Your Favourite Artists

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Btrayd you read my mind as I wanted to switch to modern art.

Thomas John Thomson (August 5, 1877 – July 8, 1917), also known as Tom Thomson, was an influential Canadian artist of the early 20th century. He directly influenced a group of Canadian painters that would come to be known as the Group of Seven.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Thomson

The Jack Pine










Byng Inlet, Georgian Bay











Woodland Waterfall










The West Wind










Snow Shadows

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Alfred Joseph Casson, (1898 - 1992) was a member of the Canadian group of painters known as the Group of Seven. He joined the group in 1926 at the invitation of Franklin Carmichael. Casson is best known for his depictions of landscapes, forests and farms of southern Ontario, and for being the youngest member of the Group of Seven.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._J._Casson




White Pine









Picnic Island










ROCK POOL










SUMMER SKY









Village at Sundown









Below Ragged Falls










MIST RAIN AND SUN










Bon Echo










Little Island

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Karl Christian Ludwig Hofer or Carl Hofer (1878 – 1955) was a German expressionist painter. One of the most prominent painters of expressionism, he never was a member of one of the expressionist painting groups, like "Die Brücke", who influenced him. His work was considered degenerate art by the Nazis, and only after World War II did he regain recognition as one of the greatest German painters.





Sleepers











The Caller

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Hans Baluschek (1870 – 1935) was a well-known German painter and writer, a member of Berlin Secession.
In 1933 The National Socialists denounce Baluschek as "degenerate artist".

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Max Liebermann (1847 – 1935) was a German-Jewish painter and printmaker best known for his etching and lithography. From 1899 to 1911 he led the premier avant-garde formation in Germany, the Berlin Secession. Beginning in 1920 he was president of the Prussian Academy of Arts.





The Parrot walk









At the swimming bath









Cobbler-s Workshop









Women in a canning factory






Man with Parrots









Infants School in Amsterdam

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Käthe Kollwitz (July 8, 1867 – April 22, 1945) was a German painter, print-maker, and sculptor whose work offered an eloquent and often searing account of the human condition in the first half of the 20th century. Her empathy for the less fortunate, expressed most famously through the graphic means of drawing, etching, lithography, and woodcut, embraced the victims of poverty, hunger, and war. Initially her work was grounded in Naturalism, and later took on Expressionistic qualities

A most eloquent example of the female perspective for the early 20th century.

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Well, I can't post any more as my antivirus has shown that I got virus.
It didn't take that long.



The “Odalisque” which literally means female slave or member of a harem, has a long history in art.






Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, The Grand Odalisque








François Boucher, Odalisque









Eugène Delacroix, Odalisca










Theodore Chasseriau - Reclining Odalisca










Rudolf Ernst (Austrian Painter ,1854-1932) – The Harem Bath










Luis Ricardo Falero (1851-1896) - L’Odalisca Favorita











Fabio Fabbi ( Italian Painter1861-1946) – Odalisca











Georges Antoine Rochegrosse

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I think that following Käthe Kollwitz -works that show the despair and joy of the female condition from a female point of view, with examples of the female slaves with no other purpose than to be objects is somewhat poignant and ironic.

[space man]

There's no doubting what these guys had most on there mind.

Great stuff, I need to look these guys up.

[grasshopper]

a friend of mine gave me a book...I find his pencil works amazing

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Rodney Matthews

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Roger Dean

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John Reilly

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This is Rodney Matthews print I have at home, Signed!!

[space man]

http://www.jordanmaxwell.com/bits.html

From the moment that art ceases to be food that feeds the best minds, the artist can use his talents to perform all the tricks of the intellectual charlatan. Most people can today no longer expect to receive consolation and exaltation from art. The 'refined,' the rich, the professional 'do-nothings', the distillers of quintessence desire only the peculiar, the sensational, the eccentric, the scandalous in today's art.

I myself, since the advent of Cubism, have fed these fellows what they wanted and satisfied these critics with all the ridiculous ideas that have passed through my mind. The less they understood them, the more they admired me. Through amusing myself with all these absurd farces, I became celebrated, and very rapidly. For a painter, celebrity means sales and consequent affluence. Today, as you know, I am celebrated, I am rich.

But when I am alone, I do not have the effrontery to consider myself an artist at all, not in the grand old meaning of the word: Giotto, Titian, Rembrandt, Goya were great painters. I am only a public clown - a mountebank. I have understood my time and have exploited the imbecility, the vanity, the greed of my contemporaries. It is a bitter confession, this confession of mine, more painful than it may seem. But at least and at last it does have the merit of being honest.

Pablo Picasso, 1952

Someone check the validity of this please .

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LeRoy Neiman
Jean Cocteau
Stanley Kubrick
Da Vinci
Al Hirschfield

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Barrymore Alan Moton