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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.

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.

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. 

 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.

  

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.

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.

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.

 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) 

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

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.

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.

© 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.

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.

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.

1970

Oil on canvas 

 oil on canvas

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.

1880

 colour lithograph

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.

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. 

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

Oil on wood
a basket of flowers

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 

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.

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.

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