Archetype
12-04-2008, 06:55 AM
Probably going to be my only milestone, since it took so fucking long to do. And in case you hate the milestones, it was actually in large part just to help me remember the art history info for Friday's final. I think I may have gone overboard for a class that I'm about to intentionally fail.
If I forgot you, as I know I most definitely did for some awesome folk, please, bitch at me, and I'll get you up here as soon as I can. So without further ado, I give you:
GMF Artist's Club
RP > Polykleitos
One of the earliest Greek masters, he created a new mathematical approach to sculpture, much in the way Pythagoras did for music. Allegedly. No surviving works exist, he is only known from Roman copies and hearsay.
Crash > Epigonos, Connery > Myron, Howlin Mad > Kresilas, etc.
Look, this is basically just the same joke over and over again, so if you haven’t got it by now...
Caronte > Hadrian
Not an artist per se, but an emperor with a wide versatility and a strong patronage of the arts. Slow start to a glorious rule, with a tragic, abrupt end.
Carl > Commodus
Again, not an artist, but the Romans weren’t exactly known for exalting their artists. Y’know Marcus Aurelius, the genius Philosopher-King? Yeah, well Commodus was his kid, and would’ve created a legacy probably equal to his dad. Except he was fucking insane. He basically decided he was Hercules, Son of Jupiter, and eventually held games in which he killed hundreds of animals every morning, and then fought as a gladiator in the afternoon. He killed a giraffe. Who kills a giraffe? For sport? Carl would.
Zaphrodesiac > Abbot Suger
Noble is the work, but the work which
shines here so nobly should lighten the hearts so
that, through true lights they can reach the one
true light, where Christ is the true door…
the dull spirit rises up through the material to
the truth, and although he was cast down
before, he arises new when he has seen this light.
Randystote > Duccio
Has been called the "Last of the Greeks", and his genius consisted in giving exquisite expression to the refined sentiment of the masters of Byzantium, discovering its original meaning despite the barbarous, hideous imitations.Regarding, for instance, his Maestà,
“…on the day that it was carried to the Duomo the shops were shut, and the bishop conducted a great and devout company of priests and friars in solemn procession, accompanied by the nine signiors, and all the officers of the commune, and all the people, and one after another the worthiest with lighted candles in their hands took places near the picture, and behind came the women and children with great devotion. And they accompanied the said picture up to the Duomo, making the procession around the Campo, as is the custom, all the bells ringing joyously, out of reverence for so noble a picture as this.”
Banon > Guido da Vigevano
Despite being blonde, Banon always struck me as a guido.
GTSCH > Nicola Pisano
Noted for his classical style of sculpture, often considered the founder of modern sculpture, a lesser known fact is that he was also a brilliant architect and engineer, managing to tear down one of the largest towers of the day with such skill that none of the surrounding buildings were harmed. Over 700 years ago. Tad before the demolition crews of today.
Archangel > Giotto
Dealt largely in the traditional religious subjects, but he gave these subjects an earthly, full-blooded life and force. Also the first master artist of the entire Renaissance, as Arch was basically the first guy around that I “befriended,” insofar as one can on the interwebz.
420monk > Jan van Eyck
Considered one of the best Northern European painters of the 15th century. “So outstanding was his skill as an oil painter that the invention of the medium was at one time attributed to him, with his brother Hubert, also a painter.”
Sarxos > Rogier van der Weyden
Though he held celebrity status during his time, his reputation faded, and little is known about his career now. A peer of Jan van Eyck, where van Eyck's art aimed for a realism achieved through the dispassionate recording of the objective world, Rogier attempted to evoke a deep emotion expressed through the use of rhythmic line and rich colour, and even allowed him a status surpassing his famed rival. Should be noted that he had a way with the ladies.
Hanover > Francesco di Giorgio Martini
A painter, a sculptor, an architect and theorist, and a military engineer who built almost seventy fortifications for the Duke of Urbino.
