The top 3 in my list are:
Leonardo da Vinci
Because not only he was a great artist, but also a scientist, an inventor, an architect and the list goes on!
Who doesn't know the famous Mona Lisa!
The Last Supper
El Greco
He was born in the same island and city as my father, so he has a special place in my heart.
A Boy Blowing on an Ember to Light a Candle
Christ Blessing
Pablo Picasso
I love his work especially for his unique style.
My favorite of his paintings is: Guernica
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I've always loved surrealism. If you like Dali, I'd recommend exploring Vladimir Kush. I've had the privilege of visiting his galleries in Vegas and Sante Fe, and getting to see the detail in each work up close is an experience.
I also enjoy stuff from the Dutch and Flemish Renaissance. Anything by Pieter Bruegel the Elder or Pieter Aertsen is great.
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Gustave Doré is one of my faves, but I appreciate a lot of different art.
But, as Urthemiel said, the lewd warriors. They have a special place in my hand heart as well.
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I own a few pieces by Merschimer
https://www.davidsongalleries.com/artists/contemporary/frederick-mershimer/h
http://www.frederickmershimer.com/
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Da Vinci and Dali have always been my favorites.
Klimt, recently, has been appealing to me more, especially after playing Transistor, for some reason (not sure if they drew inspiration from Klimt or not).
Also, from my MtG days, Anson Maddocks and Richard Kane Ferguson, among many others (I don't like the direction of the newer art... it all feels too polished now.)
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https://i.pinimg.com/564x/d5/be/20/d5be202a115b63024eafc503fde8be71.jpg
Vincent Van Gogh - Cottage at dusk
https://static.dir.bg/uploads/images/2017/09/07/19987/orig.jpg?_=1504793745
Anything by Gustave Doré's troupe like this from The Raven from Edgar Allan Poe
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d2/Paradiso_Canto_31.jpg
or this from the Divine Comedy (Paradise)
From comics:
This is an argentinian comic artist named Enrique (Quique) Alcatena. He's amazing
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_7b1rfJObwq0/TNGRtJMo66I/AAAAAAAAFd0/mSQPQRgRFPQ/s1600/m+t+14.jpg
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_7b1rfJObwq0/TNGSoKfNCaI/AAAAAAAAFfE/f-WWdDB61_8/s1600/m+t+05.jpg
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_7b1rfJObwq0/TNGShgezJPI/AAAAAAAAFe8/ieiHb0x68kQ/s1600/m+t+06.jpg
From Photography:
I recommend the works of Sebastião Salgado
(also the documentary about his life is inspiring and heartwrenching - The Salt of the Earth).
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Finally some van Gogh :D
Also reminded me of this:
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Really nice!
That's my favourite painting of him. I know it's strange with so many iconic works, but hey, that's the way the news goes.
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Oh no I get it, he accomplished a lot with a seemingly limited palette and a very rough style.
We were lucky enough to visit the Kröller-Müller Museum, a Dutch museum in the middle of a nature reserve that can (almost) only be reached by bicycle.
It has the second largest van Gogh collection in the world and many works were bought for peanuts compared to today's prices.
That is great for them, what is great for the visitors is that you can walk up to the paintings and look at them from mere centimeters away and it's quiet enough most of the time that you can really take it all in. It is an experience, first the bike ride through nature, then the tranquility of the museum, and they have an amazing sculpture garden too.
https://krollermuller.nl/en/van-gogh-gallery
It is such a stark contrast between that and the van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. Heavy traffic, lines going around the block twice, pushing and shoving in the entrance, getting rushed around and watched all the time.
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You know what? As an added bonus, since the written word can also be described as art, I'll allow your favorite poets as well. Poetry counts here.
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This Be The Verse by Philip Larkin
Not my most favorite but I love it.
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Poetry? Hmm, maybe some prose?
"I pitched and tossed and turned and spun—doing my best to avoid him—until I just couldn’t take it anymore. I forced the heavy lids up and open and stared the eyeballs straight into the beastly light. I dunked my face into the pot of hot coffee and dove out the window and thus began the day. Things to do . . . Up. Awake. Onward. Forward."
-Johnny Depp, about his visit to George Jung as preparation for his role in 'Blow'
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Nobody paints weather like Turner.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._M._W._Turner#/media/File:Joseph_Mallord_William_Turner_024.jpg
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Oh really? :P
It is called a Dutch sky for a reason :)
https://www.nga.gov/features/slideshows/dutch-landscapes-and-seascapes-of-the-1600s.html#slide_4
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I'm sure. I really like Dutch and Flemish painting too. I believe Turner was influenced early on by Dutch seascape painters, but later on his work developed into something quite different.
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Cool, yeah I see he lifts it beyond the classics, it has the 'water in my eyes' look where you see detail that isn't even there, the brain just fills it in for you :)
It all reminds of the paint by number painting Sean Maguire has in his office. (and what Will Hunting says about it)
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Really? Do you mean that it looks like a shitty paint by numbers to you? Or what he says later about the feeling of crisis it invokes?
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Haha, yeah, I meant the situation he sketches, that "Oh shit" moment when all seems lost.
