He's not that good a dancer
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Friday, 31 January 2014 14:39 (ten years ago) link
along the dudley moore lines, jeff goldblum plays a mean piano iirc
― a horse divided cannot stand (darraghmac), Friday, 31 January 2014 14:43 (ten years ago) link
satyajit ray - world class filmmaker, excellent illustrator/graphic designer:
http://caravanmagazine.in/sites/default/files/imagecache/story_carousel/v-063-black-and-white-illustration-for-a-prof.-shonku-book_0.jpg
― Ward Fowler, Friday, 31 January 2014 14:43 (ten years ago) link
Flight of the conchrds, tim minchin, billy connolly all have musical/comedy chop but i mean whats excellent, whats 'surprisingly good for a comedian' etc
― a horse divided cannot stand (darraghmac), Friday, 31 January 2014 14:44 (ten years ago) link
Neil innes is shit at everything tho
― a horse divided cannot stand (darraghmac), Friday, 31 January 2014 14:45 (ten years ago) link
That is bollocks
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Friday, 31 January 2014 14:46 (ten years ago) link
how you have the balls to slag off Neil Innes and describe Tim Minchin as being involved in comedy
― regret it? nope, said it? yep (Noodle Vague), Friday, 31 January 2014 14:46 (ten years ago) link
Or music
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Friday, 31 January 2014 14:48 (ten years ago) link
Cos ive heard urban spaceman.
― a horse divided cannot stand (darraghmac), Friday, 31 January 2014 14:49 (ten years ago) link
Woody allen btw
― a horse divided cannot stand (darraghmac), Friday, 31 January 2014 14:50 (ten years ago) link
E.E. Cummings also created paintings (and I think cartoons too, but I might be wrong). I think some of them are pretty great: http://www.eecummingsart.com/
― emil.y, Friday, 31 January 2014 14:54 (ten years ago) link
do bluegrass people think that Steve Martin is a notably good banjo player, or just surprisingly good?
― Merdeyeux, Friday, 31 January 2014 14:55 (ten years ago) link
ariel pink got into calarts on the strength of his drawings, not sure if has really done anything else w/ visual arts though
― marcos, Friday, 31 January 2014 14:55 (ten years ago) link
Antonin Artaud - poet, actor, painter
― keiji cretins (NickB), Friday, 31 January 2014 14:56 (ten years ago) link
Paul Robeson!
― emil.y, Friday, 31 January 2014 14:56 (ten years ago) link
(As a singer and actor, I guess 'activist' isn't an artform)
― emil.y, Friday, 31 January 2014 14:57 (ten years ago) link
Bill Dixon - painter, musician/composer
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 31 January 2014 14:57 (ten years ago) link
in a very similar vein to Steve Martin, Jean Cocteau was pretty hot at a lot of things.
― Merdeyeux, Friday, 31 January 2014 15:00 (ten years ago) link
Wait he plays the banjo......and what else?
― a horse divided cannot stand (darraghmac), Friday, 31 January 2014 15:02 (ten years ago) link
Wyndham Lewis
― woof, Friday, 31 January 2014 15:21 (ten years ago) link
David ginola
― a horse divided cannot stand (darraghmac), Friday, 31 January 2014 15:39 (ten years ago) link
Haircare?
― regret it? nope, said it? yep (Noodle Vague), Friday, 31 January 2014 15:41 (ten years ago) link
Acteeeng
― a horse divided cannot stand (darraghmac), Friday, 31 January 2014 15:46 (ten years ago) link
must've missed that. can't be worse than Cantona
― regret it? nope, said it? yep (Noodle Vague), Friday, 31 January 2014 15:46 (ten years ago) link
Ok u pedant, acteeng in service to airecare and biscuits
― a horse divided cannot stand (darraghmac), Friday, 31 January 2014 15:49 (ten years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/vfd5Rix.jpg
― Pedro Mba Obiang Avomo est un joueur de football hispano-ganéen (nakhchivan), Friday, 31 January 2014 15:54 (ten years ago) link
^^ A.S. = Arnold Schoenberg ^^
― emil.y, Friday, 31 January 2014 16:01 (ten years ago) link
he's not hugely recognised for it but i like john cage's visual art:
http://media.tumblr.com/389776a89c796fbed83e91a506d34f9d/tumblr_inline_mh1dgnakj31qd384p.jpg
― Merdeyeux, Friday, 31 January 2014 16:22 (ten years ago) link
but with that kind of thing i wonder how much you can reasonably say they're excelling at more than one artform rather than having an artistic practice that isn't bound by a single artform.
― Merdeyeux, Friday, 31 January 2014 16:23 (ten years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikalojus_Konstantinas_%C4%8Ciurlionis
― Pedro Mba Obiang Avomo est un joueur de football hispano-ganéen (nakhchivan), Friday, 31 January 2014 16:24 (ten years ago) link
xpost
There was an exhibition of Cage's artwork at the Hunterian in Glasgow a couple of years ago; it was p good, tho the random/zen elements in the pictures made them seem all of a piece with Cage's compositions, rather than as work in an entirely distinct 'artform', if that makes sense.
