Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (P/M)

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner was born on May 6, 1880

• First studied architecture at the Dresden Technical High School 

• Ernst Ludwig Kircher along with other like minded artist's founded the artist group Die Brücke ("The Bridge.") The group would meet in an old butcher's shop that served as Kirchner's studio to practice figure drawing. 

• Kirchner held a particular interest in the woodcarvings of Dürer, and sought to modernise them with his own unique style of pared-down lines and dynamic compositions.

• Kirchner depicted the figure in movement, since he believed that this better expressed the fullness and vitality of the human body. 

Well don't you just love the simplicity and calming style this woodcut has. Kircher for me as a unique energy with many of the woodcuts I've looked at. While they have lots going on in the scenes, I do like the way the images seem to be outlined. The simple black and white adds to the work and I prefer that, rather than the ones with colour.


  

I like the cuts that have been cut at a unusual angle against the busy backdrop of parts of the works.  It adds depth and doesn't leave the image flat. The work I feel pulls you into it..... a usual connection between viewer and artist.


 

this one looks painful like love and war. I feel I relate to this feeling at the moment so I get it! Only my own feelings would be a darker sense of a similar scene....the colours of red and blue add to the mood and I feel its energy.




Like a saturday night at the disco.........reminds me of a Picasso style. Cubist style faces in the women. Some movement and energy to image. Also a Matisse in the use of colour. Fauvism

Modern Bohemia (Bohème Moderne)

What is this ? Bohemia

Bohemianism is the practice of an unconventional lifestyle, often in the company of like-minded people, with few permanent ties, involving musical, artistic, or literary pursuits. In this context, Bohemians may be wanderers, adventurers, or vagabonds.



Again I can't help but feel emotion towards my finding in the artwork I'm viewing.....German Expressionism?  What all these prints and artists lately are really capturing for me is a need to express my own thoughts and feelings.... more like a need than a want and while its maybe something that everyday people do easily - for me, having a voice or an output is indeed very surreal ... funny to think that a woodcut  (or still life or colour) can inspire or awaken something inside you.


Key Facts fromreading more about the artist gives a explanation of the emotions I feel. Maybe they do have or were intended to evoke these things in the viewer. Maybe what I feel is normal but for me it is enlightenment and a greater feeling of self.

• Kirchner believed that powerful forces - enlivening yet also destructive - dwelt beneath the veneer 
• The human figure was central to Kirchner's art. It was vital to the pictures that took his studio as their backdrop - pictures in which he captured models posing as well as aspects of his bohemian life.
•  he depicted men and women in his pictures, as people who often seem at war with themselves or their environment.

I looked at Kirchner for my fine art and did try and paint in the same expressive style. I failed, wasn't even close but to be honest I still have taken a greater understanding of the actual artist away from it. Like the special fondness I feel towards Picasso, Kirchner seems to be finding a place in my heart also.

"A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness, in fact he creates new appearances of things."
                                                  




  


























This is a favourite because you get his sense of energetic brilliance that he created.

board (f/a)

somethings work, something dont..... overall I've learned lots about putting together a work. I will finish it tomorrow and try to tie up everything to bring it together...

Also how to try to express an emotion without giving away the actual meaning.   More than anything to just paint... So much fun! Would I do it different .... of course I would.

my take on paula rego (f/a)

This was good fun and I feel that using a fine liner gave a fun feel to the images. 

samuel palmer

Samuel Palmer -  (27 January 1805 – 24 May 1881) was a British landscape painter, etcher and printmaker.  He had little formal schooling or training in the art and crafts however, began to draw churches around the age of thirteen and first exhibited Turner-inspired works at the Royal Academy at the age of fourteen.

 He was inspired first by J.M.W. Turner and then by William Blake.  His work does give a sense of romanticism that depicts such life in an idealised manner.

the lonely tower

After looking at 3 of his prints I cant help but notice how illustrative they are.....the depth and detail have a childlike mystery to them. Honestly the trees and landscape have such detail its hard to believe that detail like that could be etched.

I do like how the eye and composition take your eye through the image. The skies seem to have marks that bring movement or texture to them, bringing them into the image.  The trees seem to keep it all grounded as the eye is led throught it all...

fine art (f/a)

So today,14/02/17 I took a look at my board. Oh what to do........I want to make a connection with the past. My past, thee past and the relevance it has had on our history, but also on the now.

