Julie's Art Blog

 After having a lesson from Niall about getting started with photoshop I started playing about with some of my photos. I inverted the above photo of the Kelpies after slightly altering the light balance. Then I replaced some colour to get  a stronger pink and purple. I might have done other things, but these were the main things. I posterized my zebra then altered the colours to make them more artificial and childlike. I posterized this as well which had a great effect on the sky. Then I liquified the sky to make it a bit weird. The foreground was too dark so I got a paint brush and painted it green and then painted in a shadow. To break up the foreground I discovered how to write!

                                                              Harold Cohen (1928-2016) Harold Cohen was a British born artist who was known as the creator of AARON, a computer programme designed to produce art autonomously. His work at the intersection of computer artificial intelligence and art attracted a great deal of attention, leading to exhibitions at many museums including the Tate Gallery. An early drawing by AARON, 1971   He began work on AARON in 1968 at the University of California where he worked for almost 30 years. (He was a painter with a well established career in his own right before then). He asked the question whether machines could be used to serve artistic intentions. By 1971 he had taught himself how to programme a computer and he exhibited computer generated art at a conference. The ...

                                                                 Julian Opie (born 1958) Julian is a visual artist of the New British Sculpture movement. He graduated in 1982 from Goldsmith’s, London. He is known for his use of new technology, his fascination with the human form and his work across different media. He became known when he produced a series of metal sculptures although his popularity increased after he designed the cover of Blur’s Best Of album which was released in 2000. The four part portrait was bought by the Art Fund in 2001 and now hangs in the National Portrait Gallery in London.                                                   The Millenium Bridge, Newca...

 Andy Warhol - 1985. This image of Debbie Harry was captured in monochrome from a video camera and digitised into a graphics programme called ProPaint. Warhol manipulated the image adding colour.  Julian Opie - Kate model. He was a visual artist of the New British Sculpture movement. He had an unique graphic portrait style employing thick black lines with little detail. I am intrigued by this style so have done  a longer blog on Opie.  Alice Potter - vase of flowers. She is a jeweller initially however her love of patterns has directed her towards surface pattern design.  Neville Brody b. 1957. English graphic designer. Used typography on a coloured background. (Reminded me of our words portraits!)  Orla Keily - multi-stemmed wallpaper. She is an Irish fashion and surface designer known for her bold graphic designs with great colours.  David Hockney and one of his iPad drawings. When I came across these while doing my flower proje...

For my second contemporary art blog I am choosing Richard Wentworth. He was born in 1947 in Samoa and made his life in London. Between the years of 1971-87 he taught at Goldsmiths College and has been thought to have influenced the Young British Artists. He does do photography however it was his sculpture that caught my eye. He uses “ready made” and found objects and he is interested in putting together objects that don’t belong together, that are in an unusual setting and are broken. It is not obviously clear what the deeper underlying messages Wentworth is trying to put across in his work. Having watched a few of his interviews I can honestly say I didn’t have much of a clue what he was going on about (and I wasn’t the only one from what I could find). However as a basic message he is interested in using objects in ways they weren’t, on the surface, designed for and challenging our perceptions of what an object is for. He is telling us to not take objects for granted as th...