1. Sesshu Toyo

Sesshu Toyo born 雪舟 等楊?) (Oda Tōyō since 1431(1420 – 26 August 1506) was a Japanese painter. Born to a samurai family however, early in life he displayed a talent for visual arts, and eventually became one of the greatest Japanese artists of his time, widely revered throughout Japan and China.
His amazing pieces of traditional japanese paintings that some people will be confused thinking they are woodcuts paintings and prints. Interested and awed by nature and old traditional temples he created his works mostly by studying on birds and once painted the whole four seasons of the same place. I like the misty feel of his paintings looking at it i feel at peace and calm all of my troubles washing away and put in some koto instrument (stringed instrument) will create a sense of tranquility.
Hokusai compare to this guy i will stick with Hokusai because of the wild and bold colour that show of in his work and took him perhaps a whole year to complete one piece of work. Toyo is a great Japanese painter of his time the sense of calm i think came from his mind because he moved to China because of the war and wanted to built a studio a little world of his ownto get away from reality in my opinion.

2. Ben Allen

I find that Ben Allen's works are similar to Zak's in a way because of all the collage style and the way he splatters the paint around. In my opinion i think that Ben long ago liked the work's of Zak and wanted to create some of his own, but i think there is a difference because i think that photoshop was involved with Ben's work to create the butterfly wings and the over the picture technique as i like to call it.
What drawn me to Ben's works is that all the colour and the skulls obviously, but I like to create a big collage with painting it is a free way to express you'r self and forget about all the tidy widy style as i like to call it. I am interested in his skull work i have here because not of the nude women mind you, but the butterfly wings and a nice effect it gives the work. Working in a multitude of media like Comic books, Japanese Graphics, nature and human condition like the two nude women for example i think it represents death. He dose have lots of clients but I think that he likes to create his work for fun.

3. Zak Smith

Zak Smith is one of my top favourite artist on this blog. I really like the way how he is combining paintings and Illustration to create colourful, exciting pieces of works. His self portrait painting is cool and quite gothic but more towards punk in my opinion. There is no current theme for his works he is influenced by punk\rock, Japanese woodcuts, Art Nouveau, smut and animation among other things, I noticed that some of his works are very rude and naughty. He used to work in the porn industry and based some of his work on friend from where he used to work.

4. Henri Matisse

Henri Matisse ( 31 December 1869 - November 3 1954)

I like Henri Matisse's work they are abstract and colourful and my fave work out of all of these are 'Icarus' the bottom one with the black silhouette, it tells the story of Icarus who escaped by making wings out of wax and feathers but failed as he flew to close to the sun because the wax has melted and he fell into the sea. The little yellow spark around him shows that the wax has melted and that the sun had burned him and i think that the blue around him is the sea underneath.

His other works are colourful ond lively the divine blue one a simple art work made to show the beauty of a woman's body. He died a very happy man in 1954 finally finished his final work ever the stained glass window in the memory of the the client's mother in the Union Church.

Simplicity is best in my opinion, if Henri added more of things to his art it will spoil then.

5.Andy Warhol

Andrew Warhola (August 6, 1928 - February 22 1987) also known as Andy Warhol was an American painter, filmmaker and printmaker and was a famous leading figure in the movement called pop art. Andy Warhol likes using bright colours and patterns in his work his can of condensed tomato soup is amazing it is cartoony looking and looks like it belongs in a comic book.

His Mickey mouse portrait he had done is one of my favourite works, I loved Mickey Mouse when I was younger the bright colours suit the Disney character nicely because of it's joyful pressence.

The Marilyn Monroe portraits are his famous works ever, I like the colours he used to do the portrait of her i like how he is good at choosing what colour he put together to do the work the red, purple, green and yellow etc.

Andy Warhol was also a filmaker, director and had directed sevral film's and more like, Poor Little Rich Girl, Suicide, 13 Most Beautiful Women and 13 Most Beautiful Men etc.

Sadly he is dead now but if he is still alive he will produce beautiful colourful paintings, portraits and maybe direct a new film.

6. Andreas Gursky

Andreas Gursky (January 15, 1955) is a German Visual artist known for his enormous architecture and landscape colour photographs.
When i first viewed Andreas's work I thought 'is this guy crazy or what', I like his photographs because of all the amazing landscapes and architecture photographs he had took.
The landscape one with the little island is very beutifull i don't know how hw had took this the place would problaby u can't find it on a map, they look like the little island's of the coast of Thailand they look beautiful.
The bottom pic confuses me, Andreas favourite piece it combines the 3 elements together(Water, Earth, and Air) in my opinion i think is a good idea to have in a photograph.
I like how this photo turned out the land in the foreground then the water, land in the distance and the sky thurther in the distance, i thought that piece was a painting when I first look at it.