― Ward Fowler, Friday, 31 January 2014 16:26 (ten years ago) link
Dennis Hopper - acting, and later acclaimed for his visual art
― Josefa, Friday, 31 January 2014 16:48 (ten years ago) link
alasdair gray
― wins, Friday, 31 January 2014 16:57 (ten years ago) link
has anyone heard any of ishmael reed's music?
― wins, Friday, 31 January 2014 16:58 (ten years ago) link
Cant think of anyone who writes and draws as well as Mervyn Peake. His linework is really beautiful in a way I dont see often.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 31 January 2014 17:00 (ten years ago) link
another example - lonnie holley - renowned for visual art and sculpture but is also a touring musician
― marcos, Friday, 31 January 2014 17:04 (ten years ago) link
troll answer: Vincent Gallo
― Merdeyeux, Friday, 31 January 2014 17:24 (ten years ago) link
james franco
― markers, Friday, 31 January 2014 17:25 (ten years ago) link
crispin glover
― wins, Friday, 31 January 2014 17:28 (ten years ago) link
― wins, Friday, January 31, 2014 11:58 AM (44 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I heard some snippets of a record he did with Steve Swallow and I can't remember who else. It was a long time ago, but I remember it being mostly recitation, and the occasional sung lines were meh.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 31 January 2014 17:44 (ten years ago) link
George W Bush
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 31 January 2014 17:46 (ten years ago) link
Surprised no-one's said Hugh Laurie yet.
― keiji cretins (NickB), Friday, 31 January 2014 17:58 (ten years ago) link
http://www.makara.us/04mdr/01writing/03tg/bios/Tagore_files/tagore1.jpgTAGORE
― ogmor, Friday, 31 January 2014 18:05 (ten years ago) link
michelangelo - sculptor, painter, poet, party dude
― ogmor, Friday, 31 January 2014 18:09 (ten years ago) link
Robert Crumb, cartoonist + banjo playerBrian Eno, music + video/visual artworksLaurie Anderson, music + sculpture, illustration, probably lots of visual art I don't know about
― 330,003 Luftballons (WilliamC), Friday, 31 January 2014 18:21 (ten years ago) link
akhbar the great, jackie chan, suleyman the magnificent, henry flynt, jennifer lopez, derek jarman, helene cixous, raphael, madonna, john fahey, samuel beckett, billie piper, zhang heng, andy kaufman, richard long, brian chippendale, some of my friends.... feel like mb 5-10% of artists try something else to some degree of success
― ogmor, Friday, 31 January 2014 18:34 (ten years ago) link
Hisham Bharoocha and that other noise dude whose art looks a lot like Hisham Bharoocha's.
― Merdeyeux, Friday, 31 January 2014 18:43 (ten years ago) link
Justine Frischmann - was a Britpopper, now a painter.
― Eyeball Kicks, Friday, 31 January 2014 19:04 (ten years ago) link
http://www.thedailybeast.com/galleries/2013/11/10/the-unknown-art-of-miles-davis.html#viewAll
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Friday, 31 January 2014 19:13 (ten years ago) link
Those are pretty good!
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Friday, 31 January 2014 19:20 (ten years ago) link
stuart moxham is another animator + singer-songwriter!!
― wizzz! (amateurist), Wednesday, 9 March 2016 02:30 (eight years ago) link
two good ones:
1) vinicius de moraes: poet, musician, playwright, essayist... and diplomat!
2) paul robeson: singer, actor, lecturer, football player, lawyer, etc.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Wednesday, 9 March 2016 02:31 (eight years ago) link
paul robeson was basically superman
― wizzz! (amateurist), Wednesday, 9 March 2016 02:32 (eight years ago) link
I think he mostly just wrote lyrics? So it's the same artform as in poetry and playwriting. The one album I know where he actually sings ("Os Afro sambas") wouldn't really convince anyone that he "excelled" as a vocalist.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 9 March 2016 13:44 (eight years ago) link
Wait, Paul Robeson hadn't already been mentioned in this thread? FFS what were we all thinking?
― emil.y, Wednesday, 9 March 2016 16:22 (eight years ago) link
We were covered:)
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 9 March 2016 16:26 (eight years ago) link
Ha! Well done, er, me.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 9 March 2016 16:29 (eight years ago) link
I hear Robeson also punched out Hitler and cured polio.
― brotato chip (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 9 March 2016 16:31 (eight years ago) link
Was Peter Brotzmann mentioned upthread? Obviously best known as a saxophonist, but also a trained artist (studied under Joseph Beuys IIRC) who's designed about 90 percent of his own album covers, posters, etc. He's had exhibits of his work here and there.
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Wednesday, 9 March 2016 16:41 (eight years ago) link
scarjo
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 9 March 2016 16:42 (eight years ago) link