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Frank Stella

Painter

Frank Stella is an American painter and printmaker, noted for his work in the areas of minimalism and post-painterly abstraction. Stella continues to live and work in New York. Wikipedia

Born: May 12, 1936 (age 77), Malden, Massachusetts, United States

Spouse: Barbara Rose (m. 1961–1969)

Artwork: Die Fahne Hoch!, more

Periods: Geometric abstraction, Monochrome painting, more

Education: Princeton University, Phillips Academy

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Title- Sinjerli, Variation I Artist- Frank Stella (American, B. 1936) Work Date- 1968 Category- Paintings Materials- Oil on canvas Size- 10 feet in diameter Style- Minimallsm

this piece of artwork reminds me of the the peace hippie symbol so i like how it kinds of reassembles that. The way Frank Stella uses dull colours to bring out the red and yellow is a good idea to improve the brighter colours.

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Banksy

Artist

Banksy is a pseudonymous United Kingdom-based graffiti artist, political activist, film director, and painter. His satirical street art and subversive epigrams combine dark humour with graffiti executed in a distinctive stencilling technique. Wikipedia

Born: Bristol, United Kingdom

Nationality: English

Movies: Exit Through the Gift Shop, The Antics Roadshow

Books: Banksy

Periods: Graffiti, Street art

Awards: Independent Spirit Award for Best Documentary Feature, more

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A woman walks past some graffiti art on a building in the Stokes Croft area of Bristol, southwest England, September 9, 2009. Authorities in the home city of British urban artist Banksy plan to become the first to allow a regular public vote on whether popular works of street graffiti should stay or be removed. The move by Bristol council in the west of England follows a sell-out Banksy exhibition in the city that attracted 300,000 visitors and boosted the local economy by an estimated 10 million pounds ($17 million). Photo taken September 9, 2009. To match Reuters Life! BRITAIN-GRAFFITI/ REUTERS/Phil Noble

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I think it is very creative the way he shares his message by using stencils but we get completely different ideas when we see this like how i see that astronaut with shopping bags in his hands showing that the moon landing may be fake but that is just my view of point.

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Bridget Riley

Artist

Bridget Louise Riley CH CBE is an English painter who is one of the foremost exponents of Op art. She currently lives and works in London, Cornwall, and France. Wikipedia

Born: April 24, 1931 (age 82), London, United Kingdom

Periods: Hard-edge painting, Modern art, Op art

Books: Bridget Riley

Education: Goldsmiths College, Loughborough University, Royal College of Art, Cheltenham Ladies' College

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridget_Riley

Cataract 3 - Bridget Riley 1967 PVA on canvas 223.5 x 222

“The music of colour, that’s what I want” (Bridget Riley)

Riley’s introduction of colour to her work was something she was cautious of. The black and white paintings depended on the disruption of stable elements. No such stable basis could be found for colour as the perception of colour is relative – each colour affects and is affected by the colours next to it. Over time, she began to accept this inherent instability and made it the basis of her work.

From 1967 onwards Riley increasingly began to use colour. She also started to use more stabilised forms – often simple vertical straight or wavy lines. It was the positioning of the colour itself that produced the feel of movement she wanted to convey. The colour groupings affected the spaces between them to produce fleeting glimpses of other colours and hence the illusion of movement.

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It was during this time that Riley began to paint the black and white works for which she is best known. They present a great variety of geometric forms that produce sensations of movement or colour. In the early 1960s, her works were said to induce sensation in viewers as varied as seasick and sky diving. From 1961 to 1964 she worked with the contrast of black and white, occasionally introducing tonal scales of grey. Works in this style comprised her first 1962 solo show at Musgrave's Gallery One, as well as numerous subsequent shows. For example, in Fall, a single perpendiculars curve is repeated to create a field of varying optical frequencies.Visually, these works relate to many concerns of the period: a perceived need for audience participation (this relates them to the Happenings, for which the period is famous), challenges to the notion of the mind-body duality which led Aldous Huxley to experiment with hallucinogenic drugs^{[citation needed]}; concerns with a tension between a scientific future which might be very beneficial or might lead to a nuclear war; and fears about the loss of genuine individual experience in a Brave New World.Her paintings have, since 1961, been executed by assistants from her own endlessly edited studies.
Riley began investigating colour in 1967, the year in which she produced her first stripe painting.