Nature’s Folly > Masaccio
His name means “fat” Tom, and he was one of the earliest folk to integrate crazy illusionistic perspectives into his work.
Mototwo78 > The Pollaiolo Brothers
Largely considered to be the first artists to use dissection as a means of understanding anatomy, they began somewhat of a revolution in painting, pushing the search for anatomical accuracy to a new level.
Mixie > Giovanni Bellini
Is considered to have revolutionized Venetian painting, moving it towards a more sensuous and colouristic style. Through the use of clear, slow-drying oil paints, Giovanni created deep, rich tints and detailed shadings. His sumptuous coloring and fluent, atmospheric landscapes had a great effect on the Venetian painting school.
CandyCane > Lorenzo Ghiberti
Known for his sculpture and metalwork,first became famous when he won the 1401 competition for the first set of bronze doors for the Baptistery of the cathedral in Florence, which Michelangelo later dubbed, “The Gates of Paradise.”
AJ > Brunelleschi
“Though rather unprepossessing in appearance, he was of a cheerful and congenial disposition, of active and inventive mind, and withal somewhat quick-tempered. Even in his childish games he evinced a decided inclination towards the mechanical.” It’s like they traced AJ and pasted him 600 years ago, no?
Vox > Donatello
Precursor to the high renaissance, especially the trinity (Michelangelo, Leonardo, and Raphael). Every work of art is created in such a way, that each acts as if done by an entirely different artist.
Insomniac > Leon Battista Alberti
Was a scholar, painter, sculptor, and architect, yet his “claim to fame” are his now-classic theories on art, which he wrote before ever designing a building. His many writings presented the first coherent exposition of early Italian aesthetic theory, and his De re aedificatoria was the first printed book on the subject of architecture.
STDSkillz >Piero della Francesca
His paintings are marked by their simple, iconic serenity as well as their extreme clarity. He was also a mathematician and geometer, which was brought out in his art by the oft-emphasized underlying geometry.
Taters > Hieronymus Bosch
Used images of demons, half-human animals and machines to evoke fear and confusion to portray the evil of man. The works contain complex, highly original, imaginative, and dense use of symbolic figures and iconography, some of which was obscure even in his own time. He is said to have been an inspiration for the surrealist movement in the twentieth century.
6655321 > Sandro Botticelli
One of the masters, his highly personal style was characterized with an incredibly fine, technical skill, and yet, the details in his work were nearly invisible, flowing from one figure to the next with such a hedonistic quality and symbolism, that his later years were consumed by an obsession with repent and a genuine fear for his immortal soul.
Sink > Leonardo da Vinci
All over the goddamned place. Would you just pick a niche, you fucker??
Hannibal > Raphael
Thoughhighly regarded among his contemporaries, he has been regarded as lesser to Michelangelo and Titian, however he has been described as having qualities which no other Renaissance artist achieved, particularly his ease.
GWD > Michelangelo Buonarotti
Despite making few forays beyond the arts,his versatility in the disciplines he took up was of such a high order that he is often considered a contender for the title of the archetypal “Renaissance Man.” Among connoisseurs, he’s often considered the best of the trinity.
Shannon > Antonio Allegri da Correggio
Was responsible for some of the most vigorous and sensuous works of the 16th century.
Kyle > Titian
Had he died at the age of forty, he would still have to be regarded as one of the most influential artists of his time. But he lived on for a further half century, changing his manner so drastically that some critics refuse to believe that his early and later pieces could have been produced by the same man. What unites the two parts of his career is his deep interest in colour. His later works may not contain vivid, luminous tints as his early pieces do, yet their loose brushwork and subtlety of polychromatic modulations have no precedents in the history of Western art.
Syn > Annibale Carracci
Was the most admired painter of his time and the vital force in the creation of Baroque style. Together with his cousin Ludovico (Senor Bob) and his older brother Agostino (Erased)—each an outstanding artist—Annibale set out to transform Italian painting. Oh, plus the whole School of Bologna thing.
