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Abigail McEwan Lisa Milroy Canadian–British painter, born in Vancouver. She settled in London in the late 1970s, studying at *St Martin's School of Art and *Goldsmiths College. She achieved fame in the 1980s for paintings in which everyday objects were arranged in a grid pattern against an off-white background. These paintings were marked by a remarkable balance between a painterly surface and a vivid, almost illusionistic representation of the textural qualities of objects.

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Abigail McEwan Lisa Milroy Canadian–British painter, born in Vancouver. She settled in London in the late 1970s, studying at *St Martin's School of Art and *Goldsmiths College. She achieved fame in the 1980s for paintings in which everyday objects were arranged in a grid pattern against an off-white background. These paintings were marked by a remarkable balance between a painterly surface and a vivid, almost illusionistic representation of the textural qualities of objects.

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David Hockney is an English painter born in July 1937 in Bradford. To this day, Hockney is considered one of the most influential British artists of the 20th century and not just because of his exceptional paintings, but the man is also renowned for his famous collages.
I love the detail that Hockney is able to portray through his art therefore creating more depth within the canvas.

May Blossom on the Roman Road - 2009
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Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa
(24 November 1864 – 9 September 1901), also known as Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was a French painter, printmaker, draughtsman, caricaturist, and illustrator whose immersion in the colourful and theatrical life of Paris in the late 19th century allowed him to produce a collection of enticing, elegant, and provocative images of the modern, sometimes decadent, affairs of those times. Toulouse-Lautrec is among the best-known painters of the Post-Impressionist period, with Cézanne, Van Gogh, and Gauguin. In a 2005 auction at Christie's auction house, La Blanchisseuse, his early painting of a young laundress, sold for US$22.4 million and set a new record for the artist for a price at auction.

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Fiona Rae was born in October 1963 in Hong Kong and studied at Croydon College of Art and Goldsmiths College after she moved to England in 1970. She is best known for her paintings of ‘abstract forms, bright colours and hypnotic designs’ and by 1988, Rae’s work was featured in an art exhibition called ‘Freeze’ ran by Damien Hirst.
In my opinion, I really like the abstract style that Rae portrays and the fantasy element that she is able to include through the use of paint.

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Fiona Rae, Born on October 10, 1963 in Hong Kong, China, she went on to study art at Goldsmith’s College, where she met many other future YBAs. Rae’s works are held in the permanent collections of the Hirshorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., the Tate Gallery in London, and the Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art in Oslo. Rae lives and works in London, England.

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Fiona Rae, Born on October 10, 1963 in Hong Kong, China, she went on to study art at Goldsmith’s College, where she met many other future YBAs. Rae’s works are held in the permanent collections of the Hirshorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., the Tate Gallery in London, and the Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art in Oslo. Rae lives and works in London, England.

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Jenny Saville paints female nudes in extreme states of grotesque exaggeration—deformed, obese, brutalized, or mutilated—working against the male-dominated history of idealized portraits of women. “I want to be a painter of modern life, and modern bodies,” she says. The morbidity of Saville’s human subjects, often bleeding or violently gripping their own flesh, bears a stark resemblance to her portraits of butchered animals, both grotesque and objectified. Working in a style with various links to Lucien Freud and Peter Paul Rubens,Saville takes many of her themes and subjects from a critical observation of everyday people—American women in shopping malls, patients being prepped for liposuction, and even her childhood piano teacher. “I was fascinated by the way her two breasts would become one,” she says of the latter, “the way her fat moved, the way it hung on the back of her arms.”

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Jenny Saville paints female nudes in extreme states of grotesque exaggeration—deformed, obese, brutalized, or mutilated—working against the male-dominated history of idealized portraits of women. “I want to be a painter of modern life, and modern bodies,” she says. The morbidity of Saville’s human subjects, often bleeding or violently gripping their own flesh, bears a stark resemblance to her portraits of butchered animals, both grotesque and objectified. Working in a style with various links to Lucien Freud and Peter Paul Rubens,Saville takes many of her themes and subjects from a critical observation of everyday people—American women in shopping malls, patients being prepped for liposuction, and even her childhood piano teacher. “I was fascinated by the way her two breasts would become one,” she says of the latter, “the way her fat moved, the way it hung on the back of her arms.”

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As well as sketching performers on stage, Walter Sickert also commonly drew audience members. Despite the ornamentation of the theatre, the figures in this drawing are dressed in quite modest clothes, which indicates that the location may be a music hall. Previously this work has been catalogued as a drawing of Vernet’s, a cabaret café on the Quai Henri IV in Dieppe. However, other studies and paintings of Vernet’s suggest that the café was on one level, without a balcony or boxes, which would discount it as the location for this study. Sickert has drawn in ink and used it quite thickly on the figures in the middle so that it has come through on the reverse.

