Richard Hambleton's Image Mass Murder

He was already frustrated and upset about his lack of recognition by the art world, and this only added to his distress. Jean was a black artist in an art world run and viewed predominantly by white artists and collectors. many of these people saw him as a black artist first, not an artist who just happened to be black. This plagued him throughout his entire career and kept from him the recognition he deserved while still alive. He became unhappy and began heavily using drugs. Numerous of his friends tried to help but he was almost inconsolable. Through it all, he continued to work, but his art and his face reflected his unhappiness. The once vibrant young man was bitter, lonely, and frustrated. Most of his friends truly abandoned him, and he sank deeper and deeper into depression. His race and his cutting edge talent were held against him until the end of his career. On the morning of August 12, 1988, he was found dead in his loft of a heroin overdose. After his death he was found to have left behind over 1,000 paintings, none of them having been shown. it a shame what arist he

Keith Harring began using subways and streets in New York as his canvas when he made the move from his hometown of Kutztown, Pennsylvania in 1978. Before this move, he attended the Ivy School of Professional Art for two years after graduating high school. Harring's art draws influence from Dr. Seuss and Walt Disney, being that he found them fascinating at a young age. Harring shared his arts on the streets with other emerging artists such as Basquiat and Scharf, organizing exhibits at events where are, fashion, and music all came together as one. Haring also utilized empty advertising panels on subways, filling them with quick chald sketches of well known images of his career such a the "radiant baby" and the barking dog.Through the sketches

During the art era, Jacob Lawrence became very known. He started his art in the early 1930’s; when he was about 13, but became extremely famous by the age of 21 (Trice 2003). Jacob Lawrence was encourage by the Harlem community and the people supported his dreams (Trice 2003). In fact, Jacob Lawrence inspired many people later on in the art industry. The meaning behind his work was to how how vibrant Harlem was during the Renaissance. He also wanted to demonstrate how much the community worked

Below is a brief biography of one of the youngest African American artist Kara Elizabeth Walker. Walker was born in November 26, 1969 in Stockton, California, US. Currently, she lives in New York, NY. Walker’s dad Larry Walker is an art professor and her mother Gwen Walker is a clothing designer. In 1996, Walker married Klaus Burgel, who is a jewelry designer and they both gave a birth to a daughter name Octavia. Walker has been educated at Atlanta College of Art, BA, 1991 and Rhode Island school of design, 1994. Just right after she graduated in 1994, she started a career as a professor. However, the time when she traveled to New York City to join a meeting, her friend persuaded her to hand in her work in the Drawing Center. That was the turning point of a professor to an artist (“Kara Walker” Contemporary). Walker worked in a several of medium such as: “Paper cutouts, gouache mixed with coffee, brass rubbing and overhead projectors” (Harvey).

One of his piece called Portrait of a Black Panther, really caught my attention. I love how deep and dark the way he captured the intensity of the animal, yet keeping it bright and illuminated. I would like to base my painting off of the panther.

He also mixes ink and watercolours. During the mid 70’s he started to paint large scale murals at schools and at Sioux Lookout Fellowship. Also during the early 70’s he had his first solo exhibition of his black and sepia. also in his exhibition he had woodlands style paintings on paper and canvas at Aggregation Gallery in Toronto. What art form does he use?

Edward Munch piece of art titled The Scream (1983) was created in Oslo, Norway. It is one of the most popular work of art in the world and it is currently located at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Most of the paintings created by this artist were done in oil, pastel on cardboard; including this one. The characteristics of this piece of art present a subjective perspective, the artist didn't fail to capture the feeling or experience of the figure, even though he didn't achieve complete or accurate depiction, which makes this painting of a impressionism style.

