Audrey Hepburn

This is just an image that i found on a website, i really like this image because it is a really interesting way of representing Audrey Hepburn or in my perspective-a contemporary way.

Edvard Munch 1863-1944

Edvard Munch 1863-1944

Artistic concept:

Edvard munch considered as a modern artist who was a Norwegian master and he was identified with the famous painting The Scream. He was regarded as the pioneer of the amazing Expressionist movement. Due to his lost of his siblings when he was young, so this traumatic experience he had been carried throughout his life in his art. His work contains a very strong sense of emotion, brought out through brilliant colors and a highly stylized way of painting. Munch always depicted themes such as: life, death, love, terror and loneliness, and with the application of contrasting lines, colors and simple shapes of exaggerated generalization to express his feelings and emotions, and he always want to express an individual’s inner state of mind, the internal feeling of a person, and the characters in many of his paintings really emphasis this concept. The most distinctive of his works from others is his subjects are less representational of the figure than the emotion it portrays, which is the objective of Expressionism. And also his portrayal of women includes certain sexual connotations.

Techniques

-       Expressive orange-red color.

-       Abandonment of the natural colors.

-       Simplification and stylization of the motives.

-       Munch ‘s aim was to depict life that could be seen; however the unconscious sensations were also distinctive symbolism.

-       The composition methods such as energetic line management and the decorative plate forms.

-       Vigorous coloring

Inspiration:

My inspiration from Munch’s painting is the expression of one’s internal state. It is amazing how Munch using colors, composition, and brushstrokes to express one’s feeling. The one that most inspires me is the Scream, Munch's painting of this is a direct symbolism of what myself and so many other people feel like at various times in our lives. To me this resembles my inner reaction when everything just gets to me - frustration, annoyance, anger - it really is an "inner scream." 

Sources:

http://library.thinkquest.org/C0118063/time/munch.htm

http://www.moodbook.com/history/modernism/edvard-munch-art-works.html

http://www.edvardmunch.info/

Rene Magritte (1898-1967)

Rene Magritte was a leading figure in the visual surrealist movement. He came from middle-class family in Belgian, his mother committed suicide in Magritte’s younger age and when his mother was found, her face was covered by her dress and this sense became a source for many of Magritte’s works, such as Les Amants. Magritte’s early works were based on impressionism and later he later also influenced by cubism and futurism. On His images were based on humorous and profoundly. “His work challenges observers' preconditioned perceptions of reality”, and are amazingly contain the sense of fantasy and surreal reality.

Magritte’s work displays a collection of ordinary objects in an unusual context, and provides new meaning to familiar things. His surrealistic style is focus on unconscious, mystery, the play between realistic and illusion (influenced by the early death of her mother) and the poetic representation.

The Lover 1928

- Oil painting

- Visual depiction of the idea “love is blind”

- The meaning relates to people who is fall in love with another person, and the romantic state.

- Lovers are blind when they are falling in love and do not take moment to think and all they did was following their heart.

- The painting emphasizes a mysterious representation of lover and the internal state of the meaning of love.

The Son of Man 1964

-       Painting by Magritte as his self-portrait, a man wearing a coat standing in front to a short wall, behind him is cloudy sky and ocean. His face is all covered with a green apple, but his eye is peaking out.

-       A truly surrealist depiction of the artist himself.

-       About the painting Magritte said: “At least it hides the face partly. Well, so you have the apparent face, the apple, hiding the visible but hidden, the face of the person. It's something that happens constantly. Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see. There is an interest in that which is hidden and which the visible does not show us. This interest can take the form of a quite intense feeling, a sort of conflict, one might say, between the visible that is hidden and the visible that is present”.

-       An emphasis on what is reality, the nature of reality. And this painting is giving viewers a high level of symbolism that creates a confused atmosphere.

Sources: 

 http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071130011622AAehS5Q

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Magritte

Surrealism Art

Surrealism

Surreal-->above reality

• An official movement after the First World War, the style was basically a literary movement but it has been best represented in the visual art field. This style was emphasizes on the psychological state that similar to dreams and fantasy.
• Surrealists saw the unconscious as a wellspring of untapped creative ideas.
• The surrealists admired the artwork of the insane for its freedom of expression.
• The artists believed that there was an element of truth, which is revealed by our subconscious minds, which supersedes the reality of our everyday consciousness.

http://www.robinurton.com/history/surrealism.htm

Image source: http://neosurrealism.artdigitaldesign.com/modern-surrealists-art/artists/xartist-GeorgeGrie/surreal-paintings03.htm