favorite artists

I am very curious which art styles and which artists the Art as Process participants admire the most.

To launch the discussion here are a few of mine:

• Anything ancient, especially Egyptian, Assyrian, and Greek Geometric
• Hindu, Persian, and Mughal miniatures http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_miniatures http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mughal_painting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_painting
  
• Anything Buddhist, particularly Gandharan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhist_art http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandhara#Gandharan_art http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greco-Buddhist_art
  
• Japanese woodblock prints http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukiyo-e

• Shahzia Sikander (contemporary) -- http://www.shahziasikander.com/ http://www.sdmart.org/exhibition-shahzia.html
  
• Picasso (who doesn't love Pablo Ruiz?) -- http://picasso.tamu.edu/picasso/
• Laurel Burch (contemporary designer) -- http://www.laurelburch.com/
• El Greco (Spanish Master) -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Greco
• Cezanne, van Gogh, Gauguin, Chagall, Matisse, Rivera, Kahlo, O'Keeffe, Warhol
  
• Rockwell Kent (illustrator/artist) -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockwell_Kent http://clubs.plattsburgh.edu/museum/rkent1.htm
  
• Tamara de Lempicka (art deco) -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamara_De_Lempicka
  
• Takashi Murakami (superflat -- he's also the guy who designed the colorful Louis Viutton handbags) -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takashi_Murakami