Bastard > Tintoretto
The last of the Renaissance masters,his dramatic use of perspective and lighting makes him easily one of the most interesting Renaissance artists, with a sense of space and energy rarely seen before.
Jericho > Amedeo Modigliani
While alcohol and writing go together like coke and whores, finding an alcoholic artist is nigh impossible, and when one does arise, they might as well have just shat on their canvas. Or they’re modernists. Which isn’t much of an “or,” really. So when I saw Amedeo Modigliani’s work, and its warped height, well, I was still mildly disappointed. Sorry, Jericho. Fucking artists and their psychedelic drugs.
Limp > Caravaggio
"After a fortnight's work he will swagger about for a month or two with a sword at his side and a servant following him, from one ball-court to the next, ever ready to engage in a fight or an argument, so that it is most awkward to get along with him."
Anita > Artemisia Gentileschi
Could more than hold her own, she wasn’t just the first dame to get into the Accademia dell'Arte del Disegno, she was easily among the most accomplished artists of her generation.
http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u50/jjmckool/492px-GENTILESCHI_Judith.jpg
Face > Willem Claeszoon Heda
The guy’s claim to fame is painting ravaged dinner tables. Yup.
Pax Britannia > Hogarth
Was a major English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic and editorial cartoonist who has been credited as a pioneer in western sequential art. His work ranged from excellent realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called “modern moral subjects”. Much of his work, though at times vicious, poked fun at contemporary politics and customs.
Fuld > Jacques-Louis David
The most prominent painter of his era, David was a strong proponent and active participant in the French Revolution, becoming a dictator of the arts under Robespierre.
Pharon > John Trumbull
Trying to find an artist that had a part in the American Revolution was a lot harder than I thought it’d be. I damned near went with Jefferson, being as he was at least a polymath. Most of the American artists from the time were apparently little more than portrait artists, just looking to make a trade of their skills, booking it overseas when the war came (or else in the case of Copeland, they were Loyalists). Trumbull, however, not only served directly under George Washington and Horatio Gates, but also made a career in art painting iconic imagery from the Revolutionary War. Plus, his most famous work, the Declaration of Independence, is apparently on the back of the $2 bill.
Muji > Francisco Goya
With one hell of a penchant for the overdramatic, Goya’s haunting satire and bold technique mark him as the first of the “moderns.”
Axel > William Blake
To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.
Harlequin > Caspar David Friedrich
One hell of a painter, and possibly the most important visual artist of the romantic movement, which, of course, has devolved into novels that are basically porn for dames. Seemed to fit.
Trident > Joshua Reynolds
"Of Reynolds what good shall be said?- or what harm?
His temper too frigid; his pencil too warm;
A rage for sublimity ill understood,
To seek still for the great, by forsaking the good..."
Marcus > Manet
Died of untreated syphilis and rheumatism, which he contracted in his forties.
Claydon > Jean-Baptiste Greuze
His desires to be great were essentially distinguished by his comfort with mediocrity. Also, later paintings showed a fondness of children and sexual allusion.
Kerjack > Vincent van Gogh
“Scrounged” off his ma and pa for a number of years, trying to find a decent, steady job, his "youth was gloomy and cold and sterile...." Largely misunderstood in his own lifetime, he ended up shooting himself in a field with a revolver.
Medlar > Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u50/jjmckool/Photolautrec.jpg
Summer > Alma Maria Mahler
Although a composer in her own right, it’s her status of unintentional muse that has garnered her infamy, becoming the wife of composer Gustav Mahler, architect Walter Gropius, and novelist Franz Werfel, pulling her first kiss from Gustav Klimt, and being a consort to several other prominent artists.
Goat > Édouard-Henri Avril
http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u50/jjmckool/C389douard-Henri_Avril_28.jpg
Blue > Munch
Revered as his country’s greatest artist, was a vital component to expressionist art, known especially for his dark themes.
Mirt > Frida Kahlo
She was ethnic, and was played by an actress with big tits. Sorry, I haven’t exactly read a lot of your posts.
