favorite artist.

[red]

in response to most overrated artist.

who has influenced you the most. whos your favorite.

[darkanimal]

Harry Houdini-escape artist extraordinaire
Frank Abagnale-con artist

[denimdestroyedmylife]

i'm very fond of gerard david (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerard_David).
http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/24/cat328pmaib3.jpg
lamentation

[tweeds]

banksy
renoir
alex mcqueen

i'm taking "artist" a bit loosely, sorry

[englandmj7]

Shorty Homeslice da Airbrusha; responsible for infamous works such as this:

http://i10.tinypic.com/2nvdtti.jpg

Some contemporary artists I also like include:

- Banksy-
- Damien Hirst - he is a cocky fuck, but his shit is pretty crazy, besides that, the motherfucker lives in a castle:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/4204060.stm
http://www.adam-stanford.co.uk/toddington-manor/manor/tm-history.htm

[denimdestroyedmylife]

I like Hirst, but "artist" is a stretch to me. He's more like a carnie.

[almondcrush]

jason sho green
audrey kawasaki
rinko kawauchi

[sell veg]

christian marclay
xu bing

[Westbrook]

Andy Goldsworthy

[cHr]

Federico Fellini
Adam Neate (http://www.adamneate.co.uk)
Pete Doherty

[andewhall]

Philip Clairemont
Misery

[stillthehorror]

magritte.
godard.
borges.

if we're talking about our most obvious influences.

[minya]

Takashi Murakami
Charlie Kaufman
Autechre

[Carl]

Alex Webb
James Nachtwey
Antonin Kratochvil

[poly800rock]

Takashi Murakami
Charlie Kaufman
Autechre

i haven't heard the name autechre in fucking years.

[minya]

i haven't heard the name autechre in fucking years.Although it's hard to decide, if I had to pin down the most important, interesting, creative and influential electronic music of the 1990s, it would be Autechre hands down.

[poly800rock]

Although it's hard to decide, if I had to pin down the most important, interesting, creative and influential electronic music of the 1990s, it would be Autechre hands down.

i'd probably agree, although my knowledge of that genre is somewhat limited. i'd say someone like aphex twin still surprise me simply because some of the stories he has behind him...like the great rock and roll swindle 20 years later...i don't know if you'd like this minya, but the only real electronic album i bought in the past few years was takashi wada's meguro. it's really fucking awesome. I don't know where they stand in the cool chart of electronic stuff though.

i'd say my bloody valentine were artists.

[minya]

yeah, Aphex is a fucking maniac. He's definitely a character. No doubt he's unbelievably influential as well -- stylistically, musically, and visually -- (see his videos, his work with the Designers Republic) -- but I think Autechre just slightly edges him out. Although it's pretty much a moot point.

haven't heard Takashi Wada, but he's part of Kompakt's "Pop Ambient" stuff. Check out the other stuff on Kompakt if you want to hear more in that vein.

[poly800rock]

yeah, Aphex is a fucking maniac. He's definitely a character. No doubt he's unbelievably influential as well -- stylistically, musically, and visually -- (see his videos, his work with the Designers Republic) -- but I think Autechre just slightly edges him out. Although it's pretty much a moot point.

haven't heard Takashi Wada, but he's part of Kompakt's "Pop Ambient" stuff. Check out the other stuff on Kompakt if you want to hear more in that vein.

cool, never knew what that style was called, will check it out.

[holeinthewall]

Ray Johnson

[Kodak]

Jun Takashi
Raf Simmons

[Icarus]

Max Ernst

..

[soultek]

-Banksy
-Brennan Green (Musically, there's too much but lately I'm finding him inspiring)
-Matthew Barney (I know this will get some sneers, but I really like him)

[cultpop 0217]

Max Ernst

..

one of my favorites.

[SpillSuppressor]

I always though Richard Serra made some interesting stuff, but one semester long elective is pretty much my entire knowledge of sculpture.

[poly800rock]

Philip Clairemont
Misery

the hardcore band misery?

[Whodinihimself]

Michael Hussar
Jeff Soto
Alex Pardee
Camille Rose Garcia
David Stoupakis
Matthew Woodson

...among others already mentioned

[artificialsky]

Michael C. Place
Evan Hecox
Geoff McFettridge
Ryan McGuiness
Charles Peterson

[tweeds]

if we include music...
thelonius monk and john coltrane
their styles couldn't be more different but more alike

[azad]

right now:

Stephen Wiltshire
Unberto Boccioni
Ron Mueck

google them, theyre all great

[viv1984viv]

Robert Smithson, Chris Burden, Maurizio Cattelan, Thomas Hirschhorn, Takashi Murakami, On Kawara, Jamie Shovlin, Pierre Huyge, Vito Acconci, Dan Graham, Rodney Graham, Stan Douglas, Paul McCarthy, Mike Kelly. Bruce Nauman!
Lucy Orta, Andrea Fraser.

God hope this doesnt appear sexist.

[MilSpex]

I dont know shit about shit when it comes to art but what would I want to have hanging on my wall? Kaws I guess.

oh yeah and I want to reanimate Isamu Noguchi and have him design my house in payment of his debt to me.

