The Beautiful Struggle of Life

Anthony

Kurtz

This is an award-winning photography from Anthony Kurtz showing the vibrant way of life in india. He tries to show the side of life not often showed in daily media.     

The image shows the hard struggle of life in india and kids who don’t have much in life still smiling and happy. The photo captures everyday people working on the streets with nothing much in life yet they all seem to be happy.     

I like this series of image by Anthony Kurtz because it’s the same contant  im trying to portray in my work using Fiji as my struggle of life.     

Vinesh's work reflects the different cultural influences in his life: Fijian/New Zealand/Indian.

Vinesh 

Kumaran

Vinesh Kumaran is a photographer from New Zealand born in Fiji. Most his work was influenced by life in Fiji.     

Vinesh Kumaran is a student at Manukau Institute of technology, at the School of Art and Design now is a qualified photographer.     

I like this work because he’s captured the daily life in Fiji. In the image the persons mixing up Kava which is a traditional Fijian drink but in the image is an indian person mixing  it in a traditional bowl showing the mix of culture in Fiji which he is influenced by.     

His work has influenced me because like Vinesh’s work im trying to show poor vs rich  and the mixed culture way of life in Fiji.    

Damien Hirst '' for the love of god''

 Damien Hirst.

”For The Love of God”

 I like Damien Hirsts ”for the love of god” because the content  bout this artwork is death.   

As Hirst said himmself, ”death is such a heavy subject it would be great to make somthing that laughed at it.”   

He made the skull with diamonds representing the price of life and death. Almost as if its stating out how much life is worth.    

The cast is made out of  platinum and than incrusted by 8,601 pave-set diamonds and with real teeth in the front.   

He was influenced by a mexican skull similar to his except made with encrusted Turquoise (type of gemstone).   

I can compare this artwork to mine because it plays with the idea of life and death which most of my work dose,   

for e.g, my photography work. How rich vs poor hangs in the balance with life and death.   

Danny Santos II

im a photographer in the weekend.

Danny Santos II- I’m always looking for that one face that stands out in the middle of a busy crowd.   

Portrait of a Stranger

stranger 2

Man in Light

Danny Santos II work consists of strangers in public.   

He takes shots in heavy crowd and minipilates the hole crowd except one or few people. The content about his work is captureing thire life without even them knowing. His work looks like poeple are frozen in time. Almost looks slow motion yet the image is still. He use’s heavy lightinh and framing  to blur /darken out things or people he doesnt want in his work.    

I like Danny Santos work because his work is similar to mine becasue like Danny I took images of total strangers in thire daily life without them knowing i was taking a image of them.   

His work is more similar to mine shown in the dark shades and blured out background making the main person or object stand out in vivbrant colours.   

Steve McCurry

Girl with Green Shawl, Peshawar, Pakistan, 2002 ©Steve McCurry

steve mccurry Jodhpur, india, 1996

I like Steve Mc Curry’s bescuse like my work the content about his work are about capurting the life of ordainry people in thire own life going on with thire normal life trying to make an living or doing hard work.   

Most of his work has poeple in them. He trys to capture the emotion in the image. for e.g the girl in green salwarr is an portrate of a girl. Her eyes stand out and her face looks sad, but her eyes look like its full of life.   

Like his work im trying to show the hard life poor people has to go through to make a living all around the world.   

salvador dali persistence of time

Salvador Dali

This is a painting of a clock which appears to be melting. This is an analogy for time and space because we humans never appreciate the relevance of time.

Dali was a artist that played around with the idea of useing dream like compersitions within his work.

Like my work I took photos of the poor which made me think am i in a dream because I never new this reality exsisted you allways hear about it on tv or in the media but I never seen it first hand.

Work Similar To My Artist’s

This is a image of an girl holding a baby in the shop she works in. Her job consists of following the coustomers everywher they go in the shop and listen to what the coustomer wants. Streefull job with not much pay she looked realy tired at the time of the image was taken but as soon as asked if I could take a picture of her with the baby she instantly smiled and got ready for her shot. Just shows whats in the image isnt allways whats in life.  

 This is a lady in one of Fiji’s market. She sits there all day selling water melon. Thats her only scourse of income for her family. When we bought one from her she didnt have change for $10. It just show’s how hard her life must be, middle of the day and she hadn’t even sold enough water mellon to have enough change for $10.

Vidoes I Like. 

I like this video becuse the content about the video is about a gang. They are called ”bloods” and thire colour is red. In the video everything is black and white cept all the red in the video stands out. It show’s all the blood colours around the hood.

