Joe Fenton

Hello again!

I was stumbling upon stumbleupon.com and came across this really cool artist named Joe Fenton. What Fenton does is he makes large scale illustrations using graphite, inc and acrylic. One thing I really like about his drawings are that they look so clean and so smooth! I love how all of the lines in his drawings are crisp and clean. His ability to make his illustrations stand out and appear 3D surprises me.

I really wanted to show you come of his work! You can click on the images to enlarge them for a better view. :)

As you can see from some of his pieces, he really uses light and shadows to make his illustrations pop out; they almost seem realistic. I hope you enjoy Joe Fenton's work as much as I did! You can see more of his works here.

Enjoy! :)

Edward Burtynsky

Hi! How are you all doing?

So in my CyberArts tech. class we have just started our photography unit! For this unit we will be focusing on manufactured landscapes as it is the base of our final culminating assignment for the class. To familiarize ourselves with this, we watched a documentary about Edward Burtynsky.

Who is Edward Burtynsky? Burtynsky is a famous Canadian photographer who uses manufactured landscapes as one of his main subjects of photography. He travels around the world to find landscapes that link industry to nature. He believes that his images "are metaphors to the dilemma of our modern existence; they search for a dialogue between attraction and repulsion, seduction and fear - Burtynsky".

The name of Edward Burtynsky's documentary is called "Manufactured Landscapes". This documentary shows Burtynsky's journey across China photographing manufactured or industrial landscapes; factories, recycling yards, etc. This film aimed to show us the shocking origins of where the materials we use come from and how they are effecting the environment, and people, around them.

This film showed us not only how and where Burtynsky took his large scale photographs, but showed us some of the stories and history behind them.

The movie was not all visual however. Though there were scenes of individuals speaking, there were also a lot of sound. Since this movie had a lot of long shots of image, corresponding sound was added to it (like sounds of machines), making the video more unified and interesting.


Personally, I have mixed emotions about this film. I thought that the photographs taken by Burtynsky were Beautiful! This was strange because the subjects that he took pictures of and the stories behind them were horrible. I believe Burtynsky's method of photography is amazing, he manages to create beautiful images while exposing the awfulness of them. It is very interesting. I found some beautiful yet terrible (in terms of subject) photographs that he has taken.

Nickel Tailings No. 30
Sudbury, Ontario 1996

Oxford Tire Pile #2
Westley, California, USA, 1999

I believe that the only complaint I had about this film was that I had a lot of trouble focusing on the film. The film was 90minutes long and some of the scenes were elongated. There was one shot I remember at the very beginning where they just showed repeated, moving, scene of workers in a factory. It just went on and on and on. Speaking honestly, if there was no sound added to the capturing of images, I would have fallen asleep.

Regardless, if you found this interesting, do take a look at some of Edward Burtynsky's works here or watch Manufactured Landscapes. :)

Bye

Photo Manipulations

Hey guys!

I was online again and I found a article of 39 really cool photo manipulations! What is the definition of a photo manipulation? Well, according to Wikipedia a photo manipulation is "the application of image editing techniques to photographs in order to create an illusion or deception (in contrast to mere enhancement or correction), through analog or digital means."

Out of these 39 photo Manipulations, I wanted to share 2-3 of my favourites and tell you why.


This is the first of the three photo manipulations I wanted to show you. I really like it because it has a cool feel to it and I think that its really interesting. I love how you have the illusion of a man drawing an image of his legs but his legs look like they are attached to the rest of his body making the picture look like a whole.


This is the second photo manipulation I chose to show you. I found it creative because the artist makes the face of this boy seem as though it has the texture of a pillow. They made it as so the impact of the punch has a entirely different outcome than that of reality.


This is the third and last photo manipulation I wanted to show you. This picture, I thought, was very witty. This is because you can see that this person tried to catch a vase from breaking, but broke themselves. It's almost like a reverse situation and I thought that was very cool.

