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.'