Leonardo Da Vinci

Leonardo is believed to be one of the best all time artists. He was born on April 15, 1452, in the town of Vinci. When he was about 15, he moved to the n

earby city

of Flore

nce and became an apprentice to another famous artist. Leonardo kept notesbook of various sketches and drawings but he drew pictures of scientific studies.Later in his life he served as a philospher and died in 1519.

Salvador Dali

He was a Spanish sculptor,graphic artist and painter who joined the surrealist group in 1929. Dali

's ideas of critical paronia which concluded that one should cultivate genuine delusion as in clinical paranoia while remaining residually awa

re at the ba

ck of one's mind that th

e control of the reason and will has been deliberately suspended. He thought that his ideas should be used poetically and artistically.Much of his work has a religous theme.

Henri Matisse

He was a French artist known for his use of color and fluid. He was principally a painter and is the best known artist of the 20th century. He was orginally named a Fauve (wild beast) but was later known as the

upholder of classical french paintin

g.His mastery of the expressive language of colour and drawing, displayed in a body of work spann

ing over a half-century, won hi

m recognition as a leading figure in modern art.

Vincent Va

n Gogh

Dutch Post Impressionis

t artist whose revolutionary work paintings had an enormous influence on the 20th century. Many of his paintings include sunflo

wers, selfportraits and landscapes. He was unsettled for most of his life and spent most of his early childhood workin fo

r a firm unsucessfully. He didnt begin his career until about 27 and during the last ten years of his life created about 2000 pieces.

Paul Klee

Swiss painter of German

nationality.His art is incluenced by cubism, su

rrealism and expressionism. He mastered color theory and even wrote about it.

Frike Janssens

*Fairly new artist

*Born July 7 1980 and is a Belgian photographer

*Does alot of campainging and advertisting for companies as a graphic designer

* Shes very much fasicanated with people and their lifestyle

*Much of her work is d

one through Photoshop

*Has her own website called

http://www.frieke.com/ w

hich displays alot of her work

Tom Sachs

*Famous sculptor*Mos

t known for his recreations of modern icons(built a bi

g Hello Kitty, Mcdonalds kitchen)

*One exhibit he did rec

ently he ma

de several different

types of cameras but he used random obje

cts to form them. So instead of the captur

ing art the camera itself was the art.

http://www.tomsachs.org/exhibition/tom-sachs-survey

Claes Odlenburg

*Sweddish sculptor who attended the Chicago Art Institue

* what is so unique

about his art is he takes normal size everyday objects and builds them to extreme size

*Some of his artwor

k

is even interactive such as a tube of lipstick that deflated unless the audience pumped air into

*Not only does he build them larg

er but he keeps all aspects of the object in proportion

http://www.oldenburgvanbruggen.com/

Dale Chihuly

*sculptor who creates

uniques pieces of glass art

*Has been blowing glass art since the 1960's

*Much of his work takes on everyday objects and nature

*This particular work holds

3,200 pieces of colored glass, weighs about 1,400 pounds and made up of 14 different types of glass

http://www.chihuly.com/

Gustav Vigeland

*Sculptor who focuses on the human form

*Was born in Norway and began with woodcarvings and drawings

*Many of his sculptures feature naked humans

*this particular statue

is located in Vigeland park and is called the fountain

* It consist of a collage of human forms intertwined

Pear

l Fryar

*Has been making cutting garden art

since 1984

*Started with his own yard

which attracted

attention from neighbors

*Inspiration really began when he decided to when garden of the month

*His works of art called topiary where neded at the Museum in

Colombia where he was commissoned to create a garden.

http://www.fryarstopiaries.com/index.asp

Sarah Sze

*Born in Massachusetts

*American artist and sculptor based in Newyork and Cambridge

*Sze takes everyday objects and turns them into

sometimes massive sweeping forms

http://www.sarahsze.com/index.html

Cai Guo Qiang

*Chinese installation based artist

*Was the son of a historian and a painter

*Trained in stage design at the Shanghi art instistute

*He started off using a lot of gunpowder, making interesting explosions

*His approach draws on a wide variety of symbols, traditions, and materials such as feng shui, Chinese medicine, dragons, roller coasters, kites, boats, computers, live animals, and vending machines.

http://www.caiguoqiang.com/

Andy Warhol

*American painter, printmaker who was a leading figure in the visual pop art movement

* He did record producing, filmaking,painting and author

*He came down with a disease in his early ages that had him bedridden and he listened to movie stars on the radio which influenced his work greatly

http://www.warholfoundation.org/

James Hopkins

*British artist who takes everyday objects and slyly transfroms them into all together different objects

*Loves to play on the idea that we rely on the most (eye sight) is untrustworthy.

http://images.google.com/images?client=safari&rls=en&q=british%20artist%20james%20hopkins&oe=UTF-8&um=1&ie=UTF8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi

Francis Alys

• Born in Antwerp Belguim and currently lives in Mexico
• Alot of his work is videotaped processes
• Paradox of Praxis- pushed a block of ice around for nine hours until it melted to show that much of the effort and work we do we have nothing to show for it.
• When Faith moves mountains. 500 people stood in a line outside peru and moved a sand dune back four inches using shovels

Jasper Johns

• Born in augusta Georgia and grew up south carolina
• Much of his work revolves around his fascination with the flag and what it can represent
• He first got noticed when an artist named Castelli bought four pieces of his work an an exhibition
• He did a flag which was an exact duplicate of the one Americans are familiar with but over a collage of newspaper, then one was in monochrome which in a way can mean a number of things to different people depending on their race since it had no color and another that had three seperate pieces that created a three d effect

Rachel Whitebread

British artist who was the first to win Tumer Prize which

• Did a lot of cast mouldings to build sculputres that alot of times represented some part or time in her life
• Memorial in Trafalgar Square, was the same piece upside down on one another but the top piece reflected light and changed colors depending on how the sun hit it
• One piece she did called Embankment Square represented a time when her mother died and she felt like she was surrounded by nothing but boxes. So for this pieces she filled white boxes in a room stacked on one another
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• Liz Craft
• What She does alot is takes everyday objects and cast them in fantastical scenarios
• Born 1970 in Los Angeles
• Used a lot of bronze to make her work more permenant
• An imaginary pony that was being painted by a skeleton
• Also did a play on an ordinary mermaid and took the sexual aspect out of it by making the body and face of that of an old lady "Old Maid"
• Kara Walker
• Black artist born in Stockton California
• Alot of her work examines Americas racial and gender tension
• She makes cutout silhoutees and places them on white backgrounds

Gabriel Orozco

Conceptual artist who creates twist on everyday objects

Patricia Piccinini (born in 1965 in Freetown, Sierra Leone) is an Australian artist. Her art work came to prominence in Australia in the late 1990s. Patricia Piccinini (born in 1965 in Freetown, Sierra Leone) is an Australian artist. Her art work came to prominence in Australia in the late 1990s.Nick Cave

· Fashion and unique custom designer

· Elements of engagement through sound and movement

· Sound Suits

· Oval Billiard table- miniature pool table that is uneven

· La. Ds- car machine that functions, expresses motion by design

· Cats &Watermelon- sat cat food cans on watermelon in a store

Black Kites-graphite skull with square design printed all over

Tom Friedman

· Mexican sculptor born in veracruz

S Studied art in mexico city and had interest in mapping and geometric complexity

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· Green Demon- mixture of different materials to create a demon face

· Which- black arrows made of paper in the shape of a Christmas tree

· Inside Out- box with things spewing out maybe to rep. artist life & thoughts

· Being- human form made with polystyrene

· Untitled- starburst made out of 30,000 toothpicks

· Aluminum foil thing- foil objects suspended together

Tom Thompson

· Canadian painter who directly influenced what would be known as the group seven

· Jack Pine

· Northern River

· Painted a lot of nature

Jean Michel Basquiat

Was the first african american to gain international fame

Was born in brooklyn newyork

Neo-expressionist artist, graffiti with spray painting

was fluent in french, spanish and english at an early age

William Kentridge

· South african artist who does alot of short animated films

· Fire walker- woman carrying a brazier on her head

Matthew ROnays

Was born in louisville kentrucky

His art occupies a space where illustration, tableau, sculpture, and installation all intersect in harmonious indifference to one another.

Beginning in 2004, his arrangements of discreet, colorful, mutated objects evoked wild manifestations of surrealist imagination and hallucinogenically induced visions, with distended narratives designed to provoke or even outrage viewers through their irreconcilable compositions and outrageous imagery, such as drooping anuses skewered on a pole.

like Dada and Surrealist artists earlier in the 20^th century and American Funk musicians of the 1970s, whose work employed metanarrative, metaphor, provocation, and fantasy as devices for addressing human behavior in times of social upheaval, Ronay’s work has been a manifesto of the spirit, screaming back at us with pieces that suggest that fear, pain, and violence have replaced pleasure in a society increasingly indifferent to war and terrorism.

Surereal gay picnic with a twist

Ori Gersht

He was born in Tel Aviv Israel

Gersht’s photographic process uniquely incorporates specific environmental conditions with an awareness of memory,
experience, and embedded history. There is a defined relationship of this in how the photographic medium is engaged. With an understanding of the chemical and physical limitations of film, of which Gersht is never shy to push the boundaries of, that often turns out to be a more dimensional and resonant vehicle for portraying a mechanism of meaning through the imprint of time, light, and phenomena that perhaps expose the capacity and limitations of human memory as well.

