To ask - who is your favourite artist and why?

[Findawaytobehappy]

Just that really. Do you have a favourite artist? Or style? And why does it sing to you?
Only got in to art a couple of years ago and feel like a whole new world has been opened up - so would love to know who else I should be learning about.

Salvador Dali. I find his work both fun and moving. Christ of St John if the cross is my favourite painting.

*lovely thread

This is my favourite Pether

www.flickr.com/photos/lenton_sands/2360958293

Already famous: Frank Auerbach.
Up and coming: Katie Allen (based in South Wales, does amazing landscapes using drops/circles.

@Findawaytobehappy

My fave artists...

Cristoforo Scorpiniti

LOVE his work!

Have a look.

www.google.com/search?q=Cristoforo+Scorpiniti+art&tbm=isch&ved=2ahUKEwjL5reB-JXoAhVHzBQKHQRhAtsQ2-cCegQIABAA&oq=Cristoforo+Scorpiniti+art&gs_l=img.3...3217.4351..4666...0.0..0.160.351.1j2......0....1..gws-wiz-img.......0i30j0i24.M-j3XreY44o&ei=UbFqXov6LseYU4TCidgN

ALSO

Leonid Afremov

www.google.com/search?q=leonid+afremov+landscapes&tbm=isch&ved=2ahUKEwjEpZvt95XoAhUQNRQKHetvCv8Q2-cCegQIABAA&oq=leonid+afremov+landscapes&gs_l=img.3..0.10715.12876..13004...0.0..0.131.914.9j2......0....1..gws-wiz-img.......0i67j0i24j0i8i30.KvXwvUhNNsM&ei=J7FqXoT2FZDqUOvfqfgP&hl=en-GB

You have probably guessed that I love colour and sparkle and light

I love an artist called Ellis O'Connor. I have a couple of prints, but would love the originals.

I agree, Autumn, it is a lovely thread.

Just what the doctor ordered today.

I love loads but I always get a sense of calm and happiness seeing a Barbara Hepworth.

This is such an interesting thread - it's fascinating to see what appeals to people and why.
I hadn't heard of her before but I am loving Katie Allen's work!

Leonardo Da Vinci. I loved his sketches of cats and would copy them for hours when I was a child. Happy days.

www.johnnytimes.com/leonardo-da-vinci-playful-cats-drawings/

Raqib Shaw - full of vibrant colour and fantastical imagery, just beautiful

Raqib Shaw, yes! Watched a documentary last year, what a guy.

I really like Greyson Perry. I love how he isn’t afraid to call societal norms into question, and really makes you think about how and why class, gender, etc impacts who we are or who we are expected to be. Just finished his book ‘the descent of man’ - very thought provoking.

Also Bill Viola
I love this thread!

Just googled Raqib.

Right up my street! Lovely paintings.

Emily Devane and Karen Davis

One reason I always wanted a big house is to have lots of prints.

I’ve come to love Guy Denning after my daughter has done a project on his work this year. It’s quite brutal but very powerful.

I love Hollye Gallion's work (Nashville based semi amateur painter). I'd love to own a Norman Cornish piece (the North East equivalent of Lowry) and for more contemporary graphic based art check out Laki139

We've just bought some Daan oude elferink photographs - love his work.

Jennie Tuffs. Love flowers, love colour.

Van Gogh is my all time favourite though.

For me, Walter Sickert. And Turner. Turner for the use of colour, Sickert for the gloomy London realism

agree with pp on Auerbach too

Pablo Palazuelo.
Wassily Kandinsky.
I'm a Bauhaus lover.
Joan Miro - I've painted a few copies bad obvious forges! Nothing dodgy!

Vincent Van Gogh for his use of colour and emotional energy.

Frida Kahlo for her bravery, use of colour and the raw psychology of her paintings.

Abraham Angel - just love the style and colour.

Schiele for his loose forms and breathtaking eroticism.

I love Yvonne Coomber’s beautifully colourful and energetic floral paintings, and the monochrome yet warm and human Anita Klein.

I love this thread!

Whilst I have a particular fondness for the beauty of Renaissance art and sculpture, I am also drawn to the pain and suffering of Francis Bacon. I personally find Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion to be one of the most power pieces of recent times.