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Let me start :-) <br /> <br />A good pick for me would be Ilya Repin, this (Russion, 1940-1930 or so ) guy is unknown by most people. He was a realist painter and had a keen eye for great “shots”. How often do you see the common people on this kind of paintings (The Boat Haulers for example) But he also painted Tolstoy, Rubinstein and other eminent people of his time. It’s a shame that most of you will never get a change to see his paintings in real cause almost all his top paintings belong to two russion museums that don’t want to drag them around too much (the first / only exposition outside Russia was in 2001 in the Netherlands (Groninger Museum). <br /> <br />Eeh, I am not sure you want to read this on a skinning site,.. but he! If people are allowed to count from 1 to 10.000 then I may post this! ;-) <br />
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Or in other words, you&acute;ve been to that exposition, else you would&acute;ve never known this. <br /> <br />/me randomly picks an artist... <br /> <br />Ummm... Roy Lichtenstein is pretty cool. Blowing up comic graphics.
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hehe <br /> <br />Craeonins: I have been there indeed, but I went there cause I all ready knew about Repin (I think the Louvre has a painting by him that I have seen)
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In classical painting I like Magritte, Dali and Monet. in more modern Crae is right, Lichtenstein and pop-art is pretty cool. Warhol and the type.
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Localy Arthur Villeneuve (1910-1990) and Jean-Paul Riopelle (1924-2002) are two of the best known artists of Quebec.
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In no specific order : <br />-All the seascapes, and especially Le Lorrain&acute;s and Vernet&acute;s astonishing sunsets. Probably due to the fact I&acute;m a great fan of ancient sailing ships, especially fregates and clippers. <br />The medevial painters, the ones who did miniatures in the manuscripts, but the guys were just craftsmen and their name is not remembered most of the time... It&acute;s amazing to be able to tell a whole story in one little square... <br />Romantism, Symbolism... (there was a magnifiscent exposition on Symbolism in Montreal in 1995, I was so glad I could see it !). I love Burn-Jones and Rosetti. <br />Magritte of course (he was probably the first &quot;3D&quot; artist ;-), I mean he already used mapping and morphing, but he did this with his brushes, it&acute;s real amazing !). I like Dali well enough. - Norman Rockwell. Wajtek Siudmack, (a surrealist painter who&acute;s from Poland but works mostly in France). <br />- Fantasy art. I doubt anybody knows about french fantasy artist Florence Magnin, she&acute;s a painter and a comic-strip author, she&acute;s magical, try this link : http://membres.lycos.fr/fmagnin/ <br />In a wholly different style there&acute;s spanish artist Vincente Segrelles (have a look at http://www.segrelles.com/home_english.htm), this guy&acute;s real great ! <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
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Snow, you suck up! <br /> <br /><b>Flamme:</b> If you like Segrelle, how about those other fantasy artists, like Boris Vallejo? They all have similar styles (and use the same material).
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I think Boris Vallejo is a bit &quot;too much&quot;, even if his technics are real perfect. I like to read Conan stories but the &quot;Conan style&quot; pictures are worse than the words. That&acute;s also true for Richard Hescox and Frazetta ! And Rowena Morill&acute;s far too cold and liveless. For the beautifull sculptured men and woman Segrelles is the best, and his characters look as if there&acute;s a brain in their head, and his landscapes are so beautifull and fascinating ! <br />I like Tim Hildebrandt, Michael Whelan, Jody Lee and David Cherryh well enough (I bought a lot of DAW books when I was younger...)
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I wrote this just some minutes ago: Joan Miro and Paul Klee :)
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