Jim Hodges work uses nontraditional materials in his installations. He infuses his materials with meaning and emotion. One of the themes he addresses through his work is a theme of materiality. A few examples of this are seen in the 3d sculptural exhibit And Still This (Figure 1) and You (Figure 2). Hodges uses a wide variety of materials from normal day to day materials such as photos and silk flowers to extreme materials such as gold.
CUBISM ESSAY – Kate Ward Picasso once said “ I paint forms as I think them, not as I see them”. Discuss this statement with reference to his Cubist work “Still Life with a Chair Cane” In this statement “I paint forms as I think them, not as I see them” Picasso is referring to his personal way of thinking when concerning his ideas towards creating his unique artworks. He is saying that he has no desire to copy a snippet of reality onto a canvas like most traditional artists do. He wants to express his ideas about the modern world around him and how it can be interpreted. This presents a deeper, more truthful interpretation of reality through the practice of both synthetic and analytical cubism that reflects an avante garde style.
It’s not recognized by everyone as a serious art form but personally I have always found great inspiration, drama and beauty in the world of fashion” -Bold and uniquely graphic style -work focuses on the portrait, in abstraction and elegance. Stark contrast, fractured space, and meticulous mark-making are a few elements present in her work. This Barcelona based illustrator's drawings are collages of deconstructed portraits and pencil-drawn and Pantone black monochromatic patterns collaged together creating works for fashion, editorial and high-end magazines as well. -I like how Anna Higgie ensures the pencil sketched image is explicitly to the forefront of her illustrations as you can almost feel the texture of the lead against the paper. Her images though softly outlined are graphic and veer towards mixed media art in places.
De Stijl In that time he participated in the Dutch artistic movement called De Stjil, that approach was based on the: Rejected organic nature, promote geometric abstract art Forms reduced to the horizontal and vertical elements Utilized only the essential basic colors Precise and forceful division of space The ultimate simplicity in design solutions In a way becoming a group membership Rietveld came in contact with various architects associated with the modern Dutch movement. He also had opportunity to know Mondrian paintings, that inspired him to do experiments with the colors. The connection between these two artists seems to be quite clear, because Rietveld’s designs look like a three-dimensional realization of a Mondrian paintings. The Colors What was very mature and sensible, his motivation was not to rebel against the old, but to create something that could express the essential spirit of the age. He didn’t know what exactly the appearance of the new was, but he analyzed a visual perception and reduced it to elementary colors, forms and space.
In other words the drawing has balance to it and is mirrored. The linear prospective of this drawing has two vanishing points, one on the left and right side of the drawing. The main attraction in the viewer of an architect is using a geometric scale to draw a triangle to be input into a side of a hill. The art is realism because the art important piece for a person or people. This work of art portrays the natural world by putting a work of art into the natural
The art piece that inspires me for my personal production task is from a little known artist by the name of Alice Pasquini. Pasquini builds a cultural identity for independent women through her colourful and objective street art pieces. She achieves this through her depictions of individuals, usually female or children, with explicit facial expressions commonly painted upon old unwanted walls. The facial expressions of these characters speak their story and identity aided by the refined and unusual painting style and the varying colours used to produce them. She inspires me from her bold, bright and profound artworks that are so characteristically distinguishable as being her style that they are hard to be mistaken as someone else’s work, this sense of identity through style is incredibly intriguing as a way of expressing ones individuality.
In the art world people compare the works of art by comparing the style, subject matter, shape, space, color schemes, movement and even the balance. The most important part to them however is what message the work of art portrays. In Mary Cassatt’s piece, “Maternal Caress”, the style of the piece is realism. She shows a mother caressing a child. This style is partially easy to point out because of the humans structured in the piece.
Romans needed interior space for worship, whereas the Greeks worshipped outside. Their solution was to extend the walls outward, creating engaged columns, while maintaining the same basic shape. Roman also focused on Art and Sculpture. They used art as propaganda, to mark power, terror, stories or to symbolize the greatness or their leaders, drawings were all over walls, temple and political buildings, roman used fresco; which was painted on wet concrete, and mosaic; which depended on small colored stones put usually on the floor to decorate, their drawings were precise and beautiful, and lead historians to
I would say it is kind of surrealistic since goldfishes don’t just pop out in the same place as a hot dog, and they’re all in the setting that looks kind of like a sky. I was definitely inspired by an artist, as it is a requirement for us to research for an artist to be inspired by. Philipp Banken, a German freelance artist, born 1984, inspires my artworks on this project. I have chosen Philipp Banken’s sketching style—as I like the sketchy-ness of it—I personally like the mixture of pencil lines and a bit of acrylic paint in one of his paintings. Pencils and watercolor were my main elements for producing this artwork—I’ve used a lot of hatching and tone—tone largely on the hot dog, and hatching on the goldfishes and around each one of them.
He used these observations to depict realism in his art, and he used his imagination and skill to make his paintings as real and lifelike as humanly possible. With sculpture Leonardo believed there were limits, with painting, he had endless possibilities, and with these endless possibilities at his fingertips he could add certain symbols, and characteristics. One of these things was geometric shapes, they were a staple of the renaissance and a common theme in Leonardo’s paintings. Often times a triangle can be seen, which is a universal sign of the holy trinity. Another detail Leonardo would add is something a little more humanistic; he would give each being their own personal traits and facial features.