Who are your favorite artists and why?

I guess Leonardo Da Vinci would be my favorite. His biblical themes and war machines, although I hate war, resonate with who I am. I paint a little, draw a little, have always embraced the beauty in life, and have been making weapons since I was about 10 years old ... I started drawing about age 5 when one of my drawings was placed in the local news paper.

I see life in two extremes. I view god the same. Life is love life is wrath. God is love god is wrath, and everything in-between like life, which is how I view god. God is life, so is art. Life is art as and art is creation and a creator .... like god.

I'm bipolar ... I wonder if that has anything to do with my perspective?

Leonardo Da Vinci ... I think I could be a lot like him, given his life work.

 

I always liked Georgia O'Keefe who painted flowers which resembled a vagina.

 

Falic symbolism is everywhere ... I guess the flowers would be called the same right? If not, what's the term? It's the natural nature of life isn't it? You know .... To create life from life.

 

Phallic and yonic? I just read that. Priapic is that a yonic or phallic?

 

It's phallic .... Yonic is it's counterpart. I like flowers too.

 

I do like Dali - (Kinda how I feel at this time of calendar year)

 

I wonder if the universe were folded
And time were as if it stood still
Timeless repeating groundhog day
Of a day could be heaven or even hell for real

Salvador Dali has a way of expressing this in my opinion.

 

Tommy Depaola and Maurice Sendak because they inspired me to draw as a child and Akira Toriyama and Masashi Kishimoto for inspiring my art style.

 

Had a book of Mucha's work and biography.
Took me a lonnnnnnnng time to return it to the library.
There seems to be beauty in all things. Dark and light. *edit

 

I've always sought out approval from man.
My maker is the only one I seek approval from.
Man can not do what God does. ALPHA AND OMEGA
Sees all, knows all things. Don't mean to preach but that's on my heart and mind.

 

As a kid I used to love to watch the TV show Good Times which by that point was in syndication, and enjoyed the works of Ernie Barnes, the real artist behind James JJ Evans Jr.

 

I care for that show so much as well!
Yes. His work is priceless to me.

 

And of course the European masters.

 

I adore Ernie Barnes!

 

I second this

 

Leonardo, Donatello, Michelangelo and raffael. They kick so much ass!

 

Where is your Art thread Rainbow.
I liked that thread.

 

Canvas Pleasure

 

Found this interesting............

 

Not going to list all of them but two that immediately come to mind are Zdzislaw Beksinski and Henry Fusseli