Charles Rennie Mackintosh
was born in 1868 and was known to be Scotland's last great Victorian Designer.
Despite his work being over century old, it has still stood the test of time and his innovations stand out; making it instantly memorable and a product of lasting freshness.
Aiming to become an architect, mackintosh joined a well known practice in Glasgow, after his teenage Apprenticeship. He later became a partner of the practice due to his design of a New Art School for the city when he was thirty, but by the time he reached 40 his career was over. Instead of his hope of being at the center of an architectural machine, he was falling from a respectable life.
His mercurial artistic personality and his inspiring designs had fallen out of fashion as quickly as they had become popular. his architectural career had also dried up and he decided t change careers all together. his brief international reputation had evaporated and he was now lost. in 1914 he packed his bags with his artist wife Margret and lived in exile, almost penniless until his death in 1928.
However despite the sad story of his life when he was working as an artist, interior designer and architect he had some fantastic and inspiring work, making him one of the best. His genius, when it came to his interior designs, was brilliant. Not because of his individual items, even tho they were amazing, but how he created ensembles of exquisite forms, arranged with great spatial skill.
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| i was given this tiny book as a gift an at first i really didn't appreciate it. i totally judged a book by its cover but it helped me appreciate Mackintosh. |
One of my favorite buildings is Mackintosh's only church. At first glance it appears traditional in form and by the materials used. But if you look at it closer you see how its asymmetric slightly and its loaded with symbolic meanings. i love this about his church and i want the building i am going to restore to have this concept, i want it to be loaded with meaning and symbols but yet still look traditional.
this is why have incorporated this artist one because it was sad how he was cast out and forgotten an id like people to appreciate him more. its sad how people are forgotten despite being so great. and secondly because his church has all this mystery and special artistry which incorporates into my ideas, its like he understands. i didn't realize his church would be so perfect in helping me explain my idea, its as if he had already had the ideas i am having. well they do say great minds think a like!
i don't like most of his modern art objects but his architectural ability is interesting to me and he use of nature.
Paul Jackson pollack
Was born on January 28, 1912
– August 11, 1956, and is commonly known as
Jackson Pollock. He was an influential American painter and played
a big part during the Abstract Expressionist movement. He was known for his
unique style of drip painting, which is why I find him interesting. Even though
I find his work to lazy art he is still an interesting person to look at. I like
his use of colours and his expressive pieces, even though personally I feel he
is over rated because his style was knew to his time I understand why he was
seen to be so different and brilliant.
During his lifetime he became quite famous and achieved stardom as a major
artist from his generation. Seen by many to be a shy man he was actually quite
volatile, and was struggling with alcoholism for most of his life. In he
married the artist Lee Krasner in 1945, who then became an important influence
on his career and on his legacy.
He died at the age of 44 in a drink driving accident he caused. During
December 1956, a couple months after he passed, he was given a memorial retrospective
exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City. In 1967 a more
wide ranging exhibition of his work was held there. In 1998 and 1999, his work
was honored with large-scale retrospective exhibitions at MoMA and at The Tate
in London. In 2000, Pollock was the subject of the film
Pollock,
directed by and starring Ed Harris, which won an Academy Award.
I chose Pollack as I said I liked the fact he used a drip technique, which
is similar to mine and sometimes as intricate. His work is quite interesting, because
when you look at it your brain tries to create an image of something familiar
and I want my final piece to have this effect.
Damian Hurst
“The movement
sort of implies life".
despite Hurst annoying the hell out of me i like his quote about his work!
i have researched Damien Hurst Spin paintings because whilst researching i found this work of his and i like the colours and movement of it as well as the way it was created. even tho it would be too messy to recreate i like how it looks like scraped paint which i have previously created. and his work would look soo much better and less immature if it was outlined.
Hurst first
experimented with spin art in 1992 at his studio in Brixton, London. The
following year, he set up a spin art stall with fellow artist Angus Fairhurst
at Joshua Compston’s artist led street fair, ‘A Féte Worse than Death’. Made up
as clowns by performance artist Leigh Bowery, Fairhurst and Hurst invited
visitors to pay £1 to create their own spin paintings to be signed by the pair.
The series
began in earnest in 1994, when Hurst had a spin machine made whilst living in
Berlin. A series of his machine-made spin drawings were subsequently exhibited
at Bruno Brunnet Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, later that year.
The works are
described by the artist as “childish … in the positive sense of the word”.
Whilst the chance spontaneity of the spin paintings stands in stark contrast to
the formulaic spot series, both explore the idea of an imaginary mechanical
painter. The results of the spins are controlled purely by the artist’s colour
choices and the motion of the machine. Hurst explains the simplicity of their
appeal: “I really like making them. And I really like the machine, and I really
like the movement. Every time they’re finished, I’m desperate to do another
one.”
Some of his exhibits included work that rotated on the wall, which was Hurst’s
response to being repeatedly asked which way up they should be installed. The
rotating spins also provided a solution to Hurst’s feeling that the implied
movement is essential to the success of the works, noting: “The moment they
stop, they start to rot and stink.” (this is funny)
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| this is my favorite piece because i love how the yellow stands out (yellow is my favorite colour) |
