Guido Daniele is an airbrush painter who uses hands and people as the "paper". He has been working in back stages for artistic and advertising pictures as well as for tv commericials and programs. Daniele was born in Soverato, Italy and now lives and works in Milan. From 1964-68, he attended Brera artistic High School and graduated from Brera School of Arts in 1972 majoring in sculpture. In 1972, he worked as a hyper-realistic illustrator. It was then that he worked in a co-operation that used and tested different painting techniques as well as advertisement and editing.
In the Scottish Poetry Library in Edinburgh wanders a Phantom (or used to wander). Nobody knows his or her name, but the librarians and the readers happen to come across beautifully crafted sculptures of printed paper. On each sculpture there is a note that addresses to the Library thanking them their "... support on books, words, ideas, and those places that house our treasures" (Phantom's quote). There has been ten sculptures and "thank you" notes from this mysterious artists in the Scottish Poetry Library and none of them identify it's owner. This artist, in my perspective, seems to understand that sometimes being an anonymous character can be a beautiful and powerful quality.
Robin Antar's passion involves sculpting stone into everyday items that mirror life as we know it today. She replicates thes items into a real-life scale and completes in with meticulous detail. She does this by adding parts of the actual object, yet also by staining, painting, and incorporating plastic as well as gold leaf. Robin was born in Atlantic City, New Jersey in 1957 and has been sculpting since 1974. A school teacher actually introduced her to her choice of mediumand she has been taking it on ever since. She has been feautured in various shows and galleries (The National Arts Club,NY; Nabisco Gallery, NJ, etc) as well as newspapers and radio broadcasts.
James Parker is an exceptional artist for creating fruit and vegies garnishes. He came up with the idea of Veggy Art which emerged as Parker saw busy chefs sturggling to put finishing touches. Therefore, Veggy Art was launched as a "ready-to-use" garnish company where finishing touches are as important as the food itself. From Veggy Art's beginning, Parker has given demonstrations, given classes, and sold garnishes all over the country. He has been cooking for The White House, Bloomingdale's The U.S. Marine Corps, Penn College, and Dean and Deluca to name a few. His culinary career began while attending the Pennsylvania College of Technology, where he graduated with a Culinary Degree. He earned several medals and awards from creating showpeices which included melon carvings, ice carvings, and tallow wax scupltures. He is frequently featured in The Food Network and is one of the most reknowned and influential garnish cooks in the world.
In St. Petersburg, Russia, there is a bakery called Zhanna's Bakery where the most amazing cakes are made! The owner Zhanna...., has an amazing assortment of cakes from debilble treasure chests to flats of PEPSI cans to sewing machines and cigarratte boxes. These look so realistic, it's difficult to realize that they are actually cakes.
Jim Victor is a sulptor who uses butter and chocolate (among many) as his medium. Victor graduated from Pennsylvania Acadamey of Fine Arts and majored in scuplture in 1968. He also went to York Academy of Art in 1962-63. Since 1969, he has been teaching sculpture at several insituitons such as: Pennsyvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Rosemont College, Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia Museum of Art, University of the Arts, Drexel Univeristy, Penn State, etc etc. He does many portrait sculptures of famous actors such as Robin William and Anne Miller to name a few. Victor also sculpts animals and people in everyday situations.
Sayaka Ganz was born in Yokkohoma, Japan; although she lived
there for a while, she also grew up in Brazil and in Hong Kong. She studied in
the Fine Arts in Printmaking at Indiana University Bloomington in 2000 (with a
minor in Theater and Drama. In 2008, she got her Masters in Fine Arts in 3D
studios with concentration in scuplture at Bowling Green State University.Currently, she teaches drawing and design at
Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne. Ganz's work comes to her
through used plastic household objects along with old scrap metal. Her
sculptures take life as she looks at and collects certain pieces of worn
metal/plastic pieces. Amazingly, Ganz shapes these worn and rusty pieces and
colors them with energy. This energy is depicted through animals in motion. Her
work has been collected and exhibited in London, Tokyo, Takaoka, Isle of Man,
New York, San Francisco, Monterey,, Toledo, and Fort Wayne.
