formative influences as well as some present ones. fine artists, comics, illustration. didn't bother to separate them into sections because there can be overlap.

• H. R. Giger
• Wayne Barlowe
• Zdzisław Beksiński
• Remedios Varo
• Leonora Carrington
• Marc Chagall
• Joan Miró
• Tove Jansson
• Petteri Tikkanen
• Louis Wain
• Quentin Blake
• Arthur Rackham
• John Bauer
• Hieronymus Bosch
• Pieter Bruegel the Elder & Pieter Bruegel the Younger
• Rembrandt
• Artemisia Gentileschi
• Peter Paul Rubens
• Yoshitaka Amano
• Ayami Kojima
• Didier Comès
• André Franquin
• Ken Macklin
• Giorgio Cavazzano
• Osamu Tezuka
• Junji Ito
• Hajime Ueda
• Yukito Kishiro
• Moebius
• Edward Gorey
• Richard Sala
• Winsor McCay
• Rose O'Neill
• George Herriman
• Jim Woodring
• Gustave Doré
• Carl Barks
• Brian Froud
• Nicholas Kalmakoff/Nikolai Kalmakov
• Heinz Edelmann
• John Alcorn
• Nicole Claveloux
• Oscar Chichoni
• Roger Dean
• Rodney Matthews
• Al Hirschfeld
• Hannes Bok
• Val Munteanu
• Beth Cavener
• Gerda Wegener
• Tuco Amalfi
• Agnes Pelton
• Hirō Isono
• Hiroshi Masumura
• Junko Mizuno
• Yoshitomo Nara
• Aya Takano

also architects & architectural styles

• Le Corbusier
• Antoni Gaudí
• Eliel Saarinen
• brutalism
• art deco
• Memphis Group

art movements

• impressionism
• expressionism
• symbolism
• surrealism
• avant-garde
• psychedelic art
• dadaism