Kathe Kollwitz .

Kollwitzs work could be described as socialist propaganda, but as Carl Ziggrosser points out in his book on the artist, propaganda will only endure as art ,if the artist speaks purely in terms of his or hers art,if their allegiance is not to party but to humanity, if the issues are the eternal verities of death,suffering,love and children.It will be a work of art only if it's appeal is timeless and universal.Emotions are timeless and do not change,humans are of infinite shadings and varieties.No one can give a complete picture of all or even one category.Kollwitz dealt with them in terms of function  eg motherhood ,peasant etc.

Kate Shepherd.

This artist uses enamel and other industrial support.The artist uses very thin lines to suggest dynamic drawings,the work implies a sense of space,which can be shallow or deep.Sheppard uses architectural  drafting programs to create her drawings.The artist uses rich primary colours and line to give a sense of movement.

Morris Louise

Louise was one of the early pioneers of colour field paintings, and had close associations with the school of painting described as Abstract Expressionism. Louise explored the ideas and concepts of what actually constitutes our perceptions of what a painting is, as a visual physical item. The artist believed that before anything else painting is the art of surface manipulation. The chief feature of the paintings surface is its flatness, and that this feature distinguishes painting from other art forms. Louise used a technique that involved staining the canvas by pouring paint onto unprimed canvas, and letting it run. The act of staining into the surface eliminated any three dimensional qualities inherent in the paint. Louise described how his pouring technique had a clear intent that had a chaotic effect.

Katherine Grosse

Artist uses secondary and primary colours .paints on varied surfaces using blending.

Judith Belzer

Exhibition The Inner life Of Trees.This exhibition of paintings is very relevant to my project,and has already begun to influence the direction it may take Belzer is a Berkeley based artist,her work involves the investigation and observation of the patterns and repetitions that are present in organic structures in this instance trees.The artists work is informed by photography and executed in cool earth colours such as yellow ocher,sienna and viridian.In this exhibition she explores the light effects on the wood texture of trees.

Painting project third semester

Installation of bog oak.investigation of texture,form and colour.

Kandinskys theories on colour.

Thoughts on book The Human Zoo by Desmond Morris.

In a chapter called the Stimuli Struggle, Morris describes how selective enhancement of events in drama and literature and stylisation in the arts,reveals how cultures and societies emphasis and exaggerates selective aspects of reality that are deemed vital and important to them.This is similar to the way caricature artist does a portrait.Every day life is made up of many repetitive routines and tasks for even the most important and what are described as extraordinary lives.In our culture through the medium of cinema,drama and t.v.the uneventful and the ordinary is ignored,this creates a sociological caricature of reality.This is why I admire the art of Edward Hopper so much,Hopper emphasises how life is lived through the ordinary and repetitive,and the individuals in these lives are isolated and lonely through their longing for the extraordinary and the excitement that our culture values so much,and that are really only manufactured and marketed by the various commercial media. 

Dali

Thoughts on Andy Warhol

Reading a book on the religious aspect of Warhol's paintings by Jane Dillenberger .Warhol extracted mass media images and rendered them as art through a process  of repetitive mass production, some critics critiqued pop art as being shallow with nothing to say, but I believe this misses the point.Warhol appropriates these images in the manner of Duchamp's ready mades they are not changed in form or content, but in their perception by isolation and space from a functional environment.If a note is taken out of a piece of music and isolated or repeat over and over again its sound is not altered but our perception of it changes radically.

Eric Fischl process of painting

Bernard Pras demo

Edward Hopper documentary

Bernard pras

Hopper and McGahern

The author John McGahern writing about his inspiration said "I think the ordinary is the most precious in life.I think that life is of no value or of absolute value,and I think it is of absolute value.And I think in that sense a woman combing her hair or a man eating an egg is as an important an act as any other'This quote came to mind to day when reading a book on the artist Edward Hopper.Hopper paints the ordinary and the common place,but makes us see it for the first time,in a glorious silence,we are made to see how splendid is the sight of sunlight on a wall in early morning or ,a man sweeping a step.I believe the artist is able to show us that great art is often made from such ordinary life,because of his artistic philosophy,to quote Hopper "Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist,and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.I myself believe this inner world can only be cultivated by a careful observation of the outer world,especially in its ordinary and common place manifestations.

Peter Howson.

Peter Howson is a Scottish artist whose subject matter is more often than not the people who exist at the very fringes of modern urban society such as the homeless ,drug addicts etc.Howson depicts his individuals in a kind of heroic hopelessness,in which a host of characters are helplessly driven by their paranoid and aggressive mental states.Howson subjects are a composite of many individuals that the artist has met in his travels around Glasgow.His characters are social constructs that are un romantically portrayed in exaggerated characterisation.