Popular artists and photographers you don't care for

Fernando Botero. His tacky work is all over Colombia, and it's all the same. Oh look, another great big fat person.

Jean-Michel Basquiat. His art is unremarkable at best.

Monet! It’s all so granny to me.

I also think some of Kahlo’s paintings are stupid.

Me draw pretty, me naked!

Annie Liebowitz just points and clicks her camera at famous people.

Sally Mann just points and clicks her camera at her family and includes just enough nudity to get attention.

R5 She was the first who came to my mind.

Richard Prince (the Poseur)

Annie Liebovitz's stuff is just gimmicky, IMO.

Agree about Monet, but I love MAnet.

Don't care for Renoir's stuff that much.

The Thinker (Rodin) is overrated.

Picasso: not my cup of tea. And I do like abstract art.

Salvador Dali's work is technically brilliant, but insists too much on its cleverness of execution and ideas. Not for me.

Magritte's surrealism however is quite as clever but more deadpan, more based somewhat in reality, and I enjoy and admire his work a lot.

Andrew Wyeth is so bleak and depressing.

I enjoy Annie Liebovitz's work when flipping through a magazine, but I wouldn't consider it "art" or worthy of a coffee table book.

Hated fuckin Modigliani. J'adore Renoir.

Edward Hopper's work can be bleak and depressing, but I love his stuff.

Robert Mapplethorpe. There was a time when the transgressive subject matter was genuinely interesting, but there's nothing that exceptional about his use of lighting or composition. Although some of the flower photos are striking.

Speaking of Liebowitz, I saw an episode of Will and Grace the other night with Glenn Close doing a character based on her. She was pretty funny.

Picasso and Marc Chagall.

Simply awful.

I could do what they did and I have NO artistic ability.

What interests me about Picasso is the extent to which his style evolved across his life.

An art historian friend tells me that Picasso is so revered because the history of twentieth-century art, at least through the 1950s, was largely written around MoMA’s collection.

Anne Geddes. Babies in flowers. Big whoop.

I forget Anne Geddes was a thing. Very 1990s.

Jackson Pollock. Sorry but a hyperactive toddler denied Ritilan could create such a masterpiece. And you could buy it off them for a juice box and some animal crackers.

R17, early Picasso shows he was a talented artist, before he entered his abstract period.

R18, I agree.

I never understood the appeal of Mark Rothko.

Yoko Ono

R19 also William Wegman, the guy who used to photograph dogs in drag, was popular around the same time.

Miro

Thomas Kinkade owns this thread.

I like Mark Seliger's magazine portraits, but his art photography makes me wince.

Keith Haring, never understood his stick fingers dogs.

Patrick Nagel. They all looked alike but everywhere in the 80s.