Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Color & Emphasis
Banksy’s take on Tarantino’s cult movie was well known in the area and
amongst collectors of his work. Transport for London ordered it to be
painted over and have a strict policy against ‘graffiti’. The authority
released a statement saying that they employed professional cleaners, not professional art critics.
Line & Movement
The Vitruvian Man is a drawing created by Leonardo da Vinci circa 1490.[1] It is accompanied by notes based on the work of the architect Vitruvius.
The drawing, which is in pen and ink on paper, depicts a male figure in
two superimposed positions with his arms and legs apart and
simultaneously inscribed in a circle and square. The drawing and text
are sometimes called the Canon of Proportions or, less often, Proportions of Man. It is stored in the Gallerie dell'Accademia in Venice, Italy, and, like most works on paper, is displayed only occasionally.[2][3]
The drawing is based on the correlations of ideal human proportions with geometry described by the ancient Roman architect Vitruvius in Book III of his treatise De Architectura. Vitruvius described the human figure as being the principal source of proportion among the Classical orders of architecture. Vitruvius determined that the ideal body should be eight heads high. Leonardo's drawing is traditionally named in honor of the architect.
I have always loved da Vinci and Vitruvian man is no exception. da Vinci was a true Renaissance man who foetold the invention of many modern day inventions.
The drawing is based on the correlations of ideal human proportions with geometry described by the ancient Roman architect Vitruvius in Book III of his treatise De Architectura. Vitruvius described the human figure as being the principal source of proportion among the Classical orders of architecture. Vitruvius determined that the ideal body should be eight heads high. Leonardo's drawing is traditionally named in honor of the architect.
I have always loved da Vinci and Vitruvian man is no exception. da Vinci was a true Renaissance man who foetold the invention of many modern day inventions.
Value
Charles Thomas "Chuck" Close (born July 5, 1940) is an American painter and photographer who achieved fame as a photorealist, through his massive-scale portraits. Though a catastrophic spinal artery collapse in 1988 left him severely paralyzed, he has continued to paint and produce work that remains sought after by museums and collectors. Close currently lives and works in New York's West Village[1] and in Bridgehampton, New York.[2]
One of my favorite artists, his early super-realist style shows mastery of value . His work looks like B&W photographs.
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| Big Self Portrait 1968 acrylic on canvas 1071/2 X 831/2 inches |
Charles Thomas "Chuck" Close (born July 5, 1940) is an American painter and photographer who achieved fame as a photorealist, through his massive-scale portraits. Though a catastrophic spinal artery collapse in 1988 left him severely paralyzed, he has continued to paint and produce work that remains sought after by museums and collectors. Close currently lives and works in New York's West Village[1] and in Bridgehampton, New York.[2]
One of my favorite artists, his early super-realist style shows mastery of value . His work looks like B&W photographs.
Shape & Color
Jeff Koons was born in 1955 in York, Pennsylvania. He received his B.F.A. at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore and studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Since his emergence in the 1980s Jeff Koons has blended the concerns and methods of Pop, Conceptual, and appropriation art with craft-making and popular culture to create his own unique iconography, often controversial and always engaging. His work explores contemporary obsessions with sex and desire; race and gender; and celebrity, media, commerce, and fame. A self-proclaimed "idea man," Koons hires artisans and technicians to make the actual works. For him, the hand of the artist is not the important issue: "Art is really just communication of something and the more archetypal it is, the more communicative it is."
Koons use of shape and color really catches my eye. While I'm not a big fan I do find his work eye catching.
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| JEFF KOONS Balloon Flower (Orange), 2006 High chromium stainless steel with transparent color coating 114 x 132 x 108 inches (289.6 x 335.3 x 274.3 cm) Version 4/4 |
Jeff Koons was born in 1955 in York, Pennsylvania. He received his B.F.A. at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore and studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Since his emergence in the 1980s Jeff Koons has blended the concerns and methods of Pop, Conceptual, and appropriation art with craft-making and popular culture to create his own unique iconography, often controversial and always engaging. His work explores contemporary obsessions with sex and desire; race and gender; and celebrity, media, commerce, and fame. A self-proclaimed "idea man," Koons hires artisans and technicians to make the actual works. For him, the hand of the artist is not the important issue: "Art is really just communication of something and the more archetypal it is, the more communicative it is."
Koons use of shape and color really catches my eye. While I'm not a big fan I do find his work eye catching.
German artist Walter Mason sees nature a bit differently than most people, and he has the vision to use materials made by nature in his art. Land Art is his collection of nature creations using leaves, berries, water, grass and trees to create striking works of art, which are then documented via photography. Whether he creates a collage from leaves, a spiraling trail of water beads, or makes a geometric pattern out of needles, Mason transforms nature into beautiful designs.
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| Henry Moore OM, CH Recumbent Figure 1938 Green Hornton stone object: 889 x 1327 x 737 mm, 520 kg |
Henry Moore (1898 - 1986) is perhaps the most influential public sculptor of this century. Drawing on his studies of Classical, pre-Columbian and African art, Moore created original and truly modern sculptural forms. Abstractions of organic shapes were his primary motif. His seated, standing, and reclining figures comprise an enduring vocabulary reflecting the universality of the human condition.
"The
observation of nature is part of an artist's life, it enlarges his form
[and] knowledge, keeps him fresh and from working only by formula, and
feeds inspiration." ~ Henry Moore
"In
my opinion, everything, every shape, every bit of natural form,
animals, people, pebbles, shells, anything you like are all things that
can help you to make a sculpture." ~ Henry Moore as quoted in Five
British Sculptors (Work and Talk) by Warren Forma, 1964.
I've always dug Moore's sculptures. his use of positive and negative shape create a pleasing/sensual shape.
Saturday, April 27, 2013
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT
pattern
The Martin House is actually part of a complex of buildings that also includes the Barton House and four other structures. Frank Lloyd Wright designed 394 pieces of art glass for the Martin Complex using 15 basic designs, 11 of which were for the Martin House itself. Each of the house's two floors have a different basic pattern for the window designs, and there are separate patterns for exterior and interior windows as well as for ceiling panels (geometric designs based on squares).
The "Tree of Life" design used on the second floor was dense enough to provide some privacy, with each consisting of over 700 individual pieces of glass separated by various widths of brass caming.
I have always been fascinated with Frank Lloyd Wright. His wonderful architectural designs and his stained glass is so well balanced with the nature is surrounds. These windows are works of art not only because of the beautiful patterns they are but for the beautiful Changing patterns they cast from the changing light that streams through the,
Frank Lloyd Wright (born Frank Lincoln Wright, June 8, 1867 – April 9, 1959) was an American architect, interior designer, writer and educator, who designed more than 1,000 structures and completed 532 works. Wright believed in designing structures which were in harmony with humanity and its environment, a philosophy he called organic architecture. This philosophy was best exemplified by his design for Fallingwater (1935), which has been called "the best all-time work of American architecture".[1] Wright was a leader of the Prairie School movement of architecture and developed the concept of the Usonian home, his unique vision for urban planning in the United States.
His work includes original and innovative examples of many different building types, including offices, churches, schools, skyscrapers, hotels, and museums. Wright also designed many of the interior elements of his buildings, such as the furniture and stained glass. Wright authored 20 books and many articles and was a popular lecturer in the United States and in Europe. His colorful personal life often made headlines, most notably for the 1914 fire and murders at his Taliesin studio. Already well known during his lifetime, Wright was recognized in 1991 by the American Institute of Architects as "the greatest American architect of all time."
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