Who Is Your Favourite Artist?Artist's And Why?
I like my art,not just like it but appreciate too!
Landscapes are a favourite,English artist John Constable comes to mind always,especially "The Hay Wain" which has just been damaged by a nutter in the UK, hence this article,he glued a photo of a young boy onto the canvas,what a mug.But unlike a photo,when its gone,its really gone!
Albert Namatjira is another brilliant landscape artist but his paint medium was water based not oil like Constable.
Namatjira's art is delicate and his colours almost faded,against Constable who was more bold and his brush strokes deliberate,and Constable could paint "an angry sky" perfectly,an art form on its own.
Portraits too i like and my favourite here is the great Dutch artist Johannes Ver Meer,who mainly only painted women,but his most famous work "The Girl With A Pearl Earring" was just one of many great works.
And of course Surrealism,and Salvador Dali springs into my mind,what a strange odd character he was.
And the great Australian artists especially "The Heildelberg School" artists from the 19th century,all brilliant and too numerous to name but Streeton,Roberts and McCubbin come to mind.
And my favourite Blue Mountains artist Norman Lindsay,his home and studio at Faulconbridge,I spent a lot of time there just wandering around,seeing something new that I missed on the last visit.
Excellent stuff!
Who do you like?
billy
Darcy Doyle for me ,never seen a Doyle I didn't like ,altough I admit ,I do not know a lot about the subject .I look at things that folk rave about,and aclaim the artist as a genius ,and I scratch my head an wonder why, to me the grandkids did better as 4 yr olds