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AvantTard

AvantTard

Lakewood, WA
OLD SKOOL

NOV 27, 2002 01:53 PM

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.

IKA13

IKA13

Pittsburgh, PA
November 2002

NOV 27, 2002 01:59 PM

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...

Takeshi21

Takeshi21

Los Angeles, CA
October 2002

NOV 27, 2002 02:03 PM

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.

Takeshi21

Takeshi21

Los Angeles, CA
October 2002

NOV 27, 2002 02:12 PM

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.

Shaden

shaden

Santa Cruz, CA
October 2002

NOV 27, 2002 02:15 PM

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.

grahf

grahf

New York, NY
September 2002

NOV 27, 2002 02:22 PM

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

Shaden

shaden

Santa Cruz, CA
October 2002

NOV 27, 2002 02:25 PM

remarek4 said:
Natacha Merritt- Is it art or is it porn? Who cares?



Oh thats a good one. smile

tara81

tara81

West Chicago, IL
November 2002

NOV 27, 2002 03:51 PM

Lucian Freud.. I think that is his first name

Glen close

Robert Smith- heheheh, had to sneak that one in

Rise_Robot

Rise_Robot

Long Beach, CA
OLD SKOOL

NOV 27, 2002 04:00 PM

MisterSatan

MisterSatan

Portland, OR
August 2002

NOV 27, 2002 04:29 PM

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?

CatBoner

CatBoner

Ventura, CA
August 2002

NOV 27, 2002 04:37 PM

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.


cosmicslop

cosmicslop

I'm lost
OLD SKOOL

NOV 27, 2002 05:35 PM

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?

Al

Al

SUICIDEGIRL

Christmas Island

NOV 27, 2002 05:36 PM

I really love John Singer Sargeant and Vermeer. Both fabulous painters. Call me lame, but I also like J. W. Waterhouse. Rodin's sculptures make me want to touch them. I touched one once.

Marcus Gray. Check him out.

baal

baal

Phoenix, AZ
September 2002

NOV 27, 2002 07:04 PM

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

djfaceplant

djfaceplant

Wassaic, NY
November 2002

NOV 27, 2002 07:32 PM

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.

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

johncocktoastin

johncocktoastin

I'm lost
November 2002

NOV 27, 2002 07:35 PM

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

[Edited on Nov 27, 2002 by sadiemalicious]

[Edited on Nov 27, 2002 by sadiemalicious]

johncocktoastin

johncocktoastin

I'm lost
November 2002

NOV 27, 2002 07:35 PM

wink

[Edited on Nov 27, 2002 by sadiemalicious]

cosmicslop

cosmicslop

I'm lost
OLD SKOOL

NOV 27, 2002 07:40 PM

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

JomRopGame

JomRopGame

Thousand Oaks, CA
October 2002

NOV 28, 2002 01:29 AM

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

AvantTard

AvantTard

Lakewood, WA
OLD SKOOL

NOV 28, 2002 11:18 AM

oh yeah..

Franz Von Bayros
Alphonse Mucha
Steven Johnson Leyba
Aubrey Beardsley

MisterSatan

MisterSatan

Portland, OR
August 2002

NOV 28, 2002 11:23 AM

Almost forgot this one, too-

Winston Smith

Marla

Marla

SUICIDEGIRL

I'm lost

NOV 28, 2002 11:55 AM

this list is MUCH longer than the hated one! and I'm adding all the time...

Horst Jannsen
Claude Monet
Rembrandt
Frida Kahlo
Georgia O'Keefe
Alberto Giacometti
Egon Schiele
Vincent Van Gogh
Marcel Du Champ
Odd Nerdrum
Francisco De Goya
Jean-Auguste-DominiqueIngres
Frida Kahlo (someone was saying they wanted to see more of her art)
Gustav Klimt
Lee Krasner
Mondrian (but not the black-lines-blocks-of-color things)
Camille Pissarro
Christopher Dresser
Alphonse Mucha
Artemisia Gentileschi
Salvador Dali

That cannot be everything...and that doesn't even get into the comic book artists and photograpers I admire!