Artists This Week

1. Ashley L. Schick - http://ashleylschick.com/index.html

2. Susanne Thiemann - http://www.susanne-thiemann.de/

3. Servane Mary - http://www.artnet.com/Galleries/Artwork_Detail.asp?G=&gid=425130607&which=&ViewArtistBy=online&aid=425129332&wid=426045990&source=artist&rta=http://www.artnet.com/ag/events.asp

4. Michael Craig-Martin - http://www.artnet.com/galleries/Artists_Detail.asp?aid=4547&gid=490&rta=http://www.artnet.com/ag/events.asp

Featured Artist : Jorge Montero

Jorge Montero

Montero is from Venezuela. He is a graphic designer, painter, visual artist and an illustrator. He works as a freelance graphic designer and an illustrator for Venezuelan and US advertising companies. Also, he is a guest professor and lecturer in Germany, South Africa, Czech Republic, Venezuela, Cuba, El Salvador, Puerto Rico and the USA. His art is said to be sarcastic and implies political voice.

Artists This Week

1. Gyun Hur- http://gyunhur.com/home.html

2. Hilary White - http://hilarywhiteart.com/

3. Jonathan Yoerger - http://yoerger.tumblr.com/

4. Jorge Montero - http://www.jorgemonterosite.com

Project II: Photoshop

Project III : Pattern Designs

 

Week 6 Artists

1. Andy Goldsworthy - http://www.morning-earth.org/artistnaturalists/an_goldsworthy.html

2. Mart Bradford - http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/bradford/

3. Denise Carson - http://www.artinasia.com/galleryDetail.php?catID=0&galleryID=2043&view=9&artistID=10182

4. Mona Hatoum - http://www.whitecube.com/artists/hatoum/

Week 5 Artists

1. Andreas Kocks - http://www.andreaskocks.com/home.html

2. James Casebere - http://jamescasebere.net/

3. Marina Abramovic - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marina_Abramovi%C4%87

4. Do Ho Suh - http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/suh/index.html?gclid=CKCphq31v6cCFYi8KgodHHGG_g

Project I: Totoro

Week 4 Featured Artist: Marilyn Minter

Marilyn Minter is a painter/ photographer living in New York City. Her art work deals with high fashion which she claims she knows nothing about. It's almost seems to me that she is portraying the shallowness and the danger of fashion. Some entitle her work as "Damaged Glamour". Recently she made a video called Green Pink Caviar where the model licked bakery products on a glass panel which I think is a bit icky. Then I read her comment about the video. She said the video is to illustrate hunger and insatiability of human nature. After hearing that  the video made more sense to me. Madonna used this video during her song Candy Shop in her Sweet and Sticky tour.

 "Green Pink Caviar"

 

How to Create an abstract figure with Photoshop

http://www.digitalartsonline.co.uk/tutorials/index.cfm?featureID=3261188

This is an article about how to create a figure with circles in photoshop. It's pretty cool. I think it should be useful for our photoshop project.

Week 4: Artists

1. Marilyn Minter - http://www.salon94.com/artists/20/

2. Brian Knep - http://www.blep.com/

3. Paul Morrison - http://www.designboom.com/eng/funclub/morrison.html

4. Andy Chang

Week 3 Featured Artist: Htin Lin (Golden Arrow)

 Htin Lin (Golden Arrow)

Htin Lin is a renowned photographer from Yangon, Myanmar. His father was also a famous photographer in his own times. He dropped out of high school at the age of 17 when his father lost his sight. He was in immediate need of job to support his family and  started working at his father's friend's photo developing studio. After some time he started working as a freelance photographer and he has been a freelance photographer since.  From time to time, he would travel around the country with a group of photographers and capture the beauty of Myanmar culture. 

Week 3: Artists

1. Soe Moe - http://www.pgsoemoe-myanmar.com/

Padaung Lady

2. Andrew Chang- http://www.andrew-chang.com/

3. Rafael Francisco Salas - http://www.rafaelsalas.com/

4. Htin Lin (Golden Arrow) - Yangon, Myanmar

Week 2 Featured Artist: Slyvia Ji

Very much like Anja Van Herle, most of Sylvia Ji's paintings are also portraits of women. What her paintings are different from Anja's are that the women in the paintings look haunting and more complicated than those from Anja's. I saw one of Sylvia Ji's paintings in a magazine about 2 years ago and I was so inspired by her that I used her as my mentor for one of my painting projects. There's something about the women in her paintings that attracts me a lot. Some people say it's morbid but for me it's just so beautiful.

This is the painting that I did for one of my art classes. I used Sylvia Ji as my mentor.

The Incredibles Animator: Victor Navone

http://www.animationarena.com/pixar-the-incredibles-animator.html

This is an interview article that I found on animationarena.com. This is the interview with Vicor Nacvone, the animator of Pixar's "The Incredibles". In this interview, he talked about being an animator and how it is like to working at Pixar. Enjoy! =)