Let's Talk Art History - Page 2

[jadegirl553]

Originally Posted by debm

Lets hear it for the female artists who somehow managed to become famous in a man's world!

Sofonisba Anguissola
Artemisia Gentileschi (if you have not read her incredible story you are missing out!!)
Mary Cassatt
Camille Claudel
Louise Bourgeois
Helen Frankenthaler
Frida Kahol
Louise Nevelson
Georgia O'Keeffe
Eva Hesse
Lee Krasner

Good call! I love all of these. And you're right about Artemesia's story, it is incredible! I read this book, and it was really moving.

[jadegirl553]

Originally Posted by eepster

DH is fond of Waterhouse. I tend to notice that the romantic movement as a whole tends to get dismissed. My favorite early photographer, Julia Margaret Cameron, is also a romantisist artist. I think the romantic movement tends to get ignored b/c it wasn't about being inovative or shocking like the other movements of the period.

JMC is one of my favorites, and is the reason I fell in love with photography. There are so many strong women photographers!

[jadegirl553]

So have any of you noticed that your personal tastes have changed since you first fell in love with art?

I first fell in love with the Impressionists, but now I favor things that are more... well, that aren't as soft and muted. I've been thinking about this a lot lately, and I'm having trouble putting into words why my tastes changed.

[Arduinna]

Originally Posted by eepster

I love Islamic/Persian design.

Oh me too, I love Persian miniatures. Islamic and Persian and art and architecture and design from the Mughal period. As for painting, I like Jean-Leon Gerome and Delacroix in their Orientalist period. I also love neoclassical and I second the previous poster I love Waterhouse also.

[Bennie45]

Originally Posted by GranoLLLy-girl

I love Pollock. I love abstract expressionism. Love it love it love it.
Love post-modern anything.
I have a house full of Pollock posters.

Ohh You would love this site I found it the other day in a magazine.http://jacksonpollock.org/ you get to create a painintg just like him..

[Bennie45]

Now personally I have a weekness for Anything Italian, but only int he area of Excuse the spelling Caravagiao.

[eepster]

Originally Posted by Bennie45

Ohh You would love this site I found it the other day in a magazine.http://jacksonpollock.org/ you get to create a painintg just like him..

DS is going to love that as soon as his nap is done.

[Bennie45]

your welcome, I love it. No mess.

[Masel]

My favorite art is medieval. I love how they have words and paint together as well as tossing in gold leaf (oh shiny) and sculptured integral frames. I also that they don't care about an illusion of depth and how we often don't know the name of the artist. The other art students would make fun of me and wonder aloud how I could find art in yet another Mother and Child enthroned with Saints and Angels.

[bluetrain]

I love a real mixture across the board, from renaissance to 20th century, figurative to abstract!
I love all these


Matisee
Bonnard
Braque
Ben Nicholson
Chagall
Bonnard
Rothko
William Scott
Patrick Heron
Antonio Tapies
Piero Della Francesca
Giotto
Paula Rego
John Piper

[CherryBomb]

I'm pretty traditional, I love the classical period. I also love baroque, particularly Rembrandt! I <3 him! And of course Catholic arts.

I was never a huge fan of impressionism and the like, though I can apperciate it.

[bluetrain]

CherryBomb- what's catholic arts?
Catholic as in the sense of all embracing, or religious? Sorry to be dense!
Having catholic taste means broard doesn't it, but I'm not sure why(?)

I love the church paintings in pre rennaissance churches, Giotto, Massacio, Duccio,Cimabue, Utrillo.
I'm not so keen on the more over blown full on high church ones.

[LittleSaylorBoat]

I've always loved Jan Van Eyck. Everything in his paintings seems to be just slightly off, as if you are looking into another dimension.

[Bennie45]

You guys would love Italy!! Most of the art is in the churches still, and if not a copy of them to see where they origanlly were.