Who is your favorite artist?

[NOOB1]

If your ever in london, ensure you visit the tate britain, theres a whole sub building full of turner’s work, its quite amazing to see the work in real life

yeh i went to that,but must say i wasn’t too impressed,guess its not my thing.but yeh there is quite allota his stuff there.

[umbrellasky]

I saw a lot of Tuner’s work at the tate britain. His work is magical, I love the dynamics and the colours in his work, he is indeed an amazing artist!

[jmBoekestein]

My favorite artist is probably Yoshitaka Amano, probably best known for his Final Fantasy character designs for the earlier games… although those aren’t my favorite works of his. Some of his personal stuff is absolutely incredible; I just love how his style manages to be so loose and sketchy yet have so much detail at the same time. He’s also just a really well rounded artist; he does everything from illustration to interior design to animation to glass blowing.

Here’s a couple samples…

I have so many favorite artists it’s hard to pick just one, though… : )

Wow, nice paintings…Do you have a link to an english site for this guy…I love the mood in these.

Welcome to the forum silentkitty! :wise:stylish entry…

[silentkitty]

Wow, nice paintings…Do you have a link to an english site for this guy…I love the mood in these.

Welcome to the forum silentkitty! :wise:stylish entry…

Yep, you can find his site here, most of it is in English. I believe he actually lives in the US at the moment. : ) http://www.amanosworld.com/

And thanks! :bounce:

[jmBoekestein]

Thanks for the link Silentkitty!

Allready found some nice paintings I like. Very nice abstract stuff in there!

You’re welcome!

[monkeybeach]

one of my favourites is painter/writer ruskig (pärra andreasson) incredible color and mood in his stuff.

käthe kollwitz is kind of magical as well, if you’re in the mood for tragedy. for someone who focuses so much on death, there’s an amazing amount of life in her pictures…

[eparts]

favorite artists:

[b]Gottfried Helnwein

Zdzislaw Beksinski[/b]

HR Giger and Alexander Roslin are quite inspiring too

I guess you can call that a weird mixture… but im young

[Psy47]

Yeah H.R.Giger is def one of my fav artists, very inspiring. I also have a strange mixture of fav artists but I think that this is a good thing. It is always good to have a broad range of inspiration, if you like what you see then there shouldn’t be anything weird about that.

I also like:

Turner - as already stated, amazing use of colour.
Claude Lorrain - beautiful sea port paintings, the use of colour, composition, and atmosphere.
William Blake - extroardinary details, contrast between demonic and biblical portrayals.
Hayao Miyazaki - Creator of ‘Spirited Away’ amazing lighting in that film.
Tim Burton - Stylistically original.
Masamune Shirow - Attention to detail.

I have many artists that inspire me but i couldn’t really pick a favourite one as they are all totally different from each other.

[ThirdEye]

Probably Stanley Kubrick.

[lestdog]

I think it’s pretty dangerous to have only one favorite artist. There are so many different styles from so many different cultures and time periods, and in each category, there are more than one master with equal talent and mastery. There’s no way in hell I could name only one person.

I think your mixing “who is your favorite artist”? with “who is your influence”? Nothing wrong with having a favorite movie, band, etc… But there is something wrong with if those are the only things influencing your creativity. You would just end up being a mimic.

[JakeJK]

My favourit artist is Faust De Martini. He has a very cool style and is a great inspiration for me, because he achieved he’s goal by being hired of blizzard, and that is where i would like to end up some day

[PSR]

Cannot choose a favourite artist. But this is the work that changed the way I looked at paintings:

‘The Kitchen Maid’ by Vermeer. http://www.rijksmuseum.nl/index.jsp?lang=en

[SpeccySteve]

I absolutely love Vermeer, the way he handles light is amazing.

[Blikkie]

I absolutely love Vermeer, the way he handles light is amazing.

Quoted for agreement.

Last year I went to the Gemeentemuseum in The Hague and have begun to understand the genious of Mondriaan.

[Morrigana]

[i]My two absolute favorites are van Gogh and Michael Whelan. Van Gogh’s textures and colors always just make me feel spiffy inside. It’s really hard to describe.

And Whelan is just fantastic with colors, and capturing a character, and his horrow works border in to disturbing. What I wouldn’t give to be half as good as him.
[/i]

[Cronholio]

I’m very low-brow. I like Coop, Ivan Albright, and Edward Paschke

[ekah]

Another vote for Vermeer. I guess I’m in good company here. Although many of whom I admire are painters/sculptors from the Renaissance period, most of my favorite painters happen to be Dutch. I wonder if it was the Dutch water. :curious:

Johannes Vermeer
Rembrandt
Hieronymus Bosch
Pieter Brueghel the Elder (Flemish actually)
Vincent van Gogh

ekah

[Blikkie]

Most of my favorite painters happen to be Dutch. I wonder if it was the Dutch water. :curious:

Everybody knows it is the wooden shoes, once people get them on, they get very creative in finding ways to get them off.

I thought of a few interesting Dutch architects as well:

Gerrit Rietveld
Piet Blom (can’t find a decent link, built houses in Rotterdam that had the shape of a cube… Standing on one point)
Dudok

[CGmonkey]

One of my favourite artists is Gustave Klimt

[ekah]

ekah[/b]]
Most of my favorite painters happen to be Dutch. I wonder if it was the Dutch water. :curious:

Everybody knows it is the wooden shoes, once people get them on, they get very creative in finding ways to get them off.

LOL. I’ll have to get me some for myself then.