Artists

[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.

[Daniel]

@andyd Yes, more, please, of course!

[AndyD]

@Bernard said in Artists:

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.

This. So many, so different, and such personal subjective taste. My son in law dislikes all the earlier religious icon stuff so in the National Gallery we turned right and avoided the Sainsbury Wing, lol.
My good friend and artist dislikes chocolate box art yet loved this quite simple architectural daub by Heslop, a painter from County Durham.

It was charming and I'd definitely hang it in my house.

Another local, Norman Cornish ("as good as Rembrandt") is now quite famous. He painted pit scenes, colliery life and comradeship, local people living.
He captures the wonderful incandescent gleam of a pint in in his pub, which is the essence of transferring light onto paper


His big booted miners are filled with animation.
Here's a lovely intimate portrait of his mother

Her hands, face, the cardigan...

I've spent some time looking at the detail in this twilight charcoal drawing

Much more on the Web of course

[Big_Al]

I tend to agree with Andy. I've seen a lot of art that I like. I will say that I have a long time fondness for impressionists.

Renoir's Young Girl in Pink is in the Carnegie Museum of Art's collection and I tend to walk past it when I visit the galleries. I've liked it ever since I first saw it when I was a college student and used to wander through the museums when I had a break from classes.

Big Al

[AndyD]

@big_al
Lovely portrait

Here's an oldie from 1600 by Honthorst.
Again I spent some time admiring the skill of painting a large room lit by a single candle.

[AndyD]

Gallen-Kalella, a Finnish artist, 1905. Reflections, marvellous, I wanted to remove the frame to see more