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Interesting, Richard. I'll have to see what I can find on those artists.
This thread can take the shape anyone wants to give it .
For me, the most influential artists I have studied under are Fiore Custode, my life drawing instructor at Ringling School of Art many moons ago, and Marvin Mattelson, whose two-week portrait painting workshop I was fortunate enough to attend a few years ago. Mr. Custode gave me the basics, and Marvin Mattelson helped me to understand how to put the bits and pieces I'd learned through the years into a cohesive whole, with an emphasis on creating the illusion of form. If he gave his "Met" lecture in Atlanta every year, I would attend it, it's that good.
I think artists tend to look for instructors with similar styles, don't you think? It would be good to take classes from artists with similar and dissimilar styles. Or subjects. I learned a lot about still life set ups and lighting, for example, by taking a short class with Rosa Santiago. And a way of working with a very limited palette under Dawn Whitelaw.
Influential artists from the past? Titian, Velasquez, Hals, Sargeant, Beaux, Paxton, Degas and many more
Influential artist authors: Juliette Aristides, Gregg Kreutz, Henry Rankin Poore, Ian Roberts, David Friend, Chris Saper
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