Chap 5 Artist Reviews: Jackson Pollock

Jackson Pollock created the painting Shimmering Substances. Pollock used a variety of colors and used swirling brush strokes the covers the whole canvas that draws your eyes all around. the painting is viewed as  unifying and variety taken to extremes that merge together.

Chap 5 artist reviews: Henri Matisse

Henri Matisse was the artist who created the painting Memory of Oceania. Matisse used several shapes and colors that are arranged in a random order. Matisse found inspiration to create this painting by traveling to Tahiti, hoping to gain some new ideas and see things in a different kind of light. the painting has bright colors with bold shapes all around the canvas

Chap 10 Artist review : Mat Pyke and Karen Schmidt

Pyke and Schmidt created a video about the Audi TT sedan car. the video still had  a pitch black background with wisps of color through the image of green, orange, yellow and blue. Then the an image of the car's silhouette  appears. This image was created  by using a computer programming language called processing.The artists used processing to create a virtual wind tunnel with streams of color to create the silhouette.

Chap 10 Artist Review: Henri De Toulouse- Lautrec

Henri De Toulouse- Laurtec created a famous lithograph poster of the 19th century for the Cabarets and dance halls of Paris. The Poster ' La Goulue at the Moulin Rouge has a performer dancing and another person along with the dancer. In the background are silhouettes of people hanging around. The poster showed Japanese influence and became increasing ly popular and are concisered collectables.

Chap 10 Artist review: Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol was one of the artist who acknowledged the power of graphic designs. Warhol took the Famous Campbell soup images and painted them. He painted everything that he considered beautiful that others seem to overlook. Warhol painted several campbell soup cans, lined them up one after the other, making us think about the details of the can that people haven't really thought of before.

Chap Nine Artist Reviews : Emmanuel Radnitzky

Emmanuel Radnitzky was the artist who created the technique rayograph/rayogram. Radnitzky began experimenting with light sensitive paper for photographs  and place objects on the paper and exposed it to light, which created  the images white shadow. He created Champs delicieuk, second rayogram. he used normal everyday objects like a comb, neddle, thread and other items placed on the photograph paper.

Chap Nine Artist Review: Raghubir Singh

Raghubir Singh documented life through out India with his photographer college. He wanted to capture the everyday life of India with color photographs. The photograph A Family, Kamathipura, Mumbai,Maharastra , which shows an Indian Family at home with the women working around the house and the father looking over his children. Siungh was focused on capturing moments of the people in India.

Chapter Nine Artist Review: Dorothea Lange

Dorothea Lange was a photographer who traveled to different parts of the country for the FSA . Lange primarily focused on immigrants who had been  uprooted from their homes due to the great depression and drought. Lange then photographed a migrant woman with her children and the piece was called named  Migrant Mother. The photograph was shot in black and white with the mother as the main subject and her children , one on each side hiding their faces. The mother has a contemplative expression probably with different thoughts going through her mind.

Chap 8 Artist Review :Rembrant

Rembrant was the artist who created the print called Christ using a technique called etching. Rembrant used only lines and created his etchings by using light and show to show Christ preaching to a small crowed of people, showing us a story of Christ and those who followed him. The etchings were created by acids and metals with lines and depressions that created the mold for the prints.

Chap 8 Artist Review: Rockwell Kent

Rockwell Kent created the artwork Workers of the world. Kent used a technique called wood engraving, which is almost the same as a wood cut print.  Wood engraving uses s block of wood as a matrix and is created on a surface cut across the grain, sanded and is worked with with finely pointed tools. The engraves consists of fine white lines that create the whole image and its detail when the wood block is inked.

Chap 8 Artist Review :Katsushika Housai

Katsushika Housai was the artist who created Skeleton Ghosts painting. to create the painting,the style used was called wood cut prints. Wood cut prints are popular in Japan  and are famous around the world. it would start out from a simple design that is carved into a wood block and then special blocks are made for certain colors to go into the painting, then the print is transferred to paper creating the finished print.