and many others I wont cram into clutch's server. Check nga. and art.com Picasso, Kandinsky, Sargent, Greek Vase Painting, Roman Architecture, Greek and Roman Mosaic, Greek Sculpture etc etc etc.
This is a classic. I remember reading a review on this piece: Ding Ding! Here comes the ****-mobile. I've never seen a fire truck that needed to be shaved. I would rather be burned to death than be saved by this hairy piece of ****
Forgot that El Greco came that soon...I thought he lived around the same time as Rubens, but yea, my bad on that one. However, I thought that "realists" (I'm assuming that is what you classify Manet and Whistler) were an offshoot of impressionists. I know that Manet and Whistler were influenced and friends with guys like Renoir, Degas, etc, but I might be mistaken.
Manet is often placed with the realists - a movement before Impressionism - but he, like El Greco, really defies categorization. Some of the impressionists were influenced by Manet (Degas especially, as he often made direct copies of Manet's work) and he later would be ifriends with some of them, but they were never really the same - Manet himself insisted upon such separation. Whistler also was slightly influenced by the Impressionists, but he was more of an early formalist/expressionist and had begun establishing his style pre-Impressionism - there was also nothing realist about his painting philosophy, but Americans often misread his work as such. He was pretty well hated in Europe for a while because his work was often so different, so expressionistic and abstracted. He was loved and "domesticated" (terminology taken from a 2002 Harvard dissertation) in the US because he was American and most misread his works and his intent.
Those aren't real paintings in the mall. Those are prints done on a special canvas so that they look like paintings. I'm not familair with the technique. But I'm almost 100% sure they are not real paintings. But that confuses a lot of people. They are not really getting screwed out of their money. Because the prints are worth that amount. But you're not really getting what you think you are getting. And that kind of pisses me off.
rimmy, Thanks for the clarification on Manet and Whistler. I want to ask you a subjective question: What do you think, in your opinion, are the 5 most well-known paintings by an American artist?? "Well-known" meaning famous or known outside this country and "American" meaning born in America. My top 5 (and I am curious to know how well-known they are outside this country) are: 1 - "Arrangement in Grey and Black (?) aka Portrait of the Artist's Mother" by James Whistler 2 - "American Gothic" by Grant Wood 3 - "The Nighthawks" by Edward Hopper 4 - "Christina's World" by Andrew Wyeth 5 - "Stag at Sharkey's" by George Bellows
There is really only one artist for me. I have about two dozen of his paintings hanging around the house. http://www.gaffordstudios.cjb.net/ (Blast geocities! I can't do images from their sites.)
Hmmm...just some wild guesses: 1. Probably agree with your #1 - it is one of the few American works in the Musee D'Orsay. 2. Agree with yours 3. Autumn Rhythm by Pollock - or any other from his "high" AbEx period since theyt all are so similar 4. Warhol's Marilyn imagery 5. Maybe a Lichtenstein or a Mary Cassatt The last three on your list are mostly US-known and heralded, since they are American, American Regionalist-type works. The only Americans in the 19th and Early 20th that were really known in Europe are the ones who went to Europe. It wasn't until Abstract Expressionism that the US developed its own style and became a real player in the art world - so general world knowledge of US art is post WWII, and justifiably so, as American art mostly sucked before then.
I actually like a lot of the artwork in children's books. My current favorite is William Joyce who does the Rolie Polie Olie series: It has a kind of futuristic-retro thing going on. Plus, Olie is the cutest little bot ever!
Jackson Pollock is da maign, brah! I like Basquiat as well. Anything other than ordinary is the kind of art I like.
I liked Tolkein's The Hobbit. In film, probably The Empire Strikes Back. Music, Mrs. Potter's Lullaby. Television, Buffy the Vampie Slayer. Poetry, The Raven. Short story, the Cask of Amontillado. I don't really dig on painting and sculpture, a little too static for my taste.
When this girl at the art museum asked me whom I liked better, Monet or Manet, I said, "I like mayonnaise." She just stared at me, so I said it again, louder. Then she left. I guess she went to try to find some mayonnaise for me. -Jack Handy
i have a couple of kondikova's (sp?) that are my favorite...other than him,i have some wooster scotts and fazzinos that i really like as well
some of my favorites as follows: 1. Frida Kahlo 2. David Alfaro Siquieros (actually all 3 of the great MX muralists) 3. Edward Munch
The queen, herself: Frida Kahlo... ...sorry guys, i've been seriously in love with frida for years...
