Francisco Goya

I've always loved Goya! Saturn Devouring his Son has always been my favorite by him. I think its because it is so creepy and weird to most people. Every time a teacher has show this in a class, everyone is weirded out. I like being weirded out sometimes. And Goya does this to me with that one. The Sleep of Reason has always given me a lot of thoughts as to what it was about. I like it though. Goya is amazing pretty much.

Saturn Devouring One of his Children

Los Caprichos, El Sueño de la Razon Produce Monstruos (The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters)

The 3rd Day of May, 1808

Antoni Gaudi

Gaudi is one of the architects from the art nouveau movement. He has made some amazing pieces of architecture that will be recognized forever. Among them is Casa Mila, it is my favorite pieces by him. It looks so rough from a distance, but there are so many places that he made rough concrete smooth. It is a rock palace. It was finished in 1912 and is still around today. Someday, I will see it.

Casa Mila

Atrium of Casa Mila

Roof Top of Casa Mila

Oscar Ramirez

Oscar is one of the best painters I have met. He has a very unique use of color and thinks of some crazy stuff. He is mostly inspired by Salvador Dali and other great artists of our past. He is also inspired by nature. He is a student at Boise State University. His unique style is very inspiring. Here is his page: http://throughthearts.weebly.com/index.html

Journey

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Untitled (pencil)

A Subtle Reverie

Salvador Dali

Salvador Dali is my favorite surrealist painter. His paintings give us a view inside his mind. His painting style and visions are amazing. He is another artist who makes me want to be unique. Here are a few of my favorite paintings by him:

Salvador Dali


The Temptation of St. Anthony


The Persistence of Memory

Heather Gabel

Heather Gabel- Mourning Shoot

The Curse of the Aching Heart


Miss Manners

I have seen a lot of Heather Gabel's work just because I love the band Alkaline trio so much. She is mostly known for anonymous album work and band t-shirts. Some of her work reminds me of a darker pop art sometimes. I also enjoy the titles that she gives her work. I enjoy her work a lot.

Richard Roger

Centre Pompidou- Paris, France 1977

Lloyd's of London- London, U.K. 1986

Rogers' architecture is amazing to me. Every time I see a building of his, it feels like I have viewed some new futuristic structure that has just been invented. The interior is also just as unique as the exterior. Rogers' "British Futuristic Style" inspires me to create something unique in any art I attempt.

Artemisia Gentileschi

Judith Slaying Holofernes


Susanna


Self-Portrait

Gentileschi is a total inspiration to all artists. She was one of the best remembered female artists from back then. I also love when artists aren't afraid to show gore. I was amazed when I first saw "Judith Slaying Holofernes." I was even more amazed when I found out that the artist was a woman. Not in a offensive way. I was just amazed to see a painting like this, from that time period, done by a woman. Mainly, because they did not have movies back then, this means that Gentileschi most likely saw someone's throat slit and incorporated it into the story of Holofernes. I also like the way she made the expression on Judith's face. Its like no emotion while shes just tearing this guy up.

William Kentridge

William Kentridge was born in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1955.
I like his somewhat moody and melancholy style of work.
I think it gives good sense of his feelings at that moment he was drawing these.

Walton Ford

Walton Ford was born in 1960 in Larchmont, New York. Ford graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design with the intention of becoming a filmmaker, but later adapted his talents as a storyteller to his unique style of large-scale watercolor. Blending depictions of natural history with political commentary, Ford’s meticulous paintings satirize the history of colonialism and the continuing impact of slavery and other forms of political oppression on today’s social and environmental landscape. Each painting is as much a tutorial in flora and fauna as it is as a scathing indictment of the wrongs committed by nineteenth-century industrialists or, locating the work in the present, contemporary American consumer society. An enthusiast of the watercolors of John James Audubon, Ford celebrates the myth surrounding the renowned naturalist-painter while simultaneously repositioning him as an infamous anti-hero who, in reality, killed more animals than he ever painted. Each of Ford’s animal portraits doubles as a complex, symbolic system, which the artist layers with clues, jokes, and erudite lessons in colonial literature and folktales. Walton Ford is the recipient of several national awards and honors including a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Lady Gaga

Lady Gaga (born Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta on March 28, 1986) is an American recording artist. She began performing in the rock music scene of New York City's Lower East Side. She soon signed with Streamline Records, an imprint of Interscope Records, upon its establishment in 2007. During her early time at Interscope, she worked as a songwriter for fellow label artists and captured the attention of Akon, who recognized her vocal abilities, and had her also sign to his own label, Kon Live Distribution.

