Richard Serr Art And Visual Experience

The two artworks I chose to use for my essay are the Merode Altarpiece by Robert Campin, and The Deposition by Rogier van der Weyden. Both paintings are from the Early Renaissance, and I found both of them in my textbook. (Campin painting: page 307 and Weyden painting: page 311 in book “ART: A Brief History”)

The material artists use for their artwork can influence the overall message of the piece. Jeff Koon works with a few different types of mediums which influence the image of the work. His piece Puppy, is a large sculpture of a dog in front of a building. The skeleton of this piece is made of stainless steel and is filled worth soil. The entire sculpture is covered with live flowering plants. I really liked this piece because the artist is using a living medium to create his work. This gives the dog a sense of being alive. In addition to this the medium used in this piece is very unexpected. Most sculptures are made of clay, metal, wood, etc. yet Koon used flowers which is out of the ordinary. Another sculpture by Koon is named Balloon Dog.

Sculptors took inspiration from pathos and drama to display exaggerated, dramatic, emotion-filled, more realistic pieces of art. They used common and holy people as subjects for sculpture, and used marble, sometimes stone, to create and depict their expressive character. Some of the most well know art sculptures that came from the Hellenistic period were: Laocoön and His Sons, The

The artist made great use of the elements, lines, colors, texture, and patterns. As well as other none strategic elements to make the eyes move around the fresco. A few elements that have been confirmed to be used in this fresco are kaolinite, calcite, and laic. These powered pigments that the artist mixed with water made very natural looking tones. These tones where used widely

World Renowned Sculptor Manuel Neri is one of the most brilliant artists of the 20th century. His works includes Mujer Pegada Series, paintings, drawings, and prints, though his primary medium is sculpture, his artistic talents has positions him in many facets of the art world. Born in 1930 in Sanger, California he spent most of his childhood in the San Joaquin and San Fernando valleys, where his parents worked as laborers. Neri attended San Francisco City College from 1949-50 with the intention of becoming an electrical engineer. A single class in ceramics turned him to art and a move to California College of Arts and Crafts and subsequent studies at California School of Fine Arts 1956–1958 (now the San Francisco Art Institute).

When an artist or architect creates some sort of architecture, sculpture or painting there is typically a reasoning or meaning behind why the artist or architect created the piece. It can be either a representation of their life or experiences, an idol or someone the individual looks up to or considers a model

After serving in World War II, Richard enrolled in the University of New Mexico where he painted the Albuquerque series, his master thesis. He was taking a flight above the clouds where he saw farm lands and farm roads. Albuquerque is an oil based paint on muslin that follows the idea of abstract thought. Richard is on of the greatest artist ofd the postwar era and many look up to him and his art abilities. I still have a hard time wrapping my mind around the abstract thoughts paintings. However, they are absolutely stunning paintings. They can be seen in all modern places throughout the world. Abstract paintings are taking over the art world for their unique looks. For such an odd painting, art like this make you appreciate the thought behind

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

Sculptures came in a variety of shapes and sizes. They were often made of wood, metal, cloth, or clay. These sculptures served as personal protection figures, symbols for supernatural powers, and representation of ancestors. Most sculptures were made to represent the human body, but some cultures never carve human faces so it resembled any individual in fear of accusations of witch craft. A great example of one such sculpture is Cango and Zaire.

James Turrell is a sculptor and designer born on the 6th of may 1943. He was born in Los Angeles, America to Quaker parents. When Turrell turned 16, he obtained a pilot license, for years, he restored antique airplanes to sustain his love for art. He obtained his bachelor degree from Ponoma college in perceptual psychology, he also studied math, geology and astronomy there. He enrolled in the university of California in 1966 and got into the graduate art studio program. After graduating, he obtained a space in an abandoned hotel in Santa Monica (Govan et al. 37). This space became his primary studio for the next 8 years, he started experimenting with light, shape and space. He was in the ‘Light and Space’ movement with artist Robert Irvine. By concealing windows and only allowing light from the streets, he created his first light projection. He is best known for his work in progress, ‘Roden Crater’, it is a natural cinder cone crater situated outside Flagstaff, Arizona.

It’s truly astonishing to see what an artist can create from a piece of clay. The entire process starts with an idea. Whether it be assigned be a company, or completely freelance work, everything that has been seen on screen or in an attraction has started as a simple idea or sketch. Once that assignment has been given, the work can then begin. In most cases, the artist is provided with a life cast of the model they will be applying prosthetics on to ensure that the pieces fit the model correctly. When the life cast is available, the artist will being to put layers of clay on it, and begin to shape and sculpt every detail

metal. Metal serverved as the principal material to many artists as a result of two socio-political happenings, first of all because scraps of this industrial material was easy to find and second of all because these men learned how to weld in wartime factories. Contrary to these male artists who weld metal scrap into sculpture, Nevelson built sculpture out of wood. She rejected to make use of her male companion's choice of medium because “she felt that the noise and other aspects of the mechanical technique insulted her sensibilities” besides the fact that she did not feel an ancestral connection to this material (Lisle, 129). Wood for Nevelson was more than just a cheap material that was found laying around almost everywhere around the city in forms of broken furniture, milk crates and toys. It represents the private realm of the society, the indoors of a home. Wood reminded her of her ancestors source of living, it represented “the

During the 1960s and 1970s, many of his low-lying, segmented works came to redefine for a new generation of artists the very nature of sculpture itself.

The work of Antoni Gaudi falls under the movement of Modernism and therefore is wrapped in the traits of exuberant forms, ornamentation, great attention to detail, vast use of plant motifs, and the preference to curvilinear and asymmetrical line. Along with his attention to great detail Gaudi integrated the use of ceramic tile, stained glass, wrought iron works and master crafted carpentry which ultimately enhanced the unique innovative design concepts in which he became noted for. Gaudi introduced new techniques to the architectural world such as trencadis, which is a type of mosaic made of waste ceramic pieces and which is one of the design details incorporated throughout his work, one example being the spires of the Sagrada Família. Gaudi's work always involved a distinctive use of materials in particular the use of texture and color arrangement which was almost always included along with his imaginative style using ornamental ironwork. His wrought-iron designs were arrived at independently and frequently in advance of the comparable experiments of mainstream Art Nouveau (Arnason and Mansfield 101). Gaudi

     Like African paintings, poetry, and woodcarvings, sculptures tell a tale and immortalize cultures and beliefs. Different artists have different styles (African Arts Information). Materials and styles differ from village to village. Most sculptors use green wood, copper, tin, zinc alloys, bronze, ivory, or terra cotta, a kind of earth ware. Most sculpture figures are believed to contain ancestor’s spirits. Others represent sacred ideas or events (Fetzer 106). Some objects are said to be magical and believed to have magical powers (African Arts). Africans carve figures, make masks, and decorate articles for ceremonies (Fetzer 106).