artwork you actually like!

In Rikgarrett's continuing quest to bring happiness, positivity and joy to the world (ahem), I'm attempting to actually have a nice happy discussion regarding artwork that makes you happy.

Here are a few artists I think of.. maybe later (when I have more time and am feeling less lazy) I'll post links to examples.

*Raoul Ubac - Just found this guy's 'surrealist' photography. It's awesome.
*Hans Bellmer - one of the only people cited in both illustration and photography collections, and he actually deserves to be in both. His doll photographs are wonderful, and H.R. Giger is still biting off his early illustration to this day.
*Nick Blinko - scrawly, scratchy pen and ink stuff.
*Egon Schiele - nice, simple, slightly disjointed (and slightly over-exposed nowadays, but who cares).
*Elvi A. Howell - I can't find his website anymore. Some of his paintings are a bit too "Giger-esque" for my personal tastes, but the guy is amazing. Envy envy envy.
*Stephen Kasner - paints like I wish I could.
*Man Ray - okay, so half of his stuff isn't that awe-inspiring. Some is incredibly nice. I admire his approach to things.
*William Mortensen - took photographs and turned them creepy creepy years ago. Took a lot of shit from purist folk like Ansel Adams.

More later. Now it's your turn.

Lets see, I gotta run with:

Tom Sullivan
Tony Patrick
Julian Hatswell
Hieronymous Bosch (of course!)
Michael Whelan

I don't ask too much of my art...heheh...

Egon Schiele AND Edvard Munch - I'm a sucker for this really depressing expressionism although I'm not fond of Klimt.

Francis Bacon - But only in small doses please. I can't handle more at a time.

Weegee - Acclaimed New York crime photographer turned artist during the early part of the 20th century. I see a trend in dead things here.

Caravaggio - Few photographers can light a set as well as he could paint the light.

Mondrian - I find his juxtaposition of colors and the way he frames assymetrical shapes within a composed field, very soothing.

Charles Krafft - Porcelain sculptures of guns and grenades. Now THAT'S a statement.

J.G. Posada - Growing up in California has made me appreciate the influence of Mexican art and I'm particularly fond of calaveras and other Day of the Dead artifacts.

Frank Lloyd Wright - What a phenomenon! You MUST read about how incredibly fast he'd design these magnificent building plans.

I'm also very fond of Edward Hopper although I HATE how much some of his work has been absolutely bastardized.

I just have an affinity for American art that developed in the earlier 1900's.

Bill Brandt - The guy who inspired me to get into photography in the first place. I love the fact that his career took him all over the board in terms of subjects.

Robbert Mapplethorpe - This guy knows the meaning of the words sexy and taboo.

Joyce Tenneson - She has a tendency to make ordinary people seem beautiful and angelic. I like that, and I try to strive for it in my own work.

Degas - Believe it or not I actually love impressionism. Every painting usually has such a huge back story and it is always more then it seems on first glance.

Brohm - I like his style of fantasy. I want to just reach in and kiss so many of his characters.

And whoever it was that designed the Sainte Chappele cathedral in France. I love how majestic that building seems.

Natacha Merritt- Is it art or is it porn? Who cares?

Oh thats a good one.

Lucian Freud.. I think that is his first name

Glen close

Robert Smith- heheheh, had to sneak that one in

Hussar!

Dali- I know it's cliche, but I love the man's work. He was an interesting dood, too. The Grateful Dead met him once, and asked him if he wanted to get high with them (of course). He replied, "Drugs? I AM drugs!!!"

How can you not love a nut like that?

degas was the only good thing about impressionism.

dr. seuss - esp his non-children's book art and ww2 cartoons.

dali - everyone likes dali, but i LOVE him.

tara81 said:
Lucian Freud.. I think that is his first name

If you like his work, check outann gale.

My list

Sargent
Sorolla
Anders Zorn
Egon Schiele

Wait a minute, is this artwork or artists?

paul mccarthy is one of my favorites, although he may not be a 'visual' artist by definition.

Tom Friedman - Makes art out of very unlikely stuff. Such as making perfect concentric circles of pubic into bars of soap, making self portraits of himself getting violently tor apart completely out of construction paper, you get the idea. Good stuff though.

Andy Goldsworthy - Does alot of art with nature. Alot of his stuff is hard to ecplain.

Chuck Close - Started out making gigantic, picture perfect, self portraits of himself completely out of thumb prints.

Check them all out. You'll be a better person afterwards.

<---rooster (I love this thing!)

if you wanna see some amazing art, check out www.funeralsofdistinction.com
jason sherry is brilliant

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Check these sites 1 and 2 Claire Wendling. This woman kicks much ass. She can do anything. Bow down to her.

Gee Vaucher
RS Connet (www.vomitus.com)
William Blake

oh yeah..

Franz Von Bayros
Alphonse Mucha
Steven Johnson Leyba
Aubrey Beardsley

Almost forgot this one, too-

Winston Smith