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Individuality. Artists of the 20 th Century. ‘Stare’ 1996 Shani Rhys James. Images with kind permission Shani Rhys James. Shani Rhys James.
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Individuality Artists of the 20th Century
‘Stare’ 1996 Shani Rhys James Images with kind permission Shani Rhys James
Shani Rhys James • Shani Rhys James’ work is self-portraiture. It does not try to look like her face, but rather, through the use of colour, represents the mind and the subconscious. • The model is always there for convenient use. • The artist is a painter who can manipulate the paint on the surface of the canvas in a personal technique. She does this in order to try to discover the essence of the person. • The paintings are a reflection of a psychodrama, namely that which is inside. • She uses a small hand mirror in order to examine the details of the face closely. • Her work is compared to that of Rembrandt, Van Gogh, Munch, Bacon and Freud. Her work is placed in the Expressionism tradition.
Paul Klee • His main interest was in colour, line and tone. • He experimented with mixed media, sometimes with oil paint and watercolours together, another time with glue paint and varnish. • This portrait is like a child, and not childlike with huge eyes staring out. • Eyes were a topic to which Klee gave a lot of thought. He wrote: • ‘All these paths meet in the eye and from that point, being translated into form, lead to synthesis of external vision and internal contemplation’. ‘Senecio’ 1922
Lois Williams • Her work uses things that are familiar to the artist and remind her of home- hair, wool, muslin, felt, rope, paper. • Collecting and arranging things are a large part of her work process. • Her work has an element of household and heart (feminist). • Traditional activities for a woman. • The work is not about texture! • In the work ’The Simplest Aid to Looking at Wales’ it can be seen that letters are important. • The piece has been created out of paper beaten finely to make pulp. Williams used English language newspapers that deal with the aspect of English in the press. Click here to see examples of the artists work
Iwan Bala • A Welsh artist who works directly from his imagination and therefore portrays himself in one way or another. • His work deals with events, personal experiences and events in his memory. • The paintings or installations he creates are a way of portraying that which is inside. They are biographical. • This work deals with an imaginary landscape, prominent mountains, rivers, islands and seas. • The landscapes look familiar but strange at the same time. The shape of the landscape reminds us of the human form, especially the round belly and the two knees rising out of the water like a pregnant woman (his wife). • The title ‘Y TirBeichiog’ refers to what is in the picture. But the meaning is deeper as the word ‘beichiog’ means ‘burdened’ in English i.e. carrying a heavy load. • Therefore the land is a pregnant woman, and the man (Bala) is just looking at it. • We see the head (namely the mind) between the legs; the artist’s mind is on the birth and therefore in the present, while his body is on the right side of the picture, representing the experience in the past.
Roy Litchenstein • A cartoon style through the use of thick black lines, dots and bright primary colours. • The pictures deal with everyday events and people in a cartoon style. • He uses serious stories or situations and paints them ironically in a cartoon style.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/oddsock/100825567/ ''Whaam!'' by Roy Lichtenstein, 1963.
Jake a Dinos Chapman • The work of these two brothers always deals with contemporary headlines such as ‘Genetic Modification’, ‘Nuclear War’, ‘Cultural Holocaust’ and ‘Anti-capitalism’. • The violence and abuse are not the most disturbing thing about their work but rather the question, What if this happened? • The piece ‘DNA Zygotic’ consists of fibreglass sculptures. • It is as if the children are the result of a genetic experiment or the examination of a clone. • But whatever the wickedness is, the children are not to blame: they are angelic and quiet and do not notice the fact that they have four legs or 12 heads and a vagina for a mouth! • The children almost look pleased with the strange way they look and know that they are unique and ‘one-of-a-kind’, having been created by the artist’s hand. ‘DNA Zygotic’ 1997 Jake and Dinos Chapman
Tracey Emin • Emin’s work is influenced by television programmes such as Trisha and Jerry Springer where there is an element of ‘tell all exclusives’ • The nature of her work tells a story about herself and usually it is made from the long and tiring craft of sewing. • This artist has attained celebrity status just for being herself. • For this piece Emin invited the names of anyone who slept with her –either in a sexual relationship or otherwise. • The work that develops from this piece conveys stories about situations with these people. Click here to see examples of the artists work
Gillian Wearing • The title of the work is ‘Everything in life is Connected’. The work is a series of photographs taken by the artist of a cross-section of members of the public. • The majority of people’s responses are personal and honest. • Looking at the person in the picture we try to associate the face with the written comment. Who is he? Why did he choose to write this? To whom is he speaking? We look at him for clues, the expression on his face, his clothes, even the background, to discover his identity. Gillian Wearing ‘EVERYTHING IS CONNECTED IN LIFE THE POINT IS TO KNOW IT AND UNDERSTAND IT’ 1992-93
