# My Favorite Visual Artists **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 23, 2004, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-favorite-visual-artists/230583 "2004-02-23T01:54:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2004, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-favorite-visual-artists/230583/1 "2004-02-23T01:54:01Z")
Not necessarily in order of preference, these are some artists I love (scroll down to see examples): [Matisse](http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/matisse/) [Hockney](http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/hockney/) [Rousseau](http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/rousseau/) [Whistler](http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/whistler/) That’s off the top of my head. Who do you like? ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2004, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-favorite-visual-artists/230583/2 "2004-02-23T03:04:07Z")
Picasso Dali Van Gogh Matisse Most of the impressionists Willem de Kooning Roy Lichtenstein Frank Frazetta and as far as non-big name artists go: Sabzi Tsar (Valery Tsarikovsky) Scott Burdick (Very good overall, but best faces in a painterly style I’ve ever seen) ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2004, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-favorite-visual-artists/230583/3 "2004-02-23T05:06:11Z")
[Edward Hopper](http://cgfa.sunsite.dk/hopper/p-hopper12.htm) [Joseph Raffael](http://www.josephraffael.com/recent/popup_big_recent.html#15) ---
**Author:** ![Moo\_the\_Magic\_Cow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ebca7d/32.png) [@Moo\_the\_Magic\_Cow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moo_the_Magic_Cow)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2004, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-favorite-visual-artists/230583/4 "2004-02-23T05:14:59Z")
Caspar David Friedrich Andy Warhol I forget the rest but there are a lot ---
**Author:** ![gum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bbe5ce/32.png) [@gum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gum)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2004, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-favorite-visual-artists/230583/5 "2004-02-23T06:37:30Z")
[Carel Willink](http://www.carel-willink.nl/) [Escher](http://www.mcescher.com/) [Rene Magritte](http://www.magritte.com/) and Hopper, Vincent van Gogh and a lot more. ---
**Author:** ![Dragon\_Phoenix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@Dragon\_Phoenix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragon_Phoenix)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2004, 10:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-favorite-visual-artists/230583/6 "2004-02-23T10:35:15Z")
[My wife](http://www.lu-art.com) Marc van Gogh Monet Pissarro Sisley Munch Macke Turner Lempicka Hoppe van Dongen de Vlaeminck Stael Magritte Nolde ---
**Author:** ![gum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bbe5ce/32.png) [@gum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gum)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2004, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-favorite-visual-artists/230583/7 "2004-02-23T14:45:52Z")
I like her, **Dragon Phoenix**. Especially the ‘Young and Old’ ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2004, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-favorite-visual-artists/230583/8 "2004-02-23T15:46:53Z")
Heironymous Bosch. Whoever did the cover art for New Order’s _Republic_. ---
**Author:** ![Gotterfunken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/58956e/32.png) [@Gotterfunken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gotterfunken)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2004, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-favorite-visual-artists/230583/9 "2004-02-23T17:21:21Z")
You asked for it. **Renaissance-18th century** : [Fra Angelico](http://www.kfki.hu/~arthp/html/a/angelico/index.html) [Giovanni Bellini](http://www.kfki.hu/~arthp/html/b/bellini/giovanni/index.html) [Bosch](http://www.kfki.hu/~arthp/html/b/bosch/painting/index.html) [Caravaggio](http://www.kfki.hu/~arthp/html/c/caravagg/index.html) [Carpaccio](http://www.kfki.hu/~arthp/html/c/carpacci/index.html) [Correggio](http://www.kfki.hu/~arthp/html/c/correggi/index.html) [Francesco del Cossa](http://www.kfki.hu/~arthp/html/c/cossa/index.html) [Gerard David](http://www.kfki.hu/~arthp/html/d/david/index.html) [Fragonard](http://www.kfki.hu/~arthp/html/f/fragonar/index.html) [Geertgen tot Sint-Jans](http://www.kfki.hu/~arthp/html/g/geertgen/index.html) [Gentile da Fabriano](http://www.kfki.hu/~arthp/html/g/gentile/index.html) [Giorgione](http://www.kfki.hu/~arthp/html/g/giorgion/index.html) [Pieter de Hooch](http://www.kfki.hu/~arthp/html/h/hooch/index.html) [Honthorst](http://www.kfki.hu/~arthp/html/h/honthors/index.html) [Georges de la Tour](http://www.kfki.hu/~arthp/html/l/la_tour/georges/index.html) [Fra Filippo