Artists To Look III

I'm a film fanatic, although I don't watch a lot of films. But there are people in films that interest me in a lot of ways. Here are two artists who once been into film business - an actor and a filmmaker - but kept art as a personal interest:

John Lurie
I haven't seen his latest paintings displayed at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts last few months ago, which to me I never knew that he also a painter. Slowly noticed of his art talents, his paintings created a certain playfulness and sillyness in pop-primative style. If you may heard of him, he was with the jazz combo The Lounge Lizards in his early career and was in films by Jim Jarmusch such as Stranger Than Paradise and Down By Law (see the latter; great film!)

http://www.strangeandbeautiful.com/

Chris Marker
Away from the media, he was an internationally known experimental multimedia artist since the one particular film in the 60s that made him recognizable. La Jetée (definitely see this film if you are a film student or a film lover) is an unexpected science-fiction film made almost entirely of still images, which the storyline is the inspiration for Terry Gilliam's film 12 Monkeys. Recognized later of his video art, concerning about the digital age and the technological aspects of the future.

- article from Senses of Cinema -