Artists I Like
(Listmaking is totally a creative exercise, right? Right? If that’s true then this is the longest running creative exercise I’ve ever indulged in lol)
Gerda Wegener - fashion & lesbian art nouveau/deco
Harry Watrous - enigmatic paintings of sophisticated women
Helen Frankenthaler - abstract expressionist paintings
Sergio Toppi - italian illustrations & comics
Dan Hillier - contemporary spooky angelic ink/print/collage
Mike Binge - 70s sci fi art
Gustave Dore - highly detailed wood-engravings prints, dante
Paul César Helleu - numerous portraits of beautiful society women
Roberto Ferri - making the old masters cool again
Gustav Vigeland - weird figure sculptures
NC Wyeth - one of america’s greatest illustrators
Andrew Wyeth - melancholy realism painter
Frank Frazetta - best fantasy & pulp artist
John Buscema - conan comics artist
Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez - wonder woman comics artist
Parker Hagarty - landscapes & figures
Henry Patrick Raleigh - star of golden age of illustration, high society drawings
Paul Lehr - 70s future-fantasy pulp illustrations
Stanley Meltzoff - 50s scifi/pulp cover illustrations
Alphonse Mucha - art nouveau
Kawase Hasui - japanese woodblock prints
Edmund Dulac - delicate detailed book illustrations
Makoto Takahashi - vintage shoujo manga
Harry Clarke - super detailed & dark art nouveau/deco illustrations
Sophie Lecuyer - contemporary spooky illustrations
Wassily Kandinsky - abstract geometry
George F. Kerr - book illustrations
Beatrix Potter - book illustrations
Mary Bauermeister - eclectic sculptures & drawings - geomancy
John William Waterhouse - Pre-Raphaelite paintings
Alexandre de Riquer - gorgeous mucha-esque posters & illustrations
Gianpaolo Pagni - patterned graphic designs
Giovanni Boldini - dynamic paintings/portraits, “Master of Swish”
Erté - art deco fashion ladies (new orleans!)
Cicely Mary Barker - fairy illustrations
Dorothy P. Lathrop - beautiful childrens book black n white illustrations
Kay Nielsen - glittering golden age illustrations
Coles Phillips - “fadeaway girl” golden age illustrations
Gustav Klimt - gold 💋
Koloman Moser - patterned art nouveau
Konstantin Tarasov - contemporary colorful & detailed digital drawings
Carlo Dolci - soft & dramatic chiaroscuro baroque religious portraits
Trung Le Nguyen aka Trungles - deviantart digital artist, colorful golden age mixed with anime illustrations
John Everett Millais - Pre-Raphaelite paintings
Arthur Rackham - English golden age illustrations, muted colors
Syd Mead - industrial & sci fi concept art
Mario Garbuglia - Barbarella set design
Henri Patrice Dillon - dreamy fadeaway muted illustrations/paintings
Frantisek Kupka - later Czech painter who began in representational art and evolved into pure abstraction
John Bauer - classic nordic fairy tale/myth illustrations
Aya Takano - superflat/anime but make it fine art
John Singer Sargent - heavenly portraits
Winslow Homer - masculine largely marine landscapes
George Barbier - art deco illustrations
Edward Okuń - polish art nouveau & symbolist painter
Robert Anning Bell - paintings & illustrations
Thomas Cooper Gotch - sorta preraphaelite paintings, portraits of girls
Jules Chéret - colorful french posters
Kaarina Kaila - dreamy soft children’s illustrations (almost kitsch)
Helen Hyde - japanese woodblock prints but actually they’re american
Melchior Lechter - paintings and book designs. “His hieratic, symbolic, decorative style combined gothic elements with art nouveau”
Jan Mankes - gentle unlined dutch paintings
Amrita Sher-Gil - contemporary indian paintings, mostly of woc
Sydney Long - australian watercolor landscapes
Carlos Schwabe - freaky religious/mythological symbolist paintings
Bob Pepper - groovy 60s-80s pulp illustrations
Frank R. Paul - scifi illustrations
Chéri Hérouard - La Vie Parisienne french illustrations
John Berkey - scifi illustrations/concept art
Aubrey Beardsley - fin de siecle black and white illustrations
Charles Caryl Coleman - pretty still lifes & landscapes, flowers & capri
Erich Schutz - Austrian illustrator of children's books, Schutz was influenced by Art Nouveau, and specialised in painting fairies and mermaids
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec - French painter, printmaker, caricaturist and illustrator
Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale - lush detailed paintings of richly dressed figures and scenes
