[Cookie Mobster]

I just noticed on Google that today is MC Escher's Birthday, and that got me thinking, who is my favorite artist(s).

Salvador Dali: I like the way that he mixes realistic landscapes with surreal objects, kind of puts life into perspective sometimes.
MC Escher: Something about the looping makes me think about the mathematical and scientific (im)possibilities.
Monet: I saw some of his stuff when I was living in Chicago as a kid, I have loved it ever since.

So what about you? Who/why does so-and-so inspire you?

[bazooka tooth]

no one person really made me want to become artistic. i've just always been a bit egotistical and people like that normally like to create things.

[Ben Goulbourn]

When i was in europe, in France i went to the Picasso museum, and im no art buff, but i found it very very cool. Not just the way he draws for perspective, but what he draws.

i also found it strange that he named the paintings after what was in it.... i mean exactly

if there was a picture of a man and a tree, the painting would be entitled "man and tree"

[jaredigital]

i never wanted to be artistic. the pay is not all that great and i could make a much better living doing something else. i do what i do cuz i don't do nothing else.

on the plus side, i get to wear as much black as i want and listen to pretentious music. and drive a station wagon. damn, being an artist is swanky.

[supersloth]

i read comics and watch cartoons. 'nuff said.

[klewlis]

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i do what i do cuz i don't do nothing else.

wow. how profound.

[objekt404]

After a couple years of doing "low-brow" advertising design (ie. Auto Trader), I got inspired by seeing my first Attik layout. Its not much now (may not have been that then) but it did change how I saw what I do (for better or worse).

[Fygar]

Celien Dion

[Phil Osopher]

Sponge Bob Square Pants

[Nova Dragoon]

artistic, look at the title of this site, its all about the code, you dreamweaver suckers

[Cookie Mobster]

Not one serous post yet!

[Nova Dragoon]

Ben Goulbourn, on Jun 17 2003, 06:09 PM, said:

When i was in europe, in France i went to the Picasso museum, and im no art buff, but i found it very very cool. Not just the way he draws for perspective, but what he draws.

i also found it strange that he named the paintings after what was in it.... i mean exactly

if there was a picture of a man and a tree, the painting would be entitled "man and tree"

what aboot Captian Canada here, his seems pretty serious

[Ben Goulbourn]

Nova_Dragoon, on Jun 18 2003, 01:59 AM, said:

Ben Goulbourn, on Jun 17 2003, 06:09 PM, said:

When i was in europe, in France i went to the Picasso museum, and im no art buff, but i found it very very cool. Not just the way he draws for perspective, but what he draws. 

i also found it strange that he named the paintings after what was in it.... i mean exactly

if there was a picture of a man and a tree, the painting would be entitled "man and tree"

what aboot Captian Canada here, his seems pretty serious

i am serious
i was never big on art before that, but his paintings are just so amazing and misunderstood. I would say he is the best artist ever to have lived.

[Koenie]

John Maeda

[supersloth]

supersloth, on Jun 17 2003, 01:49 PM, said:

i read comics and watch cartoons. 'nuff said.

that was pretty serious you elitist assholes


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