Vincent van Gogh

Vincent van Gogh, born 30/03/1853 is a Dutch post-Impressionist painter who does his paintings from emotion and bold colours and died at the aged of 37 in 29/07/1890 from a gunshot wound. He used drawings, oil paintings, watercolours and prints to developed his paintings from portraits, landscapes and still lifes. He inspire his paintings from his surroundings, where he goes, the objects he use and who he talks to, E.g. Portraits of person, still life painting of sunflowers, landscape painting of fields, etc. He did his paintings with every details and tones he was looking at and makes the colour brighter and dimmer. his art movement was Post-Impressionism, Expressionism and Divisionism.

This is a portrait of Vincent van Gogh as a transcript i've done with oil pastel in my sketchbook. in the portrait he has painted a band aid covering his left ear showing how it got cut off by a painter, Paul Gauguin with a razor knife during their argument on 23th December, 1888. this portrait also shows that he was sad when his ear was cut off.

Jamie Reid

Jamie Reid, born in 1947 is an English artist and anarchist with connections to the Situationists. His designs is about letters form cut out from newspapers and magazines in the style of a word heading, came close to defining the image of punk rock where he was best known for making a cover for the Sex Pistols album ‘‘Never Mind the Bollocks’’ and ‘‘Here's the Sex Pistols’’, and the singles "Anarchy in the UK" & ‘‘God Save The Queen".

This photograph of Queen Elizabeth II was told with an added safety pin through her nose and swastikas in her eyes, described by Sean O'Hagan of The Observer as "the single most iconic image of the punk era"), "Pretty Vacant" and "Holidays in the Sun".

My thought on this was that the sex pistol wanted to mock the queen in her early age. What is surprising about this picture is the subject. The queen should be respected and this image is disrespectful.

Jamie Reid uses the size and font for the word lettering from newspapers and magazines to cover the queen’s eyes and mouth. He scans the lettering and did it digitally.

The artist has used these materials and techniques to create this image to shock the audience and get their attention and also confuse them because the image appears to be dis respectful but the wording is respectful "GOD SAVE THE QUEEN".

This image communicates rebellion, confusion, shock, angry, lack of respect, but it also show the respect of wording. By covering the eyes and mouth it stops the queen from communicating and takes her power away.

I like this image because it uses different lettering to cover anywhere around it.

Agnes Decourchelle

Agnes Decourchelle is a French artist who was graduated from the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts Decoratifs in Paris and move on to the Royal College of Art in London.

This is an image of a yellow sports car. I chose this because I like the drawing style she used from designing an actual car.

The technique she used is line drawing with are lighter and darker shading on her images as well. Not only she use coloured the yellow for the car and licence plate, she also coloured the back and side of the windows and the wheels as black and red for the lights and the bottom board of it with the engine are not coloured in.

Gerrit Rietveld

Gerrit Thomas Rietveld, born June 24/06/1888 in Utrecht & died June 26/06/1964, is a Dutch furniture designer and architect studying the skills & techniques in architecture.

Gerrit Thomas Rietveld designed the 'Zig Zag' chair in 1932 as a display for the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. I like the 'Zig Zag' chair because he designed the Z shape stand underneath the chair instead of the 4 legs.

In 1911 he started to opened his own furniture workshop in 1911 where he then started to create the 'Red & Blue' Chair in 1917, he was influenced by ‘De Stijl’ movement in 1918, of which he became a member of it in 1919 when he wanted to change the colours of his chair to a familiar style.

I like the 'Red & Blue' Chair because he used only the 2 colours, red for the back rest & blue for the seat. plus black for the 2 arm rest.

The same year in which he started to design the Rietveld Schroder House in 1924 for his cooperated friend, Truus Schroder Schrader in Utrecht. the house is asymmetrical because it was guided by geometric forms and is also a UNESCO World Heritage site since 2000.