With the technological age, What is the importance of a artist?

Intention - The early years man did art for different reasons. either for record keeping, religious rituals( asking or thanking the gods for the animals and beasts they were hunting). To decorate or to give thanks too.

Imagine around 36,000 years ago, someone living in a time incomprehensibly different from ours began to make the first marks known to mankind. Not only were they starting to communicate the first ever forms of a language, they were also expressing the world that existed for them.



The hand prints are like prehistoric selfies! Made by blowing pigment which was a common feature in European Art.



I do love how exact the images are!  I feel the same with the Egyptian Art, the geometrical sense of order, which does not take away the from viewing the objects for the natural and true likeness they still have with us today. While set rules did apply I feel the Egyptian style has a sort of harmony and grace about it.  I like how the gods had strict appearances like the head of an animal (Horus-falcon, Anubis-jackal) and how the men were to be painted darker than the women. Seated statues with they hands placed on they knees....



I also like the way the view of the person is frontal but the head and feet are to the side view. I think it makes for an interesting viewpoint.

The Last Supper - this is a childhood memory of a younger self. I remember it was maybe at sunday school I was doing bible stories and the last supper was one of the first pictures that I first associated with REAL art.

Leonardo da Vinci 

That and the story of moses -  Moses held out his staff and the Red Sea was parted by God. The Israelites walked on the exposed ground and crossed the sea, followed by the Egyptian army. Moses again moved his staff once the Israelites had crossed and the sea closed again, drowning the whole Egyptian army.

The Crossing of the Red Sea" by Nicolas Poussin

I did watch a film with the story in it not so long ago.... Can't remember what film now, but this gives me my next paragraph.

The Momuments Men - the film I watched about hoe during World War II, the Nazis stole countless pieces of art and hid them away. Some over-the-hill art scholars, historians, architects and other experts form a army unit were sent out to retrieve as many of the stolen masterpieces as possible.

 I felt a truth in the line that was spoken by the actor Frank Stokes: You can wipe out an entire generation, you can burn their homes to the ground and somehow they'll still find their way back. But if you destroy their history, you destroy their achievements and it's as if they never existed."

This is for me enough on it own to say why an artist is important!

Memories on a flash drive don't have the same sense of loving and feeling you get when looking through a photo album. It is for me a sense of place, a sense of engaging and of feeling that an artist brings. I have found out so much about myself in doing this course. If you follow my blog while long winded, I wear my heart on my sleeve and say what I feel.. While I have been haunted by my past, I have also began to allow myself to engage with a part of me that I've never met. Somebody that is finding herself as well as connecting with other artist's. (dead or living) I think a picture does indeed say a thousand words, but they is nothing better than seeing it in all is glory. ( as it was intended )

Picasso and Bourgeois have for me been my biggest relevance to me through-out this brief.

Pablo Picasso with his arty periods and the way his life did indeed shape his art. With every new woman came a new style. To be able to paint love or lust or life is what I want to do. To try different mediums and bring your own self out in them. Tapping into myself and in doing that giving that special understanding to someone else....whether its connecting to the same feeling I've had or just making a viewer connect with something inside of them is why the artist is important. Its the unspoken sense that you just don't get viewing an image on a computer.........Plus the doing in itself is good for the artist.

Louise Bourgeois I connected with because she couldn't ever let go of her past. She used it all her life to create. Some may think its a torture and I guess in some ways it is! But for me it has let me get a better understanding of myself and others... But more importantly an understanding into forgiveness and the fact that its ok that things weren't great! Its ok to feel, as feeling in its self is a blessing. While love is something we all aim for, to be lucky enough to actually find it is great, but to lose it many people don't want to feel the hurt. The dull aching or heartbreak.......but it is in this time of hardship that if you allow it, then you can truly really feel, engage with and find so much more about yourself.... in a way it is a blessing...... now only to capture it!

I think while I've had a lot going on, For my fine art final it really is about my learning. From my beginnings to where I am now.  If I had got to this stage earlier and had more time I think I would of made my finish less hurried and more accurate and exact. Like the gold stencil on the images for just one example. I think of my board final of an example mood board than a final.....However, the fact that we and art is ever changing and never still,  always moving is like the changes I bring and take from my board over the last month.

 Thats what I like about art. It has something for everyone and each image has a story behind it.

It is [hi]story - [my] story and well its in our homes. Life would never be the same without it.

Art is me and I'm my Art!