i figured a community of perfume connoisseurs would likely have an overlap with art lovers as well, and it made me curious, who are some of y'alls favorite artists?
recently i've been obsessed with aron wiesenfeld, a fantastic painter. i feel that his work has this dreary, melancholic, and lonely feeling that is just astounding.
Perhaps an odd choice among so many flashier options, but I adore Alexander Adriaenssen.
There was a brief period when I was a teen where I had to accompany my family for their stints at the local art museum, so I spent a long time wandering aimlessly around the towering baroque halls and staring at all manner of paintings. An overwhelming variety of classics; Paul Leroy's absolutely gigantic "Haman and Mordecai" that took up the whole wall by itself – so detailed you could see the individual strands of fabric in the men's clothing... And yet I found myself entranced by a singular little still life of gutted fish.
Every time I walked around for hours with vacant eyes, and every time I eventually found myself, entranced, before the fish. There are plenty of photos of his works on Google, and they do get the point across, I guess, but they can't do him even a modicum of justice. You have to see those fish with your own eyes. The glistening juicy meat, the iridescent shine of the scales, the wet eyes staring into your soul... In the moment those damned fish felt more real than I was.
I like plenty of artists, both contemporary and not. But Adriaenssen? By the gods, do I love him. If you ever hear about a mysterious heist at the Western and Eastern Art Museum where the only thing to disappear is the little fish painting – I didn't do it, you cannot prove anything, please don't come to my house, lol.
i figured a community of perfume connoisseurs would likely have an overlap with art lovers as well, and it made me curious, who are some of y'alls favorite artists?
recently i've been obsessed with aron wiesenfeld, a fantastic painter. i feel that his work has this dreary, melancholic, and lonely feeling that is just astounding.
I didn't know of this painter so I searched for his paintings on the Internet: Beautyful!!!
Perhaps an odd choice among so many flashier options, but I adore Alexander Adriaenssen.
There was a brief period when I was a teen where I had to accompany my family for their stints at the local art museum, so I spent a long time wandering aimlessly around the towe...
I don't blame you, just looked up Adriaenssen's work and it's certainly fantastic and macabre. definitely more of a focus on meat and carcass than most vanitas painters. i used to despise vanitas paintings until i took a class on them, my professor described them as being "pregnant with meaning" and i think that applies to adriaenssen wonderfully.
Francis Bacon,
Frida Kahlo,
Jean-Michel Basquiat.
great choices! i love francis bacon personally, i tried to set my background on here to his painting 1946 but i couldn't find a good resolution image of it that wasn't copyright.
Francis Bacon,
Frida Kahlo,
Jean-Michel Basquiat.
great choices! i love francis bacon personally, i tried to set my background on here to his painting 1946 but i couldn't find a good resolution image of it that wasn't copyright.
Wow, that’s cool... It would’ve made a great background. I saw 1946 “in person,” at MoMA, and it was a transformative experience.
I also fell in love with Basquiat’s works at MoMA. Seeing them in real life completely changed my perception. I never really cared for his paintings before, but in person they feel totally different. I think it’s because Basquiat was a street artist, so you really need to experience the artwork physically, in real life.
I also love the Pre-Raphaelites, pretty much everything they did.
OMG there are so many...but if I should choose only one, it would probably be Annie Stegg Gerard. I absolutely adore all her paintings. 😍
Mark Ryden and Hyman Bloom. I’m an edgelord at heart.
Admittedly it's somewhat due to nostalgia, but the art of Stephen Gammell will always have my heart.
Mark Ryden and Hyman Bloom. I’m an edgelord at heart.
i've never seen hyman bloom before. WOW! im blown away, absolutely fantastic work!! may be a new favorite for me imo, i lean towards colorful and macabre (im a BIG dana schutz fan). when i was a teenager i was obsessed with mark ryden, but art school has changed my tastes. he is certainly a fanstastic pop surrealist, i was mortified to see so many AI replications of his work when i googled him
Admittedly it's somewhat due to nostalgia, but the art of Stephen Gammell will always have my heart.
oh i totally get you. this image is burned into my brain