That shitty paint-by-number painting sold at auction for a lot of money ;)
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Rene Magritte
https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2018/NYR/2018_NYR_15978_0116_000(rene_magritte_le_colloque_sentimental).jpg
https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/sfmoma-media-dev/www-media/2018/08/25064501/98.562_01_H02-Large-TIFF_4000-pixels-long.jpg
Roy Lichtenstein
http://www.kunsteder.dk/sites/default/files/styles/full_text/public/397_roy_lichtenstein-croppe.jpg
https://media.mutualart.com/Images/2019_12/23/13/130955378/3267a577-5773-4743-9434-6069dacb5764.Jpeg
https://images.e-flux-systems.com/65451_4309589812005e96039101b832bbe134.jpg,2000x2000
Claes Oldenberg
https://d16kd6gzalkogb.cloudfront.net/magazine_images/Claes-Oldenburg-and-Coosje-van-Bruggen-%E2%80%93-Mistos_.jpg
https://www.dreamideamachine.com/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2019/01/0003.jpg
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/ed/a2/e7/eda2e7a017e7a80a6e3457523ef485b0.jpg
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I'm a big fan of Lois Van Barle; I even used one of her paintings as my banner for Backloggery, because it perfectly describes what my dreams are like. If you're curious, it's under commissions and illustrations: assorted; you'll know it when you see it. There's just so much color and whimsy to her style, while still being dark and ethereal.
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I like van Gogh's style and colour use, I am amazed by the skill of hyper realists, I respects the message Banksy tries to put across, but painted or sculpted (etc) art does not really touch me emotionally. My preferred arts are press photography (real emotion, no posing), film (cinema), or music.
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Caravaggio
and
Gian Lorenzo Bernini Which made Rome more wonderful than it already was
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I really like Dali myself, and Escher is one of my favorites.
Have you happen to have heard of Rob Gonsalves? He got some viral attention a few years ago - I first saw his work on Facebook. I'd compare him to a mix of Escher and Dali, so it works for me!
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Not an expert, but I really loved the art hours at school. Among many exceptional styles, I love Impressionism, their study of light, and destructuration of reality; and some parts of its evolution, from Divisionism to Macchiaioli. And some aspects of Futurism.
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Vasily Vereshchagin definitely tops my artists list. Especially after seeing his major works, including the famous Apotheosis of War in Tretyakov Gallery last year. All of his orientalist paintings are simply majestic.
Ivan Aivazovsky is, in my opinion, the best marinist ever and his orientalist paintings are magnificent as well (I guess I'm just a huge fan of orientalism, heh).
I wouldn't call Vasily Perov one of my favorites in general, but his Hunters at Rest is definitely one of my favorite paintings. There was a reproduction of it in my grandparents summer house, so it is like a warm childhood memory to me.
Giovanni Francesco Nagli also deserves a mention, he's not really considered a "big" and famous painter but me and my gf were really impressed by his David and Goliath when we were in Rimini Museum. A totally brilliant perspective!
I'm also quite fond of impressionists, with Camille Pissarro being my favorite among them.
Of modern artists, Brom definitely deserves a mention. Actually, I find his use of colors in certain Dark Sun works quite similar to Vereshchagin's, despite the themes being very different.
I think that's enough for now. I could go on for an infinite time otherwise. :)
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I guess I kind of shot myself in the foot here. I said no video games, but I forgot about anime. Oh well, Too late to take that one back.
Just no hentai art here. Lets keep this clean and classy.
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William-Adolphe Bouguereau
His shepherd girls are the best :) But other works are also good. Here are some (some have naked women, marked those with NSFW).
J. C. Leyendecker
https://66.media.tumblr.com/e4e0504f6ef91f5c5632d901130d1e45/tumblr_nuxgiavvoz1qzx74yo1_1280.jpg
https://66.media.tumblr.com/96623433e7c69cac12e0b29e8646232e/tumblr_nus72nCjc41qzx74yo1_1280.jpg
https://66.media.tumblr.com/9b877cb707000dc830a92ff1f36a82aa/tumblr_ng7datVvTN1qcpt9eo1_1280.jpg
https://66.media.tumblr.com/2aa97184083a5c4ce263f4da1fcced70/tumblr_n01v598HSQ1sg9wpro1_r1_1280.jpg
https://66.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l7p0znzy391qcpk98o1_1280.jpg
https://66.media.tumblr.com/6b4051a51576d04d1ac9c4d74da94516/tumblr_mn3qhtdNqA1rz3tsio1_500.jpg
Among others -- Klimt, van Gogh, Monet. Also many Orientalism paintings.
As for individual paintings -- The Swing by Jean-Honoré Fragonard.
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So I was helping to clean the parents basement today and I found my print of an artwork I forgot I had from a favorite artist.
Salvador Dali. His work is so surreal yet so fascinating and captivation to look at.
Frank Frazetta is also a favorite of mine.
So I was hoping that there are other NON-video game art aficionado's out there as well that can appreciate an artists work, be it Neo-cubism, oil, or even sculptures. No matter the media. Just NO video game art.
Who are your favorite artists and art styles?
Lets see some class here.
And, as a shameless plug, I'll repost my recent GA.
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