Who’s your favorite artist?

Ethel Cain

Rembrandt - when everything went from manual to automatic

I'm always discovering new favorites, but honestly IMO the one artist I always come back to is Michelangelo. IMO, no one surpasses Michelangelo. As for painters I love Renoir.

I do not apologize for loving pop-kitsch Maxfield Parrish.

Funny! R4 I was just about ready to, but afraid to mention Maxfield Parrish. I love that era, and I love his work.

If I were wealthy though, my first acquisition would be Picasso.

Davinci had a gift.

Caravaggio

Scatmaster

After seeing their works in person, Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele.

Leonardo really was an amazing painter. All his works pop out you.

For Michelangelo, he saw himself as a sculptor, not a painter. Pope Julius commissioned him to do the Sistine Chapel ceiling. Michaelangelo's own hubris made him take the job. At first it was a massive failure because he had mixed in too much water with the paint and the ceiling started to grow mold. He started all over again. Four years later, he created one of the greatest works of art ever.

Stunning that this and another round painting are the only paintings Michelangelo ever did. The rest of his works are sculptures.

R9, Yes, Klimt's work is so original and cool.

Cezanne

Van Gogh

Ingres. I can watch his paintings for hours.

I love Picasso but after a while, everything seems so cold

Michael Jackson.....

I love Botticelli too. But I'd say my favorite artist is Claude Monet.

Tintoretto (for his small portraits). Zurbarán. Bronzino. Picasso. Caravaggio. Van Eyck. Sorolla. Sargent. Johann Carl Loth. Velázquez. Ribera. Holbein...

I'll stop.

Judy.

Breugel

Call me an amateur but nothing makes me happier than a good Monet.

Peter Bruegel The Elder. He lived and worked around 1565 Only five paintings survive. R21 Amateur, Bubble gum.

George Walker Bush.

My BFF, Donald the Doodler.

Kandinsky.

Hieronymus Bosch

Velazquez

El Greco

Rembrandt

Van Gogh

Cezanne

Monet

Caravaggio

I'm not making this up but I discovered the Ashcan school of art and t hose paintings w ere quite wonderful.

Hopper

Vermeer's paintings are sublime. It's amazing that he did them in his spare time. I don't believe they were even known until he died

[quote]Hieronymus Bosch

His works are are eerie. All this hell stuff. Looking close, you see the spectacular details

Charles Burchfield

Raoul Dufy

Joan Mitchell

R29, I don’t think Vermeer was entirely unknown. He was a professional painter, who had patrons, and he was the leader of Delft’s painter’s guild for several years.

I do agree though - his paintings are sublime. He was a technical genius as well as a great artist. His use of colour and contrast makes it a joy just to sit in front of his paintings and take them in.

Vermeer

Otto Dix

But my favourite individual painting is Dali’s Christ of Saint John of the Cross.

DaVinci and Dali

Both create their own world.

I'm another fan of El Greco. His paintings arouse my dormant religious feelings in a very disturbing way.