# Favorite Artist/Painter **URL:** \ **Category:** random\ **Created:** [August 16, 2004, 5:33am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/favorite-artist-painter/61114 "2004-08-16T05:33:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
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Who is your favorite Artist/Painter? I’m talking real deal old fashioned medium artist/painter. (non computer) And post up a picture of their work if you can and perhaps tell us why. 🙂 ---
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René Magritte I’ve just always liked his work. I’m not such a huge surrealist fan, but some of his portrait works seem really intense. ---
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HR Giger, the guy who designed the alien in the film of the same name. 🙂 His work is just so… striking. ![](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/b/a/ba9a5145e528ac7a50743072c3e35120bdef66ea.jpeg) ---
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i would have to go marc chagall, just his use of line and colour, has me fixated !!! 🙂 favourite piece: Marc Chagall - Adam and Eve [:ninja:EZEkiel:ninja:] ---
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there are many good painter. btw.: hope you all know this guy [http://users.skynet.be/J.Beever/pave.htm](http://users.skynet.be/J.Beever/pave.htm) the coke is just amazing ---
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I’m fond of M.C. Escher, Salvador Dali, [Ron English and [url=http://www.earlmcgrathgallery.com/galleryartists/ryden/]Mark Ryden, with [url=http://www.youdie.com/pages/1/index.htm]Adrian Lee](http://www.popaganda.com/) earning an honorable mention… Favorite has got to be Alex Grey ( [http://www.alexgrey.com](http://www.alexgrey.com) ): ![](http://alexgrey.net/a-gallery/8-24/a-hnd.jpg) ---
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Van Gogh, Escher, Kinkade - for a few. ![](http://www.le-vrang.de/weblogs/Gogh6.jpg) ![](http://collections.ic.gc.ca/universe/jpegs/vvg.jpg) ![](http://www.designserver.nl/cursus/html/clipart/escher.jpg) ![](http://haighted.com/lovenhaight/images/Kinkade%20-%20Beyond%20Spring's%20Gate.jpg) ---
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Salvador Dali and Monet, I was never a fan of impressionist art until I saw Monet’s work at the Musee d’Orsay: Houses of Parliament,London,1905 ![](http://sunsite.sut.ac.jp/wm/paint/auth/monet/parliament/1905.jpg) [EDIT]HR Giger is cool too, I’ve a friend who makes models from plaster of paris based around his work[/EDIT] ---
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Giger and the unknown Cave artists. Forgot one, American Indian work as well. ---
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Kind of reminds me of the movie seven or something similar and disturbing. > [@EthanM](#): > > René Magritte > > I’ve just always liked his work. I’m not such a huge surrealist fan, but some of his portrait works seem really intense. ---
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**Salvador Dali** ![](http://www.stevekhan.com/persistence_dali.jpg) …Escher, Monet, Picasso, and a few others 🙂 ---
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hey K-man?? what gives?? that is not a Dali painting… Dali’s watches are melted… 😛 ---
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> [@Majeye](#): > > hey K-man?? what gives?? that is not a Dali painting… > > Dali’s watches are melted… 😛 Gah - you are right! Fixing picture. ---
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**Kandinsky** ![](http://www.glyphs.com/art/kandinsky/comp4640.jpg)\<\<\< :!: :thumb: ![](http://www.umit.maine.edu/~steven.evans/kandinsky.jpg) ![](http://filosofia.dipafilo.unimi.it/~piana/commenti/kandinsky.jpg) …and Dali, Van Gogh, bit Monet… Ow, and Magritte coz he’s **BELGIAN**! :party: ---
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El - I really like how Kandinsky used the words GardenWeb in your first picture [size=1](which, since it is hot-linked, displays a small shrub with GardenWeb written on it :P)[/size] ---
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MC Escher all the way! ---
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> [@EthanM](#): > > René Magritte > > I’ve just always liked his work. I’m not such a huge surrealist fan, but some of his portrait works seem really intense. I think Funeral For A Friend (welsh emo band) like him too. Check it out: ---
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MC Escher… gots to be why? ![](http://www.geocities.com/ubermensch_ver2/bullet.gif) ![](http://www.geocities.com/ubermensch_ver2/bullet.gif)he did all of the calculations in his head ![](http://www.geocities.com/ubermensch_ver2/bullet.gif) ![](http://www.geocities.com/ubermensch_ver2/bullet.gif)his symmetry was done freehand ![](http://www.geocities.com/ubermensch_ver2/bullet.gif) ![](http://www.geocities.com/ubermensch_ver2/bullet.gif)The dude was awesome thats why! ![](http://www.mcescher.com/Gallery/recogn-bmp/LW441.jpg) ---
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[http://Goodbrush.com](http://Goodbrush.com) Craig Mullins. He’s got one hell of a knack for lighting. I’m not really into the crazy crap like Alex Gray or Giger… ---
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John Miller - very minimalist pictures but have a purity and tranquility about the colours. [Next page](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/favorite-artist-painter/61114.md?page=2)