Vincent Van Gogh

Self Portrait

Vincent Van Gogh was born on the 30th of March 1853 in Zunder Netherlands and died on the 29th of July 1890 from a gunshot wound which was believed to be self inflicted. He was a Dutch impressionist painter, who like many great artist, was thought to be crazy. He was thought to be a strange artist because of how he did things to himself mostly prompted because of his metal illness.
He didn't always think he was going to become a painter. At first he believed that his work was to be in the church. He worked as a missionary in  Belgium where he began to sketch people from the local community.

He is well known for his amazing portraits which describes a lot about hime self. For one there is no expression on his face in any of his portraits. What is being portrad in the picture is not the main subject of his art, it is how he created all of his pieces in his own style. The way he is able to add depth and life like qualities to his images is the way he uses his brush strokes. The colours which many believed he used consisted of earthy colours.

It is believed that when he went to Paris where he was able to acquire knowledge of the French impressionist. 

He was not born a painter. He had only started his work until his early twenties. Within his decade of proffesional painting he was able to create over 2,100 pieces of art which made up of water colours, prints, drawings, sketches, and oil paintings.

What I like about his paintings is that they are quite detailed in a sense that from the tiny marks he makes really builds up towards a bigger picture.

Stary Night

David Hockney

 

David Hockney was born on the 9th July 1937 in Bradford. David Hockney is gay doesn't have a problem with people knowing. His sexuality may of had some effect on his work, just like Andy Warhol. He is mostly known as an artist because of contribution to the Pop Art movement. He studied at the Royal College of Art in London. 

David started making his photo collages in the early 1980s. He labelled his work as "joiners". He made these collages by taking the photos with a Polaroid camera. Using Polaroid photographs of a object from different perspectives he was able to generate them together into a distorted image of the original. One of his first joiners was of his mother. Because the photographs are taken from different perspectives and at slightly different times, the result is of his work became a photographic version of Cubism.

We as a class looked at his work to gain more inspiration for our portrait project. We were able to mimic his work virtually using the same method as he did. The only difference in are method was the change from a instant image Polaroid to a digital camera. I found his work to be a real easy way to produce a cubist piece.