Artist: Maurits Cornelis Escher

He is best known for his oil paints, but he is also considered one of the founders of English landscape painting with watercolor. Within his travels of Europe he found his own style, known as “Painter of Light”, which created scenes of luminous imagery using brilliant colors and had only been 17 years old when he received the Great Silver Pallet for landscape drawing from the Royal Society of Arts (2015).

Honore Daumier was a French artist most famously known for his caricatures and lithographs. While he was highly credited with these artworks, he was a man of many mediums, studying in these as well as painting, printmaking and sculpting. He had a strong passion for the arts from an early age, as many of the greats did, and it was sharpened into what we know now as the great works of Honore Daumier.

An artist that inspires me is Diego Fazio. He makes intricate realism drawings of people in a way that requires great artistic skills. His work shows great control and understanding over light and perspective. He showed me that realism can be a beautiful form of art that is able to reflect an artist’s emotions effectively. One of my favorite artworks of his is a drawing of a girl with water pouring over her face called “ Reflesso”. No matter how long you stare at the drawing you will not believe that it is not a photograph. My other favorite is called “ La Mia Gioia”. It is of a man who appears to be choking and in pain. The drawing reflects Fazio’s emotions in a distinctive way that echoes his personal experiences.

M.C. Escher occupies a unique spot among the most popular artists of the past century. While his contemporaries focused on breaking from traditional art and its emphasis on realism and beauty, Escher found his muse in symmetry and infinity. His attachment to geometric forms made him one of modernism’s most recognizable artists and his work remains as relevant as ever.

Every painter has a certain style of painting, whether it's intentional to paint abstract or unintentional to paint as a modernist. I analyzed Abigail Kuchar’s artwork. She is an artist at Western Washington University. Currently, she is enrolled as a student and working on her Bachelor of Fine Arts. Recently, she exhibited her work in a Symbiotic Qualia, Western Gallery (group BFA Thesis Exhibition). Her ideas on visuals are very unique as compare to another artist. Her work is heavily influenced by reoccurring natural forms and patterns, representing, the specific shapes that have been successful in a variety of different applications. For example, the formation of bubbles, lichen, barnacles, anemones, spores, pollen, and seed pods, all have similar compositions. By creating work that includes these forms, the viewer is presented with something unusual, but vaguely familiar. Her material used in the artwork is environment-friendly.

Louis Jean Francois Lagrenee. The reason I chose this painting is because for me it

One artists in particular whose work stood out to me was Claire Pentecost with her work Soil-erg. This distinct exposition was located in the hearth of

Andy Goldsworthy (Rivers and Tides) he is a very unique artist to start with, he uses medium in his art works that is found within its surroundings and turn it into a work of art. He likes to be always connected with nature, he loves the sea and river in connection with time as his concept. His work are in the patterns of snake like or river like shapes and an egg shape pattern. I like his work because it makes me feel at peace with nature which gives me a relaxing effect especially with the sound of water as a background while watching the art work.

Survival Artist was written by Eugene Bergman. This book is very good book to learn an individual record of his Holocaust survival as a deaf person. Despite the fact that Bergman, a resigned Gallaudet educator, is a deaf author, he didn 't encounter any deaf citizens or deaf culture until his arrival into the United States after WWII. He became deaf at nine years old as the consequence of an assault by a trooper not long after Germany attacked Poland during September 1939. The Nazi trooper assaulted him with the rifle, when he woke from concussion, he couldn’t hear anything ever again. The author pointed that he was able to speaking but not very well. He was explaining that his family later hired a Jewish-German outsider speech professor to instruct the young man how to read lips despite the fact that Bergman talked just Polish and Yiddish, which were incomprehensible to the instructor due to his early age. Obviously, the lessons fizzled. All through the conflict days, the youthful Bergman just could read lips and comprehend the expressions of his more established sibling, Bronek. Meanwhile, his endurance regularly relied on upon it, Bergman turned into a shrewd observer of individuals keeping in mind the end goal to comprehend the terrible environment which was during the Holocaust. Bergman survived during WWII with his knowledge of Polish and Yiddish spoken languages. He was able to reading lips by anyone who spoke these languages but not German.

Two of the most extensively analyzed works of art are Diego Velasquez's Las Meninas and Jan Van Eyck's Arnolfini Double Portrait. Both of these artist's talent won them recognition not only during their lifetime but after as well. Both Velasquez and Van Eyck have a justly earned title as the most talented artists of their respective times. A detailed examination of the details and intricacies of these artist's respective masterpieces, their similarities, and what sets them apart not just from each other but from other paintings from their time period and style, will lead the viewer to a better understanding of the mentalities of these gifted artists and how they transcend their respective genres and contemporaries to create their own

Razcal Life aka Luis Alejandro is an illustration artist from Virginia that renders the energy of millennial culture with bubble gum color. His Kali Uchis themed lotto tickets, chicken leg pins, and bedroom corners "filled with money + memories" genuinely embody our urban essence. One of the first things I noticed about Alejandro's work is the sense of familiarity. Its carried through his illustrations, soundcloud creations...tweets. You can find more of Razcal Life's artwork and some pretty cool tunes by visiting his website. Add him on Instagram via

Titian a young artist had a weird childhood consisting of day and night training, painting with fruits, and working alongside masterminds of medieval art. Titian was titled as one of the most inspirational artist of the Knights and Castle Era. He overcame adversity and learned what it truly meant to be an intelligent artist. To fully understand Titian, one must understand his background, who was his inspiration, and the deeper meanings he infused into his paintings.

“It is Puryear’s combination of enigma and skill that makes him so strong an artist.” Martin-puryear." Http://biography.yourdictionary.com/martin-puryear. The Gale Group, Inc, 2010. Web. 18 Nov. 2015

thoughts. Over the years of history, artists such as Vincent Van Gogh, Pablo Picasso, and many

John Everett Millais and his colleagues were famously known for painting items sourced from the modern world and literature while at the same time utilizing traditional attires. These artists carried out their work directly from nature. Their role model was John Ruskin who inspired artists to go to nature and work wholeheartedly. John Everett Millais and his colleagues used pure color and defined structures. They focused primarily on the truth and reality.