artist that infuenced your sensablity any medium

[brianspencer66]

I have a slew of artist that infuenced me greatly from The Beatles first and foremost as they seemed to transend class and transposed beat music into an art form but thus there were many more too. As I love the writings of james Baldwin, Truman Capote, Alice Walker, Willa Cather. I also love the work of Sam Sheperd, Neil Simon and Arthur Miller. I have a fondness for Artist to such as Picasso and Dali. Anyone who floats your boat where when you read them or hear them or see their works its a sheer celebration of life and it simply talks to you on your level and tells you "yeah I feel that way too"?

 

[Mastertank1]

Not all that many.

Earlyest, the poetry and fiction of Rudyard Kipling
Later, the music of folk singer/songwriter Tom Paxton
Later still the magnificent illustrations of Don Troiani and Frank Frazetta.

That's about all.

 

[venray]

Edgar Allen Poe....

Beethoven....

Jon Anderson and Yes....

 

[cloudgazer2k]

my influences are normally music-related. hans zimmer, cradle of filth, juno reactor...the list could go on. such music influences my writing, as i write to the tempo and overall attitude of the music.
when it comes to photography, i am influenced by franco saudelli. 'nuff said. 🙂

 

[chicago]

The two people that have influenced my writing are Ernest Hemingway and Frank McCourt.

When it comes to music, it's John Lennon, Bob Dylan, Elliott Smith, Fiona Apple, Marianne Faithfull, among others.

 

[Strider]

James Joyce, Jack Kerouac, Bono, Shane MacGowan

 

[Babbles]

Does this gent need any introduction?

He who "couldn't draw..." 🙄

 

[brianspencer66]

Any painting by Claude Monet...

I liked alot of his landscape painting in watercolors. My understanding is he used to sit in his yard and paint.

 

[BLUE_THUNDER]

the only art i really engage in is guitar, and im still pretty much influenced by randy rhoads, george lynch, jake e. lee and stevie ray vaughan .........

 

[brianspencer66]

The two people that have influenced my writing are Ernest Hemingway and Frank McCourt.

When it comes to music, it's John Lennon, Bob Dylan, Elliott Smith, Fiona Apple, Marianne Faithfull, among others.

Ive always enjoyed the wit of the both Mcourt brothers one of them malarkie if that is spelled correctly does a radio show here in NY and one of them just wrote a book of being a NYC school teacher. Dylan was the quintessential lyricist and Lennon borrowed heavliy from him and Joni Mitchell did too and really got it. She fussed that with wonderful music. Marianne had "her tears go by" and Well Hemingway did not.

 

[brianspencer66]

my influences are normally music-related. hans zimmer, cradle of filth, juno reactor...the list could go on. such music influences my writing, as i write to the tempo and overall attitude of the music.
when it comes to photography, i am influenced by franco saudelli. 'nuff said. 🙂

Im just a mere tunesmith and no where near a composer, but have you ever listened to Phillip Glass a minamilist composer his works included "Einstien on the beach"?

 

[brianspencer66]

James Joyce, Jack Kerouac, Bono, Shane MacGowan

Pacifica radio here does a whole thing on Joyce for a whole day once a year and Kerouac's "On the road" and his other works were largely written to jazz music.

 

[brianspencer66]

the only art i really engage in is guitar, and im still pretty much influenced by randy rhoads, george lynch, jake e. lee and stevie ray vaughan .........

The late Randy Rhodes was legendary and Stevie Ray was a blues master as was his brother in the Thunderbirds to a lesser extent. His name was Jimmy I think.

 

[ChosenofMystra]

David Lynch
Salvador Dali
Luis Bunuel
Harlan Ellison
H.P Lovecraft
Alan Ginsburg
Jack Kerouac
Isidore Ducasse
Arthur Rimbaud
Baudelaire

....as you can see I'm heavily influenced by Dada and Surrealisim (I tend to be somewhat of a surrealist writer) 🙂

 

[brianspencer66]

beethoven
elton john
charles M. Schulz
john williams
danny elfman
christopher walken ( acting IS an art )
tim burton

Indeed acting is. And did you know that Walken started out as a dancer too?

