Post your favourite paintings here:

[Dubversion]

Pie Face posting

 

[zenie]

I really like George Shaw's work, it is all painted with humbrol enamel paint - the same as you use on airfix models. I think that is why I like it so much, it reminds me of being a kid in the eighties before the web, before computers and when the height of cool was snake belts and raleigh grifters. They're devoid of human influence. There is no rubbish, no people, no cars, no wheely bins, no sky dishes. It is difficult to pin point the date that they were painted by looking at them - despite them being photorealistic.

I found out he also likes Francis Bacon, (who is one of my favourites), and when he went to meet him, Bacon opened the window and told him to fuck off! He was also an art school drop out, and his grievances with art school are also shared by me. A very sentimental painter, and I myself am quite a sentimental person. It is odd how some things just 'tap' in to you with out you even knowing it. Hate to say it but I feel empathy in his work.

Here's an article with him in the guardian:
http://society.guardian.co.uk/housing/story/0,7890,1017146,00.html

Photorealism

I like his work a lot the council estates are fuckin excellent.

 

[Firky]

Dekooning

More Francis Bacon

 

[Firky]

Cynthia Pell (although there aint much of it online)

Poor lass was crazy as fuck

Cynthia Pell committed suicide in 1977, after a lifelong history of manic-depressive illness during which she spent much time as an inpatient in psychiatric hospitals. Trained at Camberwell School of Art, she exhibited only once, at the Beaux Art Gallery in 1957. Immediately after the exhibition she destroyed many of her pictures on the pavement outside the gallery. Other work was destroyed after her death, leaving a small body of powerful, intense, and often intensely painful drawings and paintings, which until very recently were known only to those who had preserved them in tribute to her memory as a friend and her qualities as an artist.

Her last four years were spent in Bexley Hospital on the edge of Dartford Heath, formerly one of the huge asylums which ringed London by the end of the 19th century, and still, in 1973, home to more than 1,000 patients. All but one of the pictures shown here come from this period.

While in the hospital she recorded with unflinching honesty the daily lives and suffering of those around her. Britta von Zweigbergk, the art therapist who befriended her, supplied her with materials, and saved the Bexley drawings after her death, has written: I began to see Cynthia as quite similar to a foreign correspondent reporting from a war torn battlefield. Her drawings and paintings were her dispatches, often sent in a hurry with scant regard for personal safety…

Although she signed all the Bexley pictures with her married name 'Weldon', she had throughout her marriage, which had ended many years earlier, always used her maiden name of 'Pell'.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

That's one of my favourites too.

 

[Firky]

Barbara Ploner (don't really know much about her, South African artist I think.)

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

 

[pinkmonkey]

My all time favourite..

Because it makes me go and

 

[Firky]

Stanley Donwood

HUGE one

 

[Firky]

Everyone seems to have 'jollier' tastes than me. It seems I am drawn to the macabre and bleak. Bacon, Dekooning, Donwood, Pell, and Shaw ffs. Hardly happy images

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

 

[Firky]

^^

That is wicked, who is it?

 

[Groucho]

Rene Magritte was a superb artist.

The other Magritte on this thread is cool too. The two of his that stick in my mind though are the lovers with their heads covered in sheets and the train emerging from the fire place.

Gericault's Raft of the Medusa is an iconic example of 'History painting' but of a contemporary event of some controversy. It is worth considering alongside Picasso's great Guernica...

 

[Groucho]

Because it makes me go and

Dorothea Tanning. Fantastic.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

^^

That is wicked, who is it?

Alex Colville.

 

[Louloubelle]

 

[Robster970]

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Anybody who loves Balthus is a friend of mine...

 

[Louloubelle]

Anybody who loves Balthus is a friend of mine...

he was a truly great painter

I'd like to say more about him but I'm off to bed

I think he probably deserves his own thread, what with the controversy over the guitar lesson and his choice of subjects

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

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[Johnny Canuck3]

 

[wayward bob]

who's this?

 

[chilango]

Kasimir MalevichWhite Square on White

 

[boohoo]

Ferdinand Hodler: Night