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Who means the most to you through their artistic/creative endeavours? Any medium.

No surprise as to mine:

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Posted : 04/05/2011 11:57 am
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that's Andy Capp isn't it?


 
Posted : 04/05/2011 11:58 am
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He looks like a tramp.


 
Posted : 04/05/2011 11:59 am
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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.


 
Posted : 04/05/2011 12:06 pm
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As for the other 2, I pity you 😉

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


 
Posted : 04/05/2011 12:10 pm
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Dali
Mozart
SBZ


 
Posted : 04/05/2011 12:11 pm
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Van Go
fourcrossjohn


 
Posted : 04/05/2011 12:11 pm
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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.


 
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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.


 
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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.


 
Posted : 04/05/2011 12:21 pm
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50,000 Fall fans can't be wrong - or can they?

Picasso init?


 
Posted : 04/05/2011 12:23 pm
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I wanted to name my son Django, but strangely it was vetoed by my wife.


 
Posted : 04/05/2011 12:24 pm
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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.


 
Posted : 04/05/2011 12:29 pm
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No surprise as to mine:

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


 
Posted : 04/05/2011 12:31 pm
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Not sure I'd call Alex Higgins an artist tbh

As a piss artist, there were few finer.


 
Posted : 04/05/2011 12:33 pm
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Probably as well, you'd have had a Fett worse than death.

Not Jango, Django.


 
Posted : 04/05/2011 12:39 pm
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You would have got a Reinhardt time about it from the wife though.

Sorry. 😳


 
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JWM Turner
John Coltrane


 
Posted : 04/05/2011 12:43 pm
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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


 
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Mulligan and O'hare...Thread Closed

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Posted : 04/05/2011 1:06 pm
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Posted : 04/05/2011 1:18 pm
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You would have got a Reinhardt time about it from the wife though.

*high five*


 
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Banksy


 
Posted : 04/05/2011 9:29 pm
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Gary Glitter.


 
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me


 
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Dali was rubbish.

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


 
Posted : 04/05/2011 9:36 pm
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Who is that DezB?


 
Posted : 04/05/2011 9:38 pm
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Who is that DezB?

He sells car insurance...


 
Posted : 04/05/2011 9:39 pm
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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


 
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Iggy Pop.

But these days he sells car insurance.


 
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