Art essay Shawn Barber’s body of work focuses primarily on painting, portraiture and documenting contemporary tattoo culture. Barber creates intimate renditions of tattooed individuals offering a balance of meandering lines, loose brush strokes and paint dripping. A lot of his works are abstract in nature featuring bold or shocking colours. I am particularly interested in his works as I have been concentrating on both dolls and portraiture in my sketchbook, both of which Barber focus‘s on in his collections ‘The Doll Series‘ and ‘Tattooed Portraits‘. I find tattoos in particular largely fascinating and the way Barber paints his portraits of tattooed models instead of the average model makes his portraits that much more intriguing to study.
24-25 (Frames 1-10), Scott McCloud uses the painting of a pipe to explain that what you see in a picture is not actually what you see. As a human, when you first examine the picture you see a painting of a pipe, but, in reality, it actually is not a painting of a pipe. It is copies of a drawing that was made from the original painting. On Pg. 31 (Frames 7&8), he tells how a circle, two dots, and a line are perceived as a face and how our mental stigma forces us to always see that combination of strokes as a face.
Jackson Pollock used art as a way to express and convey his feelings and emotions and even the struggles that he has endured. Creative accidents in the art world influenced Pollock as he explored and attempted different methods of paint application. The American artist relied heavily on showing his feelings and thoughts indirectly through art by drip paintings. This painting has representation of gestural abstraction in which he applies paint in an unplanned and impulsive manner. In Full Fathom Five, Pollock used multiple layers of paint to create a build up as well as implanting random objects to the surface.
Picasso’s African-influenced Period begins with the four figures in his painting, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. He was inspired by African artifacts. Formal ideas developed during this period lead directly into the Cubist period that follows. Pablo Pacasso believed that the traditions of Western art had become exhausted and another remedy they applied to revitalize their work was to draw on the expressive energy of art from other cultures especially African art. However, they valued them superficially for their expressive style.
Introduction In this piece of writing I will be analysing and comparing two artworks from the famous artist-Salvador Dali. I will be unpicking the meanings of the two pieces, describing similarities and differences and also paying close attention to possible symbols that could give further information on Dali's life and how he thought. Dali's Background Salvador Dali (Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech) was a well known Spanish artist and surrealist, he painted bizarre and striking images which are mainly influenced by his personal experiences and way of thought. He was born on the 11th of May 1904 in a small town called Figueres in Catalonia. His Father had a very strict disciplinary approach which was tempered by Salvador's mother, who supported and encouraged his artistic endeavours.
The Old Guitarist By Pablo Picasso ‘The Old Guitarist’ by Spanish painter Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) was painted in 1903-1904. It was painted in Spain and Paris. Its dimensions are 122.9cm x 82.6cm. The painting was said to `be influenced by the suicide of Picasso’s close friend and was painted in his ‘Blue Period’. The painting is now owned by The Art Institute of Chicago (ARTIC)(source: http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/28067?search_id=1).
Intro to Ceramics Written Response Number Two: Mitchell Grafton The artist I have chosen to review is named Mitchell Grafton. He is a contemporary artists that specializes in one-of-a-kind sculptures. What drew me specifically to him was exquisite uniqueness that he has to offer in each of his fine sculptures. They each tend to be flashy, dramatic, and extremely three dimensional, begging to be viewed from all angles. They each also look to me like imaginary scenes from a book, and the emotions portrayed on each of the faces are so dramatized as to invoke questions about the cause of their intense feelings and motives.
In Guernica, Picasso uses a variety of visual elements to create the story depicted through his images. To begin, Picasso uses lines to outline and form the characters and objects in the painting. The use of lines in this painting also creates various textures all throughout. For example, Picasso adds texture to the painting by including hair to the figures, by adding bricks to the back wall, by adding wood grain to (what appears to be) a log, by adding tile to the floor, as well as incorporating a pattern that resembles newspaper print. This painting gives the illusion of form because it has three-dimensional aspects due to Picasso’s use of lines and shading.
Source - www.artble.com/artists/vincent_van_gogh/paintings/starry_nights. IV. Main Body #2 1. Piece of Evidence #2 – Next, I will talk about the story behind the colors he choice and why. 2.
In his painting ‘Third of May’ was said to be the first modern war picture. The ‘third of May’ is one of the paintings focusing on the brutal mass of executions of Spanish people who were against the French troops of Napoleon Bonaparte on May 2, 1808.Picasso loved the honesty and how detailed Goya painted. And because of that Pablo Picasso developed an obsession for Goya’s ‘Third of May’. Picasso’s painting ’Guernica’ is almost certainly heavily influenced by it. Picasso made 45 sketches before he started his main painting.