favorite artist.

[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]

[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;

[mellowbonsai]

Nauman:

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

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.

[chantheman]

bumping this thread because im looking for a particular Nanami Cowdroy print and have no idea when it came out/where i can find it

[zendeen]

Johan Gutenberg, the right man, the right time, the right place.

[bitchesbrew]

Barbara Kruger is dope.

So is Cindy Scherman, she did a couple ads for CdG too.

[arctic]

Nyoman Nuarta

Jazz Pasay

[the hall of vame]

christopher wool

cy twombly

robert ryman

joyce pensato

kazimir malevich

franz kline

barnett newman

brice marden

phil guston

the list goes on......

[Denton]

robert rauschenberg

jasper johns

louise bourgeois

michelangelo caravaggio

felix gonzales-torres

ed ruscha

roy lichtenstein

richard serra

robert mapplethorpe

mark rothko

michael heizer

donald judd

dan flavin

frank stella

slightly myopic list

edit - peter zumthor and paolo mendes da rocha... do they count?

Edited September 21, 2012 by Denton

[the hall of vame]

edit - peter zumthor and paolo mendes da rocha... do they count?

good list n yes i dont see why not

[the hall of vame]

few more:

lucio fontana

tomma abts

blinky palermo

fred sandback

dia beacon

imi knoebel

wade guyton

robert irwin

ellsworth kelly