Your Favorite Artists

Naoto Hattori.

http://www.wwwcomcom.com/

Check him out if you're into surrealism

 

Also if someone can buy me one of his paintings, pls and thks

 

Nice! His stuff is eerie but friendly in some weird way. I also dig his website domain name too

 

David Devries - A professional comic book artist who takes children's monster drawings and renders them to make them look professionally made! http://www.themonsterengine.com/artwork



This is so cool! Kids love seeing what he does with their monster drawings. He is the bridge that merges the creative mind of a child and the talented precision work of a skilled professional.

 

I've shared this guy on Hip Forums before but figured it was worth a mention again. He sort of reminds me of Moebius less in style but more in concept, I guess?

http://www.seth-styles.com/#/spirit-guide-portraits-occult-art/

 

M. C. Escher.

One of my favs too!

 

Frank frazetta is the man, I love his art work. very mystical and magical, it takes me to another place. i got this Molly Hatchet album b/c of the cover art!

 

I love that first Moebius painting in the link...such pretty, soothing colors and composition....

I had to save the photo to look at it many times.

 

Moebius is also the artist who drew Blueberry, one of my favourite 'comic book' series!

 

Too many favourite artists to mention. But as we've had all modern stuff, here's something from John Atkinson Grimshaw, an English 19th c. painter, mainly of city-scapes. He's sometimes lumped in with the pre-raphaelites, but I personally prefer his work to Hunt, Milais and Co.
To some it might appear a bit sentimental - but what the hell. I quite like that aspect of his work.

 

Picasso, Van Gogh.

 

Tons of atmosphere and yes I love this style as well What's not to like!?

 

I'm glad you like it!

 

I'm a sucker for most classic painters who's work depict old land- or cityscapes anyway, but that style is just excellent for it.

 

Although I do like quite a lot of modern art, I suppose at heart I'm a classicist. I like cityscapes and landscapes too, also paintings that to me catch something of the human in an immediate or intimate kind of way. Here's 3 I put in that bracket. First one by a Dutch artist - how come the Netherlands produced so much great art?



The Happy Family by Jan Steen.



Old Woman Cooking Eggs by Diego Valasquez.



Self portrait by Albrecht Durer.

 

Some nice picks so far! I'll throw in my 2 cents here.

Whimsy works of Claire Wendling:
http://clairewendlingblog.tumblr.com/

60's illustrator, Robert MaGinnis:
http://www.americanartarchives.com/mcginnis.htm

And the figurative paintings of Anders Zorn:
http://www.the-athenaeum.org/art/list.php?m=a&s=tu&aid=92

 

Jan Steen is also a fav of mine, just because of the subjects he paints. This painting is an excellent example. If he was a modern artist painting scenes from every day life in this time I would probably not be as intrigued by his work, but because it is a few centuries ago and the happenings/scenes generally so striking and casual it is the closest to a photo from that era that we have!