influenced by the creations of these two men. They have not only shaped their artist into…
My favorite pieces were by an artist named Daniel Shapiro. His pieces were dark, textured…
The artist that peeked my interest the most within the, Art 21: Time video was Paul Pfeiffer. Pfeiffer appears to me as a man who understand the significance of his surroundings. Like myself Pfeiffer is attracted to events that bring in a crowd like sporting events, he works on showing the relationship between objects, what is around the object, and what role the object plays where it is. Pfeiffer even believed of himself as a translator not an author, meaning that what he is showing in his art isn’t his own he is recycling these materials, and displaying them in his own perspective, which I believe is very humble of him to admit.…
A great amount of connection is seen both inside and outside of Hendricks’s work. His unique style contains elements of pop art, photo realism, minimalism, and Black Nationalism. It also serves as something of a bridge between the movements of realism and post modernism.2 Additionally, each of his…
There are so many different types of movies, clothes, magazines, styles now that we have technology there are no limits. We may love or hate the designs we see, but we never really think about the person, the brain behind all the madness. Where did these ideas come from? Who could possibly think and imagine the images we see for all this work? Mike Salisbury might be the answer to these questions. Mike Salisbury started the first five years of his career as an art director for West, the Sunday supplement of the Los Angeles Times, in 1967.…
As a child Mark Bradford had known his mother and grandmother to be creators. He called them creators because as a job title they were seamstresses. The ability to make things, new things at that for people was the motivation and process of making things. The contrast of the objects used on the collage is weird because he just used scraps that were lying around the house. The contrast was the placing of fabrics next to a different color and flow of the piece was in amazing. It made me think of rhythm that is somehow missing but never seems to finds its own way. The fact he put two different pieces of fabric next to each…
Mary Cassatt’s earlier style was characterized for colorful scenes from contemporary life. After being influences by the impressionists she developed a distinctive style that combined a light, bright, palette with strong contours and confident volumes. In 1882 influences by two Japanese woodcuts she began to emphasize informal natural gestures and positions. She was attracted to the simplicity and clarity of Japanese skillful use of blocks of color, e.g. “The bath”…
His artistic influences ranged from Cézanne to Henry Rousseau and from Picasso to André Derain . However, early on he was influenced by the work of French Post-Impressionist painter Cézanne, cubism (20th century avant-garde art movement) , and futurism (early 20th century artistic and social movement) and this caused Morandi to develop a very unique, independent style. His number one influence come from Paul Cézanne whose emphasis on form and flat areas of colour intrigued Morandi to follow Cézanne's footsteps all through out his career. Morandi concentrated mainly on still lives and landscapes, except for a couple of self-portraits.…
Kehinde wiley is one artist I admire so much and I’ve never had the opportunity to really go into details who exactly he is other than what’s on the surface. I choose this article from GQ.com because it explains in detail the creative process of one of the most celebrated painters in the world. Wiley is not your regular painter, he’s in a world of his own and his uniqueness sets him apart from his contemporaries. He is well known for portraits of young African-American men staged in heroic poses, evoking famous portraits from art history. Born in Los Angeles, California. He started painting in year 2000. He earned his BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and his MFA from the Yale University School of Art. Wiley’s early work consists of Photo-Realistic paintings of men, whom he had met on the streets in Harlem, set against a floral background. In all of his work, Wiley combines a wide range of references from classical painting and pop culture.…
Pop Art came to fruition at the wake of the Second World War eventually peaking at the prime of capitalism; the movement was distinguished by their portrayal of any and all characteristics of popular culture that had a powerful influence on contemporary society. Themes of consumerism such as advertisements, comic strips, film stars and products led to the blurring of boundaries between higher and lower cultures of that era, through the use of these received notions, pop art became a western sociological phenomenon, developing into a mirror of their epoch. The movement walked a tight rope of social commentary, “either honouring the accomplishments of industry and fashion or responding with sarcasm and concern to the nation’s consumer society”1.…
Artists throughout time are subjected to changing their practice due to context and issues within this time period. Artists that center around performance art, who use shock to convey their artworks, are subjected to change. Changes within the world inspire artists to create artworks that reflect these evolving aspects. Different developments in terms of practice have changed the world that we know. Advancements with technology, science and environment have influenced performance artists such pioneers in performance art Yves Klein, Stelarc and Ron Mueck who creates life like figures artworks that in their own way perform for the audience. These influences have shaped the performance artists practice, Klein’s use of monochrome art to represent the empty space surrounding the earth; the void, by using his own mix of the colour blue; Klein creates artworks to represent the empty space in the environment. In Klein’s later years he began to work with naked female models to create body prints. Likewise to stelarc’s use of incorporating technology within the body to make a hybrid or cyborg to reflect of what humans will become in the future, Stelarc looks at the body’s ability to expand or be altered as well as the mental capabilities of being fused with the cybernetic world. Technology has had a dramatic influence on Stelarc’s practice. Mueck creates life like sculptures often altering the size of the figures. Mueck’s use of creating grotesque, eerie life like sculptures shocks the audience, sometimes thinking that they would be real if they were the proper size ratio. Mueck’s art work ‘Dead Dad’ shocked audiences into believing that there could have been a real dead man lying on the floor. If the artwork were to be resurrected, friends and family would recognise the sculpture straight away, and to the…
particular artists that stood out to me because of the way they either blended colors , used the…
One of Basquiat’s greatest assets that set him apart from his contemporaries was his visual specificity through colorful details during a time in which this was uncommon. The art world had been captivated by the movements of minimalism and conceptualism. Conceptualism placed a greater importance on the ideas behind a piece than the actual execution and minimalist art preferred to abstain from overly detailed pieces of work. While they derived independently during an era in which art was (as Saggese has described it) “prepackaged for consumption”, they were both parts of the postmodern art movement and placed very little significance on aesthetic and execution (68). One of Basquiat’s well-esteemed peers, Andy Warhol, even discussed how while creating one of his most famous pieces of work, 210 Coca-Cola Bottles, he simply made the initial design and reproduced it again and again, almost like a machine.…
4.Gourley, Catherine. Ms. and the Material Girls: Perceptions of Women from the 1970s through the 1990s. Minneapolis, MN: Twenty-First Century, 2008. Print.…
The Arts and Crafts Movement began in the last decades of the 19th century. It was developed by the ideas and views of William Morris who was inspired by John Ruskin. William Morris was a dynamic and multi-talented man. His name is “indissolubly linked to wallpaper design” (William Morris & Wallpaper Design, [sa]). All his designs were made by hand and not machines because Morris believed that “the tastelessness of mass-produced goods and the lack of honest craftsmanship might be addressed by a reunion of art with craft” (Meggs and Purvis 1998:179).…