Fiona Rae, John Hoyland & Helen frankenthaler

 Fiona Rae
after looking through m sketchbook and seeing how my style of work has developed Joe told me to research an artist called Fiona Rae. 

"What I love about painting is that it embodies a series of thought and feeling processes. It's all there on the canvas as a record. I can put something on the canvas, consider it, adjust it, remove it, replace it, add to it, conceal it, reveal it, destroy it and repair it. I can be in a good mood, a bad mood, a cheerful mood or a destructive mood - it's all useful"

i love this quote by Rae because its actually exactly how i feel when i think of my art work and how i come to create it. this was the first thing i read about her and i liked her already. then i started to look at her work and i had high hopes, especially because Joe saw my work as hers. here are some her work i loved because of the use of colour shape and positioning of the different elements that make a picture.

picture found http://pinterest.com/pin/137289488610762818/

image found http://www.artrabbit.com/images/dataobjects/images/cae9b8b72cd6cc7393e7d238910d8e41_0.jpeg

image found http://www.royalacademy.org.uk/academicians/painters/fiona-rae-ra,199,AR.html

image found http://www.artcritical.com/DavidCohen/sun_images_december/Fiona-Rae.jpg

image found http://img3.oneartworld.com/images/uploaded/large/2623-Fiona+Rae.jpg

image found http://mocoloco.com/art/archives/005534.php

to be honest i was a bit disappointed, because i some how expected more, her work was all and pretty which is far from what i believe mine. i was then a bit offended by Joe thinking my work was pretty and cute when i intend it to be deep and spiritual! but i do understand how Joe saw a similarity. i do like her work its just its soo similar to mine, in style not in subject matter, that i don't see how she is going to inspire me. She is an amazing artists and i love how we have the same style of art when iv never heard or seen off her but yet we think the same.

she uses mostly canvas and paint were as iv yet to use those things but i will be doing, when i create bigger pieces from the experiments in my book.

 John Hoyland

Was born 12 October 1934 – 31 July 2011 and was a London-based British artist. He was one of the country's leading Abstract painters.

Holland was born in Sheffield, Yorkshire, and educated at Leighton Park School, and then went to study at Sheffield School of Art, Psalter Lane, and the Royal Academy Schools. He was elected to the Royal Academy in 1991 and was appointed Professor of the Royal Academy Schools in 1999. The National Portrait Gallery holds portraits of the artist in its collection.

i chose to research his work because of his use of colour and the expressive nature. even tho i don't like his paintings i feel an attraction towards his colour matching, becuase its quite bold and interesting to look at. i don't like his shapes or his painting style and to be honest i dont understand it! but the colours speak to me. i feel yet again his art is lazy and my work isn't inspired by him but his colours do stand out for me and i feel colour use is important in creating pieces of work.

i love the colours in this piece, the contrast the vibrancy is just perfect!

Helen Frankenthaler

Was born December 12, 1928 – December 27, 2011 and was an American abstract expressionist painter. She contributed massively to the history of postwar American painting. She has exhibited her work for over six decades (early 1950s until 2011), she spanned several generations of abstract painters while producing interesting and ever-changing new work. 

Frankenthaler began exhibiting her large-scale abstract expressionist paintings in contemporary museums and galleries in the early 1950s. She was included in the 1964 Post-Painterly Abstraction exhibition corated by Clement Greenberg that introduced a newer generation of abstract painting that came to be known as Color Field. 

She was born in Manhattan, and was influenced by Hans Hofmann, Jackson Pollock and Clement Greenberg. Her work has taken part in several retrospective exhibitions, including a 1989 retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. As well as this her work has been exhibited worldwide, since the 1950s. In 2001, she was awarded the National Medal of Arts.
Frankenthaler had a home and studio in Darien, Connecticut.

i have chosen to research her work because i love how her paintings are very subtle and flowing. you can tell she has used a lot of water to wash out her colours and i love this idea it makes her paintings look very elegant. despite not understanding most abstract art her work speaks to me. she has inspired me to use a lot of water in my work and therefore creating a more subtle wash so my drawings can be seen behind them.

i also love how she has been working for so long an describes how passionate about art i wish i continue my work until my old age.

this is my favorite piece because the colours are just beautiful and i love how well they work together. also i love the movements, its like ink in water and i like how the colours are layered and built onto each other.