Artists I enjoy:

• M.C. Escher EG
• Salvador Dali EG
• Henri Rousseau EG
• Pablo Picasso is sometimes nice, eg Portrait of Ambroise Vollard EG
• Georges Braque EG
• Marcel Duchamp EG
• Yves Tanguy EG
• Emilio Vedova EG
• René Magritte EG
• Paul Delvaux - surrealist? EG
• Roger Dean apparently did a lot of the Yes cover art EG
• Georgia O'Keeffe EG
• Gérard Garouste has some nice pieces EG
• John Atkinson Grimshaw (Victorian) EG
• Giuseppe Arcimboldo, EG The Librarian and that carrot one EG
• Till Nowak - his tributes to Arcimboldo are nice, among others. He has some nice animations as well EG
• Sarolta Ban EG
• Aubrey Beardsley EG
• Victor Vasarely EG
• Patrycja Makowska does photos of derelict mansions, churches, etc. EG
• Brian Froud EG
• Trina Merry EG
• Xavi Bou does interesting time-lapse photos of bird flight EG
• Ruth Asawa has some nice wire sculptures EG
• H.R. Giger is good. He did the Xenomorphs in the Alien films EG
• Zdislaw Beksinski was a Polish horror painter who reacted to the horrors of war EG
• Dr. Seuss has some very interesting work, apart from his children's books:
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• Jerry Sandefur is good. He's a digital-native artist that does a lot of fantasy/sci fi themed work:
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• David Zinn, the horsetopus guy who does 3d-looking chalk art on sidewalks and things. I saw something like this in SoCal once - was it him? I think it was probably Huntington Beach, back when I was riding my recumbent a lot:
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• Boris Vallejo - fantasy art, photorealistic, frequently with dragons or other animals, and body builders / fitness models EG
• Maliwawa figures are Australian Indigenous cave pantings EG
• Isabella Clever, child artist, hyperrealist: EG
• Heinrich Kley is interesting. He does mostly monochromatic fantasy-themed pen-and-ink. I've heard that he sometimes satirizes the church. He was banned by the Nazis. EG
• Yamamoto Akane
  • Kirikane "Leaf Boat"
• Rob Gonsalves is rather Magritte-like
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• Pedro Friedeberg
• An article about his work