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Posted: 8/8/2007 12:48:17 PM | What Visual Artist have been the most influence on us as a Society. What Artist have made the western world stop and re think who we are or what we stand for. I believe that artist are often years ahead of social change . they not only reflect their current times. The best often are a precursor to the evolution of society.
I havea couple of artist in mind that i think changed how we think of art and how we view ourselves.
Van Gogh, may well have given us the the first real taste of " Modern Art." His work allow us to look at what art is in a new way. He fulfilled the Promise of the impressionist. He also allow that the expression of emotion and meaning were more important then the subject.
Another artist that brought out emotion in his work was Rodin. His work allow stone and bronze to breath and have emotion. Statues were no long lifeless figures that had death and emotion and passion. His subjects were not gods or larger then life heros. His subjects were people with feelings desires and questions. They did not direct us to heaven or to battle. They directed us to look at who we are as frail men and woman . needing love and desiring to understand our world.
Who are some of the others? | |
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Posted: 8/10/2007 6:03:10 AM | | so far this thread has been a bust. nobody has any opinions on some of the great painter sculptures or other artist of the last 100 years? | |
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Posted: 8/10/2007 7:32:00 AM | | i think architecs should be given a mension here as they have been a great influence over other artists, take gaudi for example he almost invented a whole theme (morrocan-ish) also that dude who designed that cathedral the beginning of gothisism. and still now in his new generatin people are still doing there shopin in halloween costumes. (mum say's this is pugin) i think shes just being rude. | |
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Posted: 8/20/2007 4:17:05 PM | Maybe its a bust because artist's really don't change the world. Artists reflect the world sometimes and occasionally comment.
Two contemporary artists spring to mind, Banksy and Damien Hirst. Banksy makes comment, though they generally aren't anything you haven't already heard. Hirst comes up with interesting stuff and perhaps reflects society. Lucien Freud? Van Gogh only influenced other artists as did Rodin.
I think perhaps art is too internal. Architecture maybe better at influencing society though not usually in the way it planned. | |
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Posted: 8/20/2007 7:11:06 PM | | My favorite is Claude Monet. He taught me to see the color in everything. :) | |
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Posted: 8/21/2007 7:04:02 AM | satsumo, couldn't agree with you more on that first line, beat me to it.
While I think Chuck Close kicks ass he certainly has not done anything to actually change society. | |
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Posted: 8/22/2007 3:31:47 PM | I don't think you look at the big picture. art does effect how we see ourselves and how we view the world around us. The visionary artist may be showing USA vision of the future that we just can't understand. Van gogh tok the promise of the impressionist and gave us the first visions of how art could be an emotional force. this is at the brink of when European society is starting to come to terms with it's own set of moral and emotional repressions. Were his raw bold painting a clue to a change in society? Was the work of Rodin a precursor to a new look at sexual morals and sexual repression? He also gave us the common man as an equal to the hero that was norm for sculpting of that time. The just became something alive. The kiss was shocking in it's time. To many it still is shocking. Here is a work of art that was about sexuality and sensuality.
Not every Artist, not every work of art is going to be an influence or a an arrow pointing at something new, or a predictor of a change. Most work is as you say a reflection of the Artist in his time. As a humble painter I am nowhere near the class of artist that will produce something that will last a 1000 years or more. | |
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Posted: 8/22/2007 5:10:26 PM | | Giotto is a very important painter in the development of the Italian Renaissance. He abandoned the medieval style of depicting people as stiff and idealized, and went for a more three-dimensional and realistic look. He was the first guy to try painting this way since Roman times, and got the next generations of artists painting more lifelike figures and experimenting with perspective, getting into all that other cool stuff we associate with Renaissance art. So Giotto might not be a household name or have a Ninja Turtle named for him, but he was pretty special. | |
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Posted: 8/2/2009 5:29:56 AM | Artists are influencial only when their interpretation,expression,vision of their reality has been understood by a majority of public.
The public can make a piece of work a success or a failure.
Some artist were not understood in their time.
Noone could relate to their images.It is only when time passes and changes take place ie;more tolerance to the unknown....that the piece of work acquires significance. | |
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Posted: 8/2/2009 9:29:45 AM | recently, i cut all the fur off of my dog and glued it onto a piece of paper in the shape of a cat, which i call margaret...
am i an artist?... | |
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Posted: 8/2/2009 10:26:19 AM | I think impressionism was to painting as rock 'n' roll was to music, and Van Gogh was to visual arts what The Beatles were to music. If that makes any sense.
