Blog 5 Term 2 Printmaking

M.C. Escher - Maurits Cornelis Escher
Nationality: Dutch
Field: Drawing, Printmaking
Born - 17 June 1898
Died - 27 March 1972

Maurits Cornelis Escher is a very talented artist, his artwork is very unique that he has works that are like illusions and his work are very realistic making it twice as unique among other artist.




Relativity 1953 Lithograph.
27.7 cm x 29.2 cm (10.9 in x 11.5 in)

this is one of many Maurits work, i have chosen this one because i personally find this one very interesting as to where it seems that they define gravity. This work has great dark and light colors showing which stairs are going upward and which one goes down thus giving it more of the illusion to where that it does not matter which way the stairs are facing for which the people walking in all direction.This giving me the idea that life has many directions to take but it will always take you somewhere just never ending journeys but it will get confusing sometimes on which direction to go in, thus why i like this art work.



Brad Novak

Title: SCREENPRINT - Reservior Birds 1.2

Medium: Screen Print

Media: Prints

Date: 2013

Size: 560mm high x 750mm wide

About This Work

Brad Novak was inspired by a cult 90's movie titled "Reservoir Dogs", Brad has grounded the really popular scene uniquely within Aotearoa by using the Kiwi, Whio (Blue Duck), Shag, Tui, Huia, and Albatross. 

"There is a deeper meaning behind this pop art image... many of the birds of NZ are under threat ( and some are extinct) and that is something they have in common, much like their matching black and white suits"

 

Premium-quality limited edition 6-colour screen print (including blends) on Fabriano fine art paper (archival 300gsm). 

Paper size is 750mm x 560mm.

Edition size of 150. Individually numbered, named and signed by the artist.

http://bradnovak.vc.net.nz/artist/bradnova/Artwork/bnresbirds12

his work is very different or i would like to call it unique, i found this screen print had great colours to bring forward the images in front, with the red as part of the background giving more attention to the Bird people in front it shows how having a bright colour as the background and dark figures in front gives it more attention. The screen print is a very skilled print with the details on the birds faces and the figures wearing suit and ties, Brad Novak is a great leading urban pop artist (aka NBP76). 

Blog 3 term 2 Portraiture Painting

Karen Kilimnick

Musee Dart Moderne De La Ville De Paris / Arc Mary Calling up a Storm, 1996 Oil on canvas Courtesy 303 Gallerynd t

I thought this work has beautiful colours that brings out the portrait of the girl, with the mixture of dark blue, purple and little tiny brush strokes of black creating branches and the way the hair flows creating a black flow creating other images.

Suzette, 1912-14, oil on panel. Collection of Christchurch Art Gallery , presented by Mrs M Good, London, 1975.

This work has drawn me into it with its bland colours but great drawing and how it has a very unique mixture of colours and the drawing style. it does not have bright colours giving it a type of vintage feeling especially the type of clothing the women in the portrait is wearing.

The process i went through is having my photo taken then swapping images with Michael, then having to create a portrait for us to paint on then to enlarge the photos of Michael to get a greater view of his facial features, then mixing different oil paint to get his right skin tone and to have mixing his skin tone. later trying to use turps to get the right amount of oil paint on him so it mixes well, later finishing it then to finally do the background to which i had chosen the colours grey and blue bringing the painting of Michael out better.

I believe it has gone better than i had imagined it to be, the skin tone is not that bad and i still think i can do better and my model believes it is okay. And i think this is a good representation of Art. The good is that i did better than i excepted and it looks just like Michael but just need to work more on the facial features, the bad is that i could have mixed the skin tone better and the background could have been more brighter with the blue.

To become better at copying faces and painting and mixing skin tones better.

The most important thing i have learn't was to not use too much oil paint and turps.

Blog 2 term 2 new zealand painting

SHANE COTTON
Sons of God(s), 2010
Acrylic on canvas
100 x 150 cm

This painting gave me a view of what Cotton was trying to say for example the gun is like god it can take away peoples life's or protect them from anybody that tries to do them harm. So by seeing this painting i decided to choose Shane Cotton as my New Zealand artist to do a response to.

Te Waiwhariki 2004 (detail)
synthetic polymer paint on canvas
180.0 x 160.0 cm


This painting seems to be a self-portrait of Ngāpuhi chief Hongi Hika (c1780–1828), who was a key role in the new zealand musket wars. Shane Cotton uses native and exotic birds to his moko. it is seem to be a symbol of hope, the future nd as warnings alongside a painted target. The painting is named after one of many Hika's guns and a famous battle between Ngāti Maru and Ngāpuhi. 









The meaning of After in terms of painting is most likely a response or responding to the painting the you have selected or that has inspire you.