Where Gersht’s work has often been an exploration of his personal origins, it is always through his departures into new
and sometimes revisited landscapes where, along the way, are found the means and conditions of making his images. At
times the passing motion of a train window’s vantage or the evaporating dew on the camera lens, there is always a specific
notion of how these places were encountered and how the resulting pictures of them come to be, not in the mere passivity of the camera’s frame, but with a physical engagement with the place and its conditions.

Anya Gallacio Like weve never met

Anya Gallaccio attended Kingston Polytechnic and Goldsmiths' College at the University of London, and now lives and works in London.

Gallaccio's work is primarily concerned with nature, beauty and decay, often using ephemeral materials with which she references the cyclic nature of life and death. The works' multi-sensory and experimental aspects allow the viewer to engage with the rich tactile elements as well as the conceptual grounding of each piece. The works are often in a permanent state of flux, and are displayed in a variety of settings.

Robert Morris

ert Morris 1931-, American artist, b. Kansas City, Mo. He settled in New York City in 1960 and was allied in his early work with the simple, impersonal forms of minimalism , e.g., an untitled 1965 work consisting of four blocks of gray fiberglass. He also often used mirrored surfaces in his sculpture. Implicit in his work is the idea that art can be made of anything. Morris's style and media have changed many times during his career. He has used nonrigid materials such as felt and even steam—precluding reproducible forms and emphasizing the process of art—and was also involved in conceptual art and land art . He is known for his enormous multipart sculptures of the 1980s, which include a wide variety of materials, notably casts of body parts and skeletons. Morris has also experimented in performance art , incorporating dance, theater, and the plastic arts. He is a rigorous theorist of art and an influential teacher.

James Turrel

He is best known for his work in progress, Roden Crater. Located outside Flagstaff, Arizona, Turrell is turning this natural cinder volcanic crater into a massive naked-eye observatory, designed specifically for the viewing of celestial phenomena. His other works usually enclose the viewer in order to control their perception of light; a James Turrell skyspace is an enclosed room large enough for roughly 15 people. Inside, the viewers sit on benches along the edge to view the sky through an opening in the roof. He is also known for his light tunnels and light projections that create shapes that seem to have mass and weight, though they are created with only light. As a lifelongQuaker, Turrell designed the Live Oak Meeting House for the Society of Friends, with an opening or skyhole in the roof, wherein the notion of light takes on a decidedly religious connotation. (See PBS documentary). His work "Meeting," at P.S. 1, is a recreation of such a meeting house.

Gian Lorenzo Bernini

· Sculptor with a lot of religious pieces made of marbleworked chiefly in Rome, was the pre-eminent baroque artist. Eminent as a sculptor and architect, he was also a painter, draftsman, designer of stage sets, fireworks displays, and funeral trappings.Bernini was born in Naples and accompanied his father Pietro Bernini, a well known Mannerist sculptor himself, to Rome. His first works were inspired by Hellenistic sculpture that had been brought to Rome in imperial times.

· Trvi fountain

· Urban VIII

· Bldachin

· Apollo and daphne- Apollo pursues daphne and her father turns her into a laurel tree

Micheal Ray Charles

· Poster paints of African americans, stereotypes

· Fantasy, Reality, Tragedy- Africans really didn’t have freedems

· Bang, Bang-not free from sterotype of violence

David Choe

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Banks Violette

· Contemporary artist that emphasized horror and darkness

Violette was born inIthaca, New Yorkand studied at theSchool of the Visual Arts in New York earning at BFA in 1998, and graduated with an MFA fromColumbia Universityin 2000.

· Untitled- stage equipment cast in salt, portray essence of band, lead singer was encased in coffin during performance

· Black hole- damaged a speaker and color it black

· Untitled- ravaged drum set, walls surrounding by large graphite drawings

Rebecca Horn

• began her work in 1970s and creates an overflow of performance pieces
• The essence of their imagery comes out of the tremendous precision of the physical and technical functionality she uses to stage her works each time within a particular space.
• has done ·
• Creates short films and writes poetry which has an impact on her installation art, bodily extension

  · Finger Gloves- bodily extension of fingers

  · Unicorn- subject is a woman in a field with horn strapped to her head

  alot of body extenstion pieces

Robert Gober

·

American sculptor (sexuality, religion, natural, politics) born in 1954 Conneticut

Tyler art of school in Rome

· Minimalism movement

· Untitled- realistic human leg with clothing and shoe coming out of wall

· Untitled- two girl legs with sandals coming out of what appears to be a sink

· Untitled- combination of a woman side with breast with male right side of body

Nick Cave

· Fashion and unique custom designer

· Elements of engagement through sound and movement

· Sound Suits

Tim Noble and Sue

· Use low-grade materials including rubbish to make assemblages and point light on it to create shadows

