Picasso

Pablo Picasso who was born in the 25th of October 1881 in Malaga, Spain was the crator of cubism.he became one of the greatest and  most influential artist who's amazing art actually transforms  the 20th century . In 1907, Pablo Picasso produced a painting unlike anything he or anyone else had ever painted before, a work that would  influence the direction of art in the 20th century: "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon," a chilling depiction of five nude prostitutes, abstracted and distorted with sharp geometric features and harsh blotches of blues, greens and greys.

In Cubist paintings, objects are broken apart and reassembled in an abstracted form, highlighting their composite geometric shapes and depicting them from multiple, simultaneous viewpoints in order to create collage-like effects. During the world war 2 he still continued to paint  in paris while the Germans were taking over the land. He sadly died at the age of 91 On the 8th of April 1973 in Mougins, France. 

       >>  Picasso's Woman with Mandolin (1910) . I like this painting because of  the way  Picasso, has painted the sculptor,  or fragments the girl's body into facets that are modelled to simulate their projection of the flat picture plane toward the viewer and that portray her in movement as she strums her mandolin. What Picasso is trying to depict here is the fourth dimension, the space/time. I really like how the detail and depth of the light colours that reflects this painting, even without hot colours. It very hard to do a copy of his work, as of the way he uses abstract colours or rules he uses to create his own cubist style painting. 

Vincent Van Gogh

Vincent van Gogh, for whom color was the chief symbol of expression, was born in Groot-Zundert, Holland on March 30, 1853. He Is a Dutch post-Impressionist painter who does his paintings from emotion and bold colours. He uses drawings, oil paintings, watercolours and prints to develop his paintings from portraits, landscapes and still life’s, mainly acrylic. He inspire his paintings from his surroundings, where he goes, the objects he use and who he talks to, E.g. Portraits of person, still life painting of sunflowers, landscape painting of fields, etc. He actually does his own portrait with every details and tones and makes the colour brighter and dimmer.

This is an autumn landscape painting of van Gogh

 

I like this landscape because it creates a peaceful and calm mood, yet dry and a moody atmosphere at the same time. As the dark green and light brown colour on the ground makes the paining look much drier, but the light blue sky and the still trees makes the painting look much calmer.

The artist has explored a range of midtones, lights, and darks within them. To create the distance within the painting, the artist used less detail, texture, in some areas such as the bushes behind the tress. (Background of the landscape.) He also used cooler colours to push elements farther into the background. (Sky)

 

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.