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Gerhard Richter is a German painter who works mainly within the themes of abstraction and realism, which are two very juxtaposing styles. He was born in 1932 in Dresden, Germany- as a child, he was encouraged by his mother to engage in draftmanship. At the age of 16, the artist quit school and found an apprenticeship as a set painter for a theatre, which allowed him to practise his painting abilities. In 1951, Richter attended the Kunstakademie in Dresden (an art academy in Germany). Since his two uncles died in war and his father lost his job, Richter began to seek creative inspiration within any political or religious affairs at the time.
After researching Gerhard Richter, I would like to experiment with bright colours and different materials and techniques in order to create an abstract style within my work as it is a style that I haven’t ventured in before and I think it would be interesting to see the outcome.

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Lisa Milroy is an Anglo-Canadian artist born in January 1959 and she is best known for her still life paintings of everyday objects places in either lines or patterns. However, the content of her artwork does vary as she has produced paintings of landscapes, buildings and portraits. When she was 18, Milroy studied at Paris-Sorbonne University and a year later she moved to London and studied at Saint Martin’s School of Art. During her career as an artist, Milroy has achieved a selection of awards, for example in 1989 she won the John Moores Painting Prize.
I have looked into this artist because I like her particular style and how she paints a range of things from animals to clothes and shoes, as a result of this I would like to include this diversity into my own sketchbook.

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Jenny Saville
Plan
1993
Oil on canvas
She was born in Cambridge in 1970, only passing through, and has never been back. Both parents were teaching there. At the time, her father was a primary school head who then started zooming up the educational ladder to become an Inspector, and eventually a Director of Education. All this meant criss-crossing the country and 15 different schools for Jenny. She has an older brother, Geoff, a pig farmer in Shropshire, and a young brother, Waz, 15, and younger sister, Boo, 14, both still at school. (Waz from Chas, ie Charles. Boo from Becky Boo, ie Rebecca. Easy, really.)

Moving around made her grow up fast, and she is wise for her age. 'By the time I was 13, I could tell when I arrived at each new school which group I would end up with. It was never the ones who took me over and were immediately helpful, but the ones at the back, saying nothing.' At her final school, a comprehensive in Newark, Nottinghamshire, she was made school captain, elected democractically, she stresses.

Her parents presumed she would go to university. She was good at most subjects, and sat four A-levels, but since the age of eight painting had been her passion. 'There were only two of us taking A-level art, so we had the art room to ourselves - I went wild.' Neither parent is artistic, but an uncle is an art teacher and had always encouraged her. It was he who said she should try Glasgow College of Art, where he had been.

fact: Jenny and her partners way of relaxation was watching rangers at home.

Jenny Saville's work are more likely to be remembered by the viewers as they break the norm of what is comfortable to look at. These paintings allow people to be witness to truth albeit in a harsh way. Everything in this painting makes people want to both look away but also to look more, almost daring people to look for longer.

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Lisa Milroy-Records (1989

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Born April 22nd 1922, Portland Oregon. He moved to San Francisco when he was two. Passion for art started at the age of 2.Entered Stanford University studied art and found a passion for oil paints.Inspired by Edward hopperServed in the marines in the 1940sDeveloped his own style of abstract expressionist paintings.

After ww2 he enrolled into san Francisco’s art instituteThroughout his life he travelled to many places and became inspired by many places and tended to focus on landscapes in an abstract form.

However in the 1960s he explored life drawings using pencil and paints. Again in a abstract form and normally focused on peoples bodies outlining them with harsh dark colours. Tended to ignore the face.Showing the beauty of the person even though they didn’t have an identity.

in my opinion his work shows the beauty of the female body. through black and white images of naked women in very open positions. I like his work because it isn't off putting or awkward even though he uses naked women which can make people feel uncomfortable. it just shows beauty.

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Maja wronska was born in 1989. She graduated Warsaw University of technology, architecture faculty. She was born and bred in Poland. So a lot of her inspiration is Polish architecture. As well as many other European buildings. Another big inspiration for her work is her mother, an architect. When Maja was young her mother would encourage Maja to colour in her drawings of buildings for clients. So Maja would be proud of her work inspiring her now to continue with architectural drawing and paintings.

When creating her pieces she draws them as a very detailed drawing. Then colours them in with watercolour, which tends to be an unpredictable medium. However she is able to control it very well, turning ordinary scenes into incredible explosive scenes. She uses watercolour instead of other mediums like acrylic or oil because it’s ‘cleaner’ which is very different to other people’s opinions. So she is a watercolour artist in architect and freelance illustrator.

My favourite piece of her work is Queensboro Bridge. I like how she is able to use warm and cold colours to create depth to the piece. She is able to make the painting look explosive but not messy. Colliding the colours into each other so they are able to flow into each other. We see her do this with many other paintings like, projecto curadoria and other architectural drawings. There’s an example of one of her drawings before it is painted. This shows you how well drawn and detailed the drawings are before she colours them in. showing the talent and passion she has for architectural drawing. She is truly inspiring in the fact she able to create amazing pieces with a hard medium to use and to draw spectacular drawings before.

