Sue Coe was born on November 28, 1951, in Staffordshire, England. She is a printmaker and illustrator, and often works with short books and cartoons. For over 30 years, she has been creating works of art to demonstrate political opinions, bring attention to global issues, and speak out against animal cruelty. Having grown up near a slaughterhouse in an area still partially destroyed by World War II, Coe knew early in her life that she would be an artist, wanting to communicate her feelings of contempt and dissatisfaction with the poor working class and animal cruelty that surrounded her (Broad Strokes). At the age of 16, she received a scholarship to the Chelsea School of Art in London (one of England’s most prestigious art schools) and studied there from 1968 to 1971. She also attended the Royal College of Art from 1970 to 1973. After graduating, she moved to New York City and began her career as an illustrator for the New York Times, while also drawing cartoons for newspapers, and teaching at the School of Visual Arts. Through the end of the 70’s and 80’s, Coe’s work focused more on social injustices, such as civil rights and apartheid. They had little color, and any words were usually hand written or collaged. The majority of them are also photo etchings. These early works include pieces like “Charlie Parker Watches his Hotel Room Burn” and “Charlie Parker Going to Wash Dishes at Jimmies Chicken Shack in Harlem”. They focus on an African American man, presumably Charlie Parker. In one, he is standing above a white man’s bed, while flames can be seen burning out the window, and an arrow has been drawn pointing to the side of the picture with the words “Fire Escape: Whites Only”. The other appears to just be a portrait o... ... middle of paper ... ...ok Dead Meat won the 1991 Genesis award, but was published in 1996. Sheep of Fools, a storybook for Blab!, was voted “Book of the Year” by PETA in 2005. During the 175th Open Annual Exhibition of the National Academy of Design in New York City, Coe was the winner of a cash prize for her 2008 painting Mary. Last year in November she was awarded the Dickinson College Arts Award. She was also a board member of Farm Sanctuary for three years. Now in the 2000s, Coe continues to explore a variety of subjects in her work. Bully, published in 2004, is a series of works critiquing the Bush administration. She has also done several projects for Blab!, with its editor Monte Beauchamp. Her last exhibition was in 2012, but she continues to make art at age of 63. Her most recent pieces include Moby Dick, Poacher Parts Soup and Animal Farm. She currently lives in upstate New York.
Research by Benny Andrews Andrews wanted to express black experience through his art, but he found it a very difficult thing to do. He was using nonfigurative expressionism, which became a personal movement for him. Andrews wanted to convey himself in a different way from other artists in order to create his own exclusive personality. I think his works are delicate, and cherished. He is a visual artist, writer, and teacher.
Henry Tanner and Alice Barney were both exceeding talented artists. Great artistic ability can be seen in both “The face of a Jew in Palestine and “the face of a Negro Boy’. While their painting techniques are similar, the two artists have their differences. In comparing these two works of art, I have learned that each artist possesses their own unique way of expressing their talent, even if it is art work of the same medium and style.
Eric Carle, a widely known children’s book illustrator, was born in Syracuse, New York in 1929. His stylistic technique of collaging hand painted papers that are cut and layered to create cheery images has made him and his work distinct and easily recognizable. He grew up in Germany but moved back to the states where his advertising career began, followed by his work as an illustrator. Due to Carle’s love for nature and successful advertising career, his vibrant, simple, and animal-filled illustrations are clear pieces of evidence that reflect his past experiences.
Art could be displayed in many different forms; through photography, zines, poetry, or even a scrapbook. There are many inspirational women artists throughout history, including famous women artists such Artemisia Gentileschi and Georgia O’Keeffe. When searching for famous female artists that stood out to me, I found Frida Kahlo, and Barbara Kruger. Two very contrasting type of artists, though both extremely artistic. Both of these artists are known to be feminists, and displayed their issues through painting and photography. Frida Kahlo and Barbara Kruger’s social and historical significance will be discussed.
Born in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, Cindy Sherman grew up in suburban Huntington Beach on Long Island, the youngest of five children and had a regular American childhood. She was very self-involved, found of costumes, and given to spending hours at the mirror, playing with makeup (Schjeldahl 7). Cindy Sherman attended the state University College at Buffalo, New York, where she first started to create art in the medium of painting. During her college years, she painted self-portraits and realistic copies of images that she saw in photographs and magazines. Yet, she became less, and less interested in painting and became increasingly interested in conceptual, minimal, performance, body art, and film alternatives (Sherman 5). Sherman’s very first introductory photography class in college was a complete failure for she had difficulties with the technological aspects of making a print. After her disastrous first attempt in photography, Sherman discovered Contemporary Art, which had a profound and lasting effect on the rest of her artistic career (Thames and Hudson 1). Sherman’s first assignment in her photography class was to photograph something which gave her a problem, thus, Sherman chose to photograph her self naked. While this was difficult, she learned that having an idea was the most important factor in creating her art, not so much the technique that she used.
Imagine pondering into a reconstruction of reality through only the visual sense. Without tasting, smelling, touching, or hearing, it may be hard to find oneself in an alternate universe through a piece of art work, which was the artist’s intended purpose. The eyes serve a much higher purpose than to view an object, the absorptions of electromagnetic waves allows for one to endeavor on a journey and enter a world of no limitation. During the 15th century, specifically the Early Renaissance, Flemish altarpieces swept Europe with their strong attention to details. Works of altarpieces were able to encompass significant details that the audience may typically only pay a cursory glance. The size of altarpieces was its most obvious feat but also its most important. Artists, such as Jan van Eyck, Melchior Broederlam, and Robert Campin, contributed to the vast growth of the Early Renaissance by enhancing visual effects with the use of pious symbols. Jan van Eyck embodied the “rebirth” later labeled as the Renaissance by employing his method of oils at such a level that he was once credited for being the inventor of oil painting. Although van Eyck, Broederlam, and Campin each contributed to the rise of the Early Renaissance, van Eyck’s altarpiece Adoration of the Mystic Lamb epitomized the artworks produced during this time period by vividly incorporating symbols to reconstruct the teachings of Christianity.
