Who are your favorite artists?

[toddly6666]

I was just curious to see who are your favorite artists, whether they be famous or obscure, or comic book/graphic novel artists, or painters a la Picasso. I'm sure not everyone in here just likes comic book artists, what other artists do you like (as well as comic book artists)?


Here's my list of some of my favorites:
1. Robert Crumb
2. Jean-Michel Basquiat
3. Art Spiegelmen
4. Salvador Dali
5. Herge

 

[Mee]

Jim Lee
Gabrielle Del Otto
Darwynn Cooke
Bruce Timm
Tim Sale
Alex Maleev
Jon Cassaday
Steve Mcniven
David Finch
JRJR

 

[Mrh7448]

Comic Book artists:
Mike Mignola
Frank Miller
Jack Kirby
Will Eisner
Simon Bisley
Dermott Power

"Fine" Artists
Da Vinci
Toulouse-Lautrec
Goya
Dali
Morriseau
Paul Peel
Aubrey Beardsley
Arthur Rackham
Frank Frazetta

 

[dchisholm]

paul pope
jeff smith
katsuhiro otomo
bill watterson
david lapham
mike mignola
steve dillon
tim sale
jr jr
david mazzucchelli
frank miller (everything 300 and earlier, i guess)

umm...
cezanne
egon scheile
van gogh
blahblahblah
sri whipple

 

[Why Are You Crouching Spock?]

(These guys have influences comics profoundly)

Andrew Loomis.

Burne Hogarth

Frank Frazetta

http://www.aumania.it/fa_frazetta2.html

 

[MadMaximus]

Bernie Wrightson:

J. Scott Campbell:

Joe Mad!

Jim Lee:

L. Francis Yu:

Bruce Timm:

 

[souloffire]

George Perez

 

[EdRyder]

My all time no-contest favorite
Bill Sienkiewicz-

 

[KAD]

John Byrne
Michael Golden
C Vess
Paul smith
Bill S cant spell his last name itch
Jack Kirby
Geoff Darrow
Frank Millar
Too many more

Fine art

Michelangelo

Arthur Rackham

 

[Juggertha]

Most of my faves have already been mentioned, so I'll add

Rick Leonardi

 

[EdRyder]

Some of my favorite pencilers are Bart Sears and Alan Davis.
Sears:

Davis:

Art Adams needs an honorable mention
And not to forget Al Williamson! ,the man is a legend and a great inspiration in my comic life
Williamson:

 

[xXx]

1) Michael Turner
2) Bruce Timm
3) David Mazzucchelli

 

[Cyrusbales]

Now, someone tell me these are not absolutely awesome:

 

[The Mighty Wind]

Now, someone tell me these are not absolutely awesome:

They aren't even "regular awesome."

As for favourite artists, Magritte, Goya, Dali, Ernst, Kirchner and Kollwitz are up there, though I'm not as well versed in art history as I'd like to be.

That said, I have a total hate on for Andy Warhol, Wassily Kandinsky, Jackson Pollack, Piet Mondrian and Mark Rothko (well, pretty much Andy Warhol and any non-representative abstractionists).