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Paul Cezanne-Pyramid of Skulls(1901)

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L.S Lowry was born on November 1st 1887 and died February 23rd 1976. He was an English artist, who lived and worked in Lancashire. Hence the many landscape pieces that are depict the town. While he was growing up the industrial revolution was happening therefore a lot of change was happening around him in the town for the good and the bad. So he based most of his work on the industrial district in North West England. As a child his parents we very introverted and did not give him enough attention that decreased even more when his mother turned ill. In 1909 he moved to Pendlebury where he developed on more on his work and focused on the textile mills based there. After leaving school he got a job collecting rents. However during lunch he would go to the local park to practice his artistic skills and after work he attended art classes. In 1905 aged 18 he attended Manchester school of art and studied under a French impressionist. Then in 1915 he went to a royal technical institute till 1925. Here is where he developed an interest for industrial landscape. He then went on to create amazing pieces that have left a legacy now worth millions of pounds. As well as leaving new artists inspired by his work.

His style of art developed over the years. His best known pieces is urban art pieces, where the people in the mysterious landscapes tend to look like stick men. Some of his other includes brooding portraits and unpublished marionette. In his landscape pieces are mainly painted in oil paints. To give much more of a darker and mysterious, flat look.  Throughout his career he bases most of his work on urban/industrial landscapes. Also known as naïve his because the people in his pieces don’t have faces and tend to be like stickmen. However he is able to make each person in the pieces have character and contrast to the background of the run down industrial life at that time. He is able to show the business of a working town through the way he overpopulates mysterious dark run down places.

In my opinion I think that Lowry’s work is dark and mysterious. I like the fact he is able to take a normal boring rundown landscape and make it into a place full of emotion and character. Mainly through the way he has painted the people in the landscape. By using stick men instead of fully detailed people, compared to the buildings in the background that have lots of detail in them. It allows the viewer to imagine more about the scene. Bringing the piece to life and connecting with the viewer.

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Georgia O’Keeffe  (November 15, 1887 – March 6, 1986) is best known for her paintings of magnified flowers, animal skulls, and New Mexico desert landscapes. O'Keeffe created many forms of abstract art, including close-ups of flowers, that many found to represent women's genitalia, although O'Keeffe consistently denied that intention. I like the concept of zooming in on small things most of O'Keeffe's work focuses on. The idea of focusing on otherwise unnoticed objects in minute detail is the part I like about her work.

'precisionism'

Blue Morning Glories
1935
oil on canvas

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David Hockney-The Road to York Through Sledgmere (1997)

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Euan Uglow, “The Quarry Pignano” (1979-80)

Euan Uglow was born in 1932 in London. As a child, he lived in Tulse Hill in south London, where his father was an accountant. Uglow went to the local grammar school in Tulse Hill, Afterwards he studied at  Camberwell school of artfrom 1948 to 1950, during a time when Camberwell students studied under artists such as Victor Pasmore, Laurence Gowing, John Minton, and .William Coldstream. Uglow was influenced by Coldstream whilst at Camberwell, although he believed that another tutor there, the painter Claude Rodgers, was more significant in his development. Nonetheless, when Coldstream left Camberwell to teach at the Slade School of Art in 1951, Uglow followed him, and remained a student at the Slade until 1954.

Refusing compulsory military service, Uglow was registered as a conscientious objector in 1954, and spent two years undertaking community work, assisting in the restoration of a war-damaged church by Christopher Wren in the City of London, redecorating the house of the artist Patrick George, and helping on a farm in Surrey

Success in art was not immediate, and he did not sell a painting until eight years after leaving art school. During this time he took a variety of part-time teaching jobs, most notably at the Slade from 1961, an institution with which he was to be associated for the rest of his life.

I think that Euan's work is incredibly aesthetically pleasing and I would enjoy trying to replicate the style of his paintings.

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Andrew Loomis (1892 -1959) — Blond In White Evening Dress (602x800)

William Andrew Loomis (15 June 1892–25 May 1959), better known simply as Andrew Loomis, was an American illustrator, author, and art instructor. His commercial work was featured prominently in advertising and magazines; however, Loomis is best known as author of a series of instructional art books printed throughout the 20th century. Long after his death, Loomis' realistic style has continued to influence popular artists.

Fact: Andrew Loomis served in World War I

I enjoy the contrast of Andrew and Jenny's work, the portrayal of how they see women is very different and would be a great concept to explore. Andrew's paintings always look smooth and almost angelic and the overall aesthetic of the paintings is enjoyable.

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Cindy Sherman is an American photographer and film director born on the 19th January 1954. She is best known for her conceptual portraits- portraits which illustrates an idea and meaning with a hidden subtext. She was born in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, and was the youngest of five children. In 1972, Sherman enrolled in the visual arts department at Buffalo State College, where she began painting. During this time, she began to explore the ideas which became a hallmark of her work: She dressed herself as different characters, cobbled together from thrift-store clothing.
I like the poses in which Sherman does as it portrays a sense of power. I will reflect on her idea of presenting and taking photographs in my work and hope to follow in a similar direction, however, using oil painting for the final piece and in expressive colours rather than black and white.

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He was born in Neath in 1963, where he still works. He uses pallet knife for his paintings of landscapes.  He is a completely self-taught painter that was inspired by the rural landscapes. When he first started his career he used watercolours but in recent years oil paints have proven to show more movement in his work.  Most his work is contemporary art based on the east boarder of the UK.

