and acts
Surviving Picasso - Anthony Hopkins in not too good movie
Klimt - another poor effort, Malkovich in Ruiz film.
The Agony and the Ecstasy - Carol Reed film about Michelangelo played by Charles Heston
Frida - Frida Kahlo as played by Salma Hayek
Modigliani of Montparnasse - Jacques Becker film I've not seen
Caravaggio - Derek Jarman
Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon : John Maybury film with Derek Jacobi as the artist
Cradle Will Rock - segment on Diego Rivera's censored work in Rockefeller Center, also includes Frida Kahlo
Backbeat - Stuart Sutcliffe
Factory Girl - There's a whole bundle about Warhol, this isn't great.
F for Fake - About Elmyr an art forger amongst other things, and a Picasso story.
er Moulin Rouge?

 

There are hundreds if not thousands of fictitious artists in movies including
Hour Of The Wolf
Theorem
Scandal
Scarlet Street
Le Plaisir
and of course the fantastic The Rebel

And then there's photography.....
 

Posted by: olly

I didnt know Kandinsky painted his frames,

Bosch:

Rousseau

Schulz-Neudamm

Yeah Tate Britain:

www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ArtistWorks

Posted by: ozufan

Here's a few films about real artists, though not necessarily biopics

Andrei Rublev - Tarkovsky masterpiece
Van Gogh - 1991 Pialat film 
Vince & Theo - Altman picture
Dreams - section in Kurosawa film with Scorsese playing guess who - VVG
Moon and Sixpence - Gaugin as told by Somerset Maugham
Basquiat - Schnabels first film
Pollock - Ed Harris directs and acts
Surviving Picasso - Anthony Hopkins in not too good movie
Klimt - another poor effort, Malkovich in Ruiz film.
The Agony and the Ecstasy - Carol Reed film about Michelangelo played by Charles Heston
Frida - Frida Kahlo as played by Salma Hayek
Modigliani of Montparnasse - Jacques Becker film I've not seen
Caravaggio - Derek Jarman
Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon : John Maybury film with Derek Jacobi as the artist
Cradle Will Rock - segment on Diego Rivera's censored work in Rockefeller Center, also includes Frida Kahlo
Backbeat - Stuart Sutcliffe
Factory Girl - There's a whole bundle about Warhol, this isn't great.
F for Fake - About Elmyr an art forger amongst other things, and a Picasso story.
er Moulin Rouge?

 

 

There are hundreds if not thousands of fictitious artists in movies including
Hour Of The Wolf
Theorem
Scandal
Scarlet Street
Le Plaisir
and of course the fantastic The Rebel

And then there's photography.....
 

 I forgot about Pollock, I thought that was a very good film. It's amazing how much Harris looks like Pollock. I saw most of Caravaggio, it was odd to say the least with the inclusion of modern dress and props, but I believe that's supposed to be like how Caravaggio painted biblical scenes as though they were the present day.

The Flaming Lips : The Soft Bulletin

Elbow's albums are all very worth hearing.

They are fantastic, Early albums are better but seriously depressing. One of the only bands around that haven't gone too mainstream. If you can catch them live its well worth it.

Music:

Art Pepper - Winter Moon

Miles Davis - Kind of Blue

The single piece of music from Bellini opera Norma - Casta Diva

Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run

The Replacements - Let it Be

Barber - Adgio for Strings

Beethoven - 5th Symphony

Van Morrison - Astral Weeks

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Boatman Calls

Eric Ravilious was one of the great british watercolorists and at a time when any artist worth his salt was turning to modernism he was doggedly turning out paintings like this,

Posted by: dimabbqNG - I love Debussy's Claire de Lune, Beethoven's Piano Sonatas and Tchaikovsky's Allegro Non Troppo but also really like Bob Marley and Aphex Twin. A weird mix i know.

 I like Claire de Lune too, but I haven't heard anything else by Debussy. I like most of the 'big' classical composers and some of the modern ones like Shostakovich, the two pieces I've heard by him were very good. One was a piano concerto I believe and the other was a waltz from his 'jazz suite'.

Posted by: dimabbqIf you can get your hands on Debussy - The Classic Collection 053 - Poetic Impressions, it is one of the most beautiful piano pieces i have ever heard.

 Actually most of the classical I've found is on YT, would you happen to know of any specific videos?

Anyone know Henri-Cartier Bresson?

Posted by: dimabbqI had to study the bugger at AS! I never really got into his style but some of his work is very interesting.

