My Inspirations

These are all videos of touching, inspirational, and driven experiences in my life so far that has made me who I am today! Every one tells a part of me and what i've been through. The past, present, and future all play an important role of who I am. MY PAST MY PRESENT & FUTURE
Showing posts with label Artists. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Artists. Show all posts

Thursday, May 6, 2010

Artist #30- Duane Hanson



Duane Hanson (1925-1996) - was an American artist based in South Florida. Was most known for his sculpting; life cast realistic works of people. He used different types of metal such as polyester resin, fiberglass, bondo, and bronze. Most of his artwork was based off the movement known as "Pop Art," as well "hyperrealism." Not only was he well known for these movements but as well a little from Simulacrum.

Artist #29- Louise Bourgeois



Louise Bourgeois - an artist and sculptor born in 1911. Her most famous works were most possibly the spider structures she created, titled "Maman." Louise's works are some times very abstract, and she speaks of them in symbolic meaning as the main focus. Bourgeois tends to find her inspiration in her childhood. She loves to use and try different mediums for her sculptures; rubber, wood, stone, metal, and fabric. She has a great amount of training to back up her expertise in the art world, and holds a field in sculpture and a little of painting.

Artist# 28- John de Andrea




John de Andrea - is an American sculptor. He is also know for extremely realistic polyvinyl or polychromed bronze casts of the human figure. In the most fundamental sense of the term, DeAndreas art is also Classical. His sculptures are direct descendants of the rouged, gilded, and waxy idols we know (though we scarcely believe) the great stone sculptures of Classical antiquity to have been when new. The artist's sensibility is at the same time peculiarly Mediterranean-another paradox, for this is an anti-Classical tendency-and his figures likewise are related to the illusionistic madonnas and saints of Spain, Italy, and Mexico with their "real" clothes and hair, and crystal tears. However, DeAndreas figures are wholly secular, with none of the sentimental passion that typifies these religious images.

Artist #27- Damien Hirst



Damien Hirst - born in 1965, Damien is an English artist and the most known member of the group called "Young British Artists" (YBAs). As of right now Hirst is claimed as the richest living artist to date. Hirst loves to incorporate "death" into most of his artworks; dead animals was one of his most successful series as an artist that sky rocketed him to the top. His single movement is with the YBAs, with the fields in Conceptual art, installation art, and a little bit of painting. Damien success with his art awarded him the Turner Prize. His most famous art piece is "The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, For the Love of God."

Artist #26 James Luna



James Luna - was born in 1950, and he is a Luiseno (Native American) and Mexican-American performance artist. As well he has done installation art, and is a counselor living on an Indian reservation in California. Luna began his art career as a painter, but later branched out into performance/installation art; in which he studied for over three decades. A lot of viewers know him as using his own body as his art for most of his artworks. A famous quote that James Luna said is, "I truly live in two worlds. This 'two world' concept once posed too much ambiguity for me, as I felt torn as to whom I was. In maturity I have come to find it the source of my power, as I can easily move between these two places and not feel that I have to be one or the other, that I am an Indian in this modern society."

Artist #25- Jeff Koons




Jeff Koons - Born in 1955, is an American artist well known for his giant reproductions of banal objects such as balloon animals produced in stainless steal with glassy finished surfaces. Koons incorporated bright colors with a lot of his art pieces. Jeff has sold many of his artworks for sums of legitimate money, including a world record auction priced work as a living artist. Some people and other artist categorize Jeff Koons as a pioneering and major art-historical importance. But other most know him through his work as "kitsch" (crass and based on cynical self-merchandising objects).

Artist #24- Carl Andre



Carl Andre - is an American minimalist recognized both for his linear format and grid format sculptures. Whats shocking is Carl was actually being tried and acquitted for murdering his wife, artist Ana Mendieta. Most of Carl's sculptures range from public artworks to tile patterns arranged on floors of exhibition spaces; such as "Stone Field Sculpture," "Lament for the Children," to artworks like "Twenty-Fifth Steel Cardinal." Andre's movement was minimalism, with a strong suit of sculpting as his field of expertise. He was extremely influenced by other artist such as Frank Stella, Hollis Frampton, and many more.

Artist #23- Cornelia Parker



Cornelia Parker- born in 1956; an English sculptor and installation artist that engages in intervention of site-specific art. Parker is best known for her large-scale installation such as Cold Dark Matter: An Exploded View. This art piece (garden shed) was blown up by the British Army and suspended the fragments as if suspending the explosion process in time. Great quote from Cornelia Parker herself about her artwork, "I resurrect things that have been killed of... My work is all about the potential of materials - even when it looks like they've lost all possibilities."

Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Artist #22- Yoko Ono



Yoko Ono is a Japanese-American artist, musician, author, and peace activist. She is categorized in the art known as avant-garde art; which means advanced art. Not only did the art culture put her in that category, but conceptual and performance art as well. One of her most known art piece is her performance art "Cut Piece." People on the street would come up to Yoko Ono (as the art piece herself) and cut a piece of her clothing off. After so long, Yoko would find herself completely naked in the middle of a busy city for everyone to look at her.

Artist #21- Meret Oppenheim



Meret Oppenheim (1913-1985) - Meret was a German born Swiss Surrealist artist and photographer. She is most known for the teacup and spoon (one of the most recognized surrealist objects) that was sculpted out of fur. Most of her creations and sculptures have been unfortunately lost. Many of her pieces consisted of everyday objects arranged as such that most of the time would allude to female sexuality and feminine exploitation by the opposite sex.

Artist #20- Henry Moore




Henry Moore (1898-1986) - was an English sculptor and artist. Henry was best known for his abstract bronze sculptures. Moore's sculptures typically were suggestive to the female human body, apart from some of the family group sculptures he created in the late phase of the 1950s. Henry's field was sculpture and drawing; with the movements Bronze Sculpture, and Modernism. Henry had such an impact in the art world today that he was awarded the OM (Order of Merit) , CH (Order of the Companions of Honour) , and the FBA (Federation of British Artists).

Artist #19- Tom Friedman





Tom Friedman - born in 1965, Tom was extremely known for his work by using everyday material; such as toothpicks, and even sugar cubes. Friedmans work helped bring materials into pretty geometric arrangements. His field consisted of Conceptual Art, and Sculpture. Some of his well known artwork is Toothpicks, Alien, and more. Tom is still sculpting magnificent pieces for the world to see.

Artist #18- Nancy Graves




Nancy Graves (1939-1995) - was an American sculptor, painter, and printmaker. Some of her work consisted of Wheelabout, Hindsight, Footscray, and many more. Nancy was awarded the Skowhegan Medal for Drawing/Graphics in 1980, the New York Dance and Performance Bessie Award in 1986, and an Honorary Degree from Skidmore College in 1989.

Artist #17- Andy Goldsworthy



Andy Goldsworthy - a British sculptor, environmentalist, and photographer who creates site-specific sculpture in urban settings and natural settings. Goldsworthy typically uses natural found objects for his artwork to help him create all of his sculptures. The movement Andy is categorized in is Environmental Art and Land Art; and his masterpieces show why. Andy Goldsworthy was awarded the Scottish Arts Council Award in 1987, and an honorary degree from the University of Bradford in 1993; as well the OBE in the year 2000. Andy helped elevate this open word known as "art" to this day.

Artist #16: Michael Craig-Martin


Michael Craig Martin- is a contemporary conceptual artist and painter, who was born in Dublin, Ireland. He was a well known artist to all of the young British artist, and is famous for what is called "An Oak Tree." Martin's field consist of painting, drawing, and conceptual art; with a movement of Conceptualism.

Thursday, April 1, 2010

Artist #15- Joan Miro




Joan Miro (1893-1983)
Joan Miro was a Spanish Catalan painter, sculptor, and ceramist born from
Barcelona. Most of his work was put into the Surrealism category for the sandbox for the subconscious mind, a recreation of the childlike, and a manifestation of Catalan pride. All the fields Miro was put into was painting, sculpting, murals, and ceramics. His movements were Surrealism, Dada, Personal, and Experimental. His influences were Andre Masson, Pablo Picasso, Tristan Tzara, Andre Breton, and Arshile Gorky. Joan got his art training from Escuela de Bellas Artes da la Llotja, and Escuela de Arte de Francesco Gali, Circulo Artistico de Sant Lluc. One of his major Awards was 1954 Venice Biennale Grand Prize for Graphic Work, 1958 Guggenheim International Award, and the 1980 Gold Medal of Fine Arts (Spain). Some of his most prized pieces consisted of The Tilled Field, Dona i Ocell, Pajaro lunar, and La Lecon de Ski.

Artist #14- Jackson Pollock




Jackson Pollock (1912-1956)
Paul Jackson Pollock was an American painter and a major attribute to in the abstract expressionist
movement. His field involved only painting with the movement of abstract expressionism. Jackson got his training from the Art Students League of New York. His patron was Peggy Guggenheim; with Pollock's influences were Thomas Hart Benton, and Pablo Picasso. Two of his most famous pieces were No.5, and Number 1 (both resemble his movement strongly). Pollock struggled with alcoholism his entire life, and ended up dieing at the age of 44 in an alcohol-related single car crash in December of 1956.