JT > Picasso
I nearly just gave him the Casanova moniker, then it occurred to me just how many broads Picasso had pining for him. He went through 2 wives, had kids by 3 women, and I think he managed to maintain both marriages while going through multiple mistresses, which of course he was open about with his wives. That’s just badass.
Oggie > Marcel Duchamp
The famous Dadaist who flipped the toilet upside down in the 10s was quite famous for his reappropriation of multiple found objects.
“The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act.”
TylerDurden > Andre Breton
While not a visual artist himself, surrealism is almost word for word what Durden talked about in Fight Club: a revolutionary movement intended to revert society into an anarcho-primitivist, anti-capitalist state, complete with random uninhibited acts of violence.
Pizz > Dali
Insisted on his Arab lineage (through the Moors, who had occupied Southern Spain for some 800 years), attributing to it, "my love of everything that is gilded and excessive, my passion for luxury and my love of oriental clothes.”
Jack Bauer > Jack Butler Yeats
He’s Irish, his first name is Jack, and his pic really reminded me of Jack Bauer. No, really, give him a gun, and blonde hair. That’s Jack Bauer.
http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u50/jjmckool/433px-Jack_Butler_Yeats.jpg
Gary_Busey > Norman Rockwell
Consistent powerhouse with a giant body of work. I wait for the day that Busey does his magnum opus, though I suspect it will have less to do with racism, and more to do with a mountain of coke.
ElemenoP > Andy Warhol
When the social realists were parading around with perfect, stone replicas of Stalin, photographic landscapes, and flawless representations of working class environments, Warhol became the exalted commercial artist of American culture, creating the pop art movement which absolutely couldn't exist without consumerism. Sure, there were other major American artists before him, but it was Warhol that properly presented the capitalist civilization which would permanently by in opposition of communism.
Dick_Darlington > Henry Joseph Darger
One of the foremost icons of the Art Brut movement, he was a reclusive for most of his life, and his magnum opus was discovered posthumously, which represented a digressive, almost de-aging mental state.
Nuke > Erich Moses
Terrible jew, blonde hair, blue eyes, painted for a German officer during WWII, played soccer with the pope when he was young…
Bixby > Drew Struzan
A commercial illustrator, Drew’s worked extensively with the entertainment industry, especially known for his work on the iconic Star Wars and Indiana Jones posters.
Dataci > Harvey Ross Ball
Graphic Designer that created the iconic smiley. What'd he make off of it? A grand total of $45. That's right, just the fee to make it, no copyright. In any case, he was still pretty successful without it, owning his own advertising firm and such.
Poo Poo & Ricky > Nek Chand Saini
Yeah, that’s right fuckers, you rich assholes only get one artist between you two. Well off gays you is. Still, Nek Chand was quite the badass, building a forty acre representation of heaven. It was supposedly started in ‘67, but I’m not sure when it finished, or if it finished, as Chand is still alive and kicking.
Paxton > Jamie Reid,
Visually, his work has epitomized the punk movement since his work with the Sex Pistols and his intensely basic ransom note-esque style.
Erad > Shigeru Miyamoto
Was the principal designer on the original Donkey Kong, and has been involved in the production of over 90 games. He’s been (rightfully) called the father or Walt Disney of gaming, and he continues to be an integral part to Nintendo’s development, helping to develop the concept of the Wii platform, and multiple unorthodox games for it.
Redbeard : Marcus Lehto
Halo’s Art Director? Come on, who else would I pick?
Vasili Denisov : Banksy
Always clever, always fucking odd, somehow still virtually anonymous.
Raider : Paul Pope
Hell of a comic artist and writer, Pope’s made the point of his being a libertarian on more than one occasion, even having a Jewish version of Batman and Robin openly praise and defend Ludwig von Mises in ‘30s Berlin.