15- 20 related samples from my camera. Close ups/ surfaces/ variations.

unitec marae

unitec marae

unitec marae

unitec marae

unitec marae. gutering system.

side under view of the unitec marae

unitec marae front view

front view of unitec marae. close up blured log.

unitec marae. close up

unitec marae. back entrance

unitec back entrance loose stone footpath.

loose stone footpath leading up to the maori department.

stone footpath turns into a feature in the entrance of the building.

stone footpath eventually turns into a stream of water.

steps. stream

stream of water turns into a fountain in the heart of the building.

inside of the marae. (permission was asked before taking this picture from the canvas print.)

close up.

native birds walking around the marae compound.

Museum Trip. 3- 6 pieces of interesting related information.

traditional maori house/ marae

museum trip. marae carving.

museum trip. marae

carving.

model marae

Further range of related works.

Unitec is building a ground-breaking marae on its Mt Albert campus. It is the first marae for 90 years that will have been built entirely in the traditional fashion. The Unitec marae will be a symbol of our respect for a bi-cultural society as expressed through Te Noho Kotahitanga.

Unitec marae project

Te whakaaro: The concept of a Unitec marae

The construction of a marae on the Mt Albert campus of Unitec New Zealand is a dream long cherished by many of the Unitec whanau. Our vision is of an inclusive marae, a focal point for the campus, a place for ceremonial and celebratory gatherings of worship, kinship and friendship.

The marae will add substance, integrity and meaning to our partnership document, Te Noho Kotahitanga, which promotes respect, sensitivity and understanding among people of all cultures.

Located at the geographical centre of the campus, it will share with Puukenga the role of kaitiaki whenua for students, staff and visitors. All manuhiri (visitors) to Unitec will be accorded the pōwhiri (ritual ceremony of welcome) onto ‘marae atea’ and before the carved meeting house.

The marae will preserve tikanga Māori for posterity. The whare whakairo (carved meeting house) will be a repository of local and historical information about Tamakimakaurau and surrounding areas. In time, the marae will become a national archive of taonga Māori, including books, photographs, newspapers, audio and film resources.

Tona rereketanga: A marae with a difference

Unitec’s marae is unique in New Zealand. It is the first marae for 90 years that will have been built entirely in the traditional fashion, reflecting the desire of the Kaiwhakahaere (project leader) and Tohunga Whakairo (expert in the art of carving), Lyonel Grant, to revive the traditional art of building a whare whakairo with structural integrity. That means the carvings are done on weight-bearing posts and beams which make up the actual structure, rather than on a decorative façade that is added to a pre-constructed frame, as is typical of most modern wharenui.

He toi whakairo. He mana tangata.
“Where there is artistic integrity there is human dignity”

“This is my third wharenui and most ambitious. I wanted to do something new, not just decorate a box, but create a showcase for our culture that’s unique in the world. To do that I had to turn the clock back 100 years, look at the traditional techniques, and then work out how modern construction methods could be used to complement those techniques, given that this wharenui is maybe three times bigger than the classical model.”

To support the structure, Lyonel and his team (Whare Thompson, TeRatahi Ratahi, Maatene Sisnett) have carved carefully chosen native timbers, some well over 1200 years old, which are both physically and aesthetically strong. It’s a delicate balancing act, because if the post or beam is left too heavy in form or shape after carving, then function dominates design and the work appears clunky. The trick is to achieve elegance and strength in about equal measures, and that, Lyonel says, is the underlying theme of the whole construction.

Lyonel’s vision of a marae that honours ancient traditions, but at the same time reflects the best in contemporary design, extends to the surrounding landscape as well. “The landscaping has become an integral part of the whole design… The project is evolving as it goes along, so it is truly becoming a product of this place and of this land.”

old marae. all naturall

unitec marae in the making

new lynn library. fainal plan drawing.

new-lynn-public-library. finished and done.

new lynn library. textured wall. similar to unitec marae

patterned wall. architectural similarity

textured walls

textured wall

Orakei Marae At Bastion Point 1890s.

Wharenui

The Marae – meeting place

The Marae, sacred open meeting area, generally situated in front of the “whare runanga”, communal meeting house, is the area of greatest mana, the place of greatest spirituality ; the place that heightens people’s dignity, and the place in which Māori customs are given ultimate expression.

Giorgio de Chirico. Piazza d’Italia. 1913. Oil on canvas. Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada.

The Italian architecture was afamilliar motif, as was the distance train. A scene of emptyness and vast space is apparent, and despite the inclusions of the two figures thid appers a solitary, fortgotten place.

