Graphic Design

"Hiroshima-Nagasaki 50" poster for JAGDA exhibit, Mamoru Suzuki, 1995

Poster for “Life” exhibition, Mamoru Suzuki, 1994

Graphic design is what I call applied art where artwork/design is put into use in the every-day world. From company logo to the box design for your favorite type of chewable gum, graphic design is all around us. Some might not consider this art, but to me they are.

Above are some poster designs by designer Mamoru Suzuki during the early 90s. His works are simplistic and straight to the point, yet still very captivating through his illustrations. More designs from other artists can be found here.

JORDAN EAGLES

HEY ALL.

I would like to introduce you to Jordan Eagles work. For the past 10 years he's workedf with blood and resin in a very interesting way.

"Explosive energy, iiner light, organic paterns and bodily orbs: my latest series continues to explore the physical and intangible connections between the body-spirit and the universe. The curves and flows, created with blood, allow the sleek and smooth synthetic elements to exist in harmony with the organic - illuminating the finite details of the blood as well as its innate energy."

email: jordaneagles.com

Pascal

Jacqueline Bishop

I really like the painting style and color schemes that Jacqueline Bishop uses. I also like the content that she has in her paintings, which a lot of them seem to be about doomed wild life, specifically in Southern, Northern, and central america. She also spent a lot of time near the amazon rain forest. I posted a few of her pictures but this website has a more extensive view at her work: www.arthurrogergallery.com/dynamic/artist.asp?artistid=7

encaustic..

i figured this would be an appropriate post before wednesday...

i looked into encaustic artists, but i couldn't decide between my top 2. 

so here they are:

Eileen P. Goldenberg is from San Francisco, CA. She uses tons of little dots. I think I like her Landing Series best. www.eileenpgoldenberg.com

I also found Mary Farmer. Similar dots and really colorful abstractions of flowers and nature.

www.maryfarmer.com

Jess Patrylo.

The Bowery School

The term, "The Bowery School" is the title given to a loosely associated group of artists currently working New York City. These artists work in a broad variety of mediums including, but not limited to: Sculpture, Collage, Painting, Installation, Video, Photography, Assemblage, Printmaking, Performance, and Sound. Many of these artists took part in the 2006 Whitney Biennial: Day For Night. I've posted some links for different artists that I feel are important today.



Article about Dash Snow, Dan Colen, and Ryan McGinley
http://nymag.com/arts/articles/07/01/bowery/

Dan Colen Links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Colen
http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/dan_colen.htm

Terence Koh Links:
http://www.asianpunkboy.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terence_Koh
http://kohbunny.com/
http://www.asiasongsociety.com/

Nate Lowman Link:
http://www.interviewmagazine.com/art/nate-lowman/

Ryan McGinley Links:
http://www.ryanmcginley.com/moonmilk
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_McGinley
http://www.tinyvices.com/ryan_mcginley.html

Dash Snow Links:
http://nymag.com/arts/art/profiles/26288/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dash_Snow
http://www.tinyvices.com/dash_snow.html
http://www.peresprojects.com/artist-press-kit/dash-snow/
http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/dash_snow.htm

Aurel Schmidt Links:
http://www.tinyvices.com/Aurel_Schmidt.html
http://www.fecalface.com/SF/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=147&Itemid=92
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7pcLdn72hw
http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/aurel_schmidt.htm

Agathe Snow Links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agathe_Snow
http://nymag.com/nymetro/shopping/fashion/columns/look/10575/
http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/agathe_snow.htm

Takeshi Murata Link:
http://www.takeshimurata.com/

Enjoy.

- Truett Dietz

Some friends of mine recently discovered THE BEST IMAGE ARCHIVE EVER (maybe). The Library of Congress has been uploading historical photos from their collection to flickr, and most of them have no copyright restrictions. Good for your morgue if you're interested.

The "1930s-40s in Color" has some of my favorites.

Learning to Love You More is (was) a project where artists Miranda July and Harrell Fletcher post various assignments online for anyone to complete. Up until recently you could upload your completed work to the site for everyone to see. I never uploaded anything, but I've always found the assignments to be really valuable for dragging myself out of a creative slump. It's a good resource of little (sometimes big) things you can do to get yourself thinking and working. It's been around for a while, so I apologize if I'm telling you something you already know.

Finally, this is just for fun.

~Katie

Brian Froud and Sam Kieth

Today I would like to talk briefly about 2 of my favorite artists. I know they arent especially obscure or even considered among the old masters. In fact they are both currently alive and productive. Their names are Sam Kieth and Brian Froud.

Sam Kieth is best known for his work in comic books since the early 1980s. His career reached it's peak in the early nineties with the success of his self written and painted Image Comics release The Maxx. This comic was later made into a cartoon which aired on MTV alongside Aeon Flux and The Head. I have been a giant dork for his art since i first saw it, and have collected his original sketches and printed work ever since. I think my favorite thing about the art of Sam Keith is his use of flowing lines to create distinct forms. Everything has such unique shapes, even things that appear over and over throughout a series. No character or object is drawn exactly the same way twice. This means he relies a lot on colors to define his characters. Each frame is its own unique work of art and a new interpretation of the characters within. I also really dig the way the frames are put together in his books. You dont open a Sam Kieth comic and see a boring grid pattern, you see different shapes flowing into each other in a way that plays with the subconscious as much as his stories do. The fact that he is also a writer (although I admit he has never written a story with a decent ending) makes him my #1 favorite artist ever.








