Alison Willoughby

Alison Willoughby was born in 1977 in Cornwall, in England. She is known for a textile maker (skirt maker). The types of materials that she use is cotton, wool, silk, linen, taffeta, chiffon and print pigments. She like to make skirts. She like to make skirt and she was known as “skirtgirl”. The method that she use is printing, embroidery and cutwork. She like to do thing again and again over her work. The way she got known for is from Johnny Moke from London and Ysh from Tokyo have sold all her work. She did a solo show in the British council’s window gallery in Praueand urban outfitters in London and Glasgow. Now she is now practicing as an innovative textile designer selling and exhibiting internationally.

Caravaggio

The title of this piece is David with the head of Goliath c1610. The medium that he used is oil paints on the canvas. The size of this painting is 125cm x 101cm. Caravaggio made this painting in Galleria Borghese, Rome, Italy around about 1910. He made this painting represent about David and Goliath the story where a David and goliath. Goliath was a giant that got toking down by David. In his time he moved around cities and towns a lot because he was in a lot of fights. He accused of murder and fled from Rome because someone had place a price on his head. This piece of painting is a portrait. The piece made a dark background to show the image more bold because the only light you see is the person and the head making it show out.

The piece makes me feel like it was a big fight that they had and someone won in the end of the fight showing that they more power than the other person who lost and died in the battle losing their head. This show that he lost his body because it is not with the head and you see blood coming out.

Chuck Close

He painting style is called photorealism. He use images and photograph, he used ink and a grid technique to enlarge his work that he made. The size of his work the self-portrait is 102 x 84. The way that he made this piece the self-portrait is using a gridded block directly on to the canvas. Right now the piece is in New York.

The piece is made in 1997, I don’t know where it is made and the person that made this piece is chuck close. This piece is a portrait. It show that chuck close like to use block of squares in his work.

The work is a self-portrait and it show it is a self-portrait the mood in the piece show that he does not look happy about what he is doing. The way I feel about the piece is that he is feeling down about what he is doing. The texture looks like it is not smooth.

Frida Kahlo

Frida Kahlo was born in July 6, 1907 in Mexico City and she died in July 13, 1954 in Mexico City. She had to sell this painting for a lawyer. She was in a bus accident on September 17, 1925 she had a serious injuries making her sit on a wheelchair for the rest of her life after that. She a relationship with Diego Rivera who is a painter as well, they got married in 1929. 

The size of Frida Kahlo self-portrait is 25 x19Cm. She was best known for her self-portrait. The colour in this self-portrait show that it look like the sun is taking out a bit of the colours in the work. She used oil paint on the canvas. In this piece on the left side of her shoulder is a black cat that symbol bad luck and death and on the right side of her shoulder is a monkey that symbol of the devil, her pet a gift from Diego. The butterflies represent the resurrection. This piece is a portrait.

Salvador Dali

The piece that Salvador Dali made is called the Persistence of memory (1914). He used oil paints on the canvas. The size of this piece is 24Cm x 33Cm. this piece was made at the start in World War 1.  This piece show that the colours at the bottom is dark then get lighter. It show that the clocks show times and you can forget about it this show that

Francis Bacon

Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion c.1944 

The medium that Francis Bacon used is oil paint and pastel on all the three boards. This piece called triptych because it has 3 different boards and fitting it together. The size of the three studies for figures at the base if a crucifixion is 74Cm x 94Cm. This is painting was made in 1944 in London, around the same time when the World War 2 was about to ended.

Francis Bacon was born in October 28, 1909 in Dublin, Republic of Ireland. He lived in London. He died April 28, 1992, in Madrid, Spain. This is piece is a portrait because it is showing something. He think that this piece he was about Greek myth. The tittle tell you that it is three piece. The board is smooth making it easy to paint on. This painting was first exhibited in 1945.

The atmosphere in this piece makes me feel like it was the dark times in that in that time because of the war going on and they don’t know when the war is going to end.  

Giorgio De Chirico

Mystery and Melancholy of a street 1914

Giorgio De Chirico was born in July 10, 1888 in Volos, Greece. He died in November 20, 1978.

The colours in this piece show that it is warm and calm colours. The colour show that it is a sun set piece of work. The people in this piece look like they are trap in limbo because you can’t see their faces. It’s like a place where no one lives there no more. The techniques Giorgio de Chirico use is oil on the canvas and the surface of the painting is smooth. The movement of this painting is surrealism. When it was made was at the beginning of the First World War. The size of this painting is 85 x 69cm.

Giorgio De Chirico made this painting in 1914 in Paris, France. In this piece it show a little girl playing a hoop and you see someone else in the piece but you can’t see but their shadow. The painting is a landscape but the frame is portrait. The title show that it is a mystery you don’t know what going to happen. The artist is using oil paint.

The painting make the atmosphere feel like it is a peaceful place and the colour makes it calm and warm.

 

What artists did they influence?

Hokusai, he was born in Tokitarō, October 31, 1760 and died in May 10, 1849

Describe why you have chosen this particular artist. What do you like about their work?

I like his landscape work, it show the effect of the work. It something show how peaceful his work is.

How the subject and style compare with your own work?

I done his work before in secondary school looking at his work; The Great Wave off Kanagawa

What would you like to learn from studying the artists?

Making landscape look bad but looks peaceful

 

The False Mirror

Rene Magritte

Rene Magritte uses oil paint for this piece of work. He use dark and soft around the edges and made the middle part bright blue colour to show it is calm. This show that he want to make the viewer focus the middle part of the painting. The size of this paint is 54 cm x 81 cm

The person that made this piece of work is Rene Magritte. The painting of the false mirror was make in 1928 between the two world war one and two.