Wednesday, October 9, 2013

Andy Curlowe

Elan Sok Post 2

Andy Curlowe

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Andy Curlowe's work often attempts to combine aspects of industry with nature. His work beautifully combines these elements by juxtaposing free-flowing mountainous forms along side precise, detailed architecturally lined structures. These opposing elements however are tied well together, not distracting one element over another from the viewer. Curlowe's work play with the saturation and elements of color in order to bring even further action into his paintings. Curlowe stated "as society struggles, so does nature, yet we are one and the same." His paintings seem to well depict this struggle yet harmoniously brings the elemnts together as well. 


Elan Sok

Sunday, October 6, 2013

Lee Jin Ju

Lee Jin Ju is a Korean artist who weaves memories, emotions and objects from her past together to make fantastical paintings. Ju works from her childhood to moments she would rather forget and still further through the varied stages of her womanhood. Compiled altogether into isolated dreamscapes Ju's works aim to address emotions rather than realistic depictions of events. Like a jumbled dream with no clear beginning or ending her paintings achieve a wakeful sense of unconsciousness. According to the artist she and several female friends experienced acts of violence; this left her feeling vulnerable and confused. She used her art to delve deeper and work through these unwelcome memories allowing her female personas only a thin layer of protection owed to their stockings. She felt free to supplement her work along the way with objects from her former homes and remove anything she felt detracted from the focus of the piece. For examples, Ju chose to remove the women's hair and most clothes to keep it from changing the viewer's perspective.

Restraints-Boundaries. 2012
The Material of Mind. 2010.

An Old Midday. 2011.

Meri Wright FA13 Vogel. 

Saturday, October 5, 2013

Jenny Saville

Jenny Saville is part of the young artists scene in England, specifically in Oxford at the moment. She is another artist I've been looking at in Europe and her use of the body and contour lines is awesome. She's already well recognized by the European art world with exhibits in Rome and Berlin. Some of her work was even displayed in Nashville at the Frist Center for the Arts. She seemingly reduces the human form in a lot of her work by covering it in harsh strokes or various items. In her paintings, she sculpts the flesh of her subjects, easily seen in Suspension (2002-2003). Her actual sculptures possess a painterly quality, showing her skill in molding mediums. I really enjoy her innovative ideas of how to approach multimedia art and the vulnerability she brings to the entities of the world.

Hannah Hahn

Maria Lassing


I stumbled upon this artist, Maria Lassing, when I was searching for exhibits in Austria for a future trip. I then noticed I had used Maria in my sketchbook from Drawing 2. I thought that was cool because she had caught my eye in the past and I might get to see her stuff in person. Her vulgar style was full of tension and odd decisions, but there's a sparse and fleeting nature to her pieces. She is known for her interest in "body awareness," creating forcibly awkward forms. Lassing's exploration of human form is enticing to me in her films and paintings, because her ideas can come from such a warped view. Der Delikate Boxer (2000) is painted in oil on canvas but has texture and motion. She presents a humanoid type figure with a single boxing glove in a mystery situation, on a stark complimentary background. Her works don't give off the vibe that's she worked too long on them but sometimes they take her quite a while to reach her standards. Lassing's contortions are interesting and youthful, and I hope I, and you, get a  chance to see her work.

Hannah Hahn

Friday, October 4, 2013

Max Ginsburg and his work , unemployed on line, the making of a multifigure

Painting. the Artists Megazine 2013(Oct.) pp.34-41.


  Ginsburg is a classically trained second generation artist of figurative oil painting. The unemployed on line, a 40 x80 inches oil painting was dealing with the reality issue of social justice, the conflict between the rich and the poor,and the common denominator of the people in. Line,the silent suffering of the young and able jobless adults.                                                                     The style was in the tradition of Rembrandt, Goya, and many others.  The line was placed diagonally and the color was overall subdued, somber, and  inducing melancholy. It  took one whole year to finish.The technique was superb and each figure taken out would make a very nice portrait. however, they are interconnected as a group. One woman was listening with a head phone, a man was talking with a cell phone, others were looking  at the police and the German Shepard, the symbol of oppression.  The painting recalls some classical paintings such as Georges Seurat's Sunday afternoon on the island of La Grande Jatte  and Jacque Louis David's Coronation of  Napoleon I.
  Ginsburg gave us an update glimpse of the other side of American society of the people we   Have left behind.  Thank you for reading!   
Lawrence Chien   Painting I, Vogel.    

Thursday, October 3, 2013

I actually ran across this artist while I was searching tumblr. Her name is Sirin Thada and she is so fun! She creates little drawing and paintings to comically describe relationships. She uses a play on words to find a quirky and fun way to express something about her culture and generation. She certainly remdinded me that there are so many uses for artistic expression, and like different writing styles, there are so many goals for painting! Her technique ranges from drawing very exact to drawing cartoon characters, yet her pallete and rendering of colors and form is fairly consistent. -Kelsey porter

I actually ran across this artist while I was searching tumblr. Her name is Sirin Thada and she is so fun! She creates little drawing and paintings to comically describe relationships. She uses a play on words to find a quirky and fun way to express something about her culture and generation. She certainly remdinded me that there are so many uses for artistic expression, and like different writing styles, there are so many goals for painting! Her technique ranges from drawing very exact to drawing cartoon characters, yet her pallete and rendering of colors and form is fairly consistent. 

