Paul Thek
Paul Thek was one of the first artists suggested for me to research. And it was a great idea because his art (even though its 3-D sculptures) is quite suited for what I’m doing since his art inspired me with the meat like sculptures that he’s created. So his art has given me great texture ideas to make it seem as though it is real blood/meat even though it isn’t.
Dieter Roth
Dieter Roth inspired me to use food in my art, which is very interesting to say the least. It ties in very well with my art since i started making it appear more visceral. What Roth does is press and squish food into the artists books he creates. But i changed the idea up a bit and print pressed some food and scanned it too. Roth says the food gave his art more personality, since it aged and gained odours.
Herman Nitsch
Herman Nitsch takes his art a little to far for me to do anything like he does. First of all some of his art is more of an event titled “The Orgies Mysteries Theatre”, which seems as if he’s started a blood ritual of sorts with an animal carcass and many people involved. But his paintings inspired me because of the way the red flows through his works, which is what i try to do with my works by making the red ink/food dyes i use look as similar to blood as possible.
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Jean-Michel Basquiat Differs from the other artists because it has nothing to fo with meat, blood or rotting food. But his art has powerful messages and great vibrant looks. I based a set of works off of his following a similar style but with a different message. The art is nothing like the food, blood or meat art, but i like to try various styles and techniques in my art. And as a bonus I’ve been basing some of my art off of Basquiat since i was in college, so he’s already a go to reference for me.
Jan Voss
Jan Voss is a good artist for me, welp there’s no fake blood or guts or print pressed food, but his train of thought is a bit similar to mine. He thinks and plans as he goes. I like that, because even if something goes wrong it can still be a fantastic piece of work. A quote i try to remember as I’m doing art is that “accidents are okay”, and I’ll always remember that because it motivates me to keep working with what i have if there is an accident and to work with it. But Voss also has some great techniques that I’ve used often in my work such as crumpling up paper or tearing it up and glueing it to his artworks.
Arnulf Rainer
Arnulf Rainer was fun to research because i got the idea from him to scan my own face and make artworks out of them. Except what he did was take photographs of himself instead of scans and then paint over them in a sort of surreal abstract way.
Liz Atkin
Liz Atkin is an artist that draws and does scannography about her anxieties. I focused primarily on her scanned artworks because of the anxiety it gives me when i look at them, i can feel what she’s trying to get me to feel when i look at them. And thats what i aim to do with my work. I know my artworks aren’t based around anxiety, but i want to see peoples facial expressions change and hear them saw “ewwwww” when they see my art. Or really any emotion apart from hearing “oh thats nice”, i aim to get a genuine emotion.
Frank Luna
Frank Luna is another scannographer but his art is more uplcose and personal. With mostly a female face showing in his artworks with their face (lips, nose and cheek mostly) pressing up real close to the scanner. And you can see every little detail of their faces in the artworks, even the texture of their skin! I took advice from his artworks and wasn’t shy about pressing my face up to the scanner.
Evilsabeth Schmitz-Garcia
Evilsabeth Schmitz-Garcia has some amazing and creepy artworks which are scans of mostly her self, but its as if though the scanner is upright like a window. She makes her art creepy by slightly distorting her face while widely grinning, and also fully exposing her teeth to the scanner. She also had this brilliant idea i wanted to try but never go to where she put a shatter class pane on the scanner and scanned herself into it also, which made the picture look as if she smashed it. Evilsabeth also included her hands in some of her scans, in which one is holding a razor blade, which i feel is a message about self harm, since in the photo she holds her hands out exposing her wrists.
Lil Ashton
Lil Ashton is a scannographer as well, but she animates her scan as well. Such as making her face move while moving her hands and warping her face which is very unsettling. She also paints her face sometimes before scanning it, which i thought was a great idea, until i got distracted by the food i put in my art and the goop bag. But i never thought of animating my scans, so i might have to look into that one day.
Pati Hill
Pati Hill is the last scannographer on this list, she primarily does scanning of non living things like random objects from around the house, for example a cheese grater. But in some works its quite dark, mostly all her works are black and white too which give them a creepy vibe. Some of the darker arts consist of dead birds and meats such as a steak. But the scanner catches all the tiny details of the feathers, and the wrinkly texture in the meat.
Jordan Eagles
Jordan Eagles is a multi media artist that ranges from sculpture to painting to photography and more media too. All of his work is made of preserved animal blood from slaughter houses to give off themes of ancient spirituality and regeneration. In some of his works he lights them up to show the amazing red colours and many visceral properties. He’s also made artworks for a good cause from donated humans blood from the LGBTQI+ community to send a politically motivated message. I don’t think i could use real blood in my art, but maybe one day (hopefully that doesn’t sound to messed up) ill be able to make some really nice art pieces that can give off a sense of spirituality as well.