Famous Artists

[Mike Jackson]

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Famous Artists Posted by Janette Balogh on November 29, 2001

Name a couple of your favourite artists, and why.

I have quite a few artist's styles that I like.
I'll name a couple here that are quite different from each other. Still, both have the human element in common.

My all time fav has got to be Norman Rockwell. His
work really reaches out and touches me. The expressions and feelings conveyed in his work just zoom straight for the heart of humanity.

I also really like Mary Englebriet's stuff. Just plain makes me smile! Not only do I like the words she chooses to illustrate, but I like how she does it.

I have a Wyeth print in my bedroom called "Master Bedroom" that always makes me feel good when I look at it. A dog sleeping on a bed. Very peaceful.

How 'bout you guys?
Janette

Posted by Mike Jackson on November 29, 2001

We buy quite a few of Mary Englebriet's books. We say it is for the kids, but....

Two of my all time favorites are:

Charles Leyendecker: the Arrow shirt man. Great use of light, strong brush strokes that remind me of the golden age of billboard art, both fun and serious subject matter.

NC Wyeth: Great colors, great layouts, notsalgic themes.

Better not forget Alphonse Mucha: Art Noveau master from the turn of the century.

I also like most of the line art done by a guy contracting with Dynamic Graphics...I think his name is something like Fazetta, but you never really see his name associated with it. That guy is really creative.

Mike Jackson

Posted by Carol on November 29, 2001

That artist at Dynamic Graphics is identifible by the F in a square that is always somewhere in his work. When I've used his clip art I've always been careful to put the F in - not to overlook it.

Rien Poortvliet is a wonderful illustrator. I think I have all of his books (except the Gnomes). He has a great little alphabet book for kids.

Posted by Rick Sacks on December 02, 2001

I always enjoy the books lettered and illustrated by Eric Sloan. Eric wrote about early Americana. He did books about early carved tools and furniture and barns. He presented the practicle side of the history that is easy to fall in love with. He also grew up under the influence of his neighbor that was always painting a letter on an large shocard and going up to the ens of the driveway and squinting at it then returning to make changes in the letter and repeat the process before moving to the next letter. What would your life be like growing up next door to Goudy?

Posted by Raymond Chapman on December 03, 2001

Janette, just like you, one of my favorites has to be Norman Rockwell and started collecting his books long before he died. I have a very rare edition of his autobiography still in the original slipcase. About 40 years ago he was in Houston to dedicate a painting he had done for a bank and I tried to see him, but there was such a crowd that I never got close enough to catch even a glimpse.

Some of my favorite art is Western, so Russell and Remington would have to be in there somewhere. Wyeth (both of them) did some tremendous work and put so much feeling into a painting.

Most of my heroes would be classified as illustrators by today's standard, but I really admire the realistic works rather than the loose, impressionistic stuff.