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Ronald Walker

2 Years Ago

What Is Your Favorite Art Period?

What is your favorite period in art? Think mine is probably early modernism, yours?

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Daniel Bosler

2 Years Ago

I'm all over the map, but my real comfort zone is the 18th century, the Age of Enlightenment, especially portraits. Gainsborough, and Reynolds in England. Elizabeth Vigee Lebrun and Quentin de la Tour in France. So many more. Boucher, Fragonard, all the lightheartedness that came before neoclassical themes. When I see those paintings, I kind of exhale, and feel connected. But I don't paint that way, though at times I'm tempted to try. Not much point to creating 21st century pastiches of 18th century paintings.

 

Earth And Spirit

2 Years Ago

Impressionism. I was really struck by the beauty of that form and the painters of that era. And I learned a tremendous amount just by looking at the works of artists like Degas, Renoir, Seurat and Monet that helped me develop my eye for photography.

 

David King Studio

2 Years Ago

Impressionism plus the immediate post impressionist period.

 

Phyllis Beiser

2 Years Ago

Probably Baroque and Neoclassicism.

 

David Bridburg

2 Years Ago

I like all of them until around the 1970s and 80s. My training was in the mid to late 80s. Modern was worn out. I liked early modern a great deal. I liked early AbEx. Western society made massive strides in the arts, but gets into a repetitive ditch towards the period I do not like.

I like Koons' work in Contemporary art onward. But shallow will only get a guy so far.

Dave Bridburg
Bridburg.com
Post Modern Gallery

 

Rudi Prott

2 Years Ago

late impressionism and early expressionism

 

Alison Frank

2 Years Ago

Luminism/Hudson River School work!

 

Rich Franco

2 Years Ago

Ron,

Usually between 12:00 and 5:00, depending .....

Rich

 

Amy Neufeld

2 Years Ago

Pre-Raphaelite/Victorian

 

Doug Swanson

2 Years Ago

Generally now. Everything else looks old. Nothing's wrong with old, but my interest is what's happening now.

 

Abbie Shores

2 Years Ago

Impressionism. I'd love to have been around them, the originators... Or today to be able to grasp the looseness of it. It's harder than it looks lol

 

Chuck De La Rosa

2 Years Ago

Dutch Golden Age landscapes. Looking at these you realize it's the foundation for modern landscape photography. Followed closely by Impressionism for the same reason.

 

J L Meadows

2 Years Ago

Romanticism.

 

Kevin Callahan

2 Years Ago

I have so many but if I must choose a fav it would be the POP movement of the early 60s into the late 70s.

 

Mary Lee Dereske

2 Years Ago

Oh my. I don't think I can pick one. But I have been drawn to work by the WPA artists, and early 20th century illustrations, like those by Maxfield Parrish and Arthur Rackham.

 

Edward Fielding

2 Years Ago

After lunch but before gym.

 

Dora Hathazi Mendes

2 Years Ago

Art Nouveau / Secession

 

Lisa Kaiser

2 Years Ago

Fauvism for me!

 

James McCormack

2 Years Ago

Now!
Get ready to make history, folks!

Now, because we have so much access.

Now, because I prefer the living, but pay respects to the dead.

 

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