Happy Birthday, Rembrandt

[filkertom]

Four hundred years ago today.

Who's your favorite classical artist (mine would be Da Vinci, with a strong love of Mucha and Parrish), and your favorite contemporary artist (Matt Wagner, Olivia de Bernadinis, and hbruton [hi, Heather!])? SF/Fantasy and comic book artists do count.

Update: Mr. Brain is misfiring this week. As I was reminded in comments, I absolutely should name Phil Foglio and Will Eisner. Which also reminds me of Jack Kirby.

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mine is Michelangelo-the ceiling was beautiful.

[tinkerbell1980.livejournal.com]

and incontemporary artists Van Gogh. especially starry night. That painting moves me

And I love demian Hurst's works. I think he is my fav artist

[smallship1.livejournal.com]

Albrecht Durer and Phil Foglio. With Dali, Magritte, and numerous sf and fantasy cover artists crowding them close.

[scott644.livejournal.com]

Who's your favorite classical artist (mine would be Da Vinci, with a strong love of Mucha and Parrish), and your favorite contemporary artist (Matt Wagner, Olivia de Bernadinis, and [info]hbruton [hi, Heather!])? SF/Fantasy and comic book artists do count.

Classical? From what I've seen, Raphael, although they're all good. Contemporary? Dear Lord, but there's so many to choose from. Hmm... Boris Vallejo is a good one, as is Rowena - but I like Scott Brooks' and Laura Reynolds' work and Wertle's as well. I guess my favorite contemporary is pretty much genre based.

[scott644.livejournal.com]

Boy, me and my problem with names. Scott Brooks should be Bill Holbrook.

[archanglrobriel.livejournal.com]

Wow. That's a tough one. I go through phases of interest in various artists as I uncover them in my studies (that was one of the joys of being in the MFA program). For reasons I don't really understand, I tend to be drawn to angsty German painters - Egon Schiele, the Brucke painters: Kirchner, Max Pechstein, Oskar Kolkoschka. And later on the artists associated with Die Neue Sachlichkeit, especially Christian Schad. There's some terrible beauty in the work brought out in the angsty period after WWI and before WWII.

'Course then my interest bobbles back over to the lighter side and I love the French...the Fauves, Matisse, Georges Braque, Kees van Dongen, Vlamink and Derain. I think because I spent so many of my formative years in Mexico or on the border, I have a deep love for Mexican artists like Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, David Alfredo Siqueiros and Jose Clemente Orozco.

As far as contemporary artists go...well my two abiding favorites are Andy Warhol and Keith Haring. Both, I feel, are extremely misunderstood by the general public and had a lot more to offer than their time on earth allowed for...although admittedly Andy's artistic work had begun to fall off once he became obsessed with his magazine. I tend to also love photographers like Cindy Sherman and Mapplethorpe. The interest in Latino artists brough me to love the work of George Yepes, Roberto Marquez, Jorge Santos, Sam Flores and Alberto Gironella.

Generally speaking though, lately, I've been drawn more towards so called "Outsider" or "Lowbrow" artists (mostly because I feel like the art establishment has calcified to the point where it's functioning as the French and British Art Academies in trying to hold art to the standard of what it was while ignoring and disdaining the movement, growth and vitality of new artists with new visions more closely tied to the actual people who are alive at this time and in this place).
That being said, I love the work of Shag, Sage Vaughn, H.R. Giger, Kris Lewis, Shepard Fairey, Eric White, Brom, Michael Parkes, Wancheti Mutu, Gail Potocki, folks like that.

[rook543.livejournal.com]

Classical Artists - Caravaggio!Without a doubt! The man put the oscuro into chiaroscuro! (get a dictionary)

Contemporary Artists - Andy Warhol (and also Lichtenstein! Im a sucker for modern pop-art), Kelly Freas, Boris Valejo & Wil Eisner. It is important to note my tastes fun more to the graphical than pure rendering.

[rook543.livejournal.com]

I also forgot to mention Kathe Kollwitz!

