My artistic taste is typically drawn towards compositions that are psychologically charged with emotion through a gaze or gesture or, when not focused on a figure, through formal qualities of color, contrast, and surface. I gravitate to works where the artist skillfully renders an emotionally charged area and leaves outlying sections basically constructed or suggestive of space. I like compositions that utilize abstract qualities to refer to the subject and underlying meaning (esp. patterns). I suppose you could say that the expressionists, surrealists, art nouvea, and Dutch masters all catch my attention.
This is in no particular order as I can never seem to pinpoint a favorite (Pay attention to the honorable mentions- they could have made this list if I were in a different mood today).
Egon Schiele
Gustave Klimt
This is in no particular order as I can never seem to pinpoint a favorite (Pay attention to the honorable mentions- they could have made this list if I were in a different mood today).
Egon Schiele
Gustave Klimt
Honorable mentions include:
Henri Toulouse Lautrec:
Alphonse Mucha:
Johannes Vermeer:
Rene Magritte:
and Hokusai:
(I will post some of my favorites photographers, authors, and contemporary artists very soon)!