• collaboration of british artist

· Real life in rubbish, a shadow self portrait

· Shiegeo- motorcycle shadow made of forks, knives and other materials

Yuken Teruya

Born in Okinawa, Japan in 1973, he received his MFA from the school of Visual Arts, New York in 2001

· Uses a lot of nature pieces

· Notice Forest- Tree made out of reflective material that reflected light in a room

· Lost and Found- uses a newspaper with colorful painted trees coming out

Sublackwell

· Uses everyday objects to form intricate pieces of work which are handmade

· Coco Fusco

· Performance arts and collaboration with other arts, and feminist work

· Mika Rottenberg

Tim Hawkinson

· detailed and complex artist

Themes that included own body and works mostly in sculpture

Artist born in San Franciso, California

Graduated from San Jose University

· Drip- inspired by raindrops to create it in a majestic way

· Ground

Katharina Fritsch

· Large sculptures of usually single objects or living beings and installation pieces

born 1956 in germany

completed her studies in 1981 at Kunstakademie Dusseldorf

· Madonnengigur(Maddonna Figure) two woman statues beside each other in yellow

· Flige(Fly) big fly black and white

Eduardo Recife

is an artist/illustrator, graphic designer, and typographer from Brazil. He is the man behind Misprinted Type, a well known website focusing on his personal works (collages and drawings) and his world wide famous typefaces.

He has been in the business of design for over ten years.

Mediums that Recife has worked with include pencil, paint, computer, photography, and collages. Recife’s illustrations have a characteristic vintage feel and an old-era style

RRon Mueck

Hyper Realist Sculptor

London-based photo-realist artist. Born in Melbourne, Australia, to parents who were toy makers, he labored on children’s television shows for 15 years before working in special effects for such films as “Labyrinth,” a 1986 fantasy epic starring David Bowie.T

he exhibition Ron Mueck includes about 15 mixed media works on loan from the artist’s collection, major museums, and private collections. Mueck employs imitation and illusion to explore the ambiguous relationship between reality and artifice, creating figures that express the contradictions between the real world and the imaginary. The figures seem to be alive: every detail – veins, wrinkles, moles, body hair, rashes – is crafted to such perfection that the result is remarkably convincing and deeply troubling. The size of the works – always smaller or larger than human scale – is equally disconcerting.

Patricia Picinniborn in 1965 in Freetown, Sierra Leone) is an Australian artist. Her art work came to prominence in Australia in the late 1990s.

She immigrated to Australia in 1972 with her family. She graduated with a Bachelor of Economics from the Australian National University or ANU, before training in Fine Art (majoring in drawing) in Melbourne. Her mixed media works include the series Truck Babies, and the installation We are Family which was exhibited in Venice in 2003. Piccinini works with a wide range of media, including sculpture, video, drawing, installation and digital prints.

Iman Maleki

Iman was born on 1976 in Tehran. He has been fascinated by the art of Painting since he was a child. At the age of 15, he started to learn painting under the mastery of his first and only teacher - Morteza Katouzian - who is the greatest realist painter of Iran. Meanwhile, he began to paint professionally. In 1999 he graduated in Graphic Design from the Art University of Tehranan was born on 1976 in Tehran. He has been fascinated by the art of Painting since he was a child. At the age of 15, he started to learn painting under the mastery of his first and only teacher - Morteza Katouzian - who is the greatest realist painter of Iran. Meanwhile, he began to paint professionally. In 1999 he graduated in Graphic Design from the Art University of Tehran

Brian Duey

Is a famous pencil drawing artist who was born in grand rapids michigan

Strives to do realist drawings but add conceptual ideas too

Draws a lot of famous musicans

Work has been published in book, greeting cards and magizines

Kat Von D

Does alot of human tattoos

Born on March 8th, 1982, in the town of Nuevo Leon, Mexico, she moved to the States when she was four, settling in Colton, Ca.

her first tattoo came at age 14, an old english "J" on her ankle, a memento of a love gone-by. Shortly thereafter, realizing her natural art ability, in early 1996 her friends asked her to pick up the machine and get to work on them (her first effort was a Misfits skull with a homemade rig), the tattooing wasn't easy but she knew it felt right and she knew she wanted to pursue it. In 1998, she began working in her first professional shop, Sin City Tattoo, a local place in her neighborhood. A year and a half later, she moved on to Blue Bird Tattoo in Pasadena for a year then on to Red Hot Tattoo in Arcadia.

Noriko Ambe

is an artist who draws/cuts on paper, atlas and sketch book which has many layers.