Vincet van Gogh

       The dozens of self-portraits by Vincent van Gogh were an important part of his oeuvre as a painter. Vincent van Gogh created many self-portraits during his lifetime. Most probably, Van Gogh's self portraits are depicting the face as it appeared in the mirror he used to reproduce his face, i.e. his right side in the image is in reality the left side of his face.

       Between November of 1881 and July of 1890, Vincent van Gogh painted almost 900 paintings. Since his death, he has become one of the most famous painters in the world. Van Gogh’s paintings have captured the minds and hearts of millions of art lovers and have made art lovers of those new to world of art. The following excerpts are from letters that Van Gogh wrote expressing how he evolved as a painter.

       In 1886 he went to Paris to join his brother Théo, the manager of Goupil's gallery. In Paris, van Gogh studied with Cormon, inevitably met Pissarro, Monet, and Gauguin, and began to lighten his very dark palette and to paint in the short brushstrokes of the Impressionists. His nervous temperament made him a difficult companion and night-long discussions combined with painting all day undermined his health. He decided to go south to Arles where he hoped his friends would join him and help found a school of art.

       I really like his work and I made a copy of his autoportrait.  I tried to paint in his unique stile of painting and to copy the picture as accurate as I could. he worked with lots of colours and combine them in a very nice stile making the painting look so complicated and fascinating.

Frank Gehry

 

Frank Gehry

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fank Gehry is one of the most important american and contemporary architect. He is known for his interestind and different style of desinging a building and his work is easy to recognise because of nonlinear, curved structures. His best-known works are the titaniu-covered Guggenheim Musem in Bilbao, Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto, Dancing Club in Prague, etc.

Architectural style

Gehry's style comes from the late modernism and the curved and visible chaotic forms and shapes he uses on his buildings structures are also considered that belongs to the deconstructivism movement

Si Scott

Si Scott is a full-time artist, designer and creative consultant based in the UK.

He’s renowned 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 scot is a British illustrator, is the master of gorgeous, insanely type of typography. And, unbelievably it’s all drawn by hand with fine liners.

He has taken his whorls and flourishes and moulded them into a series of striking sea creatures for his art. Si imagines them bubbling across your laptop and walls and down the side of a car, like a moving aquarium.

 He is currently working with a few small design firms. His work demonstrates his taste for the ornate, it combines hand-drawn elements with modern font-making technologies.

My opinion

 

        Si scott is one of my favorite artist just because I love the way  he plays with the shape of the letter, destroying it, but still looking very good and being so interesting.  One of my favourite art of his is the butterfly with lots of details inside. It looks so delicate and peaceful and makes me  feel calm and flying up in the sky just like a butterfly.



Michael Craig-Martin

Biography

 
         

    Michael Craig-Martin was born in Dublin in 1941 and educated in the United States, where he studied at Yale University. He returned to Europe in the mid-1960s and was a key figure in the first generation of British conceptual artists. As a tutor at Goldsmith's College from 1974-1988 and 1994-2000, he had a significant influence on two generations of young British artists. Throughout his career Craig-Martin has explored the aesthetic and linguistic character of everyday, designer and iconic ‘art-historical' objects which he has realized through a variety of media including paintings, sculpture, prints and, most recently, computer animations.
 Style of work
    He concentrates a lot on focusing on different important things as the word ART from the picture below. He usually place one or two different sizes household objects foreground and make them brighter by using colour that acctually stands out and the rest of the traced objects from the background are having just the outline of it and no colours inside.

     


My opinion

I really don't like his work. It looks so cartoony and the colours are too many bright colours. His work makes my eyes feel tired. I think he uses too many object and this can possibly confuse you.

          

Kara Walker

     Biography

             Kara Walker (American, b. 1969) is best known for her room-size tableaux of black cut-paper silhouettes that examine the underbelly of America's racial and gender tensions. 

 

 She is contemporary African American who explores race, gender, sexuality and identity in her work. She uses black cut paper silhouettes. She was born in Sockton California, her mother worked as an administrative assistant. Her retired father is formally educated artist and an administrator.