This composition presents one of the artist’s famous deserted public squares. Somber monolithic arches on the right cast heavy geometric shadows, while on the left is a statue of the sleeping Ariadne. The statue, a Roman copy of a lost Hellenistic sculpture of Ariadne asleep on the island of Naxos after being abandoned by Theseus, had great symbolic meaning for de Chirico, perhaps because it evoked the classical past of his native Greece.

 painting by : Jhon Bell

Jackson Pollock, (1912-1956)
2. Number 1, 1950 (Lavender Mist), 1950, 87 x 118 inches, oil, enamel and aluminum on canvas
National Gallery of Art, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Original Modern Abstract Contemporary Art Painting Metallic Oil paintings, Landscapes, Wall Sculptures and famous Jewel Art Paintings  all by Mary Capan at Marys Art Gallery

PICTURES FROM MY WORK.

Space/ paper.

 This class was about paper, where it comes from, how its made, what kind of papers are there, the quality of it and how u can make things out of it. We had 20mins and 4 A4 paper. In that time we had to construct something out of each paper we got. Anything that had shape and form, even if it was just a paper squished up together. After that the hole class came together and we all put out 4 constructed papers on the floor and we had to organise it in a way that each peice was rellavent to the paper next to it. At the end all the papers on the floor had a flow through out all the papers. Every peice was somehow or somway related to the paper next to it.

Photocopy.

This class was about photocopying a image over and over agin til the quality of the print deteriorates. There was alot you could do in this class. Taking images from magazines and books and cuting them out createing a new image out of it. Playing around with the scale of the praint or blowing up the image made it look cool. Different coloured paper made each print more abbstract. By adjusting the softness/roughness of the image gave  the phottocopy appear more different each time. I liked this class because i had never done this before, and i didnt realise that just useing a photocopying machine u coud come up with more unique then something done on the computer.

Collections.

This class was one of my favrites. I liked the idea of finding objects from outside and putting them together as a collection of objects. In mine i choose to do a collection of white materials/ things. All of my objects was found outside or inside the class. Non of my object are rellavent to each other, its only the coloure that and shape that attracts the eye. I hot clued them onto the glass window because it had sections of rectangles that divided up my collections into petterns. The bottom rectangle had a little fan alllready fitted into it which jst happend to be white. At the end, the hole concept looked awsome. They lookd like as if they were folting in mid-air. When i took a pic of it, it became silhouet.

Surrealism as we know it today is closely related to some forms of abstract art. In fact, they shared similar origins, but they diverged on their interpretation of what those origins meant to the aesthetic of art. Surrealism was developed by the 20th-century literary and artistic movement. The surrealist movement of visual art and literature, flourished in Europe between World Wars I and II. Surrealism grew principally out of the earlier Dada movement, which before World War I produced works of anti-art that deliberately defied reason; but Surrealism emphasis was not on negation but on positive expression.

 Joan Miró. Harlequin’s Carnival. 1924-25. Oil on canvas. 66 x 93 cm. Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, USA.

Scene of brightly coloured organic forms and shapes in a humorous manner.What i like about this painting is that it questions reality! looking at the painting, the viewer ask’s them self whats real and whats not.

André Masson (1896-1987), 1924,Automatic drawing, ink on paper, Paris, France.

  This is also a foamous yet simple drawing by Andre Masson, as you can see the artist only used only ink on paper, if you look very closly you could see hands and faces, the artist also trys to confuse the viewers by making them think of the lines that flow in circles and in random curved lines.

 Jean (Hans) Arp. Human Concretion. 1933. Stone. 22×31 7/8 x 21 1/4″. Kunsthaus, Zurich, Switzerland. The Museum of Modern Arts, New York, NY, USA.

His sculptures are simple, abstract forms made from natural substances. The contours of his sculptures flow freely, suggestive of forms found in nature.

Hannah Hoch. Cut with the Kitchen Knife through the last Weimar Beer-Belly Culthural Epoch in Germany. Collage of Papers, 1919

Hannah Hoch most famous piece is Cut with the Kitchen Knife, a critique on Weimar Germany in 1919. This piece combines inages from newspapers of the time re-created to make a new statment about life and art in the Dada Movement.

Giorgio de Chirico. Piazza d’Italia. 1913. Oil on canvas. Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada.

The Italian architecture was afamilliar motif, as was the distance train. A scene of emptyness and vast space is apparent, and despite the inclusions of the two figures thid appers a solitary, fortgotten place.

The Persistence of Memory. Salvador Dalí (Spanish, 1904-1989). 1931. Oil on canvas, 9 1/2 x 13″ (24.1 x 33 cm).

This is one of  Salvador Dali’s best works, as you can see in the painting the melting clocks witch represent time, the artist is trying to talk about nature and how everything is melting in time, the artist also used soft colors on dark black background.

