Chapter 7 Artist Reviews: Diego Rivera

Diego Rivera is a Mexican artist from the 20th century who was commissioned to create mural in Mexico after its recent civil war. One of Rivera's Frescoes Mixtec Culture created in 1942, shows people of ancient Mexico working together peacefully . Diego uses bright colors and details that brings the mural to life. the mural also shows Mexico history in hopes that the people will take something from the painting to create a better future for Mexico.

chap 6 Artist reviews : Gary Simmons

Gary Simmons created his work on large walls like Sol Le Witt and Paul Noble. But Simmons's drawing were not based on scales or instructions. Simmons inspirations are of childhood and adolescence and used a large blackboard and chalk for his drawings. The drawing Boom is of an exploding cloud with lines and shading curves that draws your eyes around the whole board. Simmons's Drawing is more fee and dream like than the more structural drawings of Le Witt and Noble.

Chap 6 artist review : Sol Le Witt

Sol Le Witt is a conceptual artist who was the first to create wall drawings. The way Le Witt  would create his drawings, is by creating instructions for the drawing itself. His drawing  Wall Drawing # 766, he used isometric cubes of different sizes , and colored them with different  ink washes superimposed. On the side of the painting is where he instructions of how the painting was made would be posted. The idea of these instructions could produce many other drawings that would look different and still be connected.

Chap 6 Artist Review : Paul Noble

Paul Noble  Created the drawing Nobspital. Noble uses a large paper , usually wall sized about eight feet high and five feet in width. Nobspital was drawn from a birds eye view from pencil. Noble's style of drawing is  artistic and also done though scale. his drawing leans more architectural but looking at the building and its details isn't the norm of how an actual hospital would like, but something out of Noble's world.

Chap 6 artist review : Henri Matisse

Henri Matisse is the artist who created the painting Dahlias, Pomegranates  and palm. Matisse used brushes for water color and used ink instead. Matisse mostly drew lines to create his work unlike other paintings. His style lends from both western traditional of drawing and traditional works made with ink and brush from China or Japan. Matisse's painting uses thick dark lines and some shading.

Chap 4 Artist Review : Albert Bierstadt

Albert Beirstadt was a German Born American painter who drew sketches while on a expedition with the U.S. Army Engineers to Map an overland route during the 1850"s. With those sketches, he used them as a template to created his paintings. The technique that Beirstadt used to create his landscape paintings is the atmospheric perceptive. Beirstadt"s painting The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Rock, shows the leveled ground with bright crisp colors of the trees, waterfall and the Native American camp ground. Then looking upwards the mountains get a little higher and further away with paler colors that seem a little out of focus. then at the top where the mountains are sky high is more out of focus an paler. the painting as a whole is realistic which was the goal of many western art paintings.

Chap 4 Artist Review : Georges Seurat

Georges Seurat was an artist who used techniques called optical color mixture and pointillism to create his artworks. His most famous painting called A Sunday on La Grande Jatte, was created by pointillism where the colors are not blended, but uses small dot of color. The placement of the certain color dots would create a picture looking at it from a far. Then looking at the painting from the distance the colors would blend together creating texture and different shades of the colors, this would be the optical color mixture that Seurat was going for.