You can now find this list permanently as a sub-menu of “art criticism”. This will allow readers to find articles which discuss artists they are interested in. I’ll update it as I add new posts.
- Abramović, Marina
- Why People Hate Contemporary/Conceptual Art (A section is devoted to her “The Artist is Present” performance.)
- The Debate Over Skill In Visual Art And Conceptual Art
- Andre, Aelita
- Andre, Carl
- Auerbach. Frank
- Dark Art for Bright People: 16 Artists
- Sophie Derrick: Exhilarating Expressionist Impasto Paintings (section in him as an influence)
- In Defense of Artist, Glenn Brown (Brown made interpretive copies of Auerbach’s paintings)
- Bacon, Francis
- In Defense of Artist, Francis Bacon (Very comprehensive article with tons of pics)
- Another Critic Hates Francis Bacon, and is Clueless
- Evolutionary Vs. Revolutionary and Traditional Art (Bacon is an example of “Evolutionary Art)
- Dark Art for Bright People: 16 Artists
- Why the Still Image is Still Vital
- Andrew Newton stood on the shoulders of the giants of 20th century figurative painting, and leapt (included as a significant influence)
- Banksy
- Stenciling Over Banksy, article about me (hoax, parody)
- Barry, Robert
- Basquiat, Jean-Michel
- Bechtle, Robert
- Beckmann, Max
- Beksiński, Zdzisław
- Bjork
- Blac, Suzzan
- Black, Joe
- Bradford, Mark
- Broadwee, Keith
- Brown, Glenn
- Brown, Millie
- Burden, Chris
- Why People Hate Contemporary/Conceptual Art (Burden is discussed here as a conceptual/performance artist I admire.)
- Dismantling the Dominant Art Narrative
- The Debate Over Skill In Visual Art And Conceptual Art
- Bush, George W.
- Bush Self-Portrait Paintings Revised (real story, plus parody)
- Cassatt, Mary
- Chapman Brothers
- Coleman, Joe
- Close, Chuck
- Andrew Newton stood on the shoulders of the giants of 20th century figurative painting, and leapt (included as a significant influence)
- Deconstructing Jeff Koons’ paintings, and why they are an attempt at original art (as opposed to his usual appropriations) (included here as an important influence)
- Cyrus, Miley
- de Kooning, Willem
- Derrick, Sophie
- Desiderio, Vincent
- Kanye West’s Sculpture Killed Conceptual Art (Contains art West appropriated from Desiderio as well as a selection of Desiderio paintings.)
- Doig, Peter
- Duchamp, Marcel
- The Big Bang of Conceptual Art [Why People Hate Conceptual Art: Part 4] (This is a feature on Duchamp.)
- F_ck The Fountain!
- Why People Hate Contemporary/Conceptual Art
- Dismantling the Dominant Art Narrative
- What is Real in Art?
- Gervais, Merchant, and Pilkington on Art: Enlightening Bollocks (Duchamp is discussed here)
- Duchamp killed Picasso, but only if you’re blind
- Duchamp Versus Picasso
- Art versus Anti-Art (Duchamp represents anti-art here).
- Why only anti-art survived, and anti-music, anti-literature and the other anti movements died.
- It’s time to finally retire “radical”
- Artist exhibits Duchamp’s “Fountain” in restroom to take the museum out of art. (hoax)
- Upturned chamber pot recognized as fine art over 250 years before Duchamp (parody/hoax)
- Durant, Sam
- Emin, Tracey
- Tracey Emin’s new series of Forgot Drawings are brutally honest (parody, hoax, criticism)
- It’s time to finally retire “radical”
- Ernst, Max
- Freud, Lucien
- Fake Abstract Expressionist paintings sold for millions (as an example of painting that can’t easily be faked)
- In Defense of Artist, Francis Bacon (small section on Freud towards the end of the article)
- Andrew Newton stood on the shoulders of the giants of 20th century figurative painting, and leapt (included as a significant influence)
- Gallagher, Jacqueline
- Gauguin, Paul
- Is The New Most Expensive Painting Ever Sold Horribly Flawed?! (About the unintentional anatomical anomalies in his art)
- Why the Still Image is Still Vital (this is pro-Gauguin)
- Golub, Leon
- Heizer, Michael
- Artist Vandalizes “Levitating Mass” Boulder at LACMA (hoax, parody)
- Hesse, Eva
- Hirst, Damien
- Is the influence of the ultra rich killing art? Part 4, Damien Hirst (Feature article about Hirst)
- Hirst’s new Mega-Show: Vacuous Baubles of, by, and for, the Morbidly Wealthy
- The Thin Gold Line Between Radical Art Appropriation and Hackneyed Plagiarism. (About another Hirst plagiarism).