 I think his work is fascinating. I can't really put it into words how much I love seeing his photographs. :) And a bit of trivia, he played an 'English' butler in The Rules of the Game however I never noticed him. :D

Posted by: ozufan

Fabulous photographer and involved in two Renoir movies - both on and off screen.

 It makes me wonder what he might've done if he were a career cinematographer.

Posted by: dimabbqWe were actually supposed to take photos LIKE Bresson...it's ridiculous. He, for one, is an absolute master and the grandfather of photojournalism while we were: a bunch of school kids. It's like asking a pupil to write a best-selling book as English homework.

 That's a good comparison. I took a photography course in high school and while we didn't have to take photos that were 'like' anyones, I never liked having to have specific 'projects'. I think it would've been much more productive if I were allowed to just take photos of whatever I thought would make a good picture. I'm sure I probably would've gotten more interesting ones.

Posted by: dimabbqBingo. The teachers seem to be more concerned with the number of rolls and annotations rather than the quality of the photograph itself.

 That and 'grades'.

Posted by: dimabbqNG - "That and 'grades'" Yes indeed, the forbidden "G" word.

 I've always felt that 'grades' have ruined education. Everything's taught in such a way that once summer comes along you just forget everything you learned, unless it's something you're particularly good at.

I don't know a great deal about art and it's only during the last few years that I've started going to art galleries and exhibitions.

Anyhow, my favourite artists are:

• Edgar Degas
• Edward Hopper
• Claude Monet
• Vincent Van Gogh
• Roy Lichtenstein

I also really love fashion all my favourite photographers are fashion photographers:

• Irving Penn
• Horst P. Horst
• Miles Aldrige
• Mert & Marcus
• Richard Avedon
• Norman Parkinson

Posted by: Natalia

I don't know a great deal about art and it's only during the last few years that I've started going to art galleries and exhibitions.

Anyhow, my favourite artists are:

• Edgar Degas
• Edward Hopper
• Claude Monet
• Vincent Van Gogh
• Roy Lichtenstein

I also really love fashion all my favourite photographers are fashion photographers:

• Irving Penn
• Horst P. Horst
• Miles Aldrige
• Mert & Marcus
• Richard Avedon
• Norman Parkinson

 I've only seen Penn's portraits, but I like those too.

Posted by: DanceDanceDance

 I've never seen that Hopper painting before. Very appropriate for this group. :)

Posted by: ozufan

Has anyone seen the art installations of Douglas Gordon?

I've seen the Zidane film and just bought Double Cross: The Hollywood Films of Douglas Gordon in Blackwells sale.

He did things like 24 hour Psycho which is as it suggests Psycho stretched to last 24 hours.

Also did Confessions of a Justified Sinner playing with the 1931 Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. The classic Scottish duality with Hogg and Stevenson.

And other exhibitions include messing with The Searchers, Vertigo, Whirlpool and The Song of Bernadette. 

 What does he do with these films?

Posted by: ozufan

I'll let you know once I read the book.

 Sorry about that, I didn't see the 'just bought'. :)

Posted by: sleepysamco

Personally I'm much more into photography, I love Don McCullins work. It's not working so I'll just post the URL.

http://elt.fm/post/51269734

 

 I feel I should know the name of this artist .       .        .

Does anyone else like Franz Liszt's music?

Posted by: CoheedandCambria

Anyone whose a fan of Pan's Labyrinth should compare Goya's art to the imagery in the film. The piece 'Saturn Eats His Children' was absorlutely an influence of Del Toro.

 That actually reminds me of something I wanted to mention. You know how Saturn is part of the 'Black paintings'? I read that an art historian, can't remember the name just now, claims that they might've not been painted by him.

Posted by: CoheedandCambria

Ooh, a little bit a controversy.

 

What's the general view of the Surrealists?

 Yes, it really brings up the question do we value the work or just the artist's name?  As far as the surrealists, I've seen mostly Dali and his work is interesting. However, I tend to prefer most art before that.

Posted by: dimabbq

Coheed: "What's the general view of the Surrealists?"

Fish. 

 

Seriously though, I adore Dali's work. If you've ever been to Barcelona, they have a fantastic museum just full to the brim of his works. From sculptures and pencil drawings to the classic melting clocks and elephants. Really stunning. 

 

 

Wouldn't it be great to have a melting clock in the living room next to the TV?

I love this painting by Turner: