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| Francis Bacon |
Francis Bacon was born October 28th 1909 in Dublin. When Bacon was 16 years old he moved to London were for two years in moved to and from Berlin and Paris. Bacon never attended art school but he started to draw and work in watercolour, in 1929 he found himself designing furniture and called himself an interior designer. And the end of that year he began to create oil painting and exhibit them as well as furniture and rugs in his studio.Bacon hardly painted after his solo show in 1934 and in the 1930’s and early 1940’s he destroyed most of his work and started to paint none stop in 1944. Pablo Picasso deeply influenced Bacon’s work in the mid 1940’s and from then onwards till the 50’s. Bacon then started to become influenced by surrealism
Bacon soon developed his distinctive style of a figure painter. The painter included images of either friends or lovers, or images of people found in movies. His work consists of figures in physical pain, tortured and generally distorted figures.
His style of work is very similar to Lucian Freud and Jenny Saville who I have previously researched, Like Freud and Saville he uses very bold brush stroke and very handed using think dorbes of paint. Unlike Jenny Saville’s work is based around surgery Bacon’s work I based around his emotions and expressions certain feeling psychical and Physic pain and has a more dismal and darker approach. His work is vey dark and gloomy feeling which I believe the artist is trying to create he does this through techniques which make him very distinctive and professional. He is able to create tone and shade using different brush stroke a different colours of paint. He started his career using water colour as mentioned earlier but his made use of material is oil paint this being the thickness of the paint and how he can create certain brush strokes using this particular type of material.
I have created some of his work myself using different types of media I struggled to create the shading the same as Bacon does but I gave it a go and was pleased with the outcome. I am not a fan of Bacons work and do no wish work in his style but I will use his methods to help me with future work and techniques.
I will keep the research I have carried out for future reference
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| Lucian Freud |
Lucian Freud was born in Berlin on December 8, 1922. Freud's early years were simple with plenty of time for him to experiment with his feelings and expressions and express this in his work. When Adolf Hitler became Chancellor in 1933 Ernst and Lucie, Lucian’s parents realised it was time to leave and moved to London. After moving prep school it didn’t Take Lucian Freud long to be named the school bad boy besides being named the bad boy Freud learned from a very early age and was very talented. After publishing several drawings into the magazine Horizon, at the age of 17 Freud was mixing with homosexuals such as Stephen Spender, Cyril Connolly and Peter Watson after mixing with these people Freud began to stress the importance of homosexuality and expressed his views by literally burning part of his art school to the ground. After this life changing incident Freud joined the navy and hoped to start a new love but it wasn’t long before the bad boy Freud lost his navel licence and appealed for school. The school accepted his appeal and he began to continue his education, he soon found himself amusing the artist elite with his still life paintings, he painting many life models but his most repetitive paintings was of his first wife Kitty, after his divorce to Kitty he continued his work by repeatedly painting his second wife Caroline and also create painting of his close friends and other painters. After many years of drawing female models he began to draw and paint male figure in many different position all in which have downcast eyes. When he was asked why one of his most famous replies and quotes was “I paint what I see, not what you want me to see”. His work is very similar to the work and jenny Saville who was very familiar with nude models and the human figure but she has a tendency to focus on plastic surgery or surgery itself. Unlike Saville’s work Freud’s work is very dark and not very vibrant but uses a very similar technique using bold and strong brush strokes to create shade and tone.
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| Jenny Saville |
Jenny Saville was asked to create a series of work that would later make up her degree show in Glasgow, at this college degree show Saville’s career began to take shape. In 1993 Saville was asked to visit and exhibit her work at London’s Cooling Gallery the painting made it to the gallery but unfortunately Saville herself didn’t have the finance to attend, at this gallery Charles Saatchi spotted Saville’s work and decided to track her down and purchase paintings for his own personal gallery. After the comments and the interest he had created with Saville’s work he approached Saville an asked if she would create more paintings to fill his gallery paying her form August 1992 which dates before he even aw her work until January 1994 of cause Saville jumped at the chance because of the finance issues she had. Shortly after Saville crossed the ocean and moved to New York City for a while in the 1994, Saville spent many hours looking at the work of Dr. Barry Martin Weintraub who was a plastic based in the city. Taking many photography in the cosmetic surgeries and liposuctions, Saville had a better idea and understanding of the human body and the manipulations that can be created using surgery and modern medicines this also helped her understand not only the manipulations that could be mad but the psychology behind it as well.
Jenny Saville is well known for loyalty oil paintings as a medium. Although Saville finds a great inspiration in such media as video and photography and has been pressured into using these in here work but doesn’t feel they are really for her and would rather wok more traditional methods such as oil, oil dates back hundreds of years and this is what gives Jenny Saville her will to create such strong vibrant paintings.
