Who Is Your Favorite Artist

[Panda]

I'd heard about some artists in my history of science class and while studying, Smoth told me about some artists. One of the artists that he told me about was Frazetta. I've decided that I like Frazetta's work, but he has sadly, recently died. Here's an example of his awesome art:



So, do you have a favorite artist?

[bobthedinosaur]

Mandelbrot

[Sleksa]

disturbing work by a disturbing man

[Forboding Angel]

Kaiser. Both his vector work and his paintings (which are awesome btw).

[SinbadEV]

I'd heard about some artists in my history of science class and while studying Smoth.

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Also, Johnen Vasquez, Gabe from penny-arcade.com, Escher and Geiger.

[zwzsg]

I don't really like Frazetta. I know he was quite influential as one of the first to draw those clich├® barbarians and half-naked wild women, but from today's eyes, his paintings are pompous and a bit ridicule. They're more like the ugly wet dream of an hormone-surged teenager than nice paintings to be proud of.

Escher

I would have said him if you hadn't. Now I have to find someone else.


Edit: Forgot to post the pic of Escher I liked most:

[SirArtturi]

Interesting pieces, but not my like.
I'd say probably say Paul Cezanne or Caspar David Friedrich, but since the theme has swifted into dark things I'll go extreme and show some art of mad people:

Two sided witch:




The story of this piece is fascinating:

Natterer was one of the "schizophrenic masters" profiled by Hans Prinzhorn in his field-defining work Artistry of the Mentally Ill. His drawings are attempts to capture the "10,000 images" of his April Fool's Day hallucination, and are always rendered in a clear, objective style, like that of a technical drawing. This may be due to his background as an electrician.

Natterer once claimed that Axle of the World, with Rabbit, which can be seen to the right, had predicted World War I. The rabbit represented "the uncertainty of good fortune. It began to run on the roller... the rabbit was then changed into a zebra (upper part striped) and then into a donkey (donkey's head) made of glass. A napkin was hung on the donkey; it was shaved." (Prinzhorn 1972, p. 168)

It is possible that surrealism was born partly because of Natterer. It is told that many people admired his works, for example Picasso and Max Ernst.

[hoijui]

:D
what i see in that last drawing:
there are lots of circles around the genitals area of the lower creature -> important!
the way way the legs are arranged, to me looks like a typical expression for "i am horny".
the feet are that of an animal; my guess is goat -> the devil.
-> combine!

the upper part of the lower creature is just... very disgusting.. something like a cut-open mutated insect. reminds me on the movie "the fly", but is more ugly.

[SirArtturi]

:D
what i see in that last drawing:
there are lots of circles around the genitals area of the lower creature -> important!

Thats the axle of the world :)

Btw, if people are interested of seeing more twisted art, I suggest discovering Hanz Prinzhorns collection. Natterer is still pretty lightweight stuff compared to some other I've seen...

[Machete234]

I love this one, I need it as a poster.


Alex grey maybe, but I must say Im not that intersted in art atm.

[Google_Frog]

I'd have to say Escher. I like a lot of Salvador Dali's work too.

[Teutooni]

Hrmm, yes I think you have to be mentally ill to create surreal art.

[Licho]

Yeah out of classic big names I like Salvador Dali most too.

[KaiserJ]

yay kaiser!

my friend sent me a link recently; i liked this painting


"my grandfather will fight you"

his other famous painting is two sailors cornholing

[Panda]

I don't really like Frazetta. I know he was quite influential as one of the first to draw those clich├® barbarians and half-naked wild women, but from today's eyes, his paintings are pompous and a bit ridicule. They're more like the ugly wet dream of an hormone-surged teenager than nice paintings to be proud of.

That's not true. Frazetta does some really cool work. He did paintings of classic characters like from things like Frankenstein, King Kong, Conan, and Gollem from 'Lord of the Rings". Plus, his death dealer, queen of Egypt, and tiger lady paintings were really awesome.







I also like how he portrayed the women. A lot of painters just paint paintings where the woman looks like a skinny, scantly clad model in armor (It makes me wonder if those women would really just lay around all the time.), but Frazetta's women look like they're powerful women that could handle up on someone. Instead of looking like they could be blown over by a strong wind they have intense looks and stances that say "Come here, now!" His paintings do and excellent job of illustrating this emotion.

The fact that the women are scantly clad only adds to their aura of warrior beauty. It has something of the same effect that Brock Sampson from Venture Brothers was going for when he was running around hunting down the enemy in the nude. Brock said that it intimidated the enemy on an instinctual level.

Escher

I would have said him if you hadn't. Now I have to find someone else.

Edit: Forgot to post the pic of Escher I liked most:

I think that Escher is awesome too.

Natterer

:D
what i see in that last drawing:
there are lots of circles around the genitals area of the lower creature -> important!

Thats the axle of the world :)

Btw, if people are interested of seeing more twisted art, I suggest discovering Hanz Prinzhorns collection. Natterer is still pretty lightweight stuff compared to some other I've seen...

Lol.

I've never heard of Hanz Prinzhorns. I don't actually know a whole lot about art, Prinzhorns could be neat to check out.

[MidKnight]

Kaiser's paintings

SHOW ME YOUR ART!

[Wombat]

i think he would be banned for most of them, naughty canadian

[pintle]

I love Antony Gormley's work:



Also Andy Goldsworthy:



Goldsworthy uses all natural materials, no glue/pins etc, very cool imo

[knorke]

Escher is good but more in the "hey, thats clever" sort of way.
I find da Vinci drawings interessting but are they nice? I dont know.
Frazetta work seems very cliche, like posters for some B-movie, an 80's metal album cover.
Actually like that style just not the "medieval" motives. With science fiction and retro laserguns it works for me. (though its still chesy)

Some old Comic covers or posters are very cool imo.
Like all the 50's science fiction mags, "Weird Tales" etc. I read many covers for Weird Tales were actually painted by a woman but I forgott the name. Her style is similiar to Frazetta but darker.





Probally not "real" art but some pulp stuff, I still like it.
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I quite like Van Gogh.
I dont know, pretty much "perfect" pictures that stay interessting.

[PicassoCT]

I ve seen many, from portrait to those witty injokes of concept art, it dependts on the mood im in, and if it is fertilizing for my own brain, so that from art, new stuff is born, and it becomes more than just pictures of the past, on ideas/world/people from the past, from perspectives of the past.

I liek: Picassos blue periode

Because thats the tablau of his works, the remaining cubism is (with some exception) colourfull ikea for the riches.

Futurism (the artists were political idiots, but hey, most intellectuals&artists are, even today, blindsiding up with mao, stalin, mussolini, hitler, terrorists wherever - having no sense of healthy distance for the inhumane)

You almost can see the scifi in there architecture.


I like Banksy, and refuse to distance myself from him just because hes popular now.

Picture is obviously not banksy, and you would do streetart a favour, fowarding others, who are similar good.



Also, nice, just visually:


Also some of the stuff that comes up on 4chan /wg/