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Favorite Dead Artists

Postby / on Sat Feb 02, 2013 8:00 pm

Talk about your favorite deceased artists and what you enjoy about their works.
Any sort of artistic medium is allowed, no matter their role and contribution to it.


Leslie Nielsen

One of my favorite actors. His deadpan comedy was perfect in any movie. One of the most surefire ways to weed out terrible parody movies from good ones in my opinion was the inclusion of Leslie Nielsen in the cast.


Norman Rockwell

His works really contained a rare realism to them, akin to one gazing at a person with a life; an entire individual identity that is familiar, like a photo of a family member. Seeing his paintings make me feel sort of like I watched a video, and have seen the entire event in real time.
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Re: Favorite Dead Artists

Postby notyou2 on Sat Feb 02, 2013 8:21 pm

Salvadore Dali. I love his paintings.

I too admire Rockwell and the americanism of his works.
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Re: Favorite Dead Artists

Postby Juan_Bottom on Sat Feb 02, 2013 8:24 pm

Langston Hughes wrote:I, Too

I, too, sing America.

I am the darker brother.
They send me to eat in the kitchen
When company comes,
But I laugh,
And eat well,
And grow strong.

Tomorrow,
Iā€™ll be at the table
When company comes.
Nobodyā€™ll dare
Say to me,
ā€œEat in the kitchen,ā€
Then.

Besides,
Theyā€™ll see how beautiful I am
And be ashamedā€”

I, too, am America.
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Re: Favorite Dead Artists

Postby notyou2 on Sat Feb 02, 2013 8:29 pm

Juan_Bottom wrote:
Langston Hughes wrote:I, Too

I, too, sing America.

I am the darker brother.
They send me to eat in the kitchen
When company comes,
But I laugh,
And eat well,
And grow strong.

Tomorrow,
Iā€™ll be at the table
When company comes.
Nobodyā€™ll dare
Say to me,
ā€œEat in the kitchen,ā€
Then.

Besides,
Theyā€™ll see how beautiful I am
And be ashamedā€”

I, too, am America.


Am I missing something? Was Rockwell a racist and never painted any black people?
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Re: Favorite Dead Artists

Postby Juan_Bottom on Sat Feb 02, 2013 8:30 pm

lol, wut?
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Re: Favorite Dead Artists

Postby notyou2 on Sat Feb 02, 2013 8:38 pm

Perhaps you are just saying that you admire his poetry and your post has nothing to do with Rockwell.
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Re: Favorite Dead Artists

Postby kentington on Sat Feb 02, 2013 9:56 pm

Frank Frazetta.
Rembrandt.
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Re: Favorite Dead Artists

Postby muy_thaiguy on Sun Feb 03, 2013 1:02 am

Bon Scott (former lead singer of AC/DC until his untimely death in 1980).
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What, you expected something deep or flashy?
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Re: Favorite Dead Artists

Postby oVo on Sun Feb 03, 2013 1:25 am

notyou2 wrote:Am I missing something? Was Rockwell a racist and never painted any black people?

Yes you missed a lot and no he wasn't a racist. Rockwell actually did an illustration published on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post visualizing the civil rights movement in America.
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Re: Favorite Dead Artists

Postby koontz1973 on Sun Feb 03, 2013 3:41 am

Freddie Mercury. Died to young.
Syd Barrett. Destroyed his life, could of been greater,
Richard Laymon. Some of the best horror fiction ever written.
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Re: Favorite Dead Artists

Postby KoolBak on Sun Feb 03, 2013 9:24 am

Rodney Dangerfield....'nuff said.....

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Ernest Borgnine....class act from waaaay back (and the voice of Mermaid Man!)

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Michael Clarke Duncan....total stud...awesome actor.

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Re: Favorite Dead Artists

Postby Army of GOD on Sun Feb 03, 2013 2:27 pm

  • Freddie. No last name needed. One of the greatest singers and songwriters, period.
  • Ella Fitzgerald/Louis Armstrong. Favorite jazz musicians, especially when they're together.
  • Randy Rhoads. Favorite guitarist.
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Re: Favorite Dead Artists

Postby thegreekdog on Mon Feb 04, 2013 4:33 pm

My favorite dead musician and painter were already mentioned. Love Freddie Mercury. Love Salvador Dali (by far my favorite artist).

