Monday, February 1, 2010

Alberto Korda




Alberto Díaz Gutiérrez
, better known as Alberto Korda or simply Korda (September 14, 1928 in Havana, Cuba – May 25, 2001 in Paris, France) was a Cuban photographer, remembered for his image Guerrillero Heroico of Argentinian Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara.
He was a photographer for the Cuban newspaper Revolución in 1960 when he produced on March 5, 1960 the iconic image of Che Guevara, that became a worldwide symbol of revolution and rebellion. He never received any royalties for the image, because Castro did not recognize the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works. In 2000, he sued Smirnoff over the use of the image in advertisement.

Sunday, January 31, 2010

Vik Muniz





Vik Muniz (born 1961) is a Brazilian born, New York based artist who experiments with media. His works are fleeting and consist of objects arranged to make an image, he then photographs the arrangement resulting in the final piece. Vik Muniz made two detailed replicas of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa: one out of jelly and the other out of peanut butter. He has also worked in sugar, wire, thread, and Bosco Chocolate Syrup, out of which he produced a recreation of Leonardo's Last Supper. He has reinterpreted a number of Monet's paintings, including paintings of the cathedral at Rouen, which Muniz accomplished using small clumps of pigment sprinkled onto a flat surface.

Thursday, January 28, 2010

Janine Antoni







Janine Antoni (b. January 19, 1964 -, in Freeport, Bahamas ) is a contemporary artist whose work focuses mostly on process. She often uses her whole body or different parts of it, such as her mouth, hair, eyelashes, and brain as tools and with them performs everyday activities to create her artwork. For example, in her work Gnaw (1992) Antoni uses her mouth and the activity of eating or chewing to carve two 600 lb (300 kg) cubes, one made of chocolate, the other of lard, and then used the chewed out bits to create chocolate boxes and lipstick tubes, which she then displayed in a mock store front.

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Yoko Ono






Yoko Ono ( born February 18, 1933) is a Japanese-American artist, musician, author and peace activist, also known for her marriage to John Lennonavant-garde art, music and filmmaking. and her groundbreaking work in

Ono brought feminism to the forefront through her music, and is also considered a pioneer and major influence of the 1970s new wave genre.

She is a champion of gay rights and is known for her philanthropic contributions to the arts, peace and AIDS outreach programs.

Monday, January 25, 2010

Tome Friedman






Tom Friedman
(born 1965) American conceptual sculptor known for his work employing everyday material, such as toothpicks or sugar cubes in intricate geometric arrangements.
Friedman was born in
St. Louis, Missouri and attended Washington University in St. Louis, receiving his Bachelor of Fine Arts in graphic illustration in 1988. He pursued graduate coursework at the University of Illinois at Chicago receiving a Master of Fine Arts in sculpture in 1990.

Sunday, January 24, 2010

Pablo Piccasso

Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, draughtsman, and sculptor.
This drawing is done by Pablo Piccasso, who is famous for a painter. In his earlier age, he used to paint more realistic but what I've known for him was his unique, chracteristic, and not proportioned drawings of figures.

I like this drawing because I like how line sensitivity shows the depth and shadow. Not very proportioned but it was not mean to be.

Saturday, January 23, 2010

Andy Warhol




Andrew Warhola (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987), more commonly known as Andy Warhol, was an American painter, printmaker, and filmmaker who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art.

This is one of art works done by Andy. It's a repetition of one picture in a different colors.
He has done many of these.