color and emphasis

 

Art: 18_chinese-dictionary,18_jades,16_petras,18_03the web http://www.laughingsquid.com/carved-book-landscape-sculptures-by-guy-laramee/

 

Author:Guy Laramee

Bio:  Guy has received over 29 arts grants and was awarded musical composition as well as Canada Council’s Joseph S. Stauffer. His work is in United States,  France, Belgium,  Switzerland, Germany, Japan, and Latin America.

Description: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcFuO8zwuyQ Guy Laramee uses texture and natural color to demonstrate life like landscapes in his art.

Medium: Altered book, inks, tint paint

 

Chosen: I chose these pieces of art because it had inspired me to try to create and altered book myself and it was nearly impossible to do with normal hard tools. He saids "I did not destroy the books rather making them more important and valuable by making them into art."

 

 

 

                                                        Work Cited

 

www.laughingsquid.com/carved-book-landscape-sculptures-by-guy-laramee/

                             http://guylaramee.com/index.php?/info/bio/

                           http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcFuO8zwuyQ

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

line movement

Line Movement

 

Art: A Line Made by Walking, (1967)

 

Author: Richard Long

Bio: Richard Long born 1945, he is a sculptor, painter and a photographer. He has been in the turner prize for 4 times. He was nominated 4 times for the White Water Line and finally won it in 1987.

Description: This photograph is a simple trail or path was made by animals and people. The angle of the picture makes the path seem to go from big to small as the trail leads off into the trees.

Medium: landscape

 

Chosen: I chose this piece of art because it was a simple picture that explained line movement.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Work Cite

 

http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/long-a-line-made-by-walking-p07149

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Long_(artist)

shape

Author: Antony Gormley

This piece reminds me of a complex jamiga game. I found this piece interesting to look at like a magic eye image. He uses rectangular shapes of all sizes ranging from light and dark to contrast and to give the figure volume / mass.

Antony Gormley has had a career of art for 40 plus years. His art is shown in “San Ildefonso (Mexico City), Kunsthaus Bregenz (Austria) and State Hermitage Museum (St Petersburg). Museum of Modern Art (New York), the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Venice Biennale and Documenta 8 (Kassel, Germany).”

Work cite

http://weandthecolor.com/sculptural-art-by-antony-gormley/7394

http://www.antonygormley.com/biography

line

line
 
BIO:“Gustave Doré was born in Strasbourg” he had made this work of art at the age of 15. The

medium: pencil

description: line art which is an image consists of only curves and straight lines placed on a white background without shading and or color

Chosen: I chose this image because of the age of the art and also because I had stared at it for a while tiring to figure out what the 2 men were beating. The artist had only used lines to make this picture making it line art.

Work cite

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave_Dor%C3%A9

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_art Posted 28th January by art 120 newby

value

Value

Art: Nautical

Author: art by Wilhelm Thelen

Bio: Wilhelm Thelen was born 1917 and died 1985.

Description: This paint is a chiaroscuro which means “modeling” in Italian. It’s a painting that transitions from light to dark in color.

Medium: paint

Chosen: I chose this piece of art because the artistes uses good grayscale that demonstrates the transitions from light to dark.

 

 

 

 

 

Work Cite

 

http://en.allexperts.com/q/Fine-Art-3122/2009/8/value-oil-painting-Wilhelm.htm

 

shape / color

shape / color

Art: Art Deco

Author: Bob Staake

Bio: Bob Staake was born in 1957 Los Anglos and began his career as an  illustrator in 1992. In 1998 he wrote is first kids book “My Little 1 2 3 Book”. In 2006 he was nominated for top ten best children books in the New York Times.

Medium: Watercolor

Chosen: I chose this piece of art because the artistes used colors and shapes in such a way that the piece looks like a cartoon.

 

 

 

Work Cite

 

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

http://lineshapecolor.blogspot.com/2009/07/art-deco.html

Line /pattern

 Art:“Line, Dot, Pattern Drawing (2011)

Size: 400 x 400 (mm)
200 x 200 (mm) [each]”

Author: Szemin Ho

Bio: Szemin Ho went school for design at Nanyang Polytechnic and ended up getting a Diploma in the Industry of Design. Szemin Ho received a reward in “Short-listed: A-star Social Robot Design award 2011.”

Medium: Paintbrush, Acrylic

Chosen: I chose this piece of art because the artistes used different thickness lines to make the same image but by using this method had altered to the image.

 

 

 

 

Work Cite

 

http://www.coroflot.com/szeminho/Art-n-Painting

Pattern

pattern

 

Art: Pattern Fish 2008

Artist: art by J. Vincent Scarpace

Bio: “Born in 1971 - Buffalo, New York.” John likes fish; he has a website call www.Ipaintfish.com he went to school in Texas.

Medium: pen and ink

Chosen: I chose this piece of art because the fish has a peculiar look on its face and the artist use a lot of fun shapes to create this fish.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Work Cite

 

http://www.ipaintfish.com/currentworksforsale_patternfish.htm

Balance

Balance

 

Artist: John Felice Ceprano

Title: Art of balance

Description: John used only wedges and shims to help hold these massive rocks in place.

Location: Canada

Bio: “John was born in Providence, Rhode Island, 1947. Canadian citizen in 1991. Since 1986 "The Art of Balance", was rewarded Canada Council Grant in 1989”.

Medium:  rock   / sculpture

Chosen: I chose this piece of art because the artist showed a continuous harmony by putting these huge massive rocks together.

 

Work Cite

 

http://www.saatchionline.com/CEPRANO

 

 

Color

color

 

Art: Major Expressions of Modern Architecture (1900-1960)

 

Author: unknown

Bio: unknown

 

Medium: cement and glass

 

Chosen: I chose this piece of art because the artistes used a simply form of color to demonstrate architecture expression

 

 

texture

Art: Thornhill Woods Art Series

 

Author: art by Lena

Bio: Lena was born in  Siberia, Russia. She like to take photographs.

 

Medium: oil

 

Chosen: I chose this piece of art because the artistes like to use more than one canvas to demonstrate her art. She uses texture to demonstrate depth by site and feel.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Work Cite

 

http://www.artbylenaphotography.com/about-lena

 

 

Proportion / scale

 

Proportion / scale

 

Art: The Fisherman

 

Author: Saul Steinberg

 

Bio: Steinberg born in Romania June 15, 1914, died in May 12, 1999, he studied philosophy and architecture. While waiting for a USA visa he created more than 1,201 drawings and 90 covers as a cartoonist.

 

Description: a fisherman fishing for more than he can chew.

Medium: pencil / pen

Chosen: I chose this piece because it had to do with proportion and scale. The proportion of this piece is the man in the boat and the big fish in the water. The scale is how the artist made the man small and the fish huge.

 

 

 

Work Cite

 

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

 

http://char.txa.cornell.edu/language/principl/principl.htm