Wednesday, October 9, 2013
Elan Sok Post 2
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.
Saturday, October 5, 2013
Jenny Saville
Maria Lassing
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
RAY CAESAR
Dominique Fortin
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
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.