Just visited The Getty Museum recently … spent the day wandering around Degas and Monet’s.
What is your favorite artist? style? painting?
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Just visited The Getty Museum recently … spent the day wandering around Degas and Monet’s.
What is your favorite artist? style? painting?
Vincent Van Gogh, A Starry Night. Hands down.
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I love Van Gogh’s Starry Night, along with Rembrandt. I find most styles I like except Picasso. I could not get into impressionism. I do like Abstract. I guess it’s I like what I like kind of thing! Would love to wander and wonder around a museum. Need to check out Houston’s.
The Getty has Vann Gogh’s Irises … which is beautiful but I have to admit … I was more interested in the Monets.
Mine favorite is actually Renoir.
Though recently got to see Gainsborough’s Blue Boy … I could sit for hours looking at that one.
I’ve always been more about individual pieces than the artist. My exceptions are American western artists i.e. Remington, Russell, and the artists that painted the expeditions that surveyed the West.
Remington is probably one of my favorite American Western Artists. His stuff feels so real, that you can reach out and touch it.
If ever in Los Angeles, the Gene Autry Museum is a must!
I love the American western artists also. I am impressed with the realism of Remington. Just too many to pick one for me! I think okay Van Gogh, then I see another one by Monet or Remington or…. and the list goes on.
By the way – notice my avatar, umm picture? Yep learned how to do that. Basically just follow instructions, but hey, I did it!!!
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The Getty Villa is great for antiquities. You need to make a reservation but admission is free.
In Los Angeles, also check out the Southwest Museum. It’s only open on Saturdays.
The Getty Villa is awesome!! One of may favorite places. Also the bases Nico’s Roman Villa 🙂
I really like Van Gough and Rembrandt. Their paintings speak to me and move me.
I’m generally more interested in music than art, but I lived in Dallas for a while and New York after that, so I’ve been to a lot of museums. I second ‘Starry Night’ as a favorite, I even have a print of it in my bedroom. I also have a print of ‘Blue Nude,’ an early Picasso that’s much simpler than the work he’s best known for, but is quite nice.
I also, largely due to taking French for eight years, have a fondness for Monet and Renoir.
Music has always spoke to me more, but there is something about sitting and staring at a good painting, with added string quartet would be awesome 🙂
In the werewolf thing I mentioned before, Speed plays piano – mostly because I think he looks like the keyboard player from INXS, but also because I know if I lived that long I would learn to play every musical instrument I could get my hands on, so I’m living vicariously.
I am not really into art, but I do enjoy looking at Ukiyo-e works. I started getting interested in it after seeing the The Great Wave Off Kanagawa.
I’ll have to check them out!