Lippi](http://www.kfki.hu/~arthp/html/l/lippi/filippo/index.html) [Murillo](http://www.kfki.hu/~arthp/html/m/murillo/index.html) [Pontormo](http://www.kfki.hu/~arthp/html/p/pontormo/index.html) [Raphael](http://www.kfki.hu/~arthp/html/r/raphael/index.html) [Ribera](http://www.kfki.hu/~arthp/html/r/ribera/index.html) [Sassetta](http://www.kfki.hu/~arthp/html/s/sassetta/index.html) [Terborch](http://www.kfki.hu/~arthp/html/t/terborch/index.html) [Titian](http://www.kfki.hu/~arthp/html/t/tiziano/index.html) [Tura](http://www.kfki.hu/~arthp/html/t/tura/index.html) [Velazquez](http://www.kfki.hu/~arthp/html/v/velazque/index.html) [Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun](http://www.kfki.hu/~arthp/html/v/vigee/index.html) [Watteau](http://www.kfki.hu/~arthp/html/w/watteau/antoine/index.html) [Zurbaran](http://www.kfki.hu/~arthp/html/z/zurbaran/index.html) **From nineteenth to twentieth-century** : [Bocklin](http://www.artmagick.com/artists/bocklin.aspx) [Burne-Jones](http://www.artmagick.com/artists/burne.aspx) [Chasseriau](http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/chasseriau/) [de Chirico](http://www.abcgallery.com/C/chirico/chirico.html) [Corot](http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/corot/) [Delacroix](http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/delacroix/) [Ensor](http://www.artmagick.com/artists/ensor.aspx) [Max Ernst](http://www.abcgallery.com/E/ernst/ernst.html) [Friedrich](http://www.artmagick.com/artists/friedrich.aspx) [Goya](http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/goya/) [Hopper](http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/hopper/) [Ingres](http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/ingres/) [Kandinsky](http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/kandinsky/) [Khnopff](http://www.artmagick.com/artists/khnopff.aspx) [Klimt](http://www.artmagick.com/artists/klimt.aspx) [Modigliani](http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/modigliani/) [Albert Moore](http://www.artmagick.com/artists/moore.aspx) [Moreau](http://www.artmagick.com/artists/moreau.aspx) [Morisot](http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/morisot/) [Mucha](http://www.artmagick.com/artists/mucha.aspx) [Munch](http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/munch/) [Picasso](http://www.abcgallery.com/P/picasso/picasso.html) [Pollock](http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/pollock/) [Puvis de Chavannes](http://www.artmagick.com/artists/puvis.aspx) [Redon](http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/redon/) [Rossetti](http://www.artmagick.com/artists/rossetti.aspx) [Sargent](http://www.artmagick.com/artists/sargent.aspx) [Stillman](http://www.artmagick.com/artists/stillman.aspx) [Tanguy](http://www.abcgallery.com/T/tanguy/tanguy.html) [von Stuck](http://www.artmagick.com/artists/stuck.aspx) [G. F. Watts](http://www.artmagick.com/artists/watts.aspx) Sorry I can’t narrow it down any further. Actually, I probably left a few out of either of those lists. ---
**Author:** ![Kizarvexius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/da6949/32.png) [@Kizarvexius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kizarvexius)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2004, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-favorite-visual-artists/230583/10 "2004-02-23T17:27:35Z")
Raphael Fra Angelico Massacio Titian but my favorite by far: Alma-Tadema ---
**Author:** ![Second\_Guest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/87869e/32.png) [@Second\_Guest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Second_Guest)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2004, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-favorite-visual-artists/230583/11 "2004-02-23T18:56:31Z")
I’ve just realized something a bit weird about myself: I have no favorite artist(s). There are some that I tend to like more than others, but while a van Gogh landscape or one of Frida Kahlo’s many self-portraits might move me one day, I could look at them the next day and feel nothing. To me, they’re all just the view outside my mental window, and my preferences shift and change with my state of mind. At this moment, however, I’m really liking this [oil painting](http://www.library.yale.edu/beinecke/orient/images/114.jpg) by e.e. cummings. ---
**Author:** ![Ellie\_s\_Granny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/838e76/32.png) [@Ellie\_s\_Granny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellie_s_Granny)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2004, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-favorite-visual-artists/230583/12 "2004-02-23T19:33:16Z")
At the risk of sounding odd, my favorites are a bit different than each other. I love Michael Parkes stuff, and I also really like Charles Wysocki’s art. The piece that speaks to me the most is a Picasso(I think, could be someone else) ink drawing of Don Quixote. It just amazes me that he could put that much feeling in a few lines. ---
**Author:** ![gum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bbe5ce/32.png) [@gum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gum)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2004, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-favorite-visual-artists/230583/13 "2004-02-23T19:41:21Z")
Wow, **Skopo** Impressive and varied list. To have Jeroen Bosch, Pieter de Hoogh and Kandinsky among your favorites is very unusual. **Second Guest** I never knew ee cummings painted as well. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2004, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-favorite-visual-artists/230583/14 "2004-02-24T07:36:44Z")
While I like many of the more traditional artists mentioned above (and let me add Rodin), here’s an unconventional choice: [Chesley Bonestell](http://www.bonestellgallery.com/index.htm)