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