To ask - who is your favourite artist and why?

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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.

Joseph Mallord William Turner

Most beautiful sunsets in his paintings.

Yes #floffel! Another vote for Hogarth! I have Gin Lane up in our front room (in retrospect I should have bought beer street too at the same exhibition but I was a poor student and, naturally, picked the more negative one!). I love all the hidden clues and little details. Things like the Rake/Harlots Progress! Love it!

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There was a great Martin Parr exhibition last at the national portrait gallery( I think)
I vote for Sorolla. I missed his exhibition in London last year but had a last minute solo city break to Madrid and so happy to discover his Museo Sorolla gallery in his house and gardens.
Just beautiful 💕

Francis Bacon - his work is like nothing I have ever seen. They are utterly overwhelming "in person".

Edmund Dulac and most of his contemporaries from the Golden Age of Children's Illustration. I have prints from The Snow Queen in my hallway, The Emperor and the Nightingale in my bedroom, Russian fairy tales in the bathroom and I just need to figure out where to put Cinderella.

Check him out, his work is exquisite

Love this thread - so many amazing choices!

El Greco - the Burial Of Count Orgaz - I found mystical and ethereal when I was 18 year old. 30 years later I love it because I find it serene

Rembrandt self portraits - the older i get the more I love the brutal honesty.

Caravaggio for the drama.

For me Caravaggio, he influenced my second favorite artist Rembrant and was himself influenced by Rubens. I am an artist too and I think. or hope that some influence from these old masters show in my work,
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Another fan of dali and latrec here.

Also love Brian froud, his use of light in painting in particular is wonderful though he's not really a gallery artist I don't think. I have quite a few books of his work, particularly from films (labyrinth, dark crystal) and they are stunning

I often don't like art til I see it in person. For example I could sit for hours in the tate modern's Rothko room, and was bowled over by Damien Hirst's pharmacy back in the day. I'm still not sure if its just that I stand in front of it & go "what does this make me think & feel?" and I just then enjoy the process of thinking and feeling.

Lesser known artists that I love are Alison Pullen and a friend of mine in the states Nicole Gorden, both of which make me think & feel in completely different ways.

I have loads but for the purposes of this thread will plump for the Singh Twins. I could look at the detail all day and so energising.

Redon, he didn't become an artist until he was in his fifties.

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El Greco. The paintings are so old yet yiu can see their souls.

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Van Gogh, Degas, Klimt, LS Lowry and Irish artists Markey Robinson ( my favourite) , JP Rooney , Paula McKinney, Charles McAuley, Kathryn Callaghan .
There are too many to choose from . I just adore art but I’m not particularly knowledgeable. I’ve started buying an original from a local artist every year for my birthday .

My Dog Sighs - a Contemporary urban artist who paints eyes with a story told as a reflection in the pupil. He also paints amazing tin cans again with a theme of eyes. mydogsighs.co.uk/

Seeing The Birth of Venus by Botticelli in the Uffizi was a real stand out moment when I went to Italy. I think partly because I'd seen so many religious Renaissance paintings.

Monet

Gustav Klimt. I love the etherealness of his paintings.

Vincent Van Gogh, his painting just seems to warm my soul.

My lovely daughter’s GCSE Landscape with her dad in silhouette on the beach at sunset. But I might be biased!!!!

I’ve always liked Turner from being a young child , the way he painted just appealed to me . Of modern living artists I love Christian Hook , I’ve followed him since he won the first series of Sky portrait artist , he is just brilliant . I particularly like his horse paintings .

Another vote for Caravaggio
Artemisia Gentileschi - fascinating life story
And Stubbs!!!!! Oh Stubbs! Whistlejacket - that's my all time favourite painting. It hangs in the National Gallery and I have seen it countless times but always feels like I'm just stumbling upon it for the first time.

I love photorealistic art particularly Sarah Graham and Kate Brinkworth, they appeal to my colourful inner child!

Gustav Klimt. I am not very knowledgeable about art, but I know what I like! The beautiful gold colours, the celebration of life and love, and women. I have had a fascination with his work since I was a child, for some reason.

@WhatKatyDidNot I love the Singh Twins, too! Did you see their exhibition in Liverpool? It was so interesting.

Gustav Klimt I adore his user of colour