Andy Goldsworthy was born on 26 July 1956 in Cheshire. Goldsworthy went to Bradford College of Art between 1974 and 1975, and afterwards went to Preston Polytechnic in 1978. His Dad taught maths at the University of Leeds; it was in Leeds that Goldsworthy had first discovered the scenery as a farm worker during he was a teenager. It was this early experience that made him interested with the natural resources on earth. Andy melts and shapes a mixture of natural resources into something inspiring, which is often known as "land art." His work has varied from frozen arches to a string of red poppy petals. He has used these natural resources because he did not want it to seem surreal or out of place, yet it would stand out as it was peculiar due to his art work connecting to its surroundings.
Andy was heavily influenced by Robert Smithson as he was also known for his earth work (Spiral Jetty). Robert was like Andy, he was not limited with resources or with genre and it was linked to the environment. As well as that Robert incorporates his art work without harming the environment but in fact enhances its view, like he did with the Spiral Jetty; similarly how Andy does his work too. Andy uses temporary objects that decay and become a part of the area over time. Plenty of the work Andy crafts is influenced by his experience of farm life; the structure of nature, the cycle of life and death. Most importantly, in the 1970s, artists were influenced by Cubism which was about visual representation, by replacing just one view of something and instead think of several interpretations of it. Thus Andy may have looked at nature with a diverse viewpoint, he may have seen the stones laid on the floor, but instead he decided to make a pattern of it...
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...r instance snow, stones, wood, water, mud, flower petals, or even his own saliva to create his work, and beautiful structure with them. I have been influenced to use different shaded autumn leaves which blend in to form a vivid flower. As well as that I can learn how to be resourceful from just a limited amount of materials.
In my opinion, Andy Goldsworthy is one of a kind artist since he does not need technology to create art but instead just needs leaves, branches, twigs and etcetera which can be found anywhere. Not only that but he has inspired me to do something similar like him, for example making my own version of his leaves artwork. I may even make archways using branches and twigs. Looking at this artist has made me improve since now I can identify which leaves/stones that will blend into one another with complementary colours making it more eye catching.
Tim Storrier was born in Sydney Australia in 1949. He spent his early childhood on his family's sheep station at Umagarlee, near Wellington, NSW. His mother and grandmother were interested in art, and he would draw a lot. He drew military heroes and rural subjects such as woolsheds. At the age of ten he went to boarding school in Sydney, where he spent a lot of time in the art room, painting under the influence of his teacher Ross Doig. Storrier attended the National Art School from 1967-1969.
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 ...
He got a lot of his inspiration from his mother. She loved painting with water colors and making
CLS- His collages are made of complete natural pieces like sand, shells, leaves, sticks to give his compositions an abstract natural quality with all of the elements.
Jackson Pollock was an American abstract artist born in Cody, Wyoming in 1912. He was the youngest of his five brothers. Even though he was born on a farm, he never milked a cow and he was terrified of horses because he grew up in California. He dropped out of high school at the age of seventeen and proceeded to move to New York City with his older brother, Charles, and studied with Thomas Hart Benton at the Art Students League. Thomas Benton was already a great artist at the time in which Pollock studied with him. Benton acted like the father figure in Pollock’s life to replace the original that wasn’t there. Benton was known for his large murals that appear on ceilings or walls. “Jack was a rebellious sort at all times,” recalls his classmate and friend, artist Harold Lehman. He grew his hair long and helped pen a manifesto denouncing athletics, even though “he had a muscular build and the school wanted to put him on the football team,” says former teacher Doug Lemon. Pollock always was upset with himself in his studies because he had troubles drawing things like they were supposed to look. From 1938 to 1942, Jackson joined a Mexican workshop of people with a painter named David Siqueiros. This workshop painted the murals for the WPA Federal Art Projects. This new group of people started experimenting with new types of paint and new ways of applying it to large canvas. People say that this time period was when Jackson was stimulated with ideas from looking at the Mexican or WPA murals. Looking at paintings from Picasso and the surrealists also inspired Jackson at this time. The type of paint they used was mixing oil colors with paint used for painting cars. Jackson noticed that the shapes and colors they created were just as beautiful as anything else was. Jackson realized that you didn’t have to be able to draw perfect to make beautiful paintings. Jackson started developing a whole new way of painting that he had never tried before and his paintings were starting to look totally different from before.
