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Favorite Art Style?

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What is your favourite art style/period?
Mine is surrealism, esp Magritte and Dali, followed by cubism.
I also think abstract expressionism is pretty neat, but at the end of the day, it's really just fancy wallpaper.
I suspect my art tastes relate to my myers-briggs type, so I shall be interested to see what others interests are.
 

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I'd revise your statement to say at the end of the day, fancy wallpapers are just abstract expressionism.

I prefer fantastic realism and some surrealism, though there's even very little of those that interest me. I have an extremely narrow taste in art though. No period in particular appeals to me, although I'm very impressed by the Hudson River school of romantic landscape painting, ie. Albert Bierstadt.
 
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I must also express my love for the Hudson River School, and, on a related note, the Romantic paintings of John Constable. I wouldn't say that I have a favorite period of art history, but I think I could express my tastes more accurately my naming some of my favorite artists: John Constable, Edward Hopper, Marcel Duchamp, Salvador Dali, Odilon Redon, and John William Waterhouse.

On a more general note, I enjoy a wide variety of art. I like a lot of surrealism and cubism and abstract expressionism, but I wouldn't go so far as to exalt them above other styles or periods.

As far as the relationship between taste in art and personality types, I think that one's temperament may predispose them to enjoy certain types of art, but I think that one's environment may have just as much of an impact. For example, I suspect that I inherited (not genetically) my interest in impressionism from my mother's love of Monet.
 

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Impressionism and abstract. Surrealism is nice too.
 

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I love realism and surrealism. Renaissance and baroque are my favorite periods.
Salvadore Dali is by far my favorite artist
 

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I like a lot of things. Although, when I think something is a bit pretentious, I immediately despise it with every fiber of my being. And some styles and schools are more prone to pretension than others.
 
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Obvious, explicit, and sense-deprivational art that reminds me to burp my crude and cruel assumption of free will as an index of ultimate beginnings.
 

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Interesting that we all like Dali. I tend to like anything from the surrealism schools. Picasso was great. I also really like stuff like William Blake and alot of the stuff from the renaissance - sacred and profane love, everything done in that symbolic very precise style. and of course Leonardo DiVinci because he was good enough to have a ninja turtle named after him
 

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I like most Cubist art
Cubist+Landscape+.jpg

And for some reason I'm really keen on bamboo calligraphy
bamboo-calligraphy.jpg
 

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Interesting that we all like Dali. I tend to like anything from the surrealism schools. Picasso was great. I also really like stuff like William Blake and alot of the stuff from the renaissance - sacred and profane love, everything done in that symbolic very precise style. and of course Leonardo DiVinci because he was good enough to have a ninja turtle named after him

I do not like Dali.
 

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I like fantasy art involving dragons or the unseelie fae, and some sci-fi art. It almost always has to be realistic-looking.
 
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Does anyone else not like Cubism or other sorts of "modern" art? That stuff never did much for me. Same thing with Impressionism; I think it can look nice as a decoration in your bathroom or a hotel room, but it doesn't do anything for my deeper sensibilities.

One member mentioned the Hudson River School, which I also really enjoy, although I've never really thought of it as my favorite style of art. Surrealism is okay, but the best artists, like Dali and Magritte, are kind of overused to where their works have lost a lot of their mystique.


My favorite styles are pretty diverse, and I'm not particularly fluent in art history, so I don't always know what I'm talking about regarding art, but some of my favorite styles and artists are:


Baroque, especially Jacob Jordaens

Japanese Ukiyo-e, especially Hokusai (I have a huge poster of his Great Wave in my room)
Gothic architecture (you didn't say painting, you just said art style/period)
Illuminated manuscripts
Antique mosaics, especially Byzantine
Ancient Egyptian art
 

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Jan van Eyck and Hendrick ter Brugghen being two artists I respect greatly.
Magical Realism, I just found out, has a visual art subset.
And explains my aesthetic tastes nicely.
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Alexander_Kanoldt_Still_Life_II.jpg

Egon Schiele is also a favorite
 

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before the internet, as a teenager,
when i knew very little art, i liked
comics (moebius, patrice garcia, otomo/akira),
the concept art of SF and Fantasy books,
hr giger,
hans werner sahm (dream like stuff).


today: plenty of stuff and more.

in words: things i would consider to be
- impressionistic (albeit my understanding of the term might be off-convention)
- visionary art
- everything beautiful
 
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Ralph Steadman... whatever word you use to describe it, pop art (a la Ron English), and strongly detailed realism. I do respect Dali and Warhol.
 

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Expressionism, Romanticism, Hyperrealism

Mixed Media, pen and watercolor, oils

(JMW Turner, Francis Bacon, Goya, Dave McKean, Leonardo da Vinci, Marshall Arisman, Michael Zulli, Bill Sienkewicz, Barry Windsor-Smith)

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Fun times!
 

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Anime. I prefer character-centric visuals. Lee Myung-Jin(Ragnarok Online artist) and Akihiko Yoshida(Final Fantasy Tactics) fits my preferences.

447px-FFT_DarkKnight.jpg


If you want type-relation, I'm pretty sure mine is "Ne'sh." Culturally, it's 'east-asian' [course, the above actually portray 'knights' which is more 'western']

I also like these but more literal detail:

hsufu-10001.jpg


Don't know what you call them.
 