More recently, I like Lucian Freud a lot. Is he legendary? I don't know. Takes some time and perspective to find that out. | |
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Posted: 8/2/2009 12:31:09 PM | ..its between Picasso and Da Vinci. Da Vinci was naughty when he designed that canal that flooded so he loses brownie points for integrity - Picasso was so driven, and very red blooded... Da Vinci painted more visually stunning images...Da Vinci (just) over Picasso | |
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Posted: 8/2/2009 12:53:58 PM | The Pre Raphaelite movement
Salvidor Dali
Carravagio
Jackson Pollack
Picasso
Alex Grey
Jean Michelle jarre
Michael Jackson
Pink Floyd
Jimi Hendrix
Elvis Presley
Pixar Animation
Judy Garland
Arnold Schwarzenegger | |
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Posted: 8/2/2009 5:22:06 PM | Keith Haring... Piet Mondrian... Andy Warhol... guys like Jasper Johns and Pollack... Man Ray... the directors of the French New Wave... Walt Disney... Not sure how we're defining "influential," but I see of derivations of their stuff in my every day life.
Citizen Kane, haven't confirmed this on my own, but supposedly it established a lot of today's most fundamental film conventions, so maybe add Orson Welles to the list. And while we're at it, D.W. Griffith, Eisenstein, and Fritz Lang. | |
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Posted: 8/3/2009 4:31:37 PM | Ah, Rodin--one of my favorite sculptors, in many ways. The rawness of his form evokes reality, in a sense. The rawness, to me, also evokes raw emotion, that is , in turn, reflected in his works. His daringness to be different draws me toward his pieces, and to who he must have been as an individual as well.
I believe that Picasso has influenced other artists in many ways, as well as being influenced by other artists, such as Cezanne (his late paintings), Toulouse-Lautrec's early works, which influenced his Blue Period, and so on. Picasso in turn influenced Braque and other Avant-Garde artists, as well as still affecting the current artists today.
His method of looking at African Masks, for instance, and transferring that into planar figural methods, which in turn progressed into cubism and anaytical cubism, and then into collage works, has influenced literally thousands and tens of thousands of artists.
There are too many to discuss. Artists influence each other in their current works (artists bouncing ideas off of each other ,etc.) as well as each group of respective artists, i.e., Impressionists, influencing the next group of artists, i.e., Post-Impressionists, and future artists.
Great post, Artz. I'm glad that someone dug it out of the pof forum vault. | |
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Posted: 11/4/2009 11:29:12 PM | | In my opinion... Van Eyck... he introduced self-portrait... Dürer too. | |
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Posted: 11/5/2009 8:13:32 AM | | Michelangelo. The first to bring comprehensive perspective and 3D graphical composition to the figurative genre. Michelangelo is the Bach of painting with far more advanced graphical compositions than Leonardo da Vinci or any since. | |
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Posted: 11/6/2009 4:46:18 PM | | I guess we should mention Hitchcock... Lynch... Welles... and Kubrick as well. | |
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Posted: 11/6/2009 9:39:25 PM | I miss satsumo, he had a pinpoint focus.
I'm going to go with George Lucas. | |
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Posted: 11/9/2009 6:32:27 PM | I am a visual artist but my thoughts on this at
the moment are of I M Pei, who I would consider
as a great visual artist thru his simplistic yet modern
forms and design. Millions have been influenced by his architecture
on a daily basis. I also selected him since he is in the current day.
His architecture will influence others, as well as simply
offer them a place of enjoyment, for centuries to
come. | |
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Posted: 11/11/2009 1:55:16 PM | me personaly the artist i feel has most influenced us is da vinci he was way ahead of his time, his understanding of form, indepth analysis of everything around him, knowlege of anatomy his ties with science, invention, design he incorporated so much into his work he really was a genius. im quite surprised no one has listed him, or maybe i missed it.
current artists i think that have an influence on me are giger, barbra kruger, tim burton, zladislaw beksinski and ray ceasar.
i find them all very inspiring, from my personal point of view. | |
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Posted: 11/11/2009 1:59:31 PM | oh id like to add as well all the leading artists from the renaisance without them would art have became what it is now?
they set the foundations i think for contemporary artists | |
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Posted: 11/12/2009 6:55:44 AM | Surely...filmmakers! Maybe it's because of the sheer mass-market distribution and penetration of their art, but filmmakers have certainly been influential visual artists on me.
Steven Spielberg, Ridley Scott, Robert Zemeckis, George Lucas, Martin Scorcese, David Lean, Alfred Hitchcock, David Lynch, Francis Ford Coppola... | |
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Posted: 11/12/2009 8:30:12 AM | | Artists that have influenced me are Bosch, Brugel, da Vinci, Raphael, Frazetta, and Dali. | |
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