# Who's your favorite painter? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 3, 2008, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-your-favorite-painter/470820 "2008-11-03T04:26:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2008, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-your-favorite-painter/470820/41 "2008-11-03T19:00:24Z")
I love Michael Sowa, especially “[Kohler’s Schwein](http://www.shopforart.com/ShowPrint.aspx?pid=39638)” and “[Bunny Dressing](http://www.shopforart.com/ShowPrint.aspx?pid=193887)” for his whimsy, and Peter Sculthorpe, especially “[Buckskin](http://www.globalgallery.com/enlarge/022-30839/),” for his use of rural landscape and light. I have a huge framed print of “Buckskin.” I don’t have a Sowa yet. ---
**Author:** ![stargazer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb8c5e/32.png) [@stargazer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stargazer)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2008, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-your-favorite-painter/470820/42 "2008-11-03T19:05:04Z")
My favorites are John Singer Sargent and Marc Chagall. Here are some of my favorites from each: John Singer Sargent: [El Jaleo](http://jssgallery.org/Paintings/El_Jaleo.htm) [Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose](http://jssgallery.org/Paintings/Carnation_Lily_Lily_Rose.htm) [Madame X](http://jssgallery.org/Paintings/Madame_X.htm) [Lady Agnew](http://jssgallery.org/Paintings/Lady_Agnew.htm) [Lady MacBeth](http://jssgallery.org/Paintings/Ellen_Terry_as_Lady_Macbeth.htm) Marc Chagall: [The Creation of Man](http://entertainment.webshots.com/photo/2512000180078371486EvgDEI) (not the best photo, but all the other images I could find online do NOT do justice to the colors!) [The Wedding Candles](http://www.abcgallery.com/C/chagall/chagall32.html) [The Concert](http://www.abcgallery.com/C/chagall/chagall120.html) [On the Roof in Paris](http://www.art.com/asp/sp-asp/_/PD--10020044/SP--A/IGID--734753/On_the_Roof_of_Paris.htm?sOrig=CRT&sOrigId=60&ui=8C28CEF1B19C4464BFF4E6E1E28F32FA) [Vie](http://www.art.com/asp/sp-asp/_/PD--10324234/SP--A/IGID--773038/Vie_1964.htm?sOrig=CRT&sOrigId=60&ui=8C28CEF1B19C4464BFF4E6E1E28F32FA) ---
**Author:** ![vison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/e47774/32.png) [@vison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vison)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2008, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-your-favorite-painter/470820/43 "2008-11-03T19:07:45Z")
[The Group of Seven. Especially Tom Thomson.](http://search.live.com/images/results.aspx?q=Tom+Thomson&form=IIRE2#) ---
**Author:** ![drm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2008, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-your-favorite-painter/470820/44 "2008-11-03T19:08:13Z")
You’ll find a post I made during my first few weeks on the board (in the pit I think, I can’t be bothered to look) about how i wouldn’t pay 10 bucks for a Picasso. Of course I was only familiar with a small segment of his work and didn’t really know of what I spoke. About a year later I went to the Ontario Art Gallery that had some of Picasso’s early works (pre - 1912) and fell in love with him. I’ve now actually done my research and he’s now my favorite painter. ---
**Author:** ![Cuckoorex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ad7895/32.png) [@Cuckoorex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cuckoorex)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2008, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-your-favorite-painter/470820/45 "2008-11-03T19:33:54Z")
Favorites: [Frederic Church](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d7/Frederick_Edwin_Church_001.jpg) [J.W. Waterhouse](http://www.theartwolf.com/services/wallpapers/waterhouse_1024-768.jpg) [Carl Brenders](http://www.millpond.com/site/namesearchresults-icon.cfm?artistname=BRENDERS%20CARL&offset=61) [John Gurche](http://farm1.static.flickr.com/134/358461200_f3dc75066e.jpg?v=0) ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2008, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-your-favorite-painter/470820/46 "2008-11-03T19:35:54Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > The only thing you should come CLOSE to apologizing for is not posting a link that what you praise. 😉 Ah. Hieronymus Bosch is extremely cool, and Rembrandt’s _Man In the Golden Helmet_ a study in light, but I don’t think you can beat Rockwell’s [_Self Portrait._](http://www.artsforge.com/agallery/rockwell2.html) ---
