What visual artists do you look at?

[Paul Thek]

Hey folks,

Long time lurker, first time poster. Thought I would ask the Matador BB community about a pet passion of mine, contemporary art. So...who do you like, look at, etc...? Who do you hate?

I'll start by giving a brief list of recent favorites:

Paul Chan

Phillip Guston

Francis Bacon

Ivan Albright........

[Miss Tasty Princess]

Bacon's definitely a fave!

Some others:

Edvard Munch
Jean Dubuffet
René Magritte
Franz Klein
John Singer Sargent
Nick Blinko
Egon Schiele

And some "cartoonists" that I enjoy as much for their art as their humor:

Saul Steinberg
Charles Addams
Peter Arno
Edward Gorey
Helen E. Hokinson
Richard Guindon

[earl grey]

as far as who i look at, i used to check things out way more often but school has cut that down of late. but as for who i like, let's see ... for photos, hiroshi sugimoto, thomas struth, andreas gursky, and thomas demand, definitely. non-photo : gerard richter, wayne thiebaud, anish kapoor, michal rovner, olafur eliasson. also for photo, gregory crewdson, though he's hit or miss for me. (he actually did the cover for YLT's 'and then nothing...", though the picture's cropped in a really odd spot.)

definitely some others i'm forgetting, but that's mostly pretty modern ... for slightly older stuff, among others, i've always really loved kandinsky. photo-wise, i like robert frank, walker evans, abe morrell, atget ... i took a photo class my senior year and totally fell for it, hence the dividing lines when i discuss. franz kline is great too, a poster of his is opposite my couch....

[dola]

Francis Bacon


If it's good enough to be spared the Joker's dadaist rage out...

[Paul Thek]

Nick Blinko...


who is Nick Blinko. I suppose I could just peer into the eye of Google to find this answer but, anyway...

What kind of work?

"If it's good enough to be spared the Joker's dadaist rage out..."

Is this a reference to the "Party Man" sequence in "Batman"...ha ha
I had a professor who played this sequence in an art history class once...
pretty funny stuff..."Hey Ducky, who put the 7 inch in the comptuer..."

[Miss Tasty Princess]

Nick Blinko...


who is Nick Blinko. I suppose I could just peer into the eye of Google to find this answer but, anyway...

What kind of work?Highly disturbing! He's a member of the UK punk band Rudimentary Peni. He's usually considered part of the Art Brut "movement" (I use quotes because art made in large part by mental patients, of which he has been one, could hardly be called a movement).

"If it's good enough to be spared the Joker's dadaist rage out..."

Is this a reference to the "Party Man" sequence in "Batman"...ha ha
I had a professor who played this sequence in an art history class once...
pretty funny stuff..."Hey Ducky, who put the 7 inch in the comptuer..."The one painting the Joker did not destroy at the art museum in Metropolis (in Tim Burton's version of Batman) was a Bacon. That was also the only bit in the whole movie that I enjoyed.

[Joseph]

I really dig this cat named Thomas Kinkade, the so-called "Painter of Light" -- dude paints light like a motherfucker. Check him out!

[Paul Thek]

ya, smartass.

[the Pawnbroker]

Velazquez.

The Munch exhibit at MOMA is also great.

[vesper]

the jenny holzer exhibit at the whitney is harrowing and exhausting. i highly, highly recommend it.