An ongoing list of artists I look at. Decided to start a list for myself so I always have a database on-hand. I always forget names, so hopefully this helps. List in order of recollection.
Painters:
- Edward Hopper
- Gerhard Richter
- Kaye Donachie
- Francis Bacon
- Alexander Tinei
- Adrian Ghenie
- Neo Rauch
- Kerry James Marshall
- Antonio López García
- Justin Mortimer
- Andrew Wyeth
- Colin Chillag
- Alex Kanevski
- Lucian Freud
- Phil Hale
- Marcin Cienski
- Francisco Goya
- Lars Elling
- Diego Rivera
- Picasso (Periodo Rosa)
- Magritte
- Caroline Walker
- Richard Diebenkorn
Directors:
- Hou Hsiao-Hsien
- Edward Yang
- Denis Villeneuve
- Werner Herzog
- Nicolas Winding Refn
- Satoshi Kon
- David Lynch
- Akira Kurosawa
- Krzysztof Kieślowski
- Andrei Tarkovski