Gerrit Rietveld then shopped using the ‘De Stijl’ movement and switched to the Nieuwe Zakelijkheid in 1928, as the same year he joined the Congres Internationaux d' Architecture Morderne.

Kara Walker

Kara Walker, born 26/11/1969 is an African American artist who does her designs on exploring race, sex and violence. Her work is best known of her black paper silhouettes, drawing and painting on walls.

In her designs she shows the history of how the people in Africa were attempted to lose their power away and got enslaved from others. The characters in her designs show the human behaviours like struggles, physical, emotions, racial and nudity.

the art movement she used in her designs is art nouveau because her black paper silhouettes has shapes, curvy and swirly lines.

This image is about a woman turning the winding key on mans to allow him to play the guitar while the other man jumps for joy with the trumpet in the jungle.

I didn’t like some of her designs because they are so of weird. But the techniques in her designs using black paper silhouettes, drawing and painting are really good because these techniques can teach me to create my own design.

Mr Brainwash

Mr Brainwash,

Mr Brainwash, born in Paris is the moniker of Los Angeles based filmmaker and street artist Thierry Guetta. During Banksy-directed film ‘Exit through the Gift Shop’ He first began working as a proprietor in clothing store and a videographer filming street artists in the 2000s. Until he then becomes an artist in his own right after an off-hand suggestion from Banksy. Before Guetta became an artist he was first visited to see street art by his cousin, the street artist Invader. He didn’t typically have much physical involvement in the walls and buildings of the artwork attributed to him, but he did give ideas to the graphic designers in his creative team. Like his associate Banksy, he also employs famous artistic and historic images which many were copyrighted and amends the originals in sometimes a slight, different ways.  A number of critics have observed his works and have strongly emulated the styles and concepts of Banksy. Critics also have speculated and commented that he is an elaborate prank staged by Banksy, who has created the artworks himself. Banksy insists on his official website, but, his film ‘Exit through the Gift Shop’ is authentic and that Guetta is not part of a prank. His artwork was sold for five-figure sums at his self-financed debut exhibit ‘Life is Beautiful’. It was thought to be a mixture of an overheated and hyped street art market. Banksy and Fairey was as seen in ‘Exit through the Gift Shop’, he was misuse of endorsements from Banksy and Fairey. The exhibit was held in Los Angeles, California, on June 18, 2008 and was to be a popular and critical success. Until 2009, Madonna paid Guetta to design the cover art for her Madonna's Celebration album.

Mr Brainwash creates his artworks by looking what around him or what in front of him. E.g. he could design the background of a town with one or more characters in front holding or wearing something on them. I like his work because he uses different background, characters, costumes, etc. with shapes and colors to create an artwork of  his own and they can give me ideas of designing my own artwork like him.

I like this image that I took from the exhibition because this image show two portrait of batman’s ancestors who were also part of the batman’s & woman’s hero from their past.

Si Scott

Si Scott is UK’s famous graphic designer from Leeds. He left school at the age of 16 to study a BTEC Art & Design course in Graphic Design in Leeds College and then he was studying a foundation in Visual Communication. Before he was going to continue studying a degree in Graphic Design in Buckinghamshire University, he had to stay in London for 2 to 3 years to continue working on a number of different small design & his own projects in graphic designs.

His designs are based on typography; he starts to think of ideas to create a font & shapes of a letter & draws it on papers. He then starts to play around with different page layouts & uses a fine liner to add in details & effects turning his design into an illustration. His design gets bigger when he scans it on computer at 125%, when he decreased his design to the actual size he can make it very crisp & clean.

His drawing, type and design give him ideas to create an illustration of his typography; he also has inspiration that comes constantly by listening to music while working on his design. He listens to the lyrics of the music carefully & uses words from it to create an illustration.

He made friends with Kerry for a few years in London and always said will do something together & decides to set up their own studio together. But when they are both busy with their own work they haven’t had time to really concentrate on the illustration 'We Are Bitch'. But they will hopefully get a chance to work together a bit more in the future.