Post your favorite ART

My grandfather was a painter. I've never been SUPER interested in painting, but I used to draw as a kid... random stuff, all the way up to my own comic books. I stopped after I got into filmmaking, but have remained fascinated with art.

Anyway, I really like Leonard Koscianski... his paintings are the only ones that get closest to recreating what I see in my dreams... or rather, the kind of surreal, evocative dream logic in visual form.





He paints alot of small town stuff, and it's the kind of town I just wanna visit and hang out in and explore. Like some of my favorite music, this art puts me in a very particular moody headspace that is exquisite to be in.

Got any favorite art you'd like to share? This is the thread for it.

 

Man I have a lot of art to share but I guess I will start this thread with some music related art:

 

First one reminds me of another of my favorite artists....

Michael Carson. Another contemporary artist very good at creating evocative tonally rich images:

 

These are all lovely images. I'm keen on art but have been helped in appreciating it by my wife, who works in the art world (I should probably post her favorites as she has much better taste than me.)

A couple of years ago we bought this painting by an artist named Natan Elkanovich at the Affordable Art Fair in NYC (it's about 2.5-3' in length, so it's quite dramatic):



My wife's from southern California, and we're fans of David Hockney (his recent iPad pictures are amazing, see here), so this Eklanovich painting is about as close as we'll ever get to owning one of Hockney's Cali pool paintings. What's great about this painting is its texture. The artist applied thick whorls of paint on the canvas:



I quite like some of Jonas Wood's art for its ability to take mundane things, like someone's bedroom, and transform it into something to be admired (the quirkiness can go a bit too far, at times). I figured this one would go over well here (I keep meaning to use it as my avatar):



I could post lots more art. I'll leave you with some paintings from the National Gallery of Art as they're fresh in my mind. I was able to visit back in June:

Franz Marc's Weasels At Play:



I'm fond of Fauvism, especially the works of André Derain, as with Mountains at Collioure:



and Charing Cross Bridge:



Pierre Bonnard's Nude in an Interior (not sure if it's fauvist or not) was eye-catching, too:

 

I’m getting a tattoo of a Schiele, won’t say which one tho.

 

I'm also a big fan of alternative movie posters and movie art. Some of my favs:

 

Absolutely love this engraving Willem van Swanenburg - Vanitas

Jan Mytens - Portrait

 

Not sure why this comes to my mind first when asked about favourite art, but I really love these parodies of Hopper’s Nighthawks, especially the one with the crocodile and the ducks: https://www.laboiteverte.fr/20-parodies-de-nighthawks-dedward-hopper/

Maybe because I like the original a lot, too, and because it’s late at night and I’m in a strange mood.

 

Love that classic painting.

My fav parody:

 

I met some great artists when I was trying to be one, some in college that I'm still close friends with, others just in passing during failed attempts to survive in NYC as a broke artist. I met this guy in the early 00's when I moved into an artist ghetto warehouse/gallery/dorm/studio, he was doing amazing paintings on linen of imagined deities with lots of genitals(here's a link to those NSFW paintings), but he moved to LA and started doing these large still life paintings which I like even more. Like most art on canvas, much better in person but here's a couple internet images:


Pedro Pedro - "Preparation of a Tunafish Sandwich"


Pedro Pedro - "Orange Mango Pear Cigarette-Butt"

Next is my long time friend from the college printing making studio who gained recognition as a street artist in New York under the pseudonym Judith Supine, he's showing work now with his real name instead but it's different than the Judith Supine work and less readily available for online images.


Judith Supine - "Black Death"

Image from a gallery show:


Plenty of Judith Supine work available online if you search but much of it is NSFW so not posting here.

Finally an old screen print from my printmaking professor, Jack McCaslin, he has been super prolific and has almost nothing available online, here's one:


Jack McCaslin - "Royal Krush"

Great idea for a thread, love seeing and thinking about artwork again after a break, thanks @ColtMrFire !

 

A.I. art is becoming more and more a part of the creative landscape. I have mixed feelings about it, but wont bore with a lecture. Here's a few A.I. generated pieces I commissioned from one our computer overlords. Bonus points to anyone who can guess what movie was on my mind that day.

 

picasso took inspo from the mannerist, greek-spaniard painter, el greco (died, 1614) for his famous Les Demoiselles d'Avignon

el greco's the opening of the fifth seal (we do not have the full painting, there is a missing upper portion that depicts an entirely different scene).


Les Demoiselles d'Avignon

 

Too good

 

@ColtMrFire Lovely thread starter, sir. I will be enjoying this one for a while.

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Qualifying this by saying I'm leaving the politics at the door.

This work by Banksy was created on a building literally across the street from the French Embassy in London. The message I take away from this is more than just the protest of the use of tear gas against refugees in Calais, France. It's what happened afterward; multiple attempts were made to separate the art from the building by force, after which the building owners covered it with plywood "to protect it".

 

Love his work. Politics'n'all

(compassion should not be a political issue. Sadly, it, or its absence, very much is.)