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Surrealists especially Dali and Zdzislaw Beksinski
 

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Blueprints of boats? I like technical drawings like that too, but I think calling it an "art style" is questionable.

It's just my subjectivity against perhaps..quite a number of people's.

Blueprints..not necessarily. Technical drawings, yes.
 

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Photography.
 

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Jan van Eyck and Hendrick ter Brugghen being two artists I respect greatly.
Magical Realism, I just found out, has a visual art subset.
And explains my aesthetic tastes nicely.
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Alexander_Kanoldt_Still_Life_II.jpg

Egon Schiele is also a favorite

Magical Realism looks interesting. I'll look into this
 
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It's just my subjectivity against perhaps..quite a number of people's.

Blueprints..not necessarily. Technical drawings, yes.
I didn't mean to suggest that you were wrong to consider that art. I really enjoy looking at those kinds of drawings, too, perhaps even more than I do traditional art, but I just consider it a different kind of pleasure. While to me, art is about beauty and creativity, technical drawings satisfy a more logical part of my mind. It's kind of a right-brain/left-brain thing to me, that's why I consider it in a different category than other types of art.

On the subject, though, I also really love maps, so much that I minored in Cartography and GIS in college. If technical drawings count, old-fashioned or elaborately detailed maps have to be my favorite type of visual media to look at. I have literally spent hours in the map room of my university library, poring over atlases and old treasure maps.
 

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a nice mixture of left and right brain are those impressionistic architecture images, done by various artits. (1,2,3,4)

art is really in how you look at something anyway.

if you have an artist's eye (introverted perception, by definition - not saying only certain types can access it), then nature or something like this is seen as art, meaning it becomes a referrer to something subjective that's not objectively seen. nature is but a frame for emptiness and timelessness, and in my mind those gears symbolize the non-linear/4-D causality (no leaps though, everything is embedded, for an object to move, the rest of the world has to move along), as experienced on a salvia divinorum trip. another also artistically inclined person looked at those gears and commented: "how disgustingly compulsive." well - it's not a portrait of character, in my mind, but a (partial) comprehension of reality.

as a productive artist you may develop the skill, to bring it to paper in such a way, that everyone sees, what the object means to you.

as far as i can tell, this shows the same "gears", also van gogh's famous firewheel-stars.

i have nicknamed this image "terribly obvious". because, as i understand it, the distortion of perspective makes it obvious how all seen forms are inside of the consciousness, that one is, not something outside of the body. you know, when you have a bad brain day, and the world becomes all shaky.

unfortunately i can't do this. my art has rarely (1,2) ever risen beyond the objective forms of comic/concept art. scribblings.


used to love those ;)

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I really don't like most art for some reason, although i love drawing and art was my best subject at school.

I love expressionism, symbolism, post-impressionism etc.
I can't stand most abstract art, surrealism/dada, cubism, classical/baroque or contemporary art.
I think most cave paintings beat the shit out of what most people consider great art.

some paintings i love:

[BIMG]http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lkte8ruEnD1qc9ymbo1_500.jpg[/BIMG]
[BIMG]http://www.art-wallpaper.com/9506/Van+Gogh+Vincent/The+Trinquetaille+Bridge-1600x1200-9506.jpg[/BIMG]
[BIMG]http://www.artinthepicture.com/artists/Gustav_Klimt/music.jpeg[/BIMG]

EDIT: Shit, I guess i really like bluegreen.
 

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I'm a fan of realism, and surrealism.

I also love stuff like this, but I'm not really sure what art style it is.
[BIMG]http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2012/086/5/a/conspiracy_of_silence_by_agnes_cecile-d4u41wn.jpg[/BIMG]
 

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I'm a fan of realism, and surrealism.

I also love stuff like this, but I'm not really sure what art style it is.
[BIMG]http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2012/086/5/a/conspiracy_of_silence_by_agnes_cecile-d4u41wn.jpg[/BIMG]

I'm not exactly sure why but I like this painting. Though I always find purples/blues to be nice colors, and they look great in watercolor(?).
 

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I'm not exactly sure why but I like this painting. Though I always find purples/blues to be nice colors, and they look great in watercolor(?).

Yeah, I think it's because of how the colours are used. I find the mixture between warm and colours visually pleasing. The detail is nice as well.

I like looking at drawings/paintings of landscapes too.
Like these:
[BIMG]http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_m10ej2AqT61qd8v29o1_1280.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAI6WLSGT7Y3ET7ADQ&Expires=1333389478&Signature=vvqtaaUWJssuBk9kC6eZPTxoDdo%3D[/BIMG]
[BIMG]http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_lt8mht4nAa1qdazboo1_1280.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAI6WLSGT7Y3ET7ADQ&Expires=1333389542&Signature=%2FaDAmv0W4WFxPlYL5l8H%2Fjz5TWE%3D[/BIMG]
 

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Modern Street Art. I use the term Street Art, because graffiti carries the insinuation of basic taggings and bombings.

Think Banksy, Blek Le Rat, all sorts of fun stuff. The cheekier the social commentary the better.
 

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^ I couldn't pick out any art style favorite of mine. I'm generally unaffected by and unappreciative of visual art, but if there's one thing I have an affinity for it's graffiti.

Throwups and better.
 
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