Yayoi Kusama Yayoi Kusama is a Japanese artist and writer, one of the top living comtemporary artist. She was born in 1928. Today, at 87, making herself outstanding with a scarlet hair, she is famous with her polka-dot style paintings. Yayoi Kusama starts using polka dots as her main subject when she was around ten. Her paintings reflect contemporary art movement: pop art. Contemporary art is a pretty big deal today. In What Was Contemporary Art?, Richard Meyer said, “Contemporary art is not simply a function of the current moment or the immediate past. Contemporary art is also a relation between an ever-shifting present and volatile force of history” (280, par. 3). Yayoi Kusama is one of the top contemporary artist and considered as the …show more content…
Most of her works are mostly about it with different shapes and diffferent colors. For instant, her work with Louis Vuitton: red dots on white background, black dots on yellow background, white dots on red background. Even Yayoi Kusama is famous with Pop Art, her works remind me of Op Art because they create the illustration in your eyes when you keep looking at them for a long time. At the same time, those works are not really Op Art because Op Art is to make a 2D surface look 3D. Her polka dots are placed mostly randomly. Her works were also used as ideas for patterns on clothes.
Another piece that reminds me of Op Art is Lemon Squash in 1991. Just as most of Bridget Riley’s artwork, this acrylic painting also used black and white colors with kind of geometric shapes. But again, Yayoi Kusama using black and white and shapes did not mean to create a 3D feeling but to create the variation for her blackground and subject: table surface, the glass, the straw, and the lemon
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Looks like they – the subjects – were inspired by how things are like under the microscope. While in I Will Still Go On Living has only two color: blue and reddish brown, Talks of a Flower Garden looks colorful, she used mainly light blue and orange which are really contrast, besides that, the subjects are in darker blue, green , orange, with texture on them.
Another subject that appears in a majority of her works is pumkin. She has a series of screenprint in different colors, sculptures, or painting on cast, etc. There is texture on her pumkin and of course, it had to be polka dots. The pumkin may have a slightly different shapes too. Dots and net structure appears in most of her work. For instance, in Pumkin, dots are the decoration of pumkin, net structure is used for her back ground.
By her works and her appearance, Yayoi Kusama is an artist with a character, one of the influent artist in New York City. She really developes her own style through the art movement. Her works are also appreciated by the world. She received The Education Minister 's Art Encouragement Prize and Foreign-Minister 's Commendations in 2000, Asahi Prize in 2001, the Medal with Dark Navy Blue Ribbon in 2002. Since then, she keeps having her show all over the world.
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Alice Pike Barney was an American painter. Alice Barney was born in Ohio in the year 1857. Barney came from a family of wealth. Barney was known for her portraits, nudes and landscapes. Initially, she studied painting in Cincinnati with her mentor Elizabeth Norse. She later moved to Paris and began studying art with James Whistler. She was a very influential artist in the Washington DC artistic movement. ...
The American artist Fred Tomaselli arranges pills, leaves, insects and cutouts of animals and body parts to create his pieces of art. His incorporation of items are arranged to suggest a level of perception along with a heightened visual experience. This gives me, the viewer, a sense of Energy. The perception of color that Fred uses gives a gravitating feel. If you take a look at the heart of this piece you can instantly visualize the different items Fred incorporates into the piece.
The October Gallery. (2000, May 19). About the Artist [Online]. Available: http://www.octobergallery.com/sbarnes.htm [2001, March 19].
Art could be displayed in many different forms; through photography, zines, poetry, or even a scrapbook. There are many inspirational women artists throughout history, including famous women artists such Artemisia Gentileschi and Georgia O’Keeffe. When searching for famous female artists that stood out to me, I found Frida Kahlo, and Barbara Kruger. Two very contrasting type of artists, though both extremely artistic. Both of these artists are known to be feminists, and displayed their issues through painting and photography. Frida Kahlo and Barbara Kruger’s social and historical significance will be discussed.
Ringgold is best known for paintings such as oil on canvas. In her paintings she is very conscious of the color wheel and how colors help to complement one another...
Ms. Kilgallen was born in Washington, D.C. in 1967 and went to Colorado College, where she received a Bachelor of Arts in printmaking in 1989. Her influences were from American and Indian folk art, hand painted signs, and typography from the 15th and 16th century (Kilgallen). Her color palette was influenced by early hand painted art from the southwestern area of United States; they were brown, a pale yellow, and black. She preferred to paint things that were happening around her, such as a woman sitting next to a man, or her husband painting graffiti on a wall.
She also uses the shadowing technique to make the figures look 3D, and to emphasize the foreground and background. She uses bright colors in the clothing and sunlight to brighten up the painting to make it known they are outside. She used a lot of detail in their clothing, and even on the table they are playing chess on. I also noticed on the side of the chess game, she engraved her name on the side, along with some other words I cant make out.
