Inspirational artists - What makes me tick!!

My Inspirational Artists

The 'design world' is full of inspiration and visual treats! From typographers, photographers, artists and designers here are a selection of my favourite artists, these incredibly talented and creative people have inspired and pulled at my creative heart strings since i first realised my passion for design. Let us know what you think and who your favourite artists are...



Wassily Kandinsky (16 December 1866 – 13 December 1944), was a Russian painter, and art theorist. He is credited with painting of the first purely abstract works.

"Colour is the keyboard, the eyes are the harmonies, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another, to cause vibrations in the soul."


Banksy is an anonymous English graffiti artist, political activist, film director and painter. He began as a freehand graffiti artist 1992–1994. He was inspired by local artists and his work was part of the larger Bristol underground scene.

Banksy's stencils feature striking and humorous images occasionally combined with slogans. The message is usually anti-war, anti-capitalist or anti-establishment. Subjects often include rats, apes, policemen, soldiers, children, and the elderly.

Georgia O'keeffe (Nov 15 1887 – March 6 1986), was an American artist.
She was mainly recognised for paintings of flowers, rocks, shells, animal bones, and landscapes in which she synthesized abstraction and representation.

Her paintings present crisply contoured forms that are replete with subtle tonal transitions of varying colors.



Warhol (August 6 1928 – February 22 1987), was an American painter, printmaker, and filmmaker who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. The highest price ever paid for a Warhol painting is $100 million for a 1963 canvas titled Eight Elvises.


 



Mark Rothko (Sept 25, 1903 – Feb 25 1970), was a Latvian-born American painter. He is classified as an abstract expressionist, although he himself rejected this label, and even resisted classification as an "abstract painter".

"We favor the simple expression of the complex thought. We are for the large shape because it has the impact of the unequivocal. We wish to reassert the picture plane. We are for flat forms because they destroy illusion and reveal truth."




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