**Author:** ![lexi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lexi/32/6806_2.png) [@lexi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lexi)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2008, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-your-favorite-painter/470820/47 "2008-11-03T19:38:52Z")
I can’t just pick one, but I am a fan of post-impressionism and expressionism. Here are a few I love: [Gauguin](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Paul_Gauguin_023.jpg), [Cezanne](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cezanne), and [Matisse](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Matisse). ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2008, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-your-favorite-painter/470820/48 "2008-11-03T19:42:34Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Ah. > > Hieronymus Bosch is extremely cool, and Rembrandt’s _Man In the Golden Helmet_ a study in light, but I don’t think you can beat Rockwell’s [_Self Portrait._](http://www.artsforge.com/agallery/rockwell2.html) You’ve gone mad again if you think Rocky’s sentimental pap comes close to rivalling the least of [these](http://www.jeanleongerome.org/). (Warning: some of these paintings are nudes.) You’ve got me worried, \*\*carnivorousplant \*\*. I am dispatching hot elf chicks to your location to boink you in shifts until your sanity returns. ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2008, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-your-favorite-painter/470820/49 "2008-11-03T20:00:32Z")
For the past year, or so, I’ve been liking [Jasper Johns](http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/tatetracks/images_yourtrack/works/T00454_272.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Lowry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@Sam\_Lowry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Lowry)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2008, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-your-favorite-painter/470820/50 "2008-11-03T23:27:56Z")
[Magritte](http://blog.notanendive.org/public/pas_une_pipe.jpg) is my favorite artist. Probably followed by [Banksy](http://www.banksy.co.uk/outdoors/horizontal_1.htm). ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2008, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-your-favorite-painter/470820/51 "2008-11-03T23:32:28Z")
> [@vison](#): > > [The Group of Seven. Especially Tom Thomson.](http://search.live.com/images/results.aspx?q=Tom+Thomson&form=IIRE2#) Ooh, I like Mark Feddes in that group. and I like Thomson. Neat! I found a new fav–thanks! ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2008, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-your-favorite-painter/470820/52 "2008-11-04T00:11:51Z")
> [@eleanorigby](#): > > I have prints of Whistler (not his mother), Hockney, Wyeth, Benson and Monet in my house. I’d like to have many, many more, but have run out of room. I like a lot of Victorian or Edwardian era art as well. Ok, I feel bad that I didn’t link to the prints I have. Here they are: [Harmony in Flesh Colour and Red](http://images.easyart.com/i/prints/rw/en_easyart/lg/8/4/Harmony-in-Flesh-Colour-and-Red-James-McNeil-Whistler-84369.jpg) The settee thing in the background is NOT lavender, btw. Weird how color gets altered in the computer. Their dresses are not so pale, either–they’re more the color of bittersweet. [Hockney, Yorkshire](http://farm1.static.flickr.com/37/74410556_5df9b4d2ab.jpg) Wyeth–I can’t find this one online. I don’t know the name of the picture. It’s white farmhouse against a twilit gray sky, built onto a small slope. There are woods behind the house. One light is on in the house. The ground is quite dark, but a deepening green that one sees in early spring before the trees leaf. There is a small stream in the foreground. with a smaller out building fronting it. There are two bare trees in the acting as a frame for the house with the lit window. [FrankBenson](http://www.outdoorpainting.com/History/pics/Frank-Benson/benson02.jpg) I bought this when I was enamoured of the Impressionists. Plus, the girl’s name is Eleanor–how could I resist? I also have a Dutch canal scene that is reminiscent of Vermeer, but I cannot make out the name of the artist. It is not a print, but an original, given to me by my husband’s godmother. [Botticelli](http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Sandro_Botticelli_027.jpg/120px-Sandro_Botticelli_027.jpg&imgrefurl=http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Gratiae&h=88&w=120&sz=3&hl=xx-bork&start=63&um=1&usg=__JwlQ8UKIZ3_QXhSVoINy62VQ-S8=&tbnid=cJf2v6P4EI00XM:&tbnh=65&tbnw=88&prev=/images%3Fq%3DBotticelli%2Bmuses%26start%3D54%26ndsp%3D18%26um%3D1%26hl%3Dxx-bork%26client%3Dsafari%26rls%3Den%26sa%3DN) This print is only of the two far left muses(?). The print is quite large. I love the colors in it and the expressions on the women’s faces. There are more, but this is taking a long time to do! I wish I could find the Wyeth print–I checked several museum collections and [posters.com](http://posters.com) to no avail. