Is there a type of art Aspies/Auties Like?

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In my living room I have mostly Asian art and one African piece symmetrically placed throughout. The biggest framed work is a poster from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art by James Weeks. It's a relatively abstract painting of two musicians.

I like everything but portraits

I really like landscape paintings, like paintings of a town with all the people going about their business

I like pictures if they're well-done according to me.
I surely don't like pictures that aren't proportionate, or pictures that have wrong color matching, or pictures with too bright colors, because they hurt my eyes.
I don't care wheter there are people in the pictures, or wheter there aren't people. As long as the picture is well-made, I will like it.
I do not tend to focus much on people in pictures, unless there are only people in the picture.

Sometimes bright colors bother me, but mostly they distract me so much a single object can take me hours to analyze. Most of my pictures focus in small details in full. Examples below

I like all types of art, with or without people.

But I'm drawn to the dark and bizarre.

Right now, my apartment decor consists of horror movie action figures and b-movie posters. I love "monsters" most of all.

I tended to draw people when I drew as a child/teenager/young adult. Now, I draw trees a lot, or I'll take a picture of myself and edit it to oblivion on iPiccy.com. My avatar is an iPiccy'd version of a copyright-free azalea.

All of my "art" pieces in my apartment are two posters of animals, a print of a horse, and a drawing of a cat.

According to most of the literature I've read on the topic so far, autistic people are more rapt by the physical world than the social world; it makes sense that this would be reflected in our taste in art.

As an informal investigation, does anyone here prefer art that prominently features human social interaction over art that is dominated by abstract or non-human themes?

I personally do enjoy detailed paintings of thoughtful, sad or joyful human faces because I can admire the more nuanced structural details without actually staring someone down. However, I mostly prefer non-human subjects in art -- particularly brutalist architecture and animals.

Just curious, what to people think of these
http://www.google.com.au/imgres?q=graha ... =64&ty=135

http://www.google.com.au/imgres?q=graha ... 162&ty=103

http://www.google.com.au/imgres?q=graha ... =123&ty=68

They are scary to me, the snake references and scary characters (although I do like some other esoteric style paintings). I find them a little amateurish in style (just my personal opinion, not saying the artist is an amateur).

I feel this way about an heirloom quilt made by my husband's grandmother. There are so many bits on it with differing colors and patterns, that I can lose myself in a fantasy world very easily.

I love these! I love ayahuasca visionary art. I have a book with the art work of Pablo Amaringo. He is a healer and shaman from Peruvia. The artists paint the visions they have while under the influence of ayahuasca.
Edit: Those paintings are the work of Pablo Amaringo. I had to look them up in the book to make sure they were his work.

When I first saw this thread I thought it would be easy to answer. I love art (majored in Fine Arts in college) and have favorite artists. But when I started to really think about it, I realized that I had never really analyzed why I like the stuff I do.

I don't think the subject matter of the paintings is as important to me as the technical aspects that were used -- the colors, the brush strokes and paint texture, the details (ha! Typical, right?) of such things as how well hair and fabric are portrayed, or how transparent the water is or how good the perspective was done. In particular I think I'm attracted to the lighting and shading. Some of my favorites are Caravaggio, Rembrandt and Vermeer. What I like about all of them is how they use light and dark (chiaroscuro) in their works. You can see from what direction the light is emanating, and how it affects the subjects in the work.

I enjoy some Impressionism, particularly Monet, Renoir and Van Gogh. I got to see some of their works during a tour of pieces from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Monet's "Girl with An Umbrella" and Van Gogh's "Cypresses" completely blew me away. In both cases I could actually FEEL the paintings -- the wind, the sun...it was like I was in the paintings, experiencing it like the artist did. Not a fan of Picasso, Chagall, Rauchenberg and others whose works to me look like something done in kindergarten art class. Nor am I into "Pop-Art", such as Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein.

As far as people in works of art are concerned, it kinda depends. I am with most of you in that I'm not a big fan of portraits, except when they are exceptionally well-done. I do like, however, naturalistic works where the people are going about their daily lives -- gardening or cooking or sailing or whatever. As for true Abstract Art, once again it depends. I have been entranced by works that are nothing more than strips of color, but then seen works that look like somebody tripped up against a canvas when they were taking out the trash.

In my own photos, I almost NEVER include people in the shots. I take pictures of wide expanses and sunsets and architecture, but most of my pics are closeups of flowers, mushrooms and insects. A friend of mine said once that you should always include yourself or people you know in vacation pictures; otherwise you might as well just buy postcards. I disagree, because the pictures are for me, not for other people, so I don't care whether anyone believes I was actually there or not. I know I was, and I have beautiful unobstructed photos to remind me of it.

I like a lot of different art. I like photos of abandoned asylums and old building, urban exploring photos.
I like to google various sketchbook collages by random people and sometimes make my own. I used to photoshop (artistically not gloss overs etc and made some crazy things back in the day on there). I really dig random concept art as well.
There's a dude on the net, can't find his name,

My grandparents had a Persian rug. I loved getting into the intricate patterns and animals around the border.
Also, my parents had a book of Currier and Ives prints and I loved spending hours looking through those beautifully detailed pages.
I also like urban graffiti art.

I enjoy all sorts of art, there's so much of it out there and so many forms. Some words I would use to describe the sorts of art I enjoy would be abstract, geometry, texture, perception shifting, visionary, organic, surreal, meaningless, urban.



Sorry if all the images bother some of you, I just enjoy sharing things, especially when it comes to art. Here are some paintings & artists I like.


Oliver Vernon



Further art collective


Minjae Lee


Adam Scott Miller

A few more.....


Andriod Jones
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