Clay Butler is a skillful spray paint artist who makes a living teaching his
spray painting techniques as well as selling supplies. Most of his demos can be
seen on YouTube and he has his own website at http://www.claybutlermusic.com/artwork.html
His
Supply List:
Krylon Spray Paint
White Foam Board
A series of Foam Brushes
Circular Pots, cups, etc
Sponge or magazine paper
Clay first starts his paintings by
spraying his underlying colors (in this case fushia and white). While the paint
is still wet, he uses a ripped out glossy magazine paper and lays it over the
paint, slightly twists the paper, and quickly takes it off to give the colors a
jagged texture. He lightly sprays another color to surround his texturized moon.
Lays a darker color on the lower edges of the moon to provide a contrast in
colors and then covers the moon with a pot top. He colors the background with a
series of colors. Once that is done, he uses a white Krylon Spray Paint and
tilts it to the side in order to spray droplets of white (the stars). He
continues spraying the rest of the page with a series of black, gray, and white;
eventually, he uses ripped newspapers to give texture. Before he finishes, he
uses foam brushed to create the forest of trees under the moon.
I chose this
video because it relates to the additive/subtract technique we are using in
class for our charcoal sketches. In addition, spray painting has always been in
my interest and I have always wondered how artists could create such great
portraits with such dramatic effects.
Salvador Dali has
been known to be the most eccentric and imaginative surrealist artist in Spanish
painting. His meticulous attention to detail, virtuso technique, and extremely
imaginative content reflected much of the techniques used by the Old Masters of
the Italian Renaissance. However his bizzare and vivid contents of his paintings
caught the public's attention. He once reffered to his paintings as
"hand-painted dream photographs" and thus his paintings could mostly be
explained as such. His paintings intrigue me personally because it shows how
much we forget to pay attention to the power of our subconcious mind. In several
paintings, like that of "The Apparition of the Visage of Aphrodite", his careful
application of pictures within pictures proves to show much thought and
creactivity that many have difficulty mastering.
Adorning ones own
persona has always been a part of expressing one's uniqueness. Like clothing and
accessories, hairstyling has also played a role in each person's freedom of
expression. Throughout history, several civilizations have used hair to
determine one's social standing, marital status, and or even religious beliefs.
In the Roman era, women wore their hair in long curls and dyed them red to show
their nobility and wealth. Occassionally, they sprinkled golden powder and
decorated their manes with jewels or tiaras; thus separating them from the usual
blond slaves captured from Northern cities. In China, single women wore their
hair in a single braid, whereas married Chinese women wore their hair in a
single bun. As the years progressed into Modern Times, hairstyling became more
then just a demestration of social status, but became into something more like a
work of art. Like art, hair styles are everchanging and are ways to express an
individual's personality/and or creactivity.
Nathan Sawaya is a full time freelance artist who uses legos as his medium
for his artwork. He was born in Colville, Washington, but grew up in Veneta,
Oregon. Growing up, Sawaya loved toys (Lego) and always had an artistic eye due
to the fact that he loved to create stories, and drew cartoons. It was after he
graduated from NYU to become a lawyer, that he re-discovered LEGO. However, this
soon become a medium for his future artwork and ultimately his lifestyle. His
studio is composed of more than 1.5 milllion bricks of LEGOS. His art is viewed
as both beautiful and playful as well as obsessive and magnificiently crafted.
Sawaya's art is shaped in 3-dimensional sculptures and oversized portraits.
This is a picture of the old Redland's Railway Station built in 1909 by Arthur Brown Jr. This historical landmark is engraved with beautiful pictures of tropical fruit beside the round columns from which this building stands. Within its halls, dim lights droop from the cieling creating a romantic effect only seen and felt after the sun rests. I chose this architectural work of art because it's one of the very few landmarks that refer back to a time when industriatlization and transportation began to grow and flourish. It is a reflection of the time period of the early 1900's and the civilization's eagerness of starting anew.
