Your favourite artist?

[HardScienceFan]

Vintage Dillon
I love this one

[HardScienceFan]

Vintage Hildebrandt

[Giovanna Clairval]

Ben, these are both wonderful.


Marvellous views of the imaginary and real world rendered in so different a way...

[Allegra]

Yes, all brilliant. Especially the one of Max Ernst. Thanks for posting them, Ben.

[Wybren]

I do love Froud


And Monet

and Escher

[Nesacat]

My favourite piece of art belongs to an artist whose name I no longer remember, something which really bothers me. It was hanging in the Leeds Art Gallery. It's a small painting. Maybe a foot square and was surrounded by much bigger pieces. It was not of anything fantastical. It was really very mundane. In it you could see one wall of a brick building and a trunk and branch of a tree.

I used to go most weekends and look at it for ages and ages. It was so very detailed. You could see every single brick on the wall clearly complete with mottled patches and cracks and signs of weathering. It was the same with the tree. Every leaf, every twig, all the whorls and lines on the bark. There were leaves falling and caught in the wind. There were baby new leaves and older yellowing ones. It was as if I could step in or hold out my hand and pick a leaf.

I went back two years ago and it was gone and no one there could remember it at all.

[scalem X]

The composition does ring a bell, Nesa. Sadly I don't know the name of the painter either.

[Allegra]

Wybren, you read my mind - I was just thinking about Relativity yesterday! Here's another of Escher's I like:

[Nesacat]

Scalem ... I look in every art book I can and I have not found it yet. Perhaps I will some day. I believe it is a well known artist possibly from the region where Leeds is. All the paintings on that wall were very much of the area.

I know it's really stupid not to remember the name when I can see the picture as clearly as anything in my mind. Happens with books and songs too. I remember all the lyrics and the whole plot but often not the title of the author/singer.

[Talysia]

Again, thanks for sharing these - I love the complexity of some of Escher's paintings.

[HardScienceFan]

More Hildebrandt Brothers

[scalem X]

After some googling, I found something which sort of matches your description, but it doesn't match the painting I had in mind.
here

[Giovanna Clairval]

Giorgione (Giorgio da Castelfranco) 1477-1510

Judith

[HardScienceFan]

Atropos

is it high art

Dunno
I like it

Hi Gio

[Giovanna Clairval]

Lo Zolfarolo (Guhenbroi), Flemish painter active in Naples (XVIII)

Battaglia (battle)