Sunday, 23 September 2012

Lauren Child born 1965 is an English author and illustrator. She is best known for the Charlie and Lola picture books and the Clearice Bean series of picture books and novels.
Child introduced Charlie and Lola in 2000 with I will not ever Never eat a tomato and won the annual Kate Greenaway Medal from the Library Association for the year's most "distinguished illustration in a book for children". For the 50th anniversary of the Medal (1955–2005), it was named one of the top ten winning works, selected by a panel to compose the ballot for a public election of the all-time favourite. One of the most famous illustration she have done.

Kara Walker.

Kara Walker was born on 26 November 1969 in Stockton , California she is a contemporary african american artist who explores race, gender, sexuality, violence and identity in her work.  She is best known for her room-size tableaux of black cut-paper silhouettes.

Her retired father is a formally educated artist, a professor, and an administrator. Her mother worked as an administrative assistant.

She explains why she became an artist:

“One of my earliest memories involves sitting on my dad’s lap in his studio in the garage of our house and watching him draw. I remember thinking: ‘I want to do that, too,’ and I pretty much decided then and there at age 2½ or 3 that I was an artist just like Dad.” —Kara Walker

I think every single piece of work she does is telling a story , some of them are nice stories but some of them are really sad but true. She uses history to do her work, her work explains and shows a part of a history mostly slavery time which shows a really big attatchment to the history and also big knowladge about this.

I like her work which is really interesting and tells a story that is really well known to everybody but its shown in different scales, bigger is dominant and the smaller is the weaker ones.


Monday, 17 September 2012

Si Scott


Si Scott is a really orginal artist, his work is really detailed and unique. He specializes in typography , but this is not the only thing he does. He also does very detailed work he uses pictures of ordinary things and changes them into something different. For example he turned scissors into an insect and the most suprising thing is that the details he adds make the scissors hard to notice at the first look at the picture. 
Typography- is the art and technique of arranging type in order to make language visible. The arrangement of type involves the selection of typefaces, Font/point size, line lenght, leading , adjusting the spaces between groups of latters.






Thursday, 13 September 2012

Michael Craig-Martin


Michael Craig-Martin was born in Dublin, 28 August 1941. He is a contemporary conceptual artist and painter.He posts his work on his personal website (www.michelcraigmartin.co.uk) .
Craig-Martin studied in the Lycée Francais in Bogota Colombia, where his father was working. Drawing classes in the Lycée by an artist, Antonio Roda, His parents had no inclination to art, though they did have on display in their home Picasso's Greedy Child. In Washington, he attended drawing classes given there by artists, then in 1959 attended Fordham University in New York for English Literature and History , he also started to create his own work.In the summer of 1961 he studied art at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris, and in the fall began a painting course at Yale College.
His work is different , he uses ordinary objects and changes the scales of the objects, makes them smaller than they will usually look or even bigger thats why i think his work is extraordinary. He's work is also done in the cartoon style, the artist uses flat colour without any shading. His work is simple but still really interesting.