Artist
People: actor - artist - author - director - musician - producer
Specimen: tortured artists
Garden of Earthly Delights (detail) - Bosch
List of visual artists
A - Marina Abramoviæ - Vito Acconci - Jacques Fabian Gautier d'Agoty - Laurie Anderson - Arcimboldo - B - Balthus - Matthew Barney - Jean Michel Basquiat - Aubrey Beardsley - Max Beckman - Vanessa Beecroft - Hans Bellmer - Richard Bernstein - Gilles Berquet - Fred Bervoets - Joseph Beuys - Guillaume Bijl - Arnold Böcklin - Hieronymus Bosch - Marcel Broodthaers - Brueghel - François Boucher - C - Rupert Carabin - Caravaggio - Pierre Cardin - Paul Chabas - Jake and Dinos Chapman - Lucas Cranach - Gustave Courbet - André Courrèges - John Currin - D - Salvador Dalí - Honoré Daumier - Eugène Delacroix - Luc Deleu - Wim Delvoye - Achille Devéria - Danny Devos - Otto Dix - Gustave Doré - Marcel Duchamp - Albrecht Dürer - E - James Ensor - Tracey Emin - Max Ernst - F - Jan Fabre - Eric Fischl - Henry Fuseli - Piero Fornasetti - G - Antoni Gaudí - Théodore Géricault - Jean-Léon Gérôme - H.R. Giger - Gilbert & George - Vincent van Gogh - Andy Goldsworthy - Francisco de Goya - Dan Graham - Grandville - Hans Baldung Grien - George Grosz - Matthias Grünewald - Brion Gysin - H - Richard Hamilton - Keith Haring - Raoul Hausmann - Damien Hirst - Hokusai - Jenny Holzer - I - Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres - J - Allen Jones - Frida Kahlo Yves Klein - Gustav Klimt - K - Mike Kelley - Jeff Koons - L - Jean-Jacques Lebel - Fernand Léger - Tamara de Lempicka - Roy Lichtenstein - Mirka Lugosi - M - René Magritte - Edouard Manet - Piero Manzoni - Marcel Mariën - Quentin Massys - Alessandro Mendini - Michelangelo - Claude Monet - Gustave Moreau - Otto Mühl - Pierre Molinier - Carlo Mollino - William Morris - Edvard Munch - N - Hermann Nitsch - O - Chris Ofili - Orlan - P - Panamarenko - Francis Picabia - Georges Pichard - Pablo Picasso - Giovanni Piranesi - Jackson Pollock - Jose Posada - R - Paco Rabanne - Marcantonio Raimondi - Man Ray - Paula Rego - Jamie Reid - Félicien Rops - Peter Paul Rubens - S - Andres Serrano - Egon Schiele - Cindy Sherman - Romain Slocombe - Robert Smithson - Hajime Sorayama - Eric Stanton - T - Roland Topor - Clovis Trouille - Tristan Tzara - Luc Tuymans - V - Leonardo da Vinci - W - Andy Warhol - James Whistler - John Willie - Z - Unica Zürnphotography: Helmut Newton - Nobuyoshi Araki - Cecil Beaton - Guy Bourdin - William Klein - David LaChapelle - Richard Kern - Eric Kroll - Bettina Rheims - Joel Peter Witkin
design: Luigi Colani - Joe Colombo - Gaetano Pesce - Ettore Sottsass -
architecture: Le Corbusier - Frank Gehry -
curator: Jan Hoet - Eduard Fuchs -
graphic design: Pedro Bell - Guido Crepax - Robert Crumb - Jean Giraud - Tanino Liberatore - Shusei Nagaoka Milo Manara - Jacques Tardi -
An A-Z of music people
A - Patrick Adams - Masami Akita - Steve Albini - Tony Allen - George Antheil - Juan Atkins - Roy Ayers - B - Afrika Bambaataa - LLoyd Barnes - Joe Bataan - Chris Blackwell - David Bowie - Glenn Branca - Johannes Brahms - James Brown - Donald Byrd - C - John Cage - Terry Callier - Candido - Manu Chao - Rhys Chatham - Joe Claussell - Ornette Coleman - Bootsy Collins - Stanley Cowell - Patrick Cowley - George Clinton - D - Claude Debussy - Manu Dibango - Sir Coxsone Dodd - Nick Drake - Sly Dunbar - E - Brian Eno - F- Grandmaster Flash - G - Francis Grasso - Serge Gainsbourg - Rudy Van Gelder - H - Herbie Hancock - Martin Hannet - Larry Heard - Jimi Hendrix - Kool Herc - Bernard Herrmann - Loleatta Holloway - J - Grace Jones - K - Frankie Knuckles - Kraftwerk - Fela Kuti - L - Patti Labelle - Bill Laswell - Larry Levan - John Lydon - M - David Mancuso - Bob Marley - Derrick May - Malcolm McLaren - Jeff Mills - Jackie Mittoo - Moodymann - Moondog - Marc Moulin - Tom Moulton - Giorgio Moroder - N - Milton Nascimiento - Michael Nyman - O - Olatunji - Yoko Ono - John Oswald - Genesis P-Orridge - P - Augustus Pablo - Richard Pinhas - Theo Parrish Lee Perry - Elvis Presley - R - Duke Reid - Sylvia Robinson - Arthur Russell - Luigi Russolo - S - Pharoah Sanders - Pierre Schaeffer - Scientist - Arnold Schoenberg - Tee Scott - Adrian Sherwood - DJ Spooky - Karlheinz Stockhausen - Richard Strauss - Igor Stravinsky - Sun Ra - Sylvester - T - Leon Thomas - Linval Thompson - King Tubby - Edgar Varèse - W - Tony Wilson - Doug Wimbish - Z - Frank Zappa - Peter Zummo
Definition
An artist is someone who employs creative talent to produce works of art. The term may be used in connection with any career, often a branch of the arts—for example music, literature, and theatre—most commonly it refers to an individual who practises the visual arts or fine arts.
