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I like Escher and Dali, and that's about it from historical artists. I've never really seen the draw of artists who strive for realism.
Contemporarily there are a handful of Japanese artists I like, and I really get hard for fractal architecture.
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Well, when it comes to historical artists, painters in specific, the big thing about realism was that it wasn't really a thing that properly captured until the High Renaissance. I'm not a big fan of strictly realism. Semi-realsim, however, is really appealing.
Heavily stylized work tends to be my favourite in the 2D realm. Things that are very simple with maybe 3-4 colours at the most. Popart is also nice. Ed Heck makes some pretty great popart.
I think why realism draws so many people in now a days isn't because oh it's nice to look at, but rather because they can't do it themselves. The typical mind set is Realism is REALLY SUPER HARD and anything stylized is super easy and doesn't have as much effort put into it.
Also, something I wanted to share that I thought was
pretty cool that I found recently. I've seen paper art before, but not really like this. Usually when I see paper art it's in the vein of paper dolls and popup books. I also saw some guy recently who did paper art, but it was more geometric and instead of cutting he focused more on folding. I can't seem to find a link to it though, much less remember the guys name.