I found that these photo manipulations were really creative and made me feel a round of emotions. Some of them were mind-boggling, others disturbing and some were very witty or clever. I recommend that you check them out. If you would like to see the other 35 photo manipulations, CLICK HERE.

Hope you like them!

Andy Warhol

Hi!
Today I was searing the web for interesting pieces of art and artists and one famous artist caught my attention; Andy Warhol. Any Warhol is a very famous pop art style artist.



Andy Warhol (or Andrew Warhola) was born on August 6th, 1928. In his early career he studied commercial art at the School of Fine Arts at Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburge, Pennsylvania. From there he moved to New York City in 1949 to begin a successful career in magazine illustration and advertising. From then on he gained fame or his ink drawings of shoe advertisment. Seeing this the RCA Records hired him to design album covers and promotional materials.

In the 1960's Warhol started making paintings for products such as Campbells's Soup Cans and Coca-Cola bottles as well as painting celeberaties such as Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley and more.





Andy Warhol worked with many different media and aside from an artist was also a writer and a movie maker. Warhol had a very interesting life but his message was always the same. He wanted to remove the difference between the "fine arts" and the "commercial arts."



Andy Warhol was and is a very inspiring pop artist. I love his work and I think it looks very interesting and very bold with all of the viberant colors. :)

Banksy

Hello Everyone!
A couple of weeks ago my CyberArts class and I went to watch a documentary called "An exit through the Gift shop" which was a film about Graffiti artists. The maker of this film is named "Banksy".

Banksy is a very famous Graffiti artist. Though he is famous, he is unknown to the world. No one knows how he looks like or knows his real name.

I think Banksy is an inspiring artist because he talks about world issues in his art. He wants the world to know what kind of things happen, in images. I also like that even though he is so famous, he does his art for others to see but he doesn't do it for the fame. He isn't a sell out like "mr. brainwash" from his documentry. He believes in his art and though he may do it for good, people try to make it into some sort of conteraversy.

He is inspiring because he uses the stereotype that "graffiti is bad" and shows that world that they are wrong in his pieces.

Banksy is an amazing Graffiti and I think it is an amazing thing if you get to see any of his work in person. If you would like to see more of banksy's work, do check THIS website. :)

Louis Comfort Tiffany

Hello!

Today, well I was searching up some Art Nouveau style paintings for my assignment I came across an artist that I found very interesting; Louis Comfort Tiffany.


Louis Comfort Tiffany was a painter, Interior designer, collector, world traveler, photographer, manufacturer and avid gardener in his time. Though his father wanted him to succeed him as the head of their company (Tiffany & Co.), Tiffany's real interest was painting. Before becoming a established artist in 1879 Tiffany studied under an American landscape painter named George Inness through the 1860's and 1870's.

In 1879 he joined with other artists to form a firm that would use aesthetic idealism in the practice of interior design. He used stained glass windows in these designs. Tiffany earned international reputation and earned success.



Tiffany started experimenting with glass in 1875 to 1878 as he was working with glasshouses in Brooklyn. This is when he started designing glass-work. His unique style was the one of Art Nouveau which contained of organic shapes, flowers and leaves. On Dec 1st, 1885 he opened "The Tiffany Glass company" which later became known as "Tiffany Studios." He designed glass table lamps, lampshades, glass vases, tiles, mosaics and stained-glass-windows. Tiffany died in 1933 but his amazing Art Nouveau designs are still known today.

Magnolias, c. 1900
Louis Comfort Tiffany
glass, lead

I really enjoy Tiffany's work because it is different. It's amazing how he incorporated the Art Nouveau style into his work; stain glass windows, glass vases, glass lamps. It's amazing. This really inspires me because I am currently working on an assignment in my CyberArts tech. class that has to do with Art Nouveau and it's hard. There are so many organic shapes and so much detail. I have so much respect for Tiffany as he probably worked very hard to get such results!

Louis Comfort Tiffany was an amazing artist.