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Understanding the Artist Emotional Art ‘Art for me is not an end in itself, but a means of evoking that mystery’ Rene Magritte 1898 –1967 Belgian Surrealist artist Witty and thought-provoking images Challenges viewers perceptions of reality Ordinary objects in an unusual context Giving new meanings to familiar things evoke mystery poetic imagery contradiction ordinary objects in unfamiliar spaces reality and illusion The Empire of light 1950-1954 Le Beau Monde Oil on canvas 1962 Personal Values Franz Marc 1880 –1916 German Painter & Printmaker Expressionist Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider) movement Characterized by bright primary colour Use of colour and futurist method futurism and cubism woodcut and lithography portrays animals, usually in natural settings Increasingly stark and abstract in nature stark simplicity profound sense of emotion BLUE used for masculinity & spirituality YELLOW represented feminine joy RED encased the sound of violence Tiger 1912 The Fate of the Animals 1901 Die großen blauen Pferde (The Large Blue Horses) 1911 Salvador Dali 1904 –1989 Spanish Surrealist painter striking and bizarre influence of Renaissance masters highly imaginative film, sculpture, and photography eccentric manner and attention-grabbing indulging in unusual and grandiose behaviour classical and modernist techniques accessing the subconscious extraordinary universe personal obsessions and fantasies The Persistence of Memory Oil on canvas 1931 • Theory of "softness" and "hardness", •The soft watches are an unconscious symbol of the relativity of space and time. They are inspired not by the theory of relativity, but by the surrealist perception of a Camembert cheese melting in the sun • The strange "monster" that Dalí used in several period pieces represented himself – an abstract form was a self-portrait, reappearing frequently in his work • Dalí often used ants in his paintings as a symbol for death • The fading figure in the middle of the picture, often appears in dreams where the dreamer cannot pinpoint the creature's exact form and composition • The creature has one closed eye with several eyelashes, suggesting the creature is also in a dream state. • It may refer to a dream that Dalí himself had experienced • The clocks symbolize the passing of time as one experiences it in sleep. • Dali uses images more likely to be found in dreams than in waking consciousness. Swan Reflecting Elephants 1937 "I paint myself because I am so often alone and because I am the subject I know best” Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1958 Mexico City Painter / self portraits Began painting after she was severely injured in a bus accident. suggestions of pain Self portraits Surrealist Graphic Personal Christian and Jewish themes are often depicted in her work symbolic portrayals of physical and psychological wounds She painted to occupy her time during her temporary illness Drawn from personal experiences, marriage / her miscarriages / numerous operations symbolic monkey portrayed as tender and protective symbols “I painted my own reality." Influenced by indigenous Mexican culture, Bright colours, dramatic symbolism and primitive style classic religious Mexican tradition with surrealism What The Water Gave Me Environmental Artist “I believe that art is more powerful than money” Damien Hirst 1965 Young British Artist Contemporary British artist Life Death Existence Dead animals direct and challenging Beauty question our awareness and convictions glimmer of hope 4 important things in life fear, life, death, reason, faith, love, hate iconography of science and religion ‘Mother and child, Divided’ Cow, formaldehyde, vitrine 1993 ‘For the Love of God’ Damien Hirst Human Skull, platinum, dimonds 2007 £50,000,000 8,601 diamonds £15,000,000 worth of diamonds Platinum human skull “The Physical Impossibility of Death in the mind of Someone Living” Tiger shark, formaldehyde, vitrine 1991 £50,000 ‘a portrait of the artist touching the earth’ Richard Long 1945 British Landscape artist Relationship with the landscape photographs, maps, drawings and sculptures lines or circles Gathers natural materials arranging objects concern for the planets condition Impermanence time, distance, geography and measurement action of walking in a natural landscape Circular outlines, circular spirals, solid circles and concentric rings geometric mobility, lightness and freedom. Simple creative acts of walking and marking place, locality, time, distance and measurement. raw materials and the human scale ‘Small White Pebble Circle’ Marbled pebbles 40 x 2000 x 2000 mm 1987 ‘the whole work should look balanced and circular’ ‘South Bank Circle’ Delabole slate 100 x 1997 x 1997 mm 1991 A LINE IN SCOTLAND CUL MOR 1981 WHITE RIVER LINE BRAZIL 1994 "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're so beautiful. Everything's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic.” Andy Warhol 1928 - 1987 American Pop artist relationship between artistic expression, celebrity culture and advertisement mass-produced images from American popular culture consumerism silkscreens, films, sculpture POP ART Fascination with Super-stars appreciation for intense Hollywood glamour Controversial artist comic, decorative, and whimsical open embrace of market culture Hollywood celebrities reproductions based on advertisements Bohemian Campbell's Soup Cans 1962 Marilyn Silkscreen 1967 Brillo Soap Pads Box 1964 silkscreen ink on synthetic polymer paint on wood “I think it’s incredibly brave to be working with flowers and leaves and petals. But I have to: I can’t edit the materials I work with. My remit is to work with nature as a whole.” Andy Goldsworthy Sculptor British 1956 Ephemeral sculptures made from elements of nature, rocks, leaves, icicles brightly-coloured flowers, mud, pinecones, snow, stone, twigs, and thorns Intensity Each work grows, stays, decays looks into the heart of nature Explores and experiments The seasons and weather determine the materials Relies on what nature will give him natural materials Energy from nature ‘Stone Egg’ ‘Yellow and Gold leaves around a hole’