BANKSY

Banksy is a British-based graffiti artist, political activist, film director and finally, a painter; although his identity has remained a mystery, even after over 20 years of being involved within the graffiti scene. He has become the most notorious street artists in the world because of his political and bold street art that always portrays a visual messages. His also developed an entire art subculture devoted to his works. He has worked with many different styles of street art media. His work not only includes many powerful, often controversial images, but they may also be found throughout the internet as viral images.

The most common form of street art that bansky uses, is stencils. These are often in the form of multi-layered stencils or combined with other media sources such as spray paint. He also combines anything found within the street, for example street signs, building rubble, or even already made graffiti typography to convey his message, making beautiful street art.  His work is often ironic and combines dark humour, to most likely not make his work just about the depression and statements created by today’s society, politics or beliefs.

Although we may know a lot about banksy amazing art work and style of working, very little is known about him, as he refuses to be interviewed and keeps his identity carefully maintained. The media and his fans have always questioned about his identity as there has been a lot of accusations due to a variety of identity claims. Banksy also seems to partly create an importance to understand his character by a few of his graffiti art work. Recently there was a theory included in an article newspaper publication, pointing out his identity of being a Bristol resident by the name Robin Gunninham. But what's more shocking about bansky identity is that he has managed to completely hide it from his family, till this date no banksy identity claim has ever been correct.

The images I’ve presented are a few of his artwork that I consider to be a big impact on society, and also stand out the most to me because of how Bansky has presented and laid out the image, the colours are dark but still intriguing because of how one colour makes the other stand out more, complementing each other. Looking at the images, they make me wonder about the message he is conveying through the artwork, trying to communicate with the public in a visual perspective that makes you look deeper than the artwork itself, trying to also work out the identity of the artist through his pieces.

KAZIMIR MALEVICH

Kazimir Malevich painted ‘the black Suprematist Square’ in 1915, in the heat of World War 1. Although he did firstly consider and approach the idea 2 years before, in 1913. Originally the black square was not intended to have any symbolic meaning, its purpose was to solve artistic problems. However the painting encouraged a multitude of interpretations and even provoked sceptical remarks such as ‘so, this is also art?’ as anyone could paint a black square. In reality, ‘the black square’ is a very complex painting, creating and painting the square required a very  ssolid knowledge of colours, compositions and artistic proportions.

 I created the style by looking at a variety of different ways to arrange my squares. Displaying them in a variety of scales trying to make complex designs those similar to Malevichs style of working. After a while I wanted to change my concept and idea of making the designs complicated, so I changed them to simple but yet bold designs following Malevich creative style to show I was inspired and to be able to show my link towards his art work.

KAZIMIR MALEVICH

 What I like about his designs is how he makes some such simple designs, but yet they vary in composition and range of shades of the squares. Kazimir rarely used bright colours within his squares, the majority of his colour was scheme is dark colours, close to black. I believe he did this to make a bold statement within his designs, almost like a poetic piece of artwork that don’t clearly display its concept or statement, but gives you a chance to interpret the concept yourself, make you think of what the artist is really trying to make communicate.

  

JOSEF ALBERS STYLE OF WORKING

Josef Albers

    

Josef Albers is an American painter; born in the city of Germany, in Bottrop. He trained to become a teacher at Buren (a district of Paderborn in north Rhine_westphalia) in 1905-08, he taught for several years in a school. He believed that ‘teaching art is not a matter of imparting rules, styles, or techniques, but of leading students to a greater awareness of what they were seeing.’ He saw art work more as a visual of what others saw through their eyes, rather than what they were trying to explain thru the images. He cared more about the visual of the artwork.     

 Albers approach relied on direct observation and self-discovery. He absorbed in visual wonders, he would point out what others had perhaps viewed cursorily but not anticipated; the shape of the Yale football stadium, the spot of light that remains for a moment when a TV set is switched off, the way a red roof could merge with a blue sky etc. albers was, as his paintings and graphics reveal, deeply sensitive to the formal relationships of things, intensely conscious that everything in the visual field exists in context, and that every line and colour affects the next or adjoining line and colour.

  

While doing my inspired outcomes of Josef albers style, I thought more of how the colours blended together and the shades of colours he used on most of his art work, but a lot of his artwork involved bright bold colours so I mixed up and changed the shade of the colours so I could show I was inspired but wanted to make it a bit originally, so I mainly used darker shades of the colours that Josef also used to be able to link back to his work.

Some of my work is a very close match to his work, making it look like one his pieces, this is proving that I followed his style, but could have made more of an improvement to the outcomes to show more of a difference and originality. I could have done this by changing the scales of all the squares. Making bigger squares to show my own side of the artwork.

visit to london

Recently I was up in London visiting the national art gallery and also taking pictures of the statue that is currently displayed on the fourth plinth. The whole reason for the visit was because of my project of producing a miniature scale model of my idea of a sculpture designed to be placed onto the plinth; seeing the statue up in person would help me to see how a statue would look from a worm’s eye view, which will also give me a better understanding of the perspective viewpoints.

After taking a few photos of the blue French cockerel which is the currently sculpture placed at the plinth, I went into the gallery to see the verity of art work and artists displayed in the gallery, looking at what artists inspired me mostly by their visual outcomes or their style of working and drawings to then make my own outcomes. I found two artist that caught my attention and I found interesting to study. 

One of the artists was Jacob Van oost. His artwork that caught my attention was “portrait of boy aged 11”  the reason why this portrait interests me is because of the brush strokes and the texture of the painting itself, how it looks so clean and smooth interreges my interest and it inspires me to want to create a similar type of painting. Looking at the portrait, the colours that Jacob uses are softer and natural tonal colours, using more brown and skin type skins colours with the background creating a focus point on the portrait of the boy. Also the texture of the portrait looks smooth and relaxed. Jacob did not try to rush the portrait, displayed by the detail of the clothes and also the feather like paint strokes on the fur.

His style of working is not similar to mine as his paintings are not scruffy but very detailed. The work is about where Jacob spent most of his life, therefore painting someone from his country. Judging from his outfit he was probably a member of one of the members of the merchart families in bruges.

Another of my inspired artists within the gallery was quirteem maslys with his work of “the virgin and child enthroned, with four angels” what I see is a painting symbolising the crowing of virgin marry in the kingdom of heaven with four angels by her side preparing her for the ceremony. It’s showing me a spiritual image that portrays an emotion through the image of harmony and spiritual connection to marry. 

Looking at the paintings, it shows a lot of detail of the fabric and clothing, it’s a very realistic paining of the architecture of the chair that marry sits upon and also the clothing’s worn by marry, probably trying to get the focus on marry. Although there is a lot of detail within the painting there is some aspects that aren’t very well painted realistically as the rest of the painting; for example the faces of the angels and marry aren’t really painted to a realistic style, but more just focused on drawing of a visible face to represent marry as he might not have been clear of how she looks so he didn’t want to show a clear drawing. The painting is displayed in the gallery to show a story thorugh the other paintings, showing the life of marry and Jesus Christ.