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I like to think this work gives off a certain vibe when they see this, it will give them a feel as if they feel like what they see is not only a painting but a short trip of using colours.

Bridget Riley

Two Blues - Bridget Riley, 2003 - Oil on linen 54.5x53

Now in her late 70s Bridget Riley still continues to work. Exhibitions of her work are held all over the world – Sydney, Tokyo, New York, Zurich, London to mention just some of the cities where her work has been shown recently.

In 2007 there was an exhibition of fifteen paintings done between 2005 and 2006 at the Timothy Taylor Gallery in London. Again her images had changed; the shapes of the ‘lozenge’ paintings of the 1980s and 1990s swept across verticals but this time they were fluid arabesques in softer colours – blues, greens, lilacs and pale oranges.

Bridget Riley is a consistent innovator in her field who experiments constantly with new ideas that mark new departures. For this reason nobody can truly know what the future will bring in terms of her original and unique art, which is demanding both of herself and of those who see them.

http://www.op-art.co.uk/bridget-riley/

i think the way Bridget riley plays around and experiments is cool i may use some of her line drawings in my future work to create a beautiful background.

Bridget Riley

"In Attendance" by Bridget Riley, 1993

Oil on linen
65" x 89.75 inches
165.1cm x 228.3cm

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Shadowplay, 1990. Oil on canvas, by Bridget Riley

Following a major retrospective in the early 1970s, Riley began travelling extensively. After a trip to Egypt in the early 1980s, where she was inspired by colourful hieroglyphic decoration, Riley began to explore colour and contrast. In some works, lines of colour are used to created a shimmering effect, while in others the canvas is filled with tessellating patterns. Typical of these later colourful works is Shadow Play.

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i think this art work has a great name to it and the way she seems to play around with the many lines of colours to create a shimmering effect and how her other works are filled with tessellating patterns that gives it more of a presents then other art works.

Frank Stella

Title-Squid from the waves series

Artist- Frank Stella (American, B.1936)

Category- Prints and multiples

Materials- Serigraph

Size- H:75 x W:55 cm/ H:29.5 x W:21.7 in

Style- Contemporary

I like how it has this kind of chaos look to it, but it has this kind of feeling to it like organised chaos.I think her style is pretty crazy looking.

Frank Stella

artist: Frank Stella title: Illustrations after El Lissitzky's Had Gadya: Back Cover (1982-84) media: lithograph, linoleum cut and screenprint in colors, with hand-coloring and collage size: 59 by 52 1/2 in pencil signed, dated and numbered edition of 60 published by Waddington Graphics, London price: contact gallery for price

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i think it is about the ocean and how dangerous place it can be like a maze and the only thing you can see is the sun so i think that is why the sun is black, the only light you have but it will also probably be the last thing you see before it becomes dark and you fall into the deep dark ocean.

Banksy

A wall painting of a young girl with a stick of dynamite in her ice cream is seen on display at the Turf War exhibition by grafitti artist
'Banksy' in London's East End, July 17, 2003. REUTERS/Peter Macdiarmid
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Banksy art work show many different  ideas and views of the worlds problems and some are just jokes but i find it very amusing the way he uses stencil to show his point of view of the world. this is a great scale art.

Banksy

 A Palestinian boy walks past a drawing by British graffiti artist Banksy near the Kalandia checkpoint in the West Bank. A Palestinian boy walks past a drawing by British graffiti artist Banksy, along part of the controversial Israeli barrier near the Kalandia checkpoint in the West Bank August 10, 2005. REUTERS/Ammar Awad

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By finding this work, it has shown me that Banksy uses scale as well to bring a bigger picture to the world.