Goya, in his blue period, feels very relevant to us today

I really love Dali, and the whole surrealist movement. Just saw two of his paintings over the weekend.

Unfortunately i didnt appreciate the required art appreciation class enough in college.

It’s not too late. YouTube is chock full of this sort of thing. Or see if your library has a Great Courses subscription available; that gives access to classes that are structured like a university lecture series.

I’m not someone who spends a lot of time looking at art, but I have a couple answers. In my apartment the two paintings I have hanging are Hopper’s Nighthawks and Van Gogh’s Café Terrace at Night.

I discovered this guy on Reddit almost a decade ago. I have a couple prints from him, I love the style of the exploring astronauts. His name is Flooko

www.flookart.com/astronaut-and-friends

Caravaggio - an absolute master of contrast and light. He manages to balance a painterly hand with realism in such a pleasing way. I’ve had the pleasure of seeing some of his works in person, and they’re all just so impossibly smooth and polished.

I’ve always liked Ilya Repin. “Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks” is my favorite work of his.

I’m not any kind of expert, but I’ve enjoyed most of Peter Doig’s paintings.

Monet, Gaughin, Tamayo, Matisse, Vuillard, Hopper, Rembrandt, and Rockwell. That will get you started.

I really like Degas and Monet, and to a larger extent impressionism as a whole. To me their painting transcend vision only and I feel like I can hear the sound and smell the air of the scene depicted. By far my favourite art movement.

I also love Jan Van Eyck and how precise and tangible his paintings are. The Arnolfini portrait and Virgin and Child with Canon van der Paele are what immediately come to mind. Fur, silk, wood, paint, metals, reflections and soft shadows, everything is just incredibly lifelike and three dimensional. The reflection in the mirror in the Arnolfini portrait is also pretty crazy considering the entire thing is about a square foot in size.

There’s plenty of others like Caravaggio and Rembrandt for their incredible use of chiaroscuro and depiction of emotions and Hieronymus Bosch with his wild scenes that often look like lsd infused fever dreams.

Bruegel the Elder is pretty neat. Not my favorite period of art, but his little details are so incredible.

H.R. Giger

For with him there would be no alien

Brandon Bird, specifically his seminal masterpiece The Death of Jennifer Sisko and the Destruction of U.S.S. Saratoga at Wolf 359.

I’ve always loved Edward Hopper. Some version of Nighthawks has been by desktop background for many years.

Lucien Freud, Francis Bacon, Phillip Pearlstein, Bronzino, Pontormo, Velasquez, El Greco, Artimesia Gentileschi, Otto Dix, Kathe Kollwitz, Jenny Saville, Zhi Lin

Probably Keith haring, certainly he’s the only one hanging in my room rn.

Frida Kahlo! The reasons are: vibrating colors, latino/mexican elements and the “rawness” brutality of the elements depicted on her art, without trying to be “cute” at all.

Many that I like are mentioned already here, so I’ll just add Mark Rothko. His paintings are very simple, but they have such depth and power, especially when you see them in person. They just look out at you, almost like they’re pulsing.

Probably Zdzisław Beksiński. Not because he paints nice things to look at but rather he paints things that some may call horrible in a very interesting way. I kind of think it makes me appreciated life in a way since it could be so much worse, but I’m not sure if this really describes why I like him. [I think this is a collection of most of his paintings](www.wikiart.org/en/zdzislaw-beksinski/all-works#!…

Caravaggio. I'm more of a fan of that Era of art, and his paintings are just... mesmerizing when seen in person

James Gurney. Most famous for the Dinotopia books but also did paintings for National Geographic. Has a bunch of tutorials on his site for just about everything and I own several of his books on painting. Can’t recommend him enough!

Monet

Me, I only display my original paintings and sculptures.

Me, I only display my original paintings and sculptures.

• John Constable
• Pro Hart
• Jeffrey Smart
• Piet Mondrian

Gustav Klimt, so much to look at! Also Edward Lear, beautiful birds and landscapes.

Ooh, a subject I love!

Number one all-time, Mark Rothko, no hesitation.
From a more classic tradition, JMW Turner and Caspar David Friedrich.
From the French impressionists, Paul Cézanne.
From the Renaissance, Giorgione of Venice.
From antiquity, the wooden tomb portraits of Fayum, Egypt.

Let’s go with Pasternak.

René Magritte is one of my favorites that hasn’t been mentioned yet. Surrealism, minimalism, and conceptual.

Picasso

Mary Whyte is my favorite modern watercolor artist. She does absolutely stunning paintings of people in their environment.

I like Robert Delaunay, and also his wife, Sonia Delaunay. Their work involves a lot of bright, vibrant colors. It also was rather abstract or impressionistic, which I enjoyed. I think I like Piet Mondrian for similar reasons. Jan Sluyters would be another.

I also like JMW Turner a lot. I’m a sucker for lighting and dynamic skies in paintings, and his work features that very prominently. Frederic Edwin Church is another painter along these lines that I really enjoy.

A more contemporary passive that I like is Nina Tokhtaman Valetova. Her work also involves a lot of bold colors.

Others have mentioned Caravaggio so I’ll add Fragonard. I love his style and I also love how mischievous his subjects can be. For instance, Progress of Love.

I saw paintings by a guy named Cropsey (Jasper Francis Cropsey, apparently) that stuck with me. If you look up his paintings, they might look like whatever ol' random bullshit, but in-person, they're huuuuge and so minutely detailed and fun to study. I never really see his name mentioned much.

I didn’t get the Picasso until I saw some of his paintings in person. What’s even crazier is that he mastered realism by like 10yrs old and thought it was too easy.

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Hieronymus Bosch and Francis Bacon.

Willem de kooning. Early 20s, figure drawing instructor said my live sketches reminded him of de kooning. I’d never heard of him. Few years later, in San Francisco moma, stood in front of one of his Woman paintings, entranced. Thus my love of abstract expressionism began.

Ok I know he called himself an illustrator but I don’t care. To me Rockwell is the supreme. The way he could just tell a story with a single image. The way he could just tell you that story the way his target audience wanted to see it.

I got a book of his top paintings once and was looking through it, my wife came home from work and I showed her, then I had to go run an errand. On the way back it clicked in my head: she was going to leaf through the book and stop at the picture of the before and after of the family beach trip. When I get home the book will be on that page. Sure enough it was.

Rene Magritte

John Constable. I like the way he does clouds. Gives me the same feeling as if I were really just sitting there staring at the sky for real.

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I like Matisse a lot

I haven’t seen him mentioned yet, but Wassily Kandinsky really does something for me.