Paige Bradley is a world renowned sculptor who is touched the peak of success for her most distinguished figurative sculptures. Paige is born in Carmel, California and is currently living and running her art business from London. Due to her love and seriousness towards art profession, she got famous at a very early age. At the very young age of 17, she started casting bronze. She attended Pepperdine University, traveled through Europe and stayed in Florence Italy to study art and work of the great artists. Bradley was greatly inspired by the great art work of Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni.
She transformed his art work into her own style and touch. Her art work is has introduced a new form of classical art work. She speaks through her art sculptures. She is a living women, with deep roots to humanity and feeling towards relationship, search of love and untold stories of human behaviors. Her work is consisting of representational bronze sculptures, paintings and drawings of the human body which tell the stories of our short coming, betrayal, selfishness, greed and materialistic approach. Her important art themes include display of renewal, self-discovery, liberation, confinement, freedom, balance, consciousness, spirituality, time, and evolution and other human behaviors
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She says that the figurative art work was no more attracted to curators and it was being abandoned by the artists as well. But she was against all these critics and she has a story for them and one day she dropped intentionally dropped a perfectly good wax sculpture which she has made after hard work of several months. In this sculpture a women was meditating in the lotus position. The sculpture crushed into so many pieces. She casted the broken pieces into bronze and assembled the pieces in such a way the cracks of the broken parts were visible and hollow. Then she hired a lighting specialist and he run the light through body
Louise Bourgeiois was born in Paris in 1911 and lived in New York until her death in 2010. Much of her artwork was inspired from her early childhood that she spent in France. The human body was Burgoeiois primary form of art, as she made multipe sculptures
The earliest forms of art had made it’s mark in history for being an influential and unique representation of various cultures and religions as well as playing a fundamental role in society. However, with the new era of postmodernism, art slowly deviated away from both the religious context it was originally created in, and apart from serving as a ritual function. Walter Benjamin, a German literary critic and philosopher during the 1900’s, strongly believed that the mass production of pieces has freed art from the boundaries of tradition, “For the first time in world history, mechanical reproduction emancipates the work of art from its parasitical dependance on ritual” (Benjamin 1992). This particular excerpt has a direct correlation with the work of Andy Warhol, specifically “Silver Liz as Cleopatra.” Andy Warhol’s rendition of Elizabeth Taylor are prime examples of the shift in art history that Benjamin refers to as the value of this particular piece is based upon its mass production, and appropriation of iconic images and people.
Betye Saar was born on July 30, 1926. Her parents were Jefferson Maze Brown and Beatrice Lillian Brown. She lived in Los Angeles, California with her family in the earlier childhood years of her life. Her father died from kidney failure when she was five years old. Her mother and her two siblings all moved to Pasadena, where they lived with Saar's great-aunt, Hattie Keys. Her mother started working as a seamstress to support the family. Her mother often made ends meet by recycling scraps of materials to create things her children needed. Economical use of everyday materials may have served as an inspiration in Saar's later works of art.
Frida Kahlo is known for the most influential Latin American female artist. She is also known as a rebellious feminist. Kahlo was inspired to paint after her near-death bus incident when she was 17. After this horrendous incident that scarred her for life, she went under 35 different operations. These operations caused her extreme pain and she was no longer able to have kids. Kahlo’s art includes self portraits of her emotions, pain, and representations of her life. Frida Kahlo was an original individual, not only in her artwork but also in her
On the November 26th I went to London to view Ana Mendieta’s art exhibition: Traces at the Hayward gallery. Here I observed her work which focused on topics such as, what it is to belong in a modern society; the role of the body in art; the affect death has on people; feminism and the female body which was all reflected at the gallery. But, what really stood out to me when I was looking at her work was her use of nature, primitive-styled ritual and the utilization of her body which was displayed in works such as Imagen de Yagul along with, Earth Body where she blended herself into the environment. This particular subject interested me due to it being a recurring theme in many of her works; the intrigue that arises when seeing her being involved with the landscape and the point she is trying to put across to the viewer. In an interview, when asked what it is she did, she replied, “I work with earth, with nature and I make sculptures in the landscape and environments”1.
