Favorite Artist

[country woman]

my favorite artist is Thomas Kincade. On Boxing Day I went to the mall and went by an art store. I saw severall Kincade paintings on sale for a great price so with the money I recieved for Christmas I bought it. Wow It looks great in my home,

 

[chileice]

Most of my favourite artists are from centuries past. I like Esteban Murillo, a Spanish artist from the 1600s, I am a big fan of Frederic Edwin Church who was a painter from the Hudson River School in the 1800s. I also like Charles Demuth from the early 1900s and have a fascination with the art of Titian (Tiziano) from the 1500s. My favourite modern artist... is me! Ha! Not really, but I do enjoy painting.

 

[Cabbages]

The thing that bother's me most about Kinkade is that he takes advantage of the masses (who are sadly not so art-savvy) by putting cheap paper prints in his galleries that have only a few highlights of real paint on them (which are not even placed there by the holy hand of Kinkade himself- just some guy in a factory) and charging hundreds or thousands of dollars for them. They're not worth that much. He's more of a man of business than an artist in my opinion. The paintings do have a nice look, which I suppose is really what matters, but Kinkade is just too thievish for me.

I really love William Bouguereau, Jean-Léon Gérôme and Jacques-Louis David (David is famous for the Napoleon painting- the one on the horse). I saw a Bouguereau and a Gérôme last summer at a nearby museum. They were having a huge David exhibit at the time, so I saw several of those too- including the Napoleon. It's huge.

For more recent stuff I like Han-Wu Shen and Frank Frazetta. That's all traditional. There are plenty other artists I like- perhaps I'll gather some links together.

 

[chileice]

The thing that bother's me most about Kinkade is that he takes advantage of the masses (who are sadly not so art-savvy) by putting cheap paper prints in his galleries that have only a few highlights of real paint on them (which are not even placed there by the holy hand of Kinkade himself- just some guy in a factory) and charging hundreds or thousands of dollars for them. They're not worth that much. He's more of a man of business than an artist in my opinion. The paintings do have a nice look, which I suppose is really what matters, but Kinkade is just too thievish for me.

I really love William Bouguereau, Jean-Léon Gérôme and Jacques-Louis David (David is famous for the Napoleon painting- the one on the horse). I saw a Bouguereau and a Gérôme last summer at a nearby museum. They were having a huge David exhibit at the time, so I saw several of those too- including the Napoleon. It's huge.

For more recent stuff I like Han-Wu Shen and Frank Frazetta. That's all traditional. There are plenty other artists I like- perhaps I'll gather some links together.

Bouguereau and Gerome were good painters although they tended to specialize in the female figure. I agree about Kinkade. But, then again, people like it. What is art? If people like it, it is art for them. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.