A great example of a Photography and digital media artist is David Hockney. Hockney is an English photographer, painter and designer. He uses many materials and methods to create his unique works. In the 1970’s, Hockney started to create various collages which he called joiners. These works have appeared in many exhibitions and really stood out.
In around 1963, Hockney visited Los Angeles where he started creating works inspired by the swimming pools of L.A. He soon created his famous work called “A bigger splash”, which is a painting of a modern swimming pool and house. This work is a pop artwork. It features a hot day in California with the assumption that someone has just dived off a bright yellow diving board drawing your attention to the big splash. The house in the artwork is a simple but modern Californian building.
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He created the series of Joiners, which are various collages, made by combining various small Polaroid pictures to create one large image. The pictures he took, were often at different times and angles, creating a link with cubism, which was his aim. All of these works were abstract and different to still life images. An example of one of his Joiner’s works is “Chair”, which is an image of smaller images, pieced together to create an image of a chair. The chair is a quirky and awkward image as it isn’t a normal looking chair. In this image, Hockney has broken the law of perspective which makes the image stand out. Hockney again uses basic colours to create his image with a forest green rusty, old garden chair with a beige rustic background all pieced together on a grey/green background. I think that these colours help to convey a quirky and out of the ordinary image. They stand out against the background. Hockney used a few materials to create this image such as Polaroid prints which he glued together and then photographed. I think that they all worked well to create the quirky image of a
John Singleton Copley was born in 1738 in Boston, Massachusetts. His mother Martha Babcock Amory was married to Richard Copley who died shortly after John’s birth. A couple of years later his mother remarried to Peter Pelham. Peter would prove to be a big influence on John’s early career. Pelham, one of Boston’s top engravers, would teach him the intricacies of printing and give Copley a chance to access a large library of prints to work from. These would later be used in the compositions of paintings like The Return of Neptune (fig1.1) and Mrs. Jerathmael Bowers. At first he borrowed poses and backgrounds from his step father's mezzotints, and tricks of color and modeling from his elders in Boston's portrait-painting fraternity. But he soon found he could go farther by paying scant attention to the modes and strict attention to his models. He would spend up to 100 hours on a portrait wit...
The colors in the figure’s face consist of warm colors of red, yellow, green while the rest of the body consist of primary colors of yellow, blue, red along with seafoam green, white, and pink. However, the colors are mixed from one to another to create depth. To illustrate this, a viewer would focus on the figure’s right leg because of the luminous yellow and then to the soft sea green foam, which makes the yellow closer to the viewer, whereas the sea foam green is in the back, creating depth. In addition, the simplified forms such as the red triangle on the bottom right also helps separate the yellow and the sea foam green, which reinforces that they split to show depth. In addition, the two red dots, the triangle, the red on the face, and red on the arm also reinforces the viewer to look at the whole piece. Overall, Brown use specific colors around the drawing to make sure the viewer look at it as a whole rather than just looking at one
In this piece Benny has depicted himself in the artwork creating another piece of artwork. He is standing at a 45° angle as if he has been interrupted by us, the viewer. This is how Benny engages us, the viewer into his painting. As if we are just as much a part of it as he is. When looking at his painting from a distance it seems as if it is just another oil painting but upon closer observation you can clearly see the different fabrics that he uses to create the collage and which gives the painting its textures. He shows space in the painting by leaving the wall on which the canvas hangs, bare, as is the floor with the exception of the box of rags that he uses in his collage.
Juan Gris, a Spanish-born painter, made important contributions to the modern style of painting called Cubism. GrisÕs paintings were always depicting his immediate surroundings. He painted still lives composed of simple, everyday objects, portraits of friends, and occasionally landscapes or cityscapes. The objects in his paintings and collages are more clearly defined and richly colored than those in the works of the earlier cubists Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque.
He would use a method where he would make little squares inside of 1 another to make his face. That he only used about 4 colors to create it. Other times he would do a grayscale portrait which he only used black paint(Only about half a teaspoon of it with some mixed water in it) to create his grayscale painting. He used a method called the “Grid Method.” That is when you make about 1 inch size squares to base your painting off of. Chuck close used this method for most of his painting. He used this method to make it easier on his arm when we painted. He also had a machine made for him that would make his paintings turn upside down so it could be more accessible for
The photomontages created by David Hockney are dramastically different from other artists pieces. Simply, this is because Hockney shows his view of the world as realistic as there can be when it comes to artwork. In photomontages there are various ideas, themes, and pictures combined as one piece of art. His aims are to capture motion within multiple snapshots. The goal is to prove that in a one point perspective piece an individual does not see an event occurring in frames. But, in Hockney’s photomontages the main goal is to let the audience see what a human eye really sees when analyzing a scene or event. In pieces of artwork like the “Jour de pluie à Paris” by Gustave Caillebotte that was created by using one point perspective there is only one visual. The visual it shows is of a street. The goal is to see how a community comes together by just analyzing one street. In Hockney’s visuals the goal is to see all of the little things the human eye ignores as it quickly glances at scences.