One of my favorite artist and sculptor is Louise Nevelson (1899-1988). She emigrated from Russia to America at age of three. She is an American sculptor famous in monumental, monochromatic, wooden wall pieces and outdoor sculptures. One of her famous quote makes me be her fan, " When you put together things that others have thrown out, you are really bringing them to life. A life that surpasses the life for which they were originally created. With that belief, Nevelson collected wood scraps on the streets of New York, old wood from furniture factories and assembled them to make art.Thus, her sculptures are called Assemblages, in other word, it is the installation art, which creates an artwork from a lot of different size of objects by
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.
Jennifer Maestre’s, a unique sculptor, caught my eye immediately with her lurring pieces. Born in Johannesburg, South Africa, Jennifer went on to study at Wellesley College, and received her B.A., Fine Arts/Economics in 1981. She later went to Massachusetts College of Art, and obtained her B.F.A. in Glass with Distinction, Departmental Honors in the year of 1997. From here Jennifer began to construct beautiful structures that inspired one after the other. She went through many materials such as nails, but couldn’t quite find one that would shape the organic forms she wanted, so she moved to color pencils.
The journal article titled Arman’s System of Objects discusses the young life of this artist who went by Arman and the relationships that inspired the artist to come into his own style of artmaking. He develops a method of artmaking that was based off of production, human consumption, and destruction. These works were called Accumulations. Author describes the intent behind these Accumulations, “Arman 's motivations force
Miriam Schapiro was born in Toronto Canada in 1923 who went by the name of Mimi. Schapiro what is a sculpture painter and printmaker who helped lead the feminist art movements in the 1970s. She inspires generations of artist during that time and now. Miriam Schapiro died on June 20 at 91. Miriam Schapiro was the only child of a Russian Jewish family. Her father was an artist and studying at the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design, in New York. Miriam's mother was a homemaker and she encouraged Miriam to pursue her career in art. By the age of six, Miriam was drawing. Miriam and her parents came to Brooklyn during the great depression, around the same time Miriam started taking art classes, studying from nude models at the Museum of Modern Art. She
Henry Moore, one of the key figures in modern sculpture. His works are usually abstraction of human figures, typically depicting female and reclining figures. He received academic art education in his early years, but the truly significant impacts on his original artistic conception are the violent passions, organic forms came from American and African native art. Moore combined the passions of primitive art with modern forms, creates his unique way of expression. Conclusively, he liberate the human figurer from surrealism and cubism conventions, emphasize his sculptures with nature curves and humanism themes. Through a closer look at Moore’s piece, The Reclining figure 1951. This research will further explore moor’s appropriation practices in native art, surrealism, classical order, industrial design, and principles technique. In order to demonstrate Moor’s appropriation as a vehicle for him to communicate with the modern art world and undertakes appropriation to create his expression.
Sculptures are used to portray specific idealizations of the artists about one subject, whether the object is a person, animal, or anything else. Sculptures are a form of art thus also a form of expression that is seen from the artists style or the composure of the sculpture. The sculpture of George Lynn Cross and the sculpture of Carl Albert both show what the artist would like the audience to focus on depending on the various attributes and characteristics of the sculpture. Art has a broad meaning, in all if not most cases art is defined by the ability of the work to appeal to one’s senses thus demanding analysis and countless perspectives. Sculptures are two or three dimensional artforms made by artists to provide a visual perspective.
Through time due to advancements in material and painting techniques combined with the ever-increasing talent of the artists, paintings representing people have become very lifelike and are extremely realistic. Some painted portraits have as much detail as modern photographs. However, there are also paintings of people that are representational in which the artist is trying to convey a message. This paper discusses the two types through the comparison of two paintings, Abaporu and Portrait of a Lady.
Art in our society has a purpose. For example, the sculptures we make are images of ancestors, fertility fetishes and twin statues. It is usually the eldest of the group; the Komo or the equivalent but an elderly woman that present these work of arts as a intervention for rain, a rich harvest, good health and different other purposes. Masks are used at feasts and dances of societies which have diverse social and cult functions. Male and female headpieces are used jointly at dancings.
While visiting the Norton Museum, there were two works of art that were very interesting. The first work of art is a sculpture by Pablo Picasso called, Head of a Woman (Fernande). It was made in 1909 when he was in Paris. When he made this sculpture he was in the cubism period. Picasso sculpted this sculpture of bronze.