for me, I really like the art of H.R. Giger.
wonder if you all know about him, famed for the Alien trilogy and more.
Oh thank god... I wanted to post in this thread, but all of my favourite artists are westerners and everyone mentioned so far was Japanese so I thought it was just about Japanese artists but it looks like I was wrong. Yay.
And oh my, Giger~ I just love his stuff~ It's so creepy and cool at the same time. There's just something so... Unsettling, but at the same time beautiful about his work. It's difficult to describe, but I guess I'm just a true blue nightmare fetishist, ahah~
My other favourite artist, besides Giger, is William Blake, who also happens to be my favourite poet (go figure, huh?). I especially love the art he did for
The Divine Comedy (which, again, is another one of my favourites). His work just has this kind of weird, almost spiritual edge to it, which... Makes sense, I guess, seeing how philosophically minded the man was (and
way ahead of his time, too, if some of the views put forth in his poetry are to be believed). But, uh, yeah. Love his stuff.