Leafsmack : Vallejo
http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u50/jjmckool/aqua-teen-hunger-force-colon-movie-.jpg
Jennifer : Euphemia McNaught
Does she post anymore? Bah well, most of you won’t know the artist, but she was from back home, died a few years back.
If I forgot you, as I know I most definitely did for some awesome folk, please, bitch at me, and I'll get you up here as soon as I can. So without further ado, I give you:
GMF Artist's Club
RP > Polykleitos
One of the earliest Greek masters, he created a new mathematical approach to sculpture, much in the way Pythagoras did for music. Allegedly. No surviving works exist, he is only known from Roman copies and hearsay.
Crash > Epigonos, Connery > Myron, Howlin Mad > Kresilas, etc.
Look, this is basically just the same joke over and over again, so if you haven’t got it by now...
Caronte > Hadrian
Not an artist per se, but an emperor with a wide versatility and a strong patronage of the arts. Slow start to a glorious rule, with a tragic, abrupt end.
Carl > Commodus
Again, not an artist, but the Romans weren’t exactly known for exalting their artists. Y’know Marcus Aurelius, the genius Philosopher-King? Yeah, well Commodus was his kid, and would’ve created a legacy probably equal to his dad. Except he was fucking insane. He basically decided he was Hercules, Son of Jupiter, and eventually held games in which he killed hundreds of animals every morning, and then fought as a gladiator in the afternoon. He killed a giraffe. Who kills a giraffe? For sport? Carl would.
Zaphrodesiac > Abbot Suger
Noble is the work, but the work which
shines here so nobly should lighten the hearts so
that, through true lights they can reach the one
true light, where Christ is the true door…
the dull spirit rises up through the material to
the truth, and although he was cast down
before, he arises new when he has seen this light.
Randystote > Duccio
Has been called the "Last of the Greeks", and his genius consisted in giving exquisite expression to the refined sentiment of the masters of Byzantium, discovering its original meaning despite the barbarous, hideous imitations.Regarding, for instance, his Maestà,
“…on the day that it was carried to the Duomo the shops were shut, and the bishop conducted a great and devout company of priests and friars in solemn procession, accompanied by the nine signiors, and all the officers of the commune, and all the people, and one after another the worthiest with lighted candles in their hands took places near the picture, and behind came the women and children with great devotion. And they accompanied the said picture up to the Duomo, making the procession around the Campo, as is the custom, all the bells ringing joyously, out of reverence for so noble a picture as this.”
Banon > Guido da Vigevano
Despite being blonde, Banon always struck me as a guido.
GTSCH > Nicola Pisano
Noted for his classical style of sculpture, often considered the founder of modern sculpture, a lesser known fact is that he was also a brilliant architect and engineer, managing to tear down one of the largest towers of the day with such skill that none of the surrounding buildings were harmed. Over 700 years ago. Tad before the demolition crews of today.
Archangel > Giotto
Dealt largely in the traditional religious subjects, but he gave these subjects an earthly, full-blooded life and force. Also the first master artist of the entire Renaissance, as Arch was basically the first guy around that I “befriended,” insofar as one can on the interwebz.
420monk > Jan van Eyck
Considered one of the best Northern European painters of the 15th century. “So outstanding was his skill as an oil painter that the invention of the medium was at one time attributed to him, with his brother Hubert, also a painter.”
Sarxos > Rogier van der Weyden
Though he held celebrity status during his time, his reputation faded, and little is known about his career now. A peer of Jan van Eyck, where van Eyck's art aimed for a realism achieved through the dispassionate recording of the objective world, Rogier attempted to evoke a deep emotion expressed through the use of rhythmic line and rich colour, and even allowed him a status surpassing his famed rival. Should be noted that he had a way with the ladies.
Hanover > Francesco di Giorgio Martini
A painter, a sculptor, an architect and theorist, and a military engineer who built almost seventy fortifications for the Duke of Urbino.
Nature’s Folly > Masaccio
His name means “fat” Tom, and he was one of the earliest folk to integrate crazy illusionistic perspectives into his work.
