Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Jon Tootill's works are implicitly loaded with political concerns and provide social commentary on historical and cultural phenomena. He demonstrates great inventiveness in his use of symbols and materials to describe events and characters. His works are rich in narrative content, surface treatment and powerful, argued iconography.
He uses flat colours with a smooth gradient, it looks "cartoonish" but its a very difficult thing to do.
H. R. Giger is recognized as one of the world’s foremost artists of Fantastic Realism. Born in 1940 to a chemist’s family in Chur, Switzerland, he moved in 1962 to Zurich, where he studied architecture and industrial design at the School of Applied Arts. By 1964 he was producing his first artworks, mostly ink drawings and oil paintings, resulting in his first solo exhibition in 1966, followed by the publication and world-wide distribution of his first poster edition in 1969. Shortly after, he discovered the airbrush and, along with it, his own unique freehand painting style, leading to the creation of many of his most well known works, the surrealistic Biomechanical dreamscapes, which formed the cornerstone of his fame. |
Sunday, March 20, 2011
Darcy Nicholas is a leading contemporary Maori painter sculptor writer, curator, events manager, and commentator on Maori issues. He has exhibited throughout New Zealand, Australia, Africa, United States, France, Britain, Canada, and been part of several joint exhibitions that have travelled internationally.
He paints his portraits how he sees himself and not what he looks like. Though there may be recognizable features of him in his paintings.
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Karl Ferris
Karl Ferris is an English photographer and Graphic designer, Karl is a pioneer and chief innovator of what is known as psychedelic photography. He worked with Jimi Hendrix in the late sixties as his photographer and album cover designer.
He has also cone across the Beatles, In 1966 The Beatles had just released “Rubber Soul” and Karl had the chance to meet up with their official photographer, Robert Freeman, who encouraged Ferris to experiment with different styles of images - which he promptly did – and created his unique psychedelic style.
Petrus van der velden.
He has also cone across the Beatles, In 1966 The Beatles had just released “Rubber Soul” and Karl had the chance to meet up with their official photographer, Robert Freeman, who encouraged Ferris to experiment with different styles of images - which he promptly did – and created his unique psychedelic style.
Petrus van der velden.
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