Edvard munch

Edvard munch

During these early years in his career, Munch experimented with many styles, including Naturalism and Impressionism.

During his lifetime of work, he made one of the most important and lasting contributions to the development of Modernism in the twentieth century. he gave voice to these, in his handling of paint and the graphic media (especially woodcut and lithography), Munch was original and radical. He is one of the artists who made us understand and transformed the ways in which art can be visually expressed.

Munch developed these great themes of Angst, Love and Death during the 1890s.

 His images of dread, anxiety, loneliness and the complex emotions of human sexuality have become icons of our time.

 

Many of us know such images as: The Scream, Anxiety, Melancholy, Jealousy; The Kiss, Madonna, Vampire, and the dance of life.

 

 

 

One of strongest influences on Munch's development was Christian Krogh whose adoption of the Realism of French artists such as Gustave Courbet, Edouard Manet formed a distinctive alternative to the romantic naturalism which had subjected Norwegian art for much of the century.

Antoni Gaudí

Antoni Gaudi

Gaudi is an architect of simplicity. His works are governed by a continuous and logical sense of rationality and functionalism. The geometry of architect uses forms that are rarely produced in nature, but are easy to draw by a compass and a set square. Saint Enric d’Osso asked Gaudi to explain what the Theresa College would be like, under construction at the time. He answered back with a categorical phrase: it will be good in this house. This expression contains the deepest knowledge of architecture. It is not always about how it looks or how it is going to be built. It is about what you feel when you are inside that building.

He realized that nature is capable of creating forms of great beauty and usefulness. Nature creates forms that survive and are repeated to give generations and generations a great deal of pleasure.

 Logical forms and structures are adapted to every circumstance to be able to attract the human beings or animals. This idea was based on ruled geometry. Many natural structures are made out of fibers e.g. bones, wood, muscles etc.

Gaudi’s most mechanical and the one that are not often used by architects because it is difficult to draw with a compass is called: the Catenary arch. In Gaudi’s case if it was the most mechanical, it had to be the most beautiful.

In 1771 Gaudi considered gothic as the most structural of historical styles. He believes that the architects of the renaissance were simple decorators. In the other hand, the gothic solutions with pointed arches and flying buttresses were imperfect. He then produced the imperfecting of gothic with the Catenary arches and inclined columns.

Guidi’s Catenary inspired me to use human bones to design my own bridge. I was greatly inspired by the human ribs which looked like the Catenary arches. His works are sophisticated with structure but a use of simple forms

Vincent Willem van Gogh

Vincent Willem van Gogh

   Born on the 30 March 1853 – 29 July 1890 was a Dutch post impressionist painter whose work, notable for its rough beauty, emotional honesty and bold colour, had a far-reaching influence on 20th-century art.
In 1885, he painted the potatoes easters. Hishis palette at that time consisted mainly of somber earth tones and showed no sign of the vivid colour mixtures that he uses in his later works.
   later on he discovered the french impressionists in paris,1886. His work became brighter in colour, and he developed the unique and highly recognizable style that became fully realized in 1888
"According to art critic Robert Hughes, van Gogh's late works show an artist at the height of his ability, completely in control and "longing for concision and grace"."


My oppinion:
His works are inspirational and full of life. The bright colours he uses. The tiny small brush strokes which highlights the details. I have made several paintings which I was inspired by flowers in thailand.I used van Gough's techniques with palette knifs.The work came out abstract yet full with detail and tones.

His paintings express the feelings well. Earlier in his life, when he was in paris.He created a few paintings which were dark and in a tone of blue. The reason for this was when he was painting these paintings he was having financial problems because he did not have the money to feed his family.

The colours he uses shows what he is trying to communicate. The blue and the velvet colours show his busy mind and empty soul within him. He was trying to communicate to us, as an audience.

His influence is also when he went to japan.He got influenced by many Japanese artists especially Haroshima.His works became more delicate to the eyes. Paintings full of Sakura and Japanese scenaries.One of his paintings he painted in France (field with small houses) had the Fuji Mountain at the back, personally I think while he was painting this scenery in France, He was thinking about Japan and where he was. It feels like he misses the place and wants to go back.

