Favourite Painters/Artists.
 

The great H.R. Giger definitely springs to mind. I love the fact that most of his works are devoid of colour yet are still incredibly vivid and sometimes strangely erotic:

http://beinart.org/artists/hr-giger/...hr-giger-7.jpg

http://www.linesandcolors.com/images.../giger_450.jpg

I would love to go to the Giger museum some time. His imagination is astonishing.

Monet is another favourite. Cliched I know but I love his work for the exact opposite reasons to liking Giger. His pictures are bright, colourful and evocative:

http://arttoheartweb.com/images/Clau...ly%20Pond2.jpg

http://www2.murrieta.k12.ca.us/tovas...ges/monet5.jpg

Did Giger make Jonathan Davis' microphone stand? Pretty sure he did... and it's awesome.

I love Edvard Munch:
http://lovesucksmovie.files.wordpres...8/04/munch.jpg
(he is also the artist of famous Scream painting)

And Rozi Demant:
http://ursispaltenstein.ch/blog/imag...ozi_demant.jpg

And Alex Grey:
http://members.cox.net/cbshard/wonde...lex%20Grey.jpg

And so many more.

I don't know if he did the microphone stand but has done plenty of sculptures in his time. I like that Rozi Demant piece.

Dali has to be my favorite.

http://openesf.net/projects/esf-acti...ld-new-man.jpg

Also love de Chirico, Miro, Ernst, Magritte, Kandinsky, Giger, Escher, Bacon, Van Gogh, Kirchner, Chagall, Monet, Manet, Hopper, Wyeth and too many others to count.

My favorite styles are surrealism, expressionism and impressionism.

I'm not too picky when it comes to art, I like just about everything. Except most modern art, stuff like concept art, abstract expressionism, De Stijl and most (not all) pop art, which I despise.

I have a soft spot for proggy album cover designers like Boris Vallejo and especially Rodney Matthews:

http://www.metallibrary.ru/bands/dis...87_mirador.jpg

Alphonse Mucha:
http://www.arthistoryguide.com/images/27.jpg

Salvador Dali:
http://api.ning.com/files/o76sJE0a7J...ali20hello.jpg

Zdzislaw Beksinski:
http://www.majic12.com/lj_ZdzislawBeksinski035.jpg

Bacon and Escher are awesome. I think my favorite of the surrealists is probably Roberto Matta though, his paintings are stunning. Also, I can understand a dislike for modern art (especially from you) but even abstract expressionism? De Kooning is great, for one.

matta:

http://www.steamshovelpress.com/imag...tatheearth.jpg

excavation

http://www.theslideprojector.com/ima...excavation.jpg

Yeah Matta is awesome.

I can't stand De Kooning, not only because his work isn't even remotely aesthetically pleasing and looks like something anyone could do, but it's just plain ugly and sexist, I will never understand the hype.

Conceptual art is the worst kind of art imaginable, find a dead shark, nail it to the wall, and tada, it's art.

With the exception of Kandinsky, I don't get abstract expressionism at all, I downright loath Pollack.

Pop art I'm divided on, I hate a lot of it, especially Warhol. But I like Lowbrow art out of the newer movements.

This was originally going to be the cover of Alice Cooper's debut album.

Yeah you told me about that before.