Art Suggestions Please
 

This year my art course at college will be centered around following the style of a painter- doesn't really matter who, but I want it to be someone's work I enjoy so I can have fun with it. I originally chose filipino painter Manuel Ocampo as my style model. Here's his work;




Of course, today, my tutor shot this down because it's "too controversial", completely missing the point of the painting, but whatever. Anyway, I need to come up with a new artist for monday and I'm having trouble finding one that really grabs me yet won't be too much. I was thinking Hieronymous Bosch, until I realised his style would be far too difficult to replicate. I would've gone with Jose Guadalupe Posada, but he's not a painter..

Suggestions? Basically I'm looking for someone similar in style to Ocampo- vaguely religious baroque but politicised.

Can't help you with exacty what you're looking for but I'm a big fan of
Giorgio de Chirico, who might be up your alley:

what kind of stupid fuck is this that's in charge of your education?

shoot him in the fucking face

In front of an easel.

Some Brazilian lady. Every time you criticize her decisions she's like "english is my second language :eek:".



Thanks, I like these.

what a fucking twat.

tell her to go eat some poja.n what kind of fucking school is this. "controversial"? in 2008?

ask her if she's ever heard of the salon des refusés in 1863.

what a load of fucking crap! i'm pissed, man...

anyway, how about joel pelletier?

“American Fundamentalists: Christ’s Entry into Washington in 2008”



he himself was copying james ensor's "christ's entry into brussels"



http://www.rutherford.org/Oldspeak/A...-pelletier.asp

Ah hey thats great! Thank you.

Seconded.

Chris Ofili

Lots of vulgarity usually turns me off - but in this case it's totally apropos.

I've been getting into R.B. Kitaj a lot recently. Might be worth a look.

Magritte. LOVE these paintings so much.