This semester I am taking sculpture VI which means more blogging, yay! So this time around going to be doing more updates on my blog. I'll post sketches of my work and some of the artists I like.
First, I will start with art pieces that I like from a variety of different artists.
Most people already know, but I am in love with pop art. I love the bright colors and fun subject matter. I have made some fun pieces out of tootsie pop sucker wrappers that are very pop art. So it's only fair that the first sculptor I choose is Roy Lichtenstein. I love comics, so I love the classic comic dots on their faces. The hair, face and emotions in these sculptures are very stylized. It's literally straight from a comic book. Head with Blue Shadow, has comic qualities which is 2D while the head in the sculpture is completely 3D. I like the play of combiding them in one sculpture, its very original. Another quality I tend to favor in some sculptures is simplicity. Lichtenstein does a very well job of this in House 1. The sculpture is just a colorful house but I love that about it. If a pop house were to exist it would probably look exactly like that. The angle of the house is interesting it makes it look like it takes up space. Even though the sculpture is of a non-realistic house, the angle makes it look more real. A little contradicting but I like that is like that.
Woman with the Blue Shadow
House 1
Small Explosion
Three Brushstrokes
Women Sunlight Moonlight
The second artist I choose was Seward Johnson. My sculpture teacher gave me an abundance of papers to go through with many different artist and Johnson was one of the them. The particular sculpture that was on the paper was Dejeuner Deja Vu. I have taken about 4 different art history classes so by now I know the a lot of the popular pieces throughout the decades. As soon as I saw the paper, I knew I recognized the image from a previous art history course. This one was different though it was a sculpture version of it. The sculpture was inspired by Manet's Le Dejeuner Sur L'Herbe. The alikeness of the sculpture to the real thing is stunning. The idea is just so simple but he does it so well. I love that about his work, its not just about the sculpture but the paint, props, and background play a huge role as well. God Bless America is pretty funny. I love that he took the interesting couple in American Gothic and placed them in Chicago. Actually, according to Johnson's site they visited more places then that. Something about that just makes me smile. Maybe it's the fact that it is combiding the classic painting factor with the high class sculpture in the middle of city factor. Both are so different on their own. Even if I don't end of doing any art inspired by Johnson, I still am intrigued by his work.
Day Dream
Dejeuner Deja Vu
God Bless America
Olympia
The Bedroom
The third one is contemporary artists Marc and Gillie. I found this group online when i was researching artists. They caught my eye because their work is fun and contemporary. I think they are ones that I could get inspiration from. I love the way they are mixing two different things, like a dog and human, into a sculpture. The factor puts them in contemporary category, just like my creatures I make in sculpture. Marc and Gillie say they uses this iconic imagery of dog/human hybrids to celebrate the relationship that exists between man and animal. I like that they have a deeper understanding to them, that is very clear in every single on of them. I also love the fact that they have the human/dog hybrid doing a whole bunch of human activities. If anything I think that is where I want to push my creatures into more naturalistic poses.
