It is the innate search for our own identity that drives artists such as Chuck Close and Vincent Van Gogh to explore their inner psyche through self expression and portraiture. The search for identity begins in how one’s childhood progressed, and Chuck Close had a very different childhood from Vincent Van Gogh. An only child, Close was always odd and with little friends due to his family’s constant relocation in his early years. His parents Leslie and Mildred, a plumber and a piano teacher, cherished their only son and aided him in his artistic endeavours to the best of their ability. When Close was about eight years old his father found a local woman of dubious work to give him art lessons in which his mentor would often provide nude models for him to study from.
Then the 1960’s were over and he went back to songwriting.He wrote songs for everyone like Johnny Cash and Dr. hook. In the early 70’s he wrote full length albums. He also wrote for motion picture films ‘till
During Gibson’s childhood he experienced a sickness. Charles success started when his father taught him how to draw silhouettes. Who knew his success would branch off or start from Gibson becoming sick and just drawing pictures for his amusement. Gibson was so good at making illustrations that he was recognized as a great artist at 12 years old. His drawings became profound.
His highly refined drawings and watercolours accompany texts such as Le Reve by Emile Zola While working as a wall paper designer he became familiar with symbolist artists which then lead him to usually painting mythological and allegorical topics. In 1892 he illustrated the book Le reve by the 1900s he essentially had two distinct styles which mainly consisted of the idealism of the symbolic use to conduct in his work. Carlos Schwabe mainly focused on the creativity of women which often was represented as death and suffering or in other areas of his work they represent inspiration and guidance. An example of this was in the death of The Gravediggers Death was produced in 1895 this was the symbolic meaning of a death angel being peacefully transcending it to another world. His inspiration and interests for symbolism increased when one of his good friends died in 1894 when Carlos Schwabe was 28 and also one year later his wife was a role model symbolic use “The Death of the Grave Digger”.
Bringing street art which people frown upon into the museums of art, and making it apart of new history. I really enjoy this painting by Bruce Bailey because I like the way he used the colour and showed movement throughout the painting in an abstract way, and how the artwork has a very positive attitude towards
eruption of Vesuvius is the large number of holes found in the volcanic deposits around Pompeii that represented corpses of people and animals that were buried by the hot ash. Giuseppi Fiorelli developed the use of plaster casts to recreate the forms of plants, animals and human bodies.' The process is now named after him: the Fiorelli process. He realised that where a corpse had been buried in ash, it had rotted over time and a cavity remained. Whenever an excavator discovered a cavity, plaster of Paris was poured in and left to harden.
These seven men created numerous landscape paintings working together from nineteen twenty to nineteen thirty-one. Some famous paintings included Snow clouds, Billboard, Canal du Loing near Episy and Fine Weather, Georgian Bay. In nineteen thirty-one, The Group of Seven, which in its last exhibition welcomed the contributions of twenty-eight other artists. The Group of Seven decided to disband and form a new group that better represented artists from across the country. The Canadian Group of Painters held their first Show in nineteen thirty-three, exhibiting the work of fifty-two artists, including work from The Group of Seven.
Picasso always had a passion for drawing and was skilled from a very early age. Picasso’s mother, María Picasso y López, said that his first words were “piz, piz” which was short for lápiz and that is the Spanish word for “pencil”. In 1890, Picasso received formal artistic training in figure drawing and oil painting. He became so preoccupied with his art that his school work suffered. In 1895, when Picasso was seven years old, his sister, Conchita, died of diphtheria and it left him traumatized.
Andy Warhol (1928-1987), was an American leading artist in the pop movement. One of his noted pieces is the advertisement for Campbell’s soup (1968). He was well noted for is pop art of Marilyn Monroe and the Eight Elvis’s. He used silk screening and bright colors most often, even when he painted images of suicide, car crashes and disasters. He actually did a painting in which he prepared the canvas with copper paint and oxidized it with urine.
Architect, artist, and engineer Santiago Calatrava was born on July 28, 1951, in Benimamet, near Valencia, Spain. Calatrava family's hillside home was grand, with large rooms that Calatrava later named as an inspiration for his attraction to major projects and big spaces. He attended primary and secondary school in Valencia. From the age of eight, he also attended the Arts and Crafts School, where he began his formal instruction in drawing and painting. Calatrava's family had suffered during the political upheavals of the 1930s in Spain, and they saw an international future as their son's best chance.