All Artist Research

Joseph Cornell - My 3D Artist 

 

 

Joseph Cornell was not a sculptor, a draftsman, or a painter. This freely renowned contemporary artist never had professional education. He was first and foremost a collector. He loved to rummage old book shops and second hand stores of new York looking for souvenirs, theatrical memorabilia, old prints and photographs, music scores, and French literature.

Joseph Cornell was born on December 24th 1903. He was the oldest of four children born to Helen and Joseph Cornell. He had two sisters, Betty and Helen, and a brother, Robert.
Cornell grew up in a grand house in Nyack, New York, a picturesque Victorian town on the Hudson River. Cornell's parents shared their love of music, ballet, and literature with their children. Evenings were spent around the piano, or listening to music on the family Victorian. Trips to New York meant vaudeville shows in Times Square or magic acts at the Hippodrome. His father often returned from his job in Manhattan with new sheet music, silver charms, or a pocket full of candy. But Cornell's childhood was not without sadness. His brother, born with cerebral palsy, was confined to a wheelchair. Joseph, who was extremely attached to Robert, became his principal caretaker.  
 
 



Blue 1 Cobalt, 2014
Thea Fiore-Bloom PhD (Southern California)
acrylic on cigar box with silver, glass, moonstone, mirror, photos and glass pieces
4" x 5" x 9" (10 x 13 x 23 cm)
Photo by Scott Chanson




The maker of this Joseph Cornell inspired box said this on his website; "My boxes sprang out of a coupling of my love for Cornell's work and the writing of my dissertation Seeing Things Differently: Personal Objects as Icons of Soul. I made several series of boxes to explore and organize my thoughts about things." 

Vincent Van Gogh - Sketchbook Artist

 

Van Gogh has always been a big inspiration for me growing up. this was because; although he was thought to be mad and crazy in his own time, nowadays he is one of if not the most famous artist that has ever lived. I'm still not sure why this is but I love the fact that no matter how much criticism someone gives you other will have a different view which others may agree with in time. In my sketchbook I looked at three of Van Gogh painting which were all painted in 1884,1886 & 1888 in his final years before he killed himself in 1890. 

The first image of his I looked at was titled; Young Man with a Pipe. Van Gogh drew this image on watercolour paper using drawing pencils and transparent watercolours in 1884. I did a critical study of this piece of work. I don't think that this ended well as I drew the young man's hat too small. If I was to redo this I would make sure I got the scale and size of all the image correct before I began shading. 

       

The next painting I looked at was Van Gogh's Café Terrace Place Du Forum. He painted this in Ales in 1888. The painting is really eye-catching and has a good set of foreground and background. This has been created by the dark colours in the back and the light vibrant colours in the front. I also like the light detail on the night sky as this was his signature style in a few of his other paintings.


Van Gogh's painting of Vase with red Poppies is very bright, happy and focused on the poppies in the vase. To say that he painted greengage too shows that he was trying to capture both sides of the colours wheel and could also suggest that he was looking in to emotional whist painting this. Van Gogh painted this image of the poppies in the vase in Paris in the summer of 1886. Van Gogh used oils on a canvas to create this piece of art.     

 

Pablo Picasso - Sketchbook Artist

 

Born in Málaga, Spain, in 1881, Pablo Picasso, became one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century and one of the creators of Cubism. A Spanish expatriate painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and stage designer, Picasso was considered radical in his work. After a long prolific career, he died on April 8, 1973, in Mougins, France. For nearly 80 of his 91 years, Picasso devoted himself to an artistic production that contributed significantly to—and paralleled the entire development of—modern art in the 20th century. One of the most appealing paintings which draws me to his work is the self portrait he painted in 1907. The image on the left is the self portrait of himself from 1907. 

Bob Ross - Sketchbook Artist

 

Bob Ross, television's famous painting instructor, was born Robert Norman Ross in Daytona, Florida, on October 29, 1942. He was raised in Orlando, Florida. After dropping out of school in the ninth grade, Ross served in the U.S. Air Force. During his service, he took his first painting lesson at an Anchorage, Alaska United Service Organizations club. From that point on, he was "hooked," a term he would use frequently during his years as a painting instructor.

The Joy of Painting was cancelled in 1994 so that Ross could focus on his health; the famous TV instructor and host had been diagnosed with lymphoma around that same time.
Ross died from lymphoma at the age of 52, on July 4, 1995, in New Smyrna Beach, Florida. The majority of his original oil paintings were donated to charities or to PBS stations. Today, Ross remains one of the best-known and highest-paid American painters. His legacy lives on through a number of facets, including a fan-based Twitter page of more than 15,000 followers.
Many of his pieces of work was created during the show which was only about 30 minuets long so to create what he did in the time he had amazed me deeply. The first episode of the show I watched was when he painted mountains on series 13 episode 10.        

 

I love this because although it looked very detailed, he
 really only did this with different brush strokes
and thought about the lighting and shading on the mountains & trees.

  

Nick Ridley - Photography Artist

 

Nick Ridley has been involved in photographing dogs for over 30 years and in 1998 he started what has become one of the highest profile and most respected dog event photography businesses in the country. During 2011 he took over 45,000 dog related images ranging from dogs working in their natural environment to dogs being shown at the worlds most prestigious dog show, Crufts. Nick worked as an Inspector for a well known animal charity for 12 years prior to setting up his business and it his experience in that field that enables him to work with difficult and nervous animals and he regularly works for many of the UK's leading animal charities, he always puts the care and welfare of any animal before the taking of any photograph. Although known mainly for his dog photography Nick has also photographed cats, horses and various other small domestic animals for a number of commercial clients including pet food manufacturers and book publishers.
In 2010 Nick developed the first dog photography courses to be held in the UK and over the past two years he has taken these courses to Scandinavia and to various locations throughout the UK. Nick has written two books on photographing dogs and domestic pets, he has also published two coffee tables books "Labradors...At Work, Rest and Play" and "Spaniels" both of which have gone on to be international sellers. Nick is gundog editor for the Sporting Shooting magazine and regularly writes for a number of other publications. Nick has undertaken commissions worldwide and has made numerous radio and television appearances.