Raphael

My Favorite artist from the assigned textbook was Raphael. I was impressed with how well he blended multiple techniques from different artists, such as with his masterpiece, "School of Athens". I was also interested to learn that he was not only held in high regard for his work, like some other artists of the time, but was also adored by the public as well.

Favorite Artist: Carvaggio

               

                

My favorite artist would have to be Caravaggio. His pieces are very well painted. My favorite part of his pieces and techniques is the way he uses dark and light together. His pieces look so dark but somehow he still makes them look bright and contrasted.  I love the simple shapes, colors and how everything is easy to digest. 

Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol 

Born on August 6, 1928, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Andy Warhol was a successful magazine and ad illustrator who became a leading artist of the 1960s Pop art movements. He ventured into a wide variety of art forms, including performance art, filmmaking, video installations and writing, and controversially blurred the lines between fine art and mainstream aesthetics. Warhol died on February 22, 1987, in New York City.

The Camouflage Self-Portrait is a work that was completed in the year 1986 by Andy Warhol, who was an American artist. This work was a self-portrait that he completed in the month of February before his death. In this self-portrait, Andy Warhol used a Polaroid photograph of himself as the base. He used an acrylic polymer paint and silk screen printing to create a camouflage effect across the surface of his self-portrait, which is surrounded with black.

Andy Warhol was one of the most prolific and popular artist of his time.

Favorite Artist

This is an oil on linen paining called "Waiting - 116th Street," by Daniel Green. Green is an artist from North Salem, NY. He paints very realistic portraits and scenes while still retaining a sense of "cartoon." I love that his painting are rich in texture. In the picture above, there are shiny subway tiles, cracked mosaic, textured hair, and a smooth suede-like jacket. His use of light really brings his paintings alive. Green uses a realistic color scheme that makes it feel as if you're looking at a photograph.

Favorite artist from text

My favorite artist from the text is Salvador Dali. In a previous class that I took (History of Art) we learned a lot about Dali and his art works. I chose this painting because Dali used the techniques of realism for a surreal effect by distorting familiar objects and placing them in a hallucinating context. He called his technique "critical paranoia". I like Dali because he put his problems into his work and made it his own type of art. 

Final Exam Artists and Terms

Cubism                                Fragmented picture plane                                    Pablo Picasso

Chiaroscuro                         Dramatic Use of Dark and Light                          Caravaggio

Self Portrait                         Figure Painting by the artist                                 Rembrandt

Pointilism                            Tiny Dots of Pure Color                                      Seurat

Art Photography                  Pioneer and Championed photography as Art     Alfred Stieglitz

Impressionism                      Loose Group of Parisian Painters                       Manet

Impasto                                Heavy Application of Paint                                 Vincent van Gogh

Father of Modern Art            Proto Cubist Stress on Structure                        Paul Cezanne

Expressionism                       Potray Emotions through distortion and color     Edvard Munch

Fauve                                     Wild Beasts                                                        Henri Matisse

Non-Objective Abstraction    Pioneer to have no recognizable Subject           Vassily Kandinsky

Dada                                       Hobby Horse                                                      Marcel Duchamp

Surrealism                              Dream Paintings                                                  Salvador Dali

Abstract Expressionism         First American Modern Art Movement               Jackson Pollock

Color Field Painting              Flat Patches of Color on large canvas                 Mark Rothko

Pop Art                                  Fine Art depicting popular culture                        Andy Warhol                                    

Final Project

The artist I chose for my final project is Bernard Frize.  I chose this artist because although his work looks simple it must be difficult execute a painting where there is no subject/main focus meaning the painting is its own subject.