Jon Burgerman is a famous British artist who does contemporary art, design, and illustration. “He is known as the leading figure in a popular “Doodle” art style” (“Jon Burgerman”). However, he can also create multiple types of art rather than just his cartoon pieces. Jon was born in Birmingham, England in 1979. He is the middle child in his family. Unfortunately, he does not reveal the actual date of his birth or much information about his personal or family life. Before he attended a University, he took a year off called “a foundation year” to help him decide what he wanted to study in school. He was torn between graphic design and fine art. He ended up studying Fine Art and attended Nottingham Trent University. He graduated in 2001. During …show more content…
“His work is placed between fine art, urban art, and pop-culture, using humour to reference and question his contemporary milieu” (Essmaker). Burgerman, fortunately, was a part of a secret project called The Underbelly Project. This was a unfinished and unused subway station, four levels underneath the city of New York. The picked artists were secretly escorted there and had to stay there for one full night. These artists were to paint and leave their mark in the abandoned station. The secret station is somewhere where the public is not able to see it and to get to it one would have to break the law and slip into the tunnel of the subway unnoticed. However, many have tried and failed and ended up getting arrested trying to visit this place of …show more content…
His mother was a very impactful influence in Burgerman’s life. She was the only one, other than Jon, in his family who took the interest in creating art. Before his brother was born they had a studio in the spare room. Burgerman and his mother were constantly in the studio drawing and painting. However, as talented as his mother was, she was never an artist; she only studied art in school and hung her artwork up around the house. Ted Allen, Burgerman’s foundation teacher, was also an influence to Jon. The advice that Allen gave to Jon, that really stuck with his, was “You should never follow the trends. You can’t copy anything. If something is popular, there’s no point in trying to join in. When you do that, you’ll always be behind, following in the footsteps of others. The only thing you can do as an artist is make your own work and, if you’re lucky, eventually the interest will swing around to you”
· 1999: Private commissions (2). Continues to work on paintings for traveling exhibition, Visual Poems of Human Experience (The Company of Art, Chronology 1999).
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Ms. Kilgallen was born in Washington, D.C. in 1967 and went to Colorado College, where she received a Bachelor of Arts in printmaking in 1989. Her influences were from American and Indian folk art, hand painted signs, and typography from the 15th and 16th century (Kilgallen). Her color palette was influenced by early hand painted art from the southwestern area of United States; they were brown, a pale yellow, and black. She preferred to paint things that were happening around her, such as a woman sitting next to a man, or her husband painting graffiti on a wall.
His first work as an illustrator was with a famous author named Bill Martin Jr. Martin asked Carle to illustrate his book after he saw an advertising piece he’d done of a red lobster (“Eric Carle”). This is when his illustrating career truly began. Over the years he has not only had numerous successes in his artwork but has even written his own books. He’s most well-known for his book The Very Hungry Caterpillar where bright colors, odd shapes, and unique cutouts are used throughout the pages.
Jackson Pollock was an American abstract artist born in Cody, Wyoming in 1912. He was the youngest of his five brothers. Even though he was born on a farm, he never milked a cow and he was terrified of horses because he grew up in California. He dropped out of high school at the age of seventeen and proceeded to move to New York City with his older brother, Charles, and studied with Thomas Hart Benton at the Art Students League. Thomas Benton was already a great artist at the time in which Pollock studied with him. Benton acted like the father figure in Pollock’s life to replace the original that wasn’t there. Benton was known for his large murals that appear on ceilings or walls. “Jack was a rebellious sort at all times,” recalls his classmate and friend, artist Harold Lehman. He grew his hair long and helped pen a manifesto denouncing athletics, even though “he had a muscular build and the school wanted to put him on the football team,” says former teacher Doug Lemon. Pollock always was upset with himself in his studies because he had troubles drawing things like they were supposed to look. From 1938 to 1942, Jackson joined a Mexican workshop of people with a painter named David Siqueiros. This workshop painted the murals for the WPA Federal Art Projects. This new group of people started experimenting with new types of paint and new ways of applying it to large canvas. People say that this time period was when Jackson was stimulated with ideas from looking at the Mexican or WPA murals. Looking at paintings from Picasso and the surrealists also inspired Jackson at this time. The type of paint they used was mixing oil colors with paint used for painting cars. Jackson noticed that the shapes and colors they created were just as beautiful as anything else was. Jackson realized that you didn’t have to be able to draw perfect to make beautiful paintings. Jackson started developing a whole new way of painting that he had never tried before and his paintings were starting to look totally different from before.
