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 love abstract art, particularly Peter Lanyon, Bryan Wynter and Barbara Hepworth. I went to St Ives Tate Gallery over 15 years ago and was really taken with the exhibition there.

I like pictures of things that aren’t perfect, Rusty old corrugated metal sheds, dilapidated buildings with paint peeling off.
This is one of my favourites (Thomas Jones, Naples)

We have a photo of a rusty old fishing boat on the wall above our fireplace and I love it.

I also like pictures with lots of yellow.

Oh! I really didn't expect many replies, these are really great to read, thank everyone! Some new names to google now, too..

My own favourites include Hammershøi, Hilma af Klint, William Morris, Tove Jansson (her paintings as well as her Moomin/kids illustrations).

I create mostly landscapes myself with mixed media, I also love adding collage elements too.

Great to see other artists on MN!

Sonia Delaunay is another favourite.

I love those Danish interiors.

I like the Dutch artists that painted household scenes

I like 'old stuff', dont give me anything modern

Over the fireplace I have a print of the Arnolfini Marriage (I think it might have another name too)

I like still life too. And old portraits, tudorish period.

Great idea for a thread OP.

Love going to art museums - I don't 'get' a lot of modern art but I really enjoy seeing the results of people's imaginations and sometimes I see something that really strikes a chord. Some of its just weird, but even that has entertainment value in the retelling of it. I went to the British Art Show in Wolverhampton last month and watched a video of someone narrating his feelings about gates. I mean, what is that about? So odd. But really funny to watch someone be all serious about filming gates in scrubby countryside - it wasn't even a nice view.

I love Halima Cassell's clay work, I was in Manchester for a weekend a few years ago and went to the art gallery and was totally absorbed by the exhibition of her stuff, never come across her before. Just mesmerising.

Also Laura Grace Ford is a little obsession of mine. I managed to buy a print of something of hers not long ago and need to get it framed.

I like to try and buy bits and bobs from local artists or of things to do with the city I live in. But recently I bought a canvas from a painter I found on artwork500 because it went with the colour I've painted my bedroom. It looks brilliant!

I like some older stuff too - anything by Hieronymus Bosch or Pieter Bruegel the elder. But they're not really the kind of thing I can hang up at home on the whole 🤣 I like stuff about normal people or a bit of bloodshed haha. Paintings about kings and queens and mythological figures are not my bag. I don't really do landscapes either but I don't mind a bit of Turner. Guernica is the best thing I've ever seen in real life.

Glad to have discovered Halima Cassell!

One of my most favourite shows was Leonora Carrington at the Tate in Liverpool. I love her short stories too and never thought I would get to see her work so close to home.

Also Marc Chagall.

It's really interesting to hear how different we all are in how we approach works of art. I've recently discovered the British artist Hannah Woodman and love her work, will post a link to her instagram (for the record, I am not Hannah Woodman!)

www.instagram.com/hannahwoodmanartist/?hl=en

If anyone else wants to share instagram favourites I would love to check them out!

I bought dh a print of The Great Wave of Kanagawa as he like waves and I often find myself gazing at it, I really like the movement in it and the colours are appealing to me.

I also love Whistler's Mother as I think she sat that for all the time for her son, I have a son and I'd do that for him too, I just think it says a lot about a mother/son relationship.

I like Lowry's simpler works as they make me smile, the 'normalness' of the subjects.

I guess I like things which inspire a story in my own head, one I can make up myself, lil

My love of art only came to me in my late 40's and it surprised me. I'd always found it boring when I was younger. I now have a few choice pieces around the house. Dh says he doesn't like art but every time I bring a new piece in he loves it. I do spend a lot of time finding just the right thing though. It doesn't always have to be expensive either, DH's mum and dad bought us some hieroglyphics from Egypt, which supposedly say our surname, we have no idea if it really does but it is ever so beautiful, so it is up in our bedroom.

Impressionist landscapes, Modern British still-life with flowers, portraits by Sir William Orpen.

I love a genre of art that is often frowned upon but when I saw my first Pre-Raphaelite exhibition, I was mesmerised. The richness, the romanticism (contrived or not I don't care) the sheer beauty. I guess the heart wants what the heart wants!

I love the Pre-Raphaelites, too (and so do loads of others, going by all the exhibitions I've been to.)
Holman-Hunt's Strayed Sheep is possibly my favourite piece ever.

Pre-Raphaelite art is my favourite, I absolutely love Ophelia by Millais (the one where she's lay in the river) and my absolute favourite painting is Flaming June by Frederic Leighton, it is a beautiful piece of colour and movement.

I absolutely hate more modern art (things like Tracey Emin's work, for me, should not be considered art 🤮) but I do appreciate a good sculpture.

When I was about 7, I saw a photo of Millias's Ophelia in a library book, and it blew me away that someone could paint like that.

Educational art, e.g. Technical drawings like da vinci, or architecture design art ect

I love sculpture so, wow, www.halimacassell.com/home stunning, bet they are phenomenal in person.
I also love www.chihuly.com. the exhibits in Kew are beautiful.

I love Pop Art, Litchenstein, Kusama, Hockney and Blake. I think I've always love graphic art but totally get why PP's don't like it. But I also drawn to Chinese Ink Art, again very graphic but in a totally different way, there's some fabulous contemporary artists now doing similar work

Oh where to start...... I love all kinds of art. Giotto, Raphael, van der Weyden, Dutch genre paintings, Titian, Carravaggio, Rembrandt, Turner, Pissarro, some (not all...) Picasso, Bacon, Diebenkorn, Joan Mitchell, Giacometti, Mike Bernard, lots of contemporary abstract artists......

Too many to mention. I love watching contemporary artists paint on YouTube. Very inspiring.

Rothko
Turner
Caravaggio
Klimt
Schiele
Burne - Jones

@Sammilouwho

Pre-Raphaelite art is my favourite, I absolutely love Ophelia by Millais (the one where she's lay in the river) and my absolute favourite painting is Flaming June by Frederic Leighton, it is a beautiful piece of colour and movement.

I absolutely hate more modern art (things like Tracey Emin's work, for me, should not be considered art 🤮) but I do appreciate a good sculpture.

Flaming June is gorgeous. I have that painting in my bedroom

Ron Mueck- saw his sculptures and was in awe
Hockney
So bored of the old masters, which I know is a sweeping statement but I just think I’ve seen a lot of them in real life and in print on diaries/notebooks/umbrellas etc.
Don’t like miniatures
Don’t like oil
I like pen and ink or line wash type things

I like a fairly broad range but John Singer Sargent gets to me every time

Another top favourite is Louise Bourgeois huge sculptures of something I try to avoid in real form but magnificent as the art

At the moment I love Caroline Walker. She does these massive and beautiful paintings of women just going about their daily lives. There's a series of her mum, Janet, at home doing daily chores, and a recent exhibition of birth stories. I also love Dame Laura Knight's paintings of women and fittingly, there's an exhibition of the two artists in Nottingham atm which is on my wish list.

Inspiring thread, thank you, op!

Early 20th century russian and eastern European painted portraits.
Bauhaus
Actually most art from early 20th-c to the 1970s.
I don't like anything too realistic (hyper realism etc)

I love all kinds of art. Sculpture, textiles, painting, fine art photography, illustration. The Impressionists, Manet and Berthe Morisot among them, did some hugely important work. I’m also a fan of the living artist Peter Doig.