Kara Walker works are challenge to the traditional concepts of race based on thinking and to narratives of enslavement and oppression. Her art forces us to questions our understanding of power and how it manifests itself with time space between people.

She has a nice picture, for example she has a drawing of a couple dancing on a river and then in the corner of the picture has something diabolic, like a little devil eating a bird or a dead man on the floor.

Technique

           Kara Walker is perhaps best known for her cut-paper silhouettes. She mentions being drawn to early American silhouettes as she explored an interest in kitsch. For Walker, the simplified details of a human form in the black cut-outs seem cartoonish, and resonate with racial stereotypes that are also reductions of actual human beings.    

         To create a silhouette, Walker draws her images with a greasy white pencil or soft pastel crayon on large pieces of black paper, which she then cuts 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 adhered to paper, canvas, wood, or directly to the gallery wall with wax.

My opinion

       She has a nice picture, for example she has a drawing of a couple dancing on a river and then in the corner of the picture has something diabolic, like a little devil eating a bird or a dead man on the floor.    I like her work because I think her work reflects on the reality and shows her feeling about American or the old life and the technique she uses, makes you concentrate on her work and interpret it as you wish.

Mr. Brainwash

         Mr. Brainwash is the moniker of Los Angeles-based filmmaker and Pop artist Thierry Guetta. He has spent the better part of the last decade attempting to make the ultimate street art documentary. Meanwhile, inspired by his subjects, he started hitting the streets, from Los Angeles to Paris, with spray painted stencils and posters of his pop art inspired images.
         He rapidly emerged as a renowned figure on the international street art scene. In June 2008, Mr. Brainwash made his art show debut with one of Los Angeles's most memorable solo exhibitions; Life is Beautiful, held at the historic CBS Studios on Sunset Boulevard. In addition to his widely recognized images, Life is Beautiful featured larger than life installations which included a 20-foot robot made of old televisions, a life-size recreation of Edward Hopper's Nighthawks and a pyramid made from 20,000 books. Originally scheduled to open for only two weeks, the exhibit was extended for three months, attracting more than 30,000 visitors. Mr. Brainwash's work continued to garner recognition from art collectors and street-art enthusiasts alike. By 2009, Madonna approached him to design the cover of her greatest hits compilation entitled, Celebration. In addition to the CD album, Mr. Brainwash created 15 different covers for the accompanying vinyls, singles and DVD releases.
                    Considered as one of the most prolific and talked about artists of today, Mr. Brainwash is also the subject of Banksy's documentary "Exit Through The Gift Shop", which debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2010. Using Guetta's street art footage, Banksy eventually turned the camera on the only man who ever filmed him. The collaboration resulted in a remarkable documentary that is part personal journey and part an exposé of the art world with its mind-altering mix of hot air and hype.Mr. Brainwash ended 2010 with a bang by taking Miami Art Basel, the most important art fair in the US, by storm. Within 10 days, without any announcement or promotion, he turned a 25,000-square foot empty retail space in the heart of South Beach into another art spectacle entitled "Under Construction". Surrounded by cut-out Storm Troopers, and featuring a monster made out of traffic cones, the art show created an energy and excitement at the art festival and soon became the obligatory stop for collectors and art lovers during Art Basel. The show mixed the ever-evolving urban environment with Mr. Brainwash's trademark positive message and playful spirit. Show highlights include a giant 40 ft x 12 ft mixed media mural on canvas and the AmeriCAN flag made out of 1400 empty spray cans. After 4 days and thousand of visitors, Mr. Brainwash packed up Under Construction and left Miami almost as quickly as he arrived, in what some might call a successful art hit-and-run .

 

 

 

style of work

 

 

Mr Brainwash creates his artworks by looking what around him or what in front of him. E.g. he could design the background of a town with one or more characters in front holding or wearing something on them. I like his work because he uses different background, characters, costumes, etc. with shapes and colours to create an artwork of his own and they can give me ideas of designing my own artwork like him.