Everything seemed to flow together perfectly. If it did not flow together perfectly, then the artwork would not have come off the way it did in such a great way. I believe he thought it would be a great way to showcase his vision of art and his learning. This was his very first piece and he grew from it.
Revenge of the Goldfish used the complementary colors of blue and orange with bright orange fish and a blue bedroom. The use of these contrasting colors make the fish ‘pop’ in the photograph while the blue seems to fade into the back and doesn’t stand out as much. Skoglund’s A Breeze at Work uses complementary colors as well. The entire office space is a rusty brown-orange color with blue leaves. These contrasting colors make the blue leaves stand out in this particular photograph. In another piece of art titled Radioactive Cats, Skoglund uses colors in a slightly different way to make the animals in the photograph stand out. In this work of art, there is an elderly couple in their all grey kitchen. The only true color in the photograph aside from the human’s skin, is the bright green cats that are dispersed throughout the room. This image does not use complementary colors, but the colors do repel each other, resulting in the green cats standing out more than the grey
Sometimes computer manipulated, his images of corporate architecture, environmental contemplations such as pebbly earth, and mass groups of people freeze-framed mid-motion often reference the geometric forms of Minimalist Art and the "allover" quality of a Jackson Pollock painting. Our eyes dance across his dense, often slightly abstracted images, which display strong formal elements as they blend relationships between nature, culture, and technology. He is particularly concerned with capturing motion and creating a moment of stillness in that space. His work is "as much akin to the physics of motion as it is to the philosophy of convergence. "
Imagine pondering into a reconstruction of reality through only the visual sense. Without tasting, smelling, touching, or hearing, it may be hard to find oneself in an alternate universe through a piece of art work, which was the artist’s intended purpose. The eyes serve a much higher purpose than to view an object, the absorptions of electromagnetic waves allows for one to endeavor on a journey and enter a world of no limitation. During the 15th century, specifically the Early Renaissance, Flemish altarpieces swept Europe with their strong attention to details. Works of altarpieces were able to encompass significant details that the audience may typically only pay a cursory glance. The size of altarpieces was its most obvious feat but also its most important. Artists, such as Jan van Eyck, Melchior Broederlam, and Robert Campin, contributed to the vast growth of the Early Renaissance by enhancing visual effects with the use of pious symbols. Jan van Eyck embodied the “rebirth” later labeled as the Renaissance by employing his method of oils at such a level that he was once credited for being the inventor of oil painting. Although van Eyck, Broederlam, and Campin each contributed to the rise of the Early Renaissance, van Eyck’s altarpiece Adoration of the Mystic Lamb epitomized the artworks produced during this time period by vividly incorporating symbols to reconstruct the teachings of Christianity.
In the film, “The Alzheimer’s Project: The Memory loss tapes” there was an 87-year-old woman with Alzheimer disease named Bessie Knapmiller. It seems as Alzheimer runs in her family because her older sister has the same disease. Bessie sister is 93 years old and she has lost her entire memory. Bessie sister does not even remember their family members. However, Bessie stage of Alzheimer is not as bad as her sister, she still drives and still remembers people. At times, Bessie does forget others. Bessie went to take a memory test in May and few months later, when she returned she did not remember her doctor or him giving her the exam. When Bessie took her first memory test she could not remember the previous president before George Bush. She
In the University Of Arizona Museum Of Art, the Pfeiffer Gallery is displaying many art pieces of oil on canvas paintings. These paintings are mostly portraits of people, both famous and not. They are painted by a variety of artists of European decent and American decent between the mid 1700’s and the early 1900’s. The painting by Elizabeth Louise Vigee-Lebrun caught my eye and drew me in to look closely at its composition.
I was drawn first to the red walls. I had never seen an art exhibit in which the walls were any color other than white. But then again, this was Hockney. Hockney is known for his use of color. Side by side, the images were placed.
The artist I have selected was Damien Hirst. Damien Hirst is a British artist that specializes in the fields of conceptual art, installation art, and paintings. Hirst was born on June 7, 1965 in Bristol, England to Mary Brennan and his father Mr. Damien. He grew up in city of Leeds, England and in 1988; he attended the Goldsmiths, University of London. During this time, he curated the now renowned student exhibition, Freeze, held in east London. Hirst brought together a group of young artists who (he thought) would come to define “cutting-edge contemporary art” in the 1990s.
...nding things; putting them together and making them work. He often used subtle colours in his collages allowing for the occasional use of bold colours to act as a contrast. Similarly he would cut shapes into clear geometric forms, often to make some kind of statement. The influences of Cubism and Constructivism, can be seen in the arrangement and composition of his work.