Francisco de Goya

Goya is a Spanish Artist famed for his PORTRAITS and his gruesome images of the Spanish Civil War

http://www.artelista.com/1053-francisco-de-goya-3979-el-entierro-de-la-sardina.html

image by Poco de Mucho

Goya produced a series of Etchings called 'Disasters of War' which focussed on the depraved acts commited by both sides of the conflict to illustrate the futility of the war and the high level of human suffering inolved:

Francisco Goya - Wonderful Heroism! Against Dead Men! - Disasters of War - Berkeley Art Museum by Marshal Astor

Francisco Goya - Rabble - Disasters of War - Berkeley Art Museum by Marshall Astor

Francisco Goya - For Having a Knife - Disasters of War - Berkeley Art Museum by Marshall Astor

Francisco Goya - This Is Worse - Barbarians! - Berkeley Art Museum By Marshall Astor

 Contemporary Artists Jake and Dinos Chapman bought a set of these etchings and controvercially defaced them in a series of work called 'Insult to Injury'


Explaining Christians to Dinosaurs_13 by Suzanna



Explaining Christians to Dinosaurs_13 by Suzanna

Goya goya goya goya goya!!!!!

Rembrandt Van Rijn

Rembrandt Van Rijn is a Dutch painter famous for his self portraits, impasto technique and his use of Chiaroscurro - the dramatic use of light and dark.

Rembrandt - Self Portrait as the Apostle St Paul [1661] by Gandalf's Gallery

A Rembrandt Self Portrait by Metal Chris



Rembrandt portrait of Saskia by Jackie Kever

The following painting is enormous, it measures 363 x 437 cm The Night Watch done in 1642. The picture is a militia painting: a group portrait of a division of the civic guard. Rembrandt depicted the group of militiamen in an original way. He did not paint them in neat row or sitting at their annual banquet, rather, he recorded a moment: a group of militiamen have just moved into action and are about to march off.

The Night Watch (Rembrandt) by seamlesswhole

He was also famous for his use of printmaking, particularly etching:

Rembrandt: Self-Portrait in Fur Hat

Rembrandt. 1631. Etching. by Freeparking

Ecce Homo by Rembrandt (1636) by DUCKMARX



John Piper

John Piper is a Painter who works in a thick, impasto style, creating textured paintings of buildings (particularly churches) and landscapes.

John Piper, Seaton Delaval, 1941 by Martin Beek

He also uses ink and pen to create atmospheric marks:


John Piper, Old Romney, Kent by Martin Beeker



John Piper by Martin Beek



Cornelia Parker

Cornelia Parker is an Installation Artists who creates large scale installations/sculptures from a varied range of objects.  For more information and images see the FRITH STREET GALLERY

Thirty Pieces of Silver by grahamc99



'Cornelia Parker 'Thirty Pieces of Silver' at the Tate by laughingtree

'Cornelia Parker Anti-Mass 2005' by C-Monster

'Anti-Mass, 2005, Close up' by juicyrai

Cornelia Parker - Edge of England, 2005 by Justin Bugsy Sailor

Cornelia Parker - Edge of England, 2005 by Justin Bugsy Sailor

'Breathless' by Cornelia Parker, V&A, London by chrisjohnbeckett

Horns by grange85

John Shakespeare

Audience | Oil on canvas board | 18 X 14 inches | Private collection by John Shakespeare

Handing in | Oil on canvas board | 27.5 X 19.75 inches by John Shakespeare

Hold it | Oil on board | 18 X 20 inches | Exhibited in RBSA Open Exhibition Dec 2007 by John Shakespeare

Only doing his job | Oil on canvas board | 24 X 18 inches | Collection: Hertfordshire County Council by John Shakespeare

Study for Holy Ground | Oil on canvas board | 8.75 X 8.75 inches by John Shakespeare

Waiting At The Swan | Oil on board | 20 X 30 inches | Private collection by John Shakespeare

Water Boy | Oil on board | 30 X 30 inches | Private Collection by John Shakespeare

 All images are courtesy of John Shakespeare and not for reuse.

Alberto Giacometti

Alberto Giacometti is most well known for his sculptures of elongated figures:




Albeto Giacometti by DayDreamPilot




Giacometti by Jensm



Giacometti

Bust of Diego, 1957. Bronze. SFMOMA. (1901-1966) by rocor

However his paintings and DRAWINGS also reflect the same textured qualitites as his 3D work:

i love this painting by jasmind

Caroline, 1961, Alberto Giacometti. by pirano

Annette, the Artist's Wife, 1961. Oil on canvas (1901-1966)  by rocor

Jenny Saville

'Bodies fascinate me. I find having the framework of a body essential. Having flesh as a central subject, I can channel a lot of ideas' - Jenny Saville

Jenny Saville paints portraits and large scale images of women and figures, using thick, layered paint:



Jenny Saville

Rosetta 2, 2006

Oil on watercolor paper, mounted on board

99-1/4 x 73-3/4 inches

by Victoriapeckham



Shift 1996-97 by Hyena-in-petticoats

Scale is important as can be seen here:

Katy Richards, a member of staff at Christie's auction house, Kensington, is seen with 'Juncture' by Jenny Saville, which is expected to fetch 300,000 to 400,000 in Christie's exhibition of post-war and contemporary art, which will be auctioned on 11th February 2009. Courtesy of Copyright Press Association Images



South Face/Front Face/North in Ben's Bedroom Face by C-Monster

 This was used for the front cover of the Manic Street Preachers 'The Holy Bible' album in 1994, and also 'Stare' was used for Journal for Plague lovers in 2009;


'The Holy Bible' front cover for the Manic Street Preachers by Arty Smokes

Jenny Saville also collaborated with photographer GLEN LUCHFORD on large scale Polaroids of herself laid on a sheet of glass called CLOSED CONTACT.

Other subjects include large meat carcasses:

Torso2 , 2004. Oil on canvas, 360cm x 294cm courtesy of wikepedia

In 2010 she had an exhibition of LARGE SCALE DRAWINGS at the Gagosian Gallery, London. They were inspired by Renaissance nativity drawings and are on the same huge scale as her paintings.

Jenny Saville is influenced by other painters such as Lucian Freud, Rembrandt using thick paint techniques such as impasto.