I chose Henrique Oliveira as my artist to present because all of his artwork intrigued me from the moment I looked at them. I felt a connection with the work which I feel is one of Henrique’s goals for his work. I realized as I was looking at a piece there was always something that I had not seen before every time I would move my eyes due to so much detail. I had to invest my time in looking at it to attempt to catch it all. This effect along with being able to have guest engage with instillations has brought Oliveira major popularity. Oliveira works in three different mediums, which he displays on his website, in the forms of paintings, sculpture, and large instillations. Oliveira truly brings his creative touch to life with his art by creating images and 3-D work that is crazy to have ever been imagined or even thought to be possible to make; making him a true artist in my opinion. …show more content…
He has spent the majority his life in São Paulo as he completed his Fine Arts, Bachelors of painting at the School of Communication and Arts at the University of São Paulo in 2004 and his Master in Visual Poetics at the School of Communication and Arts at the University of São Paulo. Oliveira has displayed his artwork to the public in twenty five solo shows from 1998 and the latest in 2016. He has also participated in 30+ group shows from 1999 to 2015. Oliveira also has twelve institutional and public collections; one in the US, and Australia and the rest in São Paulo. Oliveira has gotten attention and praise for is work in several parts the world as he has won sixteen awards, grants and residencies. All details sourced from Henrique Oliveira’s personal
The American artist Fred Tomaselli arranges pills, leaves, insects and cutouts of animals and body parts to create his pieces of art. His incorporation of items are arranged to suggest a level of perception along with a heightened visual experience. This gives me, the viewer, a sense of Energy. The perception of color that Fred uses gives a gravitating feel. If you take a look at the heart of this piece you can instantly visualize the different items Fred incorporates into the piece.
Her work resembles fossils and botanical illustration pages at the same time. Her simplicity and willingness to give back to her community is also an attribute I admire of her. Her work is important because of it has been used a medium to convey precious memories through the preservation of flowers. This artist inspires me because of her mastery of such a simple technique to create beautifully simplistic, yet intricately detailed works. This is an aesthetic I hope to achieve in my personal work because of my love of detail and organic shapes, such as flowers. It is amazing how she has achieved such wonderfully detailed and organic shapes using a medium that I never thought to be used in such an organic
Subject: Our docent, Mary, shared with us that this artist loved to paint the human body and was well known for his painting of the human body and skin. This piece certainly highlights those skills. The colors of the hair and skin are incredibly life like.
Anything from a police man leaning on a wall that gets lost in the crowd on busy days to a cleaning lady next to a garbage can. Duane creates life like art pieces that you can lose the fact that they are fake. The amount of detail along with the expressions on the figures’ faces tells the tale. The spectator creates a relationship to the piece because its the familiar look or feeling they receive from the experience. Duane uses the figures’ as they are portrayed to accomplish an everyday ordinary person moreover with that technique displays the ability to relate the viewers to the art
The paintings can be regarded as a container that includes the complex activity and emotion of Riopelle in that particular segment of time. Though the emotion of Riopelle may change, the theme of nature is permanent in his oeuvre. His works were abstract, but it is clear that they are purified from real objects, mostly derived from natural landscape environments and his Quebecois life experience that close to
Spanish painter Salvador Dali was undeniably one of the most eccentric personalities of the XX century. He is well known as a pioneer of surrealist art whose production has had a huge influence on media and modern artists around the globe . By bringing surreal elements into everyday objects he pushed surrealism forward. It is partly to his credit that surrealism is this popular today. In "M...
Diego Rivera was deemed the finest Mexican painter of the twentieth century; he had a huge influence in art worldwide. Rivera wanted to form his own painting fashion. Although he encountered the works of great masters like Gauguin, Renoir, and Matisse, he was still in search of a new form of painting to call his own (Tibol, 1983). His desire was to be capable of reaching a wide audience and express the difficulties of his generation at the same time, and that is exactly what h...
Through what we have studied of the artist, we know that he sees various things in his
Art is expression in the fastest form, novels taking hundreds of pages to draw emotion, while a single drawing can bring out the rawest feelings and personal experiences in seconds. There are many other things that can be achieved in art but for one artist Maya Lin, the art she does is made to convey emotion, show a universal truth, and create a spiritual atmosphere in her art. “Artists give form to the immaterial–hidden or universal truths, spiritual forces, and personal feelings” the attributes listed are found in her artwork. As every piece, she makes always exudes these same properties mentioned above to an extent.
... though employing a familiar subject (the female form), shows the transformation from busy mosaics with gold embellishments to a brighter palate of colors and the use of stronger, bolder lines. The piece exemplifies his versatility as an artist.
The art of Fernando Botero is widely known, revered, paraphrased, imitated and copied, For many, his characteristic rounded, sensuous forms of the human figure, animals, still lifes and landscapes represent the most easily identifiable examples of the modern art of Latin America. For others, he is a cultural hero.To travel with Botero in his native Colombia is to come to realize that he is often seen less as an artist and more as a popular cult figure. In his native Medellín he is mobbed by people wanting to see him, touch him or have him sign his name to whatever substance they happen to be carrying. On the other hand, Botero's work has been discredited by those theorists of modern art whose tastes are dictated more by intellectual fashion than by the perception of the power of his images. Botero is undoubtedly one of the most successful artists in both commercial and popular terms, and an artist whose paintings deal with many of the issues that have been at the heart of the Latin American creative process in the twentieth century.
Bourriaud states relational art incorporates "a set of artistic practices which take as their theoretical and practical point of departure the whole of human relations and their social context, rather than an independent and private space." (Bourriaud, p 113, 1998) He perceives artists to be driving forces rather than creators, and deems art to be data interchanged between the artist and the spectators. The work of art produces a societal milieu in which the public are able to converge and take part in a communal endeavor. Bourriaud states "the role of artworks is no longer to form imaginary and utopian realities, but to actually be ways of living and models of action within the existing real, whatever scale chosen by the artist." (Bourriaud, p 13,
Roberto Burle Marx: Brazilian Modernist reveals the breath of Burle Marx’s work and demonstrate how his training as a visual artist informed his holistic practice, showcasing his control scale and composition, from a vast urban pavement to a gilded earring. A Modern dat Renaissance man with ecological concerns, Burle Marx stands as a testament to the peaceful coexistence of creativity, innovation, and respect for local culture and natural
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