Category: In Process
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Tom Phillips
http://www.tomphillips.co.uk/humument
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Rene Magritte
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Mel Bochner
http://www.melbochner.net/ Mel Bochner is an American Conceptual artist best known for his text-based paintings. Bochner’s popular thesaurus painting series consists of lists of synonyms displayed in rainbow-colored palettes, often featuring a single word repeated in painterly capital letters, as seen in his seminal piece Blah, Blah, Blah (2008). “My feeling was that there were ways of extending, or…
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Peter Blake
https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/peter-blake-763 Sir Peter Thomas Blake (born 25 June 1932) is an English pop artist, best known for co-creating the sleeve design for the Beatles’ album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. His other best known works include the cover of the Band Aid single “Do They Know It’s Christmas?”, and the Live Aid concert poster. Blake also…
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Jean-Michel Basquiat
http://www.basquiat.com/ https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/basquiat/ Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960–1988) was born and raised in Brooklyn, the son of a Haitian-American father and a Puerto Rican mother. At an early age, he showed a precocious talent for drawing, and his mother enrolled him as a Junior Member of the Brooklyn Museum when he was six. Basquiat first gained notoriety as…
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Maggi Hambling
Maggi Hambling website Edge paintings The Wave Fitzwilliam Museum exhibition 2010 Walls of Water: The Monotypes, Marlborough Gallery 2014-2015 Google images Hambling, M. 2009. You Are the Sea, Great Britain, Lux Books. Hambling, M. 2010. The Aldeburgh Scallop, Suffolk, Full Circle Editions. Hambling, M. 2010. The Sea, Salford Quays, Lowry Press. Maggi Hambling is a British…
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Jan van Toorn
http://www.eyemagazine.com/review/article/we-need-a-hero
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Matt Madden: Exercises in Style
99 Ways to Tell a Story: Exercises in Style (2005) is a “seriously playful exploration of the possibilities and potential of comics and storytelling”. The book is based on a simple one-page anecdote which is re-drawn and re-old 99 times in different genres and drawing styles, in the form of homages and parodies, and in formal experiments…
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Alex Katz
Alex Katz website Biography Images Google You Tube videos Painting and printmaking (from Wikipedia) Katz’s paintings are defined by their flatness of colour and form, their economy of line, and their cool but seductive emotional detachment. A key source of inspiration is the woodcuts produced by Japanese artist Kitagawa Utamaro. Beginning in the late 1950s, Katz…
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Dutch landscapes
View over a Flat Landscape: Jan Josefsz van Goyen (oil on panel 1642) a moody painting of a completely flat landscape with cows, where the top two thirds of the frame is occupied by the grey clouds, but with subtle sunlight breaking through on the horizon line in the far distance. Landscape with a River Bank…