Just what is it that makes today's homes so different, so appealing?- Richard Hamilton

Subject matter

This piece of art work is about how different the house is compared to others as he showed us how homes can be so much interesting as he decided to create a unusual attractive home using

All sorts of interest that people in 1955 might be interested such as the body builder ‘Irvin Zabo' and the artist Joe Baer when she was young back in 1955. This is where the word appealing comes from as celebrities strike people to be attracted and to be fascinated. This piece of work seems about fame as he added celebrities and also romance as he added a comic page called young romance.

Technique

Richard Hamilton used American magazines to get different pictures of all sorts of things for his work. He got cut outs of the pictures and placed them the way wanted and then stuck them.

Artist’s career

Richard Hamilton was born in Pimlico, London England on 24 February 1922 and died on 13^th September 2011. He is a painter and collage artist. Richard Hamilton didn’t have qualification

So he decided to do apprentship in electrical components firm which is where he found out that he was good at drawing. Knowing he had that talent, he went at St Martin’s school of art.

Links with own work

I've chosen Richard Hamilton to link with my work as I like how he uses varied and unusual

Images together to make his art work and how he develops his images into a fantasy story which is made in a creative way.

Quotations

“Popular (designed for a mass audience);transient(short term solution); expendable(easily forgotten);low costs; mass produced; young (aimed at youth); witty ;sexy ;gimmicky ;glamorous and last but not least Big Business”. (Quoted in History of collage by Eddie Wolfram).

Street Artist - Stik

Stik’s works of boldness and the simplicity of the stick shows a great deal of body language and emotion.  I like Stik’ s work as he finds beauty in the movement which suggest the body language, when you move in a certain way it shows that you are happy, angry etc. I like the vulnerability of Stik’s work as it shows the emotions thorough when he was homeless person. Using just plain vivid colours for the background makes it look outstanding.

I like this work of Stik as it shows that the stick is lonely and makes a statement through the body language and the emotion being sad which suggest the eyes shut.

Gone, An Historical Romance of a Civil War as it Occurred Between the Dusky Thighs of One Young Negrees and her Heart- Kara Walker

Subject matter

The subject matter of this work of Kara walker seem to show about the American civil war as she used ‘Gone’, the first word for her title from Margaret Mitchell’s 1936 novel

‘Gone with the wind’. The importance of this piece of work seems to be the race, sexuality and slavery. This work seemed to be stereotypically about black history. The mood of this work seem to be relaxed and romantic. The artist is telling us how it must been at times like civil war and how black people have been treated as slaves and knowing the tough times in the past which she put it through in this specific art work.

Technique

Kara walker’s technique of this work is simply is the cut outs of black paper which is stuck against a white background. Kara walker discovered that silhouettes were the perfect way to show the racism and the sexism of stereotype of everyday life .Kara walker chose to do the silhouettes as it is about not knowing the subject properly which gives us to figure out what it is really about.

Artist‘s career

Kara walker is an African American artist whose works is about the race and sexuality, violence and slavery.  Kara walker was born In Stockton, California on November 26^th 1969. She went to Rhode Island School of Design. Kara walker exhibited her work in various places such as the Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg, the renaissance society in Chicago, the museum of modern art in new York, the San Francisco museum of modern and lots more.

Linking with own work

I’ve chosen Kara walker to link with my work as I like the how the story is told without having any detail from her piece of work which leads it to be more interesting to get know about her specific work. I also like the boldness of the black silhouettes which stands out from the white background.

Quotations

“I was overcome by the need to re-create a race based conflict, a need to feel a certain amount of pain…only problem is that I am too aware of my overzealous imagination interfering in the basic facts of history…A collusion of fact and fiction that has informed me probably  since day one”.