- Gervais, Merchant, and Pilkington on Art: Enlightening Bollocks (Hirst is discussed here)
- The argument against artist’s assistants. The doer vs the orderer.
- “Good artists copy, great artists steal.” Not so fast.
- Which “artist” do you prefer, Koons or Hirst?
- Damien Hirst “Goo Paintings” at Gagonian (parody)
- Damien Hirst’s return to skull paintings (hoax)
- Interview with Damien Hirst (‘s shark) by me (humor)
- Worse than Hirst, a review of my art (hoax/parody)
- Hoffman, Hans
- Horn, Rebecca
- Jenkins, Casey
- Jenkings, Paul
- Joyner, Eric
- Juron, James
- Kandinsky, Wassily
- Kawara, On
- Kienholz, Ed and Nancy
- It’s time to finally retire “radical” (as a more worthwhile kind of art-making)
- Klein, Yves
- Kline, Franz
- Koons, Jeff
- Deconstructing Jeff Koons’ paintings, and why they are an attempt at original art (as opposed to his usual appropriations)
- Is the influence of the ultra rich killing art? Part 3, Jeff Koons
- Koons’ “Balloon Dog (Orange)” isn’t art, it’s a decorative lawn ornament
- Koons’ Ballerina Plagiarist Buffoonery
- Reflections on the shiny surface of the Koons Retrospective.
- The Emperor’s Blue Balls: New Work by Jeff Koons
- Vincent’s dead but he never gets old, and Jeff Koons is already a skeleton.
- Koons, Appropriation, and Plagiarism (Again)!
- The argument against artist’s assistants. The doer vs the orderer.
- It’s time to finally retire “radical”
- The Radical New Same Old Shit
- Which “artist” do you prefer, Koons or Hirst?
- “Good artists copy, great artists steal.” Not so fast.
- Kosuth, Joseph
- Dismantling the Dominant Art Narrative (he takes some major hits here)
- How Postmodernism Has Worked Against Us.
- Krzysztof Krawiec
- Kubin, Alfred
- Levine, Sherrie
- Dismantling the Dominant Art Narrative (she gets “deconstructed”)
- LeWitt, Sol
- Dismantling the Dominant Art Narrative (useful foil)
- Lichtenstein, Roy
- In Defense of Artist, Glenn Brown (includes Lichetenstein’s appropriations of cartoons)
- Manzoni, Piero
- Matta, Roberto
- McCarthy, Paul
- Why People Hate Contemporary/Conceptual Art (A very large section about McCarthy’s work here.)
- Artist Paul McCarthy makes an 80 ft. balloon dog.
- My former art teacher made a giant inflatable butt plug, and then it got deflated!
- New video about Paul McCarthy’s “Tree”, with interview (hoax, humor, criticism)
- It’s time to finally retire “radical”
- Meese, Jonathan
- Mendiata, Ana
- Modigliani, Amedeo
- 13 Erotic Nudes by Modigliani (shameless click-bait)
- Moiré, Milo
- Monet, Claude
- Art versus Anti-Art (Monet represents “art” here).
- How art history got Jackson Pollock all wrong, and why it matters. (as influence on Pollock)
- Newman, Barnett
- Newton, Andrew
- Nolde, Emile
- Park, David
- Picasso, Pablo
- Duchamp killed Picasso, but only if you’re blind
- Duchamp Versus Picasso
- “Good artists copy, great artists steal.” Not so fast. (Analyses why this quote does not fit Picasso.)
