What is your favorite period of Art?

The above Painting: Duck by TAKEUCHI SEIHŌ

Deer Playing in Balmy Breeze by Takeuchi Seiho (1864-1942)

Rainstorm Beneath the Summit by Katsushika Hokusai

Sky Horizon
Louise Nevelson
The National Institute of Health
Bethesda, Maryland

Dream House XXXII 1972
Louise Nevelson

Mrs. N's Palace 1969
Louise Nevelson

Louise Nevelson
She was a student of Hans Hofmann.

Sky Shadow 1973
Louise Nevelson

Mrs. N's Palace
Another view
Louise Nevelson

She was commissioned to do a "Dawn of the Bicentennial" bqs relief for Philadelphia. When I was a kid in my teens , (late 60') was introduced to Nevelson when one of my later art teachers ,John Costigan, a social realist (kinda like Katte Kollwitz in stylistic ways) wanted to go see her and re kindle an "affair" (I think that was the reason) (Costigan ws in his early 70s).
She was quite irascible and was fond of dressing like a street person (which she was for a period of time).

Later , in the mid 80's, a friend who was a rare book dealer, found some of her works on paper (these were sketches of wood works she was playing with for th Philly Commision) I went with him up to NY and I met her again. My friend (the book guy) had already known her and had apparently also had an affair with her. She was quite a sprightly ole bird.

Here is something I like

Peter Max

His treatment of flowers are one of my favorite, an impressionistic explosion that strikes the eye before the mind takes over. Reminds me of standing before a Mexican plum in full bloom, an almost instantaneous Ccosmic consciousness. A photograph can't capture the moment, but a painting can.


Mexican plum--Prunus mexicana

Banksy-- English-based graffiti artist.

Banksy

Banksy

Wrapped Reichstag 1995
Christo and Jeanne-Claude

Although their work is visually impressive and often controversial as a result of its scale, the artists have repeatedly denied that their projects contain any deeper meaning than their immediate aesthetic impact. The purpose of their art, they contend, is simply to create works of art for joy and beauty and to create new ways of seeing familiar landscapes. Art critic David Bourdon has described Christo's wrappings as a "revelation through concealment." To his critics Christo replies, "I am an artist, and I have to have courage ... Do you know that I don't have any artworks that exist? They all go away when they're finished. Only the preparatory drawings, and. collages are left, giving my works an almost legendary character. I think it takes much greater courage to create things to be gone than to create things that will remain.

never a banksy fan. His stencil art is more like vandalism .

I suppose Banksy is a vandal in that he be besmirches the complacency of the middle class. I like this one where the xenophobic doves are shunning the migratory swallow.

His art is kinda lame. Its derivative of several earlier stylists and he, like Jeff koons has nothing really original or unique.