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elperromagico Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 04:39 PM
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Favorite Painter Other Than Thomas Kincade?
I'll go with Van Gogh. An obvious choice, to be sure, but I love his frenzied brush strokes:
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Aiptasia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 04:40 PM
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1. Rembrandt Van Rinj
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Nevernose Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 04:41 PM
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2. Does Thomas Kincade count as a painter?
Doesn't he just add highlights to crap churned out by the thousands by Korean slave?
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elperromagico Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 04:42 PM
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I like jokes.
:D
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Nevernose Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 04:45 PM
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9. I wasn't joking :)
I saw him on some TV show last year, and he no longer produces anything but highlights. Admittedly, I don't like anything turned out by this guy anyway, but he apparently doesn't produce anything at all anymore.

Koreans paint all the pictures, and he adds his "unique touch" -- little white highlights. Then he signs the back, and people pay hundreds of dollars for it.
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elperromagico Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 04:48 PM
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16. I was joking about Thomas Kincade being a painter.
He could paint a barn, probably.

Then he'd copy the barn a few thousand times and sell it as a "Limited Edition" for 1 mil each.
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Nevernose Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 04:49 PM
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19. I'm sensing a business opportunity
Maybe we could put little white highlights on Virgin Mary cheese sandwiches, and go for the crossover market?
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elperromagico Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 04:51 PM
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Brilliant! I'll get the toaster.
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tridim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 04:42 PM
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3. Rod
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elperromagico Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 04:43 PM
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7. That kid sure knows how to whitewash a fence.
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Eikon Donating Member (160 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 04:42 PM
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4. John Atkinson Grimshaw
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JimmyJazz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 04:42 PM
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5. I like Van Gogh as well, but I really like Frida Kahlo
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swag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 04:42 PM
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6. Francis Bacon
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rainy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 04:45 PM
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8. Da Vinci and Red Grooms
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one_true_leroy Donating Member (807 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 04:45 PM
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10. Heironymous Bosch
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BrotherBuzz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-25-04 01:19 AM
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38. Me too...
I'd like to meet Heironymous' drug dealer.
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motely36 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 04:46 PM
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11. George Seurat
A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte
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JimmyJazz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 04:55 PM
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24. what a great painting
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MichiganVote Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 04:46 PM
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12. Cezanne
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quiet.american Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 04:46 PM
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13. John Sargent
Keen eye for the pathos in his subjects and brilliant on use of light.
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obreaslan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 04:47 PM
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14. This "Blue Period" Picaso has always been a favorite:





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Feathered Fish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 04:48 PM
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15. Bosch


Good times.
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one_true_leroy Donating Member (807 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 06:45 PM
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28. it's like all the fun of psychadelics w/o the flashbacks!
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RevolutionaryActs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 04:48 PM
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17. So do I! I love that painting too, I have a post of it over my bed
I also like Salvador Dali.
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Mad_Dem_X Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 04:49 PM
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18. Van Gogh!
Starry Night is one of my most favorite paintings, ever.
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the Princess Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 04:51 PM
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20. My best friend in Texas.........
Paul Delacroix. He painted this for me - it's a small example of his talent. As you can see he loves the fuller figure. Isn't she beautiful?? :)
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Blue in a Red State Donating Member (639 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 04:51 PM
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21. Salvador Dali, Edward Hopper
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Speck Tater Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 04:52 PM
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22. Joan Miro

http://www.artchive.com/artchive/M/miro.html#images
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LisaM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 04:53 PM
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23. Cezanne.
I like Degas also.
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jmowreader Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 06:00 PM
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25. H.R. Giger
Surrealism becomes me.
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GOPisEvil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 06:05 PM
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26. Rabrrrrrr!
Seriously - the guy's good. I have one of his pieces in my house.

Alternatively, I enjoy Kandinsky and Miro. I also have a soft spot for Monet.
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indigobusiness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 06:19 PM
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27. Max Ernst
Edited on Wed Nov-24-04 06:22 PM by indigobusiness


The Antipope, December 1941–March 1942. Oil on canvas, 160.8 x 127.1 cm. Peggy Guggenheim Collection. 76.2553 PG 80. Max Ernst © 2003 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris.


Zoomorphic Couple (Couple zoomorphe), 1933. Oil on canvas, 91.9 x 73.3 cm. Peggy Guggenheim Collection. 76.2553 PG 75. Max Ernst © 2003 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris.


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Mz Pip Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 06:51 PM
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29. Theibault
He's famous for his paintings of food, like the lemon merangue slice but his later landscapes are fantastic.

Mz Pip
:dem:
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 06:54 PM
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30. H. R. Giger.
then Michelangelo, then Alex Grey
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Aristus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 06:58 PM
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31. Vote #2 for Edward Hopper.



I couldn't find a jpg for "Office In A Small City", one of his most achingly dreamy paintings.
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crispini Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 07:03 PM
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32. Mondrian
They don't reproduce well, but in person, they just blow me away. People whom I go to museums with find it so strange that I'll sit there and just stare at the geometry for 15 minutes -- but they're so simple that I find them completely entrancing. They are so plain, yet so meticulously constructed and so deliberate that it's fun to just sit there and deconstruct them.... notice all the small details, think about why he made the choices he made, the reality of what it is: just the thing-as-it-is, nothing more.

That, or I'm just a fruitcake. :)
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tjdee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 08:06 PM
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33. Delacroix, Degas...
I don't have a favorite, still looking for one, but I dig Degas and Delacroix.

Really like this:


Liberty Leading the People, and




I too own Starry Night--doesn't everyone?
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nini Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 08:10 PM
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34. Van Gogh... Irises is my favorite painting and flower
saw it at the Getty Museum a few years ago. I loved it :-)
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elperromagico Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 09:06 PM
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35. The KICK of the CENTURY.
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CO Liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-25-04 01:09 AM
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36. I Still Like Don Martin
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MattBaggins Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-25-04 01:16 AM
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37. Whoever paints all those pics of Elvis on Black Velvet
and the dogs and the matadors and naked women. That guy is awesome.
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MattBaggins Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-25-04 01:20 AM
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39. Oh yeah and Bob Ross
I know you elitists will turn your noses, but if I had a dime for every time Mary, Jane, and I watched some "happy little clouds" being painted...
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