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What's your favorite painting? Sculpture? Style? (Feel free to add others.)
Who's your favorite artist?
What's your favorite work that you have seen in person?
What one work do you hope to see before you die?
What's your favorite art museum?
Are you artistic?

- Jake

One of my favorite topics. ;)

My favorites are Henri Matisse, Jean Cocteau, and Paul Gauguin. I have their stuff all over my apartment. The ones I'm especially fond of are Mattisse's "Blue Nudes." I have a framed poster about six feet tall of a shot of inside Cocteau's house that highlights all the found objects he encased in plaster, it's stunning and I have it hanging so you can see it right when you walk in. I have one of Matisse's Blue Nudes mounted on a lightbox in my living room and three Gauguin's in my bedroom. I even have one of Matisse's Dance prints in my office.

My favorite style is impressionism, it's beautiful.

I also love photography and have a few Mapplethorpe photos framed, too (none of the nasty ones :lol: ).

My favorite museum is the Met. I could spend hours in there.

I am artistic. ;) I have to be to do what I do for a living. A few months ago, I tried my hand at painting one of Matisse's works on my wall in my bedroom and it came out very nicely.

Rene Magritte. I was so happy when FM did the "Hold Me" video and it was based on Rene Magritte's work.

My favorite Artists are
Dali and
My Mom
I also like Maxfield Parrish
I like surrealist but have liked a lot of different everything over the years.
I don't like it when people get snobby about art, because i don't think people should dictate beauty.
I don't really like the art from the 50's, I guess Pollack and stuff? Just paint splatters and shapes, etc? That is probably my least favorite style. Might like it more if they used prettier colors :laugh:
Amber

favorite artists:

Wassily Kandinsky - ever since I saw Six Degrees of Separation (the Kandinsky has two sides..) I have loved his work...

Van Gogh - even though it's become all trendy to like his stuff, Cafe Terrace at Night is the first painting I ever fell in love with.

Michael Sowa
Magritte

There are some paintings I love but whose artists I can't think of/don't know...

And lastly, my nephew is my favorite artist of all...I love all his little drawings (which are always of animals)

I can draw cartoony things but not like real and realistic type things....

My favorite artist is Dali (hi Amber! :wavey: ). I love surrealistic artwork.

Am I artistic? NOT AT ALL!

I love that film...

I took an art history class in college and found it incredibly fascinating. I've been to Le Musée d'Orsay, The Louvre, and of course the Philadelphia Art Museum. The Louvre is completely overwhelming. I wasn't a big fan of that place except for it's architecture. However, it did have some beautiful pieces of art...I just didn't see them all. Le Musée d'Orsay is absolutely amazing. It houses a lot of Van Gogh, Manet, Monet, and Renoir...some of my favorites...and it small enough so you can take it all in.

I took a few art classes when I was younger. Back in high school I had a day planner with scenes around France. I used to get really bored during one particular class so I took out paper and starting drawing the scenes in the planner. I was really good friends with my French teacher so she took it and it's still hanging up in her classroom. My parents have absolutely no artistic ability but my dads brothers daughter is an art student. I guess it skipped our fathers :shrug:

Cool. Smurf porn. ;)

A lot of my students are into Impressionism. I think there's something very fetching & imaginative about it to kids.

Which Matisse did you paint on your wall?

- Jake

How cute was Stevie in that hat and get-up. :thumbsup:

- Jake

I'm not big on the splattered art myself, but it was an important statement for its time.

- Jake

My brother is a huge Van Gogh fan.

And hey, just because it's not realistic doesn't mean you're not making art, right?

- Jake

Cool. Free Tibet! ;) :sorry:


Fans of surrealism seem to be pretty gung-ho for it. Kind of like Stevie or Lindsey fans.

- Jake

Beasts of the Sea:

http://www.geocities.com/Paris/LeftB...8/matbeast.jpg

I used tissue paper to give it texture instead of just literally painting it onto a wall. I have venetian plaster walls, so it came out really nice. I got rid of the tan background so it just looks like two pillars next to each other.

I'm getting a red X where you put the pic, but that's probably just my connection.
Can't say I know just what Venetian plaster is (other than plaster from Venice, I assume), but as long as you like it, good.
One of the great things about art is that it brings out people's passions. And I like the idea of personalizing a place of residence.
(Usually, at least. Remember that St. Elmo's Fire apartment with the horrible giant Billy Idol painting right on the wall? :lol: )

- Jake

In order of the questions:

My favorite painting of all time is "Tiger In A Tropical Storm (Surprise!)" by Henri Rousseau.

