In the case of India, the vernacular that is everywhere and well versed with the local people is Truck art. Truck art is the artwork that is done on the sides and back of the truck and lorries which is bright and colourful. It is a regional and cultural form of India by which one can connect with the rural people of India. This concept of painting trucks was born in Pakistan in 1920 when the idea of using the local art to decorate the truck was though of by the transportation companies. Although truck art in India is very different from that of Pakistan’s and the natural boundary that exists between the states does not allow the art both the countries to mix around.
The difference between India’s truck art and Pakistan’s truck is that they
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A young truck artist named Sadiq explains the meaning and purpose that is to inform the drivers behind to honk before they overtake the truck. Thus the design should be eye catching and the result is better with more extraordinary designs. The reason for the warning to honk is because most of the times the trucks do not have a side view mirror and in India the rule to follow lanes is hardly maintained. But what is the reason for ‘OK’ in the middle? There are numerous theories behind this as well, but the most interesting of all stories is the one that originated in 1940s when the trucks ran of Kerosene and not Diesel. The Kerosene trucks could easily explode if they were hit, so OK was the initials for warning the people that the truck was On Kerosene. That is the reason why they were painted on the rear to inform the …show more content…
As he grew up in a small city in India, he was subjected to a different kind of a advertising world. The most common things that dominated the streets were various depictions of the most popular themes of that time like commercial advertisements, political messages and also celebrations of religious festivals. He noticed that almost all the works on the streets were hand painted by local painted than the digitally designed designs or vinyl. Also travelling within India from one part to another revealed the variety in style and technique. He also mentions that he had always been fascinated by the street art like shop signage or hand made type. Truck art also belongs to that same culture of hand painting, which inspired him to take up this project.
In 2011 he started his research on the Indian truck art. As he started the research he realized that truck art had not been documented in the form of books or publications. That’s when he decided to conduct his own research, so in 2012 he travelled to various parts in India to conduct his own research. He travelled for nearly 45 days to the different cities and villages in India to collect all the information about truck art in the form of interviews, video footage and numerous photographs. After the research all the information that was needed was compiled and edited into a documentary film called
During Vincent Van Gogh’s childhood years, and even before he was born, impressionism was the most common form of art. Impressionism was a very limiting type of art, with certain colors and scenes one must paint with. A few artists had grown tired of impressionism, however, and wanted to create their own genre of art. These artists, including Paul Gaugin, Vincent Van Gogh, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and Paul Cezanne, hoped to better express themselves by painting ...
... previous jobs to convey a welcoming and educational message in his work. He makes his art clear, educational, and unconventional to express his individuality and help children in their development. Had it not been for his first couple of jobs, the teacher that showed him the banned painting, and his love for children he probably would not be the memorable artist that he is today.
His analysis of color associated blue with the masculine, yellow with the feminine, and red with the physical often violent. He took a cubist approach, in the display and creation of the animals that he depicted in his works; simplicity was often seen as a means to his creative process as well, as most pieces simply focused on the animal, and the raw emotion, as opposed to drawing in from external factors, to create the printed art works during his
Diego Rivera was deemed the finest Mexican painter of the twentieth century; he had a huge influence in art worldwide. Rivera wanted to form his own painting fashion. Although he encountered the works of great masters like Gauguin, Renoir, and Matisse, he was still in search of a new form of painting to call his own (Tibol, 1983). His desire was to be capable of reaching a wide audience and express the difficulties of his generation at the same time, and that is exactly what h...
The 60’s was Warhol’s big boom in production and fame. In 1962, Warhol “debuted the concept of ‘pop-art’” (biography.com). Here is where he did his famous pieces like the Campbell’s Soup cans and the Elvis prints. Most of his muse was commercial products at this point. He could make art out of anything. For example, the soup cans or the Brillo box. In 1961, Warhol made a piece inspired by Coca-Cola, which became a “pivotal piece in his career” (warhol.org). In 1962, Warhol made created his pieces he’s most famous for; his silkscreen photographic portraits of celebrities. He made art of celebrities like Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor. In this year, Warhol opened a solo pop-art exhibit in Los
Another way that body art is expressive in other countries are the use of henna tattoos in Indian weddings. Weddings are a wonderful and beautiful time for two families to come together in love and happiness. Typically when you think of a wedding in the US you think of the bride wearing the gorgeous white dress all dolled up walking down the aisle. That is not the case in different countries. As I stated above, Indian brides are decorated with henna tattoos on their hands and feet for their big day. The tattoos are symbolic because they represent the bride’s beauty, hey are also to give the bride good fortune.