Chuck close

Chuck close

Charles Thomas "Chuck" Close
born July 5, 1940 an american painter (photorealist).

Throughout his career, he has mastered several materials such as air brush, ink, graphite, pastel, watercolor, conté crayon, finger painting, stamp-pad ink on paper; printmaking techniques, such as Mezzotint, etching, woodcuts, linocuts, and silk-screens; as well as handmade paper collage, Polaroid photographs, Daguerreotypes, and Jacquard tapestries.

This is a photorealist style painting. He uses squares to create illusions to the audience’s eyes. the technique he apply for his cubism paintings are the colours. What helped him choosing the layered colours? Well he uses the colour wheel to choose what colours to go on top on one another. He works in large scales canvas. The more knowledge you know about the colour wheel, the easier for you to create the cubist paintings. The squares are important aswell.If the boxes are too big, it is not as detailed as the smaller squares. Bear in mind, smaller squares means more work!

David downton

David Downtown
is one of the renowned fashion illustrator.He became a well known artist after hiswork from vogue was released.

David was bornin Kent, England 1959.He studied at Canterbury for foundation year and Wolverhamptonfor BA HONS illustration/graphics.

He moved toBrighton in 1959 and began his illustration career. The type of project heaccomplished was advertising, packaging-illustrating fiction, cook books, Fashion.

He was chiefly known as the fashion illustration when he drew at the Pariscouture by the financial times in 1996.His drawings from fashion shows havebeen published internationally. They were published in the USA, China, Australiaand the Middle East.

In 2007, Davidlaunched a book called Pour quoi? , the first ever journal of FashionIllustration. He went to London College of fashion to be a visiting professor.He inspired many, he inspired me. His work might be seen as colourless, but for me...it feels like there islife within the painting. I can feel every brush marks he made. It makes me want to create an artwork everytime I look at his paintings.

David worked for commercial client include: Tiffany & Co, Bloomingdales, Barney's, Harrods, Top Shop, Chanel, Dior,L'Oreal, Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, V Magazine and the Victoria & Albert Museum.

In 1998, he started working on a series of portraits ofsome of the world's most beautiful women, including Erin O'Connor, Paloma Picasso, Catherine Deneuve, Linda Evangelista, Carmen Dell'Orefice, Iman and Dita Von Teese.

My Favourite illustration

The reasonwhy I like this image is mainly because the style David downtown has. It is a mixture of abstract and fine lines. The shirt was not painted all over theshirt, but you still see what the outline of the shirt is. This is because hedrew thin outlines.

The eye of the model is the most dominant focal point.The eye was drawn very delicately by the dip nip pen with ink.

In this illustration, he used a dip nib pen and thin brusheswith ink.The ink gives a variety of line thinckness.Some are sketchier thanothers.

He uses tones (black & White).The women is colourlessto appreciate the elegant dress she was wearing. The focal point turned out tobe the dress or the model’s dress. The grey tones are mostly used for theshadow of the model. I assume he did not want the model to be ‘in your face’.That explains why the model is in the light tone e.g. Grey)

Henri Matisse

Henri Matisse

31 December 1869 – 3 November 1954

He was a French artist, Known for his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsman ship.

He was a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but is known primarily as a painter.

Matisse is commonly viewed, along with Picasso and Marcel Duchamp, as one of the three artists who helped to define the revolutionary developments in the plastic arts in the opening decades of the 20th century.

Although he was initially labeled a Fauve (wild beast), by the 1920s he was increasingly known as an upholder of the classical tradition in French painting.

 

 

His mastery of the expressive language of colour and drawing, won him recognition as a leading figure in modern art.

 

He was a Fauve - Fauvist movement. - Active 1903-1908

Fauve is a title which means "wild beast." this group means wild beast. Because of the wild color, powerful, brutal brushwork, the term was derogatory. Whose work was characterised by bright and non-natural colors and simple forms (i.e. they painted objects not in the colors that they were, but the colors that the painters chose). E.g. Matisse painted his wife with a green stripe down her face.

