A big influence on me has been an old school boston graf head. Wombat. he was basically a mentor to me and schooled me on many levels.
Crazy - I used to hang out with Dar**l back in the 80's when I was a teenager...he also tried to steal a pair of Docs off my boy at a Thayer St. party during his thug phase...dude was always mad cool to me, though, and was one of the truly subtle graf heads out there - like Alert, just killin' it on the DL. Does he still have his gallery on Ma*s Ave?
looks like every: Tokion-Levis-Hipster-Indie Rock sludge that is pumped out to entice the 'cool' demographic. Maybe that guy invented it who knows, but It is a style that I've seen duplicated everywhere.
skrrrrrk... you mean "every Tokion-Levis-Hipster-Indie Rock sludge..." looks like ryan mcginness.
some of my favorites:
[strong]Red Grooms[/strong] these really need to be seen in person to fully appreciate them. top one is a to-scale subway car that you could walk through. bottom one is paper-cut diorama style.
Chuck Close
Vaughn Bode and who? ... FRANK FRAZETTAAAAAAAAA!!!
Herb Lubalin One of my favorite, if not my absolute favorite, graphic designers and typographers of all time. The way he created images out of type and saw shapes in letters and groups of letters is still miles ahead of being reached. Read about him and Avant Garde here. See a short video about a Japanese exhibition of his work here
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bacon
soutine
de kooning
monet!!!: >van gogh
had a kandinsky epiphany this spring after never really caring much...had a lichtenstein period in high school...
but if we're talking graffiti, french crew Grim Team are whats dope IMO
peep here
www.etncrew.com
I want one of these posters. Or at least a flier.
How can I be down?
Herm
christ thats nice
Crazy - I used to hang out with Dar**l back in the 80's when I was a teenager...he also tried to steal a pair of Docs off my boy at a Thayer St. party during his thug phase...dude was always mad cool to me, though, and was one of the truly subtle graf heads out there - like Alert, just killin' it on the DL. Does he still have his gallery on Ma*s Ave?
skrrrrrk... you mean "every Tokion-Levis-Hipster-Indie Rock sludge..." looks like ryan mcginness.
some of my favorites:
[strong]Red Grooms[/strong]
these really need to be seen in person to fully appreciate them. top one is a to-scale subway car that you could walk through. bottom one is paper-cut diorama style.
Chuck Close
Vaughn Bode and who? ... FRANK FRAZETTAAAAAAAAA!!!
Herb Lubalin
One of my favorite, if not my absolute favorite, graphic designers and typographers of all time. The way he created images out of type and saw shapes in letters and groups of letters is still miles ahead of being reached.
Read about him and Avant Garde here.
See a short video about a Japanese exhibition of his work here
Pollock
Rothko
Mcginnis
Rousseau
Heres a Kurt Schwitters piece.
ODILON REDON
BECHERS
HOKUSAI
here are some more commercial artists i'm diggin...
Robert Peak
huge innovator in 1970s illustration and the one of the kings of the modern movie poster
Milton Glaser
Jack Lord TV guide cover is total
beauford delaney
lionel feininger
julie
cornell
shrigley
crumb
+ otrs.....
Paul Laffoley
Barry Mcgee
gerhardt RICHTER
john BALDESSARI
jeff VALLANCE
G.O.A.T.???
Sonia Delaunay:
James Turrell
will probably have to make some sort pilgrimage when his Roden Crater thing opens to the public:
http://jamesturrell.com/roden-crater/roden-crater/information/
Tim Hawkinson
Robert Smithson