My favourite piece is waterfall near Lake Ogwen. By using pallet knife he was able to show the movement of the river through the rocks. Showing the native wildness. I like the technique he used to paint this piece and all his other piece because they are detailed but only through the way he uses and colour and the direction he put the paint on to the canvas.

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He was born in 1938 in rugby Warwickshire. Then attended rugby Warwickshire polytechnic and York school of art. He work is mainly contemporary using oil and water colours. He aims to capture everyday British urban life in his landscapes and portraits. Some of his favourite places to paint are Warwickshire, Lancashire and Derbyshire.

In my opinion he is able to show all kinds of emotions through his work like humour and romance. Which are influenced by his naive looking characters in his rural and urban paintings. That seem to be faded like it is on a foggy day but still olds lots of detail. I would like to do some pieces inspired by his work.

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Nobuyoshi Araki (photographer)

Nobuyoshi Araki ( May 25th 1940) is a Japanese photographer and contemporary artist. His work features subjects such as flowers, Kinbaku (the Japanese art of rope-tying), and Tokyo street scenes, Nobuyoshi Araki Themes of love, sex, death, consumption, natural beauty, and femininity-which have inspired Araki since his days as a student of film and photography in the early 1960's. Araki uses photography to enhance and record the strong emotional reactions he has to the subject of life and death. The meticulous detail and vibrancy of the detail of the flowers is what I like about Arakis photos of flowers. Flat black backgrounds help the flowers to stand forward and add to the drama captured. "Photography is about a single point of a moment. It's like stopping time. As everything gets condensed in that forced instant. But if you keep creating these points, they form a line which reflects your life."- Nobuyoshi Araki

Untitled (from the series: Flowers)

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George Brookshaw

George Brookshaw was born in Birmingham in 1751 and died in London in 1823. He and his brother trained as artisans. Apprenticed in his youth to Samuel Troughton, a Birmingham painter and ‘japanner’, George ran away in 1767. Nothing else is known of these formative years. In 1778 he married the daughter of a wealthy Birmingham gunsmith, and around the same time he established a London workshop. He mainly made painted and stove-japanned furniture for the top ranks of society. In the mid 1790s Brookshaw’s personal circumstances changed once again, and he left the furniture trade for good. Ever resourceful, he used his draughtsman’s skills to become a professional botanical illustrator. The still life element of Brookshaw’s botanical illustrations I like- he paints flowers, plants and fruit on blank backgrounds.

Plums
handcolored aquatint
1812

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Voka, born 1965, lives and works in the Lower Austrian town of Puchberg am Schneeberg. He coined the term "Spontaneous Realism" as a trademark for his art. Voka defines this style as a revival of the significance of contemporary art, a valued tradition in a new era, with a new interpretation reflecting today ́s spirit of the time

"I'm ever searching for the perfect painting. But always hoping not to find it - because it's the search that I really love so much."

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AHe was born 30th august 1950. He went to university of Cambridge, Saint Martin’s school of art and Slade School of fine art. He and his family lived in Hampstead garden suburbs. During his gap years he travelled to India and Sri Lanka to learn about Buddhism. His work mostly subjects the human body, “an attempt to materialise the place at the other side of appearance where we live.” His work is symbolic and indexical, by showing real event of a real body in time. To show how man can be effected by nature like the angel of the north being changed by the weather.

I think that I could use his work as inspiration for man vs nature because, he has elements of that in his work. For example “another place” which is cast iron of figures on the sea front. Showing a full battle of manmade things and men themselves fighting and being defeated by the tide.

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Mathild nivet was born in 1983 in bourges france. Now she livesand works in paris and graduated from superior school and applied for duperrre in textile design. Since then she has worked for big names like timberland , lacoste  and  la monde. Specialising in a multitude of thigns like window decorations and collages. She is known to be intricate and innovative.Mathild work is best known for paper architecture exhibitions that showcase beautiful buildings lite up showing the inside of the buildings. So the audience can see the beauty inside and out. By showingshadows of people and furniture covered by different coloured tissue to give each window a different personality.

In my opinion mathild nivet shows a fun and colourful side of architecture. By using the contrast between colour and black card it highlights her work. If I was to do 3d work I would like to highlight ceritain features of my work like she does. To make the piece stand out.

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Born 1934 Northampton. Attended the Northampton school of art. As an artist she focuses on mainly on industrial landscape to combine colour and the observation of life. In her carer she won the honoray citizen of dallas  in 1985 in ability to capture the atmospehere and colour of scene.

In my opinion her work mainly focuses on the atomosphere but somehow akes things seem very sad. By making it look very foggy. However due to this atmosphere making the painting stand out in a different way to a beautiful painting. It makes the audience see the deeper meaning behind it that personal to them.

