Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Best Facial Hair Nominations

Taking nominations for "Artists with best facial hair." 


Please include link-URL in your comment. We'll do a poll of the top ten later in the week.
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Left: Fritz von Uhde; Right: Salvador Dali.

20 comments:

  1. The impetus behind the Moustache Man's art was to "raise awareness for the tens of people in the world who are born with the horrible, unsightly condition where your moustache grows into the word moustache,"

    http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/37980/moustache-man-nycs-irrepressible-subway-artist-humbled-at-the-hands-of-the-law/

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  3. I was always fascinated by Aivazovsky facial hair style Here one of his portrait — http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d7/Aivazovsky_portrait_by_Tyranov.jpg and another one — http://uploads4.wikipaintings.org/images/ivan-aivazovsky/self-portrait-1874.jpg

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  4. What about the "Jim Gurney Rust Belt"?

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  5. Hard to compete with Dali, but Courbet, as he appears in his painting La rencontre, ou "Bonjour Monsieur Courbet"

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  6. Came here to say, "Frida Kahlo." Leaving satisfied.

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  7. Anyone for Caspar Friedrich?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gerhard_von_K%C3%BCgelgen_portrait_of_Friedrich.jpg

    All serious artists should consider facial hair as a form of artistic self-expression.

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  8. Craziest or best? Sargent wins for best.

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  9. Leonardo Da Vinci - self portrait
    1512 - red chalk on paper

    http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f9/Leonardo_da_Vinci_-_Self-Portrait_-_WGA12798.jpg

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  10. The eyebrows, sideburns and mustache... who else but Frida Kahlo!

    But I see Gregory Lee already left a link to the same self-portrait I was going to suggest. :-)

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  11. i say we get james to grow a
    monkey tail beard
    and nominate him for the best facial hair by an artist! whos with me!

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  12. Man Ray

    http://pdunne.aiwsites.com/biography.htm

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  13. Many excellent candidates in this post from my blog: http://fredhatt.com/blog/2011/07/05/the-artists-beard/

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  14. And, for another artist amongst the living, Alexey Steele.

    http://www.fineartsla.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/darter_alexeysteele_267.jpg

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  16. I don't want to nominate them, but here you can find interesting mustaches.

    Mustaches of Hungarian type (the page is called Hungarian mustaches): http://www.magyarbajusz.hu/node/31

    Mustaches and hussards:
    http://www.hussards-photos.com/Moustache_home.htm#1

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  17. Count Lajos Batthyany (1807-1849), prime minister of Hungary (1848), executed at the behest of the Austrian emperor at the end of the Hungarian revolution and independence war (1849). This painting was made by the noted painter, Miklos Barabas.

    http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/43/Barabas-batthyany.jpg

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  18. Sorry I misunterstood, the person I've nominated (January 25, 2012 7:04 AM), wasn't an artist...

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