Printmaking

Ed Ruscha is an American artist whose oeuvre joins parts of the dialect and iconography of Pop Art with deft Reasonable execution. With a practice that traverses drawing, painting, photography, film, printmaking, and distributing, Ruscha's experience as a visual creator is obvious in his excellent eye for typography and design. He is maybe best known for his craftsman's books, for example, Twentysix Gas Stations (1963)— a pictorial investigation of the fuel stations he experienced on an…

Leonardo da Vinci’s “Virgin of the Rocks” and Mary Cassatt’s “After the Bath” are two pieces of art I will be comparing and contrasting. [HELP] “Virgin of the Rocks”, also known as, “Madonna of the Rocks” are two pieces of art composed by Leonardo da Vinci, who was a Renaissance artist. They were created in return for a commission by the Fraternity of Immaculate Conception on April 25th, 1483. This painting was going to be in the Church of San Francesco Grande for an altarpiece that would hang…

Japanese Woodblock Prints Japanese artists have produce some outstanding work through the years, from statues to beautiful architecture. Out of all the refined traditional art of Japan, the Japanese woodblock prints are probably the most widely known work. Woodblock printing was used in China for centuries for printing books, but it was adopted in Japan during the Edo period. During this period the prints represented mostly sexual workers of that time period. With time their subject changed and…

When I was younger I actually wanted to be a veterinarian. I like to observe the movements of animals and the multiple forms and colors they come in. However over the years my fascination with animal forms and colors became obstructed. Later, in my grade school year, I learned I rather create new life forms instead. But, not just animal forms, letter forms, electronics, faces, shoes, even mythical – anything that could attract the human eye. Eventually I fell into drawing digitally,…

architectural plans and aerial maps. She adds many layers to increase complexity. She relates the layering to herself as parts of who she is. She explains that in more than one piece of hers there is an underlying narrative (Plagens). She does drawings, printmaking, and paintings that are usually abstract (Artnet). She does a lot of her work in New York but has a massive studio on Berlin that she uses for very large art pieces (Artnet). Her work has been said to be nonliteral art movements such…

Glenn Murcutt is an Australian Architect. He works as a sole practitioner, where his main architectural designs focus on modernist houses that respond to their climate and surroundings. Most of his work are at small scale and are affected by the land and climate of his native Australia. His designs reflect the idea of maintain a harmonious interaction with the environment. Some of the materials that he typically uses are corrugated iron with the ribs laid horizontally and different types of…

located in New York (Museum of Modern Art, 2016). Currently the museum contains, “almost 200,000 works from around the world spanning the last 150 years”, and it “includes an ever-expanding range of visual expression, including painting, sculpture, printmaking, drawing, photography, architecture, design, film, and media and performance art” (Museum of Modern Art, 2016). They rely heavily on donations and memberships, and the revenue…

Less than a few years after the torrential Black Plague ravaged through central Europe, one of the most influential, and significant time periods in history, The Renaissance, occurred. During this time there were spikes of interest in art, science, writing and poetry, and religion. While many of these interests were significant, the biggest changes were made in the aspects of religion, artistic and scientific, and poetic advancements. Many pioneers were recognized during the Renaissance. A…

Aquí está la lista de artistas para el proyecto sobre los artistas. Los artistas son de países diferentes. Quiero que tú busques información sobre cada artista. Primero, encuentra 5 hechos curiosos (facts) y detalles importantes por cada artista. Segundo, corta y pega los links en esta página con los hechos. Oswaldo Guayasamín Guayasamín was born in Quito, Ecuador,to a native father and a Mestiza mother, both of Quichua descent His family was poor and his father worked as a carpenter…

Traumatic brain injuries or TBI is a blanket term for many conditions. It can be used to classify anything that causes a “bump, blow or jolt to the head or a penetrating head injury that disrupts the normal function of the brain” (“Facts about Concussion,” n.d.). It is measured by the severity of the injury which ranges from mild to moderate to severe. It is also pretty common in pediatric patients “approximately 40% of all TBIs occur in pediatric patients” (Malchiodi C, 2008). Severe TBI is…