Who Is Your Favorite Artist

[smoth]

You are forgetting that he is the origin of said cliche' imagery. Think about the fact that he did the art that would later define the barbarian type look and imagery that was popular

[FireStorm_]

Favourite, favourite...? One shouldn't play favourites. But I'd like to contribute to this thread anyway...

The stuff of Don Lawrence has influenced me for a long time now, and so I'd like to name him.

[Panda]

I've decided that I like Michael Cheney's work too.

[Machete234]

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.

Totally true, these pictures look like kitsch to me.
Sorry but thats my oppinion.

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.

I like those sci fi pictures of this era when people thought today we would have vacations on the moon or mars.

[MidKnight]

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.

Totally true, these pictures look like kitsch to me.
Sorry but thats my oppinion.

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.

I like those sci fi pictures of this era when people thought today we would have vacations on the moon or mars.

Good stuff!

[FireStorm_]

I also like to mention Rene Magritte. Long time ago a saw an exposition at Louisiana museum of modern art in Denmark. I must admit most paintings struck me as humorous then. But now that I revisit some of the work online I read far more into the symbolism i think i see.

[Panda]

I also like to mention Rene Magritte. Long time ago a saw an exposition at Louisiana museum of modern art in Denmark. I must admit most paintings struck me as humorous then. But now that I revisit some of the work online I read far more into the symbolism i think i see.

What does the humming bird symbolize?

[Otherside]

Salvador Dali

[PicassoCT]

Everything the Avantgarde can see, that is still invisible to the prensent observer, and may be invisible forever, as the egg on the desk is dead, taken away from the nest and the required heatsource.

[SanadaUjiosan]

I've always really dug the retro sci fi look. Really iconic stuff. I kind of lump it in with what I think of as the "old movie poster" look.



This example is of course spawned from the whole retro sci fi thing, but I hope it conveys my point.

This thread has made realize I don't really like/know a lot about one artist (or the big names.) I like art, and enjoy looking at it, but I'm not much into art history I guess.

If I had to pinpoint a kind that I really enjoy, it'd probably have to be the classic ukiyoe woodblock prints from Japan. There's really a lot to like about these. They were created by artists, distributed by expert craftsmen, and for the most part made for the common people. The funnies for the Edo era peasant, in a sense. Wide variety of topics too. Landscapes, people, battles, funny everyday situations and, yes, erotica.



I've always been rather fond of this one.

[FireStorm_]

What does the humming bird symbolize?

Feel the need to rectify ignoring. I'm not always equally organised and it slipped my attention. Not very nice.

Don't think(or know) the bird symbolises anything (freedom or a free spirit perhaps). But i think a theme in the work may be the (in)ability to SEE the dynamic of a sometimes seemingly static world.

also: @SanadaUjiosan
I too like Ukiyo-e quite a deal. I think a Starwars poster in that style would be cool, since Starwars employs a lot of themes from Japanese culture.

edit:
by coincidence i noticed i left a word out, see?