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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[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.