I was online looking for cool art websites, when I stumbled upon something I thought was really cool. It was an online digital art pad where you could create your own unique painting with the click of a mouse. Then, once you finish your painting, you can watch what it looked like while you were in the process of making it. If you’re really into art, you should definitely check this out.
http://artpad.art.com/artpad/painter/
Here’s one that I made:
Sir Peter Blake is a famous pop artist from England. He was born in the year 1932 and is still living today. Blake often paints images for commercials, advertisements, and wrestlers. He is most famous for painting album covers such as Sgt. Pepper in 1967 for The Beatles and Face Dances for The Who. Blake had his first single exhibition in 1960 and around 1961 he became a recognizable icon for emerging pop artists. Blake also won the 1961 John Moore’s Junior Award for his painting Self Portrait with Badges. His popularity exploded after he starred in Ken Russels’s film, Pop Goes the Easel. In 2002, Blake was given knighthood for his services to art.
Robert Milton Ernest Rauschenberg is an American artist. It’s been said that his work helped inspire the Pop Art movement of the 60’s and beyond. He is most famous for his “Combines” of the 1950’s. Combines were where random objects of different shape and size were placed in innovative combinations. Rauschenberg has worked with painting, sculpture, photography, printmaking, paper making, and performance. Robert studied Kansas City Art Institute and the Academie Julian in Paris France, before the legendary Black Canyon College in North Carolina. Robert Rauschenberg has had a long career in the arts, and he still continues to work from his home/studio in Captiva, Florida.
Many people know about The Simpsons. It’s a classic. But not many art fans know about the episode with Jasper Johns and Pop Art. In this episode, Homer has a bad encounter with the making of a barbecue. He throws the “junk” away but an art dealer realizes the value and encourages him to put it in a exhibition. Homer then sells his art for huge sum at his own exhibition, Homer’s Odyssey. He then starts on a creative spree until he loses interest, and soon will find a new one.
In 1936, Patrick Caulfield was born and raised in London. He studied at the Chelsea School of Art and the Royal College of Art between the years 1956-1963. After his years in school, he became a teacher at Chelsea School of Art. Patrick Caulfield had a huge part in Pop art. His art was know among the 1960’s generation of artists for his bold and colorful images. Caulfield’s still life images captured the mood and decor with acute style. Patrick had many works of art some of them being Coloured Still Life, Sweet Bowl, and Happy Hour
In October, the first major exhibition just for pop art will be opening in London. “Pop Art Portraits” brought 52 major works in pop art together. They included pieces by Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, Richard Hamilton, Patrick Caulfield, Robert Rauschenburg, and Sir Peter Blake. The exhibition includes a section just for portraits of Marilyn Monroe, who was a major US icon, and the subject of many pop art works, in the 1950s. The exhibition also aims to show people how pop art was different from classic old-style paintings, and created a new genre of colorful images from popular culture. The exhibition is supposed to start October 11th and end in January next year. After it’s time in London, it will move on to Germany from February 23 to June 1.
Guido Daniele lives Italy. He was born in Soverato and with artistic ability. He specializes in two things; body painting and trompe l’oeil. Trompe l’oeil is the art of painting on a two dimensional painting realistically and creating an optical illusion. Daniele is exceptional at this. The way he can create such vivid images on a average wall is insane. When Daniele does his body painting, he amazes everyone. The way he uses the texture of someones hand to influence the painting is outstanding.
This was suggested to me as a comment, and I must say that this video was simply amazing. I love the way the music and images blend together to make this incredible video. What I find completely fascinating is that all of these images are of real life masterpieces, such as Mona Lisa.
You should definitely check it out.
Graffiti is images or words made on public surfaces such as brick walls. Graffiti is the defacement of a surface using spray paint, markers, or other utensils. If graffiti is done without the property owner’s permission it can be considered vandalism, which is against the law in most countries. Graffiti has been around for centuries, and has begun to grow into what is now known as “modern graffiti”. Graffiti is often used as an advertisement, and is also commonly used to spread social and political messages. Graffiti has also become a modern art form and is featured in galleries world wide. A very famous artist, Jean-Michel Basquiat, started his career with graffiti. He was a friend of Andy Warhol, a famous pop artist, and his pieces sell for high prices still today.
Below are a few examples of today’s graffiti.
The image above is an image of a mushroom, made on a brick wall in Barcelona.
This shot was taken in a very famous street in Duesseldorf, Germany with a lot of graffiti art.
Graffiti by Jean-Michel Basquiat.
Julian Beever is known for many things. He is most renown for his work on sidewalks. Since 2004, there has been a chain message that has been circulating the internet. The way he draws is known as anamorphosis. Anamorphosis is a drawing presenting a distorted image that appears in natural form under certain conditions. Basically it is a optical illusion depending on the angle you look at it. Outside of his sidewalk art career, he also paints murals and replicas of other artist’s art. Julian also does a lot of advertising for big businesses and objects such as Spiderman and Coca Cola.
