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I was reminded recently by fellow North Seattleite @"Laocoön" that we need some more art history hot takes around here. The first artist that stands out to me as a personal favorite is Pieter Brugel the Elder, particularly the Harvesters which is at the Met Museum of Art in NYC. Never ceases to amaze me the level of detail this guy was getting back in the 1500s.

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Also, shout, of course, to @GrundleStiltzkin

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I’m game for some hawt art talk, but asking me favorite painter of all time is like asking you Mr. @YellowSnow your favorite band. Might be a more fruitful discussion if you narrow it down by era, region, etc.

Bruegel Sr. did have some great paintings. I loved “Peasants Dance”:

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“Peasants Wedding” is great too:

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If you like Dutch/Flemish genre painters, check out Jan Steen:

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I’m game for some hawt art talk, but asking me favorite painter of all time is like asking you Mr. @YellowSnow your favorite band. Might be a more fruitful discussion if you narrow it down by era, region, etc.

Bruegel Sr. did have some great paintings. I loved “Peasants Dance”:

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“Peasants Wedding” is great too:

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If you like Dutch/Flemish genre painters, check out Jan Steen:

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Easy. My favorite band is The Rolling Stones.

You can pick several famous painters if you like.

My AP Euro teacher in HS was a big Flemish masters guy. Took us to the Rubens museum in Antwerp on our first stop on HS Euro trip.
 
Impressionists: Less is more, more is less

Mark Rothko (mid century) pieces
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Matisse a favorite of Nazi fat-ass, Herman Goering who hijacked scores of fine paintings from European Jews.
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I honestly can’t even pick even a few favorites, but I’ll try:

Hans Holbein is the GOAT of portraitists in my opinion, even if his Anne of Cleves commission got him in hot water with his patron, Henry VIII:

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Mr. Chiaroscuro himself, Caravaggio. I love how his work is like a well lit theater scene.

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Edward Hopper - remember seeing “Chop Suey” when it was at the SAM - super pissed when they didn’t get to keep it.

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Probably Monet. Mrs Throbber v1.0 was into Monet in a big way - coffee table books, notecards, coasters...whatever she could get that had Claude's shit on it, she was down. Rather than be indignant, The Throbber has grown to appreciate Monet later in life.

Should have kept the Water Lilies print in the divorce settlement.

 
Hmmm...

Van Gogh is the Beatles of art.

I love Victor Vasarely, Salvador Dali, Ilya Repin, Ellsworth Kelly, Ivan Aivakovsky...

But of course the greatest painting of all time is Carte Blanche by Rene Magritte!p9jyk0imr05e.jpeg
 
Corfu: Lights and Shadows

1909
John Singer Sargent (American, 1856–1925)

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My favorite wife has a degree in fine arts. She taught me to appreciate how fucking hard it is to paint in water color. We have a print of this, it really pops against the filthy walls. When you relax and look at it, you can feel the warm Mediterranean breeze.
 
Hmmm...

Van Gogh is the Beatles of art.

I love Victor Vasarely, Salvador Dali, Ilya Repin, Ellsworth Kelly, Ivan Aivakovsky...

But of course the greatest painting of all time is Carte Blanche by Rene Magritte!View attachment 18202
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This work @Dennis_DeYoung I think symbolizes the ultimate triumph of civilization over barbarism.
 
Corfu: Lights and Shadows

1909
John Singer Sargent (American, 1856–1925)

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My favorite wife has a degree in fine arts. She taught me to appreciate how fucking hard it is to paint in water color. We have a print of this, it really pops against the filthy walls. When you relax and look at it, you can feel the warm Mediterranean breeze.
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Sargent is another one of my favorites. And Wife #4 is right, painting with watercolors is tough.

While Sargent was so well known for is Edwardian portraiture of high society (His Portrait of Madame X being one of the most famous), he did a couple of paintings with Bedouins as subjects (also in watercolor...well, I think technically gouache which is similar, just more opaque) that are really striking:

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