Cubism.

Influenced by many people and it still carry's on today.

It was pioneered by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque.  Cubism is inspired by  movement in music and literature. Spaniard Juan Gris also started Cubism.

Cubism is analyzed in multitudes of angles and shapes, they use a series of viewpoints to create their work.

Picasso and Braque followed the advice of Paul Cezanne who said in 1904 Treat nature in terms of the cylinder, the sphere and the cone.

Often the surfaces intersect at seemingly random angles, remaking a coherent sense of depth.

The background and the objects in their work overlap to create a  shallow space which is hard to define, this is one of the distinct characteristics.

Picasso - Les Demoiselles d'Avignon 1907    


This was the first cubism painting, he was influenced  by Cezanne, Fauvists and African sculptures. The faces of the women show the relation to the African sculptures.

The first branch of cubism, known as analytic cubism was both radical and influential as a short but highly significant art movement between 1908 and 1911 in France.

In second phase, synthetic cubism the art movement, spread and remained vital until around 1919.

Color was almost non-existent except for the use of a monochromatic scheme that often included grey, blue and ochre.

Both painters Picasso and Braque moved towards abstraction, leaving only few signs of the real world.

Francis Bacon

Francis was born in Ireland, he was a figurative painter which displayed emotional imagery in his work. His work is based on emotions, mainly sorrow. He began drawing isolated male heads in rooms, then in the 1950's he moved on to screaming popes. He then began to get more personal with his work and focused on motifs of death. His work became more well known after his death. His work has strange textures and some tone which makes it interesting showing its difference to other artists work.

David Hopper

David was born in America, New york. He was most popularly known for his oil paintings, he was known as a watercolorist and a print maker. In his early self portraits he tended to represent himself as a skinny, ungraceful and homely man.  David was quiet when he was a boy but he had a prank-ish sense of humor. He was inspired by writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson. He seems to focus on drawing women. He was inspired by Edouard Manet and Edgar Degas, modeling his work after them. His work seems very detailed and interesting, almost life like, he focus's on tone and texture. The paintings he produced all seem to look like concentrating, yet confused people.

Chuck Close

He was born in America, Chuck achieved fame as a photorealist as he made massive scale portraits. He is also a painter as well as a photographer. He was destined to become a third generation abstract expressionist. Close threw away his paint brushes to experience new techniques, he moved on to using water color. He suffers from prosopagnosia, using these portraits he was able to identify faces better.
Chuck was excellent at making his work look realistic. The structures on the faces are perfect, he uses a good use of tone and texture too.

Tonal self portrait.

I liked experimenting with tonal layers on photoshop but it diddnt work very well as one of the eyes look like they're missing.

Re-creating a still life painting.

The original painting by Cezanne.

I then edited the apples to make them look more like the apples in the painting. I think they went quite well.

i used a wide range of art history brushes and layered up the photo's to make them look like the painting. I used the magic wand tool to erase the backgrounds from them. 

I don't think my edit went very well except for the apples. I think he background could be improved by a lot.

                                   

Experimenting with Panoramics.

I think the panoramics was easy to make and I found it quite interesting to use, I would like to change the pattern the next time I make a Panoramic image. I made the panoramic by taking lots of different pictures of the same object and different angles and distances from it.