Mototwo78 > The Pollaiolo Brothers
Largely considered to be the first artists to use dissection as a means of understanding anatomy, they began somewhat of a revolution in painting, pushing the search for anatomical accuracy to a new level.
Mixie > Giovanni Bellini
Is considered to have revolutionized Venetian painting, moving it towards a more sensuous and colouristic style. Through the use of clear, slow-drying oil paints, Giovanni created deep, rich tints and detailed shadings. His sumptuous coloring and fluent, atmospheric landscapes had a great effect on the Venetian painting school.
CandyCane > Lorenzo Ghiberti
Known for his sculpture and metalwork,first became famous when he won the 1401 competition for the first set of bronze doors for the Baptistery of the cathedral in Florence, which Michelangelo later dubbed, “The Gates of Paradise.”
AJ > Brunelleschi
“Though rather unprepossessing in appearance, he was of a cheerful and congenial disposition, of active and inventive mind, and withal somewhat quick-tempered. Even in his childish games he evinced a decided inclination towards the mechanical.” It’s like they traced AJ and pasted him 600 years ago, no?
Vox > Donatello
Precursor to the high renaissance, especially the trinity (Michelangelo, Leonardo, and Raphael). Every work of art is created in such a way, that each acts as if done by an entirely different artist.
Insomniac > Leon Battista Alberti
Was a scholar, painter, sculptor, and architect, yet his “claim to fame” are his now-classic theories on art, which he wrote before ever designing a building. His many writings presented the first coherent exposition of early Italian aesthetic theory, and his De re aedificatoria was the first printed book on the subject of architecture.
STDSkillz >Piero della Francesca
His paintings are marked by their simple, iconic serenity as well as their extreme clarity. He was also a mathematician and geometer, which was brought out in his art by the oft-emphasized underlying geometry.
Taters > Hieronymus Bosch
Used images of demons, half-human animals and machines to evoke fear and confusion to portray the evil of man. The works contain complex, highly original, imaginative, and dense use of symbolic figures and iconography, some of which was obscure even in his own time. He is said to have been an inspiration for the surrealist movement in the twentieth century.
6655321 > Sandro Botticelli
One of the masters, his highly personal style was characterized with an incredibly fine, technical skill, and yet, the details in his work were nearly invisible, flowing from one figure to the next with such a hedonistic quality and symbolism, that his later years were consumed by an obsession with repent and a genuine fear for his immortal soul.
Sink > Leonardo da Vinci
All over the goddamned place. Would you just pick a niche, you fucker??
Hannibal > Raphael
Thoughhighly regarded among his contemporaries, he has been regarded as lesser to Michelangelo and Titian, however he has been described as having qualities which no other Renaissance artist achieved, particularly his ease.
GWD > Michelangelo Buonarotti
Despite making few forays beyond the arts,his versatility in the disciplines he took up was of such a high order that he is often considered a contender for the title of the archetypal “Renaissance Man.” Among connoisseurs, he’s often considered the best of the trinity.
Shannon > Antonio Allegri da Correggio
Was responsible for some of the most vigorous and sensuous works of the 16th century.
Kyle > Titian
Had he died at the age of forty, he would still have to be regarded as one of the most influential artists of his time. But he lived on for a further half century, changing his manner so drastically that some critics refuse to believe that his early and later pieces could have been produced by the same man. What unites the two parts of his career is his deep interest in colour. His later works may not contain vivid, luminous tints as his early pieces do, yet their loose brushwork and subtlety of polychromatic modulations have no precedents in the history of Western art.
Syn > Annibale Carracci
Was the most admired painter of his time and the vital force in the creation of Baroque style. Together with his cousin Ludovico (Senor Bob) and his older brother Agostino (Erased)—each an outstanding artist—Annibale set out to transform Italian painting. Oh, plus the whole School of Bologna thing.
Bastard > Tintoretto
The last of the Renaissance masters,his dramatic use of perspective and lighting makes him easily one of the most interesting Renaissance artists, with a sense of space and energy rarely seen before.
