Whats Your Favorite Art Style, Least Favorite?

Hi Ronald. Call this style what you like... I call it Panda-ism. One of my current favourites...

Barry, wow that is nice!

I'm with you on the cute realism tho... I appreciate the skill involved, but na...waste of time imo.

Abstract expressionism is my least favorite.

I guess I'd have to say the post-impressionists are my favorite "style" (although they are a bit different one from the other) along with Medieval icon and religious painting. Georgia O'keeffe is my favorite artist, but they have a hard time pegging her with a style.

Can't believe I did not include this but it takes on such a wide and diverse group and that is Outsider art.

Barry,

Panda really understands how to use 3D in PS. Great work. Thanks for the link.

The only problem with the unlimited TECHNIQUES in PS 3D are that in fact they are
limited very much so.

You can do portraiture all day long like a Rembrandt or other artists, but you can not
extrude every last face you ever saw. Boring. It becomes highly repetitive.

I have seen a bit of work from 3D PS, and begun to play in it as well, but there are as I am
saying artistic limits to how many different works you will make in each MODE.

Dave

Ron,

By far my most favorite modern body of work is Picasso's.

He died in 1973, his works are not in the public domain. I
can not use any of his stuff.

Early on in my artistic process for my present day works I
had massive plans to use Picasso's work. As I became more
expert in copyright law I had to nix all those plans. Spain has
the toughest longest lasting copyright laws for artists of any country.

Picasso was such an intellectual giant he can not be ignored at all.

Dave

I'm right there with you in your love of Picasso, David!

I have to say Jackson Pollock and William de Kooning have fantastic bodies of work.

Pollock well before his splatters was a great artist.

De Kooning well after his Woman Series was producing abstract master pieces into
his senility.

Dave

Ronald, I LOVE outsider art for the most part. But that's not really a style (??) because it's all over the map, right?

Have several books on the subject. I also subscribe to RAW Vision magazine - published in the UK, which is dedicated to Outsider art.

Yeah the problem with Outsider art is it can't be put in a nice little container and labeled. My attraction to it is the freedom exhibited by many of the artist. No worries from art conventions and /or money. Creating for the sake of creating!

Shock stuff (anything dead or excreted by the body, for instance, plus more) and performance art (Tilda Swinton sleeping???) are definitely my least favorites.

Too many favorites to count.

Let's do the bad/don't like first - "Modern Art": artistic works produced during the period extending roughly from the 1860s to the 1970s and the least liked work is that by de Kooning
My favorite art period - Hmmmmm - I'll be as honest as I can - I don't know that I have a fav period or even a favorite artist.. . . I've not paid that much attention to the 'artists' just the work - I do like wildlife art as well as, well, anything I like - landscape paintings of the southwest. If I had a few billion dollars - I'd like to own "Monkey and Grasshopper" by Mori Sosen, Current location, Shin'enKan. Los Angeles. I suppose that puts my favorite style in the Oriental market of Japan - Edo period.

Abstract expressionism for painting, Bauhaus for architecture and furniture design.

Hyperrealism doesn't speak to me at anything but a technical level, so that's my least favorite.

Ethereal/dreamy art is my favorite. Picasso and that invisible art stuff is my least fav.

This is my new style:
3D, geometric textures, random, poetic, musicality, a little like psychedelic rock, just like in a dream:

I don't like fractals, and love color field art.

I like expressionism and fauvism, the wild beasts of color. Neo-expressionists portray recognizable objects, such as the human body (although sometimes in an abstract manner), in a rough and violently emotional way using vivid colours and color harmonies. I am inspired by the German Expressionist painters--Emil Nolde, Max Beckmann, George Grosz, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and other expressionist artists such as James Ensor and Edvard Munch.

Least favorite are total abstractions and cubism.

Wow, this is tricky. I have a tie for favorite. Realism and Abstract Expressionism.

Least favorite would probably be Dada.

Bauhaus I like because it is inclusive of things that fall under artistic crafts. I've seen some things that fall under craft work that is just beautifully done. So much so that, to me, it's art.

Despite what one may have heard I think the variety of "Favorites, and non favorites" shows a healthy art world. This is why I am glad I am an artist living in our times and not in an era where dogma ruled! Keep them coming, quite interesting!!

Ronald that is a difficult question to answer, for me, primarily because I am not familiar enough with all the different styles that exist, that does not take away from my appreciation of art as I look to the individual work to determine if I like it or not, not to the style. So I can like some thing so much in any of the styles to make it my favorite and dislike another piece in the same style to say it's my least favorite. Now that said, I really don't like conceptual art, put that can change with the right piece of art and then it may become my favorite.

I'll agree with Wendy that my least favorite would be works done for shock value and/or some performance art. I'm also not partial to some of the gimmicky contemporary works like haphazardly splashing paint (or other things) on burlap or newspaper and calling it art. No offense intended to anyone here who works that way :-)

My favorite art style is Impressionism, mostly because I love light and these works usually have beautiful representations of light. For design I'd have to say Art Deco or Arts and Crafts.

I appreciate most styles of art except for those with dark themes (having to do with evil, horror, etc...) My favorites usually have to do with subject matter not style so much.
But if I have to choose a favorite style it would be impressionism and I do like fauvism. Through the years I haven't liked realism to much which is a problem because that is what I'm best at. I think I don't like it as much because I have a hard time making beautiful impressionism. It seems each time I try to do an impressionist work it turns out too realistic.

Execution is key. Every style of art is fantastic when you're looking at prime examples. But poorly executed anything always leaves a bad taste in your mouth.


Dan Turner
Dan Turner's Seven Keys to Selling Art Online

I don't know if this is a style, but I'm always drawn to folk art paintings.

Dan, don't agree totally, There are works produced by children, folk artist, mentally ill people, people under extreme conditions like the concentration camps of WW2 in which the technical aspects of the work might lack but still they are able to create some fascinating work. FYI the only reason I am responding to you is because you said that it might leave a poor taste in "your" work. You are, of course free to feel however you wish and in many cases I would agree with you.

Mouth.

Ronald, the technical aspects of a work can be really poor, but the work itself can still be sublime.


Dan Turner
Dan Turner's Seven Keys to Selling Art Online

Very interesting, thanks! Going to close this one now.