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2008, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-your-favorite-painter/470820/53 "2008-11-04T01:17:38Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > You’ve got me worried, \*\*carnivorousplant \*\*. I am dispatching hot elf chicks to your location to boink you in shifts until your sanity returns. All right dammit, [Lawrence Alma Tadema.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Alma_Tadema_Silver_Favourites.jpg) Check out the marble. And, of course, the [chicks.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Alma-Tadema_A_Favourite_Custom_1909_Tate_Britain.jpg) There, are you happy? Go ahead, call me a sissy and steal my lunch money. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2008, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-your-favorite-painter/470820/54 "2008-11-04T01:25:28Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Norman Rockwell. > Sorry. > 🙂 I’ve actually always thought he was underrated due to his success and commercialism. He was really an excellent realist. There are so many- [Jacques Louis David](http://images.google.com/images?q=Jacques%20Louis%20David&sourceid=ie7&rls=com.microsoft:en-US&ie=UTF-8&oe=utf8&um=1&sa=N&tab=wi)- especially his unclothed bodies (whether nude or like Marat) [Guisseppe Arcimboldo](http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&rls=com.microsoft:en-US&q=arcimboldo&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi) (so ahead of his time and so fun for a Renaissance artist) [Wassilly Kandinsky](http://images.google.com/images?um=1&hl=en&rls=com.microsoft%3Aen-US&q=kandinsky) [Marc Chagall](http://images.google.com/images?um=1&hl=en&rls=com.microsoft%3Aen-US&q=marc+chagall) (especially his [stained glass](http://images.google.com/images?um=1&hl=en&rls=com.microsoft%3Aen-US&q=marc+chagall+glass)) [The Jesus works of Salvador Dali](http://images.google.com/images?um=1&hl=en&rls=com.microsoft%3Aen-US&q=salvador+dali+jesus) (Last Supper, Crucifixion studies, etc.) [Rene Magritte](http://images.google.com/images?um=1&hl=en&rls=com.microsoft%3Aen-US&q=rene+magritte) [Edward Hopper](http://images.google.com/images?um=1&hl=en&rls=com.microsoft%3Aen-US&q=edward+hopper&btnG=Search+Images) (who I think of when I hear the entire cast of Spamalot singing in unison “I’m all alone…”) [Sonia Delaunay](http://images.google.com/images?q=sonia%20delaunay&sourceid=ie7&rls=com.microsoft:en-US&ie=UTF-8&oe=utf8&um=1&sa=N&tab=wi) [Charles Burchfield](http://images.google.com/images?um=1&hl=en&rls=com.microsoft%3Aen-US&q=charles+burchfield) [Tamara Lempika](http://images.google.com/images?q=tamara%20lempika&sourceid=ie7&rls=com.microsoft:en-US&ie=UTF-8&oe=utf8&um=1&sa=N&tab=wi) [Koko the Gorilla](http://images.google.com/images?um=1&hl=en&rls=com.microsoft%3Aen-US&q=koko+gorilla+art) I’ve never studied art but would like to, not as an artist (I can’t draw or paint for love or money) but just to learn more about it. I’d give any possession or talent I have to produce one artwork like those of the people above (not counting Koko, I fear, as a person). I also wish there was a way to see an exact likeness of Yves Klein’s [blue](http://images.google.com/images?um=1&hl=en&rls=com.microsoft%3Aen-US&q=yves+klein) online. Otherwise you look at it and say “that’s it? I could do that in two minutes with a big paintbrush”, when in fact no you can’t- it’s brilliant, but only in person. (I haven’t seen the actual painting for that matter, but I’ve seen an approved reproduction by another artist.) ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2008, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-your-favorite-painter/470820/55 "2008-11-04T01:30:53Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > All right dammit, [Lawrence Alma Tadema.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Alma_Tadema_Silver_Favourites.jpg) Check out the marble. And, of course, the [chicks.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Alma-Tadema_A_Favourite_Custom_1909_Tate_Britain.jpg) > > There, are you happy? Go ahead, call me a sissy and steal my lunch money. Ooh-he’s like a cross between Mucha and Parrish! Me likes. I’ll share my cupcakes with you at lunch. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2008, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-your-favorite-painter/470820/56 "2008-11-04T01:42:07Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > All right dammit, [Lawrence Alma Tadema.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Alma_Tadema_Silver_Favourites.jpg) Check out the marble. And, of course, the [chicks.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Alma-Tadema_A_Favourite_Custom_1909_Tate_Britain.jpg) He reminds me a lot of Waterhouse, who’s also one of my favorites. ---