RAY CAESAR

Ray Caesar

Ray Caesar is a talented painter who works in both real and digital media. His subjects are usually young females dressed in a mockingly Victorian fashion. He exaggerates visual Victorian archetypes symbolizing wealth, high birth, and status, including the long, layered dresses, pale skin, painted lips, high foreheads, and powdered hair. His figures usually involve themselves in whimsical, or sometimes even lewd, acts or poses, somewhat satirizing the idea of a classical, prestigious portrait with a disturbing yet childish air. These characteristics combined with his smooth and vivid style of painting make for beautifully creepy works.







Amanda Qualls

Dominique Fortin

I came across Dominique Fortin and was immediately mesmerized. She predominately uses oil paint, but also some other mixed media to create layers in her work. She wants to portray life, death, birth, the metamorphosis of life. She creates these dreamy, fantasized images, incorporating butterflies, birds, and her daughter in most pieces. She uses her daughter in her work because she says it's like an expression of her as a child, since they look so much alike. Yet unlike a typical child portrait, happy and smiling, she creates this intense stare. As she says in her artist statement, "their strange fixedness asks us 'do you know who you are? Where are you going? Why are you here?'"  Her work is actually a lot more haunting then what may appear at first, and I am just completely drawn in.



By Corinne Atamaniuk

Wednesday, October 2, 2013

Jean-Michel Basquiat

Leah Hoffman

Jean-Michel Basquiat's work is unmistakably unique. The images look frantic and eccentric, which reflected his personality. His paintings look like scenes from crazy dream, and almost like a mature version on a child scribbling on a piece of paper. Looking at his work you can feel the intense emotion he put into each line and each stroke of paint. Some of the canvases look extremely frantic. The crazed nature of his work stemmed from his drug addictions, and you looking at his work almost feels like you know how the drugs made him feel. I feel extreme connections to these painting because of the sense of emotion they evoke. Even though nothing in his paintings is really realistic he just has this overwhelming ability to make you feel the passion he had for his work whether he intended it or not. When I see his paintings I feel like I'm looking inside his head. He is one of the best examples of an artist who pours his heart and soul into his work. His strange images are nothing like anything I've seen. He uses simple lines and blocks and shapes but his work is still extremely complex. He was completely self-taught. He did graffiti and really whatever the hell he felt like, and you can see that attitude in his work. You cannot fake the eccentric style and kind of crazy images this man put on canvas.

She Installs Confidence and Picks His Brain Like a Salad, 1987
Acrylic and oil paint stick on wood, 92½ x 116 1/8 inches (235 x 295 cm)
Galleries Yvon Lambert, Paris

Basquiat in Great Jones Street Studio, New York, 1987

 

-Leah Hoffman 10/2/13

Elizabeth Murray: 
    Elizabeth Murray's work is very abstract. I find her process very interesting, incorporating shape and color to the extreme. Very intuitively she cuts out shapes (very large scale) and puts them together on an equal plain seemingly in a haphazard manner. She then paints the shapes using many bright colors. Although her work seems to create tension the way the shapes are arranged together across the whole piece there is a strong sense of unity that draws your eye across the entire painting. She leaves much up to interpretation in her work but some particular shapes are representational in each piece.  I appreciate her method of painting and find it to be very inspiring. She does not become bewildered by her artwork or confused about where to start, she simply goes for it. There is a sense of freedom to her work. One of her pieces is on display in our Hunter Museum (a piece discussed in the video at the following link http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/elizabeth-murray) but here are a few examples of her work.

Gerhard Richter

By: Leah Hoffman

Gerhard Richter is a German painter who has work varying from photo-realism to abstract paintings. I have heard his name a lot in different environments and looking into his work further I was beyond impressed. The thing that most strikes me about Richter's body of work is his ability to be successful in so many different styles. His abstract paintings look like he just dragged a palette across a canvas. His process essentially does involve him dragging paint across the canvas.  Still the paintings have a sense of unity, and the color choice, layout, and execution are all intentional and do not seem overly chaotic. It evokes kind of a peaceful chaos, and it causes the eye to get lost and almost lose focus but still stay interested.

His realism paintings are what I am drawn to the most. His portraits especially look extremely lifelike but they do not lose any distinction of being a painting as opposed to a photograph. His work all seems to have a haze or blurriness across it, but the fact that he does not lose control over his ability to make the figure still seem as if it is actually there is beyond impressive to me. He has an immaculate ability to express the slightest differences is values and light in a soft but accurate way.

 

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