Mannerism: An artistic style of the late 16th century characterized by distortion of elements such as scale and perspective - The Artist: Jacopo Pontormo.
Mannerism: An artistic style of the late 16th century characterized by distortion of elements such as scale and perspective. The Artist: Jacopo Pontormo Biography: His Beginning: Jacopo Pontormo was born in Pontormo, 1494 and died in Firenze, 1557. Pontormo was the son of a painter named Bartolommeo Carrucci. He was apprenticed to various artists that include Leonardo da Vinci. At the age of 18 he entered the workshop of Andrea Del Sarto. Jacopo Pontormo was talented and was even praised by Michelangelo. His Style of Work: At around 1515, he had already created a unique style in his works. His works were full of restless movement and disconcertingly irrational effects of scale and space. One of his works, an altarpiece for the Church of San Michele Visdomini, Florence, reflects an emotionalism, a departure from the balance and tranquility of the Renaissance. His Works: Pontormo was primarily a religious painter, but he painted a number of sensitive portraits. In 1521 was employed by the Medici family to decorate their villa at Poggio a Caiano in which an apparently peaceful scene reveals a strong undercurrent of obsession. Once, he borrowed ideas from Albrecht Dürer, whose engravings and woodcuts were circulating in Italy. The emotional tension apparent in his work reaches its peak in Pontormo's masterpiece, the altarpiece of the Entombment in Florence. It was
Christo's Fabricated Fun-world.
Christo's Fabricated Fun-world. Imagine the coast of Little Bay in Sydney, The Pont Neuf in Paris and the foyer of the Art Gallery of NSW, wrapped mercilessly in hundreds and thousands of metres of fabric. They are all the works of the controversial Christo, known to be the world's greatest big-scale artists in history. One of his most recent works, Surrounded Islands, was a contentious issue around the world. The astonishing 603,850 square metres of brightly coloured pink fabric surrounded eleven of the islands of Biscayne Bay. In the two weeks that the amazing installation was exposed, it attracted numerous visitors enjoying the wonderfully luminous fabric that complemented the tropical waters and wildlife. Though constructing this massive work of art was not easy. Hundreds of volunteers were needed to help tend to the floating fabric and 79 patterns were painstakingly stitched together to complete the silhouettes of eleven islands. The bright pink fabric gave a stark contrast to the deeps dark sea and looked as if they were large floating inflatable pool toys. Aerial views of the islands were breath taking as the fabric highlighted the curvy contours of the islands which would not have been nearly as obvious without the magic touch of Christo. The work of the pink fabric gave the islands an almost angelic aura around them. The beautiful pink is wonderfully feminine
Where I Stand
Where I Stand By: Cassey Smith I am a daughter and an enemy to my sister due to the occasional warfare in our household. I am the most annoying person in my family. Though, my sister is tough competition. I am a guitar hero when playing against my family and friends, even if they aren't the best players in the world. I'm going to be the first in my family to go to college at eighteen. Due to the fact that I am the only one in my family who had honors classes and summer homework. I am a friend to many people, but not a lot of people in my school. I like music. It's my favorite thing to do after school. I listen to anything from Fall Out Boy to Madina Lake. I like movies. Adventure stories, murder mysteries, and comedies are really the only movies I see. My favorite movies are National Treasure 2 and Clue. I also like CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. I like to solve the crime before the show ends. I like, actually love, my pets. I have three: Stormey, Ko Ko, and Sam. They are what get me up in the morning, literally. I believe that people can change, even the most reluctant. Everybody changes. Evolution can be natural or even kick started by a friend. I believe that sleeping is my best friend, especially when school starts. I believe in keeping secrets. I understand that keeping secrets can be a bad thing. Though, it keeps relationships alive. I believe that the world
Art & Interests
