Artists

I haven’t been on here in ages, but I need this help. I am supposed to recreate the work of an impressionist artist and I chose Dali (his early work is impressionist). But the problem is that I am not sure if you would consider this painting impressionism or surrealism.
http://www.virtualdali.com/21SelfPortrait.html

not surrealistic.never saw that before, but i’d call it impressionism.

The many types of art styles never entered my art world my entire art life which is more than five decades. Recently I have become more familiar with some and feel they would distract me from my own unique styles. I respect the rich history they portray yet will do as I have been doing, as an artist what are your thoughts about this?

I think it’s incredibly important to look back at the history of painting and understand where you, as a painter in contemporary times, fit into that history. If a particular moment in painting history intrigues you, find out why and perhaps you can use that in your work. Or simply admire what has come before you and the achievements of those artists.

Also, don’t become too attached to any "style" (even your own) if it gets in the way of becoming a better painter, but at the same time, don’t feel obligated to change the way you work if it’s what you like to do. Happy painting!

Is this true or false.

~Sort of true, but the non-conformists did try to conform with one another.

That doesn’t help you does it?
Okay, collectively, it is true, but individually it is false. Same thing, said a different way. Sorry, it’s the only honest and objective way to answer.

Hi
I’ve been trying to find an artist who paints in the post-Impressionist style of Van Gogh. The artist (who I believe is Chinese) has a particular Chinese-esque scroll painting that he actually entitles the work after Gogh. Does anyone know this artist?
Thank you.
Have it ! Thank you!

Hi! Are you thinking of Zhang Hongtu?
Shitao – van Gogh #10
http://www.artnet.de/artwork/424180244/137214/zhang-hongtu-shitao—van-gogh-10.html
Van Gogh #7
http://www.prices4antiques.com/paintings/oil-on-canvas/Zhang-Hongtu-Oil-on-Canvas-signed-2004-Shitao-Van-Gogh-7-Dreamlike-Landscape-with-Mountain-Waterfall-D9799810.htm
http://www.yale.edu/opa/arc-ybc/v28.n7/story15.html
More:
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=zhang%20hongtu%20%20%20van%20gogh&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi

Hey need as much info as i can get on this so any help would be muchly appreciated , if anyone knows of an actual artist that was influenced that would be helpful

From;
http://www.answers.com/topic/absinthe
"Numerous artists and writers living in France in the late 19th and early 20th century were noted absinthe drinkers who featured absinthe in their work. These included Vincent van Gogh, Édouard Manet, Amedeo Modigliani, Arthur Rimbaud, Guy de Maupassant, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and Paul Verlaine. Later artists and writers drew from this cultural well, including Pablo Picasso, August Strindberg, Oscar Wilde, and Ernest Hemingway. Aleister Crowley was also known to be a habitual absinthe drinker. Emile Cohl, an early pioneer in the art of animation, presented the effects of the drink in 1919 with the short film, Hasher’s delirium.

Two famous painters who helped popularize the notion that absinthe had powerful psychoactive properties were Toulouse Lautrec and Vincent van Gogh. In one of the best known accounts of absinthe drinking, Oscar Wilde described the feeling of having tulips on his legs after leaving a bar. Today it is known that absinthe does not cause hallucinations. Thujone, the active chemical in absinthe, is a GABA antagonist; and while it can produce muscle spasms in large doses, there is no evidence that it causes hallucinations. It has been speculated that reports of hallucinogenic effects of absinthe may have been due to poisonous chemicals being added to cheaper versions of the drink in the 19th century, to give it a more vivid color."

I need to research a impressionist artist for my GCSE art exam next month!! help!!

You might check the Gallery at www.photo.net

Especially check "Fine Art" and "Digtial Manipulation" folders.

You probably won’t see the work of anyone famous but you will see some that will be famous.

I say an artist who does realism…

Symbolist and Art Nouveau. Pax – C

Created by the artist who was associated with Artmaster Studios, San Fernando, California. At least 30YO.

Artmaster Studios was a company that produced artwork for the furnishing trade. Ferrante was one of their artists but there is no information about him (it was possibly a pseudonym).
He should not be confused with the Italian/Californian artist Mario de Ferrante.

Ferrante (Artmaster Studios) pictures appear on ebay at prices from $200 to $500.

From;
http://www.askart.com/AskART/artists/bulletin.aspx?Artist=115818
"Artmaster Studios produced many paintings signed Ferrante among others (not the same as De Ferrante). I recently saw a painting on an auction site signed Ferrante which the seller represented as Mario De Ferrante, but it was not his signature. (Caveat Emptor is always the rule of eBay.)
I do not know the history of Artmaster but I do know that both Artmaster and Vanguard Studios (which by the way was started in the 60’s by Lee Reynolds Burr) were both acquired by Interiors, Inc. of NY.
In the late 90’s Interiors, Inc. merged the Artmaster subsidiary into the Vanguard subsidiary. The Artmaster name was dropped in lieu of Vanguard.
I do not have a list of all the artists from Artmaster, but a couple I recall are Ferrante and Huntington. As with many commercial studios, the art is decent quality.
Many of the Vanguard artists from the early days (under the tutelage of Lee Reynolds) went on to their own solo careers."

Monet, Sunrise is his debut painting that started impressionism. It wasn’t popular at first, or was strongly critisized. He likes to use dark and light contrast. The paintings are not detailed, and show emotions from the color. The Sun Rise is mostly blue, with a bright red sun. The ships are blur, however you could tell they are ships…