Favorite Artist?

[Denim Mouzon]

I personally am leaning toward Kara Walker right now...

[LesYpersound]

"I'm a habitual self-interlocutor. Around the time I started photographing at the Natural History Museum, one evening I had a near-hallucinatory vision. The question-and-answer session that led up to this vision went something like this: Suppose you shoot a whole movie in a single frame? And the answer: You get a shining screen. Immediately I sprang into action, experimenting toward realizing this vision. Dressed up as a tourist, I walked into a cheap cinema in the East Village with a large-format camera. As soon as the movie started, I fixed the shutter at a wide-open aperture, and two hours later when the movie finished, I clicked the shutter closed. That evening, I developed the film, and the vision exploded behind my eyes." hiroshi sugimoto

[Rae]

Larry Carlson
Amazing psychedelic work
It may not be your thing and extremely different than Kara Walker but you gotta respect all the diverse things that Carlson has. He has been helping me with my own work (via a social networking site) but mine is not nearly as crazy as his work. I suggest looking at the scrolls, collages and flash videos ( high voltage creatures)
I look at him as more graphically interactive Alex Gray

let me know what you think :)
My only disappointment is that he doesn't offer prints :(


I have been a fan of Kara for a while and I wont lie my heart warmed when I found out she was black too (not many incredibly mainstream black female artists right now). Her installations are amazing and I like that as a viewer you have to make an effort to understand the story the silhouettes are depicting.

[Rae]

Oh the website is larrycarlson.com for the photograph, videos and audio clips

[PolarVibez]

I don't think have one in particular, some of my faves are Basqauit, Dali, Rothko, Pollock, Frank Stella, James Hampton, Seen, and Kaws.

[Rosenda]

Kara Walker's art is very intense to experience, at least me and my sis felt that way. I liked it also that at her exhibit out here last year, they displayed a video interview with her about what went in to her pieces and what was important for her to express to others. That was cool. I know why some of us appreciate and learn something of her work but I also see why some get scared and angry, it's a truth she wanted to talk about behind the visuals. Interesting.

So others I like that I can think of right now, Basquiat, Joe Coleman's paintings, Llyn Foulkes, Nancy Rubin, Chris Burden, Gary Baseman, Dame D'Arcy, Camille Rose Garcia, Hiroshi Sugimoto (Lesy, I loooove those old movie palace photo series and I even like the peaceful ones he did of scenes out in the ocean), Catherine Opie, Carrie Mae Weems, Nan Goldin, Frida Kahlo, Douglas Gordon, Bruce Nauman, Jeff Wall, Alexis Smith, Marlene Dumas, Brassai, Pierre et Gilles, Gilbert & George, Rodney Graham, Robert Frank, Barbara Kruger.

Kehinde Wiley! Thanks to Jahluv for introducing us here to this brothers work. Waaaaay cool!!

And if you any of you are interested I can put up some images of any of these artists whose work you want to see what they're about. I'm pretty sure I can find samples of all of them.

[Mlle d. Sade]

I'm in my second bout of Yayoi Kusama obsession- my first bout was freshman year of college, this one seems more severe.

[pjrocks7]

Jenny Lewis

[Ashley 'ReDd' Couch]

Dali...I need an escape back the imagination I used to have. I am just an abstract freak.

But I also like to search images online that are aesthetically pleasing to me, especially if it has red in it. I love that color. Too bad I couldn't get the name of the people who create these images.

[Denim Mouzon]

WOW, I'm so happy that this topic was a success. Not to mention I am enthralled with the work of the artists you all have named. I love the fact that our tastes in art are so diverse and yet so emotional in many of the same ways. Anywho thank you all for introducing me to some new artists, I will definitely be checking them out!

P.S. I'm new on here, Don't forget to add me.

[Compound Egret]

Tough one. I'm glad other peeps named a few.
Jack Kirby

Pushead

Coop

Frazetta

Derek Riggs

[Compound Egret]

Can't leave out the artisans that erected these masterpieces:
Borobudur in Indonesia...

Madurai in India...

Detail section

Bayon in Cambodia

[Mlle d. Sade]

I'm into Dali at the moment, too.
He was listed on a blog called "greatest con men"-that tickles me.
Also, if you're into Dali- check out "Giraffes on Horseback Salad" and Dali Paints Harpo.


I'm also hugely into contemporary artists like Fafi, Miss Van and Junko. Love the cute erotica.

aReDdCouch said:

Dali...I need an escape back the imagination I used to have. I am just an abstract freak.

But I also like to search images online that are aesthetically pleasing to me, especially if it has red in it. I love that color. Too bad I couldn't get the name of the people who create these images.