Maurits Cornelis Escher 's World 's Most Famous Graphic Artists

It wasn’t until 1822 that his family allowed him to study the arts. They let him work under Alexander Lenoir, an artist and architect, that introduced him to some of the classic sculptors and artists like Titian and Rubens. He was pushed in a healthy direction by Lenoir, and soon began formal study at the Academie Suisse.

He started studying at the Royal Academy in London and married Esther Kenworthy in 1883 then moved to St. John’s Wood. They lived in a purpose built artistic colony .”Early in his career his works appeared similar to the the works of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema” and he painted many distinctive painting and was influenced by many talented artist before him. He produced over 200 paintings during his lifetime including “The Lady of Shalott,” “Boreas,” and,“The Crystal Ball.” “ He painted many excellent portraits of women”. His paintings were rich for their color, and was neglected through most of the 20th century. He produced works of mythological and literary themes through the 1890s and 1900s. He taught at St. John’s Wood art school between 1892 and 1913. He left no diaries or journals, and died of cancer in 1917.

At the beginning of the 1800s illustrators like Felix Octavius Carr Darley were typically on staff at printing companies, or in the newspaper offices. On average they would create their works with on-the-block engravers or lithographic stone plates. If they weren’t appointed to draw, coloring was their alternative means of collecting a paycheck. However, such opportunities went to a very meager amount of illustrators because at the time art training was scarce in America, so most illustrators had to teach themselves. However, overseas in Europe the illustration profession fared much better. (www.illustrationhistory,org)

Well you want to know about Leonardo da vinci. Let’s talk about him. Leonardo da vinci was born April 15, 1452. He then died on May 2, 1519 at the age of 67. Leonardo da vinci was known for his art and science smartness. It was honestly insane how smart he was by the time he was 18. When he was 18 he was doing all kind of sorts of stuff that was almost impossible. When Leonardo da vinci was 5 years old he was taken from his mom. He had very very little education but when he was 14 he was interested in anatomy which is the study of the human body. He was studying bones and all that is in the body and how it functions. When he saw what the human body looked like he then drew very detailed drawing in his notebooks. When he would them though he would draw them backwards. With all of the objects that he had seen with exploring a lot he found objects to make different machines or vehicles. When he would draw in the notebooks he would draw so many things that it kind got overwhelming. When he would draw some of the drawing he got so many ideas he couldn’t remember some of them because there were so many. When he would draw in his notebook he would just draw those things he would also do his sculptings and his weapons of war. He was also the one who painted one of the most famous paintings. The mona lisa. Around 1495, Ludovico Sforza, then the Duke of Milan, commissioned to leonardo da Vinci to paint ‘the last supper’ on the back wall of the dining hall inside the building of

Leonardo da Vinci was employed by the Sforza family where he worked for them as their architecture and military advisor as well as a painter and sculptor. After working with the Sforza family for many years, da Vinci carried on with his life, bouncing back and forth between working as an artist and as an inventor. In his late years, da Vinci found that his curiosity led him to study the mechanics behind the human body. By dissecting and observing the human body, he was able to understand many mysteries of the human body; he was even able to make the discovery that the human heart has four chambers instead of two. His famous sketch of the “Vitruvian Man” depicted the anatomy of the human.

      Born on February 28, 1977 in Los Angeles, CA, African American Painter Kehnide Wiley grew up in an environment that was driven by some of the defining elements of “hip-hop, the violence, antisocial behavior, and streets on firestreets on fire” (Whiley Studio). . These environmental factors never stopped Wiley from pushing his career. Both him and his twin brother were constantly motivated by their mother to pursue their dreams. On weekends, she would send them to art classes at a conservatory and after school she would have them on lockdown in order to keep them away from the influences in the environment they lived.

Many things ended up impacting his style of photography and one of his favorite muses were his lovers. He had many love affairs that continuously made him grow as an artist since he liked different things about them. His first love affair took place in the year of 1913 with a woman by the name of Margrethe Mather. She influenced him to go from the pictorialist style to more of a landscape and nudist photographer. He started photographing nature such as plants and vegetables and nudes.

The leader of Pop Art, Andrew Warhola, was born on August 6th, 1928. His parents Ondrej and Ulja Warhola were both Czechoslovakian immigrants, before giving birth, they moved to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Ondrej and Ulja had two elder sons named John and Paul. During his adolescence years, a plethora of different health disorders had affected Andrew, such as; Sydenham’s chorea and Scarlet fever. Andrew constantly received treatment which caused him to develop a fear towards hospitals. As he had poor health conditions, Andrew missed school and became an introvert confining himself to the solitude of his room; listening to the radio, collecting pictures, and becoming obsessed with celebrities. These activities initiated him to

Les Mason was born in California, USA in 1924. He studied painting and interior design at the Choinard Art Institute in Los Angeles, California. Prior to moving to Melbourne in 1961, he worked in commercial art and advertising. At the time printing companies and agencies made decisions on how packaging, advertising and branding was designed. He changed this and revolutionized the industry by establishing graphic design as a professional practice.

In early september 1917 he was drafted into the army.when the united states entered WWI. He found army life far from pleasant but an opportunity for his writing and his painting he sought. He had found a way out by overacting eye trouble. Soon again he found himself right where he was. Working for the catholic hospital.

The piece of art that I am analyzing for this reflection is, “At 54,” created by Riva Lehrer in 2013. According to her website, she used acrylic and collage as her choice of medium, which adds texture and multiple dimensions to a typically flat painting (Lehrer). The background is a textured blue, with gold star constellations towards the top. In the foreground is a white middle-aged woman in a pink outfit. She is positioned like a marionette with puppet strings attached to a wood tool to control the puppet, which she is holding and is coming out off of the canvas. Her outfit consists of a sheer tank top, which is held together in the middle by blue string, and a skirt held up by the same blue string. It appears that the skirt is coming out

On September 4, 2016, I visited the Matisse in His Time exhibit at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art. This exhibit is home to a plethora of pieces by many different European artists from the 19th and 20th centuries. While it is focused on Matisse and his extensive works, containing more than 50 of his pieces, there are many portraits and sculptures by other influential artists from that time period including Renoir, Picasso, and Georges Braque. Three of the most appealing works that I encountered in this exhibit are Maurice de Vlaminck’s Portrait of Père Bouju, Pablo Picasso’s Reclining Woman on a Blue Divan, and Henri Matisse’s sculpture series Henriette I, Henriette II, and Henriette III.

After working with his uncle at the age of eighteen, he was invited by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti in 1927 to come join 'the second generation of Futurist' where they showcased his work in several exhibitions and continued into the 1930s. He was a major influence in his life as he sparked the artistic desire within

Maurits Cornelis Escher, according to me, is an artist who can show you a complicated building or a wonderful landscape look perfectly real, for example, Castrovalva. And he is also capable to create an impossible world by using something actual. The reasons I have been amazed by his art is because since I was a child, I loved doing math. I think the parts I did appreciated was because it was precise, you can only two possibilities either you are right or wrong, and the geometric shape. For this assignment I wanted to choose an artist who both pays attention about details and whose art had no resemblance to what I saw before or that people usually think when they are thinking about art, and I assume Maurits Cornelis Escher suits the description.

Leonardo da Vinci is one of the most remarkable painters, sculptors, architects and brilliant philosophers of all time. He was born on April 15, 1452 near Vinci but the biggest part of his life he spent in Florence where he began drawing and after a certain period-painting. When Leonardo was fourteen he began working with Andrea del Verrocchio, who was one of the most recognized painters of his day. Da Vinci’s work soon