Jericho > Amedeo Modigliani
While alcohol and writing go together like coke and whores, finding an alcoholic artist is nigh impossible, and when one does arise, they might as well have just shat on their canvas. Or they’re modernists. Which isn’t much of an “or,” really. So when I saw Amedeo Modigliani’s work, and its warped height, well, I was still mildly disappointed. Sorry, Jericho. Fucking artists and their psychedelic drugs.
Limp > Caravaggio
"After a fortnight's work he will swagger about for a month or two with a sword at his side and a servant following him, from one ball-court to the next, ever ready to engage in a fight or an argument, so that it is most awkward to get along with him."
Anita > Artemisia Gentileschi
Could more than hold her own, she wasn’t just the first dame to get into the Accademia dell'Arte del Disegno, she was easily among the most accomplished artists of her generation.
http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u50/jjmckool/492px-GENTILESCHI_Judith.jpg
Face > Willem Claeszoon Heda
The guy’s claim to fame is painting ravaged dinner tables. Yup.
Pax Britannia > Hogarth
Was a major English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic and editorial cartoonist who has been credited as a pioneer in western sequential art. His work ranged from excellent realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called “modern moral subjects”. Much of his work, though at times vicious, poked fun at contemporary politics and customs.
Fuld > Jacques-Louis David
The most prominent painter of his era, David was a strong proponent and active participant in the French Revolution, becoming a dictator of the arts under Robespierre.
Pharon > John Trumbull
Trying to find an artist that had a part in the American Revolution was a lot harder than I thought it’d be. I damned near went with Jefferson, being as he was at least a polymath. Most of the American artists from the time were apparently little more than portrait artists, just looking to make a trade of their skills, booking it overseas when the war came (or else in the case of Copeland, they were Loyalists). Trumbull, however, not only served directly under George Washington and Horatio Gates, but also made a career in art painting iconic imagery from the Revolutionary War. Plus, his most famous work, the Declaration of Independence, is apparently on the back of the $2 bill.
Muji > Francisco Goya
With one hell of a penchant for the overdramatic, Goya’s haunting satire and bold technique mark him as the first of the “moderns.”
Axel > William Blake
To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.
Harlequin > Caspar David Friedrich
One hell of a painter, and possibly the most important visual artist of the romantic movement, which, of course, has devolved into novels that are basically porn for dames. Seemed to fit.
Trident > Joshua Reynolds
"Of Reynolds what good shall be said?- or what harm?
His temper too frigid; his pencil too warm;
A rage for sublimity ill understood,
To seek still for the great, by forsaking the good..."
Marcus > Manet
Died of untreated syphilis and rheumatism, which he contracted in his forties.
Claydon > Jean-Baptiste Greuze
His desires to be great were essentially distinguished by his comfort with mediocrity. Also, later paintings showed a fondness of children and sexual allusion.
Kerjack > Vincent van Gogh
“Scrounged” off his ma and pa for a number of years, trying to find a decent, steady job, his "youth was gloomy and cold and sterile...." Largely misunderstood in his own lifetime, he ended up shooting himself in a field with a revolver.
Medlar > Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u50/jjmckool/Photolautrec.jpg
Summer > Alma Maria Mahler
Although a composer in her own right, it’s her status of unintentional muse that has garnered her infamy, becoming the wife of composer Gustav Mahler, architect Walter Gropius, and novelist Franz Werfel, pulling her first kiss from Gustav Klimt, and being a consort to several other prominent artists.
Goat > Édouard-Henri Avril
http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u50/jjmckool/C389douard-Henri_Avril_28.jpg
Blue > Munch
Revered as his country’s greatest artist, was a vital component to expressionist art, known especially for his dark themes.
Mirt > Frida Kahlo
She was ethnic, and was played by an actress with big tits. Sorry, I haven’t exactly read a lot of your posts.
