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.

Marc Chagall for me. I like the dreamlike surrealism.

Also Klimt: his pictures are sexy.

I don't know very much about Art and I thought Grayson Perry was some nice bloke in a dress, and his actual life was his art, if you see what I mean. But I saw his work at the RA recently and really loved it. So clever.

I am not very knowledgeable about art, but I know what I like! oxymoron right there!

I like Dali.

I love a Dali. I was blown away when I first seen the Christ of St John on the Cross at the Kelvingrove Gallery in Glasgow. ( Not sure if its still there or maybe on tour).

I love fantasy art especially if it's a bit kinky or macabre. I love the being able to see into the artists imagination a bit like reading a brilliant story. I'm a big fan of many and I can't choose one so...
Favourites are
Dimitri Patalis
Stefano Koidl
Ben Newman
Boris Vallejo
Luis Royo
William Blake

Chagall. His paintings are like vivid dreams that you can’t explain but you totally understand.

@zenithbear, you may also enjoy Hieronymus Bosch. His paintings are fascinating.

I'm not terribly arty at all but I'm very keen on Klimt.

Terry Bradley would probably be mine, I like the boldness of the colour and slight abstractness of his paintings.

Marc Chagall.

Paul Klee for the playfulness and Henri Matisse for the sheer joy

Another one for Klimt, I love his representation of women but also his forest and tree of life works.
Hundertwasser (great name) as well for the colour and energy and Rodin’s sculptures, the kiss in particular.
Hieronymous Bosch for the intricacy.

Mine are
Walter Sickert, wonderful insight into Victorian and Edwardian working class life.

Edvard Munch, I've been fascinated by him since I was a child, and

Pierre Bonnard, brilliant colour and composition.

Caravaggio and Turner, plus all the pre Raphaelites.

Not keen on modern art at all.

And the impressionists of course, Monet, Manet Toulouse Letrec

Egon Schiele, Gustav Klimt and Picasso. Also love Frida Kahlo

Hmm this is a hard question. At the moment I am enjoying Scott Naismiths work as I love the way he captures a sky and the colours.

Kiki smith
Pippalotti rist
Emma Talbot
Anne hardy
Jill magid

Minnie Cunningham at the Old Bedford, by Walter Sickert

My favourite artist is Leonardo da Vinci, I love the stories that have been made from his artwork.

My favourite painting is Whistlejacket by George Stubbs. I took the DC’s to see it when they were younger and the look on their faces as they tried to take in the hugeness of it. Stunning.

Rothko. Especially the Seagram Murals.
Also love Dale Chihuly's sculptures. Frothing, fizzing, stunning works.
Lucien Freud.
David Hockney - particularly his paintings of Celia Birtwell. He captures her so beautifully.

I used to love Van Gogh but now I find it too painfully emotional to look at. Even the brighter works.

Jespers

Paula Rego - she's a under-rated, bad ass, genius of a painter.

My daughter has just been to visit the Paula Rego museum just outside of Lisbon, she was overwhelmed with it, and she said that the building was a work of art in itself!

@joker123 I have The Lace Tree and Wendy. If I ever get the chance I would love either Red Riding Hood or Rose Red & Snow White - absolutely stunning. I love a Celtic Twilight too, there's just so much on it. A lot of her work takes me back to my Enid Blyton childhood, I think that's why I like her!

Elisabeth Vigee Lebrun.

Her self portraits are so lively and immediate and I can almost imagine being her friend! Especially as they are so very different from the "fashionable" style of the time.

I know absolutely nothing at all about art, however I adore Fabian Perez. They just provoke a very real and emotional reaction from me. There are some that I feel like encapsulate an entire mood or feeling, for example his flamenco works, they say everything about how I feel, eyes closed, dancing. I find it difficult to put it into words but his work produces a visual explanation that I can put myself into.