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Re: What Artist Influence You?
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Originally Posted by Kyle45
Whos the guy that did the Campbell soup cans over and over??? He's pretty awesome!
You mean Andy Warhol? I think that's who did it, and how you spell his name correctly.

Anyways, for me the word artist is a open term for everything creative.

So here goes:

Frank Lloyd Wright - Architecture master in his own rights, although his homes deserving of a million dollars a piece or more (to some) go for less cause of one detail. They only have one bathroom. True story. Saw it on a house hunter show on TLC or Discovery channel.

Fritz Lang - Metropolis (Movie): Revolutionary artist and film maker when movies were still silent who dreamed of massive skyscrapers and worlds beyond belief. I'm guessing the makers of the newer movie The Fifth Element took what Fritz started and ran with it to make their awesome cinematic settings.

Gary Larsen - The Far Side (Comic): Brilliant.. Just Brilliant. Enough said.

Charles Schulz - Peanuts - Same.. Just brilliant.

Matt Groening - The Simpsons - Ditto.. lol

Jim Davis - Garfield (Comic): Who else can take a lazy cat and his weird owner and turn it into a multimillion dollar empire and create a character everyone loves?

Jesse James & Crew and The Guys from American Chopper..
How can you not think what they do is art in it's purest most hardcore metal form?

Salvador Dali - The Persistance of Memory and others (Artist): I am a little biased on this one cause this is a surreal artist and in this particular piece the theme is time and features a surreal landscape where clocks seem to droop over other objects such as a tree.
http://www.fotos.org/galeria/data/52...-Of-Memory.jpg
*I actually based a senior project in HS off of this work (or maybe it was in 8th grade - i don't remember), by basically copying a section of the work onto the shape of a face of a panther..
Won an award for my innovative technique in doing so... basically I made a mini inverse panther face shape and cut it out and laid it over the portion of the art work and scaled everything onto a larger piece looking like a head freehand.
w00t
*I wish I knew where that was....

As for "real" artists, my favorites are not ranked really by artists but works of art.
1) Persistence of Memory - Salvador Dali
2) The Scream - Edvard Munch

Much more I can't think of right now.
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