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by William Coldstream
Oil on canvas, 1016 x 1270 mm (40 x 50 in)
Purchased from the artist via Anthony d’Offay (Knapping Fund) 1976

Born in Belford, Northumberland, in northern England, the son of a country doctor, Coldstream grew up in London where he was privately educated. He studied at the Slade School of Fine Art between 1926 and 1929. In 1931 he joined the London Artists' Association and then, two years later, the London Group. In 1934, Coldstream joined the GPO Film Unit to make documentary films with John Grierson. During his time with the GPO, Coldstream worked alongside W.H. Auden, Benjamin Britten and Barnett Freedman but also continued to paint. In 1937, with some financial support from Kenneth Clark, Coldstream returned to painting on a full-time basis. Later that year he co-founded the Euston Road School with Graham Bell, Victor Pasmore and Claude Rogers, having previously been involved in the short-lived Objective Abstraction movement.Coldstream's earlier years were characterized by a dedicated engagement with socialist ideals, and by the pursuit of a non-elitist form of art. To this end, he supported the Mass Observation social survey of Britain and participated in their 1938 painting trip to Bolton.

fact: William Coldstream taught Euan Uglow

William Coldstreams work is very 'unfinished' looking and as I enjoy rough work id enjoy trying to replicate the work at a life drawing session I attend

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Lucian Freud Lying by the Rags 1989–1990
Oil on canvas
138.7 x 184.1 cm

© The Artist
Astrup Fearnley Collection,
Oslo, Norway

Lucian Michael Freud ,8 December 1922 – 20 July 2011, was a British painter and draftsman, specializing in figurative art, and is known as one of the foremost 20th-century portraitists.

He was born in Berlin, the son of Jewish architect Ernst L. Freud and the grandson of Sigmund Freud. His family moved to Britain in 1933 to escape the rise of Nazism. From 1942-43 he attended Goldsmiths College, London. He enlisted in the Merchant Navy during the Second World War.

His early career as a painter was influenced by surrealism, but by the early 1950s his often stark and alienated paintings tended towards realism. Freud was an intensely private and guarded man, and his paintings, completed over a 60-year career, are mostly of friends and family. They are generally sombre and thickly impastoed, often set in unsettling interiors and urban landscapes. The works are noted for their psychological penetration and often discomforting examination of the relationship between artist and model. Freud worked from life studies, and was known for asking for extended and punishing sittings from his models.

just like the works of Jenny Saville his work challenges the viewer but also the model. I could use his work very much so in trying to make the viewers of my art question it or try

fact: Lucian's work derives from/ is inspired from Rubens pieces.

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Francis Bacon (28 October 1909 – 28 April 1992) was an Irish-born British figurative painter known for his bold, grotesque, emotionally charged, raw imagery. He is best known for his depictions of popes, crucifixions and portraits of close friends. His abstracted figures are typically isolated in geometrical cage like spaces, set against flat, nondescript backgrounds. Bacon said that he saw images "in series", and his work typically focuses on a single subject for sustained periods, often in triptych or diptych formats. His output can be broadly described as sequences or variations on a single motif; beginning with the 1930s Picasso-informed Furies, moving on to the 1940s male heads isolated in rooms or geometric structures, the 1950s screaming popes, and the mid-to-late 1950s animals and lone figures, the 1960s portraits of friends, the nihilistic 1970s self-portraits, and the cooler more technical 1980s late works.

even though Francis bacons work is abstract I still enjoy the movement he has incorporated within his life drawings.

fact: Francis Bacon use to be a professional gambler

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She was born in Cornwall. Attended Falmouth and Chelsea colleges of and art as well as Cornwall college . She then moved to London and became a wildlife illustrator. When she moved to the west coast she’s developed a love for the landscape. At first she painted in an impressionistic style with water colour but change to oil paints later on. Now she spends hours of her day walking through the country side to experience and observe the landscape on every level.

I like her work because it has a rustic feel to it. With a slight impressionist look she shows the detail of the land up close and far away. Showing aspect of the landscape. I really like how she shows the beauty in the land but in a calm way. She uses strong colours but allows them to mix in with each like the sky and the wildlife are moving in sink. In my piece I would like to represent the calmness in nature that Amanda has in her work.

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He was born in 1930 and went to Sidcup school of art and royal collage of art. He won many award in his career for his contemporary art like the royal academician in 1974.  Many of his painting are Kent and Sussex due to the beautiful landscape. In his painting he uses light and dark to represent the calmness of nature and to show the audience the beauty around them. He personally doesn’t care about the representation aspect of the work he only looks for the response from other people.

I like how he uses light and dark in his, because at first glance all you think is that the painting is dark. However when you closer you start to notice subtle bits of colour and light. I love the how he represents calmness in a different way to Amanda Hoskins but still makes the audience feel at piece.

