Greatest Studio Artists

[Rokin]

I like a lot of artists but some of my favorites are:

Richard Diebenkorn
Giorgio Morandi
Mark Rothko
Ad Reinhardt
Jackson Pollack
Hiroshige

 

[Slinky Bender]

Anyone on any Steely Dan album.

 

[mitchmaxx]

That mokey that fooled everybody was pretty good as well...LOL, art, well abstract art anyway, is something that I just don't care for... some tool telling me that a black cicle in the middle of a white canvass is a tortured soul looking for its freedom, well, ti each his own...

 

[iusedtobeone1]

ohhh yes....

Anyone on any Steely Dan album.

You got that one right.... Donald Fagan only uses the finest studio musicians available. He is a perfecectionist. I have seem some studio sessions where Mr. Fagan made a drummer do a take 10 times cause he felt he wasn't hitting the hi-hats hard enough.

 

[horatio]

Steve Gadd did Aja in two takes.

 

[thevenerablebede]

Francisco de Goya
John Mallord William Turner
Philip Guston

 

[Rokin]

Francisco de Goya
John Mallord William Turner
Philip Guston

Great taste.
All three are great.

 

[thevenerablebede]

The first time I saw Goya's "Black Paintings" at the Prado I was floored. Couldn't believe they are kept in the basement. The Turner Museum in London is a stop on every trip to the UK (as is the Imperial War Museum).

 

[Rokin]

Turner's skies are amazing. El Greco (his amazing skies) and Velasquez (vibrant brush work) were also both way ahead of their times.
Since a few people mentioned illustrators, you have to mention Frank Frazetta. Cable had a doumentary on about him. Amazing artist.

 

[Mr. Wet Wooly]

Cezanne
Max Ernst
Picasso
Basquiat (only because I grew up in NYC and he was the one of the first painters of my generation I could relate to)