Anyone have them? I only recently came across the later works of Janet Fish, which are wriggly but completely static, intense and pale, and so detailed it'd make you sick but they intentionally lack a focal point so your eyes dance all over the piece. I have a feeling I'll be seeing more of her later just from this initial exposure, and I thought it might be interesting to see how folks from the -other- fine arts might've influenced us. Anyone got a particular stand-out guy or gal they admire in that respect?
Favorite Painters That Inspire Your Work
By ScatteredLogical | Sunday, March 6, 2005 at 2:07pm
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Favorite Painters That Inspire Your Work
Looks like a right thread for starting posting again, after a long while :). So, here is my list:
Kandinsky
Keith Haring
Van Gogh
Mondrian
Matisse
Edik Mitgartz,
Animator and Character Designer
My showreel:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgDNQlJmL8c
Norman Rockwell
Vincent Van Gogh
Maxfield Parrish
Drew Struzan
H.R. Giger
Brom
N.C. Wyeth
Andrew Wyeth
Savador Dali
Those have all had really profound influences on me. I do find when animating that Rockwell look creeps in the most, I just love that classic feel.
H. R. Geiger, the Alien guy? I'd love to see that mixed with Dali lol
Maxfield Parrish has always been a favorite of mine. So much that my first son's middle name is Maxfield.
But there are also certain movements that I love without really having a favortie artist such as Surrealist and Pre-Raphaelites. I guess I should include the whole UPA style of animation as another.
ed
Department of Computer Animation
Ringling College of Art and Design
Sarasota Florida
Add Rene Magritte to the list too.
ed
Department of Computer Animation
Ringling College of Art and Design
Sarasota Florida
Ronald Searle is a great Graphic Artist in my view.
Who else?
Picasso for his freedom and strength
Interesting how few of these are completely representational in style.
Oh, Ed, I never heard of Maxfield so I looked him up. THANK you for sharing that! It's unreal, I didn't even know paintings like that existed. I used to have dreams when I was younger that freaked me out even though nothing scary was going on. I think he may have painted them =) Those palettes, the color keying...all so consistent between works but varied within the work itself. It's actually like dreaming without a cliche' softness or the initial superficial nonsense most surrealism seems to have for most people.
The work of Parrish is amazing, glad I could share that with you.
His life was pretty interesting too. If you look closely you will see that all of his characters are the same model. She was with him for years and years (decades), lived on his property and was his mistress. She finally left him after his wife died and he refused to marry her. His technique used layers and layers of glazes but from what I read the technique is causing the paints to wither away. I never seen any in person but hope to some day.
ed
Department of Computer Animation
Ringling College of Art and Design
Sarasota Florida
if any of you know web addresses of above mentioned painters ,please post them so people who doesn not know about them will get to know.
thankyou all
Toulouse Lautrec
Egon Schiele
Lucian Freud
Hokusai
Jenny Saville
Klimt
George Grosz
"check it out, you know it makes sense!" http://miaumau.blogspot.com/
Go to Google type in any of those names and you'll have hundreds of links to their work; espeically if you go to the images section.
ed
Department of Computer Animation
Ringling College of Art and Design
Sarasota Florida
I know my work doesn't show it, but I would have to say when I work, it's Marc Chagall that influences my work. His work always had a happiness and freeness to it, I strive for that.
Pat
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