As most people who have lived a long while, John Mahtesian can look with amazement on the events of his life and the twists and turns that have shaped his journey. Although he began his commitment to learning and creating art in his early twenties, he didn't start taking photographs in a serious way until the age of 40.
The essence of art is truly in the eye of the beholder, and Joseph Beuys redefined the meaning of artistry when he once said that “every man is a plastic artist who must determine things for himself.” One may find himself or herself asking the million dollar question: “Who is Joseph Beuys?” Joseph Beuys was a German-born conceptual artist who started to pursue art as a career after serving as an airman in the Second World War. Beuys's assorted body of work ranges from the conventional methods of drawing, painting, and sculpture, to process-oriented, or time-based "action" art. With his time-based “actions”, Beuys suggested how art might exercise a healing property on both the artist and the audience when psychological, social, and political are the influence.
Pollock uses different aspects of writing to back up her thesis and to emphasis that there is more to the subject the artist use in their creation. By using a variety of resources and counter-arguing them, she is backing up her own thesis and proving that there is a stereotype in art history where art historians do not explain past the artistic influence thus does not fully explain an artist or their artworks. She makes a point that because of this, there has to be changes to art practices today in order to fully understand the meaning behind artworks.
Scottie Everett is in her last year of University to be an Artistic Curator as her mother wanted. She dreads wasting her years studying a subject she wasn't passionate about.
John Heartfield was born as Helmut Herzfelde in Berlin on June 19, 1891. Heartfield parent’s abandoned him and his siblings and they spent their childhood with other relatives. He worked at a bookstore in Wiesbaden before going to school in Munich. Heartfield had a passion for painting so he went to school at the Royal Bavarian Art and Crafts School in Munich. He had a chance to learn from two commercial graphic designers Albert Neisgerber and Ludwig Hohlwein. After graduating from the Royal Bavarian Art and Crafts School in Munich he gained a lot of experience. Heartfield decided to have his own career as a commercial artist, starting off with designing book covers in Mannheim. Heartfield was still active in a school; he did most of his studying with artist Ernst Neumann in Berlin.
Erik Johansson was born in April 1985 outside of a small town called Götene, in the middle south of Sweden. He grew up on a farm with his parents and two younger sisters and would spent majority of his time in nature. For as long as he can remember, he liked drawing and believed probably it was because of his grandmother who was a painter, or because that's how he enjoyed expressing himself. Then, his father obtained a computer for work in the mid 80's so he also early developed an interest in computers, mostly he enjoyed escaping to other worlds through the computer games. At the age of 15, he obtained his first digital camera, a Fuji camera, and it opened a new world to him. Since he was used to the process of drawing, he felt strange to
He argued that past art demanded thought and understanding, whereas advertising and celebrity culture demanded only immediate attention, very quickly becoming uninteresting and boring(). Art should stimulate more the viewer than just visually. Art that has substance behind it I tend to remember more or think about more. This piece is innovative, it brings about ideas with it that hadn’t been discovered in our society. I can see how the audience at first glance could consider this not to be art. I probably would’ve agreed, but learning about it I know that every time I see the repeated images of the soup cans I now think twice. I consider good art to be art that is able to stimulating the mind visually, by bringing about new
“England in the early 1930s were interested in abstract art at a time when this was considered the ultimate in artistic extremism. In his own work from 1931 onward, Moore moved tentatively away from the human figure to experiment with abstract shapes and also to combine abstract shapes with references to the figure.” - Alan Bowness
As he grew up in a small city in India, he was subjected to a different kind of a advertising world. The most common things that dominated the streets were various depictions of the most popular themes of that time like commercial advertisements, political messages and also celebrations of religious festivals. He noticed that almost all the works on the streets were hand painted by local painted than the digitally designed designs or vinyl. Also travelling within India from one part to another revealed the variety in style and technique. He also mentions that he had always been fascinated by the street art like shop signage or hand made type. Truck art also belongs to that same culture of hand painting, which inspired him to take up this project.