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Thursday, December 8, 2011

chap 2 artist Review: Kitagawa Utamaro

Kitagawa Utamaro is a Japanese artist from the 18th century who created the painting Hairdressing,From Twelve Types of Women's Handicraft. Utamaro was the artist who created the first woodcut.In the print are two Japanese women, one sitting down, and the other behind her brushing the seated woman's hair. Utamaro uses dull colors and makes the picture seem flat and quiet.

chap 2 artist reviews:Claude Monet

Claude Monet Painted Fisherman's Cottage on The Cliffs at Vaudeville. Monet was an impressionist painter. For this Painting, he used bright clear colors and different textures to create the images. In the Picture Monet painted a small brown cottage on a cliff with bushes in front over looking the bright teal ocean and blue sky.

chap 2 artist reviews: Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso was the artist who created the painting Seated Woman Holding a Fan. the technique that Picasso used to create the painting is cubism, which is the use of bold shapes that are edgy with simple colors. Picasso used other technique before this one, but found that cubism was the technique that launched his career.

Chap1 artist review: Erst Hass

Erst Hass was the artist who photographed Peeling Paint on Iron Bench, Kyoto. In this Photograph , is a zoomed in image of a bench with red and black paint peeling off and three small green leaves stuck on it. The photo focus on the detail of an ordinary bench that people would normally never pay attention to in their daily lives. then give people the idea to focus more on their surroundings and its details.

chap 1 artist review : Vincent Van Gogh

Vincent Van Gogh created the painting called The Starry Night. In the painting is a dark starry night looking over a small town. Van Gogh used simple lines an swirls to create the objects such as the houses and the tall tree reaching up into the sky.The colorful swirls in the sky representing the stars and moon draw your eyes all around the painting, almost like looking at the ocean waves.

chap 1 artist review: Constantin Brancusi

Constanin Brancusi was the artist who photographed Bird in Space which is of a long oval like stick on a cement stand with broken concrete peices laying around it. With the uses of light and shadow on the oval stick. The photograph was shot in black and white and gave the photograph a strange feeling, wondering how the oval stick rises from the the other broken objects around it