Who are your current contemporary/abstract art influences?

[Artyczar]

I thought this might be a fun question for us all to answer. There might be too many to name, but I can start!

Mine will always be Paul Klee and Van Gogh, and ...so many more: Matisse, Kandinsky, Motherwell, Picasso, Bill Traylor... Those two are probably the basics.

More current-ish ones in the last 20 years or so are:

Amy Sillman
Lisa Sanditz
Dana Schutz
Carlo Zinelli
Kerry James Marshall
Hilma Af Klint
Diebenkorn
Agnes Martin
Jacob Lawrence
Tibor Jankay

I'm probably forgetting many.

How about you?

 

[Claude J Greengrass]

Cézanne, Cézanne, Cézanne, JMW, Cézanne, Cézanne

 

[Hermes2020]

In no particular order. I am pretty sure I have forgotten some other artists who inspire me. These just came to mind as ones I admire and would collect if I had the means.

Eduardo Paolozzi
Antony Gormley
Antoni Tapies
Constantin Brancusi
Robert Motherwell
Pierre Soulages
Mark Rothko
Isamu Noguchi
Richard Diebenkorn

 

[Terri]

I'm terrible at this kind of question, because I like artists I don't even know I like, if that makes sense. I see lots of beautiful work and never get their names!

Can easily point to these already named: Picasso, van Gogh, Matisse. Can add Chagall to the list. More contemporary, I have to look at ones I've bookmarked. @Artyczar, you mentioned that woman artist who was new to me, just within the last few weeks but she blew me away.

Edited to add: Charlotte Salomon!

 

[Artyczar]

Oh yes, I forgot to add her too! And Chagall who is a lot like her.