Graphic Design: Les Mason

He completed a Certificate in 1965 at Caulfield Institute of Technology then received Associate Diploma of Painting from the National Gallery School in Melbourne. Having received student residencies from New York, London and Barcelona enabled him to immerse himself in different cultures, landscapes and urban images which influenced his earlier work, now his current work is a reflection of his hometown of Melbourne.

It was a grid like fabric with vertical and horizontal lines. Inside of every square that was created by both types of lines was a letter “X”. The X’s were combined by three types of color schemes; one was a solid red, another was camouflaged in dark and light grey and the last type of X was a tan and beige camouflage. The different colored X’s were mixed in an odd combination of twos, threes and fours or fives. This abstract piece of artwork resembled the letters coming down the screen of the movie, The Matrix. The red letters resembled the highlighted or primary ones then the tan/beige as the secondary and last the grey combination were the least important. The artist, Nela Ochoa (Venezuela, b. 1953) is representing a copy of her DNA map in an art form using fabric and ribbon called Materia Gris Incomleta [Grey Matter Incomplete],

I believe the artist used the yellow-green color for the cats coats to communicate that something bad could possibly happen if a nuclear war

Thomas Buchanan Read was born on March 12th, 1822 in Corner Ketch, Pennsylvania. Read only received an elementary school education and his father had a sudden death, which led Read to become an apprentice to a local tailor. The apprenticeship wasn’t so great either, it lead to a bad relationship containing abuse and cruelty. Luckily for Read the apprenticeship was very short lived. At the age of fifteen, Read started working in Philadelphia as a tobacconist and a grocer. Read also started to live in Cincinnati with his sister. In Cincinnati, Read took apprenticeship under Shobal Veil Clevenger. He learned to paint signs and learned sculpting through Clevenger.

According to Tree frog, “Graphic design is art with a purpose, and it involves a creative and systematic plan to solve a problem or achieve certain objectives, with the use of images, symbols or even words.” Aaron Douglas was an African American man who used graphic designs to help “by emphasizing the black culture and black aesthetic”(Blackpast.org). Aaron Douglas graphic designs allowed others to see from a different point of view through art rather than seeing things in words. His graphic designs gave an indirect message of the African American life through the use of art.

Gilbert Munger was born on April 14, 1837 in Madison, Connecticut. He showed interest and talent in art early in life. His family allowed him to follow this inclination by sending him at age 13 to Washington D.C. where he became an apprentice engraver, living at the home of William H. Dougal, who was a senior engraver for the Smithsonian. He worked at this trade for about ten years, producing many plates for various U.S. Government reports published in the

Lewis Vincent Floyd, was born in Norway in 1843. He worked with his dad, Markus Floyd, as a bricklayer; he built buildings. Lewis, found great pleasure in how the finished product looked. He enjoyed starting from nothing and ending with something incredible. Lewis knew since he was younger he wanted to be an artist. Although, he knew it would never happened. People from Norway never left Norway, and no one in Norway painted. So, each night him and his dad came home from work to his mother, Idus, and his sister,Astrid. They cooked dinner and all ate together, talking about their day.

Steve Jensen has been a working artist for over 30 years. He comes from a long tradition of Norwegian fisherman and boat builders, growing up on his father’s fishing boat. The image of the boat symbolizes a voyage or journey; perhaps it’s the voyage to the other side or the journey into the unknown. An award-winning artist, Steve has shown his work in multiple galleries on the west coast, across the country, and around the

In Art 101, we have been studying various art works but our group was intrigued by chapter twenty. This chapter is about the history between the eighteenth century and nineteenth century. We discuss the classical look for paintings and architecture. We also see how they develop through the following years. I find it most appealing with how many cultures created such art I will explain later. With European culture increasing with ideas, it created the art world we have today. There are three specific paintings I studied in chapter twenty that I enjoyed the most.

Tony Barnstone was born in Middleton Connecticut, son of acclaimed poet Willis Barnstone and visual artist Elli Barnstone. He grew up in Indiana, Vermont and Spain. He has resided in Spain, Greece, Kenya and China for years, prior to doing a Masters in English and Creative Writing as well as a PhD in Literature at the University of California at Berkley. Barnstone is also a notable translator of Chinese poetry and prose (Poets & Writers). As a translator, editor, poet and writer of fiction, Barnstone has been influenced by distinct figures such as James Wright, Federico Garcia Lorca, and T.S. Eliot. “His poems merge crisp, precise imagery with humour, a longer cadence and an essayistic or narrative arc”. Barnstone commented in an interview, “I think that the work of poetry can be important and that each poet needs to find his or her own way to make it so” (Poetry Foundation). He is currently teaching at Whittier College in Southern California, with a focus on Creative Writing, Literary Translation, Modern American Poetry, Twentieth Century American Literature and Asian American Literature (Whittier College).

Artists all around the world have used metaphor in their pieces of work to convey meaning. “A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.” Most if not all pieces of art you can see in a museum or out on the street have remanets of metaphor beneath them. Artists use metaphor in their work to tell a story or a time period or in this case meaning. As the old saying goes a picture is worth a thousand words. The artist distorts the image to the way he or she wants to see it or would want others to see it. For example, Otto Dix and James Gleeson are artists that are known for having and using metaphor and spirituality in their pieces of work. Otto Dix has

The piece that I am analyzing is an untitled work of pin striping on aluminum by two local artists, ModKustoms and Tanner Leaser, who signs his pieces simply as “Tanner”. As with most artists in this genre neither goes by their real or whole name. ModKustoms created the textured aluminum panel that Tanner used as his form to display his pin stripping. This piece was created in 2014 for a charity art auction benefitting the Scottish Rite Hospital (ModKustoms). The piece is a two-dimensional, rectangular work of art meant to hang vertically on a wall. This piece was created using aluminum, translucent candied enamel paint, and 1-one shot lettering enamel (Tanner).

Unlike some children who change their profession from the time they can speak until the time they actually get to college, Mark Tansey knew he would be an artist and he was determined to make it possible. Tansey attended classes at the San Francisco Art Institute as a teen, but graduated from the Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles in 1972. While he was there, he studied with artists such as Lorser Feitelson (modern artist). However, Tansey studied historic art in New York at Hunter College. In his work, he basically used simple objects, paintbrushes, and paint. He has been working around the New York and Los Angeles area most of his life. He lives in Los Angeles where he has a studio for him to continue his work.

To begin, I’ll be discussing question number one. Clearly, the artist Richard Caton Woodville had an “ambivalence regarding the war,” as Francis K. Pohl states

Stuart Devlin, born October 9, 1931, still alive, aged eighty-four years, grew up in Geelong. As a flawless pupil his teachers encouraged him to aim high. He decided to get a career in metalwork, earning a scholarship at the age of thirteen. The places he learnt at are the Gordon Institute of Technology, the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT), and also the Royal College of Art (RCA). He became an art instructor and obtained a post with the Melbourne College, where he completed a three-year diploma of Art in only one year part-time,