Favorite Artist?

[exigeracer]

People often have favorite athletes or musicians, but the real cultured and educated people on this world have favorite visual artists.

I've got two real standouts in mind, one is subversive abstract, who is more or less unknown, and the other is a surrealist and a lot more known.

The first is James Choules from the UK, but better known as SheOne:





He's got an amazingly unique look to his work, which is hardly ever confined to a specific canvas. Instead he uses the entire wall to work with, obviously inspired by his graffiti origins. He's even gone to expanding his lines to the floors and ceilings of his pieces. Watching him paint is also very captivating, as he takes a single can of paint and works with that as his only tool. Unfortunately he has removed his website, so finding examples of his work has gotten rather difficult.

The second artist is Rene Magritte:





Magritte was a Belgian surrealist responsible for the famous The Son of Man:



I'm not too sure why I like his work so much, I guess it has a sort of Monty Python-esque feel to it that attracts me. My favorite painting being this extremely confusing piece titled This Is Not a Pipe:



Who is your favorite artist? Is there maybe a specific piece of artwork that you like? Please share.

 

[King Crockery]

I'd choose H.R. Giger. He has made quite alot of surreal works, but might be best known from a certain movie series...
Some of his works

 

[GilesGuthrie]

I'm not huge on art itself, although I am a fan of [WIKIPEDIA]M.C. Escher[/WIKIPEDIA]. His work leads your eye around it repeatedly, which is, of course, the point.

I much prefer architecture. I suppose you could say that I like macro sculpture. I love works by [WIKIPEDIA]Frank Gehry[/WIKIPEDIA]. I like my works to have grace though, so you should check out the Millau Bridge, designed by Foster & Partners in the UK.

Escher's Waterfall

Gehry's Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao

The Millau Bridge

 

[GT Pro]

Leonardo DaVinci and M.C Escher would appear in my top list.

Escher's work is truly captivating as he is simply brilliant at mastering the art of illusions. His work was truly genious as they relied on his use of mathematical equations.

As for DaVinci, well, he speaks for himself I guess. An artist, scientist, inventor; a pioneer. Apart from his early designs, his portrayal of the 'Perfect man' still amazes me to this day.

 

[tait]

Gregory Euclide
I love the way he transforms landscapes into large flowing pieces. His colours, his lines, the chaos sometimes in his pieces is all attractive to me.

Dennis Sibeun
His photo manipulation work blows me away. I can't even describe some of it, his creations are so surreal and dreamlike in it's distortions.

James Nachtwey
Most of you guys know him from the doucemntary War Photographer which I suggest you watch if you haven't. He's a great photographer, but I mainly admire him for the situations he puts himself into and the way he's able to capture it.

There's so many photographers that I love and alot of deivantart artist. I'll try to compile a list -
mute (mute.rigent.com)
scott pommier
twinlens
kan-n (http://kan-n.deviantart.com/)
mochilla
cox (http://coxi.deviantart.com/)
gilad
boogie

 

[Sprite]

for me Im a huge fan of Giger, I have most of his books, but seeing as he has already been mentioned then I guess I would have to say:

Jackson Pollock

and

Steve Stone, hes a local artist.

 

[tabs]

Robert Rauschenberg is pretty awesome.

 

[tait]

those are awesome. wow, we have sleeping problems.

 

[V1P3R]

Gotta go with Scott Robertson... Not only does he do car stuff but some ****ing amazing work.

 

[F1GTR]

Gerald Scarfe is pretty awesome. Quentin Blake also has a recognisable style, as does Yoji Shinkawa.

 

[Fairlady240zg]

Mati Klarwein

 

[donbenni]

I'm quite a big Andy Potts fan: his work is very stylish and unique.

 

[tabs]

those are awesome. wow, we have sleeping problems.

Yeah, I suck at going to sleep (early). 👎

I'm quite a big Andy Potts fan: his work is very stylish and unique.

Holy crap, those are amazing. I'm probably going to be spending a lot of time looking at his site.

 

[exigeracer]

The work of James Carey aka O.Two, who shares friendship and obvious style influence with aforementioned James Choules aka SheOne

Blind-click your way around the site, there's some pretty interresting work.

 

[stumpydino]

i havnt really found much stuff on internet of these people but i like the works of Nem, Rinzen, Toshifumi Tanabu and Stina Persson. if ya interested in contemporary art and design i recommend most books by die gestalten verlag

 

[tait]

Mati Klarwein

that is amazing.

i would post some deviantart accounts but there's many to chose. that website has some brilliant works (when you get passed the cutsie human/animal hybrid drawsings).

banksy

emiliano granado. i ****ing love this person.

jeff soto

 

[exigeracer]

Anti - is that stencil below the paradise shot on the Palestine wall an original? I don't remember seeing it there.

I also like Roadsworth, but some asinine ignorant bitch in this city threw the book at him, getting him arrested. He got charged with 85 counts of public mischief and threatened with fines reaching well into 6 digits, jail time and hundreds of hours of community service. All he did was paint pavement.