what dead artist would you marry?

while the semester winds down i am finishing up one of my most enjoyable courses, art history. the whole thing makes me happy the professor is incredible he is just like your kindergarten teacher at story time. its like reading a really good book but you get to listen to this funny guy tell it in his own words so now i am getting a little disappointed that its almost over, but i thought i would put down my list of favorite artist (or ones i would be willing to marry) for posterity. i thought i would work from oldest to youngest and include my favorite piece.

1. Michelangelo, this one i think lingers from childhood when i read the agony and the ecstasy, i have identified with him ever since, also i think Pieta and David are just beautiful, i love the idea of freeing the work that is already in the marble. what i most like about Pieta is the way Michelangelo makes her such a young women, its like she is a lost little girl, not knowing what to do and yet she has such a strength about here she somehow becomes this stoic female figure that is so often not allowed to be. i also like the way he manipulated the size of Mary and Jesus to make it fit his idea rather then be confined by reality, the sign of a true artist.
2. David, i am not a huge fan of his ideas about women, but i am absolutely in love with the death of Marat, it's not so much the gruesome story around the painting but rather the serenity of the piece, Marat becomes the ultimate Christ like figure in my mind which makes David incredibly skillful.
3. Manet, my most beloved painter, i really can't change the way i feel about luncheon on the grass, it just blows my mind. the first thing that strikes me is the way the girl stares directly at me i am on the lawn, and then i am drawn in by the abstractness of the painting, its the first of its kind to not fit like all the others, the people stand off the background. to me this painting expresses everything i love about Manet, his disregard for the status quo, and his willingness to expose the parts of life that no one is willing to recognize.
4. the next is Cezanne, i am just in love with the idea of Cezanne, the way he paints and his ideas of painting enthrall me, i love the idea of painting life as you see it, at all points in time and i love that as long as he didn't sell it he would be continually working on his paintings. and i think i most connect with his work with color, to me of all the aspects of painting color is the part i love, they convey the most basic emotion. the paint of the canvas has a quality of warmth that i find hard to describe so you must just look 

i think i will have to finish here for now, but don't worry there is always room for a few more artist husbands.