(No Whistlers though 
)I thought of this because I decided to put a picture by surrealist Yves Tanguy in my sig (which I can't get to work at the moment
). I found him in a book on Surrealism, which I was looking through primarily because I love Salvador Dali. His style reminds me a lot of Dali's, actually, but his paintings are more fully abstract. They are kinda like abstract sculptures placed in one of Dali's infinite landscapes. I find them wonderfully evocative and misterious. A couple favorites:
Another artist I discovered this year was Kandinsky, who seems well-known in the art-loving crowd but probably not the mainstream. I discovered him when somebody (forget who) had him in a sig for a while.
Kandinski went through a lot of styles, but the period that I really enjoy is a period I read someone call "geometric abstract" (I think). I think it's something about the way the lines flow through the vibrant colors that I find very joyful, almost celebratory. A couple favorites:
(lemme know if anybody wants me to change these to links)
As you might have guessed, I tend to enjoy things skeweing towards the abstract more than realistic depictions of stuff. Oh, and Starry Night is probably my favorite painting.
