Seminar i did with another choosen Artist i like and have inspiration from.

Seminar on Pablo Picasso and Tina Barney

Introduction

Today I am speaking about Famous Painter Pablo Picasso and Famous Photographer Tina Barney. Now I’m sure you have heard of both then but I am going to tell you a bit about each of them.

Pablo Ruiz Picasso is his full name, he is from Spain but lived most of his life in France .He is best known for his wide variety of styles and for co-founding the cubist movement. He had his first exhibition at the young age of 13, and he showed his paintings in the back room of an umbrella store. Pablo Picasso was a notable figure in the world of art. Lovers of his art all over the world respect him and his work. Picasso demonstrated extradionary artistic talent in his early years, painting in a realistic manner through his childhood and adolescence.

 During the first decade of the 20^th century his style changed as he experimented with different theories, techniques and ideas. His revolutionary artistic accomplishments brought him renown and immense fortune, making him one of the best known figures in 20^th century art.

Now I am going to tell about Tina Barney famous photographer. She was born 1945, New York City but is an American photographer. Tina Barney was born into a wealthy upper class family. Her grandfather was the one that originally introduced her to photography when she was just a young girl, and Barney began collecting photography at the age of 26. Initially as a bored housewife living a life of leisure, Barney focused on candid snapshots of her well of family and relatives set amongst an array of lavishly decorated backdrops, including classy New York apartments and plush New English vacation homes. The thing that amazes me the most is the fact she was the first photographer to work in “directional style “ and use a 35mm detail –oriented large format camera.

Now you know about both artists, I am going to cover differences, similarities as well as other things on 3 pieces of art I have chosen from each of the artists work. Pablo Picasso and Tina Barney. 

Pablo Picasso on left                     Right , Tina Barney

House in a Wheatfield                    Shelia and Moya, Hawaii 1980

Summer 1898, oil on canvas          Hawaii 1980

Similarities, 

Tress, hills, landscape

Differences, 

Colours, colour contrast, Surroundings, 

People, Objects, setting, Country, Location (where they are)

Dusk, Daytime

Modern, not so Modern.

Left: Pablo Picasso                            Right: Tina Barney

The Blue dancer                                 Jill and Polly in the bathroom 1987

Paris autumn 1900

Oil on canvas

Similarities:

People, Two People, Expressions

Poses – one person in each photo is standing .and one in each is moving,

Character, Detail

Differences:

Night & Day, Colour, Contrast, Position

Theme, placement, texture, Plain, one not plain, Patterns,

Surroundings, Backdrops

Left: Pablo Picasso                               Right: Tina Barney

The two Saltimbanques                        Marina’s room 1987

Paris autumn 1901

Similarities: People, both have good colour and contrast

Togetherness, deep thought

Differences: Location, where they are, Café/bedroom,

Clothes. Setting, theme shapes typical of Picasso.

Modern/one bit older, Formal/casual

Dull/ bright

Academicc Assigment , On one of my Inspiring chossen Artists.

Marakumi Takasha

Takashi Murakami was born in Tokyo in 1963 and studied at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and music.
In addition to his work as an artist, Takashi Murakami is a curator, entrepreneur, and a student of contemporary Japanese society. In 2000, Murakami curated an exhibition of Japanese art, titled Super flat, which acknowledged a movement toward mass-produced entertainment and its effects on contemporary aesthetics.
Murakami is also internationally recognized and famous for his collaboration with designer Marc Jacobs to create handbags and other products for the Louis Vuitton fashion house.
Takashi Murakami's work has been exhibited in prestigious museums all over the world, including the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and a recent solo retrospective exhibition at the Bard College Museum of Art. Through his work, Murakami has played with these oppositions in East and West, past and present, high art and low culture while remaining consistently amusing and accessible. His work morphs the world’s popular contemporary Japanese cartoons and historic Japanese painting in the traditional nihon-ga style).
 His recurring character, Mr.DOB, appears on t-shirts, posters, key-chains, etc. world-wide and has even come to life in the form of one of these 3-D sculptures. Murakami has also curated "Super Flat" an exhibition of contemporary Japanese artists.




Murakami and Louis Vuitton

Murakami’s style, called super flat, is characterized by flat planes of colour and graphic images involving a character style derived from anime and manga. Super flat is an artistic style that comments on otaku lifestyle and subculture, as well as consumerism and sexual fetishism. Like Andy Warhol, Takashi Murakami takes low culture and repackages it, and sells it to the highest bidder in the “high-art” market. Unlike Warhol, Murakami also makes his repacked low culture available to all other markets in the form of paintings, sculptures, videos, T-shirts, key chains, mouse pads, plush dolls, cell phone caddies, and $5,000 limited-edition Louis Vuitton handbags. This is a comparable idea to Claes Oldenburg, who sold his own low art, high art pieces in his own store front in the 1960s, but what makes Murakami different is his methods of production, and his work is not in one store front, but many ranging from toy stores, candy aisles, comic book stores, and the French design powerhouse of Louis Vuitton. Murakami’s style is an amalgam of his Western predecessors, Warhol, Oldenberg and Roy Lichtenstein as well as his Japanese predecessors and contemporaries of anime and manga. He has successfully marketed himself to Western culture and to Japan in the form of Kaikai Kiki and GEISAI. In response to interviewer Magdalene Perez’s question about the dangers of straddling the line between art and commercial products and mixing art with branding and merchandizing, Murakami said, “I don’t think of it as straddling. I think of it as changing the line. What I’ve been talking about for years is how in Japan, that line is less defined. Japanese people accept that art and commerce will be blended; and in fact, they are surprised by the rigid and pretentious Western hierarchy of ‘high art.’ In the West, it certainly is dangerous to blend the two because people will throw all sorts of stones. But that’s okay—I’m ready with my hard hat.”

Murakami also collaborated with Kanye West and designed his Album cover. Adored by everyone his talent and his amazing work.

He has inspired me as an artist as he is bold, different, colourful, and not shy his work is powerful and inspires me. 

My Academic Video Assigment. Yayoi Kusama.

Yayoi Kusama

In my video I think I found a great selection of different ways how art can be expressed,

the creativity to do anything. I think that I should have just chosen a fewer images and taken more

time to understand and explain them better. I liked the boldness of how the various colours and shapes,

backgrounds stood out and would grab my attention. I feel i could of found many better ways to improve this video especially with more time and thought... My Merits i think is my work and intrest in yayoi kusama as i have never had such a intrest in a Artisit before. I think my downfall is the colabration of my work overall and my choice of presentation. 

Yayoi Kusama from my interpration.

A error keeps occuring so,my final video you have already seen , but i have posted underneath the making of my video, (not the final submission )

Draft video\

My own work is published , showing where i get my similarites , differences, and ideas from ... 

Here are photos of my work....from different briefs over the year.

Interior Design brief ,

 'TWISTED WORLD"

SIMILARITES AND DIFFERNCES....

Yayoi Kusama

My first time blogging .. on my blog spot.. :)

Houses that i researched for my interior design brief. "Twisted World " ..

Location: All over the world, mainly USA, California