6 body artists

Pablo Picasso







Pablo Picasso paints using cubism, which may look very strange from first viewing but is much more visible when you see it as all the sides of a cube folded out, so instead of just seeing one angle of the face you can see all of the sides, which wouldnt even be visible from the original view point.

He used oil pastels to colour this piece in which I think worked well because it let the colours blend very easily with each other and gave a very bland colour which adds to the dreary atmopshere behind the image..

Joan Miro







Miros work is very abstract and surreal, he draws people like distorted stick men with different shapes intervening and colours in somewhat random places. In his work 'metamorphosis' he adds collage of mannequins dotted all over the image in circular and ovular shapes.

Charles Cohen







Charles Cohen is a photographer who cuts out the model from the background, and what youre left with is a white silhouette of where the model was which is very interesting when you see the persons shadow right behind them and his work is very original.

Salvador Dali







Dali is renowned as one of the most famous surreal artists, and this painting shows distorted limbs holding other limbs in the style of a king of building structure. I like Dali because each of his paintings could have intriquite hidden meanings behind themselves.

Lora Zombie







Lora Zombie uses water colours and mixes people with animals and generally has something 'exploding' out of something else, and she sticks to using a specific colour scheme for every picture, generally blue or black.She usually paints the water colours to be running down over the main image in multicolours too, allowing them to blend and create psychedelic patterns whilst the original background image stays visible.

Ron Mueck







Ron Mueck makes sulptures of people which from photographs look like normal people, however they are scaled on massive proportions and you only see the true impressiveness when you have something to compare them too. Mueck adds extraordinary details into his work so is extremely impressive even from up close.

6 self potrait artists

Kathy Kolwitz








Kathy Kolwitz is an artist who mainly works with graphite and charcoal pencils and does self portraits of herself portrayed differently, Kolwitz is a jewish woman whom survived world war two and the holocaust and a lot of her work portrays some raw emotion which she had felt throughout that stage in her life.

Phillip Guston







Phillip Guston is an artist whom paints himself in surreal ways, his work signifies his addiction to alcohol which he has had since a young age and what it was like for him to get over it, I like the way in which he paints quite comically but this however contrasts the seriousness in which it affected his life.

Ken Kiff







Ken Kiff is a figurative artist and was brought up when abstract art was becoming a big thing, so this influenced him a lot, resulting in his paintings and other art work to look almost dream like and like that of a child's fantasy tale.

Guy Denning







Guy Denning is an self portrait artist whom uses mediums of paint, charcoal , pencils and collage within his work. Denning is one of my favourite artists due to how with only a few powerful lines amongst some smudged colours he can effectively grasp the figures emotions and gives a huge amount of detail.

Bryan Lewis Saunders







Bryan Lewis Saunders is an experimental artist and he set out to give himself unique factors whilst painting unlike other artists, for his self portrait series of work he gave himself multiple drugs, each painting he is under the effect of something different, this series of work I found to be extremely amazing due to all the different styles he achieved. Showing that artists may perceive things differently depending on the way they feel and the chemicals in their brain.

Francis Bacon







Francis Bacon is an artist whom manages to show a lot of raw power and emotion with his paintings, often isolating his figures in cage like shapes and using dark colours, he became renowned as one of the most influential dark and gothic artists. His self portrait of himself shows his face to be twisted, perhaps signifying that he sees the world in a different way from others, at the time bacon was a closeted homosexual so this might have had some relevance.

6 landscape artists

Ansell Adams







Ansell Adams explores american locations and uses a slow shutter speed to capture more movement among the clouds and water in lakes, he is also a great photographer and has an amazing eye at capturing good depth of field and positioning his shots, his photographs include a lot of power and detail from the amazing views that he represents through the digital images.

Steve Greaves







Steve Greaves uses quick brush strokes and barely goes over and blends his paint allowing his art to look quite abstract but still clear as to what it is, I find his best work to be those with a blue colour scheme with outlines of red spread around some of the hills and trees that give it an edge and makes it much more aesthetically pleasing due to the contrast.



Peter Lancaster







Peter Lancaster uses water colours to paint landscapes which include water as he paints whilst fishing, I find that a lot of his paintings have parts which are painted in a lot of detail and other parts seem quite monotone and bland in comparison, this allows the audience to maintain its attention on more parts than others , his use of reflection and shadows I find to be very good also on his work.

Rafal Olbinski







Rafal Oblinski entwines both landscapes and dream like thoughts in his work, often making it so that models are affecting the landscape and making it fit to their needs rather than accepting it for what it is, my favourite piece of his works involves a dead forest with a woman who had climbed a ladder and changed the scenery to that of an ocean with a singular tree in it, this surrealism is very intriguing to what it could signify and what aim the woman had and what she could be thinking about, and I find work that is thought provoking to be more interesting to view.

Katherine Norris







Katherine Norris is an landscape artist whom uses quite dark and pale colours as a base colour and then layers slabs of bright colours in contrast as the leaves and parts of grass which makes her paintings look divided between and attracts the audiences gaze at only specific parts of the work.

Cathy Horvath







Cathy Horvath uses natural colours however uses extreme versions of them making them stand out and add a lot of vibrance and light to her art. My favourite parts of her art work is when she paints water and uses the reflection of clouds over the surface as it reminds me of old Japanese artwork which is done on paper and outlined with a simple yet effective appearance.