Brian Froud is best known for his 1978 anthology Faeries, and for his character designs of the Muppets in Jim Henson's Dark Crystal and Labyrinth films. The script of the Labyrinth was written when Brian Froud gave Terry Jones a stack of paintings and drawings to pull from in the creation of characters and settings for a new film. Later, Brian Froud gave his work to a series of fantasy authors who then turned the images into fantasy stories. Frouds images are said to be so strong because they are created from real faerie models. Each face is of a muse telling a story from another dimension, making them especially inspiring to writers. I have never seen any other artist accomplish such a thing, and it is the root of why I respect him so much. Also because no other paintings have moved me to tears in quite the same way. Its like i recognize the beings in these photos from dreams or past lives or something. Anyway, here are some examples:
this is his website




I would also like to mention the wonderful time I had at Dragon Con over the weekend. I attended all the Adult Swim and cartoon related panels, which were educational and entertaining. I learned about 2 other conventions coming up that i would like to attend in the future:

Illuxcon 2009 Fantastic Arts Symposium
Guests of honor include 2 more of my favorite artists, Julie Bell and Boris Vallejo.
This takes place November 12th - 15th in Altoona, Pennsylvania.

Animation Super Con 2009
Guests of honor include voice actors from like half of my favorite cartoons, and artists from many more.
This takes place October 2nd - 4th in Miami, Florida.

Mark Rothko came up in relation to Hillary's work. "One of the preeminent artists of his generation, Mark Rothko is closely identified with the New York School, a circle of painters that emerged during the 1940s as a new collective voice in American art. During a career that spanned five decades, he created a new and impassioned form of abstract painting. Rothko's work is characterized by rigorous attention to formal elements such as color, shape, balance, depth, composition, and scale; yet, he refused to consider his paintings solely in these terms. He explained: It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted. This is the essence of academicism. There is no such thing as good painting about nothing."

http://www.nga.gov/feature/rothko/

I will periodically post links and images to artists that were referenced in class. First up Richard Diebenkorn- visit http://www.diebenkorn.org/bio/bio.html

Minamata disease: mercury poisoning

I have lived as an ordinary person with a boring job without any art influence until I started taking classes in this school. So the influence I had was not culturally related to here.

As an expatriate living in a different country without my parents, I tried to connect to my origin or my past experience through my art. My father speaks Japanese and he had a collection of Japanese books. I would look at the pictures of the encyclopedia and would have nightmares from some of the pictures in the books. My parents themselves went through two wars-World War II and Korean war- when they were young. Their hard life stories combined with the pictures left me with intense feeling when it comes to human biological victims.

The pictures I could find on the net are not the best ones. I assume that this is the incidence that not many people are proud of what happened to those who were affected by mercury poisoning, Minamata disease.

http://www.terradaily.com/reports/50_Years_On_Echoes_Of_Tragic_Past_Haunt_Japans_Minamata_City.html

http://whyfiles.org/201mercury/

Yoochung Hilliard

art festival this weekend

I thought this might interest you. it looks like a fun opportunity to see some local artists and not break the bank. enjoy!

3rd Annual Atlanta Arts Festival

Saturday, Sep 12 10:00a to 7:00p

at Piedmont Park, Atlanta, GA

The Atlanta Arts Festival is set against the stunning backdrop of historic Piedmont Park and features over 200 artists from around the country, live demonstrations, entertainment, hands-on activities, festival food, beverages and more. The artist market is free and open to the public.

Peter Lik

Peter Lik is a landscape photographer who taught himself everything he knows about photography. he captures the natural light but it seems like the image and the colors of it are inhanced.
I have been to 2 of his galleries, one in Las Vegas and the other in Miami.
My boyfriend also purchased an original, so to see these in person is really amazing because you cant believe how intense the colors are. They look like there is no way he could capture something so beautiful.
go check out his images on his website: peterlik.com
they are really awesome!
Hillary

wangechi mutu

Wangechi Mutu is an artist I discovered while taking a Women's Studies class. Her work inspires mine through her concept and technique. Wangechi Mutu uses collage as a means of both physically and conceptually bringing layered depth to her work. Using images cut from fashion magazines, National Geographic, and books about African art, Mutu pieces together figures which are both elegant and perverse. Individual body parts comprised of found 'objects' are made to seem like odd prosthetics glued over torsos and limbs drawn in ink.

Experimental Media Painting Group on Yahoo

This group helps discover and explore creative new techniques in experimental, nonrepresentational media painting and mixed media art. Members explore creative techniques, such as layering to create complex buildup of transparent and translucent depth and surface luminosity, lifting and scraping to reveal texture and underlayers, glazing, controlled pouring and blotting, imprinting, rubbings, and use of shapes.

To join just write a few words about your interest in the group.

link: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ExperimentalMediaPainting/


Pascal

Modern Persian Artist

Recently over the summer I started looking into Persian art and discovered one of the well known Artist, Mahmoud Farshchian. In Iran his name and art are as well known as Georgia O'Keffe in america. He is the only Persian Artist that I have seen imported, tangiably present portfolios, in the U.S. Although, only in an Iranian custom store. I have been exposed to a lot of persian design and mass-produced work, considering half of my house is decorated by them: I grew up looking at the hand made patterns on traditional persian rugs. When I saw Farshchian's work I noticed that he took those traditional patterns and gestures and turned them in to modern oil paintings. Transitioning the idea of patterns from craft in to a Fine Art. Here are some examples...

movement and form

Looking at Inka Essenhigh's work reinforces my inspiration to create movement with connective lines.  check her out...http://www.inka-essenhigh.com.

I love her smooth techniques with oil.  She retains fluidity throughout every piece, despite the subject she chooses.  Usually I stay away from painting people (just a preference really, I have no legitimate reason...), but I like how she depicts them.  There's no standard for how she paints them... they are simply an additional product of her style.

Jess Patrylo.