Pablo Picasso is certainly a genius who has left an indelible mark on his time. Consequently, many artists all over the world have had their own career influenced by his work. Among those artists can be listed Willem de Kooning, a Dutch American painter, and the Cameroonian artist Koko Komegne. For instance, both artists have had their early work, and later their career impacted by Picasso’s cubism. While de Kooning spent hours looking at each detail of Picasso’s paintings, Koko Komegne learnt to paint by reproducing the master’s artworks. Another thing both artists shared with Picasso through their career was the woman as subject matter. Unsurprisingly, de Kooning and Komegne have extensively painted the woman in their own career. Among all those pieces, Seated Woman, 1940, from Willem de Kooning and Toilette, 2006, from Koko Komegne are very similar; the characters on both pieces are ladies, and they have the same pose. However, although the two paintings are similar in term of descriptive subject matter, de Kooning and Komegne draw from their environment and their personal style to highlight their specificities.
Andy Warhol and Frida Kahlo had an immense amount of impact on the world of art. Warhol has always explored the rooted connection between celebrity culture and artistic expression, which left him with a lasting legacy that has marked him for one of the most famous artists to have existed. The population was fascinated by Warhol’s ability to blur the lines between fine art and innovative design, providing him a large following and work that will be remembered for decades. Kahlo too is a name that is not likely to be forgotten. Her work is recognizable on a global level and her works are loved by many people. The deep admiration her followers have given her, and the amount of modern artists that she has influenced, creates an immortalization
This piece is acrylic, oilstick, and spray paint on wood panel that is 186.1 centimeters in height and 125.1 centimeters in width. This piece features a human-like figure in the center that is mostly half red and half black. This figure has a gray head with one yellow eye and one light gray eye and above its head is a black halo. The background consists of patches of various colors such as light blue, black, dark red, light green, beige, turquoise, pink, and yellow. On the bottle left corner there is a figure drawn that looks like a fish and has a strip of mustard yellow painted through it. Also towards the bottom right of the artwork, there is some drawn on letters that almost look like words but are messily painted over with a desert sand color. This piece is my favorite because I find it aesthetically pleasing. There is a lot going on in this piece that makes looking at it genuinely interesting. The colors that Basquiat choses for the background go very well together and overall compliment the figure in the center. I like how incredibly expressive this piece is and it makes me want to buy a canvas and start painting that I desire. I also like how the human-like figure is drawn. One could see what looks like an outlined ribcage on the figure, which makes me believe that the head is actually a skull. Upon further research I learned that Basquiat was
Art is a very important part of humanity’s history, and it can be found anywhere from the walls of caves to the halls of museums. The artists that created these works of art were influenced by a multitude of factors including personal issues, politics, and other art movements. Frida Kahlo and Vincent van Gogh, two wildly popular artists, have left behind artwork, that to this day, influences and fascinates people around the world. Their painting styles and personal lives are vastly different, but both artists managed to capture the emotions that they were feeling and used them to create artwork.
... The feelings you get when you look at art work by Kahlo are strong. A person either hates it from the moment they see it because it’s horrific or you love it because it is such profound work. So much meaning is established in every painting.
Frieda Kahlo was born Magdalena Carmen Frieda Kahlo y Calderon in Coyoacan, Mexico, July 6th, 1907. She did not in the first place plan to become a creator; she entered a pre-Master of Education system in Mexico City. She endured more than large integer dealing in her brio time and during her convalescence she began to discomfit. Her beaux-arts, mostly self-portraits and still life, filled with the colors and forms of Mexican folk art. Frieda created some 200 spacing’s, artistic production and sketches germane to her education in life, physical and aroused pain and her churning relationship with her ex husband Diego. She produced 143 beaux arts, lv of which are self-portraits. At the time of her exhibition first step, Frieda’s health was such that her Doctor told her that she was not to leave her patch. She insisted that she was going to wait on her opening, and, in Frieda style, she did. She arrived in an ambulance and her bed in the backward of a transport. She was placed in her bed and four men carried her in to the waiting guests.
It seems to be his style of painting, thick brush strokes. It is not simple, there is much to the painting, there is emotion in the painting. It is a stunning piece made by him.
During the research field trip in the Downtown gallery, one of the most interesting artist which called Randi Nygård. Her works If You Imagine Cutting the Universe into Pieces, the Different Parts Can Serve as Clocks for the Others 2 (2013) which made by mirrors, digital prints, steel was really attracted attention and the size of this work was 130*50*50cm. The work was presenting the natural state of the world like mountain, cell, flower, river and clouds. She was really special to using the mirror in this art piece which people in the front side could see themselves in the mirror, but they could not see themselves very clear in the ba...