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Official - your favorite painter thread
YellowSnow
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I was reminded recently by fellow North Seattleite @Laocoön that we need some more art history hot takes around here. The first artist that stands out to me as a personal favorite is Pieter Brugel the Elder, particularly the Harvesters which is at the Met Museum of Art in NYC. Never ceases to amaze me the level of detail this guy was getting back in the 1500s.
Also, shout, of course, to @GrundleStiltzkin
Also, shout, of course, to @GrundleStiltzkin
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Bruegel Sr. did have some great paintings. I loved “Peasants Dance”:
“Peasants Wedding” is great too:
If you like Dutch/Flemish genre painters, check out Jan Steen:
You can pick several famous painters if you like.
My AP Euro teacher in HS was a big Flemish masters guy. Took us to the Rubens museum in Antwerp on our first stop on HS Euro trip.
Mark Rothko (mid century) pieces
Matisse a favorite of Nazi fat-ass, Herman Goering who hijacked scores of fine paintings from European Jews.
Hans Holbein is the GOAT of portraitists in my opinion, even if his Anne of Cleves commission got him in hot water with his patron, Henry VIII:
Mr. Chiaroscuro himself, Caravaggio. I love how his work is like a well lit theater scene.
Edward Hopper - remember seeing “Chop Suey” when it was at the SAM - super pissed when they didn’t get to keep it.
Probably Monet. Mrs Throbber v1.0 was into Monet in a big way - coffee table books, notecards, coasters...whatever she could get that had Claude's shit on it, she was down. Rather than be indignant, The Throbber has grown to appreciate Monet later in life.
Should have kept the Water Lilies print in the divorce settlement.
"Dogs Playing Poker" by Van Nostrom
Van Gogh is the Beatles of art.
I love Victor Vasarely, Salvador Dali, Ilya Repin, Ellsworth Kelly, Ivan Aivakovsky...
But of course the greatest painting of all time is Carte Blanche by Rene Magritte!
1909
John Singer Sargent (American, 1856–1925)
My favorite wife has a degree in fine arts. She taught me to appreciate how fucking hard it is to paint in water color. We have a print of this, it really pops against the filthy walls. When you relax and look at it, you can feel the warm Mediterranean breeze.
While Sargent was so well known for is Edwardian portraiture of high society (His Portrait of Madame X being one of the most famous), he did a couple of paintings with Bedouins as subjects (also in watercolor...well, I think technically gouache which is similar, just more opaque) that are really striking:
Quit plagiarism Magritte's shit fucko!!!