| CF Agencies: Artist: * Studied at the College of Fine Arts * Lives and works in Sydney * She has a strong foundation of drawing * Influenced by artists such as Kiki Smith, Louise Boirgeois, John Currin and Shirin Neshat as well as the drawings of Henry Darger. * Born in 1972…
He was originally an engineer for the City of San Francisco Water and Sewers Department, and he designed one of the largest sewer systems in the United States. When he was finished with his work with the sewers he switched to a job with the sports department of a San Francisco newspaper. Seems like a big move, but he wasn’t done yet. He began to submit drawings and cartoons to the editor. The editor denied him. He continued to send in his drawings until one of his zany drawings was finally published (George). People seemed interested in his cartoons. The more his cartoons were published the more people liked him. He grew more and more popular. Soon the entire world knew his name. The more popular he became the more his cartoons became in demand, and for his cartoons he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1948 for the best editorial cartoon, his “Peace Today,” a warning against atomic weapons (Chopra), and as a result grew and grew in popularity until he became an American…
He actively uses his talent to express himself and how he sees the world and people. Not only does he often questions life in his cartoons, but also by drawing something contradictive, for instance, he seeks for answers and, as a result, gains great shifts in his awareness. As we know growing up can be or is a painful process. It seems that Junior’s talent helps him to grow up and go through the situations, which life brings him, with much less pain. This way along with naturally physical growth he also grows emotionally, from a boy with a bunch of medical problems and a huge inferiority complex into a confident brave young man. Junior’s journey is a great example of hope and positivity.…
Hayao Miyazaki is the first animation designer who represents the humanitarianism to animation (Cavallaro, 2015). His humanistic films include lots of themes such as environmental protection, youth growing, anti-war, feminism and so on. Those different items are showing Hayao Miyazaki's deep concern about the universe and life. His thinking is so distinctive because of his profound concern themes in the films. Also, this is why the audiences love his movie. Besides, the theme is the soul and core of the animation film and his themes are not only related to our daily life but also consider some significant social issues(Rustin and Rustin, 2012). What is interesting is that although the themes change in his films, the environmentalism…
Walter alias Disney born on December 5th 1901 regarded as pioneer in American animation industry he is would many would call cultural icon. Walter Disney was born in Chicago as a young boy he took extra art classes and eventually got a job in commercial illustrator at the age of eighteen. In the early twenty's he and his brother Roy O. Disney established the Disney brothers studio which would go on to be known as the world Disney animation studios. This studio become popular for many creations of many characters and intellectual properties such as Mickey Mouse, that is still well known today. As a studio group becoming increasingly successful Walt Disney became more adventurous with ideas. Later he introduced synchronize sound and colors to his animation. Walt Disney opened Disney land by 1955 and after…
Ray first became interested in design at high school. He always loved art and studied painting, drawing and sculpture at school. He wanted a career that would be creative but realised early on that being an artist might be a difficult area to make a living.…
The book The Wright Brothers by David McCullough focus on the importance of Wilbur and Orville Wright and their invention. Wilbur Wright was the middle child of the five children in the Wright’s family. He was born on April 16, 1867 in Millville, Indiana. His mother, Susan Koerner Wright, was highly intelligent and understanding but unfortunately she passed away due to tuberculosis in 1889. She always had high hopes and dreams for Wilbur and Orville. His father, Bishop Milton Wright, was a very wise and strong-minded man, much like Wilbur and Orville. Their invention of the airplane has made such an impact on the world today.…
Kelda Martensen has an MFA from Washington University in St. Louis and serves as printmaking, book arts and drawing faculty at North Seattle College. While working as an Artist-in- Residence at Pratt, Martensen created this limited edition artist book composed of ten individual broadsides enclosed in a hand-made clamshell box. Each image broadside combines screen print, monotype and xerox transfer. The pages in this artist book are unbound, and viewers are encouraged to hold each one as an object, and to turn it over in hand. Each page presents one word of a nine word original poem which communicates a desire to cope - even thrive - through uncertainty.…
December 17th, 1903 at 10:35 am marked the beginning of aviation as we now know it. The Wright brothers launched the Wright Flyer into the air near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina with Wilbur Wright at the controls. The aircraft stayed airborne for twelve seconds and covered a distance of one hundred and twenty feet. This was the culmination of many years of hard work and research to achieve these results.…
Since then he has produced over 150 works that have been shown in museums, galleries, film festivals, and on public television worldwide. During the 1970s he lived for 18 months in Florence, Italy, as technical director of production in one of the first video art studios in Europe, and then traveled widely to study and record traditional performing arts in the Solomon Islands, Java, Bali, and Japan. From 1980 81 he lived in Japan with his wife Kira Perov on a Japan/U.S. Cultural Exchange Fellowship, where he studied Buddhism with Zen Master Daien Tanaka and was artist-in-residence at Sony Corporation s Atsugi research laboratories. In 1984 he was an artist-in-residence at the San Diego Zoo in California for a project on animal…
unknown but very talented. There were lots of artistic mediums used liked acrylic paintings, oil…
The 1920s were a huge decade in terms of innovations. It quickly grew and gained popularity. One of the biggest innovations were airplanes. Airplanes and the aviation industry changed and transformed in the 1920s. Prior to World War One, airplanes were really rare. World War One hastened the development of bettered, longer lasting airplanes. After the war, people see a change and America sees a mass production of airplanes. The continual development of airplanes really helped America’s success back in the 1920s. The further development of airplanes benefited America as they see the increase of money flow through these innovations, gave and allowed people to travel around the world, and lastly it made traveling easier in the air rather than…
Eric Carle is brilliant and well known creator and illustrator who’s work been presented all over the world. Eric Carle was born in Syracuse, New York in 1929. He was raised and educated IN Germany as he left with parents when he was 6 year old. Eric Carle received a great education and graduated from a higher rated art school of art, called the Akademie der bildenden kunste. Eric Carle graduated with honor but wished and dreamed of returning to the United States. He remembered his childhood of happiness and worked hard to return to the United States and in 1952 did so with only forty dollars in his pocket and portfolio in has hand. Eric was employed as graphic designer of “The New York Times” and for after some time for many years become the art and director of an advertising agency.…
Maurits Cornelis Escher is one of the world's most famous graphic artists. His art is enjoyed by millions of people all over the world. M.C. Escher, during his lifetime, over 2000 drawings and sketches. He was born in Leeuwarden, Netherlands on June 17th, 1898 as the fourth and youngest son of a civil engineer. He failed his high school exams, and ultimately was enrolled in the School Decorative Arts in Haarlem. After finishing school, he traveled throughout Italy, where he met his wife Jetta Umiker. They settled in Rome, where they stayed until 1935. During these 11 years, Maurtis would travel each year throughout all of Italy, drawing for the various prints he would make when he returned back home.…
An equally important topic to discuss aside from the invention of the airplane itself, is the concept and importance of airplane stability that first began to appear in the 1900s. With this in mind, airplane stability refers to the tendency of an airplane remaining in a straight and upright position despite there being a change in attitude during the flight (Vincenti, p. 52). However, while the invention of the airplane was gradually gaining the interest of inventors/pilots during the late 1800s into the early 1900s, the importance of airplane stability was not always obvious and was often taken for granted. For example, in the 1910s, airplane stability was often referred to as a confusing term that was valued as important based on a matter…