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Judith F. Baca Artist, educator, activist by Ayan Sekerbekov

Judith F. Baca

Artist, educator, activist

Born: Los Angeles, California

“I want to use public space to create a public voice for, and a public consciousness about people who are, in fact, the majority of the population but are not represented in any visual way.”

 -Judith Baca

One of America’s leading muralists, Judith Baca believes that art is a tool for social change and self-transformation, capable of fostering civic dialogue in the most places. Raised in a strong, all-female household, Baca was especially influenced by the values of her grandmother, a Mexican herbal healer. In 1974, Baca founded the City of Loc Angeles’ first mural program, and in 1976 she co-founded the Social and Public Art Resource Center, which promotes community-based, participatory public arts projects. Since 1980 she has been a professor at the University of California, first at Irvine and since 1996 at UCLA.

Gauguin by Cynthia Brown

Paul Gauguin was born in 1848 to Clovis and Aline Gauguin. He had never known the security of family life or a stable home, even from his earlist years, for his father, Clovis Gauguin, a republican journalist, died on board ship while taking his young family into political exile in South America. Paul Gauguin was just two when they reached Peru and he spent four years there, with his mother and sister, under the protection of distant relatives. By the time he was seven he and his family were living back in France under the wing of a bachelor uncle.

My Take on Jenny Saville by Manola Maldonado

Jenny Saville Paints a torso of a dead pig in monumental dimensions. The design has strong airs of erotica; meaning I could compare it to a woman in a pornographic pose. This purpose was hard for me to understand, at first. Then I realized, it was pointing out the plain reality of how women in our society are marketed as meat. Chopped to perfect proportions and dimensions with only the necessary things inside. Ready to grill baby!

She makes all of her pieces huge to further shock and in turn: get people’s attention. On another note, Saville’s use of color, her manipulations with every brush stroke, is absolutely genius. This was no accident people. The way her brush strokes, move my eye around the painting. Always landing in a definitive focal point. The pink fleshy tones that almost spill out at me; the way these beautiful images are absolutely grotesque. Contradicting the very standards of this society. “The disparity between the way women are perceived and the way they feel about their bodies.”

Saville paints women after plastinc surgery, women with marks on the parts that “should not be there,” women grabbing at the parts that “should not be there.” The same Jenny Saville, also paints pigs in slaughterhouses. She describes sketching at the slaughterhouses as a; I think she said, beautiful experience, or something along those grounds.

Wassily Kadinsky. From Sohail Kizilbash

Wassily Kadinsky, 1866-1944, a revolutionary artist, was born in Moscow at a time of cultural prosperity during the reign of Czar Alexander II.  His family had recently returned from exile in Siberia. Upon his return his father married a woman known for her intelligence and beauty but the marriage did not last long and Wassily was the only offspring. His parents divorced when he was only five years old and his mother’s elder sister brought him up.

Salvador Dali, the Surrealist. From Karen Capper

   
Salvador Dali, known for his extremely detailed photo-realistic paintings, is an international icon  for  surrealism movement.  Salvador Dali grew up in the Spanish province of Catalonia, near the French border.  Raised in a middle class family, where he regularly contended his banker father’s conservative, provincial views.  

Some Rafael Drawings

Good for the soul

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follow up on Sohail's presentation: Chaos and Order, repetition, themes

Check out this older post on accidents and plans - Francis Bacon. It seems that our conversation went to distant levels of abstraction - this list of artists is my attempt to tie the discussion on the role of chaos and order back to drawing and painting [of] the figure.

real death - follow up on Matthew's presentation

Discussion follow up: Three examples for use of dead bodies. 

Different reactions when using dead bodies for knowledge, art, and beauty?

Gunter on Hagens - Body World: anatomy exhibitions with real bodies

Lovis Corinth, by Mellisa Romero

Lovis Corinth was born in 1838 in the town of Tapiau in East Prussia (now the Soviet Union), the son of a tanner. He was named Louis, but came to be called Lovis because he later signed his name with a Latin-style "u" which is written as a "v". Corinth grew up in a rural setting, with little or no exposure to works of art. From a very early age, however, he enjoyed sketching and painting. At the age of nine he was enrolled first in the public school in nearby Konigsberg and then at the Konigsberg Academy of Art.

CLAUDE MONET. By Richard Wiley

Monet is considered to be the founder of French Impressionist painting.  Born in 1840 and living until 1926, Monet filled his life with developing masterpieces of the impressionist movement.  Impressionism, philosophically means "expressing one's perceptions before nature."  

This is clearly evident in his work as reality appears to be an after-thought to what is actually put on canvas.  To me, reality seems to pass through his mind where he filters the colors, emotion, setting, and tempo and translates them into vivid depictions that are so much more than what is actually seen.  These depictions are governed by his use of color, brush stroke, composition, and balance.  

New interest in watercolor

 

Karen Mentioned in her presentation the new interest in watercolor - here is Marlene Dumas who became famous for her watercolors and watercolor-like oil paintings.. check the link:

http://christopherdavison.com/drawingseeing/?p=320

John Singer Sargent, the Sensualist, by Karen Capper

   As I have continued to study and work at watercolor, I have been introduced to John Singer Sargent, who is almost worshipped for his watercolor paintings.  He brings a freshness to painting that takes my, and most who desire pursuing the craft, breath away.

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Kara Walker, by Julian De Perio

Kara Walker was born in Stockton, CA 1969. She studied at the Atlanta College of Art, and then Rhode Island school of Design. Her works usually consisted of black silhouettes depicting black and white people engaged in a variety of shocking and explicit scenes. Her ideas as an artist most likely came from her time living in Stone Mountain, Georgia, where she experienced racism first hand. She began exploring sexuality as a subject of her works during college, part of her inspiration being pulp-fiction novels, many of which featured scenes of interracial love.

Umberto Boccioni, by Sohail Kizibash Alam

I had never heard of this artist before. I find his work vibrant, colorful and it has an innate quality to intrigue. Some of his paintings mean different things to me everytime i look at them.  It is a pity that he died quite young as it seems that he could have presented the world with many ideas as he was quite versatile. He started of as a sign painter and moved through different styles finally becoming an sculptor. Just as Piccaso changed his media and style so many times we could expect the same from Umberto.

B. 1882 Italy

D. 1916  at 34 years.

Painter/Sculptor

Often grouped under Futurists-his work centered on the portrayal of movement (dynamism), speed, and technology.

Studied Impressionist , post impresssionist styles.

Decided to become sculptor in only 4 years before his death.