Matthew Ritchie was born in 1964 in London, England. According to Ritchie his artistic mission “has been no less ambitious than an attempt to represent the entire universe and the structures of knowledge and belief that we use to understand and visualize it.” Matthew Ritchie is a multifaceted artist. He not only is a painter but he also creates light box drawings, floor to wall installations, free standing sculptures and short stories. There are two works of art that caught my eye in the art21 video. The first was the drawing he was working on the wall and the second was the Universal Cell.
Then, we drew another one, but this time it was a self-portrait and we used a mirror to aid us in drawing ourselves. We used a lead pencil to shade and colour ourselves. We also saw a brief documentary about the Fauves so we knew more about them, how they painted and who was part of the Fauves movement and. Then we learnt how to enlarge images using a grid – we drew a grid over a photograph of ourselves and we drew the same grid, only on a larger scale (A3 piece of paper). Then, using our gridded-up photograph as a reference, we drew ourselves with pencil.
While he does occasionally make drawings and small watercolours out of doors, his best work is usually completed in the studio. Although the photographs serve as useful reminders, memory is the liberating force which allows him to reach a more conceptual level in his paintings.' ‘A skin of burden is depicted in The histrionic wayfarer, clothed in the tools to sustain the intrigue of a abstract survey. Provisions, art materials, books, papers, bedding, compass and maps, all for the journey through the landscape of the artist’s mind, accompanied by Smudge, the critic and guide of the whole
LeWitts works: the cinder-block sculptures also are famed exhibitions at public spaces in America and in Massachusetts at the museums of contemporary art. LeWitts works are expected to remain famous until around 1933. Gogh’s works have acted as an inspiration of numerous classical, pop music and films. Similarly, LeWitt’s works have acted as a source of inspiration towards the creation and exhibition of public artworks. LeWitt’s works are used to support exhibitions at Chelsea and book arts (The art story foundation 1, 2
Beginning as an abstract painter in the 1970s, then a figurative painter in the 1980s, Howard Arkley reconciled these two tendencies in his distinctive take on the suburban motif. Arkley embraced it, when ‘serious’ designers ignored suburbia. He continued to collect out-of-register colour pages from outdated magazines, or lovingly ponder different ways of rendering woodgrain surfaces or rug designs with his reverberating optical and zinging air-brush. With his spray-gun technique Arkley developed different styles or motifs: iridescent grids of dots that seemed to look like a cross between old computer print-outs and disco lights. Arkley even painted these buzzing dots on a suburban Melbourne tram in 1980.
He was a painter, draftsman and writer but his greatest artistic impact was in the medium of printmaking. Dürer apprenticed with his father, who was a goldsmith and with Michael Wolgemut (the local painter). He changed printmaking,
Art Criticism Task By: YD The painting I chose is by Greg Conley, it’s called “The Path Chosen”. By looking at the painting you can tell that the artist used a lot of different techniques to make it look unique, realistic and attractive. The artist used the technique wet-in-wet to slightly blur the painting. He also used the technique dry brush which is the opposite of the wet in wet technique, for it makes things very crisp and hard edged; this technique makes features come forward. In addition he used the method flat wash which is using one solid color (yellow in this case) from top to bottom.
When he felt he had the right image he would then project the slide onto a canvas and pencil in both lines and details. The reason why Goings was so amazingly talented is because he could paint the photograph with such profound detail that the audience would be able to see detail that they would typically not be able to see in reality. "My paintings are about light, about the way things look in their environment and especially about how things look painted. Form, color and space are at the whim of reality, their discovery and organization is the assignment of the realist painter." The painting called Ralphs Diner (1982) is a great example of the vivid detail he used with light color and texture.
He went on to visit America for many year then he decided to head back to France in 1948. He died on March 28th, 1985 in the town of St.Paul de Vence. He is most famous for his arts made in France where he studied and created new and more pieces that truly share his idea of emotions in art instead of creating
“White is a Color: G.K. Chesterton's Interpretation of Human Society” One of the most creative British authors of the early 20th century, G.K. Chesterton is known for writing many works of literacy like play, novels, short stories, and newspaper essays. He considered himself primarily a journalist, writing for two different newspaper columns. In his essay, “A Piece of Chalk,” Chesterton incorporates the different colors of chalk and brown paper in both his text and style. Chesterton uses metaphorical symbols such as religion, imagination, and morality for his ideas on human society. The story talks about a man who has brown paper and chalk and uses the two items to draw illustrations of everything he observes and imagines in his travels through nature.