Walton Ford was born in 1960 in Larchmont, New York. He’s does natural art and does live art shown mainly of animals. The reason I picked Walton Ford is because I love animal art like the image above. He often does an extinct animal. Each of his paintings is filled with symbols, clues, and jokes. The paintings put together with natural science, hiring a style based in the tradition of naturalist John James Audubon and Karl Bodmer are his illustrators. Ford now lives in New York City, NY. His work is held in an art museum in New York City. Ford puts together his scenes with criticism, cultural, and humor. His images often are layered regarding with meaning the relationship between the natural world and humans, and also seen in his monograph.
In comparing Jonathon Green’s Bessie Mae and John Biggers’ mural, Origins, both paintings are from the same era and represent the African American culture. Jonathon Green’s Bessie Mae was create in 1995 and resides at Winston Salem State University. Origins is a project driven mural requested by Winston-Salem Delta Fine Arts, Inc after a visit to John Biggers’ studio in Houston during 1989 ("Delta Arts Center | The Biggers Mural Project by John Biggers", 2014). Although the emphasis of both paintings has the same cultural focus, similarities and differences in the elements may yield a better understanding of the paintings.
Art has always been used to portray a message, American art is no different. Throughout the years American art has been created for many different reasons, including parody and satire. One such example is the painting The Surrender by Joseph Griffith. Although it contains jumbled imagery and may convey a mixed message, The Surrender's main message is that American culture is idolized by the youth of today and that American as a whole is waging war on cultures and religions it doesn’t understand.
Walton Ford was born in 1960 in Larchmont, NY. Ford inherited his artistic genes from his father, Enfield Berry Ford also known as Flicky, who attended the Art Students League. His father inspired to be a cartoonist but ended up as the art director at Life magazine in New York City. Ford was quoted saying “He was a big personality, a big drinker, a womanizer, and a wild man…. Sort of hard to be around when I was a teen-ager” (Cohen). He is no stranger to the difficulties and darker sides of life and his fatherless past has contributed to creating the lens he looks through when forming his paintings.
Jacob was an African-American artist, who eventually flourished in the art world during the Depression of 1920s, painting African-Americans life in Harlem, making social statements and thus, explaining their life during that time. Additionally, this made his art significant to spectators who praised his works. With no formal training in painting, it was easy for Jacob to ignore the rules that set him apart from other African-American painters and others, before him and in his time, such as Palmer C. Hayden, and Archibald Motely, Jr to whom he was compared. Jacob Lawrence artwork communicated historical data and his perspective of people he was familiar with in his culture. His work expressed how African- Americans struggled for health and social justice, how they were ignored by the Republican administrations, racial equality and eventually, why African-American voters would shift to the Democratic Party.
When I read the article by Susan Orlean, I am very aware of the big business Thomas Kinkade is trying to create by reproducing his original paintings mechanically using digital technique, but I have also carefully examined whether this article which discusses about the reproduction of his art works has a correlation with Walter Benjamin’s essay “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction”.
Wendell Ford was born on September 8, 1924 in Daviess County, Kentucky. He attended the Public schools in Daviess County and graduated from Daviess County High School in 1942; from 1942-1943 Ford attended the University of Kentucky (Quisenberry). On September 18, 1943 Wendell Ford married Jean Neel and later had two children and five grandchildren (Fampeople). In the summer of 1944, Ford enlisted in the army and served for two years before receiving and honorable discharge in the summer of 1946 (Quisenberry).
James Montgomery Flagg was born on June 18, 1887 in Pelham Manor, New York. As a child, Flagg loved sketching with pen and paper. In fact, his first published painting was at the age of twelve by the then popular magazine St. Nicholas Magazine. By the age of fourteen, he was a regular contributor to Life Magazine. A year later, he was hired to be on the staff of Judge Magazine. Flagg continued to contribute by drawing famous celebrity portraits for the popular magazines front covers. Although Flagg went to the prestigious Art Students League, he attributes most of his knowledge and talent in art to the many drawing he saw by others working with the magazines.
In a century that equated the evolution of modern art with the will toward abstraction, Lawrence's early success and his sustained visibility are remarkable. He has walked a careful line between abstract and figurative art, using aesthetic values for social ends. His success at balancing such seemingly irreconcilable aspects of art is a fundamental characteristic of his long and distinguished career. In Lawrence's work social themes, often detailing the African-American experience, are expressed in colorfully lanky, simplified, expressive, and richly decorative figurative effects.
His artworks are exhibited in several places in the United States. One of the most fascinating places I have been to is in Dia Beacon, located in the north eastern part of New York State. The first room in the gallery displays one of his mesmerizing artwork.
Abraham Cruzvillegas and Jessica Stockholder are both famous and successful artists. Cruzvillegas makes most of his art and sculptures within the landscape of his former home (walkerart.org). Stockholder’s art is made in a similar fashion. Artnet.com states that every one of her art pieces “is created specifically for the site in which they’re placed”, something known to Stockholder as “installations”. Both artists base their paintings and sculptures on their environment, not just their emotions or feelings.
Walton Ford was born and raised in Larchmont, New York and grew a talent of unique watercolor painting after graduating from Rhode Island School of Design. Winning multiple national awards and honors from John Simon Guggenhiem Memorial Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, Ford has gone on to be profiled in the PBS series Art:21 and hold his major one-man show at the Brooklyn Museum in 2006. In addition, Ford’s collections have been included in the Museum of Modern Art in New York as well as the Whitney Museum of American Art. Just last year Walton Ford also designed the Rolling Stones cover for their greatest hits album “GRRR!” which represented the bands 50th anniversary. The amazing watercolor paintings have been “flying off gallery walls” quoted the New York magazine of Art and has his audience “baffled by the peculiar birds and beasts that populate his paintings”. Today, Ford lives in upstate New York and holds his studio in Great Barrington, Massachusetts.
Norman Rockwell was so passionate about his career that he dropped out of high school at age 16 to go after it. He attended classes at a young age and knew he wanted to be an illustrator and an artist. His art is widely known and has its own unique style. His art was featured both alone and in books. Many say he is America’s most celebrated artist.
primarily a realist painter, working predominantly in a regionalist style. Wyeth was one of the
Bill Mason was a film maker who had several hobbies that consisted of canoeing and painting. As a film maker he would spend hours or days looking for the perfect shot. “His camera was the brush and his film was the canvas.” When painting he would layer the paints on his canvas to create a 3D effect on his work. Combining his passion for canoeing and painting he would often recreate his favourite experiences while out in his canoe. After being diagnosed with cancer Bill Mason and his family opted to help him finish his paintings and books and were able to have them published. His painting style was unlike your average painting. Bill would use a palette knife and small (6”) canvas to make his art. He stated. “With most paintings techniques, close
An artist's practice refers to both the conceptual and making processes of an artwork. It examines how the artist develops ideas, concepts and themes through the influence of their global and personal world and other artists and their movements. I believe that john's traveling and his individuality is what would be what shapes john Wolseley's art works. I believe that Colin's creative way in making a painting would be what shapes Colin Lancely artworks.