What kind of art do you like?

[bellaiceberg]

As a visual artist myself, I have never thought to ask this question on MN, but would love to know!
I work in several different styles, some fine art, some more graphic/illustration inspired. It helps to keep a toe in a few different pools, market wise.

For example, you might prefer:
Fairytale art
Narrative (a picture that tells a story, etc)
Abstract
Landscape
Manga/Anime
Portraits and so on...

I am always interested in what people want from art, would you say it is influenced more by your feelings/emotions or perhaps concerned with interior decor?
Both have equal value, for different reasons, of course.

I like narrative paintings, specifically those based upon historical stories/ myths/ legends.

We have a few pieces of “proper art” in our house. I like dramatic landscapes, brightly coloured clay pieces and paintings which don’t necessarily tell a story but allow my imagination to wander.

I don’t like anything too abstract and whilst I think pop art is cool it isn’t something I necessarily want to live with.

I wish I could afford more “proper art” but I really enjoy what we have and think it is worth the money/investment.

I'm a traditionalist and just like something that is visually pleasing whether that be a portrait, landscape, animal etc.... Can't stand modern art or anything where you have to try and work out what it is about.

Only Impressionism really and then only Monet's Waterlilies.

I love van de Weyden, Caravaggio and Raphael. Equally I like Basqiat

I like landscapes … but the best paintings I ever saw were small (A4 ish) hyper-realistic interiors with people alone in them. And now I can’t find the artist.

Also, Edward Hopper. I’m a loner.

Abstract, colourful pieces.
Highland cows!

I love very old, religious art. Lots of paintings have hidden symbols and meanings and I just absolutely love them.

I find still life’s really appealing now I’m older (50s), literally love to look at a bowl of lemons or blousy flowers in a vase, preferably oils.

Also love a seascape, but I think everyone does. Something elemental about them.

I love abstract or semi-abstract pieces. I went to see the Frank Bowling exhibition at Tate Modern, must have been 2 years ago now, and seeing those paintings was like an electric shock. I just loved them.

I also like small scale figurative paintings and mixed media, just went to an exhibition last week, a few of my favourites attached. I wanted to buy everything!

I’m curious about this too OP. I started painting a year ago. I find myself doing flowers (badly I always feel) or landscapes - from imagination. I also do sort of pop arty women.
I don’t sell my stuff but people on Instagram/FB tend to fall into groups and rarely like more than one type of painting/art style.
I’ve recently become enamoured with charcoal drawings because I’m better at drawing than painting but that doesn’t seem at all popular.
In terms of art my OH has always dominated the house with his choice (mostly, not exclusively) until I bought an original piece from a Canadian artist that I absolutely love.
If I had the money I’d buy a tonne of his work and also of Maurice Sapiro.
I really like Andrew Gifford’s work too.
I’m definitely an interesting piece of work person than an abstract for home decor reasons. But I’m not the best at home decorating

I don't consider myself an artist at all but I do enjoy taking and editing photos and my favourite genres, if you like, are still-life scenes and portraits (of my dc) edited to resemble a classic fine art painting. I like to look at these types of images in galleries but wouldn't buy them.

For my house, if I was to buy art, it would be of local landscapes or scenes from the seaside.

I love abstract expressionism. Cy Twombly, in particular. I find his work hugely moving.

Abstract. I have this print in my room

@SoManyTshirts I love Hopper too, Gas is maybe my favourite one. His New York based works are wonderful, they are like the artistic equivalent of film noir/noir fiction in mood. Paintings depicting architecture always catch my eye and Hopper has some great examples from his time in the New England area.

Naive art - Nick Holly
Masterpieces with a twist - John Wilson
Still life - Estelle Day
London landmarks - Nigel Cooke
Cows - Sue Moffitt

Landscapes & seascapes, moody skies.
Wildlife.
Glasswork

Abstract, seascapes.
I may not like all art but I appreciate the feeling and the work. My stepfather was an artist.
I really like photographic prints more. My favourites are Slim Aarons.

I like outdoor sculptures and sculpture in general. I like surrealist art too.

I like landscapes and portraits. The landscapes transport me to other places. I'm open to lots of styles and mediums though.

Portraits - make me curious about the sitter. I own one of a boy - dated 1896 - and I often wonder if he survived WW1.

My grandma has one of my grandpa (he hated it ) and one of her unacknowledged biological grandmother. I like it because she's not a pretty young woman in the picture, but an older woman who had lived a life by then.

Often the art I go to see in galleries isn't what I want in my house.
For example I like Richard Billingham's photos if his family, Martin Parr's work and Egon Scheile. But not in my house.
In my house I have prints by Brian Froud, Atkinson Grimshaw, Nom Kinear King and creppy ones of Venice and wildlife, and proper oils on canvas of landscapes by a localish artist but not necessarily realistic in terms of colour.
I also love illustration- Adam Oehlers, Iris Compiet, Chris Dunn. I am very excited about Quentin Blake's Centre for illustration which looks like it will be a gallery just of illustrative work.

Landscapes, and portraits.
I tend to love pairings from the 40s and 50s. Prefer oil/acrylic to watercolour.

I love Cezanne’s landscapes most of all.

Today, I've been to Fashioing Masculinities and then Beatrix Potter at the V&A, and then Raphael att the National Gallery. Last weekend, I saw Pissarro at the Ashmolean. I really enjoyed them all for different reasons.

I love the use of colours, I like pictures which use light well (Joseph Wright of Derby, Sorolla.) I like narrative paintings - I always like being told a story, whether it's a book, a play, music or painting. The historian in me likes looking at old machinery and ways of doing things. I like Dutch flower paintings. I am very fond of the pre-Raphaelites. I loved some of the embroidery I saw on clothes today- for the skill and times as well as the rich colours and how different stitches and threads affect the look. And I always like things that make me think,one way or another.

On Grayson's Art Club last night, the lady who painted the mosque in Pakistan that she doesn't have time to see when she visits, that's the kind of thing I like, with lines and sort of sections in it. I don't know if there's a name for that type of art but I like it.