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Jan Brueghel the Younger (13 September 1601 – 1 September 1678) was a Flemish painter best known for being the son of Jan Brueghel the Elder and grandson of Pieter Brueghel the Elder. His Baroque landscapes, allegories, and mythological scenes were made with light tones and are highly detailed. Born on September 13, 1601 in Antwerp, Belgium, the artist was trained by his father and often made copies of his father’s works, which he later sold. Brueghel made commissions for both the French court and the Austrian court before returning to Antwerp, where he collaborated on paintings with Peter Paul Rubens and David Teniers the Younger, among others. Brueghel died on September 1, 1678 in Antwerp, Belgium. Today, his works are in the collections of the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, the Prado Museum in Madrid, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, and the Courtauld Institute of Art in London, among others. I like the way that the light is cast onto the flowers at the front, and the flowers at the back of the arrangement are darker and have more tone.

probably 1620s

Oil on wood
a basket of flowers

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Mark Catesby (24 March 1683 – 23 December 1749) was an English naturalist. Between 1729 and 1747 Catesby published his Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands, the first published account of the flora and fauna of North America. It included 220 plates of birds, reptiles and amphibians, fish, insects, and mammals, as well as plants. Catesby had collected seeds and botanical specimens in Virginia and Jamaica. He sent the pressed specimens to Doctors for research. I like the simplistic, yet detailed drawings Catesby has produced.

Rana Aquatica, The Water-Frog, 1754

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Lowell Blair Nesbitt (October 4, 1933 - July 8, 1993) was a painter, draughtsman, printmaker and sculptor. The array of botanical works by Nesbitt most likely would not have been created had it had not been for the beckoning of fellow artist Robert Indiana, who, in 1962, after viewing some of Lowell Nesbitt's abstract paintings drawings and prints, suggested that he attempt to make a conversion from the abstraction which Nesbitt’s career had been focused on pre-1962, to the style of realism. Nesbitt was often classified as a Photorealist artist, though he fought inclusion with this group of artists throughout his career. Nesbitt established himself as an artist who could employ both diversity of technique and subject matter while creating paintings, drawings and prints using studio interiors, articles of clothing, piles of shoes, x-ray figures (Nesbitt was the first highly recognized artist to use this subject matter since the artists of the New Zealand region unknowingly painted "x-ray style" figures at the early portion of the last millennium), caverns, ruins, landscapes, flowers, groupings of fruits and vegetables, and electronic components (he is credited for being the first artist to use computer parts as subject matter for his artwork). He also used his pet dogs in addition to birds, reptiles, various mammals and the Neoclassical facades of SoHo's 19th century cast-iron buildings and several of Manhattan's major bridges, in addition to a number of series in which he incorporated numerous Victorian staircases, and other interior scenes as subject matter for his artwork.

Pink rose

1970

Oil on canvas

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Nicolas Baudesson, a French flower painter, was born about 1611, and received into the Academy in 1671. He died at Paris in 1680, leaving a son, Jean François Baudesson, born in Paris in 1640, who was also a painter of flowers and fruit. The younger Baudesson became a member of the Academy in 1689, and died in Paris in 1713. All of Baudesson’s work is paintings of flower arrangements. I like the vibrancy, detail and realism in his paintings.

Flowers in a Glass Vase

oil on canvas

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Vincent Van Gogh
'The starry night'

Van Gogh is a Dutch Impressionist painter. This particular painting is an oil painting inspired by the east- facing window of the room of his asylum. Gogh was a very troubled painter who eventually ended his own life in July 1890, after his most productive year of painting.

Personally I like Gogh's use of colour and how he applies the paint to the canvas. He manages to create a wonderful image and turns his pain into beauty.

To me Van Gogh is one of the best painters who ever lived, despite having only ever sold one painting in his life time. To turn his torment into vibrant pieces of art that capture the beauty of what it means to be alive, is truly remarkable.

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He was born on 8th February 1891 in London. His father was a Scottish wine merchant that moved his family to London to peruse his business. John was an only child and was mainly homes school. His father influence his decision to go into art due to his large collection of water colours. His family’s wealth helped him experience the world by traveling to different places to see paintings, building and new landscapes. This made him want to create five volumes of books that consisted of criticising other artist work. Due to his extensive knowledge of the art world. His work is quite impressionistic and tends to revolve around water colour.

In my opinion his work is very detailed but doesn’t have a hidden meaning behind it like so many artist do. His work is just beautiful and focuses on the detail of the piece rather than what it convey to the reader. He shows the amazing building men have created and how they fit perfectly with its surrounding. I would like to convey some these point in my work to represent how buildings and wildlife can mix together.

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John Maclauchlan Milne (1885-1957) was encouraged by his father - the Scottish landscape painter Joseph Milne. His father's influence is apparent in his early work, before his style was transformed by the Scottish Colourists and modern French painters, particularly Cézanne. During the First World War Maclauchlan Milne left his home in Dundee to fight in France on the Western Front. France had a strong impression on the young artist. From 1919-1932 he spent long periods in France. At the outbreak of the Second World War, Maclauchlan Milne returned to Scotland and settled at High Corrie on the isle of Arran. Here he painted the whitewashed cottages, the little jetty below the village and Goat Fell, the highest peak on the island. He died in Arran in 1957.Maclauchlan Milne exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy, at the Glasgow Institute and showed works in London and New York. A Centenary exhibition of his work was held at Dundee Art Gallery and Museum in 1985 and a Retrospective Exhibition was held at Portland Gallery in 2010. I like the way this artist paints, but I don’t like how he paints still life arrangements as they lack detail.

