Pop Artists

okay, I'm starting this thread to post a little about the different cool artists out there that may or may not be Tiki. Is pop artists the right title? I'm not sure, I'm not a huge collector.

Anyway, I'll start off with a link to an artist a friend of mine recently turned me on to who has an amazingly simple style; very Mary Blair inspired, if you ask me:

Her name is Kristen Ulve.:

Gallery:
http://www.kirstenulve.com/gallery.html

Homepage:
http://www.kirstenulve.com

My favorite:
http://www.kirstenulve.com/gallery_pages/g1_alice.html

[ Edited by: hanford_lemoore on 2003-01-31 19:55 ]

Great topic!

I really like Liz Mcgrath's work:

http://www.lizmcgrath.com

My favorite is:
http://www.elizabethmcgrath.com/hula.html

because it combines hula and sideshow imagery -- two great tastes that taste great together!

And while we are on the subject, I would be remiss if I didn't mention Johnny Meah, the last living master sideshow banner artist. I helped him with his website, so there's a little self interest here, but if you dig sideshow stuff, you will really love the site:

http://www.czarofbizarre.com

-Mike

I dig "The Pizz"! His art is ultra low brow and can tend towards dark but in only a way that a brilliant run-a-muck brain can put forth. He's a good and interesting bro and he's a major tiki collector! He's got piles upon piles of tiki sketches - he's got renderings of an ultra funky hip tiki treehouse, complete with hidden entrances, a Moai garage door and all kinds o' cool sheit!
Holden

My favorite is Miles Thompson. Here is his site

http://www.kooch-e-koo.com/GALLERY/HTML/galleryindex.html

Here is my favorite..

http://www.kooch-e-koo.com/GALLERY/HTML/bay.html

I love the music on the site as well as the paintings!

I case no else has posted here is matto le d.

http://users.pandora.be/madpad/home.htm

After tiki I got into the art scene and started reading Juxtapoz.

Two artist's works that I like is Camille Rose @ http://www.camillerosegarcia.com/.

And maybe my favorite painter Jeff Soto @ http://jeffsoto.com
He use 50s SciFi and 70s porn. Cattuses, robots, and paint-rollors

Here's some I like:

http://www.dankrall.com/index.html

This is a really fun one - kids' drawings turned into paintings:
http://www.themonsterengine.com/art.html
(he has abook for sale that's really great)

And of course, there's nothing like The Folk Art of Buddy Ebsen:
http://www.buddyebsen.com/buddyart.htm

See? I told you there was nothing like it.

I like the art of Vladimir Kush. Coincidentally, I first discovered his work in an art gallery in Muai on my honeymoon.

http://www.vladimirkush.com/

Art Chantry : http://www.artchantry.com/store.html
Jeff Kleinsmith: http://www.patentpendingindustries.com/site/posters_galleries.php
Ed Fotheringham: http://www.users.uswest.net/~efotheringham/
and an obvious one, Coop: http://www.coopstuff.com/

--SBiM

Lance Boyle, now he was a pop artist.

I really like this guy Johnny Crap

[ Edited by: stuff-o-rama 2006-01-25 20:49 ]

Dave Warnke (aka DAVe)

http://www.davewarnke.com/

Dave Warnke is great! My wife actually surprised me with a messenger bag that features his artwork and it is awesome! I guess I'll add the only artist I know personally and his work isn't exactly "paint on canvas" but he's talented nonetheless...

http://www.sethciferri.com/tattoo.htm

Brandon Bird.

This guy is whact. I like this piece in particular because it doesn't resort to pop-referencing. Look at his galleries and you'll see what I'm talking about. They're hilarious, but not timeless... like "Bad Day on the High Sea" here.

http://www.brandonbird.com/

-Joe

I liked Lazy Sunday Afternoon. The Optical illusion painting above here and under my last post is truly amazing and thought provoking.

Hey 701 posts :)

Ragnar
http://www.littlecartoons.com/
Shane Glines
http://www.shaneglines.net/index.html
Tim Biskup
http://www.timbiskup.com/index.html
Pete Fowler
http://www.monsterism.net/

[ Edited by: Al-ii 2006-01-26 15:23 ]

Batty Cheese!

Rockin Jellybean!

-Randy

my friend just clued me in to his site

"I Asked for Scrambled"

"Me Play Joke"

Luke Chueh http://www.lukechueh.com

Nice thread.

[ Edited by: foamy 2006-01-29 11:46 ]

On 2006-01-25 23:58, cynfulcynner wrote:
Dave Warnke (aka DAVe)

http://www.davewarnke.com/

That Dave Warnke painting surprisingly reminds me of one of the paintings in The Museum Of Bad Art (MOBA) entitled "MORE!"

http://www.museumofbadart.org/collection/unseen-11.html

Why is the majority of this type of art dark? Dark, meaning: depressing, negative, scary, evil, etc., etc. Evidently, it sells great. It would depress me if I had to look at it on my wall every day.

I feel a similar reaction to a lot of art. Not just gallery-style art, but a lot of movies and other kinds of entertainment too. I always use the examples of Raging Bull and Leaving Las Vegas. Sure, there's a lot of intense passion and powerful emotions there, but I hate those movies because they're just not enjoyable (to me). Other folks are welcome to enjoy such stuff, but like you say foamy, I can't help wondering why!

BTW, back to the subject line, I'm sure a lot of people here are already familiar with Seonna Hong, but here's her site anyway. My wife and I love her Princess series from a couple years ago.

-Randy

aquarj, how'd you get that? That particular version was only up for a few minutes.

And I still want to know.

Seonna Hong's work is the antithesis. I think it's pretty nice. Super clean. Innocent. It makes ya feel good just seeing it.

[ Edited by: foamy 2006-02-02 19:08 ]

Kerry Horvath and Darth Rimmer: EVIL ICE CREAM
http://www.evilicecream.com/

10 points if anyone recognizes this...

The Bohemians

Were they rebels? Were they artists? Were they outcasts from society? They were all of these. They were The Bohemians.

These Bohemians, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Williams, and their seven children, Biff, Tina, Sparky, Louise, Tuffy, Mickey, and Biff Number Two, lived in a notorious artists' colony and planned community.

Naturally, the bohemians' existence thrived on creativity. Early in the morning, Mrs. Williams would rise and create breakfast. Then, Mr. Williams, inspired by his wife's limitless energy, would rush off to a special room and create tiny hairs in a sink. The children would create things, too. But being temperamental artists, they would often flush them away without a second thought.

But the bohemians' creativity didn't stop there. Mr. Williams would then rush downtown and create reams and reams of papers with numbers on them and send them out to other bohemians who would create special checks to send to him with figures like $7.27 written on them.

At home, the children would be creating unusual music, using only their voices to combine in avant-garde, atonal melodies.

Yes, these were the bohemians. A seething hot-bed of rebellion - the artists, the creators of all things that lie between good and bad.

-Randy

On 2003-02-01 08:07, tiki410 wrote:
I case no else has posted here is matto le d.

http://users.pandora.be/madpad/home.htm

Great thread!

I too like Belgian artist, Matto. Here's his new website and some samples of his work:

http://www.matto.be/

And what ever happened to artist Kaoru Iwasa? Did she disappear off the face of the earth?

Sabu