 

Style: they combined the Expressionist painter’s high-key colors and emotional force with the Impressionist love of images of contemporary early 20thcentury life. They were not interested in symbolism subject matter but more in the act of painting, in their case the organization of color and form on a 2-dimensional surface. Their style of painting included slashing brush strokes and thickly outlined patches of color of the same tone.

Themes: portraits, still life, and landscape. Matisse also loved decorative pattern.

 

My oppinion:

His paintings are mostly in one dimension. The lines are simple, which reminds me of how Michael Craig Martin uses his lines. Matisse uses complimentary colours but his technique in painting is completely different from Michael Craig martin’s technique. His brushstrokes seem to be smooth which reminds me of the ancient Chinese paintings. The portrait painting sometimes seems distorted.

His landscape paintings however interest me. His bold brush strokes makes the painting seems sketchy yet detailed. He uses white spaces to create depth and perspective. The imperfections he created made the painting perfect in my eyes. It all comes together as one.

Painting

The dark colours in this painting was  known as Matisse's dark Period. This is the time when he was going through personal difficulties. One personal difficulty was that Matisse was not able to find many buyers for his works to support his family.

Metisse mainly uses the colour blue in this painting. The shades and tones of blue represents the afternoon atmosphere, but I also assume that  the colour reflects his emotion and feelings when he painted it.

 

 

 

Evaluation project 2 city scape

Material used:

·      Black + White sticky paper(A3)

·      Scalpel

·      Cutting mat

·      A3 (tracing paper, black + white paper, plain paper)

·      Magazine of city scape

·      Drawings of city scape (observation, perspective)

Techniques:

·      The cityscapes are from magazines and observational drawings.

·      Gather and compose the drawings on the A3 tracing paper.

·      Simplify the drawings, so it is easier to cut out and it would look less messy.

·      When drawing the buildings, you should add bridges so the black sticky paper won’t fall out.

·      On the tracing paper, shade in the section that are meant to be white(this is the part you are going to cut out)

·      Stick the black sticky paper on top of the white sticky paper.

·      Use the sticky tape to stick the paper (photocopied from the tracing paper) on top of the black + white sticky paper.

·      They should all be in A3 size.

·      Use the scalpel to cut through the photocopied paper and also through the black sticky paper.

·      You should not cut through the white sticky paper that was underneath the black sticky paper.

·      When using the scalpel, don’t put too much pressure on the paper. (This would damage the white paper underneath.)

·      Any loose black sticky paper should be glued in.

·      When you finish cutting out the white parts, mount it on white paper.

·      Mounting (Stick the finished city scape on top of the white paper. The white border around the paper should be all the same length.)

Evaluation

Subject Matter

What inspired me were the cityscapes and the landscapes.

The technique I used for the work is from Kara walker-cutting of black and white paper, but the buildings

Itself was influenced by architects like Frank Gehry or Ludwid Mies van der Rohe.

Techniques

One of the techniques I used was to simplify the buildings. I want the audience to clearly see the composition and more importantly so the final art work won’t look like a mess.

I learnt that cut outs are not always flat and boring. Composition is very important.

The composition could make the buildings stand out even without complimentary colours.

I’m satisfied with my work, but if I can produce it again I would modify the background to be more perspective mainly because it looks really flat.

Flat background is mainly what I would want, but in this case the main colour is black and white, the objects are quite plain. To make the background be less plain, add some shadow lines.

When I was working, sometimes the part that I cut out doesn’t look right at the end result.

What I did wrong was that the cityscape didn’t look full.

When I look at it, it feels like there was something missing. I spotted that something was missing when I looked at it from far away. There was a big gap between the buildings.

Next time...Before I decide what parts should be black or white, I would stop and look at the shaded parts and look at it from a distant.

I would be able to spot the big gap between the buildings.

Kara works on negative and positive points by cut outs. She creates illusion well, but I don’t think I applied what she did as much, as in what is in the background or what is in the fore ground.

 

This is an eye level view. The composition is not random. I used a mixture of curvy lines and dramatic strict vertical shapes/lines to give that strong look, Just as strong as the buildings itself.

Review

My idea changed in a couple of ways: I have added some shadow lines, I simplified the windows on the buildings and I also placed a building behind another to create an illusion of the objects as if there in front of another or behind.