[blueeyedtigress.livejournal.com]

Hmmm ... what's on my wall, and in the to-be-framed cabinet? Mostly stuff by people I count as friends, sibs and colleagues -- in no particular order:

Kelly Freas, Elizabeth Pearse, George Grammatakopolis, John Platt, Phil Foglio, Lucy Synk, Merlin Afallan-Heune, Linn Standall, Corinna Taylor, Jennifer Weyland, Barb Fister-Liltz, Linda Michaels, Ruth Sanderson, Diana Harlan Stein, Heather Bruton, John E. Kaufmann, C.H. Morgan, Elizabeth Creith, Ted Nasmith, Lar deSouza, Catherine Karina Chmiel, Theresa Mather, Elissa Mitchell ... and some utterly anonymous original treasures. (Always sign your work, people! You never know who might eventually collect you!) ;]

It's surprises me to realise that the first three artists on my list have passed beyond this life. Among the relatively unknown names, I cannot recommend highly enough the work of fan arists Merlin Afallan-Heune (USA, quantum_witch), Linn Standall (Norway, linnpuzzle), and Catherine Karina Chmiel (Poland, As soon as she has prints of this available, I want one!)

[salkryn.livejournal.com]

I can't say that I really have a favorite classical artist. As for contemporary, it's really hard to narrow down. Phil Foglio, without a doubt, Masamune Shirow kicks all forms of ass known to man, and Hayao Miyazaki has a really interesting drawing style. I could probably name at least twenty others before I had to start thinking too hard. Also, on a totally unrelated note, have you ever seen this? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9rWFZesV8s)

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Jesus.

Effin.

Yatta.

That cannot possibly be an accurate captioning. Nope. No way. But, if it is, the youth of America should weep, because Japan has way the fuck better drugs than we do.

[salkryn.livejournal.com]

The scary thing about this, as far as my limited knowledge of the Japanese language goes is that the translation you see is pretty much 100% accurate. I have also been informed that the clip is actually from the Japanese equivalent to Saturday Night Live, and that this was all part of a sketch parodying both American boy bands and Japanese bishounen (pretty-boy) bands. Which would make it at least SLIGHTLY less cracked out that way.

[nimitzbrood.livejournal.com]

Must...spoon...out...eyeballs!

[sepdet.livejournal.com]

Classical:

Artemesia Gentileschi, primarily because of her marvellously gruesome Judith Slaying Holofernes (http://www.artemisia-gentileschi.com/judith4.html) (one of several on this theme).

Modern:
A tie between Susan Seddon Boulet (http://www.turningpointgallery.com/prints.asp) and the less well-known Oglala Sioux artist Ioyan Mani (http://www.whetung.com/noel.html). My apartment is completely decorated by prints from these two women.

[kitsana-d.livejournal.com]

Classical artist would most likely be either DaVinci or Van Gogh. As for contemporary, Alex Ross. Hands down.

[vixyish.livejournal.com]

Van Gogh, and either Edward Hopper or that guy whose name I keep forgetting and have to look up every time... Jack Vettriano.

[ladystarblade.livejournal.com]

Classical: Vermeer.

Contemporary: None in particular...just a lot of the fantasy/sci-fi artists today. My parents have always been a fan of Michael Whelan, so I'm quite biased towards him.

[trdsf.livejournal.com]

Salvador Dalí, first and foremost. Burne Hogarth, beyond doubt the Michelangelo of the classic Sunday comic strip. Alton Kelley and Stanley Mouse, responsible for many of the most memorable images associated with the Grateful Dead. The sculptors--known and unknown--of classical Greece, whose understanding of the human form to this day remains rarely matched and never surpassed. Walt Kelly, the man who gave us Pogo. Theodore Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss. Bill Watterson, creator of Calvin and Hobbes. Many of the Italian painters and sculptors from the renaissance through the Baroque era: Mantegna, Reni and Bernini particularly come to mind. Rene Magritte. Jean Jackson. And, of course, the universe itself.