Can you recommend artists in the style of...?

[RosemaryDarling]

Hello. I'm Rosemary and I'm currently really into this style;
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Those are Lou Romano, he works at Pixar
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And these are from Samurai Jack, which Genndy Tartakovsky is the creator of. (You may guess I'm from an animation background)

I don't really know what to call this style, it's heavily simplified, more about colour scheme and shape than detail, it's very suggestive and a bit retro. And I love it. I would like to look at other artist's work that is like this. Do you know any?

Thanks.
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[Onir]

If you are liking this stylized look I would suggest maybe looking at the United Productions of America (UPA for short). They were a company that spawned in the 50s off of Disney during the strikes that were going on there; their work has become pretty difficult to find sadly, but they were some early pioneers within animation to really start pushing this stylized approach. Here are a couple of examples:

John Hubley's Rooty Toot Toot

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One of the Gerald McBoing Boing shorts (this one by Bobe Cannon)

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Craig McCracken is great to look at; he had some strong influence by UPA in his earlier work

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Those are a few that sort of show what UPA was about, though they really did much more than just those. If you have the Hellboy DVD there are actually a few UPA shorts in the special features, so that's another place to find a few example of this work.

Not to sound like an advertisement, but if you are interested in this area I'd suggest checking out the book Cartoon Modern by Amid Amidi; his book is extremely comprehensive and covers the genre very nicely. Also John K (who worked on Ren and Stimpy) has been a large part in bringing back the retro look within animation (the log shorts in Ren and Stimpy are a good example of this), so he's not a bad guy to look at. Here's his blog: http://johnkstuff.blogspot.com/ . Lastly, this is a site with some nice stylized vector (I'm pretty sure it's vector) work http://welcometobigcity.blogspot.com/ ; found it on this site a little while ago actually (there might be a stylized artists thread floating around here somewhere).

There's a good amount of stuff out there and the internet/blogs/forums are making it easier to find, thank goodness. Hope I could help at least a bit, and good luck! :)

[BubbaGump]

Check out the book, Cartoon Modern: Style and Design in 50s animation, you'll love it.

I'm a big Genndy Tartakovsky and Romano fan too so if you like those guys check out these recent Calarts graduates as well:

http://lorelaybove.blogspot.com/
http://brigetteb.blogspot.com/

I suppose if you can give the style a name it would be called minimal realism as that's the term used to describe Charles Harper who used to draw and paint this way.

http://grainedit.com/2008/02/25/charles-harper-illustrations-giant-golden-book-of-biology/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynf9PZeMruA

^^Check out that Royal Bank of Canada commercial as well. Good stuff.

[RosemaryDarling]

Thanks so much everyone. These artists are exactly the sort of thing I'm after.

[Fireflights]

You may also want to try Tim Biskup.

http://www.timbiskup.com/artwork/paintings/

After seeing him, initially, I thought he'd worked on Samurai Jack (and yeah, I love that style, too. :) ). Apparently not, though - but he's been asked that before.

Looks like his site has fewer images than when I last checked (odd) but he's just another one you may want to add to your list. :)