Andrew Warhola was born August Sixth, 1928, in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. He was the youngest son of Julie and Andrej Warhola, both immigrants from Czechoslovakia. After a quiet childhood spent alternately alone and in art classes, Andrew went to college. He then got a job doing commercial art, largely advertisements for large companies. Over time his name was shortened and Andy Warhol changed the face of modern art. Through his silver lined Factory and the many people who frequented it a revolution was born. This paper will discuss some of these people and examine the impact they all made on modern art.
“Most of my inspiration comes from colour, art, flowers, landscapes and detail from vintage clothes or antique bric-a-brac… I sketch collections with fabrics in mind and develop inspiration boards alongside my draping and this had been a large part of evolving shapes.”
Andy Goldsworthy is one of my favorite artists. He is from Great Britain and uses nature to conceive his ideas. Goldsworthy studied fine art, just I’m doing, at Bradford College of Art. Now he is getting his Bachelor’s degree. He was in a documentary I saw called Rivers and Tides. I learned that in his life he married Judith Gregson and had four children, separated and now lives with Tina Fiske. He was a farmer since he was thirteen and says there is a rhythm to farming because of the repetition. One of his pieces that really hits me is Rowan Leaves & Hole. It is a circle of gradual colors of fiery leaves then a black circle in the middle. I love the mystery of it and they simplicity. It was photographed on photographed October 25th, 1987. This artwork explores the ephemeral of leaves, how the fleeting moment of color is so vivid then dies. It contrast with human life and the interaction humans have with nature. For the most part he uses monochromatic or analogous color schemes. In class we saw Red Cherry Leaf Patch, which is some what similar to Rowan Leaves & Hole because of t...
The use of materials to complement a design’s emotional reaction has stuck with the modernist movement. His implementation of these materials created a language that spoke poetically as you move through the structure. “Mies van der Rohe’s originality in the use of materials lay not so much in novelty as in the ideal of modernity they expressed through the rigour of their geometry, the precision of the pieces and the clarity of their assembly” (Lomholt). But one material has been one of the most important and most difficult to master: light. Mies was able to sculpt light and use it to his advantage.
Starting with visual elements I saw lines, implied depth, and texture. I see lines by him using lines created by an edge. Each line is curved not straight but it works with the piece. By using this he creates the piece to make it whole. He uses many curved lines within the painting I don’t know if there is a straight line in the whole thing. The next element I saw was implied depth. Using linear perspective you can see the mountains but they look smaller than the rest of the piece. They are the vanishing point in the back making it look as if you can walk down and they will get closer and closer to you. The last element that I saw was texture. They talk about Van Gogh’s painting, The Starry Night having texture through a two- dimensional surface, in which this painting has that similar feel. Van Gogh uses thick brush stokes on his paintings to show his feelings. There is actually a name for this called, Impasto,
Anna's artistic side has manifested itself in many other ways. She carried a sketchbook, making drawings of the various churches we visited, our family, or the creatures in her imagination. In her late elementary school years, Anna discovered the joy of using beads to make jewelry.
collage on the pavement from old cigarette butts and other discarded materials. He, also differed from other Dadaists in the way he was much more interested the concept and process then the end product. He focused closely on the texture, line, colour and thickness of line and enjoyed contrasting these elements against one another.
Vincent Van Gogh’s well known artwork had a profound impact on the world. After being rejected countless times by other jobs, Van Gogh realized that art was his calling and he begun to research other artists and various artwork. He visited several museums in London and got inspiration from many of the impressionists living in Europe at the time.
The way the artist carefully creates the design while being mindful of the intricate details in each step is quite impressive.
play a major role in the poetry he writes. He tends to use nature to