Art & Design Interests - Foundation Study -1520 words Something that interests me in art is the use of using today's icons (i.e. celebrities/famous people), this not only gathers interest to today's society but it can change the way people think about that icon forever. My first print that I want to analyse it the Marilyn Monroe 1967 print by Andy Warhol. Warhol was one of the first artists to break that barriers between high and low art meaning that his prints could be sold everywhere. What amazes me is how his Monroe prints are still sold to the masses and now our memory of her in today's life (certainly for the younger generations) is absolutely determined by Warhol's production of her. The use of colours are extremely striking with the hot pink and the vibrant yellows, the piece screams out beauty and sexuality. The simplicity of using three colours in this piece really works. How does the color affect the mood? What I love about this print is that he didn't just create the one, but he created a series of these in different colours. By doing this he wanted to experiment to see if the colour of Monroe would change the way the public perceived the piece. Its not only people that warhole has made forever iconic, he has done the same with cambell soup. The way that the soup can is repeated really gives it a sense of presence and sticks in your mind, again with this piece
The Renasissance
The Renaissance, which began in Italy in the fourteenth century, was a period of great change in art, culture, and science. The word "Renaissance" means "Rebirth", this is a perfect word to describe the period. Many of the greatest artists in history, such as Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, lived during this time period. Renaissance scientists made many great discoveries and played a large part in a fair portion of our current knowledge about the natural world. As well, Renaissance thinkers changed the way people saw themselves and the world around them. Renaissance society was very different from feudal society of the middle ages. The Medieval world was built around the nearest manor and most everyday activities had to do with a manor or castle. By the time of the Renaissance, towns in southern Europe had grown greatly in size. The wealthy people who lived in Renaissance society had more spare time and money than in the Middle Ages. This meant they could spend more time studying new ideas and had more money to truly patronize the arts. The medieval view of the world was a look at the bad side of things: People thought of life as short and full of suffering. There was very little medieval art that didn't have a religious theme, and most art was made by hired artists for a church, to teach people about there faith and encourage them to lead better lives so they could go
Paul Cezanne
PAUL CEZANNE Paul Cezanne was born in 1839 at Aix-en-Provence, a small town a few miles inland from Marseilles, in the south of France. His father was a prosperous hat retailer who later, in 1848 became proprietor of Aix's only bank. Paul's mother had been Louis-Auguste's mistress until they married in 844 when Paul was five. Throughout his childhood, Cezanne lived in fear of his powerful, overbearing father. He grew up an angry, intense and unsociable man, whose only real attachment was to his art. At the age of 13, he became a boarder at Bourbon College in Aix. He was an excellent scholar and though not very sociable, formed some close friendships that were to last for most of his life. In their free time Cezanne and his friends swam and fished. These times remained his happiest memories, and the many bathing scenes in his later paintings are touched with nostalgia. At first, Cezanne and his friends believed he was destined to be a poet. Gradually, however, his interest shifted to art and he began to attend free classes at the local drawing academy. He dreamt of going to Paris to study and work, but because he lived in fear of his domineering father, he spent a year as a law student before confessing to his family that he really wanted to become an artist. Eventually, he was allowed a small allowance and permitted to go to Paris.
Aesthetic surgery is booming
Aesthetic surgery is booming, especially over the last decade. Cosmetic methods have become less painful, having a faster healing. Humanity's search for perfectionism evoked me to analyze and become opinionated about this everyday issue. The global effects have led to some kind of deformity, mutated faces, unnatural characteristics and a plastic mask sewn on your original natural looks. But what is plastic surgery? It may be a complex deformation ,an addiction yet, for many it is a way of dealing with "false characteristics" and is seen as a blessed healing .Through my work journal I have managed to study the way our "meat" is cut ,the way its sewed and healed. I realized that the procedure takes horrendous guts to go through and double the guts to overcome the excruciating pain...Over the past seven years I have been bombarded with TV models racing through skeleton marches , porn stars pumping their breasts and thousands of everyday records of someone wishing to adopt another identity. Inspirations came from compelling artists such as: Jenny Saville , Mary Daniel Hobson, Kiki Smith and Tim Hawnkinson. They have mapped my way into gathering material for research and pulled me into the world of Art Surgery... My first series of works were inspired by the exaggeration of plastic surgery. Most of the time, women come out with firm, pumped, siliconated lips or with extra big
During this personal investigation I propose to explore and present an 'exploded view' of Cornelia Parker's life and works of space, suspension, friction and destruction.