still life of flowers
oil on canvas
signed and dated

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Walter Hood Fitch (28 February 1817 – 1892) was a botanical illustrator, born in Glasgow, Scotland, who executed some 10,000 drawings for various publications. Fitch was involved in fabric printing from the age of 17 and took to botanical art after meeting William Jackson Hooker, Regius Professor of Botany, a competent botanical illustrator, and the editor of Curtis's Botanical Magazine. Fitch's first lithograph of Mimulus roseus appeared in the Botanical Magazine in 1834, and he soon became its sole artist. In 1841 W.J. Hooker became director of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and Fitch moved to London. After 1841 Fitch was the sole artist for all official and unofficial publications issued by Kew; his work was paid for by Hooker personally. It was not unusual for him to work on several different publications simultaneously; he could draw directly onto the lithographic stone to save time. These chromolithographs were based on botanical illustrations provided by Hooker and others, and produced some of his most spectacular results.. I like the vibrancy and detail of the lily- and the flat off white background.

Lily

1880

colour lithograph

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He was born on 25th July 1956 in Cheshire. He is known to be a sculptor, photographer and environmentalist, he combined these to make his famous land art. His father was a professor for applied mathematics at the University of Leeds. So Andy grew up near Harrogate and Leeds. Form just 13 he started work on a farm as a labourer. Now uses the repetition he learnt from farm tasks in his work now. In 1974 to 1975 he studied fine art at Bradford College of art then at Preston polytechnic from 1975 to 1978. After he graduated he moved to Lancashire and Cumbria. However in later years he slowly move to the north finding himself in Scotland, due to the way of life her had there that he didn’t have complete control over. In his career he relies heavily on photography for his sculpture. Due them being land art. They will normally break due to wind or melt or die. So he has to take picture and videos to show people his amazing sculpture.

In my opinion Andy is able to make beautiful things out stuff we see all the time in nature and don’t care about. Like dying leaves he is able to put them together and pile them up to make things, in some cases, glow. Showing how beautiful nature can be. For my personal investigation I would like to create land art like Andy Goldsworthy to show the beauty of nature and how men influence it in good and bad ways.

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Dominic Harris

Dominic Harris (born November 16, 1976) is a British artist and architect primarily concerned with interaction, video, and light. Dominic Harris was born in London on 16 November 1976, and grew up in London, Brussels, and Michigan before returning to London in 1995. Harris attended the Cranbrook Kingswood Upper School, and then trained as an architect at the Bartlett School of Architecture. Harris designs and fabricates his artworks at Cinimod Studio, a multi-disciplinary practice he founded in 2007. This studio consists of 26 people with diverse backgrounds including architecture, product design, electronics, programming, graphic design, and workshop skills. Harris uses the resources of Cinimod Studio for the ongoing development, prototyping and production of his artworks. Harris also oversees the studio’s international projects where his fascinations are translated into larger scale projects that span residential, retail, and public art projects. In 2015, Harris was granted permission by the Walt Disney Company to use their Intellectual Property for the purpose of making new interactive artworks. This method of creating art means the colours, realism and tones of the subject can all be altered. I particularly like dramatic feel of this piece created by the light cast on the dandelion. Most of his pieces feature a single flower, on a black background with the tones and shadows creating a depth not usually seen in natural light.

Dandelion-Bloomed,

2016
Industrial LCD Screen, Custom Electronics and Software, Sensor, Blackened Aluminium, Acrylic.

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Marcel Dyf   (French, 1899–1985)

Marcel Dyf (born Marcel Dreyfus, 7 October 1899–15 September 1985) was a French impressionist painter. Marcel Dyf was born Marcel Dreyfus on 7 October 1899 in Paris. He grew up in Normandy, in the towns of Ault, Deauville and Trouville. He started a career as an engineer but soon decided to become a painter. In 1922, he moved to Arles, where he was trained as a painter and set up a studio. He painted frescoes in the city halls of Saint-Martin-de-Crau and Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer. He also painted frescoes in the Museon Arlaten and in the dining hall of the Collège Ampère, both of which are in Arles. He also designed windows inside the Église Saint-Louis in Marseille. In 1935, he moved to Maximilien Luce's old studio on the Avenue du Maine in Paris. By 1940, because of the German invasion of France during the Second World War, he returned to Arles. He quickly joined the French Resistance in Corrèze and the Dordogne. He later moved back to Paris and finally moved in Saint-Paul-de-Vence. However, in the 1950s, he started wintering in Paris and summering in Cannes, where he attracted the attention of American art collectors. His work was exhibited and sold at the Petrides Gallery, the Salon d’Automne, the Salon des Tuileries and the Salon des Artistes Français in Paris as well as galleries in Cannes, Nice, Marseille and Strasbourg. Overseas, it was exhibited at the Frost & Reed Gallery in London. I dislike the messy way the paint is applied- I don’t feel that impasto works for detailed still life arrangements.

