Modernism & Post-Modernism

One of Claude Monet's inspirations was his family home, as they had beautiful gardens and amazing land. His painting. He loves fine detail, for example the texture of his paintbrushes are smooth and soft and the paintings show freeform motion and we cant see thick brush lines in his worl due to thin brushes. He loved to work with different shades and lights and shows different blends of colour also. Showing how light changes the affect of an item and he turns it to make it compatiable.

Chuck Close uses different techniques and inspirations such as other artists. He loves to use the human figure. His processes seem to take alot longer then the usual artist as some of his work took a year long to process and complete. He gets new inspiration from other artists aswell and make him more motivated to create new work. Oil on canvas was his main materials aswell. Chuck's intentions were to show the idea of self portraits, friends and family.

Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.
- Cluade Monet

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/c/claude_monet.html

I always thought that one of the reasons why a painter likes especially to have other painters look at his or her work is the shared experience of having pushed paint around.
- Chuck Close

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/c/chuck_close.html

Both artists use both dark and light colours

Both artists love to use oil and pastels

Both artists are influenced by family and their heritage and things that surround them

Chuck Close , Maggie, 1996, Oil on canvas

Monet completes his work single handed and Close works with other artists. They also have different painting techniques. Subject matter is also different for example chuck does self portraits and monet does landscapes. Their colour schemes are also different as Chuck uses alot of black while Monet dosent.

Their works are amazing. They are very similar on most ways but then again they have their differences. I would much pefer Chuck Close's work as it relates to the human self and shows a different side to the human face/image. It is pleasing to see the way he uses his paintbrush and makes it look effective. This would not have to be my genre of art but it sure does catch my eye, the elements and concepts of the studied works are immaculate and I wouldnt mind having this work in my house or even bedroom

Chuck Close, Leslie, 1973, watercolor on paper on canvas

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Close

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Monet

http://painting.about.com/od/famouspainters/ig/famous-paintings/Monet-Water-Lilies.htm

http://www.chuckclose.coe.uh.edu/

http://questgarden.com/102/01/4/100422103501/process.htm

http://www.artquid.com/artwork/178191/the-process-of-normandy-a-copy-of-claude-monet.html

http://darinwilson.info/2008/10/24/chuck-close-on-inspiration/

 

Industrialisation & Cao Fei's RMB City

The Industrial Revolution was from the 18th to the 19th century. Changes were made in agriculture, manufacturing, mining, transportation, and technology. It began in the United Kingdom then spread throughout Europe, North America, and eventually the world. The Industrial Revolution made turning point in human history. Nearly every aspect of daily life was influenced in some way.


The matter in this piece of work seems very busy as there are alot of items in there. It expresses all man made technology aswell. The people and the animal look alikes are painted with alot of passion and emphasis and also shows the motion of them also. The buildings are slightly tipped and look as if they are arranged in where they are suppose to sit which makes it alot more decent and effective. This piece of art is very effective and would catch someone eye from a distance and it brings different forms together. The celebration of machines and movement is definitley shown in here also. The use of colours are also very in there as it blends in modern colours and technology.


The main subjectof the painting is a little black dog , I think being pulled along by a male. The motion of the dog and the male seem to be blurred as they are in motion. Motion seems to play a big role in this image as it makes the viewer connect and see what is going on. I could not see the celebration of machines or movement, but the movement sector of the image was in there and could be expressed through motion. By making the motion being seen by blurring the legs of the characters and influencing the audience to believe that they are actually moving.


RMB city is virtual city built by China Tracy in the virtual reality role-playing game Second Life. It has many modern structures in it. China was the main aspect of this piece of art due to the recent urban and cultural explosion, maybe western culture replacing communism in an overly excited ejaculation of pent-up wild colours and shapes.


A Utopia is an imaginary society that has perfect socio-political structure, and is basically a vision of an idealized, perfect place to live. A Dystopia is that imaginary society gone bad, sometime in the future. And it has usually gone bad because of the efforts made to create a Utopia. RMB City is a good example of this. It looks like it could be either of one. It looks like it could be some kind of city in the future that was created with the idea of trying to create the perfect structure by making everything super awesome.


RMB CIty and the two paintings look nothing alike what so ever, even though they are total opposites they hold a few things in common. The use of colour in both images are very similar, in RMB City their is various different colours and shades to make it very outstanding and effective. The City Rises holds alot of colour aswell making it stand out and also have the whole celebration of movement within image makes it a whole. The two paintings look very 2D as in RMB City looks very 3D and making it alot more appealing to the society of today.

www.rmbcity.com/
www.serpentinegallery.org/2008/05/cao_fei_rmb_city.html
http://vimeo.com/4272260
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrialisation
http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/economic-history/8
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopian_and_dystopian_fiction