Agnes Decourchelle is a living illustrator that uses colour pencils to make her illustration in an interesting way. She was graduated from the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts Decoratifs in Paris (Illustration) 1997-2001,and the Royal College of Art in London. (Master of Art, Communication Art and Design) 2001-2003.At the movement she is a drawing teacher at Pre’art and illustrator at Free Lance. She also worked for magazines and trends publicity like Mark & Spencer.

                                                                                 I like this image because it’s just a simple face of a lady, but just by adding the lights and details on her face by the colour pencils makes the image look much eye catching. She used all shades of colour pencils, she use blocks of colours to highlight a colour or to create shadow. The eyes, nose and lips were sketched in detailed, as its draws attention in the centre of the face. Colours Yellow on the right side of the face was used to create shadow.  However she used blue purple and red for the hair depending on the light reflection.  This image could create a summer feeling as per her use of colour (yellows and white.)                                                          

I like Agnes Decourchelle’s work because she has the ability to make even the smaller or simplest thing look much attractive by just using colour pencils. Without any previous sketch she directly draws out the illustration with the colour pencils giving all this details, shadows, light etc. The colours she uses to create a feeling and make the pictures alive/eye catching makes me want to create my own pieces of art work based on this same technique.

About Verner Panton

Verner Panton was born in 13^th feb 1926 – 5^th sep 1998. He is considered one of Denmark’s most remarkable innovative talent of 20^th century design and architecture. He went to Architectural studies at the Royal Academy of the Arts, Copenhagen. Later He marries Marianne in 1964 Basle and is blessed with a daughter Carin later in 1966.

During his career, he creates inflatable furniture, pioneered with the much single molded plastic chair in vibrant colours and refused to accept gravity by creating the flying chair.  The main purpose of his work is to provoke people into using their imagination. He says ‘Most people spend their lives living in dreary, grey-beige conformity, mortally afraid of using colours.’ By experimenting with lighting, colours, textiles and furniture and utilizing the latest technologies, he tries to show new ways, to encourage people to use their phantasy imagination and make their surroundings more exciting"

Near the end of the 1950s, his chair designs became more and more unconventional, with no legs or discernible back.

  

About Takashi Murakami

 

Takashi Murakami is, born in Tokyo. He is an internationally productive contemporary Japanese artist. He is best known for blurring the line between high and low arts. He works in fine arts media, such as painting and sculpture—as well as fashion, merchandise, and animation.

From his childhood, he was an enthusiastic follower of animation and manga (Japanese comics), and aspired to one day work in the animation industry.He attended T.U.A Tokyo University of the Arts, to gain drafting skills necessary to become an animator, but eventually majored in Nihonga, the ‘traditional’ style of Japanese painting that incorporates traditional Japanese artistic conventions, techniques and subjects.

He coined the term superflat, which describes the origins of contemporary Japanese visual pop culture to historical Japanese art. Superflat is also used as a moniker to describe Murakami’s own artistic style and that of other Japanese artists he has influenced.

The paintings, sculptures of Takashi Murakami are colourful and attractive, and accessible in their reference to lovable cartoon characters.  Murakami uses his deep understanding of Western art to integrate his work into its structure; working from the inside to portray “Japanese-ness” as a tool to bring about revolution in the world of art.

      

About Frank Gehry

 
 

Frank Gehry was born Frank Owen Goldberg on February 28, 1929, in Toronto, Canada. He studied at the University of Southern California and Harvard University. The Goldberg family was Polish and Jewish. He was creative at his young age, building imaginary homes and cities from items found in his grandfather's hardware store. He is known for his use of bold, postmodern shapes and unusual fabrications. Gehry's most famous designs include theWalt DisneyConcert Hall in Lost Angeles and the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao.


Gehry relocated to Los Angeles in 1949. It was during this time that he changed his Goldberg surname to Gehry, due to the intense dislike and prejudice against Jewish people.In 1956, Gehry moved to Massachusetts with his wife, Anita Snyder, to enrol at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. He later dropped out of Harvard and divorced his wife, with whom he had two daughters. Later in 1975, Gehry married Berta Isabel Aguilera, and had two more children.

After leaving Harvard, Frank Gehry returned to California, making a name for himself with the launch of his "Easy Edges" cardboard furniture line. The Easy Edges pieces, crafted from layers of corrugated cardboard sold between 1969 and 1973.

Still mainly interested in building rather than furniture design, Gehry remodeled a home for his family in Santa Monica with the money earned from Easy Edges. The remodel involved surrounding the existing bungalow with corrugated steel and chain-link fence, effectively splitting the house open with an angled skylight. Gehry's avant-garde design caught the attention of the architectural world, ultimately launching his career to new heights. He began designing homes in Southern California on a regular basis in the 1980s.

Once Gehry achieved celebrity status, his work took on a higher scale. His high-concept buildings, including the Walt DisneyConcert Hall in downtown Los Angeles, the Dancing House in Prague and the Guggenheim Museum building in Bilbao, Spain, have become tourist attractions in their own right.

 

Kara Walker is a contemporary African American artist who is best known for her room-size tableaux of black cut-paper silhouettes that examine the racial and gender tensions. Her works often address such highly charged themes as power, repression, history, race, and sexuality. Kara Walker was born in Stockton, California, in 1969. She received Focusing on painting and printmaking in college; she received her BFA from the Atlanta College of Art in 1991 and her MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1994. Walker was included in the 1997 Biennial exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

The think image i choose is about a child who is standing for her right and marching against other people. i think walker is representing herself in front of others at her childhood. This also reminds me that this child might be a slave working under someone else from her small age. She is holding a stick wrapped around with a cloth, which might represent her country or her race. However it might also be that the child has to go far to fetch the water from the lake or pound, describing her daily struggles.

