People who excel at more than one artform

do bluegrass people think that Steve Martin is a notably good banjo player, or just surprisingly good?

ariel pink got into calarts on the strength of his drawings, not sure if has really done anything else w/ visual arts though

Antonin Artaud - poet, actor, painter

Paul Robeson!

(As a singer and actor, I guess 'activist' isn't an artform)

Bill Dixon - painter, musician/composer

in a very similar vein to Steve Martin, Jean Cocteau was pretty hot at a lot of things.

Wait he plays the banjo......and what else?

Wyndham Lewis

David ginola

Haircare?

Acteeeng

must've missed that. can't be worse than Cantona

Ok u pedant, acteeng in service to airecare and biscuits

http://i.imgur.com/vfd5Rix.jpg

^^ A.S. = Arnold Schoenberg ^^

he's not hugely recognised for it but i like john cage's visual art:

http://media.tumblr.com/389776a89c796fbed83e91a506d34f9d/tumblr_inline_mh1dgnakj31qd384p.jpg

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.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikalojus_Konstantinas_%C4%8Ciurlionis

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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.

Dennis Hopper - acting, and later acclaimed for his visual art

alasdair gray

has anyone heard any of ishmael reed's music?

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.

another example - lonnie holley - renowned for visual art and sculpture but is also a touring musician

troll answer: Vincent Gallo

james franco

crispin glover

has anyone heard any of ishmael reed's music?

― 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.

George W Bush

Surprised no-one's said Hugh Laurie yet.

http://www.makara.us/04mdr/01writing/03tg/bios/Tagore_files/tagore1.jpg
TAGORE

michelangelo - sculptor, painter, poet, party dude

Robert Crumb, cartoonist + banjo player
Brian Eno, music + video/visual artworks
Laurie Anderson, music + sculpture, illustration, probably lots of visual art I don't know about

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

Hisham Bharoocha and that other noise dude whose art looks a lot like Hisham Bharoocha's.

Justine Frischmann - was a Britpopper, now a painter.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/galleries/2013/11/10/the-unknown-art-of-miles-davis.html#viewAll

Those are pretty good!

Vienna in the late 19th and early 20th century was a hive of multi-talented ppl.

Kolo Moser was a terrific visual artist and an equally terrific furniture maker. Wittgenstein took time out from philosophy to design and build his sister a house. Rudolph Steiner built fantastical houses and furniture on the side. When he wasn't doing architecture, Josef Hoffman made great chairs. Alfred Kubin was a fine author and graphic illustrator. Kokoschka wrote plays, and so on.

Dennis Hopper - acting, and later acclaimed for his visual art

I think he had a pretty good career as a photographer before his acting really took off didn't he?

William Blake is one example, a lot of people really like his poems and also his paintings.

― mirostones, Friday, January 31, 2014 2:15 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

WB is one of my alltimers but I dispute the claim that his poems and paintings can be separated; I view them all as part of the same complementary artistic process

(and the success of this synthesis is one of the reasons for his greatness)

Sam Shepherd as an actor/playwright?

Bo Jackson, late-80s edition

James Burke

Harrison Ford as carpenter/actor

Tom Waits

That Liquid Liquid bass player's comic in full:

http://imgur.com/a/EeNpT

That comic was fucking amazing

Yoko Ono, music + conceptual/performance art

I expect quite a few Chinese poets were also adept at calligraphy and ink brush painting.

Sparkle, isn't it - possibly best thing I've seen this year so far

there was a headline in the paper when a bunch of political fans came to see chomsky speak, something to the effect of, "Unsuspecting Chomsky Fans Trapped in Linguistics Lecture"