Nils udo
‘The Frog’
Nills Udo is an
Book: Art in nature
http://greenmuseum.org/content/artist_index/artist_id-36__nosplit-z.html
Stefaan De Croock.
This artist used a pressure washer to remove sections of moss on a wall outside the STUK art centre. Since I am looking at ways in how to work with moss in my artwork I find his work relevant although I would like to take my work into a more sculptural direction.
Moss Milkshake.
I found a recipe for to create moss growing paint.
http://storiesfromspace.co.uk/data/html/mossgraffiti.html
Artist: Ranjani Shettar
Artist: Lynda Benglis
Artist: Karla Black
Artist: Rebecca Warren
Artists: Jake and Dinos Chapman
Artist: Sam Taylor Wood
Artist: Wilhelm Mundt
Artist: Sarah Lucas
Sarah Lucas is another artist that has similar form to Berlinde De Bruyckere in respect to limbs looking like mutated branches but I don’t feel like her work is as relevant.
Artist: Berlinde De Bruyckere
‘Marthe’ 2008
‘Kreupelhout – Cripplewood’
This artist combined the form of tree branches with the human exterior to create disturbing hybrid creatures such as her piece ‘Marth’ and in the work ‘Kreupelhout – Cripplewood’ Confuses the viewer in identifying what is part tree and what looks like human flesh.
‘Her sculptures explore life and death – death in life, life in death, life before life, death before death – in the most intimate and most disturbing way. They bring illumination, but the illumination is as dark as it is profound’. J.M. Coetzee, press statement, 25 January 2013
Artist: Juan Munoz
‘Conversation Piece III’
Munoz carries a narrative through his sculptures; In this series : Conversation Piece, the artist uses bronze figures slightly smaller that life size that are positioned in a stage like manor, Frozen in conversation.
I like how the artist has used a smaller scale rather than life size or larger to transforming the viewers perception.
cirque du Soliel: Alegria
Artist: Marc Quinn
Artist: Levi Van Veluw
‘Landscape III’
Levi Van Veluw is an artist that explores the modification of his face, treating his own body as a canvas for his work, creating a different appearance in every self-portrait. the artist shows no expressions and uses the same angle in all of his portraits to create the impression that his face is more of an object rather than his face.
Although this piece and the collection it belongs to is very impressive I am not interested in the fact that this artist has created a miniature landscape but am inspired in the materials used and the textures he has created onto a human face, I find the merging between this mossy substance and the human face relevent to my current work. I enjoy the idea that the face is almost camouflaged and has sparked an idea that branches away from thought of expressing emotion through nature and just simply looking at the steps it takes for something unusual and alien in the world of the natural environment to be accepted in its new surrounding.
Artist: Guy Dinning.
‘407 Untitled’
Guy Denning is a British portrait artist working within the media of oil paints, chalk and conte crayons against a dull background. As I am Looking at anger and emotion I feel like this particular artist fits well as starter point for my research as I would like to explore a similar practice to use as a foundation into my investigation into the area of human expression.
407 Untitled, shown above, is a portrait of a man shouting, the dull greys and blues give the sence of sorrow along with the fast sketchy, untamed black defining lines gives life to the emotion Denning has portrayed yet the fact that he has blacked his eyes gives me the impression that the man has lost himself within his rage.
This type of atmosphere is exactly what I am wanting to translate into my own practice, to do this I will create a body of drawing work to understand facial expresion.
Author: Diana Young – Ferngully
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