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.

Riusuke Fukahori... the artist who builds up layers of paint and resin to make amazing 3d fish bowls

Darren Mundy - So calming and serene but with a hint of fun.

My favourite is a vocal artist: Mike Patton. I could listen to him all day and not get bored with his voice. I've said it here before but he has the most versatile voice in music. Some of the stuff he did with John Zorn is utterly brilliant.

Another fan of Yvonne Coomber, @Pinkarsedfly. I'm skint as anything at the moment but so in love with one of her new designs. Totally trying to justify buying it.

But my absolute favourite artist is Fabian Perez. I saw a painting a few years ago and spent literally months trying to find out who it was by, then when I did I found out that it was only available in the US, A few thousand pounds later and it's above my bed. Check out Dancer In Red. It's just beautiful.

I'm not going to do mine, but DD's. she has a SEN and struggles at school, really badly with English and Maths. And I have a lovely friend who tries to reassure me with 'the reading will catch up, she knows so much' and I struggle to believe her. But we were going to an art gallery and I asked what she wanted to see. She started talking about light and dark and I said, "Vermeer?". Yes Vermeer. She may struggle to write her name legibly but she knows Vermeer. And knows what she likes. She picks the good ones (doesn't like the Nightwatch, good girl!).

Gustav Klimt
I have so many of his prints

Peter Doig for his brilliant use of colour and imagination in landscapes.

Also Edward Lear paintings, and anything by Manet and Berthe Morisot.

Wow - all these replies!
I will go through and check out every one...
For me, it is Caravaggio hands down. I’m reading a book on his life by Andrew Graham-Dixon and it’s fascinating. I love the way his work provoked such a visceral reaction.

Also Hogarth for me too - was hooked after seeing a Harlot’s progress and Marriage a la mode. He seems like he grandfather of modern satire and influenced another satirical artist called James Gillray whom I admire, not for the quality or beauty of his work (as it is neither) but for the messages it conveys.

Also was lucky enough to see Da Vinci’s sketches when they were on display at my local gallery.

I discovered Raqib Shaw's work last year at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art. He paints with enamel and the colours are just amazing. The works are large and full of detail, this particular exhibition was a re-working of Old Masters. I could have stayed all day looking at his work and I wish I could afford to buy one.

I also love Caravaggio’s talent with light, especially.

I’ve always loved René Magritte. I think it’s because his works are similar to children’s book illustrators I also love or loved as a child - Nicola Bayley and nowadays Anthony Browne. I like the slightly weird flavour of most of his works too.

So many amazing artists from which to choose! I love Turner's expressive seascapes and John Martin's elemental landscapes. The work of Frida Pablo is intriguing, Georgia O'Keeffe's flower paintings are beautiful and there are so many wonderful Impressionists with their immediacy and vigour. My favourite contemporary painter is Amanda Hosken who paints Cornish seascapes, and Antony Gormley's huge sculptures are iconic.

@Sarahlou252
I have one so far, which do you have?

Lovely thread thank you Findaway

I’m enjoying looking at everyone’s suggestions. Old favourites and new ones I didn’t know.

I haven’t got one favourite but I can add a few I love

Matisse
Raoul Dufy
Edward Hopper
Brad Kunkle

(And I’d love a Lowry if I win the lottery 😄)

I love the Pre-Raphaelites. Ophelia by John Everett Millais is probably my favourite painting of all time.

Edward Hopper. The sense of aching loneliness in his paintings is harrowing

For me, its Monet. I was lucky enough to attend the 100 years crossroads exhibition in 2001 at the Royal Academy where there were so many of his paintings exhibited. The room full of his water lilies all together, painted from different times perspectives and times of year. It was such a peaceful experience, there were lots of people in the room, but it evoked such a calmness in me just walking around gazing at the pictures.

The Houses of Parliament paintings room was also magnificent.... I was with my Dad and we still talk about the day and the paintings and the experience 😊

I also like Degas, Klimt and Kandinsky.

This is such a lovely thread.

This is a lovely blog for anyone interested particularly in women's art:

womensartblog.wordpress.com

And its associated Twitter account:

twitter.com/womensart1

Chagall. Dreamy and romantic although some of his work was also quite dark. Also had a very interesting life.

This thread would be much improved if people would only add a picture of their favourite artist's work (and not a link either)! I'm fascinated by the sound of all these artists I've never heard of but haven't all day to be googling. Come on folks add a photo ffs it's not hard!

Personally I find Mark Ryden's work fascinating.

Paula Rego - she's a under-rated, bad ass, genius of a painter.
followed by Georgia O'Keefe and Louise Bourgeois

Klimt. I love his use of colour and his beautiful paintings of women like Adele Bloch Bauer and Judith and the Head of Holofernes. I also like the Pre Raphaelites for the same reason, but Klimt is in a class of his own.

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

Sadly, no. But I'd have loved to. Short segment of them on Radio 4 here:

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05vpwvm

Grayson Perry is pretty good