'Roses et Anthomis'

Signed oil on canvas

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Lucian Michael Freud 8 December 1922 – 20 July 2011) was a British painter and draftsman, specializing in figurative art, and is known as one of the foremost 20th-century portraitists.He was born in Berlin, the son of Jewish architect Ernst L. Freud and the grandson of Sigmund Freud. His family moved to Britain in 1933 to escape the rise of Nazism. From 1942-43 he attended Goldsmiths College, London. He enlisted in the Merchant Navy during the Second World War.His early career as a painter was influenced by surrealism, but by the early 1950s his often stark and alienated paintings tended towards realism.[1] Freud was an intensely private and guarded man, and his paintings, completed over a 60-year career, are mostly of friends and family. They are generally sombre and thickly impastoed, often set in unsettling interiors and urban landscapes. The works are noted for their psychological penetration and often discomforting examination of the relationship between artist and model. Freud worked from life studies, and was known for asking for extended and punishing sittings from his models.[2]

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Lucian Michael Freud 8 December 1922 – 20 July 2011) was a British painter and draftsman, specializing in figurative art, and is known as one of the foremost 20th-century portraitists.He was born in Berlin, the son of Jewish architect Ernst L. Freud and the grandson of Sigmund Freud. His family moved to Britain in 1933 to escape the rise of Nazism. From 1942-43 he attended Goldsmiths College, London. He enlisted in the Merchant Navy during the Second World War.His early career as a painter was influenced by surrealism, but by the early 1950s his often stark and alienated paintings tended towards realism.[1] Freud was an intensely private and guarded man, and his paintings, completed over a 60-year career, are mostly of friends and family. They are generally sombre and thickly impastoed, often set in unsettling interiors and urban landscapes. The works are noted for their psychological penetration and often discomforting examination of the relationship between artist and model. Freud worked from life studies, and was known for asking for extended and punishing sittings from his models.[2]

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Charles Thomas "Chuck" Close (born July 5, 1940) is an American painter, artist and photographer who achieved fame as a photorealist, through his massive-scale portraits. Close often paints abstract portraits of himself and others, which hang in collections internationally. Close also creates photo portraits using a very large format camera. Although a catastrophic spinal artery collapse in 1988 left him severely paralyzed, he has continued to paint and produce work that remains sought after by museums and collectors.

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Michelangelo Merisi (Michele Angelo Merigi or Amerighi) da Caravaggio  28 September 1571[2] – 18 July 1610) was an Italian painter active in Rome, Naples, Malta, and Sicily from the early 1590s to 1610. His paintings combine a realistic observation of the human state, both physical and emotional, with a dramatic use of lighting, and they had a formative influence on Baroque painting.

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Sir Stanley Spencer CBE RA (30 June 1891 – 14 December 1959) was an English painter. Shortly after leaving the Slade School of Art, Spencer became well known for his paintings depicting Biblical scenes occurring as if in Cookham, the small village beside the River Thames where he was born and spent much of his life. Spencer referred to Cookham as "a village in Heaven" and in his biblical scenes, fellow-villagers are shown as their Gospel counterparts. Spencer was skilled at organising multi-figure compositions such as in his large paintings for the Sandham Memorial Chapel and the Shipbuilding on the Clyde series, the former being a First World War memorial while the latter was a commission for the War Artists' Advisory Committee during the Second World War.

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born Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón; July 6, 1907 – July 13, 1954) was a Mexican artist who painted many portraits, self-portraits, and works inspired by the nature and artifacts of Mexico. Inspired by the country's popular culture, she employed a naïve folk art style to explore questions of identity, postcolonialism, gender, class, and race in Mexican society.[1] Her paintings often had strong autobiographical elements and mixed realism with fantasy. In addition to belonging to the post-revolutionary Mexicayotl movement, which sought to define a Mexican identity, Kahlo has been described as a surrealist or magical realist.

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Born 1972 Wiltshire. Went Bristol to study art. There he learnt to use expressive brushwork and colour to show energy in his work. In 2014 he moved his family to south west of France. Due to his profession as an artist, that he has had since 2001.his work is mainly modern impressionism and likes to show people his feelings through his work. His aim in his paintings his to capture exciting city life. By using acrylic and oil paint which allows him to use movement in the painting.

I like how he uses movement in the paint to show movement in the landscape. He is able to show both the business of a city high street and the calmness of a rural landscape. Show the versatility of his technique and how is able to convey his feelings through the canvas.

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born in 1940 in Felton Northumberland. He married 1966 then began teaching in 1972 and continued to work as a teacher for 30 years. However continued to paint and draw in his free time. Now retired he is a professional artist in contemporary art. His inspirations are sicket, coldstream and pasmore. He only paints with oil paints and so he has more movement on the canvas.

I like his work because  he uses colour to create a nostalgic and romantic feel to his work. By using a slight blurred but detailed look, it allows the audience to use imagination. Due to the naïve look he uses for the people he has in his paintings. The contrast of dull and bright colours it brings out the detail to the work.

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Born in 1948 in Birmingham. He attended Newcastle under Lyme School of art and Derby College of art. After school he was employed as a designer as a printers.by the time he was 21 he decided to quit his job and become a full time painter. His main interests were the country side worked in a semi abstract style. His main inspirations were the landscapes around and local artists letting him develop a natural style.

In my opinion his work is colourful and expresses the natural beauty of the countryside. Instead of using structure he uses a mixture of colours blended together and smooth brush stokes to represent the figures of the nature