Classic painters...
 

Who is your favorite classic painter, and what picture of his/hers do you most enjoy and why?

Van Gogh's Irises of course. :)

Severin Roesen's Still Life With Flowers and Bird's Nest (at the Huntington)

I enjoy the detail of the piece and it is very restful.

Mae,

I’m very fond of the Dutch painter, Rembrandt van Rijn. My favorite is Aristotle contemplating a bust of Homer.

Rembrandt contrasts the importance of material success, fame, and power, with being true to art. Aristotle is resplendent in the finery provided by his most prestigious pupil, Alexander the Great, but whom the philosopher had failed to form spiritually. He is looking at a bust of the great blind poet Homer. The bust shows us that Homer was poor. What matters more, the material success of a failed teacher or the true art of a pauper?

jseal...My dear sir, you appear to be a true connoisseur.

Although I have many favorites one of my top five is Dali

BigBad i've gone to his museum in St Pete. Amazing to see his work up close.



I love many different artists for many different reasons. I love Klimt's work because he paints like my mind works. When I am looking at something my mind is swirling and racing with a thousand thoughts and he paints the thought right into the painting. In turn which allows my mind to turn off and focus on his work.

LOL! Lil - that first one looks like one of my daughter's slumber parties! I love that one!!! :D

Wow, those are very nice images. I really enjoyed the reasoning behind why you prefer them as well. This one I bought just after seeing in a poster store. Not sure why it resonates with me, but I've always enjoyed the Harlem Renaissance writers and artists, and William Johnson becomes more interesting to me the more I study him.

My favorite painter is Mel...did one hell of job on my house, & didn't get a drop on the shrubbery...

You might be my soul mate. 'Cept my loves go all the way back to Dunbar and Chestnutt.

beautiful images
mae- i agreee. the detail on those flowers is tremendous
lil...the color palate of the paintings you chose remind me of your beadwork

i love all types of art and media but my fave is graphite. i can't really tell you why i like this medium the best cause i'm not sure. it's always been my favorite to work with and then, when i was younger, my parents took me to small gallery in soho and they had all graphite drawings on show and i just fell in love.

if i may, i'd like to deviate from the request and show you these from artist laurie lipton

I always liked Salvador Dali's "Christ of St. John of the Cross." Perhaps not a true 'Classical' artist, but still a favorite. :)

dicksbro,

...and very popular!

Don't know that mine are so much classic style, but I love almost anything done by Monet, and Georgia O'Keefe ... I think for me with each of these painters it's about the colors they used and the mood that is so much a part of the paintings. I've attached a couple of examples.