JT > Picasso
I nearly just gave him the Casanova moniker, then it occurred to me just how many broads Picasso had pining for him. He went through 2 wives, had kids by 3 women, and I think he managed to maintain both marriages while going through multiple mistresses, which of course he was open about with his wives. That’s just badass.
Oggie > Marcel Duchamp
The famous Dadaist who flipped the toilet upside down in the 10s was quite famous for his reappropriation of multiple found objects.
“The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act.”
TylerDurden > Andre Breton
While not a visual artist himself, surrealism is almost word for word what Durden talked about in Fight Club: a revolutionary movement intended to revert society into an anarcho-primitivist, anti-capitalist state, complete with random uninhibited acts of violence.
Pizz > Dali
Insisted on his Arab lineage (through the Moors, who had occupied Southern Spain for some 800 years), attributing to it, "my love of everything that is gilded and excessive, my passion for luxury and my love of oriental clothes.”
Jack Bauer > Jack Butler Yeats
He’s Irish, his first name is Jack, and his pic really reminded me of Jack Bauer. No, really, give him a gun, and blonde hair. That’s Jack Bauer.
http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u50/jjmckool/433px-Jack_Butler_Yeats.jpg
Gary_Busey > Norman Rockwell
Consistent powerhouse with a giant body of work. I wait for the day that Busey does his magnum opus, though I suspect it will have less to do with racism, and more to do with a mountain of coke.
ElemenoP > Andy Warhol
When the social realists were parading around with perfect, stone replicas of Stalin, photographic landscapes, and flawless representations of working class environments, Warhol became the exalted commercial artist of American culture, creating the pop art movement which absolutely couldn't exist without consumerism. Sure, there were other major American artists before him, but it was Warhol that properly presented the capitalist civilization which would permanently by in opposition of communism.
Dick_Darlington > Henry Joseph Darger
One of the foremost icons of the Art Brut movement, he was a reclusive for most of his life, and his magnum opus was discovered posthumously, which represented a digressive, almost de-aging mental state.
Nuke > Erich Moses
Terrible jew, blonde hair, blue eyes, painted for a German officer during WWII, played soccer with the pope when he was young…
Bixby > Drew Struzan
A commercial illustrator, Drew’s worked extensively with the entertainment industry, especially known for his work on the iconic Star Wars and Indiana Jones posters.
Dataci > Harvey Ross Ball
Graphic Designer that created the iconic smiley. What'd he make off of it? A grand total of $45. That's right, just the fee to make it, no copyright. In any case, he was still pretty successful without it, owning his own advertising firm and such.
Poo Poo & Ricky > Nek Chand Saini
Yeah, that’s right fuckers, you rich assholes only get one artist between you two. Well off gays you is. Still, Nek Chand was quite the badass, building a forty acre representation of heaven. It was supposedly started in ‘67, but I’m not sure when it finished, or if it finished, as Chand is still alive and kicking.
Paxton > Jamie Reid,
Visually, his work has epitomized the punk movement since his work with the Sex Pistols and his intensely basic ransom note-esque style.
Erad > Shigeru Miyamoto
Was the principal designer on the original Donkey Kong, and has been involved in the production of over 90 games. He’s been (rightfully) called the father or Walt Disney of gaming, and he continues to be an integral part to Nintendo’s development, helping to develop the concept of the Wii platform, and multiple unorthodox games for it.
Redbeard : Marcus Lehto
Halo’s Art Director? Come on, who else would I pick?
Vasili Denisov : Banksy
Always clever, always fucking odd, somehow still virtually anonymous.
Raider : Paul Pope
Hell of a comic artist and writer, Pope’s made the point of his being a libertarian on more than one occasion, even having a Jewish version of Batman and Robin openly praise and defend Ludwig von Mises in ‘30s Berlin.
Leafsmack : Vallejo
http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u50/jjmckool/aqua-teen-hunger-force-colon-movie-.jpg
Jennifer : Euphemia McNaught
Does she post anymore? Bah well, most of you won’t know the artist, but she was from back home, died a few years back.