Joan Miró. The Birth of the World. Oil on canvas. 1925. 251 x 200 cm. The Museum of Modern Arts, New York, NY, USA

The starting point of the image was and accidental. No recognizable figures or objects take form, instead Miro creats suggestive shapes and linking lines that form a delicate network of abstract sign-symbols. Style: begins with white canvas, followd by accidental blackberry jam stain which he workd his way through with other media. I like the wayhe used someting that wasn’t ment to be there, and took it into his artwork and creatd somthing new.

Marcel Duchamp. Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 (1912). Oil on canvas. 57 7/8″ x 35 1/8″. Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Henri Matisse was Pablo Picasso’s senior by twelve years, and the two men could not have been more different. Reserved and dignified, Matisse was the image of respectability. Aggressive and egotistical, Picasso considered himself superior to every person he ever met.

History recalls Henri Matisse as one of the giants of twentieth-century art. Readily identified with the fauvist (wild beasts) art style and later with paper cut-outs, Matisse continued experiments with color and line throughout his art career. Pablo Picasso, in a rare acquiescence to the abilities of another artist, considered Matisse an artistic equal. A variety of artworks by both artists recall or reflect the work of the other.

In 1917, Matisse left Paris to work in the quiet atmosphere of Southern France. About a decade later, Matisse’s career lost momentum. Called a “has been” by art critics, Matisse could find little inspiration for creating art.

Henri Matisse – Timeline

1869: Born, December 31, Cateau-Cambrésis, France

1887 – 1889: Studies law in Paris; returns home and works as a clerk in a law firm

1890: Suffers appendicitis; during year-long recovery begins to draw and paint

1900: Moves to Paris; enrolls in art school

1905 -1906: Paints The Woman with the Hat and Le Bonheur de Vivre (Joy of Life);meets Picasso

1917: Moves to Nice, in Southern France

1918: Exhibits with Picasso at the Paul Guillaume Gallery, Paris

Late 1920s: Critics proclaim Matisse a “has-been;” Matisse suffers “inspirational crisis” and has difficulty creating artworks

1930s: Matisse makes a triumphant return to painting

1939 – 1945: World War II in progress; modern art proclaimed degenerate; paintsThe Dream, a direct reference to Picasso’s Woman with Yellow Hair; remains in Southern France throughout war

1941: Suffers intestinal infection; subsequent years spent working mostly from bed or wheelchair

From 1946: Participates with Picasso in public events, meets in private with Picasso, exchanges artwork

1948: Paints Large Red Interior, his last major canvas

1954: Dies in Nice, France

Matisse died in Nice on November 3, 1954. Unlike many artists, he was internationally popular during his lifetime, enjoying the favor of collectors, art critics, and the younger generation of artists.

“Matisse and Picasso were the giants of this period”, Anne Baldassari told me, “they are the two poles of modern painting, and what the exhibition shows is the constant dialogue between them from their meeting at the end of 1905 to the death of Matisse in 1954. The 165 works on display, the sculptures, paintings, papiers collés, and drawings illustrate their continual stylistic and thematic exchanges. Matisse brought in colour, Picasso, form, yet Picasso too revolutionised colour, and while the recurring images in their work brought them both close together they also blasted them far apart.”reff:http://www.matisse-picasso.com/artists/matbio.lasso

Henri Matisse: Self portrait (1906)
Oil on canvas; 55 x 46 cm. 
Staten Museum fur Kunst
Johannes Rump Collection, Copenhagen
Photo courtesy of Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais     

Pablo Picasso: Autoportrait a la palette (1906)
Oil on canvas; 91,9 x 73,3 cm. 
The Philadelphia Museum of Art 
The A.E. Galattin Collection, Philadelphia 
Photo courtesy of Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais

REFF:

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwH-eDyWm0k

http://www.picassomatisse.com/Henri.Matisse.Bio.html   (Contributed By:Richard Shiff)

http://www.culturekiosque.com/art/exhibiti/matissepicasso.html 

  http://www.espanolsinfronteras.com/imágenes/Índice%20de%20Biografías%20-%20Picasso%20-%20Autoportrait%20à%20la%20palette.jpg

  http://www.chess-theory.com/images1/01525_henri_matisse.jpg

  http://www.culturekiosque.com/art/exhibiti/matissepicasso.html

i have chosen matisse as my artist because i relate to his artwork with my own. Henry Matisse has influenced me with my of painting. Since Henry artwork/paintings no longer have to be perfect or realistic to the human eye. His rough and fast way of painting gave art a new way of expressing an artist. Bold outlines and deep non-shaded colors make his artworks stand out from any other artist’s. As henry dose with his work, i try and possibly bring in his style of thinking. Simple and fast. Even if the brush marks are shown, that itself gives texture to the painting. In simple words i choose Henry Matisse because he has influenced me with my work and the style of approaching and outcome. Art is possibly anything and everything. It doesn’t have to be seen or looked at the way any other person would, art questions reality.