Anne Claude de Caylus - not sure if he actually made them but print illustrations of peasantfolk
Friedrich König - Austrian prints & paintings, Klimt contemporary
Georges Barbier - french illustrations like erté
Betty Jiang - contemporary pretty pearly & dark digital art
Stephan Sinding - marble sculptures of lovers
Heikala - contemporary soft & sweet watercolor & ink illustrations anime inspired
Paul-Albert Besnard - french prints & paintings in between academic & impressionist
Henry Ossawa Tanner - biblical realism paintings
Norman Lindsay - etchings with lotsa great figures
Michael O’Toole - colorful landscapes
Caspar David Friedrich - moody Romantic paintings
Gian Lorenzo Bernini - iconic baroque marble sculptures
Francois Schuiten - french detailed architecture comic art
Adrienne Gaha - colorful contemporary half-abstract paintings
Tradd Moore - trippy silver surfer comic art
tono/rt0no (on tumblr) - super cute illustrations of victorian cats ;-;
Nanaco Yashiro - pretty colorful contemporary illustrations
Ramiro Sanchez - contemporary traditional painter, director of painting program at Florence Academy of Art
Isabella Fassler - contemporary colorful illustrations
Florence Harrison - art nouveau childrens book fairy tale illustrations
Shahzia Sikander - contemporary Pakistani-American visual artist
Atelier Heinrichs - trippy colorful collage covers for sci fi pulps
John Macallan Swan - pretty kitties
JC Leyendecker - our fave dapper gents
Frederick Sandys - pre raphaelite paintings
Stepan Kolesnikov - realist yet stylized russian paintings
Okumi Iyo - embroidered illustrations
William Henry Barribal - colorful art deco paintings
Ilya Glazunov - russian historical/orthodox paintings in the time of communism
Igor Karash - spooky illustrations
Daud Ahkriev - his drawings of fishermen
Seiichi Hayashi - pretty, contemporary japanese manga & illustrations ft women
Nola (nolawon.art) - pretty, detailed takashi murakami-esque illustrations
Harrison Fisher - classic american illustrator, pretty women
John Austen - gorgeous black n white detailed hamlet illustrations
Gustave Moreau - fantastical & aesthetic french paintings admired by proust
Ceri Richards - welsh abstract paintings of people indoors
Otto Mueller - highly textured angular colorful paintings with bold lines
Henri Privat-Livemont - Art Nouveau posters
Giovanni di Paolo - prolific painter and illustrator of manuscripts, including Dante's texts
Ben Reeves - contemporary painter, moody & blue-heavy collages of colors
Alex Niño - amazing abstracted comic artist
Ludovic Alleaume - dreamy french paintings
Yoshiko Fukushima - unsettling figures with strange colors, superflat paintings
Zinaida Serebriakova - kind realistic russian paintings of pretty women and children
Harold Robert Millar (H.R. Millar) - famous Scottish graphic artist and illustrator of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
Alice Marshall - delicate illustrations of fairies on black background
Stanislaw Kamocki - colorful Polish landscape paintings
Bertha Lum - American version of Japanese woodblock prints
Raphael Kirchner - art deco fashion illustrations
Tamara de Lempicka - highly stylized art deco portraits of ladies, polish
Phil Greenwood - bright pop-y floral landscapes
Rose Cecil O'Neill - vintage illustrations & cartoons
John Rush - great use of color in figure drawings
Jean Delville - otherworldly paintings
Paul-albert Besnard - monochromatic prints
Helene Schjerfbeck - modernist subtle portraits
Heinrich Lefler - beautiful detailed narrative paintings/illustrations
Maximilian Liebenwein - art nouveau illustrations
Franklin Booth - detailed pen and ink drawings
Ulla Thynell - dreamy contemporary illustrations
Jun'ichi Nakahara - japanese graphic artist, early manga
K.F.E. von Freyhold - playful German book illustrations
Beth Billups - contemporary abstract painter
William McGregor Paxton - interior scenes of woman like Henry James depicts them
Ida Rentoul Outhwaite - Australian illustrator of children's books. Her work mostly depicted fairies
Ernest Biéler - Swiss painter, draughtsman and printmaker
Junko Ogawa (@junk_junk_junk on ig) - surreal anime style drawings
Marianne Stokes - Austrian painter, one of the leading women artists in Victorian England
Lee Mullican - abstract paintings
Rae Klein - creepy surreal paintings
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