Cornelia Parker: Personal Investigation Contents Page Introduction 2 Personal History 3 Recognised Work: 3 Awards: 3 Exhibitions (from 1980 to 2003) 3 Parker's Work and Career 5 Cornelia Parker's Creations 7 Mass (Colder Darker Matter) 7 Review of 'Mass (Colder Darker Matter)' 9 Influences in Cornelia's Work 10 Conclusions 12 Bibliography 14 Cornelia Parker: Personal Investigation Introduction During this personal investigation I propose to explore and present an 'exploded view' of Cornelia Parker's life and works of space, suspension, friction and destruction. I intend to explore the suppressed ideas and images behind her installations, the significance it represents in today's society, and unravel the subconscious thoughts of her works such as: 'Colder Darker Matter' and 'The Maybe'. (Which are connected, support and are influential my Alevel art projects, but also have caused most media attention within the art world). Within my conclusion I hope to evaluate the influence of her works, and the understanding and developments of the themes and ideas behind them. Personal History Artists Name: Cornelia Parker Date of Birth: 1956 Recognised Work: Subconscious of a Monument (2003) Blue Shift (2001) At the Bottom of this Lake Lies a Piece of the Moon (2000) Edge of England (1999) Mass (Colder Darker Matter) (1997) Wedding Ring Drawing (1997) The
What is surrealism?
Surrealism is a movement in art. Sur-real means beyond reality, and surrealist art shows the importance of experiences, which are hidden, in normal life, such as dreams and memories. The surrealists were a group of artists who invented and developed surrealism. Surrealist painting exhibits great variety of content and technique. That of Dalí, for example, consists of a more or less direct and photographic transcription of dreams, deriving its inspiration from the earlier dream-like paintings of de Chirico. Arp's sculptures are large, smooth, abstract forms, and Miró, a formal member of the group for a short time only, employed, as a rule, fantastic shapes, which included deliberate adaptations of children's art and which also had something in common with the designs used by Catalan artists to decorate pottery. The Russian-American painter Pavel Tchelichew, while not a member of the Surrealist group, created Surrealist images in his paintings as well as in his numerous ballet designs. The Persistence of memory. Salvador Dalí. Possibly the greatest surrealist artist was Max Ernst; he seemed to be a surrealist by temperament. From an early age he had a fertile imagination, observing reality vividly and letting his fantasies play on it. Painting his fantasies and self-induced hallucinations seemed perfectly normal to him. Ernest often painted forests that are tightly
Art essay Thesis: what elements of Dada and Surrealism suggest the influence of Freud?
Art essay Thesis: what elements of Dada and Surrealism suggest the influence of Freud? "My life is interesting only if it's related to psychoanalysis" this is said by the famous scientist Sigmund Freud, also known as the father of psychoanalysis. (Jean Chiriac) Since childhood, Freud was a hard working gal, for by the time he ended his school learning he possessed the ability to speak more than two different languages. Moreover, Freud himself was a Jewish Czech, and he considers that being Jew was responsible for his intelligence and discoveries, although he weren't religiously attached. Eventually, he grew up to become a psychoanalyst, who has endeavored theories related to hysteria, dreams, unconsciousness, transference, Oedipus complex, narcissism, and paranoia. However, we are prone to notice his indirect and direct affect on art and literature, for he endeared art greatly. Along with all his theories, Freud related them to sexual repression or (libido), as well as, infantile memories. (Storr) He said once: "I may say at once that I am no connoisseur in art, but simply a layman. I have often observed that the subject-matter of works of art has a stronger attraction for me than their formal and technical qualities, though to the artist their value lies first and foremost in these latter. I am unable rightly to appreciate many of the methods used and the affects