 

[TKLVR18]

As a writer definitely, and I can't believe nobody else has said it, the uncomparable JRR Tolkien. ^__^ I'm a writer. I think I'll post a few of my stories here too

Anyway, as a singer, Rascal Flatts, George Straight, Blake Shelton, lots of those country people, not to mention some of the greats like Cher and Journey ^__^

~K

 

[brianspencer66]

As a writer definitely, and I can't believe nobody else has said it, the uncomparable JRR Tolkien. ^__^ I'm a writer. I think I'll post a few of my stories here too

Anyway, as a singer, Rascal Flatts, George Straight, Blake Shelton, lots of those country people, not to mention some of the greats like Cher and Journey ^__^

~K

When I was a kid all my friend used to talk to high heaven about "The Hobbit"

 

[chicago]

Ive always enjoyed the wit of the both Mcourt brothers one of them malarkie if that is spelled correctly does a radio show here in NY and one of them just wrote a book of being a NYC school teacher. Dylan was the quintessential lyricist and Lennon borrowed heavliy from him and Joni Mitchell did too and really got it. She fussed that with wonderful music. Marianne had "her tears go by" and Well Hemingway did not.

Malachy, actually. And I've heard of this writing, but most of what I've read has been of Frank's stuff. I have all three of his books. I actually did a huge paper on his works a few years ago.

My favorite song by Marianne Faithfull is "Sister Morphine".

 

[brianspencer66]

Malachy, actually. And I've heard of this writing, but most of what I've read has been of Frank's stuff. I have all three of his books. I actually did a huge paper on his works a few years ago.

My favorite song by Marianne Faithfull is "Sister Morphine".

Thank you for standing me correct on my misspelling and yes marianne song was about her heroine addictiction

 

[Knox The Hatter]

Malachy, actually. And I've heard of this writing, but most of what I've read has been of Frank's stuff. I have all three of his books. I actually did a huge paper on his works a few years ago.

Yes. I have a copy here of Malachy McCourt's 'A Monk Swimming' (the title coming from his perception as a six year old of that part of the Hail Mary that goes, "you are immaculate a monk swimming"). There were parts of the book that almost made me pee my pants. Mairead, if you want the book, and can't find it up there, let me know, give me an addy, and it's yours.

For me, let's see...

...it's a collection of truly sublime things. Miles Davis trading off with Cannonball Adderley. The genius of Mozart, the spirit of Beethoven, the musical storytelling abilities of Shastakovich and Tchaikowsky. The screen presence of Spencer Tracy. The imagination and humor of John Irving. The passion and the compassion of Dr. King...along with his oratory, by far the greatest American example of the 20th Century.

The love for life, as well as of his love of all women, of Pierre-Auguste Renoir. The brooding dreamscapes of Edward Hopper.

Gershwin.

 

[venray]

My list of actors would take me an hour to put together.....

As for other writers...any who write sci fi....

As for television....Star Trek....

But another author I must mention here is Carlos Castaneda.....

 

[tickles]

Wow...so many

I love theatre and musical theatre...Cole Porter...Stephen Sondheim (sp?)just two of many.....Le miserables...Little shop..all of the classics....

Richard Wagner...Beetoven....Tsychovsky (sp?)....Sting, Steely Dan, Moody Blues....too much music to mention..

Renaissance Art....realsm.....Old Masters..

Robert Frost...Edgar Allan Poe...

Not to mention many films that love to watch...over and over...

 

[alchemy]

Ronnie James Dio
Bruce Lee
Wes Craven
Douglas Adams
H.P.Lovecraft
Richard Matheson
Hunter S. Thompson

 

[Kalamos]

Go Nagai
Don Bluth
Larry Elmore
Magnus
Pisanello

...

 

[brianspencer66]

Yes. I have a copy here of Malachy McCourt's 'A Monk Swimming' (the title coming from his perception as a six year old of that part of the Hail Mary that goes, "you are immaculate a monk swimming"). There were parts of the book that almost made me pee my pants. Mairead, if you want the book, and can't find it up there, let me know, give me an addy, and it's yours.

For me, let's see...

...it's a collection of truly sublime things. Miles Davis trading off with Cannonball Adderley. The genius of Mozart, the spirit of Beethoven, the musical storytelling abilities of Shastakovich and Tchaikowsky. The screen presence of Spencer Tracy. The imagination and humor of John Irving. The passion and the compassion of Dr. King...along with his oratory, by far the greatest American example of the 20th Century.

The love for life, as well as of his love of all women, of Pierre-Auguste Renoir. The brooding dreamscapes of Edward Hopper.

Gershwin.

Oh man you hit on quite a few things I like there, I love the Miles Davis Quintet in the 60 with Wayne Shorter, Tony Williams, Ron Carter and Herbie Hancock Any movie with Spencer Tracy (Father of the Bride) was on the other night with a young Elizabeth Taylor and it showed Tracy as a wonderful comic actor. I also read John Irving "The World According to Garp" and "Hotel New Hampshire" keep passing the open window!! And Dr King was no less an iconic figure!!