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Top of the pops – Top ten artists countdown.
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These are the ten artists that I have drawn the most knowledge and inspiration from, and while I generally don’t care for viewing art anywhere close to the extent that I enjoy creating it myself, I couldn’t help but take a great deal of ideas from these artists.
Rachel Whiteread The idea behind the piece, I believe is to show how hollow a house usually is. But also to display how a house can be big and remain strong even when so much has been taken from it, and I would assume that this is the way that Rachel Whiteread felt. The purpose was to politicalize, and it was her way of trying to stop the council from demolishing her house. It is a very dull and colourless piece, this helps to associate further the point that she was trying to get across. It contains emotions, mostly ones of strength and anger. This is due to the intention to destroy or halter the council’s work, because of the manner in which she was evicted.
Maurice de Vlaminck With only a few significant elements within that can be acknowledged, most would view this as a poor attempt at originality. I however feel differently, it has an extremely notable use of colours and even more so texture. He seems to have taken his focus somewhat off of the implication of showing the original view, and gone with displaying a strong use of colour and passion.
Marcel Duchamp The purpose of this sculpture was to proclaim a disgust at the world around him. It was produced in 1917 during a time when most mainland countries were commenced in the battle of World War 1. • The work is very simplistic, but was rated as one of the greatest modern pieces of art in the 20th century. It is a very angry piece, this is suggested by the manner in which it was produced. Before this sculpture, it was common place for artwork to be pretty pictures and masterpieces, so this came as a huge shock to most when it was first produced.
Claude Monet Monet was deliberately representing scenes of everyday life on the grand scale of historical painting. Determined to paint outdoors, Monet dug a trench and used to paint from within, truly showing his commitment towards art. The characteristics of such artwork were ordinary, everyday subject matter with unusual viewpoints and visible brushstrokes. He used these to quickly capture the essence of the subject rather than its detail. Never really being one to enjoy artwork focused vehemently on the use of colour, this one really strikes with me. Possibly due to the overbearing of colour being represented with such intense and frantic speed, but also with delicacy and magnificent skill.
Jackson Pollock He first used the technique as a way of testing paints, but soon found that it looked good and started to pour whole cans of paint onto a canvas. It may simply be down to the ease of replicating pieces such as this which grabs my creative attentions. However, it is more likely to be from the inspiration that he took from his own mistakes. To create a whole faculty of artwork from something that was once something as basic as testing and mixing paints is just incredible.
Leonardo da Vinci This is arguably the world’s most famous painting, and therefore Da Vinci is the world’s most famous artist, probably... Typically in art it is common for a painter to either capture a moment before the key event or a moment following it, rather than the moment itself. Jesus is shown in the centre and Judas (The eventual betrayer) is shown three people to the left of him. It’s a common misconception for Judas to be perceived as the furthest on the right , due to the intentional blurring on the face.
Blek le Rat Blek le Rat was one of the first graffiti artists in Paris, and is often perceived as the ‘father of stencil graffiti’. He began his established career in 1981, painting stencils of rats on street walls around the French capital, describing them as “The only free animal in the city”. His particular interest in them was established due to the way the plague was spread in a similar fashion to that of street art. As a far less subtle stencil artist, Blek le Rat would often produce work that spoke for itself rather than pieces that required any thought from the viewer. A prime example of this is CND Soldiers. It features two soldiers, one on guard and the other scratching away at an intentionally incomplete part of the stencil, a peace symbol. The other crouching as a guard with his rifle set to aim and silence anyone at disagreement with their bid to wipe out peace. The message he’s trying to communicate is one of anarchy towards the government and its army. Anytime someone tries to spread peace, the army puts you back into line by creating more atrocities at war.
Max Ernst Max Ernst was a German painter, sculptor and graphic artist. He is most renown as the primary pioneer of Surrealist and Dada movements. The Entire City 1934 is an oil painting produced on canvas. It shows a crumbling city with the moon looming oppressively above it. It’s a number of similar works, showing his distaste and pessimism over the Nazi’s stranglehold over his native Germany at the time. He used a self developed technique labelled ‘grattage’ which is essentially scraping to produce the ruined cityscape. It appears to have involved placing the canvas over planks of wood or other textures before scraping paint across it. The base of the image was thus formed by the shapes that emerged from this process.
Robert Williams Robert Williams is an American painter and cartoonist. He was one of the first artists to produce Zap Comix, along with other underground artists such as Clay Wilson and Gilbert Shelton. His fusion of California car culture, film noir and cinematic apocalypticism helped to forge a new genre within psychedelic imagery. Celebrities such as Leonardo DiCaprio, Nicolas Cage and Ed Ruscha have been known to collect various pieces of his art. He became so skilled at painting specular reflection from chromed auto parts that he later drew the chrome parts in the work of other comix artists. Appetite for Destruction is the most controversial piece he’s produced, depicting a robotic rapist about to receive punishment from a metal avenger.
Halsey Swain Halsey Swain runs her own graphic design company part time, and produces physically demanding and extraordinary works with both ink and fine line pens. Under her alias of Halseycaust she has designed album covers for bands such as Havok and Toxic Holocaust. Her images are both eye catching and enlightening. To see the extreme detail that goes into them, shows her dedication, both to art and her ability.
Tom Scott My work delves into a wide variety of different medias and techniques. These include, stenciling, visual graphics and drawing. My work is very detailed and often can be seen as a vehement dedication towards effort and skill. I am also very articulate, and like to use big words which is cool, because why even write things without big words? Really, if you don’t view yourself as the best artist out there, then it really isn’t worth getting up in the morning. I give great life lessons too, obviously.
