My favorite Artists...
Thought I'd start a new thread from out of the Rudi/Time Cover one...
Fave current living artist bar none:
<a href="http://www.robert-williams.com/RWsite.html" target="_blank">Robert Williams</a>
The Artistalero
Explanatory Nomenclature: The Throngs Adulate In A State of Agog As A Profligate/Dilettante Runs Incontinent With Gratuitous Inspiration, Perpetuating The Credo 'Is Not Every Man In His Soul An Artist, And The More Downtrodden, The More License He Has To Express?'
Poolroom Title: Mr. Funky-Tube-Squeezer Secretes A Treat
The maestro of low brow art.
Fave classic artists:
Da Vinci
Van Gough
Picasso
Dali...hundreds more.
Fave current living artist bar none:
<a href="http://www.robert-williams.com/RWsite.html" target="_blank">Robert Williams</a>
The Artistalero
Explanatory Nomenclature: The Throngs Adulate In A State of Agog As A Profligate/Dilettante Runs Incontinent With Gratuitous Inspiration, Perpetuating The Credo 'Is Not Every Man In His Soul An Artist, And The More Downtrodden, The More License He Has To Express?'
Poolroom Title: Mr. Funky-Tube-Squeezer Secretes A Treat
The maestro of low brow art.
Fave classic artists:
Da Vinci
Van Gough
Picasso
Dali...hundreds more.
Comments
But seriously, I'm a huge photorealism nut, so guys like Davis Cone, John Baeder, Richard Estes, etc. I can look at that stuff for DAYS.
Most of the people I REALLY know of and admire are digital, computer-based illustrators. My three favorites are <a href="http://www.ronchan.com/" target="_blank">Ron Chan</a>, <a href="http://www.peterhoey.com" target="_blank">Peter Hoey</a> and <a href="http://www.stevenlyons.com" target="_blank">Steven Lyons</a>.
If you've read Macworld magazine at all over the years, at one point or another you've seen their work on many occasions: covers, article openers, spot illustrations, feature art, etc.
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Personally I like deKooning,Picasso,vanGogh,Munch,Michelangelo,quite a few others.Among digital artists I like Karl Sims,although many people wouldn't consider his work to be art.
Kinkade can suck it.
The Arnolfini Wedding r00ls j00. Northern Renaissance 'till I die.
Him and Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
<a href="http://artcyclopedia.com/artists/diebenkorn_richard.html" target="_blank">Richard Diebenkorn</a> is one of my favorite modern painters. Especially his landscapes and drawings.
<strong>I actually like Dali, Monet, and Thomas Kincaide however you spell it.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Sorry, but you shouldn't even mention Dali or Monet with that asshole in the same thread...to each his own, but he (Kinkade) is an inflatable **** doll compared to their real beauty of artistic representations....
William's work is amazing up close. His earlier works were so detailed. He would use a single hair brush for detailed worlk. His magazine <a href="http://www.juxtapoz.com/html/homeframe.html" target="_blank">Juxtapoz</a> rules too.
Another artist to see out there is <a href="http://www.markryden.com/" target="_blank">Mark Ryden</a>. His work has a weird, narrative style. Classical yet modern.
"Angel of Meat"
My two heavy hitters:
George Grosz
Marcel Duchamp
some lessors:
John Heartfeld, Kurt Schwitters
He was not only an artist (Rat Fink) but an amazing custom car designer...
Passed away on my birthday last year...
However my real favorites are:
Salvator Dali (just bizzare)
MC Escher (king of bindblowingly weird)
and a little Geiger (fukin freaky).
Rauschenberg, an old standby
Tom Freidman
Tim Hawkinson
DUCHAMP
VITO ACCONCI
Sophie Calle
Bruce Naumann
Gary Hill
many other video and video installation artists
Muel
I also like the likes of Robert Williams, too
and Giotto
and painterly Painters:
Elmer Bischoff
Fantin Latour
AAAhhhh so much... I love it all...and more