[Closed] Greatest artist - living or dead

that's Andy Capp isn't it?

He looks like a tramp.

All good art artists look like tramps or like they've escaped from the loony bin. Having a screw loose is clearly a pre-requisite for creating awesome art.

Blake is my personal favourite.

As for the other 2, I pity you 😉

Wasn't Blake was a character in a scifi TV series ❓

Dali
Mozart
SBZ

Van Go
fourcrossjohn

Beethoven. In our times where the term genius is routinely thrown around this man IMO was a true genius. The fact that not only did he create some of the most beautiful music i have ever heard but that he did a lot of it whilst being profoundly deaf never ceases to amaze me.

There are many great artists; but no greatest.

Django Reinhardt, with Stephane Grappelli right behind him, is, for me, a musical epitome. His expression was sublime, perhaps perfect, and it reflected a passion, freedom and joythat is, curiously, a rarity in music. I have to include Grappelli as he flowed in such a similar vein; but, by his own admission, he did so because of the freedom given to him, and learned, from his relationship with Django.

Goya, Picasso, Michel Majerus, Jenny Holzer, Friedhard Kiekeben and Armin Mersmann have had the biggest influence on my own art. It's impossible to identify with just one as a favorate.

50,000 Fall fans can't be wrong - or can they?

Picasso init?

I wanted to name my son Django, but strangely it was vetoed by my wife.

I wanted to name my son Django, but strangely it was vetoed by my wife.

Probably as well, you'd have had a Fett worse than death.

No surprise as to mine:

Not sure I'd call Alex Higgins an artist tbh - I mean he was pretty good at snooker but....

Not sure I'd call Alex Higgins an artist tbh

As a piss artist, there were few finer.

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Probably as well, you'd have had a Fett worse than death.

Not Jango, Django.

You would have got a Reinhardt time about it from the wife though.

Sorry. 😳

JWM Turner
John Coltrane

samuri - There's a Blake exhibition on at the little gallery in Ramsbottom at the moment? Recent silk screen prints and (of course) collage.

Its very very good. Well worth a look. I love the images of ripped up cigarette packets. I really really want one. Prices start at about £500. Should one fancy flexing ones credit card

Mulligan and O'hare...Thread Closed

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You would have got a Reinhardt time about it from the wife though.

*high five*

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Banksy

Gary Glitter.

me

Dali was rubbish.

Binners + 1 - Rothko is ridic (as was Pollock).

Who is that DezB?

Who is that DezB?

He sells car insurance...

I wouldn't want to single out one single soul, but whoever penned the hills and the valleys of this fair isle* gets my vote
*especially Yorkshire

Iggy Pop.

But these days he sells car insurance.