Artists

[RealPlayer]

I don’t have a strong visual sense, the way I have a well-developed appreciation for music, or even literature. I don’t know “how” to look at art, yet sometimes I’ll see a work and find it quite affecting. Maybe that’s enough.

[Daniel]

Joe, are you sure you can't think of something? Maybe Modernist, Postmodern, Graphic?

[RealPlayer]

@Daniel Well, now that I think of it, sure, I do like a lot of artists. Bosch, Durer, Van Gogh, Rothko, Nevelson, Klee, Krasner, and probably a dozen others whose names don’t occur to me right now. I guess I can appreciate them without knowing how their technique works.

[Daniel]

That's how I am! I'm no art history expert.

[AndyD]

Reminded me of a painting I photographed in Bowes Museum last year, from the same era.
Small among the grandest of Gainsborough and Canaletto, and I can't recall the artist, but it really caught my attention.
A napoleonic soldier after battle

[Daniel]

Andy, Interesting juxtaposition between the paintings we posted. Thanks.

[AndyD]

Jaoquin Sorolla
From the National Art Gallery in London

The first so life like it's like you can pick up the nets and hear the sea.
The second is amusing and evocative, the pub atmosphere, we've all seen someone a bit worse for wear.

[AndyD]

Rosalba Carriera

I was astounded to read it was not painted, she used pastel.

[AndyD]

George Bellows

This was best viewed at a distance, loved the compressed arranged view

[AndyD]

Rembrandt

Hope you like some of these.
Want a few more? Lesser known, modern, local?

[Bernard]

I can't say I have a favorite, there are simply too many great artists and paintings. But I do have some that I'm partial to. From the Renaissance period, for example, I like Perugino quite a lot. For the time and subject, he paints nice faces. Very often, faces back then fall into the grotesque or absurd.