Born in 1886 Diego Rivera was born to a wealthy family living in Guanajuato, Mexico. At the age of two his twin brother died and a year later Diego Rivera started drawing, his parents caught him drawing on walls and instead of punishing him nurtured his artistic side by enabling him with the supplies he needed. Throughout his life Diego Rivera was dedicated to art, “He began to study painting at an early age and in 1907 moved to Europe. Spending most of the next fourteen years in Paris, Rivera encountered the works of such great masters as Cézanne, Gauguin, Renoir, and Matisse.” Influenced by the work of such great minds Rivera began the search for his own signature and contribution to modern art, “Rivera was searching for a new form of painting, one that could express the complexities of his day and still reach a wide audience.” Rivera found the medium he was looking for, a form of street art involving murals painted on fresh plaster, he returned to Mexico to introduce this new form of art to the public. Rivera soon sewed himself into the art community in America, “His outgoing personality puts him at ...
Pablo Ruiz y Picasso was born on October 25, 1881to Maria Picasso Lopez and father Jose Ruiz Blasco in Malaga, Spain. He was influenced in his early days by his father who was a painter and an art teacher. His first lesson was in 1888 and his drawing reflects a passion of his father, a fascination with bullfights. In 1891, Picasso moved with his family to Coruna where he enrolled in his father’s classes in ornamental drawing at the Escuela de Bellas Artes before progressing to drawing from figures and plaster casts and to painting from nature. In 1894, he experimented with more biting caricatures and satirical sketches in manuscript newspaper variously titled “Azul y blanco and La Coruna.” When he was 14 years, he began to study at the School of Fine Art in La Coruna. In 1895, he produced about 15 oil portraits (Petersen, 2005).
During his journey as a young artist before finding his home in the realm of surrealism, Dali had experiences with other styles of painting such as realism, impressionism and cubism. According to the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language Realism is “The representation in art or literature of objects, actions, or social conditions as they actually are, without idealization or presentation in abstract form.” Dali exemplifies this in his painting Basket of Bread (1926). Another style used in his earlier times was impressionism; “A theory or style of painting originating and developed in France during the 1870s, characterized by concentration on the immediate visual impression produced by a scene and by the use of unmixed primary colors and small strokes to simulate actual reflected light” (American Heritage Dictionary), this style is used in the View of Cadaques” (1904). In the “Honey is Sweeter than Blood” we see Dali exemplify cubism, which is “a nonobjective school of painting and sculpture developed in Paris in the early 20th century, characterized by the reduction and fragmentation of natural forms into abstract, often geometric structures usually rendered as a set of discrete planes” (American Heritage Dictionary).
focus of the artists was not on crafting aesthetically pleasing objects but on making works that
In conclusion we can see that even worlds apart artists can still find inspiration from unlikely subject matter. Watteau’s from the theater. Picasso’s from the street. Both artists not only showed their era in their art but also themselves and others. Even when it comes to entertainment it seems that not artist can escape the idea of shaping their own worlds into their piece of art. As well, both also showed not only the similarities but also differences of their era and how art was viewed.
This notion of Abstract Expressionism has become an interesting factor between the Contemporary arts making of Abstract arts, specifically paintings. When approaching Artworks from Contemporary Abstract painters, the subject matter dives deeper in meaning than the actual artwork before the viewer. From an outward appearance, some paintings from artist, such as, James Little, juxtaposed to works by Odili Donald Odita, have a lot of formal similarities within the uses of geometrical shapes and balancing colors. However, understanding the means to why each artist paints the way they do, will actually become rather different from first approaching and accessing the paintings.
From the creation of art to its modern understanding, artists have strived to perform and perfect a photo realistic painting with the use of complex lines, blend of colors, and captivating subjects. This is not the case anymore due to the invention of the camera in 1827, since it will always be the ultimate form of realism. Due to this, artists had the opportunities to branch away from the classical formation of realism, and venture into new forms such as what is known today as modern art. In the examination of two well known artists, Pablo Picasso and Jackson Pollock, we can see that the artist doesn’t only intend for the painting to be just a painting, but more of a form of telling a scene through challenging thoughts, and expressing of the artists emotion in their creation.
The modern artist, Andy Warhol, is one of the most well known pop artists of the 1960’s. Warhol purposely strayed away from the very emotional painting style of the Abstract Expressionists. He was influenced heavily by American Pop culture, borrowing several images as well as ordinary consumer products for his pieces. Ultimately he approached his art in a way to have commercial or advertisement look. Warhol’s goal was to strip down art of its magical qualities, and wanted it to look like anybody could do it. Warhol’s work explores a vast number of ideas in American Pop culture.
Born on 30th of July 1970 in London United Kingdom to a British father and American mother. Because of that he has both British and American citizenship and has been living in both London and Chicago since his childhood. He found his passion for filmmaking at early ages and at age 7 he made his first short film with his father’s camera. Eventually just like most directors he did not attend film universities, instead he went on to study English literature in London, his hometown. One of his early short films which is probably his best also, is ‘Doodlebug’ which he made in