Do you have any favourite painters?

[Dappy777]

I love Caravaggio, Vermeer, Monet, Pissarro, etc. I also love people like Lord Leighton and Waterhouse. But my knowledge of painting stops in about 1900. I know virtually nothing about 20th or 21st century painters and never studied art (to my bitter regret). Could anyone recommend a modern painter?

Gwen John, Maurice de Vlaminck, Oskar Kokoschka, Gabrielle Munter, Lucian Freud, Emil Nolde. Huguette Caland, Agnes Martin, Anselm Kiefer, Pauline Boty, Alice Neel, Mark Rothko, Lee Krasner, Frank Auerbach, Kathe Kollwitz,

David Shepherd

I’ve recently fallen in love with a French painter, will be buying one of her works next month. https://galeriefelli.com/artiste/veronique-gerbaud-lambert/

Cy Twombly 👌🏻

Turner and Christian Hook , very different but they just appeal to me .

Thankyou for the replies everyone. I will jot down the names and have a look on google images.

Mark Rothko
Jackson Pollock

Eric Ravillious and Laura Knight

Jackson Pollock, Rothko. Another vote for Anselm Kiefer also, exhibition on at the moment.

Olly and Suzi I came across because I like Blur Wasn’t expecting to like their work because I’m not an animal person but it’s intriguing.

I saw a wonderful exhibition by Alex Katz at the Albertina in Vienna a few years ago. He’s 97 but I think considered relatively modern.

Frank Auberach, Euan Uglow, Matthew Wong, Alice Neel

What they said

also
Paula Rego
Georgia O’keefe
frida kahlo
All the surrealist painters - Dali, Ernst, leonora carrington, John tunnard
Francis bacon
david hockney
william scott
There are tons, obviously. Brain a bit fried tonight

Basquiat

I came to say Eric Ravilious. Worked between the wars, then was a war artist who was killed on active service.

Waterstones have a 2026 calendar of his work which I shall be buying when it's published.

I know I have other favourites but have not yet had tea, am hungry and brain not working!

Oh, just thought - have a look for the work of the East London Group, also mostly between the wars.

Alice Neel is so great - her work but also her as a person / way of being.

Gustav Klimt is my all time favourite.
Georgia Okeefe is amazing too.

I love the colours and landscapes of Pam Carter and John Lowrie Morrison (known as JoLoMo) - 2 Scottish painters.

Conversely, there is something about the dark, flat skies of Ron Lawson that really appeals to me.

Sonia Delaunay.

I saw the Anselm Kiefer exhibition in Amsterdam recently. Stupendous works.
Gerhard Richter
Andrew Wyeth
David Hockney
Alison Watt.

Gustav Klimt and Paul Klee

Jenny Saville

Norman Rockwell

Jose Royo.

Fred 3 doors down from me, he did our front room really well and he was cheap

Joaquín Sorolla 1863-1923 Spanish

There’s a Google Arts & Culture app you might like - tells you about the paintings, where they’re housed and links to similar (‘if you like this you might like….’)