Friday Fives
May. 26th, 2006 06:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
purpleponyartFive Favourite Artists
With Wikipedia links!
> Frederick Remington
Quite possibly the first artist I ever wanted to copy. I happened to watch a PBS special about him, and I knew I wanted to paint like him, especially the horses :-) Later, I found a copy of Frederick Remington: The Masterworks at the public library and I renewed it as many times as I could. I was so in love with the horses, the action, the excitement, the colour, and even his personality!
> El Greco
There are more books about El Greco in my collection than any other artist (heh, three!). I love religious paintings, and his work is quite different from other painters. They have a weird quality to them, the figures are long and narrow, and the backgrounsd very dramatic.
> Eugene Delacroix
Delacroix was a huge inspiration to me in Drawing 120; my Fighting Stallions picture was based on one of his. I knew his work before I knew his name; as soon as I cracked open a book of his paintings I recognized a lot of them. He has a nice sensitivity to the subject matter with lots of action and emotion.
> Tom Thomson
It's hard to say which is more appealing - Thomson's mysterious death or his artwork! Both are certainly intriguing. I like the way he worked his scenery. It was more about a feeling or a memory than the actual subject matter.
> David Hockney
I had a huge interest in David Hockney as a teenager and he still continues to amaze me. He was the first artist to show me that one didn't have to stick to the same subject matter, or even the same media. The photo montages really caught my eye at the time. Check out his his video and book, Secret Knowledge, which is pretty cool - he shows how it could have been possible for Renaissance master to use a camera lucida to copy what they saw.
With Wikipedia links!
> Frederick Remington
Quite possibly the first artist I ever wanted to copy. I happened to watch a PBS special about him, and I knew I wanted to paint like him, especially the horses :-) Later, I found a copy of Frederick Remington: The Masterworks at the public library and I renewed it as many times as I could. I was so in love with the horses, the action, the excitement, the colour, and even his personality!
> El Greco
There are more books about El Greco in my collection than any other artist (heh, three!). I love religious paintings, and his work is quite different from other painters. They have a weird quality to them, the figures are long and narrow, and the backgrounsd very dramatic.
> Eugene Delacroix
Delacroix was a huge inspiration to me in Drawing 120; my Fighting Stallions picture was based on one of his. I knew his work before I knew his name; as soon as I cracked open a book of his paintings I recognized a lot of them. He has a nice sensitivity to the subject matter with lots of action and emotion.
> Tom Thomson
It's hard to say which is more appealing - Thomson's mysterious death or his artwork! Both are certainly intriguing. I like the way he worked his scenery. It was more about a feeling or a memory than the actual subject matter.
> David Hockney
I had a huge interest in David Hockney as a teenager and he still continues to amaze me. He was the first artist to show me that one didn't have to stick to the same subject matter, or even the same media. The photo montages really caught my eye at the time. Check out his his video and book, Secret Knowledge, which is pretty cool - he shows how it could have been possible for Renaissance master to use a camera lucida to copy what they saw.
