Artists
"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance, and this, and not the external manner and detail, is true reality."
Aristotle
Tracey Emin, the well-known British modern artist who should have won the 1999 Turner Prize -- but didn't.
She produces autobiographical art -- art which is about herself.
Her works have included the famous embroidered tent Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963-95 (1995) the book a...
Gary White is a Contemporary Artist based in the UK, primarily working in the North. he chooses his media according to the subject and personal response to it. "My work covers many themes, frequently featuring the simplification and isolation of elements by use of line, mass and contrast."
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'My most recent work is about exploring household products with brand names that have been around a long time. I have begun collecting nostalgic pieces to paint and photograph. I want the viewer to get a sense of connection to something that is more familiar to them even though it may be from the...
From the brush, a touch and the surfaces vibrate in an unstable fragile balances, stability is present. The subject is fluid, light and undulating as well as ponderous and determined. Bridges suspended, breaking the space, hauled up to different and uncertain perspectives, they carry the rythms a...
"I love expressing myself in three dimensions.
Most of what I do is an embodiment of the gratitude I feel.
There is nothing to justify this body of work. It does not exhort, suggest, or dictate. The only thing that inquiry into my work will reveal is what is right in front of you.....
Michael Honnor has concentrated almost exclusively on landscape, the shapes and gestures which he uses to represent it recalling the work of several English painters of a generation earlier, notably Ivon Hitchens and Peter Lanyon...
Like post-war Hitchens, Michael Honnor paints mainly en p...
"For the last four years I have endeavoured to perfect the Art of Scissorology.....and it's relevance to a Post-Modern Catharsis!!!....LOL, don't even know what that means...."
Neither do we, but we love his work. Dean Connors uses a random selection of Images, acquired through an ...
Over the period of the 20th century the boundaries of artistic genres were fluid and constantly changing. It is not rare in the contemporary art scene to find works that require a whole new platform to be placed upon. A platform which can accommodate a hybrid of disciplines such as design, archit...
Banksy is an infamous pseudo-anonymous English graffiti artist, believed to be a native of South Gloucestershire, near Bristol and possibly born in 1974, but there's substantial public uncertainty about his identity, personal and biographical details. According to Tristan Manco, Banksy "was born ...
The Universal Expected Roles of Women
That's basically what all of my art work is about.
The objectification of women as media's delicious appetizers to increase sales disturbs me as a woman. Being a female living in a society that is saturated with images of the perfect woma...