Whomever is your favourite artist?

[Druidic]

I'm afraid I'm not passionate about 'serious' art but illustrators I love are Coye, Finlay, and Utpatel. Knox was one of the greats. As was Bok who did the definitive illustration for Pickman's Model.

[faliol]

Arnold Böcklin is great too

Arnold Böcklin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[dr. locrian]

Just wanted to throw Harry Clarke and El Greco into the mix. Two of my favorites...

El Greco's "View of Toledo" always reminds me of "Doctor Locrian's Asylum."

Some great names. Harry Clarke and Hannes Bok, yes indeed.

I think Richard Powers did terrific work for Ballantine Books too. Surreal and disturbing.

By the by, Hell-G: have you read the new(ish) biography of Austin Osman Spare written by Phil Baker?

Mark S.

[ramonoski]

I'm only familiar with Harry Clarke as an illustrator (his Poe illustrations are of course the stuff of legend) but yes, I love his work.

[Hideous Name]

Here´s my top 5 (in no particual order)

1. Santiago Caruso
2. Francisco de Goya
3. Hieronymus Bosch
4. Zdislaw Beksinski
5. Pieter Brueghel

[ChildofOldLeech]

Off the top of my head: Matta, Max Ernst, Yves Tanguy, Giorgio di Chirico, Victor Brauner, Leonora Carrington, Hans Bellmer, Frida Kahlo, Joan Miro, Rene Magritte, Alfred Kubin, Odilon Redon, Henri Rousseau, Edward Gorey, John Atkinson Grimshaw, Caspar David Friedrich, van Gogh, Munch, Francis Bacon, Paul Klee, HR Giger, Al Columbia, Hideshi Hino, Junji Ito, Lee Brown Coye, John Kenn Mortensen, and Stephen Gammell.

[SpookyDread]

Laibach,

Documentary, Predictions of Fire

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Whistleblowers, from their latest album Specter

[Hideous Name]

Quote Originally Posted by SpookyDread

Judas Iscariot, particularly Heaven In Flames . Really underrated and most exceptional black metal band . Epitomizes the genre in so many ways.. solo.. black and white album covers.. and sympathy with the doom metal genre as opposed to like the viking metal genre (which I don't like so much) . It's like ####ty basement quality black metal that sounds like it could be in a Bible-epic Hollywood movie about locust plagues and #### . But its black metal. Sounds so huge.

I agree, very underrated band indeed. It´s a shame that Akhenaten quit Judas Iscariot and his other projects.

[Cnev]

I'm not all that familiar with artists of the past, but whenever I get bored I browse Deviantart for things of interest. I'm fascinated with the creations of ordinary people and I've met a few lovely laymen that ended up being wonderful, passionate artists. Anyway, here are some of my current favorites found through Deviantart.

Torvenius:



Alexander Jansson:




Leslie Oldaker: I love the way she views crowds, and people in general.



Eduardo Rodriguez Calzado:





Leszek Andrzej Kostuj: Probably my favorite current artist. I LOVE his imagination and the thick, milky flow of his elegant yet cartoony designs. The almost look as if they have been carved from wood.