Universally acclaimed art/artists...that you also simply Love

In the Mood For Love

Frances Langford? Or the Film?

Michelangelo
Vincent van Gogh
Shakespeare
Tolstoy
Tom Brady
Bob Newhart

The Goat?
Nice!

White Flag... Jasper Johns

it is actually three paintings that are assembled into one larger piece... made up of Mainly layers of paper and fabric dipped in Beeswax and laid over painted Canvas and then washed with another layer of tinted beeswax and Oil paint.

the piece from 1955 asks us about the nature of the collective we live in

Rather than make a huge list, I'll just name a few.

Film directors:
Frank Capra
Clint Eastwood
Martin Scorsese
Paul Thomas Anderson

Music:
Beethoven
Frank Sinatra
Ronnie Spector
Johnny Cash
The Who

Writers:
Charles Dickens
Flannery O'Connor

Other:
Jim Henson
Bill Watterson

Jasper Johns is the most expensive living artist in the world. Pub quiz question tonight. No prizes for guessing who won.

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A great artist can be part of your everyday life. Unquestionably the greatest London architect is Christopher Wren. I live across the road from this building:

Just saw the comments in the other universally acclaimed artists thread. I didn't post him to be a contrarian. My grandparents adored him, and I grew up on his songs.

Frank Zappa - I became a fan the day that he died and that greatly affected how big of a fan I am and how deep I went down the FZ rabbit hole in the early days. And with a body of work that size, that’s a deep ass hole…

Aaron Sorkin - I could, and have, just read West Wing scripts for fun, for hours at a time. I’ve read “favorite quotes” lists and Reddit threads more times than I can count. When it’s good, there is no better dialogue, Milch aside, but Sorkin had a significantly bigger body of work.

Converge - One of the few heavy bands that still gets regular rotation for me. They’re not easy to listen to at all and I don’t think I can make out the words to 95% of theirs songs but none of that matters. When asked “How can you listen to this?” The answer is simple: We want to have emotional reactions in our art. Anger and rage are just as important. I liken their vibe to Alice In Chains, but the difference is that AIC wants you to wallow in it. Converge wants you to get passed it.

Maria Bamford - Doug Stanhope is my favorite comedian without question, but I think Maria is the most original and important. She’s so singular that she’s almost her own genre.

Honorable mentions:
Aesop Rock
Ani DiFranco
Vince’s Gillian
David Milch

The version of "Both Hands" from Living in a Clip is great. The orchestral opening beautiful. She's hit or miss for me. I tend to like her more experimental songs more than the early folk stuff.

KIDULT

One that I forgot to mention:

Bill Lawrence - I love everything I've seen from him. I haven't seen all of his shows, but the ones I've seen have been some of my favorites, or at the very least, just flat out great feel-good watches. Even his stupider stuff like Undatable and Ground Floor. But his best shows (Scrubs, Cougar Town and now Shrinking) just click all of the boxes I want in a comfort show. Scrubs has quite a large handful of some of the greatest moments in TV history in both the comedic and the dramatic. And Shrinking is one of the few shows that makes me miss the 22-episode season model. I could easily marathon that number of episodes of it.

Billy Wilder
Humphery Bogart
Paul Newman
The Beatles
Joni Mitchell
The Beach Boys
P. J O'Rourke
Mark Twain
Richard Brautiigan
Kurt Vonnegut
Bill Waterson
Gary Trudeau
Charles M. Schulz
Walt Kelly

Paul Harvey and his entire body of work of observations, editorials and stories...

Nobody could say Good Day like Paul Harvey. The dramatic pause still gives me chills.

Frank Gerhy's Salk Institute. Along with tons of his other work that I've been able to see in person, such as the Disney Concert Hall

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