Who Inspires Me?

I am creating this post as cumulative running collection of all the people who have inspired my work over the years. Most of the Artist on this list are Modern/ Contemporary Artists that are alive and still producing work. I have included descriptions and links to their social medias (if it applies) or other appropriate resources, so that you can support them as well. I hope this list inspires you to create the way it inspires me. The list is in no particular order, it is not a ranking, just a list of inspirational people i think you should look into.

Lets Begin!

Annie Frances Lee

An American artist born in 1935. She is known for her depiction of African-American everyday life. Her work is characterized by images without facial features. She used body language to show emotion and expression in her work.

Petra Collins

A Canadian and Hungarian artist, director of photography, fashion model and actress who rose to prominence in the early 2010s. Her photography is characterized by a feminine, dreamlike feel, informed in part by a female gaze approach.

Frida Kahlo

a celebrated Mexican painter known for her self-portraits, portraits, and works inspired by Mexican nature and artifacts. Her work, influenced by Mexican folk art, Surrealism, and Realism, often explored themes of identity, pain, and resilience.

Nadia Lee Cohen

A British photographer, filmmaker, and artist who works across fashion, music, and film. Her work is known for its surreal, saturated dreamscapes and campy cinematography, inspired by 1960s–1970s Americana and Britain.

Sasha Gordon

An American figurative painter who lives and works in New York City. She is known for hyper-realistic self-portraits set within surreal narratives and uncanny scenes.

Bruce Pennington

A British painter, best known for his science fiction and fantasy novel cover art.

Tamara de Lempika

A Polish painter who spent her working life in France and the United States. She is best known for her polished Art Deco portraits of aristocrats and the wealthy, and for her highly stylized paintings of nudes

George Grosz

A German artist known especially for his caricatural drawings and paintings of Berlin life in the 1920s. He was a prominent member of the Berlin Dada and New Objectivity groups.

Walter Ufer

an American artist based in Taos, New Mexico. His most notable work focuses on scenes of Native American life, particularly of the Pueblo Indians.

Allen Anderson

Born January 31, 1908 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.He moved to New York City in 1940 and painted covers for pulp magazine published by Ace Magazines, Fiction House, Harry Donenfeld, and Martin Goodman.

Rafael Desoto

Click the link for his biography. He is a pulp artist with an interesting backstory!

Lawrence Alma Tadema

A painter of mostly classical subjects, he became famous for his depictions of the luxury and decadence of the Roman Empire.

Henri Laurens

a French sculptor and illustrator.

Margeret Keane

an American artist known for her paintings of subjects with big eyes. She mainly painted women, children, or animals in oil or mixed media. The work achieved commercial success through inexpensive reproductions on prints, plates, and cups.

Charles White

Born in Chicago just after the First World War. Charles White’s Social Realism in his signature style of muted tones of black and white, sepia, and rich tonalities of reds and browns, had won critical notice in museums and galleries in the United States and abroad.

Mickalene Thomas

an African-American contemporary visual artist best known as a painter of complex works using rhinestones, acrylic, and enamel.

Enrico Robusti

Born in Parma,Italy in 1956. After completing a classical studies diploma and a degree in Law, he dedicated himself to the study of the pictorial technique, with particular reference to the seventeenth century school of van Dick and Rubens.

James Jean

A Taiwanese-American artist based in Los Angeles who works in painting, printmaking, and drawing.His work is known for its intricate detail, rich colors, and surreal, fantastical style.

Logan Sylve

An American Artist Born in 1995, in New Orleans, LA. HE is a New York-based American contemporary painter and illustrator.

Oh De Loval

Polish-Thai artist Oh de Laval's vibrant, faux-naïf figurative paintings are beautiful yet macabre, unsettling yet humorous, and deviant yet honest

Honorable Mentions:

• John Waters

• Bob Fosse

• Hilma Af Klint

• Frank Dorrey

• Kahinde Wiley

If you made it to the end of the list, Your Awesome! Please feel free to explore the links to each attached artist. Thank you for checking out this post!