> Grishny! You can't possibly mean that Escher has no structure! He's the single most structured artist in the world!!

No, I meant that he painted many scenes that couldn't possibly exist in the physical world.

> Dali, on the other hand, was a wacko -- but have you *seen* original Dalis? Some of them are so tiny and have so minute details you can hardly believe they're hand made. So although his paintings can be bizarre, they're done to perfection.

I did a research paper on Dali for art class in high school, and we touched on his work further in my History of Art and Appreciation of Fine Arts classes in college. He was very strange.

I tend to prefer works of art out of the golden age of illustration. My favorite artists are the great illustrators like Howard Pyle, Maxfield Parrish, J.C. Leyendecker, Norman Rockwell, etc. Leyendecker is my personal favorite; he had a really unique "hatchwork" style that really stands out. He was also the mentor of my second favorite great illustrator: Norman Rockwell.

If anyone is interested, I'm posting a link to a page about Leyendecker below.

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