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
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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.
― 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
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.
― Ramnaresh Samhain (ShariVari), Friday, 31 January 2014 19:42 (ten years ago) link
I think he had a pretty good career as a photographer before his acting really took off didn't he?
― wk, Friday, 31 January 2014 19:58 (ten years ago) link
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
― 141 Jute Gyte - Discontinuities 142 drake - nothing was the same (imago), Friday, 31 January 2014 20:02 (ten years ago) link
(and the success of this synthesis is one of the reasons for his greatness)
― 141 Jute Gyte - Discontinuities 142 drake - nothing was the same (imago), Friday, 31 January 2014 20:03 (ten years ago) link
Sam Shepherd as an actor/playwright?
Bo Jackson, late-80s edition
James Burke
Harrison Ford as carpenter/actor
Tom Waits
― Who is DANKEY KANG? (kingfish), Friday, 31 January 2014 20:05 (ten years ago) link
That Liquid Liquid bass player's comic in full:
http://imgur.com/a/EeNpT
― cardamon, Saturday, 1 February 2014 02:45 (ten years ago) link
That comic was fucking amazing
― "Turkey In The Straw" coming from someplace in the clouds (Sparkle Motion), Saturday, 1 February 2014 02:58 (ten years ago) link
Yoko Ono, music + conceptual/performance art
― Aglet, Saturday, 1 February 2014 03:03 (ten years ago) link
I expect quite a few Chinese poets were also adept at calligraphy and ink brush painting.
― Aimless, Saturday, 1 February 2014 03:07 (ten years ago) link
Sparkle, isn't it - possibly best thing I've seen this year so far
― cardamon, Saturday, 1 February 2014 03:12 (ten years ago) link
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"
― Philip Nunez, Saturday, 1 February 2014 03:15 (ten years ago) link
samuel morse was a painter and invented the morse code.
― Thus Sang Freud, Saturday, 1 February 2014 03:22 (ten years ago) link