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(Cross-pollinating from Facebook...)

The Rules:  Don't take too long to think about it.  Fifteen Artists who've influenced you and that will ALWAYS STICK WITH YOU.  List the first fifteen you can recall in no more than fifteen minutes. 

1. Julia Margaret Cameron, 19th century photographer.  Particularly known for portraits of women including Julia Duckworth, mother of Virgina Woolf, and Alice Lidell (of Wonderland fame) as Pomona. Also did one of Tennyson as King Arthur.

2. David Mack. Contemporary comics guy; many cool Daredevil covers.

3. Neal Adams. drew Batman & Green Arrow in the 70s, which are the comics that stick with me the most.

4. Sandro Botticelli

5. Gustav Klimt

6. Francois Schuiten, Belgian comics artist who did/is doing the "Cities of the Fantastic" books.

7. Maurice Sendak

8. N. C. Wyeth, book illustrator who was the father of Andrew Wyeth

9. Henry J. Ford, illustrator of many of the Andrew Lang fairy tale books

10. J. C.  Leyendecker, advertising artist of the 1920s

11. Rebecca Guay, contemporary illustrator--has done some comics and Magic:TG cards

12. Gail Potocki, contemporary symbolist painter

13. Edmund Dulac, 19th c illustrator, particularly of fairy tales

14. Frank R. Paul, early 20th c Science Fiction illustrator

15. Margaret Brundage, who did covers for Weird Tales in the 30s


Date: 2010-09-26 02:21 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] browngirl.livejournal.com
Am I allowed to include fanartists? :)

Date: 2010-09-26 05:44 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] marydell.livejournal.com
Totally! Links would be cool if they're not googlable :)

Date: 2010-09-26 03:36 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] unhappytriad.livejournal.com
1. John Singer Sargent
2. J.M.W. Turner
3. Maurice Sendak
4. The anonymous creator of King Tutankhamen's inner mask (the solid gold one)
5. Albrecht Durer
6. Margaret Bourke-White
7. Berthe Morisot
8. Ando Hiroshige
9. Hayao Miyazaki
10. Rembrandt van Rijn
11. the art team for "Wall-E"
12. the art team for "Avatar: The Last Airbender" (the original)
13. Charles Mikolaycak
14. Jerry Pinkney
15. Childe Hassam

Date: 2010-09-27 04:28 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] real-gone-girl.livejournal.com
you had a treasury of the great children's book illustrators!

my parents had that book, & it definitely influenced my life path. i want to get it again, for my house.

Date: 2010-09-27 11:23 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] marydell.livejournal.com
I actually didn't, although I have one or two now. My parents were born in 1927 so I grew up with a lot of their books...really cool stuff. I have a few, still, that I'm working on scanning bits of.

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