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Artist Influence – Jeremy Miranda
Jeremy Miranda is an artist who I came across on art blog, and their work stood out amongst the rest, so I decided to investigate further. After viewing Miranda’s website, it looks as though the artist only works in paint, if not also in digital media. The interesting part of Miranda’s work is the combination of worlds and transition between the two; the worlds in the paintings are closely related by blurred between the lines.
The piece I’m more interested in is the painting in the image above; the transition between the two compositions is a very blunt but was also smooth as if looking through a window, and the way how everything is related, from the drawings of the ship to the ship in the sea.
Miranda looks as though they are building up their work into a portfolio at the start a career. I will be on the watch any new work Miranda makes, I will draw inspiration from their work and hopefully have the chance to contact them about their work.
The text above is a mix of my own opinion and research of Jeremy Miranda.
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Artist Influence – René Magritte
René Magritte is a surrealist painter, who is well-known for painting objects in places and situations where they shouldn’t. I’ve been interested in Magritte the past few years now, and I still enjoy going back and looking at his paintings from time to time; the surrealism in each of his paintings defies reality in makes you want to question your own reality.
My favourite of Magritte’s work is his `Time Transfixed,’ where the train is flying out of the fireplace. I enjoy this one for all the reasons that you think, why is the train so small, why is it flying out of the fireplace; these are the questions that Magritte would have wanted you to ask.
Magritte will always be one of the most well-known surrealist painters in the art world, and he will always be a great source of influence for me.
Text above is a mix of my own opinion and research of René Magritte.
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The essential René Magritte
In-text: (Alden and Magritte, 1999)
Bibliography: Alden, T. and Magritte, R. (1999). The essential René Magritte. New York: H.N. Abrams.
Artist Influence – Clyfford Still
Clyfford Still is a painter which in his time was named the most daring artist. I am familiar with Stills method of painting or his style of painting. The reason why he is an artist influence, is for his use of colour; and for me, the way in which his work resembles broken worlds.
I especially like Stills `1957’ piece, which is an untitled painting. To me this painting looks like a world in which is described through colour. The colour creates an environment in which the paint sits in. Many of Stills work are very similar to each other, they all have an abstract feel to them.
The reason I’ve chosen Clyfford Still as an artist influence for me, it’s because of this style of paintings. In the future I will learn more on his reasons were painting in the style in which he did, but that will be a future endeavour for myself.
The text above is a mix of my own opinion and research of Clyfford Still.
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Clyfford Still, 1904-1980
In-text: (Still and Kellein, 1992)
Bibliography: Still, C. and Kellein, T. (1992). Clyfford Still, 1904-1980. Munich, Germany: Prestel.
Artist Influence – Wassily Kandinsky
Wassily Kandinsky is an abstract painter who is believed to have painted the first purely abstract works. From the research I’ve done to the information I know, Kandinsky used music to create his abstract works, where he painted what music would look like.
I don’t completely believe this to be related to my work, the idea of illustrating one thing as another is what I’m relating to my work. In my work I want to translate the reality in my head into methods of creating artwork; whereas Kandinsky was creating paintings using music, thus creating the abstract work which is highly known in our world.
The piece I find most interesting of Kandinsky’s is `Composition VIII,’ the variety of colour and use of line, creates a composition in depth to the painting, which would be difficult when trying to paint music.
Text above is a mix of my own opinion and research of Wassily Kandinsky.
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Kandinsky
In-text: (Grohmann, n.d.)
Bibliography: Grohmann, W. (n.d.). Kandinsky.
Artist Influence – Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso is one of the famous names in the art world, and is recognised for his role in the avant-garde. Picasso is another artist who forged the way for future artists, with his many methods of painting and styles of paintings.
One of Picasso’s paintings which I really enjoy is his portrait of the art dealer Ambroise Vollard, which Picasso painted in his Cubism style. The reason which I enjoy this painting is the way in which Picasso tries to deconstruct/fragment reality while keeping the form of the human figure. This is similar in what I’m trying to do in my own project, which is to twist reality in creating my own form of it; which I believe is what Picasso was trying to do with Cubism.
Picasso created Cubism to show the world a different way of viewing reality, in which he created many paintings which included a cube style, hence Cubism. Picasso and the other members of the avant-garde, created many different forms of painting, styles of painting, ways of how to paint, and ways of how to look at reality as well as paintings.
The text above is a mix of my own opinion and research of Pablo Picasso.
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Picasso
In-text: (Elgar, Maillard and Scarfe, 1956)
Bibliography: Elgar, F., Maillard, R. and Scarfe, F. (1956). Picasso. London: Thames and Hudson.
Project One – Week Five
Hi everyone!
Over the past week I managed to finish off my painting. The painting is a composition of drawings which I did in a previous week, and also contains some of my interests. For me, I consider this an achievement as I don’t regularly paint, in fact, this is the first time I’ve painted in about 10 years, so I’m really pleased with the outcome. I decided in the end to paint a ‘Minecraft’ themed background to the canvas, just to give the painting some depth.
Enjoy.
Project One – ‘Connecting through Making and Thinking’ Week Three + Four
Hi everyone! I know that this post is a few days late, so to make up the slack, I’m going to include the past two weeks of work.
So during week three, I didn’t get much done. I wasn’t focused and I just couldn’t find the energy to paint. I only managed to make a couple of paintings for week three. But for week four, I did manage to make a couple more paintings to make up for week three. I also started on my canvas during the start of week four. After a bit of though, and a quick scan of my previous paintings, I decided to paint a picture of my foot; the reason for this is that I’ve really gotten into painting the human figure and landscapes didn’t really interest me. I did also go an a trip to Liverpool to see the John Moores biennial and other various exhibits. So at the end of this week, I have my paintings finished, and the start of my canvas painted, and also about fifty artists which I found interesting to add to my list of research.
Soon I will be adding a new section to my blog; the section will be called ‘Research’, and will include any artists or exhibits, books, or even movies which I find interesting enough to talk about. I will write a post explaining the new section when it arrives and I’ll write a post about an artist I’ve always been interested in, a few artists which I’ve researched during my time at uni, and I will talk about one of the exhibits at Liverpool.
Until then,
Enjoy.
Project One – ‘Connecting through Making and Thinking’ Week Two
Hi everyone! These posts are being uploaded a bit late aren’t they? straight to the update then.
I mentioned in the last post of this, the first week of the course was to draw six A2 sized drawings. So for the second week, I had to use those drawings and translate them into paint. The task was to use one of each drawing from each category (figure, object, interior/exterior), and then paint the three in the same painting. So here’s the thing,… I’m not a great fan of painting, I’ve only painted when I was in first school, and once during high school, and none of those paintings turned out great. I have given painting a fair go the past week though, and I don’t mind it now, but I’m only good at making paintings that are ‘abstract’, by abstract I mean they only look like they image I’m painting if you take a step back and look from across the room. I did say the same thing about drawing though; I never did like drawing until the foundation last year, so it might turn out that painting is my new muse,… maybe.
So after messing around with paints and seeing how they worked, I went on to paint copies of my drawings. Some have turned out good and you can recognise what I’ve aimed to paint, a couple on the other hand haven’t turned out good. The ones that haven’t worked though are ones which I’ve drawn from imagination and not from an image, so that answers that problem. After deciding what to combine with what, I painted an ear attached to my foot with a pencil on the side (not the greatest combination I know). I now have more paintings which just contain one item. I aim to add other items over the current paintings and use those for ideas for the canvas. The images below are the progress I made over the past week.
Enjoy.
Railston Artworks 