This painting gave me a view of what Cotton was trying to say for example the gun is like god it can take away peoples life's or protect them from anybody that tries to do them harm. So by seeing this painting i decided to choose Shane Cotton as my New Zealand artist to do a response to.Shane cottons work stood out to me so i decided to do a response to him, then i had found this picture and decided to do a response to this by changing the texts from "Sons of God is" to my reply or response "Your God" and just giving the viewers to think about my response, giving who ever sees this thinks of their god or religion.

ABSTRACTION
the act of considering something as a general quality or characteristic, apart from concrete realities,specific objects, or actual instances. An impractical idea; something visionary and unrealistic.

FIGURATIVE
of the nature of or involving a figure of speech, especially a metaphor; metaphorical and not literal:The word “head” has several figurative senses, as in “She's the head of the company.” Synonyms: metaphorical,not literal, symbolic.representing by means of a figure or likeness, as in drawing or sculpture.

Stencilling blog 4 term 2 Banksy

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

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

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

http://totallycoolpix.com/2010/12/banksy/

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.

Blog 3 - Term 2 Posters

Batman: The Movie (1966) 26 october
The Dynamic Duo faces four super-villains who plan to hold the world for ransom with the help of a secret invention that instantly dehydrates people.

This is the Batman poster from back in the 1960's, i like this one because i view batman as a great hero as a child and even now, though he may be a fictional character. This poster is used to advertise the movie Batman through out the world as this one is from Italy. The image of Batman and Robin in bright colours to capture the viewers and the bold title to tell them what they are advertising and that is "the movie BATMAN" and by adding the texts at the top making the viewer feel like that he/she needs to see it.
If it was used today it would be seen as a parody to the Batman movies today even though this is one of the originals, some would brush it off as a fake because they do not know that these were one of the classic batman posters back in the day. To compare this batman to the modern day batman is showing how much of the actors now a days have worked on their body to make it like the real Comic/Cartoon batman including the armour painted in all black but to the old batman his body is not really that similar to the batman in the comics and cartoons even the colour of the costume.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060153/



"We Can Do It!" is an American wartime propaganda poster used in 1943 produced by J. Howard Miller for Westinghouse Electric as an inspirational image or goal to boost workers self esteem morale. The poster is generally thought to be based on a black-and-white wire service photograph taken of a Michigan factory worker that goes by the name Geraldine Hoff. The poster was seen very little during World War II. It was rediscovered in the early 1980s and widely reproduced in many forms, often called "We Can Do It!" but also called "Rosie the Riveter" after the iconic figure of a strong female war production worker. The "We Can Do It!" image was used to promote feminism and other political issues beginning in the 1980s. The image made the cover of the Smithsonian magazine in 1994 and was fashioned into a US first-class mail stamp in 1999. It was incorporated in 2008 into campaign materials for several American politicians, and was reworked by an artist in 2010 to celebrate the first woman becoming prime minster of Australia. The poster is one of the ten most-requested images at the National Archives and Records Administration.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Can_Do_It!


"Keep Calm and Carry On" is a motivational poster made by the British government in 1939, several months before the beginning of the second World War, used to raise the morale of the british public in the aftermath of widely predicted mass air attacks on major cities. This poster is still being used but now modern day society has changed the meaning in to other meanings, thus being used to humour many other people instead of trying to motivate people for upcoming hard times. I think this because there are many others like the original now a days that it is being used for the wrong purpose instead of giving people the right idea of what it really was meant for.

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

History of printmaking

Planography (Lithography)

Eugène Delacroix

Royal Tiger, 1829
Eugène Delacroix (French, 1798–1863)
Lithograph, second state of four; 12 7/8 x 18 1/2 in. (32.7 x 47 cm)
Bequest of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1966 (67.630.7)

Delacroix had great empathy with the natural world and was fascinated by animals, although he seems never to have encountered untamed ones in the wild, even during his trip to Morocco in 1832. Having to rely upon the resources of the Paris zoo, he began studying felines there in the late 1820s, probably not long before making this lithograph. In this terrible, beautiful picture, Delacroix demonstrated the Romantic penchant for tragedy, torment, and violence in scenes that showed nature "red in tooth and claw" some decades before Charles Darwin publishedOn the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection (1859).

This poster was used for showing how tragic and beautiful nature can be. using the dark grey colours to bring out the death in this picture. I do not like the background though because it does not blend well with the image in the front. But it does give it the image up front a more darker image. 

Andy Warhol 

Stencil : Serigraphy

A stencil is a sheet of paper, fabric, plastic, metal or other material with designs cut, perforated or punched from it. Ink is forced through the openings onto the surface (paper, fabric etc.) to be printed. Sometimes called silk screening, serigraphy (seri means silk) is a type of stencil printing. A stencil is fastened to a sheet of silk which is tightly stretched across a wooden frame. Or, an area of the silk is "blocked out" using glue, gum arabic or shellac. The frame is placed against the material to be printed. A squeegee (rubber mounted in wooden handle) is used to push the ink through the open areas onto the material or paper below.