I personally liked her work because it's a bit similar to my life as a child" standing alone for your safety or securement without being dependent on anyone else. Most of her works speaks strongly through her art work, as they have such a powerfully emotional impact on the viewers. The technique walker used to create this art piece is on a silhouette, walker draws her images with a greasy white pencil on a large piece of black paper, which then she cuts out with an x-acto knife. As she composes her images, she thinks in reverse, in a way, because she needs to flip the silhouettes over after she cuts them. The images are then stick on to paper, canvas, wood or directly to the girl personally liked her work because it's a bit similar to my life as a child" standing alone for your safety into wall with wax.

About Si scott

 

Si Scott is a full-time artist, Graphic designer and creative consultant based in the U who is originally from Leeds. He left school at 16 and went to Leeds College Of Art & Design (Where he is now a visiting lecturer at Leeds College of Art & Design on the 3rd year BA Hons degree in Visual Communications,).

 

He’s noted for his unique style, blending hand-crafted and hand-drawn artwork that has gained him numerous awards and a prestigious client list. So far in his career he has completed projects for Matthew Williamson, Vogue, Nike, Tiffany & Co and Sony to name a few. As well as contributing to advertising campaigns for Guinness, Absolut and American Express.

 

Si has recently taken time out to develop his skills further. Challenging the 2D perspective of his work by rendering his hand drawn creations in 3D form. Si has given talks and exhibited his work at institutions in cities around the world including Tokyo, New York, Brazil and Sydney. His work is extensively done by hand, as work is 90% hand and 10% other methods – such as the computer for colouring etc. he also use paint quite a lot.

 

 

 

 

This design is by Si Scott and displays a dove, the symbol of peace, in his indomitable highly detailed illustrative hand drawn style on a T-shirt.

 

About Michael Craig-Martin.

Michael Craig-Martin was born in 1941 in Dublin Ireland. He grew up and was educated in United States, did his fine art at Yale university school of art. He came to Britain on culmination of his studies in 1996 and he worked and lived there ever since. Whilst at Yale University, Craig-Martin met his colleague and future wife Jan Hashey with whom he had a daughter, Jessica Craig-Martin. He is divorced from Hashey.

 

He gained an interest in art through one of the priests, who was an artist, and was also strongly impressed by a display in the Phillips Collection of work by Rothko. Even though His parents had no lean to art, though they did have on display in their home Picasso's Greedy Child. He attended drawing classes given there by artist in Washington, then in 1959 attended Fordham University in New York for English Literature and History, while also starting to paint.

 

His first solo exhibition was at the Rowan Gallery, London in 1969. He participated in the definitive exhibition of British conceptual art, “The New Art” at the Hayward Gallery in 1972. Throughout his career, he has explored the expressive potential of commonplace objects and images. His best known works include An oak tree of 1973, in which he claimed to have changed a glass of water into an oak Tree; his large-scale black and white wall drawings; and his intensely coloured paintings, Installations and public commissions.

 

 

"Picture of An oak tree of 1973"

An Oak Tree consists of an ordinary glass of water placed on a small glass shelf of the type normally found in a bathroom, which is attached to the wall above head height. Craig-Martin composed a series of questions and answers to accompany the objects. In these, the artist claims that the glass of water has been transformed into an oak tree.

Over the past fifteen years he has done exhibitions and site specific installations in numerous museums and public galleries including Kunsthaus Bregenz, the Centre Pompidou, MoMA, the Kunstvereins in Hannover, Dusseldorf, and Stuttgart, IVAM in Valencia, the Magasin in Grenoble, the Arp Museum in Rolandseck, and the National Art Centre Tokyo. He represented Britain in the 23rd Sao Paulo Biennale.

A retrospective of his work was presented at the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London 1989 and at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin in 2006. Craig-Martin is well known to have been an influential teacher at Goldsmiths College London, and is considered a key figure in the emergence of the young British artists in the early 90’s. He was elected to the Royal Academy in 2006. He is represented by the Gagosian Gallery.

 

In his new and vivid acrylic-on-aluminium paintings, Craig-Martin continues his currently happening explorations of reality and theatrical in art. Each painting is predicated on a single word, such as “art” or “sign,”which he treats tautologically, interweaving the letters of the word, delivered in varying sizes, with line drawings of mundane objects such as shoes, hammers, light bulbs, safety pins, and chairs, against a vivid monochrome background. The combined effect of the letters and the objects reduced to pictogram creates an illusion of transparency and depth of field; narrative play results from this collocation and layering. Through such apparently random groupings Craig-Martin exploits the complex and often consistent relationships between word and image.

 

 

HIs new vivid acrlic on aluminium: 

[ART (green), 2010
Acrylic on aluminum
48 x 48 inches ]

My view about his work :
I like his work because his paintings are simple enough to seem obvious but complex enough to provide a variety of avenues for imaginative and aesthetic play, as my drawings are simple enough yet trying different things at a very simple level. Instead of looking at a painting, it feels like you are stepping inside it.

Quotations: Michael Craig-Martin: 'Any creative person has more options than you could possibly deal with.'