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greatest artist in history
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anyone else madly in love with the ridiculousness of Boris?
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Unicorn rifing naked babes ('cept nipples!) for the win!
Love the ideas though...
Although as I've grown older, oiled up babes and conans have worn thin on me.
the greatest artist in history would surly grasp the concept of light.
why the chick is lit from the top right and the unicorn lit from the center left, and on top of all that the shadow of her leg on the horse is being cast by a light on the lower right that is not illuminating anything? my brain hurts looking at this. i am with pior, to each his own, but damn that is horrible. i still feel like this is a joke post.
HR Giger remains my favorite of all time.
Personally, for the subject matter of fantasy babes, I think Luis Royo tops Boris a bit, but I can't argue with many of the teamup pieces of Boris and Julie Bell either. I'm also partial to Olivia De Berardinis when it comes to well done pinup type art.
My present favorite is Alex Ross. His stuff is always just gorgeous, even when the construction can be very simple.
His name is Boris Vallejo BTW, he doesn't have a one word name.
Technical execution and distinct stile is top notch, if you look at his body of work (not that shitty pic). Once you see one of his books you'll probably realize a lot of paintings you saw when you were a kid were done by him. Subject matter leaves a lot to be desired though, boring as hell.
His work reminds me of Frazetta's, but more polished, and yet not as interesting or believable IMO.
EDIT: Vailias beat me to it.
More info...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Vallejo
http://vallejo.ural.net/2000/
anyone seen the one with the girl & snake laying on the.. well.. the penis?
http://www.fantasy-art-world.com/Boris_Vallejo/Boris_Vallejo_Instants.jpg
incredible.
Not only have I seen it, but I modeled as reference for the tree trunk.
The one of president Clinton as tarzan is the most painful for me to look at. He sure does pick some cheezy shit.
Vallejo has a lot of "technically" good work, but I just get bored by it pretty much instantly - his subject matter is always the same, and each painting is executed in the same way so there's nothing of interest to hold your eye beyond the details.
Frazetta and Jeffrey Jones have a bunch of much more interesting work, painted in a more fluid, natural way, with plenty of lovely lost edges and patches cleverly lacking detail to allow the viewer to fill in detail in their mind and generally make more impact.
That's my take on it, anyway
I used to like Marc Sasso's work much more than Boris http://www.marcsasso.com/gallery/gallery1.htm unfortunately the pics on his website dont really show the crisp quality of his work
Sasso always had so much information in his art, its just crammed with awesomeness, boris' stuff gets stale as soon as you realise that he has a set method and references people in poses and puts them on fantasy backgrounds.
But thats all in the past. At the moment Im more impressed with Adi Granov and Marko Djurdjevic
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=107294
http://www.bromart.com/
Marko Djurdjevic is great one.
When I was young (ha ha), I was a big fan of surrealism ; in a fact I'm always.
I like also Siudmak for his sense of feeling for a space and time.
http://www.siudmak.com/
But I could stare at some of Frazetta's work all day.
I mean, come on, Dracula Vs Wolfman!? how can you not love it!?
Honestly, who can say who the best artist is ever?
His art -
http://www.ulster.net/~jonesart/paintings.html
Just take my word for it.
Also discovered this from there :
http://www.rickberrystudio.com/galleries/gallery_four.html
Great stuff all around...
I think lately.. I like Brandon Bird..if just for his subject matter.
http://www.brandonbird.com
Is my mom lying to me or am I really not the greatest artist in history?
Yes.
my fav
Pior: [ame=http://www.amazon.com/Art-Jeffrey-Jones-Arnie-Fenner/dp/1887424571/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1213046396&sr=1-1]Go to Amazon and buy[/ame] the Art of Jeffrey Jones book, it's a must-buy!
since we're talking about spank-a-rific artists, nothing hotter then a chick who paints chicks. There are many to choose from but from recent memory Cris de Lara ranks up there.
If not someone has to recognize this...
This one is doing also some cool sick art: http://www.wonabc.com
also a lot graffiti related. On the downside, the weird website is pain in the ass to navigate.
Are unicorns always that horny, or is it just because he has a naked chick on his back?
Much more of a Frazzeta fan. Never really dug Boris all that much.
Fail. I'm sending that one to your ISP, they'll be cutting off your internet shortly.
shit, i guess so....
screw this modern supermodel garbage, i'll take onena them women please.
this is turning out to be a cool thread! keep posting your favorite artists!
one of my favorites is Wayne Barlowe.. his creativity is astounding, IMO
this was part of a series that he did on a commissioned tour of hell. a lot of his stuff has a story with them. his two inferno books are highly recommended...
http://www.waynebarlowe.com/
A couple of my favourites;
Yasushi Suzuki & Aya Kato
http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~svb/Schiele/
student of klimt's, dude was seriously 80 years ahead of his time. i cant help but think of the original aeon flux cartoon everytime i see his stuff.
You would probably like Kent Williams' stuff: http://www.kentwilliams.com/
I'm partial to Mark Ryden: http://www.markryden.com/paintings/index.html
...and have a lot of other favorites, but think Todd Shorr paints some of the coolest weird shit ever: http://www.toddschorr.com/Home/index.html
http://scott-c.blogspot.com/
And Vera Brosgol:
http://www.verabee.com/
Been a Kent Williams fan for a long time, but haven't kept up with his more recent stuff. Very cool.
My first encounter with his work was the Wolverine/Havok miniseries: Meltdown. He painted all of the Wolverine pieces and Jon J Muth painted all of the Havok pieces. Cool stuff.
I was about to post a link but thought no one would enjoy that kind of stuff :P
I don't think he was Klimt student tho, I thought of him as more of an admirer. I know they talked together a little, even exchanged drawings. Klimt actually told Schiele this was unfair trade, as he considered Egon to be a much better artist than him! Which I think is true to some extend (expressivity)
Edward Hopper
Otto Dix
Zdzisław Beksiński
Francis Bacon
Lucien Freud
Robert Rauschenberg
Odd Nerdrum
and some of the newer painters I enjoy:
Ben Tour
Shawn Barber (whom I think has done things with Massive black)
There's a whole slew of new painters I like, I just have yet to commit their names to my memory, but I would call them illustrators rather than painters, but I'd rather not get nit-picky about who is which.
There is also a great deal of old painters I like, but I decided to keep it post 19th century.
First time I heard of him was at the evening life drawing class I took a couple years ago. The teacher totally encouraged personal exploration through nude drawing (never ever stated Riley/Laafa techniques as a rule, quite the opposite actually) and mentionned Schiele during a class. I must say I'm happy he did!