My favorite artist is Rousseau.

I saw Monet's "Waterlilies" at a traveling exhibit called "The Heroes of the 20th Century". I also saw Rousseau's "The Dream" and Van Gogh's "Starry Night". That exhibit kicked major a**!!

I would love to see the "Mona Lisa" before I die.

My favorite art museum is the Louvre, even though I never went there...

Artistic? A little...

Such a total dissapointment. Basically there are 1000 Japanese tourists standing there gawking at it whenever you go. It's SO small and it's encased in glass. Lame.

I haven't been there in twenty years, but I remember there being a glare on the glass.

On the other hand, you can walk right up to Venus de Milo (or at least you coul the). No wonder someone broke the arms. ;)

- Jake

I missed the Waterlilies exhibit, but it was all the talk a little while back.

- Jake

:laugh:

Major glare. Yep. You can still walk right up to it

But she doesn't glitter when I do. ;) :lol:

- Jake

You're so lame... :laugh: ;)

Art!
 

Ohhh I LOVE art...

What's your favorite painting? Sculpture? Style?
Fav paintng, waterlillies by Monet. Sculpture: Anything by Michelangelo, although I also love Calder.
Style: Impressionism
Who's your favorite artist? Monet, Michelangelo, Ansel Adams, Miro, Dali, Laurel Burch, Franz Marc, Vermeer, Degas, Walt Disney...
What's your favorite work that you have seen in person? Van Goughs Irises and Monets "Church", they are truly astounding in person. Saw them at the Getty.
What one work do you hope to see before you die? Sistine Chapel and The Waterlily Room
What's your favorite art museum? The Getty (have yet to see the Louve or the Met)
Are you artistic? Very, fave medium is pastel but I can work with anything (acrylic to plaster to printmaking to ceramic), makes for great stress relief, if I'm not on the net at 2am chances are I'm listening to rock music and drawing.

My favorite artist? One of them would have to be Michelangelo. His sculptures are amazing. That whole freeing the work from the rock blows my mind.

Favorite work seen in person? I was choked up getting to see a lot of the Greek antiquities in the British Museum, and some of the really old Babylonian/Ninevah, Egyptian stuff there. I saw some amazing stuff in Berlin- the Pergamon Altar was cool. I saw Neferti in Berlin as well. The Louve Museum was amazing- Mona Lisa was small! The Flying Victory Statue was probably my favorite. Traveling to see these things at the end of college was a "must do" for me, and a serious part of my own continuing ed. I figured I might not to get to do it later when tied down working, etc.

What one work do you hope to see before you die? It's not really a work of art I guess, and the work wasn't exactly fair, but I'd like to see the Great Pyramids/Sphinx in Gaza. I don't think that's ever going to happen.

What's your favorite art museum? The Louvre.

Are you artistic? Nope! Maybe autistic at times! ;)

How would you describe the art that you create?

- Jake

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Colorful, it used to be very realistic stuff, but mostly it has tended more toward impressionism and fauvism. As for meduims all types but mostly pastel b/c the colors bled so well and are so bright. I don't really care for abstract although I have a few pics that would be rather psycadelic or a bit like Creams "Wheels of Fire" album. The sujects vary from horses to people to landscape to just distorted shapes. I would scan a pic but I have no way to post them.

Well if you ever find a way, it would be great to see them.

I'm always drawn to darker brooding pictures myself.

- Jake

Thanks Jake, one of these days I may eventually get my act together enough to take decent pics of my work. Oh and in the original reply I forgot to mention Stanley Mouse and Peter Max as fav artists.

A few of my...
 

favorite artists:

Alex Ross

Boris Vallego

Frank Frazetta

Olivia (Her last name escapes me)

Jonathon Bowser (I love this guy's art...On the bottom of this page is a drawing named gnb.jpg which looks alot like one of my best friends in the world Kelli R.)

http://www.scanraptor.com/artcoll/jbowser1.htm


Stanley Mouse

Roger Dean (Any of his Yes album covers)

I'll be watching for them. :wavey:

- Jake

I don't think I've seen these before.

- Jake