Who are your favorite ARTISTS, and what do you admire most about them?

Question

Could be anything - writers, painters, composers, singers, actors, dancers... you get the idea.

thank you

Answer 1

My temptation is to list the greats, like Henry James (my favorite stylist of fiction in the English language), Jean-Auguste Dominique Ingres (draughtsman par excellance), Johannes Brahms... but I expect many answers of that sort.

The art of the comic book:

Jack Kirby for his visual and conceptual inventiveness and infallible sense of staging and drama.

Gil Kane for his innovative layouts and his dynamic sense of anatomy

Harvey Kurtzman for his brilliant sense of pacing and timing, whether comedic or dramatic

Berni Krigstein for his continuous willingness to explore and experiment, in both graphic style and storytelling

Will Eisner for his literary sensibility and his brilliance in every aspect of comic book art/graphic storytelling.

ETA

He's more recent and not American, but I should have mentioned Jean Giraud/Moebius for his brilliant stylistic sense and visionary imagination.

Answer 2

I have 2 favorite artists 1.) Rihanna! I admire that shes so into the music and puts her heart into what she sings its not like she reads off a sheet like teachers. 2.) Duff (From Ace of Cakes, Charm City Cakes on Food Network) I admire that he's funny, creative and messy!

Answer 3

my favorites are:

boa kwon-she has an amazing voice

rags morales- hes an awesome dc artist!

yuu watase- she has the most amazing style and shes an awesome writer

me in the future- ill rock ur world!

:)

Answer 4

right now im enjoying the paintings and charcoals of odd nerdrum.  his style is self defined as kitsch.  very interesting on so many levels.  i hope you will give a gander if you're not already familiar. there are several sites dedicated to his work.  i like this one http://www.oddnerdrum.com/

Answer 5

Peter Brook!

One of the most amazing theatre directors of this century! He makes the classics alive again, not boring or arrogant. I also love that he uses actors of many continents, making Shakespeare a feast of multiculturalism :-)

He is an inspiration to me, and I can travel miles to just see a performance from him.

After him there are many, but none is close to the high influence I have received from Brook, unless it is Reinhild Hoffmann with whom I worked for seven years, a legacy of the German dance-theatre tradition, I have a lot from her. Working with her was one of the greatest schools ;-)