People who excel at more than one artform

satyajit ray

Schoenberg's paintings, on the other hand, are garbage.

― hats to all the angles on their heads and surely many, many of blings (ledge), Tuesday, March 8, 2016 10:02 AM (7 hours ago)

I think there's one painting of his I really like, otherwise OTM.

has anyone mentioned william blake?

oh wait, it's in OP

There are a lot of musicians for example where you're like "hey her/his paintings are also good!" But there aren't many where you feel like you'd want to go see a show of their paintings independent of their name in music.

Closest one that comes to mind is Teebs (music & painting are both great).

tony conrad

william morris

Wesley Stace / John Wesley Harding has written a couple of novels. I read one and it was okay.

John Updike drew and cartooned in addition to writing.

A lot of yr old-timey Britisher adventure dudes seem to have been able to draw well (if not artistically). Churchill painted as an enthusiastic amateur. Kipling did some interesting illustrations. Patrick Lee Fermor could draw semi-professionally, and I'm pretty sure T.E. Lawrence did too. Dudes like that seem to have come out of a genteel renaissance-man tradition in which it was normal to write, paint, and play music whilst also climbing mountains and subduing primitive peoples or whatever.

Also Ethan Hawke wrote a novel and I am told Molly Ringwald is on a singing tour; I don't know if either of those efforts excel.

Was idly wondering if I'd actually repped for Schoenberg upthread, not quite but he is mentioned. I think when I first discovered his paintings I was quite excited, but the more I have investigated the more I find him unsatisfactory as a visual artist.

Have Iost my mind here or is it possible that no-one has mentioned Pasolini?

ha wow that is glaring.

wtf tbh

Mind you, two years ago the best I could come up with was Dudley Moore.

yes, i've quite enjoyed dudley moore's sound installations, too.

if chico buarque's novels are any good then him

April March = animator & singer-songwriter

stuart moxham is another animator + singer-songwriter!!

two good ones:

1) vinicius de moraes: poet, musician, playwright, essayist... and diplomat!

2) paul robeson: singer, actor, lecturer, football player, lawyer, etc.

paul robeson was basically superman

1) vinicius de moraes: poet, musician, playwright, essayist... and diplomat!

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.

Wait, Paul Robeson hadn't already been mentioned in this thread? FFS what were we all thinking?

We were covered:)

Ha! Well done, er, me.

I hear Robeson also punched out Hitler and cured polio.

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.

scarjo