What is your favorite period of Art?

@farmerman,

There's a lot going on in that painting. A kid flying a kite, two steam locomotives. You could get lost in that painting.

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https://i.pinimg.com/736x/1d/16/af/1d16afa608a0a9cfcbe76e50383fd16e--dora-maar-spanish-classroom.jpg

Dora Mar by Antonio Saura

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http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-9-7lLO0EdGI/Uy9MtqDqwPI/AAAAAAAAPuQ/jwRPGcvg5NY/s1600/Saura+at+Meadows.JPG

Portrait of Mari,Antonio Saura

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http://www.boisseree.org/images/artists/Saura/Saura_D25-S-1968.jpg

Antonio Saura
"Desnudo"
mixed-media on paper, 17,3 x 23,4 cm

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@coluber2001,

http://www.boisseree.com/images/artists/Saura/Saura_D03-T-4.jpg

Antonio Saura

"El ángel de la buena muerte"

oil on canvas 1950

69,8 x 49,9 cm

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http://www.museoreinasofia.es/sites/default/files/obras/DE01505_0.jpg

Antonio Saura
Memoria Dr Otoño (Memory of Autuum)

I realize that this painting is way too big but I don't have the ability to reduce it. I would appreciate it if somebody else could do this for me. I think the painting is worthwhile being seen, and I'm overwhelmed by it. It may be a collage, I don't know. Thank you.

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I skimmed through this entire thread and didn't see the name Rembrandt. Not saying it's not here. Just saying I didn't see it.

There's a self-portrait at the Frick Collection in NYC that may well be my all-time favorite painting. Why? I feel that it speaks to me.

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https://www.paam.org/shop/images/1159/hans-hofmann.jpg

Hans Hofmann is still one of my favorites. I don't know the title of this work.

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@coluber2001,

http://www.abstract-art.com/abstraction/l2_Grnfthrs_fldr/g0000_gr_inf_images/g039e_hoffmann_herld.jpg

Hearld by Hans Hofmann

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http://www.abstract-art.com/abstraction/l2_grnfthrs_fldr/g0000_gr_inf_images/g039a_hoffmann.jpg

Nocturnal splendor/i] by Hans Hofmann 1963

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@Roberta,

I like Rembrandt too, probably a side effect of spending so much time in Amsterdam. This is what made me stand up and pay attention.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c7/Dr_Deijman%E2%80%99s_Anatomy_Lesson_%28fragment%29%2C_by_Rembrandt.jpg

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I like Kandinsky's "Bauhaus" phase:

https://proxy.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.secondarts.com%2Fimages%2Fmouvements_artistiques%2Fart_abstrait%2Fkandinsky.gif&f=1

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Ive always been a fan of the "Precisionists" and "colorists" . They insisted on breaking with any European influences that spilled over tothe landscape or rural scenes. Im not certin they really made it but their work is interesting.

http://images.slideplayer.com/18/6109022/slides/slide_6.jpg

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@farmerman,

I met Lewandowski a few years before his death at a memorial for Wm. Baziotes (one of my art teachers when I was a weee kid). Lewandowski shared many of the same artistic worldviews as Demuth , Criss, or Scheeler.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-zdmmBaVGAOU/Us3Av_m9qsI/AAAAAAAAlwA/aIc42JCamyY/s1600/Edmund+Lewandowski+_paintings_artodyssey+(11).jpg

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@farmerman,

Baziotes was a really great draftsman bfore he went totally "colorism" . He taught us the skills of the drafting and told us to avoid anything abstract until we "Had something to say". Its true, most abstract work as Ive seen it in small town galleries is some kind of copying bt done badly. Heres one of my favorite of Baziotes work. He dies when I was like 12 years old and was told by my mom that "tonites class was cancelled because your teacher died "