Black Eyed Peas

The Black Eyed Peas are a hip hop group that formed in Los Angeles, California in 1995. The group is composed of vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Will.I.Am and vocalists Apl.De.Ap, Taboo, and Fergie. Since their album Elephunk in 2003, the group's hip hop/dance-oriented style has sold an estimated 25 million albums worldwide and 31 million singles. They scored their first worldwide hit with "Where Is the Love?" in 2003, which topped over ten charts worldwide. Another single was the European hit "Shut Up". Their next album Monkey BusinessPlatinum in the U.S., spawning two hit singles "My Humps"and "Don't Phunk With My Heart". was another worldwide hit, certified 3x

Ke$sha

Kesha Rose Sebert (born March 1, 1987), better known mononymously as Kesha (stylized as Ke$ha), is an American recording artist. An active musician since before 2005, her breakthrough came in early 2009 after appearing on Flo Rida’s number one single Right Round. Ke$ha later supported Calvin Harris on tour in the UK and toured with Mickey Avalon in the US. She also performed at Madison Square Garden on December 11, 2009 for the Z100 Jingle Ball. She was announced as one of the acts for the 2010 revival of Lilith Fair and presented at the 52nd Grammy Awards.

KimSooJa

Kimsooja was born in 1957 in Taegu, South Korea. She earned a BFA (1980) and MA (1984) from Hong-Ik University, Seoul. Kimsooja’s videos and installations blur the boundaries between aesthetics and transcendent experience through their use of repetitive actions, meditative practices, and serial forms. In many pieces, everyday actions—such as sewing or doing laundry—become two- and three-dimensional or performative activities. Central to her work is the bottari, a traditional Korean bed cover used to wrap and protect personal belongings, which Kimsooja transforms into a philosophical metaphor for structure and connection. In videos that feature her in various personas (Needle Woman, Beggar Woman, Homeless Woman), she leads us to reflect on the human condition, offering open-ended perspectives through which she presents and questions reality. Using her own body, facing away from the camera, Kimsooja becomes a void; we literally see and respond through her. While striking for their vibrant color and density of imagery, Kimsooja’s works emphasize metaphysical changes within the artist-as-performer as well as the viewer.

John Baldessari

John Baldessari, (b. June 17, 1931, National City, California) is a conceptual artist.

His work often attempts to point out irony in contemporary art theory and practices or reduce it to absurdity. His art has been featured in more than 200 solo exhibitions in the U.S. and Europe.

Baldessari's early major works were canvas paintings that were empty but for painted statements derived from contemporary art theory.

Cao Fei

Cao Fei was born in Guangzhou, China in 1978. She earned a BFA from Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts in Guangzhou, China (2001). Cao Fei’s work reflects the fluidity of a world in which cultures have mixed and diverged in rapid evolution. Her video installations and new media works explore perception and reality in places as diverse as a Chinese factory and the virtual world of Second Life. Applying strategies of sampling, role play, and documentary filmmaking to capture individuals' longings and the ways in which they imagine themselves—as hip-hop musicians, costumed characters, or digitized alter egos—Cao Fei reveals the discrepancy between reality and dream, and the discontent and disillusionment of China’s younger generation. Depictions of Chinese architecture and landscape abound in scenes of hyper-capitalistic Pearl River Delta development, in images that echo traditional Chinese painting, and in the design of her own virtual utopia, RMB City. Fascinated by the world of Second Life, Cao Fei has created several works in which she is both participant and observer through her Second Life avatar, China Tracy, who acts as a guide, philosopher, and tourist.