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A makeup artist is someone who uses the human body as their medium using makeup, prosthetics or face paint to suit the required brief whether it be in theatre, television, film, fashion, magazines, as well as independent work. Makeup artists provide a a vital role in the commercial world especially in fashion shows. It is important that each model is catered to whether they are assigned uniform looks or individual ones. Time management remains an extremely important skill in regards to this industry as usually the makeup artist is working on somebody else’s time and is not afforded the luxury of relaxed application. The salary for a makeup artist has a such a wide range as it depends on the industry the artist is working in, the time and effort required and the exposure attained by the artists work. A makeup artist can increase their exposure and attain more connections by creating a portfolio which documents their best work. Clients will look to this to see the artists versatility, their style, their interests within the industry and their creative process. A makeup artist that interests me is Chiao Li Hsu. She is an Asian editorial makeup artist born in China and currently based in New York. Hsu took makeup lessons at a makeup school to learn basic skills but stated that she has unlearnt these classic methods as ‘To be truly creative, it’s good to have no limits as far as imagination and creativity goes’. She takes inspiration from art and nature creating minimalistic yet graphic works of art and chooses to add hints of surrealism to her work aswell experimenting with 3D line work and texture. She has worked on many influential campaigns including the December 2021 issue of British vogue alongside Rafael Pavarotti a psychedelic inspired photoshoot with graphic shapes and bold colours. She focuses on the contours of the face to experiment with shade and highlight and uses graphic and fine liner, bright colour palette and perfect blending in her work. I am inspired by her work as I feel that she pushes the boundaries between art and makeup. She doesn’t apply makeup in a classic way and instead works from a concept treating the face as a canvas while using the models features to her advantage as part of her looks.

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Alberto Giacometti born in 1901 was a Swiss sculptor, painter, draftsman and printmaker. Beginning in 1922, he lived and worked mainly in Paris regularly visited his hometown Borgonovo to see his family and work on his art. Giacometti was one of the most important sculptors of the 20th century. His work was particularly influenced by artistic styles such as Cubism and Surrealism. Philosophical questions about the human condition , as well as existential and phenomenological debates played a significant role in his work. Around 1935 he gave up on his Surrealist influences in order to pursue a more deepened analysis of figurative compositions. Giacometti preferred to use models who he knew personally, including his brother Diego, the artist Isabel Rawsthorne, his wife Annette, and his lover Caroline. Rejecting classical ideas of perspective, he also often recorded his models from memory.

Alberto Giacometti captures the atmosphere of the 20th Century in his portraits. He uses continuous marks and lines to highlight the chaotic and tortuous world in which the Holocaust and development of the atomic bomb were some of the most frightening and horrific events in history occurring in his time. This expression of the state of the world is evident in his self portraits which are dark, unclear and undefined visions of himself in an empty canvas capturing the loneliness and isolation felt globally in the aftermath of the war. I feel that his self portraits are an attempt to make sense of the world around him and a struggle to find where we go from this point. The dark and more abstract feel to his self portraits serve as an expression of grief in the wake of these events.

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Anselm Kiefer (born 8 March 1945) is a German painter and sculptor. Growing up during the aftermath of the war his city was heavily bombed so his family moved to Ottersdorf. His works incorporate materials such as straw, ash, clay, lead, and shellac. The poems of Paul Celan have played a role in developing Kiefer's themes of German history and the horrors of the Holocaust, as have the spiritual concepts of Kabbalah.

His works are characterised by an unflinching willingness to confront his culture's dark past, and unrealised potential, in works that are often done on a large, confrontational scale well suited to the subjects. It is also characteristic of his work to find signatures and names of people of historical importance, legendary figures or historical places.

He addresses controversial subjects abs themes in his work in order to evoke a response from his audience. In 1969, aged 25, Kiefer staged a series of actions called Besetzungen (Occupations), in which he had himself photographed doing Sieg Heil salutes at various European monuments. This was meant as a mockery of Hitler and the past Nazi leadership and was done at a time where Nazism wasn’t addressed within the public. He received critical comments globally for his work but few seemed to understand the intent behind this piece.

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Barbara Rae is a Scottish artist who studied at Edinburgh College of Art from 1961 to 1965 where she was awarded a travel scholarship, taking her to work in France and Spain in 1966. She attended Moray House College of Education and taught in Edinburgh until 1972. She went on to Lecture in Drawing, Painting and Printmaking at Aberdeen College of Education from 1972 to 1974 and Lectured in drawing and Painting at Glasgow School of Art from 1975 to 1996.

Rae’s work has been included in many solo and group exhibitions both nationally and internationally. Her first solo show was held in 1967 at the New 57 Gallery, Edinburgh. In 1994 and 1999, she won tapestry commissions for The Festival Theatre, Edinburgh and for the Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh, respectively (both carried out by the Edinburgh Tapestry Company). Rae’s work is included in many private collections in Britain, Europe and the USA, as well as in many public and corporate collections. Geography plays a huge part in her landscape work and she is inspired by her student years living up in the highlands of Scotland. Subject matter for her prints tend to the socio-political, her main interest in whatever has been shaped by the hand of man or woman, and weathered by age: an old Irish farmhouse, a door or fence gate, an ancient standing stone, a terrace of vines. She has stated that she doesn’t refer to herself as a Scottish artist, straying away from the traditional pallet of Scottish art and rather just takes inspiration from her home country for her art. Her bright and boldly coloured landscapes present the natural environment in a new way. Her work is very abstract and she chooses to create an idea or a vision of the landscape rather than painting exactly what she sees.