Celebrity Visual Artists
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Posted by Mary Rayme Mar 1, 2007 |
Many celebrities and/or musician create visual art. While many celebrities are so creative and artistic they are able to transcend in more than one medium, many others are not. Celebrities have the advantage of their own advertising branding campaign. This means that just the names of Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, and John Lennon can still sell art even though it was not their first medium and even though they are all dead.
Other celebrity artists include: Tony Bennett, David Bowie, Jeff Bridges, Tony Curtis, Bob Dylan, Jerry Garcia, Mick Fleetwood, Dennis Hopper, John Lennon, Joni Mitchell, Martin Mull, Grace Slick, Johnny Depp, Anthony Quinn, and Peter Falk.
Not all celebrities use their name to sell mediocre products. I took a tour through the various online galleries that exist for all known celebrity artists and came up with a very short list of recommendations of celebs who could also qualify as bonafide visual artists.
Recommend:
Fun, collage-like paintings of mysterious actions by suburban 50s people. A wonderful world of kitsch noir.
Beautiful well-composed color photographs of textures and accidental art. Great photographs of celebrities such as Bill Cosby, Andy Warhol, Ed Ruscha, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, among others.
Wide angle photos worth a second look.
Andy Summers of Police fame.
A prolific photographer with a real artists eye.
Amazing photographs that confirm Nash as an artist in more disciplines than one.
Mark Mothersbaugh of Devo fame.
Mothersbaugh creates several postcard-sized pieces of art everyday. The sign of a true artist is a daily habit of image making.