Post Visual Art That You Have Always Enjoyed Or That You Have Just Discovered

Nikolai Lutohin, a Yugoslavia born Russian surrealist

^the first picture somehow made me think of this picture by Andreas Feininger:

Other work:

Yayoi Kusama

https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/john-martin-and-the-theatre-of-subversion

John Martin

Came across his music last year (yeah, I live under a rock). Now checking out his artwork. It's pretty cool:

The second, black and white, image is from a book of his called The Art of Computer Designing that you can flip through in full on the Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/satoArtOfComputerDesigning/page/n119/mode/2up).

Brent Wong

https://maalavidaa.com/

this has to be the coolest image i've ever seen 

the title is "jesus lizard holidays" which is borderline genius

this right here is exactly the kind of geogaddi stuff that fuzzes in front of my eyes when i'm half asleep:

Remedios Varo

https://www.beeple-crap.com/everydays

  On 3/8/2021 at 4:36 PM, bronchuseven said:

Remedios Varo

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I discovered her after reading about "Embroidering the Earth's Mantle" in The Crying of Lot 49

Edit:  This is the one

Felix Vallotton (1865 - 1925)

https://www.wikiart.org/en/felix-vallotton

impressive .. going through the whole modernism catalogue ..

"Scornful Man" (Grace Tumey 4/73) and "Stalagmitic Stagnation #1" (Grace Tumey 4/74)

Giovanni Boldini (1842 - 1931)

wonderful slightly-over-the-top realism. he also did that famous verdi portrait

Arthur Rackham (1867-1939)

  On 5/10/2021 at 8:22 AM, yekker said:

Arthur Rackham (1867-1939)

 

 

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Rackham had a huge influence on me as a child - my Dad had a coffee table book with some of his illustrations and I would stare at it constantly. His depictions of trees and cats have never been surpassed.

Hiroshi Nagai (b. 1947) - Believe it or not, they're paintings!

Quick edit: A lot of them have been squished to different aspect ratios by the forum so click on them to get the right proportions.

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Those are great

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  On 5/10/2021 at 4:07 PM, bronchuseven said:

Rackham had a huge influence on me as a child - my Dad had a coffee table book with some of his illustrations and I would stare at it constantly. His depictions of trees and cats have never been surpassed.

I think I might have that book. There's not many out there that I'm aware of. It's a hardcover biography with drawings? Have you heard of Brian Froud? He's a great fantasy artist. Oh and I also grew up with the GNOMES book but I forget that guys name.