Art Assignment Year 12 Jasmine Cooper
Contemporary artists worldwide have discovered the aesthetic qualities of manmade and natural resources and incorporate these to represent the environment and its features within their work. Miguel Payano, Al Ouchtomsky and Lorenzo Duran are just three artists that explore the wonders of the environment in their diverse artworks, through a variety of media areas and personal interpretations of the world around them. The following essay will dissect a piece from each of the three artists and will evaluate how the central focus ‘Environment’ is sustained.
Miguel Payano is an artist who is heavily influenced by Chinese culture despite his American background. ‘Koicocks’ is a collection of paintings he has produced with an combination of the koi fish and the peacock; two auspicious creatures that are often depicted with a great amount of poise. ‘Pied Asagi and Shusui with Ladybug’ (2013) demonstrates his talent with an oil on canvas landscape and scales up to a large 100 x 200cm. By painting the Koicock white, the innocence and composure of these two animals is symbolised and is a stark contrast to the soft, dusty pinks of the trees and the sunset. Also contrasting to the white and pink, the use of black in the foreground allows the bird to be the central focus. Symmetrical balance of the artwork displayed within the positioning of the Koicock, is complemented by the textured scales, feathers and leaves, giving this piece a 3 dimensional form.
The unity of these elements has portrayed China’s culture and the environment of which Payano assumes this creature would be seen in. Because he has followed the stylistic guidelines of Chinese art to position the audience to assume that he is a Chine...
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Ultimately, these three artworks portray the vast extent, which an artist can explore in relation to the environment. Miguel Payano, Al Ouchtomsky and Lorenzo Duran have each produced a piece that reflects the environment in very different media and through the use of their own technical expertise. By the manufacture of their own creatures, Payano and Ouchtomsky have displayed the pinnacles to which an artist’s imagination will reach. Also, by carving the leaf in a way that reflects the environment’s status, viewers around the world are able recognise human interactions and will continuously become intrigued with Lorenzo Duran’s work. Because there is still so much to explore within the environment, artists like these will continue to make significant artworks that affect a range of audiences. Whether this be by assemblage or by leaf-cut sculptures,
Art can tell every single part of people’s daily lives from emotion, poverty, power, environment, even social context. For example, “Waste Land” is one of art pieces that invaded the lives of Brazilian garbage pickers. Vik Muniz completed Waste Land in 2010. He used textures that express the concept of reality. His painting skills created a work so precise that people could see the meaning behind the image very clearly. Vik Muniz was born into a working-class family in Sao Paulo, Brazil. He was both artist and photographer. He is a successful artist in America. He is an artist that likes to combine everyday objects and transforms it into art. He used material such as dirt, sugar, garbage, and chocolate syrup for his painting. He had the talent to create art out of recycled materials. For example, one of his well-known paintings was “Waste land” made from the recycle materials, which helped people to see the social and environmental problem among Brazilian garbage picker society. Waste Land is both painting and documentary form. Before I saw the video, I never thought about how many pounds of garbage people produce each day. I was sure that most us did not think about the garbage that we threw away each day could cause a huge problem for our health and environment. One reason we did not see the garbage as a problem because we did not live near landfill. After I watched Waste Land by Vick Muniz’s, I realized that just because we did not see or smell the landfill did not mean there were not problems. Most of us thought when we throw out garbage it somehow would disappear. We did not realize that most of our trash ended up in landfill sites and pile...
My friends, after traveling through the Asian continent and Japan, I continued on to the Americas. The art in the Americas has three regions, North America, Central America, and South America. Each region has a very distinct aspect to their forms of art. All cultures have some kind of art. Being curious about art, I have collected samples from five different areas. The following works of art are very different from European art, but there are still some similarities. The similarities of the human spirit are evident in the following images.
In Yasumasa Morimura painting, Portrait (Futago) the viewer is faced with two people who are of different skin colors. However, instead of painting a woman in the reclining position, Morimura has put himself in this posi...
Though most works of art have some underlying, deeper meaning attached to them, our first impression of their significance comes through our initial visual interpretation. When we first view a painting or a statue or other piece of art, we notice first the visual details – its size, its medium, its color, and its condition, for example – before we begin to ponder its greater significance. Indeed, these visual clues are just as important as any other interpretation or meaning of a work, for they allow us to understand just what that deeper meaning is. The expression on a statue’s face tells us the emotion and message that the artist is trying to convey. Its color, too, can provide clues: darker or lighter colors can play a role in how we judge a piece of art. The type of lines used in a piece can send different messages. A sculpture, for example, may have been carved with hard, rough lines or it may have been carved with smoother, more flowing lines that portray a kind of gentleness.
Through traditional ink and color, Ren Yu depicted a quiet scenario of uninhabited place among mountains foot and river, with a figure in orange sitting in a cave in this picture. Using a little green, orange color together with the large scale fulfilled with ink made this drawing stand out and interesting.