Many people as well as myself compare and find many similarities between Saville’s and Lucian Freud’s work, he also creates painting using oil and uses and very similar style of painting. Even though Saville was not afraid to use her own body in her work, Saville’s personal life in not often discussed although she has been involved with fellow painter Paul McPhail since two first met in art school, she continued to work and still working to this day.
I am not too keen on Jenny Saville’s work because of the way she uses her brush strokes and creates tone, she creates shade using tones of colours mixed together and applies the paint very heavily and her paintings are always very colourful and vibrant. I will continue to refer to Jenny Saville in the future and will use her work to influence me.
I like John Heartfield because his work is very unique and patriotic, he work is based around Germany and the world war 2 period.I have researched Heartfield before for a photomonatage project and liked his work straight away
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| Shephard Fairey |
I first found Shepard Fairey when i was creating my final piece in GCSE art and design. i like his waor and still use his work as insperation.
All his work has the same same and colour selection, he works with stencils, Print and Grafift.
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| Peter Blake |
From 1946 to 1951 the British painter and illustrator Peter Thomas Blake attended Gravesend Technical College and School of Art and then transfered to the Royal College of Art in London, which he left in 1956.
Peter Blake's early work is dominated by two major subjects: fantastic scenes from the world of the circus and naturalistic paintings with autobiographic elements.The imitation of the popular image world of event posters, which Blake combined with portraits, was typical of his work. Circus characters and children reading comic books are among the artist's typical motifs. In style and content both types of pictures paved the way for English Pop Art. Thanks to a Leverhulme scholarship, Peter Blake had the opportunity to travel through Europe from 1956 to 1957, where he acquainted himself with the artistic trends of the time.
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| Ben Nicholson |
Ben Nicholson's work has come to be seen as the quintessence of British modernism. His austere geometric paintings and reliefs are among some of the most influential abstract works in British art.
Ben Nicholson was born in Denham, Buckinghamshire in 1894. Both his parents were artists, one the brilliant poster designer Sir William Nicholson. Nicholson studied at the Slade School and then travelled widely in Europe and the United States for a few years.
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| Alan Fletcher |
Alan Fletcher was a British Graphic designer who worked with many different clients during his design career. In 1963, along with Colin Forbes and Bob Gill, they produced the book Graphic Design: A Visual Comparison. Alan has also produced a cover for Fortune Magazine in the year 1958. Alan has written many other books on the subject of graphic design. In 1994 Jeremy Myersons published a book on Alan's work called Beware Wet Paint. One of the more notable clients he had worked with was a company called Pirelli. They are a company that makes robotics and tyres. Their logo design is also noticable to any typographer.
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| Ed Ruscha |
Ruscha has consistently combined the cityscape of his adopted hometown with vernacular language to communicate a particular urban experience. Encompassing painting, drawing, photography, and artist's books, Ruscha's work holds the mirror up to the banality of urban life and gives order to the barrage of mass media-fed images and information that confronts us daily. Ruscha's early career as a graphic artist continues to strongly influence his aesthetic and thematic approach.
Ruscha has been the subject of numerous museum retrospectives that have traveled internationally, including those organized by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 1982, the Centre Georges Pompidou in 1989, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in 2000, the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in 2002, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney in 2004. Also in 2004, The Whitney Museum of American Art organized two simultaneous exhibitions: "Cotton Puffs, Q-tips®, Smoke and Mirrors: The Drawings of Ed Ruscha," which traveled to the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., and "Ed Ruscha and Photography." In 2005, Ruscha was the United States representative at the 51st Venice Biennale. The traveling exhibition "Ed Ruscha, Photographer" opened at the Jeu de Paume in Paris in 2006.
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| Terry Jones |
Besides the Python films, Jones' notable directorial ventures include "Personal Services", "Erik the Viking" and "The Wind in the Willows." He wrote the screenplay to the Jim Henson film Labyrinth. On television, he created the stylish comedy/adventure series Ripping Yarns with Michael Palin, which is, as I write this (May 2004), about to be rereleased on special edition DVD.
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| Rick Myers |
moved to the U.S. in 2008.
Solo exhibitions include: Printed Matter, New York (2011); White Columns, New York (2009);
Corner College, Zurich (2009) and No. 12 Gallery, Tokyo (2007).
Group exhibitions include: ‘Poetical Works from the Library and Archive 1908-2008’, Library
at Tate Britain, London; ‘Nieves – An Exhibition’, Printed Matter, New York (both 2009);
‘Different Repetitions’ curated by David Senior, Booklyn, New York (2010) and ‘Announcement
for a poem’ in collaboration with Ben Estes and Kim Gordon, Flying Object, Hadley MA (2011).
Performances include; MoMA PS1 as part of the NY Art Book Fair (2009). Artist’s books
include ‘Bite Marks in Paper’ and ‘Studies for Words’ with Nieves Books. Myers was recently
awarded a ‘Printed Matter Award for Artists’ (2011).
