Just curious really :) I'm particularly partial to Gustav Klimt.

Anyone else got any favourites?

John

I like Anders Zorn.

I like Klimt too, but another fav is Egon Schiele...

Knickers...

At the moment I'm in love with Winifred Jacobson.  I doubt that she's represented on any records, but she tried to do something WAY before the world was ready for it, and she did it EXACTLY RIGHT.

She tried to revive proper performance of Baroque music in 1946.  At that time, most orchestras grudgingly sludged through an occasional Brandenburg Concerto, making Bach sound like Wagner.  Blasphemy.

Jacobson demonstrated precise and sensitive playing of Scarlatti and Purcell, but nobody wanted it.  The world had to wait 20 years for conductors like Hogwood and Pinnock.

Here's the only recorded sample of her 'preaching' and her playing....  Starts at 19:00 in this otherwise dull radio show.  Utterly amazing.

https://ia700406.us.archive.org/27/items/Singles_And_Doubles_Singles_L-N/46-11-06epxxxxMarthaDeaneShow-DeweyWins.mp3

oooo Egon Schiele, very nice indeed.  And Mr Zorn for some reason appeals to my interest in DG Rosetti :)

Will listen to Winifried when I get home :)

John

Bosch!!

http://floringeorgepopovici.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/hieronimus-bosch-gradina-desfatarilor.gif

that guy had some serious mushrooms ;-)

or Edvard Munch

the scream ! its not a painting its a feeling

you can't go wrong with some Bosch :) I think he had more than mushrooms :)

Yo Yo Ma!

He's "new" but paints with photography in the classical sense and these two made me go WOW when I saw them recently... Tom Shakespeare's The Nightmare & Dead Christ (after Mantegna)

Luis Royo ,Boris Vallejo .The Greatist Artist.

Olivia De Berardinis .Easy on the eyes.

M. C. Escher .Cool.

William-Adolphe Bouguereau - the one and only

Gerard Di-Maccio - modern, but classical in style

Dino Valls - also modern, but classical in style

John William Waterhouse - Pre-Raphaelite

Quite obviously, nudity at all links.

Although I do like many of the aforementioned painters a lot, I always find myself being drawn to yet another painting by Edward Burne-Jones to peruse and take it all in again and again.  I guess that would make him my favourite :)

Visual art:

Jacob Hendrik Pierneef 1886-1957. South African Artist. Marvellous stylized landscapes.

Music:

Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (Pianist).

Vermeer

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/20/Johannes_Vermeer_-Het_melkmeisje-_Google_Art_Project.jpg

Music:

**Artur Rubinstein **playing Chopin.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aL2X5snSrRk

Love a bit of Hieronymus Bosch.

But in terms of classical painting, Titian... and Poussin.

Sculpture, has to be Rodin I think.

i do like klimt and matisse and Da Vinci,but also less well known artists like john collier,william waterhouse. dont wana sound like an art snob but i like pieces that look like they have taken skill and years of work to produce, not works that look like a three year old has scrawled it :-)

Most if not in fact all of the above.  Also partial to Fritz Von Bayros, though probably not a good idea to link to here. My tastes are pretty eclectic, probably like most here, also like Thomas Hart Benton, Canaletto, and PeterPaul Rubens, among many others.  

But don't mistake me for cultured, LOL!

Quote - Luis Royo ,Boris Vallejo .The Greatist Artist.

I think exactly the same

Bosch did the 'garden of unearthly delights'? creepy fascination

i'm partial to the Pre-Raphaelites

Quote - Fritz Von Bayros

Methinks you mean Franz Von Bayros :)

There are lots of great artists mentioned in this thread; I haven't seen any that I disagree with.

Quote - > Quote - Fritz Von Bayros

Methinks you mean Franz Von Bayros :)

 

There are lots of great artists mentioned in this thread; I haven't seen any that I disagree with.

You are so right.  Of course I do.  Thanks!