History Main / EccentricArtist

* Ambrosius, the spirit inside the Staff of Creation, in [[WebAnimation/RWBY]]. His every line oozes [[Main/LargeHam hamminess]] and his over-the-top mannerisms only add to his artistic allusions, although it should be noted that he is still one of the most powerful characters in the show, hampered only by his inability to destroy.

* Yusuke from ''VideoGame/Persona5'' has a tendency to look at most things in an artistic context, like rather than enjoying the flavor of food he's more interested in the plating aesthetics.

* Italian FashionDesigner UsefulNotes/ElsaSchiaparelli at the height of her career during the 1930s and 40s. Being a FashionDesigner who is also affiliated with {{Surrealis|m}}ts, her designs included atypical and "shocking" motifs like the shoe hats, the Lobster Dress, the Skeleton Dress, and the Tears Dress.

* Chris Griffin in ''Fanfic/FamilyGuyFanon'' shows this more compared to his [[WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy real counterpart]]. As he's transformed into a slow-witted teenager that makes strange and abstract art

* Inversion in ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': Squidward fancies himself as an artist and yet he's so straightlaced. That's probably why people think his art is tasteless.

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* In ''Film/TheAdventuresOfPicasso'', most characters are artists (painters, poets, singers, and ballet dancers), and pretty much everyone is a CloudcuckooLander.
* ''Film/AmericanPsycho'': Vanden and her boyfriend Stash, both invited by Evelyn, are all black-clad and looks like dazed.

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* In ''Lo que le falta al tiempo'' (''What Time is Missing'') by Angela Becerra, a quirky young Parisian artist Mazarine [[BarefootLoon goes barefoot even in winter]].

* The Latvian artist [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voldem%C4%81rs_Irbe Voldemārs Irbe]] was known for his disheveled appearance and [[BarefootLoon going barefoot all year round]].

Specific subtypes include ThePrimaDonna and the PrimaDonnaDirector. Also compare DitzyGenius, where a character's high intelligence is offset by a lack of common sense and/or cluelessness about mundane subjects beneath their intellectual interests. Can also overlap with EccentricFashionDesigner if they do fashion illustration and design. See ReclusiveArtist, SensitiveArtist, and StarvingArtist for other artist stereotypes.

* Methodia Rascal in ''Literature/{{Thud}}'' is famed for his incredibly in-depth and accurate painting of a famous battle from centuries ago. And also for thinking he was a chicken.

* In ''The Peacock Party'', Oswald Ostrich R.A. is an artist who keeps a bewildering variety of animals in and around his studio, is a RummageSaleReject who wears a bowtie ''and'' a regular tie, and his eponymous poem ends by calling him "as mad as a hatter".

* In ''Literature/TheGargoyle'', Marianne Engel carves her grotesques with a manic obsession, eschewing food and sleep for days and days on end, leading to repeated hospitalizations and commitments. She believes that she is [[spoiler:giving away her "thousands of hearts," and will die once she has given away the last one. Which she does.]] She also talks to herself in Latin and believes that she's Really700YearsOld. Nonetheless, she [[LoonWithAHeartOfGold is very kind and loving]], and is the protagonist's LoveInterest.

** Musicians in Muppet productions are frequently portrayed as eccentric: The Electric Mayhem are so detached from reality that later productions just outright started implying they're on drugs; in the Music/DebbieHarry episode of ''The Muppet Show'', when she meets the Muppet punk group she says "You aren't my normal band. But then, whoever heard of a normal band?"; and in ''Series/TheJimHensonHour'' when Kermit questions how Solid Foam are actually musicians (since their music is synthesised and autotuned) he gets the reply "Who else would dress like this?"

* The Great Gonzo from ''Series/TheMuppetShow'' comes up with acts like smashing up a car to the tune of "The Anvil Chorus", playing ''Eine kleine nachtmusik'' on the bagpipes while sitting on a flagpole, or reciting Percy Shelley's "To a Skylark" while disarming a bomb, so maybe "eccentric" is putting it mildly.

Specific subtypes include ThePrimaDonna and the PrimaDonnaDirector. Also compare DitzyGenius, where a character's high intelligence is offset by a lack of common sense and/or cluelessness about mundane subjects beneath their intellectual interests. Can also overlap with EccentricFashionDesigner if they do fashion illustration and design.

* The title character of ''Literature/AnneOfGreenGables'' has a very vivid and whimsical imagination that causes her caring but prosaic guardian no end of frustration and sometimes leads to mishaps like nearly drowning when she tries to act out the funeral of [[Myth/KingArthur Elaine of Astolat]] in a leaky rowboat. Although even some of her closest friends can't help finding her a little strange at times, her flights of fancy make her a talented writer who could probably have made a successful career of it had she chosen.

* ''Film/TheElectricalLifeOfLouisWain'': Louis is a very popular illustrator, but has always been...off. He's completely unconcerned with money, has a number of weird hobbies, is rather awkward and easily manipulated, and prone to ranting about electricity in the world. Tellingly he kept a pet cat, at the time an unconventional choice since they were mostly seen as mouse-hunters.

* In ''Film/TheUnbearableWeightOfMassiveTalent'', affluent aspiring screenwriter Javi pursues his desires to script a Creator/NicolasCage movie through unconventional tactics. Some of these include paying Nick a million dollars to discuss his writings in person, renewing Nick's interest in storytelling by tricking him to help improvise an adventure, and sharing LSD with him when they need new ideas for the movie's plot. [[spoiler:Javi's tactics all prove worth it, as moviegoers end up loving the completed film.]]

* ''Literature/MassEffectAnnihilation:'' Yorrick the elcor, who as the name suggests is just a bit of a LoonyFan for Shakespeare, even coming to the conclusion that the Bard ''must'' have been a secret elcor. His dream is bring the joy of Shakespeare made by him to another galaxy. That said, he's apparently pretty good at his day job - a GP (ear, nose and throat).

* ''Music/KidsPraise'': Psalty and the kids are mistaken for this while time-travelling to a 1820s tent meeting, due to the fact that they were wearing 1980s clothing, which would look strange to someone from the 1820s:

* Mabel Pines in ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' is an arts-and-crafts loving twelve-year-old who can make professional-quality wax sculptures and has knitted herself an UnlimitedWardrobe of customized novelty sweaters. She is also the biggest {{Cloudcuckoolander}} of her rather eccentric family, and does things such as bedazzling her own face, [[MundaneObjectAmazement getting excited about grass]], and [[ExtremeOmnivore eating stickers]].

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