An artist will often specialise in a particular medium. --http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artist [Feb 2005]
Wikipedia taxonomy of artists
This is a list of lists of artists.
- List of artists by nationality
- List of contemporary artists
- List of furniture designers
- List of graphic designers
- List of illustrators
- List of modern artists
- List of musicians by genre
- List of painters
- List of photographers
- List of sculptors
Genius [...]
A genius is a person imbued with distinguished mental prowess. This can manifest either as a foremost intellect, or as an outstanding creative talent. The term also applies to one who is a polymath, or someone skilled in many mental areas. The term does specifically apply to mental rather than athletic skills, although it is also used to denote the possession of a superior talent in any field; e.g., one may be said to have a genius for golf or for diplomacy. --http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genius [Apr 2005]
Creativity [...]
We can define creativity as innovation, particularly in artistic endeavours and writing. Much praised in principle, much derided in fact, creativity serves as a refuge for the outsider with imagination. Some of the ambivalent attitude to creativity may stem from seeing the creative process as parallelling or suggesting the ingesting of drugs, or simply viewing it as eccentric behavior that is outside of the mainstream.
The word "creativity" bears an implication of constructing a novelty without constituent components ex nihilo, as opposed to (say) alternative theories of artistic inspiration which posit the generation of visions from divine sources such as the Muses.
Creativity is not limited to the art and design realm, however. Problem solving in general may require a creative mind. Lawyers, accountants, people in sales, and others are often more highly valued if they are able to use a creative approach to their work.--http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creativity [2004]
The DJ as an artist
A phenomenon in the music community (but primarily within the sphere of popular music) is DJs who are not simply "playing records" but are in fact creating new music out of the playback and mixing of pre-recorded media. Begun and developed in Jamaica in the 1960s by such influential DJs as Count Matchukie, King Stitts and U-Roy working with some of the most innovative sound recording engineers of the century including Coxsone, King Tubby, and the legendary Lee "Scratch" Perry, the DJs employ various techniques as phrasing, sampling, scratching, the application of effects (e.g., delay, flanging, etc.), but most importantly, they speak or toast or rap over the music. In effect they are developing an aural montage that may be spontaneous/improvised or carefully crafted. This movement is dubbed turntablism. There are parallels in surrealism and the visual arts. --http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disc_jockey [Feb 2005]History of literature in 90 people (400BC - 2004) [...]
From Aristophanes to Bret Easton Ellis, click the next buttons to see the presentation.Film directors [...]
By date of birth Thomas Edison - Georges Méliès - Louis Feuillade - Robert Wiene - Cecil B. DeMille - Erich von Stroheim - Abel Gance - Jean Cocteau - Fritz Lang - Jean Renoir - Dziga Vertov - Sergei Eisenstein - Alfred Hitchcock - Oskar Fischinger - Luis Buñuel - Leni Riefenstahl - Luchino Visconti - Kroger Babb - Robert Bresson - Jacques Tati - Riccardo Freda - Akira Kurosawa - Georges Franju - Mario Bava - Orson Welles - Maya Deren - Ingmar Bergman - Gualtiero Jacopetti - Federico Fellini - Chris Marker - Joe Sarno - Pier Paolo Pasolini - Russ Meyer - Alain Resnais - José Bénazéraf - Walerian Borowczyk - Yasuzo Masumura - Max Pécas - Roger Corman - Ken Russell - Stanley Kubrick - Nicolas Roeg - Roger Vadim - Jacques Rivette - Radley Metzger - Alexandro Jodorowsky - José Ramón Larraz - Jess Franco - Claude Chabrol - Kenneth Anger - Dusan Makavejev - Nagisa Oshima - François Truffaut - Fernando Arrabal - Jack Smith - Stan Brakhage - Tinto Brass - Roman Polanski - Juzo Itami - Donald Cammell - Jan Svankmajer - Woody Allen - Koji Wakamatsu - Bertrand Blier - Peter Bogdanovich - Bernardo Bertolucci - Just Jaeckin - George Romero - Larry Cohen - Barbet Schroeder - Krzysztof Kieslowski - Michael Haneke - Peter Greenaway - Werner Herzog - Derek Jarman - Martin Scorcese - David Cronenberg - Larry Clark - Jonathan Demme - Rainer Werner Fassbinder - Wim Wenders - David Lynch - John Waters - Joe Dante - Patrice Leconte - Brothers Quay - Catherine Breillat - John Carpenter - Pedro Almodóvar - John Sayles - Abel Ferrara - Alex van Warmerdam - Gus Van Sant - Alex Cox - Coen Brothers - Jane Campion - James Cameron - Lars von Trier - Spike Lee - Tim Burton - Takashi Miike - Todd Haynes - Michael Winterbottom - Gaspar Noé - Quentin Tarantino - François Ozon - P.T. Anderson - Christopher Nolan [Apr 2005]
History of the visual arts in 80 people (1500s - 2004) [...]
From Bosch to David LaChapelle, click the next buttons to see the presentation.History of modern music in 40 people (1800s - 2004) [...]
From Brahms to Kenny Dixon Jr., click the next buttons to see the presentation.Author [...]
Major Artists and Theorists of the Grotesque
See entries for Philip Thomson and David Lavery