Do you have any favourite painters?

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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?

Oh, I love her work. Beautiful.

Pierre Soulages. He and his wife both lived to be over 100. And Henry Darger because his art and story are just so bonkers.

L.S Lowry. You may not like his style, but he was a major figure in 20thc Britsh art and he also recorded an industrial landscape which has now mostly gone.

(... matchstalk men and matchstalk cats and dogs....)

The National Gallery runs a terrific on-line course called 'Stories of Art'. The module on 20th century art starts next week - 23rd July. The format is six 2 hour online lectures which are recorded and the recordings are available for a week.
This is a really good series of lectures which give a fascinating overview of western art (it's focused on the NG's collection so it is western art) and I've watched the whole series over the years. They start in 1450 with the Wilton Dyptich but you don't have to watch in order, I think I started at 1800.
If you have the time, I would really recommend these. You can find them on the National Gallery website under 'events'
Oh, to answer your actual question - I love Sonia Delauney, Gwen John, Kandinsky and Paula Rego best!

Turner

There’s going to be a major exhibition of Gwen John’s work in Cardiff and Edinburgh next year.

Frank Bowling

Mr Kuu is my favourite at the moment, but I love the stuff by Mr Brainwash too.

Henri Magritte ‘ Empire of Light ‘ series.

Saw an original in the Menil Gallery in Houston and was transfixed.

Contemporary artists whom I currently love included Colin Brown & Alan McGowan. Very accessible.

He's my favourite!!!

William Russell Flint
Joaquín Sorolla

John Singer Sargent
incredible brushwork

I like Maria Lassnig a lot too. And Joaquín Sorolla

Check Remedios Varo (and also Carrington, who was her dearest friend)

Absolutely. Currently got a 5 star show on at the NPG.

https://www.npg.org.uk/whatson/exhibitions/2025/jenny-saville/

Me too 💕
Sorolla
Sorolla Museum
https://g.co/kgs/eMRhw4b

have you been to Madrid? His studio is there with so much gorgeous art work & artefacts. I’d recommend

Oh fab. Will keep an eye out for that.

He's not exactly famous, but I love Jimmy Lawlor's art - he's local to where I live - a surrealist who incorporates many local landscapes, characters, and scenes into his work. He has a website here.

Edward Hopper - I’m surprised nobody has mentioned him yet!

Peter Doig, a Scottish painter.

I love Signac, Dufy (both of the brothers), Rousseau and Hockney. I work in this field and those are the ones I enjoy actually looking at - so colourful! I love a bit of Lowry, too.

20th Century Irish artist Louis Le Brocquy. Died 2012. Similar style to Picasso’s primitive black and white dancers. Known for his troubled portraits of Irish writers, including Bono…
I was lucky enough to have a signed study for his Head of Samuel Beckett for a year when I lived on campus. All I had to do was pay £10 towards the insurance costs!

Ooh thanks, that's something to look forward to. I saw the exhibition at Pallant House last (??) year and even if it shows many of the same paintings, I would love the opportunity to see them all again.

Lucian Freud, Frida Kahlo, Artemisia Gentileschi, Caravaggio, Hans Holbein, Abraham Ángel, Michelangelo (of course).

An Argentinian painter called Andres Jaroslavsky, too. Fantastic portraits.

Pre-Raphaelites ...
And I love the moody twilighty paintings of John Atikinson Grimshaw - a paperback cover favourite