One can see Van Gogh’s emotional suffering and mental instability expressed through the tumultuous strokes of the dark night sky and the cypress associated with mourning. One can see Van Gogh’s hope and wonder through the simplicity of the lit villages and the hills.The result is a landscape made with curves and lines, the chaos in the night sky subverted by the formal arrangement of other
Every person has feelings. These feelings are aroused by a catalyst. A touch, a smell, a sight. When a person does art, his or her duty is to titillate the viewer. His or her work must be passionate, captivating and able to be thought about. When an artist renders a piece, be it a painting, water color, sculpture, dance or poem, he or she must inspire the viewer to come back and look at it a second and a third time. The artist must expand his or her mind to engulf others. Octavio Ocampo has accomplished all this and more. Around the world millions of people have become enthralled with his innovative style. People are fascinated by his work. Everyone from the art connoisseur to businessmen and professionals are thrilled by the reactions they get when one of his pieces is on their walls. His works are “conversation pieces” done in a style which has been deemed Metamorphic art. Pictured here is Lupe.
It appears to me that pictures have been over-valued; held up by a blind admiration as ideal things, and almost as standards by which nature is to be judged rather than the reverse; and this false estimate has been sanctioned by the extravagant epithets that have been applied to painters, and "the divine," "the inspired," and so forth. Yet in reality, what are the most sublime productions of the pencil but selections of some of the forms of nature, and copies of a few of her evanescent effects, and this is the result, not of inspiration, but of long and patient study, under the instruction of much good sense…
Diego Velàzquez was called the “noblest and most commanding man among the artists of his country.” He was a master realist, and no painter has surpassed him in the ability to seize essential features and fix them on canvas with a few broad, sure strokes. “His men and women seem to breathe,” it has been said; “his horses are full of action and his dogs of life.” Because of Velàzquez’ great skill in merging color, light, space, rhythm of line, and mass in such a way that all have equal value, he was known as “the painter’s painter,” as demonstrated in the paintings Las Meninas, Sebastiàn de Morra, and Baltasar Carlos and a Dwarf.
Both artworks `Fly whisk with leopard holding an antelope in jaws and the Helmet Mask (sowei)’ were created in direct responds to the African heritage. They both signifies respect which are used differently to both genders. The `fly whisk with leopard holding an antelope in jaws’ commands respect to the male gender, while the `Helmet Mask’ is an African masquerade wore by only women.
Contemporary art is about questioning what you have been taught and what you know to be true or real. This is why Serrano’s work is a pivotal moment in photographic and art history. Andres Serrano is an artist that is not afraid to tap into the universal truths in life to illicit reactions. He focuses on religion, sexuality, gender, and race- all of which can define a person’s identity. Serrano then makes his viewer question these pre-conceived concepts of identity and their function in society with his art. He attempts to figure out what is accepted, and more than that, what is the taboo. Andres Serrano is an artist that has continued to push the boundaries
Shanshui is a style of painting that has been practiced in China for one and a half millennia, it has a long history and it is part of world’s cultural heritage. It has always been more engaging to the hearts of the Chinese literati than flower-birds and human figure. Shanshui is not only for its own sake, but also as a vehicle, its because the it was never only about holding up a mirror to the landscape in keeping with dominant aesthetic tastes. It was always about reflecting on and negotiating the artists’ own position in relation to the world in that era – for centuries one with a majestic and noble nature of which humans were but a small and insignificant part. The other criteria were harmony, beauty and technique of execution.
When first approaching this work, one feels immediately attracted to its sense of wonder and awe. The bright colors used in the sun draws a viewer in, but the astonishment, fascination, and emotion depicted in the expression on the young woman keeps them intrigued in the painting. It reaches out to those who have worked hard in their life and who look forward to a better future. Even a small event such as a song of a lark gives them hope that there will be a better tomorrow, a thought that can be seen though the countenance by this girl. Although just a collection of oils on a canvas, she is someone who reaches out to people and inspires them to appreciate the small things that, even if only for a short moment, can make the road ahead seem brighter.
Environmental art is a genre of art that was established in the late 1960’s and it was created by things found in nature to make a piece of art. Some of the the environmental art would be so large in size, that it would be considered to be monumental. This kind of art can not be moved without destroying it, and the climate and weather can change it. There are many reasons why an artist would create an environmental work of art, such as : to address environmental issues affecting earth today, to show things that could be powered by nature or be interactive with natural phenomenon (like lighting or earthquakes), or to show how people can co-exist with nature, or maybe use it as a means to help restore ecosystems in an aesthetic way. (greenmuseum) Based on the artworks of Michael Heizer, Walter de Maria, and Robert Smithson, that have created and expanded the wonderful genre of environmental art. The major concepts underlying their art will define the roots of this genre throughout history.
Through these early stages of art discussed above, it shows how the foundation for today’s modern works was laid out. They show how art has developed from simple cave paintings, to the tremendous force in society that it is today.