Olaf Breuning is a Swiss-born artist now living in New York. His exhibition “Small Brain Big Stomach” consist of wall drawings and wood sculptures. The wall drawings are done in broad, black lines painted directly on the walls. The wooden sculptures are painted black and appear as three dimensional drawings. The imagery of these works is cartoonish, childlike, simple and one dimensional. As one walks into the gallery, it feels like one enters a funhouse filled with black and white wall drawings and sculptures.
As one enters the gallery, one experiences the fun of looking at simple, painted drawings of six men on the wall talking on cell phones with letters reading “idiots” in their mouths. Across the room space, machine-like drawings as well as drawings of people dominate the walls. Different abstracted, simplified people like sculptures as well as machine like sculptures are spread across the floor. This reminds of a childlike setting where everything is just spread across the room instead of being carefully organized. The second room is also organized in the same manner with some...
This paper will discuss and compare A Faun Teased by Children sculpture, of the Italian Baroque style, and the Little Fourteen Year Old Dancer of the French impressionist style. These two sculptures give us a clear insight and allows us to peer in on the moment that is taking place. The active movement, strong diagonals and dramatic facial expressions of the figures in A Faun Teased by Children tells the on looker a vivid detailed story of the actions that are taking place and what role each figure is taking on, in a mythical scene, while the stagnant and serene pose of the Fourteen Year Old Girl resonates calmness and a moment that has not taken place just yet.
The tree like sculptures are spread throughout the room similarly to a small patch of trees in the country side. There are three tall sculptures, one laying on its side, and one that resembles a tree stump. Two of the tall standing structures wrap around each other and stretch nearly to the ceiling. There isn’t more than a foot of space between them. Scraps of veneer have been fastened to their outer shell in a way that resembles the bark of a tree. The next piece is wider and stands on its own. Its tan color draws you in and holds your gaze. Another piece lays on its side. Its shape differs from the others and appears to be more abstract. From the side
As the German painter and sculptor, Kathe Kollwitz conveyed in her statement that the art she created held the burden of transfiguration. The fixation of sorrow and hardship that occurred while she sat huddled with the children was the driving force of her drawings. Her realization that art could not only be an escape from the horror happenings in Germany such as the rationing of food at that time was also a way to voice her opinion of change and revolution. It was the quest, in which she enamored in her drawings and it is this feeling that I value from it. I choose this artist because she delineated the various circumstances surrounding the human individual, she took into account perspectives that involved life with its tragedies, and the lives of little angel children. Her drawings and sculptures were formed to emulate and capture what her eyes had seen while she wa...
I have decided to give the Art Gallery in the F building a chance. The title of the artwork is called, Still Table, by Julie Lemon. This is a very interesting gallery. Also, I thought it was very mysterious and unusual. Every image had a story behind it. They were all colorful and were made of different shapes and materials. Obviously, the artist had a vision of how her gallery was going to turn out. She wanted to spread her vision in more than one image and she succeeded. Some people were may be confused about her results, but others were very satisfied. When I look at her images, I see tables filled with colorful objects that are combined together to create a story of some sort. Although, the images had no visible
This essay's primary objective is to look closer at Desk Suit , 1936, by Elsa Schiaparelli and compare it to Anthropomorphic Chest of Drawers, 1936, by Salvador Dali. These two pieces of art although so different, have a lot in common. To find out more and explore the world of surrealism, it will be worth studying and reviewing each art work based on the information found in several books about Salvador Dali and Elsa Schiaparelli as well as in other sources, such as You tube, journals, articles and web sites. For this purpose, the essay will open with a review of the work of Salvador Dali followed by a research on Elsa Schiaparelli's design, before finally comparing them in relation to surrealism. During the course of this essay themes such as surrealism, motif of drawers, fashion as an art and the influence of surrealism on current days, will be explored through the views of a various art critics.
When he was but a boy, Karl Kopinski would enjoy drawing and sketching with his brother. His parents encouraged the boy’s inclination, who kept doing what he loved doing. With time, and a lot of work, Karl turned into a mature artist, able today to create touching and eloquent pieces of art.
Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see it. (Confucious) The piece “Little’s Barn” by Sonia Grineva is an oil on canvas which depicts the movement of everyday life. There is such a diverse and simply outrageous amount of negativity today, it tends to outshine all the beauty. However, there is beauty everywhere, you just have to take a moment to see it. As has been noted, even with all the negativity in the world, beauty shines through, within your everyday routine, as shown in “Little’s Barn”.
Dix’s chose to use oil paints on canvas when approaching this piece, which allowed him to explore a variety of techniques particularly apparent in the expression, style, color pallet, contrast and textures manipulated throughout the painting of Dr. Heinrich Stadelman. In the portrait Dix depicts a rather miserable looking old man. Dix paints Dr. Heinrich Stadelman’s body language and facial expression in an interestingly distinct manner. He greatly manipulates the painting in many ways in order to get it to come across so captivatingly.
Whilst the negative space capturing the beauty of New York itself with nature. Thus, creating a story of both beauty, and people’s responsibilities. The Negative space helps draw emphasis towards the focus point of the painting. Lie’s inclusion of shapes are concise, giving Lie’s main idea more creative structure.
The composition of this piece consists of choreographed lines projected through smoke in a dark room. The solid, moving beams of light, shining through the smokey-mist, create a moving and interactive sculpture. This sculpture can change as viewers interact with the beams of light and the mist. As the viewers move through the space, small movements can be perceived in the mist. Also, every angle of viewing the work is different. Looking at the screen, the video seems to be of an animation, not unlike an early screensaver. But if the viewer moves towards the screen, the beams of light seem to be solid. And as the viewer stands at the screen, looking back towards the projector, the viewer can become surrounded by the darkness, and then watch as the sculpture slowly moves over their body, slowly absorbing it into the sculpture itself. The shape of the sculpture is evolving and changing. Therefore, negative space around the positive space of the white lines and beams is as important as the positive white lines and light beams.
In this artwork there is the use of organic and geometric shapes, space, and lines. Lippi uses his space actively in this picture it is not just void and dull but it brings the whole picture into focus. We could examine in the picture that space behaves as insight into the picture. Space in this picture gives context clues to the location of the picture, the emotions of the artist, and emotions of the characters in
This breaks all of our tradition in sculpture. On the one hand the simplification and distortion of body and limb seem extremely daring departures from the tradition which few do; on the other hand, this is reminiscent of the earliest sculpture ever produced, which is far from a perfect balance. Thus he has created a new form; that of pure laziness.
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With the desire to escape the misery of her everyday life style, Yayoi Kusama releases her feelings through her outstanding works of art. Whether you are looking at her canvasses, walking through her installations or witnessing a happening performance, Kusama’s work leads any viewer to step into a world that is more than just an exhibition, but is a world and life of hallucinations. Yayoi Kusama’s unique style of art has made her a noteworthy artist in contemporary art today. With a concentration on polka dots, or how the artist would call “infinity nets”, Yayoi Kusama reveals her hallucinations of life through her massive amount of pattern. With her obsessive nature and background of personal traumas, Yayoi Kusama aims to eliminate the world in her form of art. This research paper will explore how the thoughts in her mind have led her to create the fascinating, polka dot themed, art work she is well known for.
If a viewer looks at the piece Giver of Names (1991-present) they are likely to see the artistic aspect at first. The person is able to take the pieces and arrange them on the pedestal how they please; the shadows shown on the wall behind them all give the piece its artistic aesthetic. Once the pieces are arranged the computer will scan them and perform a search of the words program into its system based on what it has seen to make sense of what the ...