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 most styles, (though not generally keen on abstract).

I really like fantasy art, also paintings that deal with light, or that capture a mundane object really well without being too photo-realistic.

Cubism for me: Braque, Bauhaus, Josep Albers' Factory I'm turning into a cross stitch at the moment Kandinsky, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Lyonel Feininger - just stunning! I'll go find an example....

This artist www.amazon.co.uk/Kyffin-Williams-Rian-Evans/dp/1848222408?tag=mumsnetforu03-21.
Many of the Impressionists, Matisse, Gaugin has a lot to recommend him. Seurat surprisingly.
In reality anyone who can combine his/her view of a scene and some reality and a lot of capability.

Seascapes - particularly Chris and Steve Rocks
Landscapes/buildings - especially of places I know with some kind of striking element
Animals, especially dogs

Lyonel Feininger sailboats 1929, and Gelmeroda 1926 (Gothic church).

Yummy yummy yummy!

Balls! Here....

Dame Laura Knight is wonderful and I love Hockney’s trees.

Masterpieces
Narratives

My top artists in no particular order:-

MC Escher
Paul Klee
Klimt
Toulouse Lautrec
Renoir
Monet
Turner
Rossetti (and most of PRB)
The odd Pollock
Some of the fairy prints from Victorian era
Degas status of little ballerina with clothes
There’s also a painting of crocodiles I forget who by and last saw it in Dulwich picture gallery.
And a mosaic artist name I forget who does nice cat mosaics (tabbies) should’ve bought one, saw exhibition (think it was a man?) in art exhibition in Salisbury years ago.

I could quite easily live in an art gallery and my taste in even more wide and varied than posted.

Not overly keen on modern artist David Shrigley and some other moderns as I can’t see the point, once saw a dead rat as part of his exhibition (and taxidermy squirrels amongst other pieces) and wondered if it was alarmed and real… asked the curator on site who also wasn’t sure!

I like modernism. I have a soft spot for Kandinsky and many of the Bauhaus artists really. I also like expressionism.

I used to like Eric Gill: religious and erotic, but since I found out about his life, I won't have them in the house.

Well that's narrowed down the field a bit OP....

I don't particularly have a theme that I like.
I would say I probably lean a bit towards the abstract landscape but we have a mixture of stuff that just speaks to me.
We have a mixture of mediums - watercolour, oils, acrylics, charcoal, pen, photographs, fabric collage, sculpture, ceramics and glass in our house.
My dad had a gallery when I was growing up, I dabble on the side (I have a creative job) and I have a photographer & an artist for siblings so I grew up surrounded by art of various kinds.

@wonkylegs

I don't particularly have a theme that I like. I would say I probably lean a bit towards the abstract landscape but we have a mixture of stuff that just speaks to me. We have a mixture of mediums - watercolour, oils, acrylics, charcoal, pen, photographs, fabric collage, sculpture, ceramics and glass in our house. My dad had a gallery when I was growing up, I dabble on the side (I have a creative job) and I have a photographer & an artist for siblings so I grew up surrounded by art of various kinds.

@wonkylegs - I’m similar to you.

DM worked in an art gallery in Chelsea owned by a Second World War artist (William Ware, some of his paintings are in museum of London Docklands) and in DM’s house she has a few pieces by known artists and family and friends who are/were artists or creatives and in all sorts of areas from ceramics to weavings. Was dragged around art galleries from age 4-5 upwards and expected (taught) to know the difference between them by DM and stepdad. I don’t paint but do do mosaics, attended a wonderful summer school by the fabulous Elaine M Goodwin for a week and attended mosaics courses in Ravenna too.

There is so much art there in various mediums.

When I was a teenager (18 onwards) for a few years where I grew up there was a great avant garde gallery/shop where I have a few tiny pieces from, almost like modern art altar pieces. SIL managed a big well known gallery in east London for a few years too, so I’ve met Grayson Perry et al etc.

@SScoobiedoo

Well that's narrowed down the field a bit OP....

I'm confused now, what do you mean?!!!

I have noticed that not many people outside of the 'establishment' itself profess to love conceptual art. In fact many seem to feel insulted by it.

I do think it is difficult to separate art/design from emotions, feelings.

@bellaiceberg if by conceptual you mean a lA Damien Hirst’s shark in formaldehyde (not correct title) well I like the idea, I don’t find it insulting but feel it’s a bit lazy and shocking. But I’m more a purist, traditional art lover.

I love Harland Miller and the connor brothers

I can't be doing with conceptual art OP. It irritates me because it thinks it's so much cleverer than it is and I don't see the skill in a lot of it. Feels either smug and self important or just a piss take. Or all 3.
Likewise artists like Damien Hirst who have the "concept" but someone else does all the work eg. the diamond skull or the dot paintings.

• Well that's narrowed down the field a bit OP.... I meant that posters have covered every sort of art. So your question 'what sort of art do you like?' Has the answer everything.

I prefer pencil or charcoal drawings. I have a number of times asked artists to purchase the sketches rather than the finished project.

@SScoobiedoo

* Well that's narrowed down the field a bit OP.... I meant that posters have covered every sort of art. So your question 'what sort of art do you like?' Has the answer everything.

Oh i see! I wondered if I had come across badly True, but I did notice a slight resistance towards conceptual. Been reading Reddit art subs recently (not that great to be honest) but notice similar feelings there. I think people get the idea that it is somewhat deceptive, self important or perhaps too aloof. I'm on the fence tbh but must admit I'm not in touch with it these days. There was enough focus on it in my degree days to last me a lifetime. I recall seeing the original sliced cow at the 'Sensations' exhibit in London. I was stunned by the ginormous image of Myra Hindley's face composed of kid's handprints. It certainly got a reaction! To see in the flesh, so to speak, was ...er, unforgettable.