Stencil & Serigraphy - History: A long time ago in the Fiji Islands, stencils made of banana leaves were used to apply patterns to bark cloth. The idea of using silk fabric as a screen was developed in 1907 by Samuel Simon of Manchester England.

The work was completed during the weeks after Marilyn Monroe's death in August 1962. It contains fifty images of the actress, which are all based on a single publicity photograph from the film Niagara (1953).The twenty-five pictures on the left side of the diptych are brightly colored, while the twenty-five on the right are in black and white. It has been suggested that the relation between the left side of the canvas and the right side of the canvas is evocative of the relation between the celebrity's life and death.

The piece is currently owned by the Tate. In a December 2, 2004 article in The Guardian, the painting was named the third most influential piece of modern art in a survey of 500 artists, critics, and others.

Relief Printing

=Van Gogh

Japonaiserie (English: Japanesery) was the term the Dutch post-impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh used to express the influence of Japanese art.

1887

 This is printing from a raised surface. A simple example of relief printing is a rubber stamp pressed into a stamp pad and pressed onto a piece of paper. Relief printing plates are made from flat sheets of material such as wood, linoleum, metal, styrofoam etc. After drawing a picture on the surface, the artist uses tools to cut away the areas that will not print. A roller - called a brayer - is used to spread ink on the plate. A sheet of paper is placed on top of the plate and the image is transferred by rubbing with the hand or a block of wood, or by being run through a printing press. The completed print is a mirror image of the original plate.

Woodcut - Historical uses: Textiles and other decorative purposes, playing cards, calendars and book illustrations.

I find this work really interesting by how Van Gogh was affected by japanese art. I like its colours and how it brings like a swampy kind of mood but it is yet beautiful, he plays around with the art style of japanese art and tries to make it his own.

A Short History of painting blog 1 term 2

Van Gogh

Iris

I think this work has great colours to it, making it look like a bright cheerful day. the background is a bright colour giving the iris more attention with its dark colours. I think the artist is trying to tell that even when their are good days there are still gonna be bad things. that showing that some iris are dying.

1. Created: 1889
2. Media: Oil paint

Irises is one of many paintings and prints of irises by the Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh. Irises was painted while Vincent van Gogh was living at the asylum at Saint Paul-de-Mausole in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France, in the last year before his death in 1890.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irises_(painting)

Hokusai

The Great Wave

I like this work because it is japanese and i like japanese art. I think japanese art have interesting ways showing their art styles are very different than others, making it a great piece of work. this artist is telling that life will drown you sometimes but along as you still stay strong then it will be alright. Given the colours it is not very bright and also not very dark giving it a great view of both dark and light, the Sea being dark coloured while the sky is Light coloured.

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   Period: Ukiyo-e
2. Genre: Marine art
3. Created: 1829–1832

The Great Wave off Kanagawa (神奈川沖浪裏 Kanagawa-Oki Nami-Ura^?, "Under a Wave off Kanagawa"), also known as The Great Wave or simply The Wave, is an ukiyo-e woodblock print by Japanese artist Hokusai, published sometime between 1830 and 1833 in the late Edo period as the first print in Hokusai's series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (富嶽三十六景 Fugaku sanjūrokkei^?). It is Hokusai's most famous work, and one of the best recognized works of Japanese art in the world. It depicts an enormous wave threatening boats off the coast of the prefecture ofKanagawa. While sometimes assumed to be a tsunami, the wave is, as the picture's title notes, more likely to be a largeokinami ("wave of the open sea"). As in all the prints in the series, it depicts the area around Mount Fuji under particular conditions, and the mountain itself appears in the background.

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


Leonardo da Vinci

The Mona Lisa

Year: c. 1503-1506, perhaps continuing until c. 1517

Genre: Oil on poplar

Dimensions : 77 cm x 53 cm (30 in x 21 in)

I like it because it has a very old but calm setting with the background, it has very calm colours with the realistic  image of the mona lisa. The image is said to be a portrait of Lisa Gherardini, the wife of Francesco del Giocondo. That was when one of Da Vinci work was made and noticed by King Francis I of France.

 This is the portrait i have chosen to use as my forgery, it is one of many works painted by Leonardo da Vinci. I chose this as a challenge to see if i have improved any better at painting, i do not know the name of this painting but it is one of Da Vinci.

I tried to challenge myself by doing one of Leonardo Da Vinci work but it seemed to be more challenging then i had thought. Painting and trying to get the right skin tone color was one of the difficult things i had to do in this task.