[airfrogusmc]

Robert Frank
Walker Evans
Ralph Gibson
Edward Weston
Dorothea Lange

[denimdestroyedmylife]

walker evans is probably my favorite photographer, but "artist" in connection with his name doesn't jive with me. documentarian?

but then i am very sparing in my application of the word. most of the people noted in this thread i would consider entertainers. not as a slight, but art is almost a relic of a foregone time.

[cultpop 0217]

mark paulsen
dean hacker
matt kap.

[Carl]

Robert Frank
Walker Evans
Ralph Gibson
Edward Weston
Dorothea Lange

Fuck yeah. Now thats a list.

Gott throw Henri Cartier-Bresson, Minor White, Edward Steichin, and George Rodger in there though.

walker evans is probably my favorite photographer, but "artist" in connection with his name doesn't jive with me. documentarian?

Photographers, specifically photojournalists (or documentary photographers), have been the most important artists of the past 75 years.

[denimdestroyedmylife]

photographers in particular have to fight for the "artist" designation, so i definitely see where you are coming from. photography has its place in art museums, no doubt. but i get just as uncomfortable when i hear the word being applied to rappers/rock bands at the mtv music awards or whatever: "best new artist"

ugh.

i'm just saying we don't live in the time of artists-----we've killed the possibility.

[RAISED BY WOLVES]

Daido Moriyama
Dystopia
Eugene richards
Cormega
Allister MacCloud
Edward Hopper
Sol lewitt
Revs
Howard Norman
Susan Miesellas
Antoine D'Agata
Miles Davis
Alec Soth
Lee bontecou
Leonard Cohen
Billie Holiday

And anyone else who makes work full of sincerity and heart, which is against the grain, and oh so "uncool" in the climate of irony and fluff that rules our lives.

More than half these people are alive and still making incredible work not "relics of a foregone time". Fuck that.

[viv1984viv]

i'm just saying we don't live in the time of artists-----we've killed the possibility.


aww man, so pesimistic, you might like Pierre Bourdieu's 'field of cultural production"...... man your going to hit 3k soon.

[ryandenim]

Pierre Huyghe
Tim Hawkinson
Charles Ray

[denimdestroyedmylife]

http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/8120/metalocalypse20060714073443881sb9.jpg

[ordo]

Anselm Kiefer is amazing. I saw an exhibition of his in Frankfurt and was overwhelmed almost to the point of tears - powerful stuff.

[Carl]

Great bump!

[Aotearoa]

Nice list RBW.

Raymond Pettibon.
Chris Johanson.

Edit*

& two of my favourite New Zealand painters:

George Baloghy
Peter Siddell

:)

[reka5matik]

i would have to say, Lil Jon...hahaha sike! whattup rj! its evan!

[keagan]

Most of all Jackson Pollock and Mr Johnson.

Some classics of note;
Willem De Kooing.
André Breton.
Warhol.
Antony Gormley.

Stuff i've been into lately;
Matt Stone
David Risely
Boo Ritson;
http://www.davidrisleygallery.com/images/Ritson04l.jpg

[mellowbonsai]

Nauman:

http://www.tate.org.uk/liverpool/exhibitions/nauman/images/human_nature_512.jpg

I saw his exhibit at the Milwaukee Art Museum and was blown away. His use of words, language, timing, color, make it all the more impressive in person. In the picture above, the words would light up in some sequenced order and as a finale all light up at once. His word play is simple, but direct and clever.

[yawn]

cai guo-qiang

http://www.caiguoqiang.com/imgs/imgs_project/2006_HeadOn_1.jpg

http://www.caiguoqiang.com/imgs/imgs_project/2006_site_01.jpg

http://www.caiguoqiang.com/imgs/imgs_project/Inopportune1.car.1.jpg

http://www.caiguoqiang.com/imgs/imgs_project/Illusion.0025.jpg (http://www.caiguoqiang.com/shell.php?sid=6&pid=203)

http://www.caiguoqiang.com/imgs/imgs_project/2003_LightCycle_01.jpg (http://www.caiguoqiang.com/shell.php?sid=6&pid=59)

http://www.pbs.org/art21/slideshow/artists/c/cai-30282C-002.jpg (http://www.pbs.org/cgi-registry/mediaplayer/videoplayer.cgi?playeraddress=videoplayer.cgi&media=%2Fart21%2F3_CGQ1_video_lo.rm%2C%2Fart21%2F3 _CGQ1_video_hi.rm%2C%2Fart21%2F3_CGQ1_video_lo.mov %2C%2Fart21%2F3_CGQ1_video_hi.mov%2C%2Fgeneral%2Fw indows%2Fart21%2F3_CGQ1_video_lo.wmv%2C%2Fgeneral% 2Fwindows%2Fart21%2F3_CGQ1_video_hi.wmv&title=%26quotInopportune%3A%20Stage%20Two%22%20gun powder%20drawing%20by%20Cai%20Guo-Qiang&widescreen=true&playertemplate=%2Fart21%2FTemplates%2Fart21_mp.htm l)

this is just a small sample of his work. seriously, this man is a genius. http://www.caiguoqiang.com/

[mellowbonsai]

Wow, i'm glad you posted his work here, yawn, i checked out his site. The gunpowder painting is epic!

[yawn]

yeah, more people should know of this man

[djmanc5]

Jeff Soto
Sam Flores
Chuck Close

Mellowbonsai - are you from MKE?

[mellowbonsai]

I am indeed. Cudahy, to be exact.