DaDa is one of the few artists to inspire an art movement of his own ( DaDa-ism ) I'm a fan of most art, period. I enjoy everything from the great Dutch Masters to comic books and tattoo art. I agree with Riot Grrrl, the art of the Renaissance Masters does have a quality that is unsurpassed in the art world, Rembrandt was probably the greatest painter of all time. The quailty of his work and the true mastery of the medium he worked in, isn't wholly evident until you are face to face with one of his works. Once you see one, you'll see what I mean. There are others that come VERY close, but only he is the true master. The mastery is in the way he used light and shadow so effectively and transfered it to the canvas. Very few artists of any age have been able to fool the eye the way he does, some of his paintings look to this day as if the person in the painting could literally step out of it and shake your hand.
I like Abstact Expressionism- It's art for arts sake! Jackson Pollack was a creative genius. Impressionism- It paved the way for the rest of the modern art movements. Monet and VanGogh, namely. I'm a HUGE Picasso fan, because he used his art as a social statement as well as a creative medium. Few paintings speak to you the way the Guernica does. Pop Art, I feel, kind of brought art down to the common mans level, that is a matter of opinion whether that is a good thing or not. Many of the art worlds learned feel it was a " cheapening " of the accomplishments of other loftier classical genres, but it philosophically challenged the idea of what art is. That in my opinion, makes it art. Art MUST re-invent itself, art is life.