He imagined himself first as a minister but later on as a pharmacist. While in the U.S. Marines, he discovered his love for drawing and became interested in art. After leaving the Marines he studied art in Paris, but moved away from the European ideas of art. He focused on abstract and pop art and was also involved in Expressionism. He rejected the seriousness of the Abstract Expressionists and searched for a new way of painting and finally decided not to focus on just one medium and instead used many different ones. His work had many lines that created shapes and forms along with the use of bold colors. Many different famous figures and people were included in his artwork and depicted

Mandred Kirchheimer’s “Stations of the Elevated Trailer” presented how how graffiti was elevated in the early 1980s. Graffiti artists used any surface as their canvas, and these canvases – walls, trains, cars, etc. - were available for everyone to see. Besides graffiti artists, an artist named Keith Haring, also used any surface available to him such as subways and advertisement walls . These works were temporary and limited, focusing on the time element of the piece, since he used temporarily empty advertisement walls on New York subway tunnels to display his work. Haring did about five thousand of these temporary drawings between 1981 to 1985. He used cartoon-like figures inspired by how break dancers bend and move. He was active in addressing direct message about AIDS and making these statements available for all of his audiences regardless of their sexual orientation, gender, race or income. The uprising of street art, proves how idea of postmodernism to question the authorities affected artists to break out of the traditional setting of museums and boundaries of hypocritical authorities that clearly divide their audience and artists by race or

Banksy is one of the most famous and mysterious street artists in the world. Helen Weaver, the art in an American magazine writer stated that,” Banksy was born in 1974 and was raised in the Bristol UK area. When he first started spray painting, he was ten years old.” “(1). Weaver Helen.” Banksy.” Art in America. Sep 18.2009. Web.11 Nov.2015. Banksy enjoyed the attention he received from the public. He loved using street art to express his inner feelings. He mostly uses graffiti to express his feelings. In the early years the authorities worked hard to remove his pictures from public places. They considered his art vandalism and destructive to the public. Vandalism is when someone deliberately destroys the public or private property, however, the public fought to save some of his pictures from authorities. Banksy is a very influential artist in his time. He was well respected and recognized by his fans all over the world.

Born in the state of Wyoming in 1912, to be later deemed as the, “Most powerful painter in contemporary America”, Jackson Paul Pollock, the “action painter”, was born. (1). Though Pollock had a rough childhood including an empty upbringing and numerous changes in residence across the United States, in the end, it all in the influenced his style of art. After moving to New York City in the 1930s, Pollock worked with numerous surrealists, muralists and others who influenced and shaped Pollock’s mature style and an era he opened the audience’s mind to, an era called, Abstract Expressionism.(2). Abstract Expressionism was an era that embraced a variety of individual styles, freedom of techniques, use of large canvases and a

I believe the artist created an expressive theory piece of art because Muniz used magazine pieces to re-create his version of New York City with amazing color and detail. The original Bellows’ oil painting is also expressive, but somber, darker and not as detailed in the background or as colorful as Muniz's artwork. Bellows’ artwork shows the New York City buildings with very little detail where Muniz used the strips of magazine pieces such as bodies, faces, mouths, teeth, lips, stairs, a zipper, a cobweb, fruit, and money to create the buildings in a very unusual and interesting way. These images seem to indicate the life and activities that are happening inside the buildings because of this incredible detail.

Jean-Michel Basquiat was a writer, performer, and graffiti wonder in late-1970s New York, he had sharpened his mark painting style of over the top jotting, slippery images and charts, and cover and-skull symbolism when he was 20. Basquiat drew his subjects from his own particular Caribbean legacy. His dad was Haitian and his mom of Puerto Rican drop and a joining of African-American, African, and Aztec social histories with Classical topics and contemporary legends like competitors and artists. Frequently connected with Neo-expressionism, Basquiat got huge praise in just a couple short years, indicating close by craftsmen like Julian Schnabel, David Salle, and Francesco Clemente. In 1983, he met Andy Warhol, who might come to be a coach and icon. The two worked together on a progression of sketches before Warhol's demise in 1987, trailed by Basquiat's own particular inauspicious passing a year later (ARTSY, Web).

He was one of the first artists to experiment with blueprint paper in the early fifties, and then he began to incorporate the everyday found objects and daily media images from the press, he wanted to act in the gap between art and life and

In 1968 he continued to explore other careers. He even published another book “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol”.