Stephane Dauthuille

 

 

 

 

French artist Stephane Dauthuille uses layers of lines and pattern to create these gorgeously ornate images. I  I like the way she uses line and colour in her drawings. Some of them are very neatly and intricately drawn and some of them brash and very colourful. I also like the way she draw her figures.

Find more of her work HERE

Ways to stay creative

Found this list on tumblr and it is spot on

George CONDO

Joan of Arc, 2002
Oil on canvas
21" x 18"

Young Red Nude, 2002
Oil on canvas
60" x 48"

The ballerina
oil on canvas

 

Condo's work is, bizarre and explores the saturated world of portraiture in a beautifully original way.I found George Condo’s work after a long hard day in the library after feeling a bit deflated. I am inspired by how alters reality by changing and deforming ‘normal’ facial features and body features. I admire how his work is very detailed something  i intend on working on in my own work.

The vast majority of his so-called “portraits” are not portraits at all but images of imaginary people. His subject matter, which can be simultaneously hilarious and scarifying, puts a lot of people off, but many contemporary artists are in awe of his virtuoso paint handling
Read more HERE

Helene Amouzou

Helene Amouzou was born in 1969 in Togo. She now resides in Molenbeek (Brussels) and took classes in photography at the Academy of drawing and visual arts of Molenbeek-Saint-Jean. For over six years, she decided to
return the lens at it systematically.
As she says, she continually photography, mostly in the attic .... What are these incessant self-portraits ?
Body embedded in the walls, shadows, light, movement, metamorphoses, hanging garments, bags, pictures of Helen fortes.On might think are the work of Francesca Woodman ... But the reality is different and each story is different. Perhaps his approach is to try to find, to meet, to certify to exist, because Helen seeks his identity for years. Where does it really? The photos of Helena show a painful question.
 


As she says, she continually photography, mostly in the attic .... What are these incessant self-portraits ?
Body embedded in the walls, shadows, light, movement, metamorphoses, hanging garments, bags, pictures of Helen fortes.On might think are the work of Francesca Woodman ... But the reality is different and each story is different. Perhaps his approach is to try to find, to meet, to certify to exist, because Helen seeks his identity for years. Where does it really? The photos of Helena show a painful question.

Special collections visit

I visited special collections library looking for something or a book with book with black people, I was given this book by the librarian because he thought this is one of the the first books that viewed/represented  black people as human beings rather caricatures from Jim Crows idealism of ‘black folk’, this book was published in 1962
Even for me this book humanised black people but the author of this book was criticised for not being being black and his lack of understanding of black people, because the his portrayal was off the scale, and did not represent black people in America in the early 60s, it was  the around of The Civil Rights Movement. This book resonated with me because it showed people of my colour looking ‘normal’ and doing normal things (which we do).

Some favourites and not so favourites from Liverpool

This painting was the major influence for my unit x project theme/idea. I thought that you really never see black people potrayed as ‘people’ rather than as monsters, slaves or gollywogs.
The pottery is by Susie cooper I found the colours, shapes and that fact they were hand painted of these pottery very peculiar but admired them at the same time. I also like that they where made by a woman artist which is quite lacking in the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool.

• I admired the above bread sculpture/drawing I love the way it is continuously decomposing even as I am writing this.  This was part of the sculptures in the Tate gallery Liverpool. I wished they were more of this kind in this exhibition.

John Kirby

See the full gallery on Posterous

I went to Liverpool twice  because I wanted to see John Kirby's work, his appealed to me because of the use polics and art a topic which I am interested. I was mostly inspired by the air dry clay sculptures. The pictures above are some of my favourites, but I was not allowed to take more pictures (i missed the sign that said so) . In my unit x project are intend to follow the same route of exploring 'race rows' as explored in this part of John Kirby's work.