Eva Hesse- Sculptor

Eva Hesse: a German artist whose works during the 1960s altered the course of sculpture when she adopted the use of commercial materials that she found in disused warehouses and factories, such as latex, fibre glass, wire mesh, wax and cheesecloth. Her rope piece Untitled (completed the year she died 1970) consists of a great tangle of rope dipped in latex and suspended from the gallery ceiling, like a 3D version of a drip painting by Jackson Pollock.

Here are some images of her work:

Right After: image by dannyfowler

Untitled 1970: image by ellajphillips

Vertiginous Detour: image by cliff1066

For more examples of work visit: http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/aipe/eva_hesse.htm

Luis Dourado- Graphic Designer

Luis Dourado is a graphic designer and illustrator who works with different materials, both digital and analogue. Despite varying media, works all relate to each other as they deal with themes of memory, illusion and control via image manipulation. His work can be recognised by the use of sharp, clear edges and geometric forms.

To see an extensive gallery of his work, visit:  http://www.luisdourado.net/selected-work/departure/

Here are a few examples:

Image by nicolasnova

Image by macula fanzine

Image by macula fanzine

Henrique Oliveira- Sculptor

Henrique Oliveira is a contemporary Brazilian artist living in Sao Paulo. His recent 'tricendental' pieces are giant installations which snake, writhe and burst through walls. Inspired by a peeling fence outside his studio, he makes the structures from recycled plywood gathered from dumpsters around the city. To create the shape he first creates a skeleton to which he tacks thin layers of splintering, decaying wood manipulated into undulating organic curves. Originally a painter, Oliveira sees these structures as 3D paintings, applying each splinter of wood as he wood a brush stroke.

Here is a video exploring one of his installations:

Here are some images of his work:

Image by Mr. Kimberly

Image by Mr. Kimberly

Image by lauromaia

Image by lauromaia

Image by lookingforpoetry

Helen Chadwick- Conceptual Artist

Helen Chadwick was a British conceptual installation artist who was nominated for the Turner Prize in 1987 and sadly died in 1996. Her work is provocative, controversial and thought provoking, dealing with ideas of the human body, sometimes reflecting the unease she felt with her own body.

This winter, from September 2012 to February 2013, some of Chadwick's work is on display in Leeds at the Henry Moore Institute.

 http://www.henry-moore.org/hmi/exhibitions/helen-chadwick-wreaths-to-pleasure

To read more about Chadwick and see an online gallery of her work, visit:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/collective/A2605628

Here are a few images of her work:

Cacao: image by *Nom & Malc

Piss Flowers: image by lightsgoingon

Jasper Johns- Painter / Printmaker

Jasper Johns was a key name in the Pop Art movement of the 1960s. His subject matter is often banal, taking bold flat imagery such as flags, targets, numbers and lettering, depicted on embellished, painterly surfaces. He was friends with Robert Rauschenberg and similarities can be drawn between their surface treatment.

Here some examples of his work:

Jasper John's Flage

Image by wallyg

Image from: neweyes.atlblogs.com

Image from: http://infinitefool.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/jasper-johns.html

Close up of Flag surface: image by erratic0101

Franz Kline- Painter

Franz Kline was an Abstract Expressionist painter famous for his bold black and white paintings throughout the 1950s which abandonned representation altogether, focussing on brush stroke and use of canvas as opposed to figures or imagery.

For more information on Kline visit:     http://www.artchive.com/artchive/K/kline.html

Here are some examples of his paintings:

Monitor: image by jpellgen

Meryon: image by appelogen.be

 

 

Orange Outline: image by Nathania Johnson

Sergey Larenkov- Rephotographer

Sergey Larenkov is a Russian photographer who uses the technique of rephotography to make gone by memories of cities come alive. He takes pre-existing photographs and carefully layers them with new photographs of the same location, using photshop to stunning effect.

Thanks to Sergey for allowing us to post his images.

Image courtesy of Sergey Larenkov

Image courtesy of Sergey Larenkov

Image courtesy of Sergey Larenkov

Image courtesy of Sergey Larenkov

Image courtesy of Sergey Larenkov

Image courtesy of Sergey Larenkov

Image courtesy of Sergey Larenkov

To read an interview with Sergey visit:
http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/ghosts-of-world-war-ii-paris-6

Rephotography

Rephotography is the act of taking a new version of an existing photograph to create a "then and now" view of a location. The two images can be laid side by side, comparing what has changed/remained the same, or sections of each photograph can be overlaid, manually or digitally in photoshop, to create a new image showing an amalgamation of the past and present. For this technique to work best the photographs should be taken from the same viewpoint so that the features of the landscape allign when the images are overlaid.
 
For more information on the rephotography movement and tips on how to create your own visit:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/landscapes/what_are_rephotographs.shtml

To see images from Sergey Larenkov, a rephotographer who digitally layers images, visit:

http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/the-ghosts-of-world-war-iis

Looking into the past - take 2
Image by Nomad Tales



 

Joan Mitchell - Painter

Joan Mitchell was a prolific Post Abstract Expressionist painter and printmaker famous for her large scale impasto paintings and use of expressive brushstrokes.  More information and images can be found here:

http://joanmitchellfoundation.org/

Here are some images of Mitchell's work:

San Francisco - SoMa: SFMoMA - Joan Mitchell's Untitled
Image by wallyg

Joan Mitchell: City Landscape
Image byJoan Mitchell: unbearable lightness

Joan Mitchell: No Rain (MoMA - New York)
Image by scalleja