**Author:** ![Key\_Lime\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/48db29/32.png) [@Key\_Lime\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Key_Lime_Guy)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2008, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-your-favorite-painter/470820/57 "2008-11-04T02:51:43Z")
[Gerhard Richter](http://www.jerryandmartha.com/yourdailyart/2006/05/turn-around.html) [Edward Hopper](http://wichitaartmuseum.org/acm/rec_images/M100.52_l.jpg) [Thomas Eakins](http://www.dl.ket.org/webmuseum/wm/paint/auth/eakins/vanburen.jpg) [Caravaggio](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Caravaggio-Crucifixion_of_Peter.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Pyper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Pyper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pyper)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2008, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-your-favorite-painter/470820/58 "2008-11-04T04:05:01Z")
My all time favorite, not mentioned here so far as I can see, is [Henri Rousseau](http://images.google.com/images?um=1&hl=en&rls=com.microsoft:en-US&q=henri%20rousseau&ndsp=20&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi). ---
**Author:** ![PastAllReason](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f07891/32.png) [@PastAllReason](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastAllReason)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2008, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-your-favorite-painter/470820/59 "2008-11-04T04:32:23Z")
> [@vison](#): > > [The Group of Seven. Especially Tom Thomson.](http://search.live.com/images/results.aspx?q=Tom+Thomson&form=IIRE2#) I’d echo the Group of Seven plus Tom Thomson, though of the [Group of Seven](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_of_Seven_(artists)) my favourite is Lawren Harris, and in particular this is my favourite painting: [North Shore, Lake Superior](http://cybermuse.gallery.ca/cybermuse/search/artwork_zoom_e.jsp?mkey=10055) hanging in the National Art Gallery. It is an incredibly powerful painting when personally viewed. ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2008, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-your-favorite-painter/470820/60 "2008-11-04T07:58:24Z")
**Mr. Dibble** , our taste is art and artists is amazing similar. “Braids” is my second favorite painting in the world. For years I dressed in loden green and wore my hair in braids at every opportunity because of an obsession with the Helga paintings. I had “Braids” all to myself early one morning when it was on exhibit here in Nashville. But I grieved at just missing the real Helga at Lincolnville Beach, Maine one afternoon a few years ago. The house where “Christina’s World” was painted is still where it stood originally near the coast of Maine. I’m trying to think of the directions, but all I can remember is the most consarned twisty-turny winding road. There is a wonderful museum in Rockville, Maine – I think it’s the Farnsworth Museum – that can give you directions. The house is called the Olsen House. There were other Andrew Wyeth paintings that were done there. There are reprints of the paintings hanging at just the spots where you would have the same perspectives as the artist did. It is a fascinating! When we went about ten years ago, one of Wyeth’s brothers-in-law was our tour guide. My favorite painting is Cezanne’s “Apples and Oranges.” I finally got to see it in Paris in 2004. Didn’t want to leave it ever. Hemingway used to study it for help with the structure of his writing. The first painting that I can remember discovering and liking on my own was Van Gogh’s “Starry Night.” You didn’t see it everywhere back then. Well, not in a town with no library and no art classes in 1960. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-your-favorite-painter/470820.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-your-favorite-painter/470820.md?page=4)