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Sarah Morris

Born in England on June 20, 1967, Morris went to study at Cambridge and Brown Universities before attending the Whiteney Independent Study Program. Morris is both a painter and filmmaker, seeing the two medias as interconnected in a way. Morris describes the two media processes as “two sides of the same coin.”, creating the paintings and films simultaneously. She is best known for a abstract painting that feature bright colour fields and graphic line work, often referencing aspects of architecture and taking titles from bureaucratic institutions.

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SELF GEN PROJECT PRT 14

I’ve been really enjoying playing around with the colours on adobe photoshop. I did one pieces, where I focus on changing the colours. I really like the final outcome as I enjoy the contrast and with the black background, it allows the foreground colours to really pop. However, I decided to make another piece, similar as I liked the original tones in the actually picture of said building, but this time only is the tone range of the building. One I created the second piece. I found it amazing the complete different atmosphere to get for each one. With the first, more colourful piece, I feel energised and intense, but looking at the second, more beige colours, I felt more calm. I was really happy with the outcome and was proud with feeling I felt when admiring the artworks as I feel you can get that some atmosphere when looking around a city or a building.

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PETER BROWN

Peter Brown is a British Impressionist who paints a range of landscapes, cityscapes and still life. I really like the layered, and blended texture that is created and the quick look of his pieces.

I do want to spend more time practicing on drawing cityscapes and I have ideas for incorporating natures and colours.

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Serj Fedulov

Serj Fedulov is a Russian artist that focuses on urban landscapes and people. He mainly uses mixed media like acrylic, collage and watercolour. I especially like his urban landscape artworks because of the thick layers of paint being used and the collage or photography. I find his work really inspiring and effective. I feel I could use this mixed media style well with my new project.

I plan on doing some quick responses with paint and sketches to see if it works.

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HANNAH NUGENT

Yesterday I attended an online artist talk, where Edinburgh based artist Hannah Nugent talked about her journey and where she is presently.

Hannah Nugent studied at Edinburgh College, and graduated at Glasgow School of Art for painting and printmaking in 2018. Since then she has moved back to her hometown Edinburgh.

She mainly works with printmaking and paint, and has recently started using digital techniques like animation. I really like her work and how vibrant her pieces are. I find her artwork really inspiring and interesting, as she starts of using Microsoft Paint to sketch her paintings and then goes on to paint them with acrylic and oil or screen print.

Attending her talk really motivated and I feel it really helped me in being inspired about the current project I’m doing.

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LAZLO MOHOLY-NAGY

Lazlo was an Hungarian artist, born in 1895, and died 1946. He work in several different artistic medias, but was mainly known for his artworks in painting and photography. He was part of the movements, Dada, Expressionism and Modern Art and was influenced by constructivism, and was known as a strong advocate of the integration of technology industry into the arts.

I really like his photography work, as it focuses on the shadowing of shapes and the photographs really move, giving a hypnotic, surrealistic feeling. I also like how the photographs have a feeling of layering, which I find really interesting.

Looking at his paintings, its mainly geometric and very structured, yet bright contrasting colours. I feel there’s so much inspiration for the theme I’m currently working on, as I’m looking at the shaping of cells, which are quite geometric.

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WAWWA: CONTEXUAL RESEARCH

After my initial response to the new project, I decided to do some contextual research to inspire my next artistic response and to further develop my theme. As I’m thinking about the body and the actual cells of the virus, I started to research about the process of the virus in the human body.

I mainly looked at what the actual cell itself looked like, and made response inspired by that. I tried to recreate the look of the cell, using ink and watercolour. I also decided to do pointillism with a fine tip pen to create a similar look as a spreading disease looks. I used the colours red and yellow as that is the colour of the coronavirus.

With further research I found that the word “corona”, is from the latin word meaning ‘Crown’, due to the cell being surround by little spikes, looking like a crown. I have also looked into the artist Lazlo Moholy-Nagy, and I plan on experimenting with photoshop and photography next, and using the information about the history of the name and maybe looking at the shape of the human body, and how I can portray an emotion through the shaping of the body.

The start of the slide show is actual photos of the virus, and then the next two paintings are my responses.

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DANIEL ZELLER

Daniel Zeller is an American based artist, born 1965.

His paintings focus on the visual compositions of texture and lines, with the main materials being used are graphite, ink and acrylic.

Zeller challenges himself by only using a limited amount of materials, pushing the limit of what he can on limited resources 

His work resembles microscopic view on organic matter and topographic perspectives on landscape. His work can also look like psychedelic style, with the vibrant colours used and the illusion look.

I like Zellers work due to the colours used and how he combines contrasting colours together.

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LA2/LAROC (ANGEL ORTIZ) 1967-PRESSENT

Angel Ortiz, born 1967, is an American Pop and graffiti artist, based in New York City. Ortiz began using LA II as a tag at the age of thirteen when doing graffiti in the Lower East Side in New York. Mostly known for his unique group of influences ranging from Chinese calligraphy to pictograph-like cave paintings. Ortiz’s work is mostly known for the use of bright colours and energetic doodle-like style. Keith Haring and Angel Ortiz met when they were around 13, due to Haring liking his graffiti style. Since then, LA2 and Keith Haring had many collaborations together and helped one another in showing their techniques.

In LA2’s work I really like the use of black outlining and vibrant colours, always making his art eye-catching. I feel there’s a simplicity with LA2’s work, maybe with having not a lot of detail, it causes the pieces to look simple, but not a bad way.

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A-ONE (ANTHONY CLARKE) 1964-2001

Anthony Clarke, known as A-One was an American graffiti artist, born in 1964 and based in New York. A-One began tagging subway cars during the 1970s. He took a lot of his inspiration from Black culture and his friend Jean-Michel Basquiat. A-One became well known and popular in the street art and contemporary art scenes. He developed an aesthetic that was looser than his fellow Manhattan artists, such as DAZE. Anthony Clarke then joined a group of artists known as the “Tag Master Killers,” which included Ramellzee, Toxic and Delta 2.

In 1982, he participated in a landmark graffiti exhibition in the South Bronx and was included the 1984 Venice Biennale, of which he was the youngest participant. Later on, in his life, he moved to Paris, where he continued to work until his death from an unexpected brain hemorrhage on November 11, 2001 at the age of 37.

In his work, I really like the colours used and the layering of some of his work. I find the way he works with line and colour really fascinating and how both aspects help one another to stand out.

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