Judy Chicago comments in her essay that she “had been made to feel ashamed of her own aesthetic impulses as a woman, pushed to make art that looked as if it had been made by a man.” The idea that female artists were not permitted to draw from their personal experiences completely undermines the basis of what art is. Art provides context of culture: it adds meaning and relevance to the time that it was created, and the artists’ personal experiences is what drives the artwork, and society, forward. Chicago’s blatant truths about women and their art in the early 70’s describes the struggles of walking between the worlds of femininity and the regular world talked about by Woolf. It’s impossible to deny the importance of femininity. If one is not
Michael Joseph Jackson was born on August 29, 1958 in Gary, Indiana (Sullivan 1005). His parents were Joseph Jackson and Katherine Scruse (Sullivan 1005). Michael was one of nine children. Michael and his siblings were not allowed to call their father “daddy” they were to call him Joseph (Collins 8). Michael was married and divorced twice in his lifetime. “His first marriage was to Lisa Marie Presley, daughter of Elvis Presley, in 1994” (Collins 22). They were married for two years, and had no children. Lisa filed for divorce in 1996 (Sullivan 1014). That same year Michael married Debbie Rowe. Five months after Lisa divorced Michael, Debbie became pregnant with his first child, Michael Joseph Jackson Jr. It could be concluded that Michael married Debbie because she was carrying his child. Michael and Debbie wed on November 14, 1996 after one of his concerts. On April 3, 1998 Debbie gave birth to their second child, Paris Michael Katherine Jackson. Their marriage ended in 1999. “In 2002, an unidentified surrogate mother gave birth to Michael’s third child, Prince Michael Jackson II” (Collins 23). Prince Michael Jackson is also known as Blanket (Sullivan 1016).
Her activism in the community was not only limited to the works that she made, which are provocative and beautiful, but as a recruiter to the feminist art cause. In 1970, when she began teaching at the Fresno State College, she began a feminist art program where she gathered young women to the cause. In an art journal published in 1971, Judith Dancoff interviews Chicago about the selection process of women artists for the program. Chicago apparently asked the girls the question “who wants to be an artist?” Although the question seems simple enough, to Chicago it had much more implications when the question was posed to girls as it really begged the question if they “[…] were prepared and strong enough to relinquish make-up, relinquish being
Quentin Jerome Tarantino was born on March 27, 1963 in Tennessee to Connie McHugh and Tony Tarantino. The family lived in Los Angeles, CA but the parents divorced early in their marriage and Connie took Quentin back to Tennessee. They lived there until Connie graduated from nursing school. Then they moved back to California when Quentin was three years old. Connie married two more times and both of her husbands took her son to films and movies. Sometimes the movies had adult and violent themes for a young child. When Quentin was about ten years old, he was sent to live with his Grandparents in Tennessee. His Mom had been misdiagnosed with cancer and had divorced his first stepfather. Quentin moved back to California after about a year. He quit
What comes to mind when you hear Rock ‘n’ Roll? It is the upbeat tempo with drums beating a harmonic tune, the electrifying sound of guitars and of course the singers, making music that connects to your emotions.
Pablo Picasso was one of the most recognized and popular artist of all time. In Pablo’s paintings and other works of art, he would paint what he was passionate about and you can see his emotions take control throughout his paintings and other works of art. Pablo Picasso works of art include not only paintings but also prints, bronze sculptures, drawings, and ceramics. Picasso was one of the inventors of cubism. ” Les Demoiselles d'Avignon” is one of Picasso famous paintings; this is also one of Pablo’s first pieces of cubism. Picasso went through different phases in his paintings; the blue period, rose period, black period, and cubism. Picasso was a born talented artist, with his dad setting the foundation; Picasso became the famous artist of the twentieth century.
Michael Joseph Jackson was an African American male. He was born on August 29, 1958, in Gary, Indiana. His mother worked at sears part time. His father Joseph Jackson was a crane operator at the U.S Steel. Having been a guitarist, he molded his sons into a musical group in the early 1960's, when he discover their gifted talents for music. In the beginning the group only involved Michael's older brothers: Ito, Jermaine and Jackie. Michael joined his siblings when he was five years old, and became lead vocalist. They older brother Marlon join the group as well. They was known as the Jackson 5. Michael impressed audiences with his remarkable voice. He was a natural center of attention. He love to dance and sing and had a soulful expression. He was the focus of attention during the Jackson 5 performance.
The artist/illustrator I chose to contact was Mark McKee. He’s an illustrator/designer for World Industries, a skateboard and snowboard company. Some of his work has been very controversial and lawsuits have been filed on several occasions. Specifically for a board with a Winnie the Pooh look-alike and also for a design similar to a L. Ron Hubbard book. But I particularly liked his original work, specifically flame-boy and the smiley devil guy.
The month of August brings countless memories of times spent with my family, but one specific memory always comes to mind, the month where my adventure began. I had never thought that I would be compelled to leave everything behind; my mother and father, my brothers and sister, my aunts and uncles, and my numerous cousins and friends. It was all a difficult sacrifice I had to make. But I knew that I would soon be reunited with my husband in the United States, and that made me smile.