- Pennington, Eric
- Pollock, Jackson
- Prince, Richard
- Rattanarithikul, Manop (The Mosquito Painter of Thailand)
- Ray, Charles
- Why People Hate Contemporary/Conceptual Art (Ray’s work is discussed here)
- Rembrandt van Rijn
- Rembrandt by Himself = worth watching. (A movie review)
- Reynolds, Dean
- Richter, Gerhardt
- Gerhardt Richter’s Crappy Digital Stripe Paintings
Sophie Derrick: Exhilarating Expressionist Impasto Paintings (section on him as a positive influence) - Andrew Newton stood on the shoulders of the giants of 20th century figurative painting, and leapt (included as a significant influence)
- What is Real in Art?
- Gerhardt Richter’s Crappy Digital Stripe Paintings
- Riopelle, Jean-Paul
- Rojas, Adrián Villar
- Rockwell, Norman
- Censoring and Burning Art in the Name of Progressive Morality (brief discussion of his masterpiece, “The Problem We All Live With”
- Rosenquist, James
- Deconstructing Jeff Koons’ paintings, and why they are an attempt at original art (as opposed to his usual appropriations) (included here as an important influence)
- Rothko, Mark
- Ryman, Robert
- Salle, David
- Deconstructing Jeff Koons’ paintings, and why they are an attempt at original art (as opposed to his usual appropriations) (included here as an important influence)
- Masakatsu. Sashie
- Schutz, Dana
- Scully, Tyler
- Sherman, Cindy
- Stella, Frank
- Still, Clifford
- Van Gogh, Vincent
- Vincent’s dead but he never gets old, and Jeff Koons is already a skeleton.
- The Debate Over Skill In Visual Art And Conceptual Art (Big section on Van Gogh here)
- The Red Vineyard, and why Van Gogh only sold one painting in his lifetime.
- Evolutionary Vs. Revolutionary and Traditional Art (Vincent is an example of “Evolutionary Art”.
- “Van Gogh Self-Portrait With Cut Ear”: Background and details. (Has a section on my appreciation of Van Gogh)
- In Defense of Artist, Francis Bacon (section on Bacon’s tribute paintings to Van Gogh)
- In Defense of Artist, Glenn Brown (includes Vincent’s copies after other artists)
- Veruschka
- Sophie Derrick: Exhilarating Expressionist Impasto Paintings (section on her as an influence)
- Ward, Bryan Kent
- Warhol, Andy
- “Good artists copy, great artists steal.” Not so fast.
- New Art: Andy foresaw it all.
- What if I’m wrong?
- Is the influence of the ultra rich killing art? (incl. Robert Hughes calling him stupid)
- Basquiat’s Lost Portrait of Warhol Poised to Fetch $150,000,000. (hoax)
- It’s time to finally retire “radical”
- Mommy Why Warhol
- Weiner, Lawrence
- Dismantling the Dominant Art Narrative (he gets savaged here)
- Art Criticism Book Review: Tom Wolfe, “The Painted Word”
- Weiwei, Ai
- West, Kanye
- Whistler, James McNeill
- Wool, Christopher
Art & Crit by Eric Wayne 
Since you covered several “celebrities” that also make art, would love to see you cover Kurt Cobain or his daughter Frances Bean Cobain.
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Do they make art? I didn’t know. Chances are it’s not very good but I’ll look it up at some point.
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Yeah, they both made art. Frances actually is an artist who has had shows and stuff.
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I just looked them up. Her work is much more technically skilled but conventional, while his is more original and interesting but lacks technical skill.
From what I saw, neither would get any recognition without the Cobain name. However, Curt’s work showed some promise. So do some visual artist’s forays into music or writing, etc. However, it takes quite a lot of work to be good in any medium, and people who have dedicated themselves to one rarely have the time to do so in another. I can’t think of anyone whose work I truly admire in two mediums.
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By the way, I am following your blog now! Would love a follow back if you so wish!
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Wow. What an amazing list. Great work.
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