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| Gin Lane |
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| Beer Street |
William Hogarth is a historic painter/printmaker, social critic, saturist, major influence on narrative image makers. He was born in Smithfield, London in 1697. At the age on 16, he was apprenticed to Ellis Gamble a silverplate engraver. By 1720 he had his own business engraving book plates and painting portraits. During the 1720's he had started to produce political satires. He also paints pictures that tell a moral story. One of many paintings he did was the The Harlots Express, which shows the downfall of a country girl after she had moved to London. Gin Lane and Beer Street are two prints, designed to be shown together. They are engraved directly from drawings. He is comparing the two drinks and the effects by showing how different the two streets look. The people of Beer Street are happy and healthy, whereas the people on Gin Lane are being destroyed by their addiction of Gin. Gin Lane tells the story of desperation, death, poverty, suicide and starvation. Beer Street portrays the lives of the wealthy and healthy and happy people. The two streets portray very different stories. Hogarth was influenced by Pieter Bruegal the elders La Maigre Cuisine and La Grasse Cuisine engraved by Pieter van der Heyden. I think that his work is very historical and confusing, and in some of his paintings its hard to find out what the story is, and what the painting is trying to communicate. Thats a good point as it makes you want to delve more into the painting and try a work out what the story is.
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| The Swing 2002 |
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| Ash Wednesday |
George Shaw Ash Wednesday and Swing
George Shaw who is a contemporary artist, who is known for his highly detailed approach of English subject matter. He studied art, but gave it up for some years, before returning to study at the Royal College in London. He uses materials such as enamel paint. He mainly does pictures that relate back to his childhood, where he grew up in Coventry. His paintings are quite dark and sinister and they obviously tell a story of someones childhood and upbringing. The painting of the swings makes me feel like hes looking back on a lost childhood, the way the swings are painted in a dark colour and the gloomy setting. The paintings make me feel cold as most of the paintings are set in a wintery scene, ive noticed in many of the paintings he has bare trees, which indicates the season.
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| Hand |
Tim Eitel is a fine painter who was born in 1971 in Germany. He now lives and works in Berlin. He paints figures in landscapes with a implied narrative. He uses materials such as oil and acrylic. His work is characterized by a atmosphere, a absence which adds a dimension. I think the hand painting may symbolise death or the end of someones life. The way the hand is postioned on the cover, is like the person is very weak, also the arm is rather skinny, which also indicates the person could have or is very ill. I also think the choice of neutral colours adds to mine conclusion, they are cold colours.
Eberhand Havekost
Eberhand Havekost is a contemporary German painter based in Berlin. He works from photographic sources eg, shots from a video and TV, as most of his paintings, a model wouldnt be able to pose for them. He selects subjects ranging from buildings, trains and trailers. He paints a series of repetitive images to replicate the visual change in nature.
Anthony Green
Anthony Green is a realist painter and printmaker. He was born in September 1939 in Luton. He was educated at the Slade School of Art. In 1960 he moved to Paris on a scholarship. His paintings are mainly of domestic life, and have the elements of irregular shapes. His paintings are Narrative and Figurative. He uses materials such as Oil, silkscreen and lithography. His work is mainly influenced by his own life and key elements and stories in it , for example: Marriage, his two daughters, anniversaries, parents, in-laws, sex, food, sadness and happiness etc. I like his work as I like how he uses irregular shapes and you get to see the story from all different angles. A majority of his paintings look like your on the celing of the room and looking down into the story. I also like how it gets your mind working, and thinking into what story he is trying to communicate, its intruiging.
Gregory Crewsdon
Gregory Crewsdon is a American photographer born in September 1962. In the 1980's he studied Photography at SUNY Purchase in New York. He graduated with Masters in Fine Art from Yale University. His photographs are mainly situated in small American towns, they are quite disturbing and surreal. They are set in a location, mainly in neighbourhoods, townships etc. They are staged, with props and lighting. They are also quite gloomy and dark, and often feature a naked women who cuts a ghostly figure. I like his work as i like how he stages scenes on a location, but it also quite hard to get into as the story he is trying to tell doesnt come across very easily.
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| Things I like |
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| Which wedding would you like to go to? |
Vicky Woodgate
I like this artists work as I can see what they are communicating. In the top image it is comparing the interests of two young children one female and the other male. It differintiates the two. It also gets into the childrens mind. In the bottom image, it is comparing the weddings of Kate Moss and Kate Middleton, I like how both images tell a complete different story, Kate Moss is perceived as being a bit lairy and loud and a little common, whilst Kate Middleton is seen as being classy and lady like.
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| My own primary source photo, I have developed into a monoprint and edited in Photoshop |
Lucinda Rogers
Lucinda Rogers is a illustration artist. She studied Illustration at the Edinburgh College of Art for four years. Through out her career Lucinda has worked for clients such as The New Yorker, The Guardian and The Times. Her work shows us cities in lots of different ways, capturing the scenes and the buildings. She uses materials such as pen and ink and watercolour, crayon and gouache. She is inspired by what is around her and life in cities. I like her work as I like how she captures the life in the cities and what materails she uses, I think the choice of materials are good as they work really well together. I would take inspiration from this artist for my work, as I am doing buildings, I would like to now use pen and ink and watercolour together on my monoprints of buildings.
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