If I had to pick a favorite dead writer, I guess I would go with Asimov (the toilet head).
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Re: Favorite Dead Artists

Postby jonesthecurl on Mon Feb 04, 2013 10:29 pm

Dead painters:
Da Vinci, Van Gogh, Arthur Rackham.
Dead writers:
If I could beg for just one more book to be discovered, probably Jerome K Jerome.
Musicians:
Zappa. Minnie Riperton.
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Re: Favorite Dead Artists

Postby Army of GOD on Thu Feb 07, 2013 12:10 am

I love George Carlin, but if I could reincarnate one comedian it would be Mitch Hedberg. He died way too young.

EDIT: just read this on his wiki
In [an] interview, published three years before his death, he was asked "If you could choose, how would you end your life?" His response was "First, I'd want to get famous, and then I'd overdose. If I overdosed at this stage in my career, I would be lucky if it made the back pages."


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Re: Favorite Dead Artists

Postby TA1LGUNN3R on Thu Feb 07, 2013 5:18 pm

This thread is now Hedberg quotes.

"I once saw a forklift lift a crate of forks. And it was way to literal for me."

"I'm a heroine addict. I need to have sex with women who have saved someone's life."

"My friend asked me if I wanted a frozen banana. I said 'No, but I want a regular banana later, so... yeah.'"

"My belt holds my pants up, but the belt loops hold my belt up. I don't really know what's happening down there. Who is the real hero?"

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Re: Favorite Dead Artists

Postby Army of GOD on Thu Feb 07, 2013 5:23 pm

"I got an ant farm...those fuckers didn't grow shit!"
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Re: Favorite Dead Artists

Postby thegreekdog on Thu Feb 07, 2013 5:24 pm

"An escalator can never break. It can only become stairs. You should never see an Escalator Temporarily Out of Order sign. Just an Escalator Temporarily Stairs. Sorry for the convenience."
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Re: Favorite Dead Artists

Postby TA1LGUNN3R on Thu Feb 07, 2013 5:29 pm

"As a kid sleeping in my twin size bed, I'd lay awake at night wondering where my brother was."

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Re: Favorite Dead Artists

Postby thegreekdog on Thu Feb 07, 2013 5:32 pm

"I like Kit-Kat. Unless I'm with four or more people."
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Re: Favorite Dead Artists

Postby thegreekdog on Thu Feb 07, 2013 5:34 pm

"People teach their dogs to sit. It's a trick. I've been sitting my whole life. A dog has never looked at me as though he thought I was tricky."
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Re: Favorite Dead Artists

Postby thegreekdog on Thu Feb 07, 2013 5:35 pm

"It's very dangeous to wave to people you don't know because what if they don't have hands? They'll think you're cocky."
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Re: Favorite Dead Artists

Postby Army of GOD on Thu Feb 07, 2013 5:49 pm

"They say Flintstones vitamins are chewable. All vitamins are chewable, it's just that they taste shitty."
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Re: Favorite Dead Artists

Postby TA1LGUNN3R on Thu Feb 07, 2013 10:01 pm

[in response to knocking on the wall from his neighbors because his music's too loud] "Go around! I can't open the wall! You may have a door knob on your side, but I don't."

I may muddle this one up, but I remember it thus:

"I got a new house with two bedrooms. Isn't that up to me to decide how many bedrooms there are? 'And this bedroom has a oven. This one has a hallway. I got a bedroom over in the neighbors house, too. Hey, neighbor, that's my bedroom, stay out.'"

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Re: Favorite Dead Artists

Postby Lootifer on Thu Feb 07, 2013 10:21 pm

I went to a restaurant, and I saw a guy wearing a leather jacket, eating a hamburger, drinking a glass of milk. I said, "Dude, you are a cow. The metamorphosis is complete. Don't fall asleep or I will tip you over!"
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