Foo - Art and Art History Geeks?

I know there are other artists here on the forums, so how about a roll call of people making and loving art? What art do you most value? Who are your favorites? Who has influenced your own art? What *is* your own art?

I am a photographer and general art freak. Photography, painting, sculpture, music, etc - I love it all. My favorite artists/influences are people like Nobuyoshi Araki, Daido Moriyama, Jock Sturges, Anselm Keifer, Gerhard Richter, John Shirley, Shomei Tomatsu, Andy Warhol, Jackson Pollock, Merzbow, Masonna, etc. I love the avant garde and anything experimental.

You?

I love art, though I have little artistic talent myself. I've delved into photography a little, but haven't done much lately.

My favorites have always been traditional painting type of art. I fell in love with much of it taking humanities in high school and again in college. A few artists that immediately come to mind Gruenwald (love his "crucifiction" the best), Chagall (I and the Village is classic), Raphael (The school one is a geek's dream). More modern styles I love are like Dali (museum is 20 minutes from my house) and Andy Warhol (freak extraordinaire).

I also love ancient Egyptian art. I remember seeing our local museum put on "The splendors of ancient egypt" about 6 or 7 years ago. I asked the lady at front how long it took to go through, she said average was probably 1 1/2 hours. I took over 4. :D

Now they are about to do a "very limited" showing of King Tut treasures again in the U.S. First time since the 60s I've heard. I'm lucky to have a friend who's a member of the Miami museum of art (or something like that) who's on their mailing list so we got tickets early. Will be going down to see that in December. :)

Ummm art. thats that thing where they bring in a nude model and ? right?

Art geek chiming in here - I'm an assistant curator in the Art History Dept. at Duke U.,
and I have an extensive background in both making and studying art.
My creative specialties are photography and design. Not good enough to make a living at it, though :(

I have my favorite artists and genres, I couldn't list them all, that would take forever...
but I can tell you that my interests run the gamut from Jan van Eyck to Nam June Paik!
- as a student my research focus was on Byzantine art & architecture.

I like to make and take pretty pictures. With that said, I HATE art and all that artsy fartsy bs that comes with it. I don't care if something has 'meaning' or whatever, just make it look good. Don't even get me started on people who paint a dot on a blank canvas and call it art...... .... .. . .. ... . .

And why do artsy people have to all dress a certain way? Eclectic hippy dude, modern hipster gal, freak on a leash... I'm not going to buy a whole new wardrobe just so I can draw something.

Art!

But it has to be "KÍne†¡© §çü£¶†µRe" or I won't be looking at it for long.

I am a photographer and general art freak. Photography, painting, sculpture, music, etc - I love it all.
You?


Your photography strikes me in particular.

My art takes on a lot of mediums.
I think it touches so many things that I do.
From the design work in the gardens to jewelry, photography, murals.
It's all a reflection of what I feel and how I react.

I love art !!
I recently moved to VT to be in a more art-centric environment.
I did illustrations of cars and old buildings and worked for an
up and coming 'new wave' (Ugggh-term)band in the 80's to get by
and I am hoping to get back into it. Crumb and all of those 60's -70's
SF Kounterkulture artists and M.C. Escher are some of
my favorites that I can stare at for hours, but I like it all.
Death to digital !!! :D

Sculptor and VJ.

Andy Warhol
Marshall Mcluhan
Norman Mclaren
Hieronymus Bosch
Marcel Duchamps
Tristan Tzara
William S Burroughs
Max Ernst
Antonio Gaudi
Fernand Leger
James Rosenquist

And others.
Dada as a movement interests me greatly.

"The bourgeois salad in the eternal basin is insipid, and I hate good sense."

I'll sceond M.C. Escher here. Along with Maxfield Parrish as artists. Photographers... Ansel Adams & Dorthea Lange sit high on my list. Bucky & Frank Lloyd Wright as archetects. Yes, architecture is art. 'Specially if 'rap is music'. :D

Hehe, my post was pretty funny :o What I meant to say is art is great unless you're just 'pretending' and get into the scene just to say you're part of something. Those people can jump off a bridge.


Death to digital !!! :D

Talent is talent. I don't poopoo your medium.

I love photography - I'm looking forward to getting a digital camera and finally doing some experimenting without the cost and nuisance of development!

I'm not an art geek in that I simply don't know much of it. But I do know the amazing feeling of finding art that truly inspires you - it's a magical feeling.

My hat's off to Van Gogh. I have a favourite painting in the museum that I just love to stare at for ages. He was one brilliant man.

:eek: I just went to look for a pic of it - it was stolen (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/2552877.stm)! :cry:

I was wondering why it was missing last time I went there :cry:

But I do know the amazing feeling of finding art that truly inspires you - it's a magical feeling.



Yeah, I know what you're talking about.... Kinda like theat day you got your first 'big boy hair', eh? :D

I LOVE Norman Rockwell and that whole genre, Socialist Realism (it was big in Russia, Germany, etc and GREAT stuff!) and history is the "forbidden fruit" in that government schools try to instill a dislike of history, so it's obvious they're trying to keep people from learning something important, I'd advise learning all the history you can. Just to piss the establishment off if nothing else.

Illustrator here. Printmaker. Use many mediums, new and old. Photo, comp, etc. too - anything that's within reach.

Influenced by European expressionists, German in particular. Also, Eastern (Japanese) influence, from printmaking to manga. American influences - the great illustrators of the 20th century, from printmaking to comix.

Currently working towards drawing comics & cartoons...my first love :)

I like to look. I look at chagall, Ingres, Klimt, Henry Moore. Vasserelly, Hopper, Giacometti, Pissaro, and I have a very strange affinity for the pre-raphaelites in Victorian England. It's not the versimillitude, It just draws me. And Alec Colville. So Canadian, eh? I'm not that current on photographers, but I'm trying to figure one out.

I studied contemporary & medieval art history in college, medieval (romanesque, byzantine, early christian and islamic) in grad school. i've worked in galleries, museums but didn't finish the phd so haven't taught. in recent years i've become an expert in finger painting, sculpting with playdoh, and building in k'nex, legos and (my personal fave) wooden blocks. if i had to pick a favorite artist it would be someone like Donatello perhaps -- i could look at his stuff for a very long time. on my walls i have a few framed "space fillers", but mostly the works of friends, acquaintances and my kids: guess i'm lucky!

I'm an industrial and interaction designer.

My passion is infusing the artistic and design processes into unconventional realms.

My senior project in college was developing a learning game for underprivilaged urban youth. I not only developed a gaming system, but also created a value proposition and business framework that would allow these children to recieve the game system for free, and developed a brand strategy that would create income production possibilities to keep the company profitable.

I'm currently looking for a job with business innovation firm, can anybody help?

As for my heroes, Ray and Charles Eames

(I know it's not conventional art, but design is where its at!)

Charles and Ray Eames were amazing.