Process into image week 2

Artist research – Keith Haring

Keith Haring was a cartoonist. Keith was a child of his time raised in the United States in the 60s. So he was the first generation of the universe. He grew up when major events such as the lunar landing were televised against the backdrop of protesting racial riots and other political issues. His visual language was determined by the world surrounding him. It can be seen on flying saucers, computer screens, and nuclear symbols. Keith moved to New York in 1978 to study at the School of Visual Arts, and he was immediately fascinated by graffiti he saw on the streets and subways. Currently, the war on graffiti has not yet begun. Keith Haring’s love for dance stems from his love for music. Whenever he works on the street or in a studio. Music has always been played around him and you can almost listen to music that instills the visual rhythm of his work. He was a rare artist who could visualize sound. Keith Harding worked under the stimulus of adapting his current mood and thoughts and improvising his image as he proceeded. Keith is known to work fast and drew several pictures and pictures a day.

In other words, “Marriage between Heaven and Hell” is positive and negative, blue, red, good or bad. There will always be a fight between heaven and hell. It also represents my way of showing heaven and hell, but it has a culture and symbolism of future-oriented issues for the world. It is also one of my favorite works. Keith Harring has made several “Heaven and Hell” work before, but this better shows how Keith knows better about social awareness. I think his symbols and symbolic characters are very interesting. This is a powerful image consistent with Keith Haring’s use of religious symbols. If the wedding ring is a sacred symbol belonging to the religious world, it is almost as if Keith Harring reveals the limits of human marriage by describing space marriage. This work shows a lot of relationship with the Taegeukgi (South Korean flag) for me. Express social awareness and express your identity within tradition and culture.

Jean Michael Basquiat

Jean Michael Basquiat had a relationship between identity and love and hatred and was a playground for experiments, but he knew too well about the stereotypes he faced. Nevertheless, Basquiat’s work was intentionally political, arrested, and confrontational. It was hidden on all floors of his dense creations, from black protagonists to repeated use of milk, soap, and cotton used to discuss slavery. He made it difficult to ignore his black color and wanted you to ignore it. His way shows lines, chapters, and poems. It shows his primitive style of gestures with graffiti-like images and scribbled text.

Judy Millar

Another artist I found very expressive was Judy Miller’s who is a New Zealand artist, her colorful painting was hung on a neat indoor wall, so it matched her world. The overall atmosphere of her works was neat and tidy, but she looked messy as a viewer but focused more on her art. Judy Miller’s works are about an imaging system for the initial behavior of her hand gestures toward something abstract. For example, it ends up forming hands using very fluid media such as paint and repainting the surface through many steps and layers. Her works are abstract expressionist paintings.

Christopher Wools

Christopher Wool’s paintings and prints explore the combination of images, text, and patterns. They often feature embarrassing and confrontational phrases or difficult-to-read scribbles. They are painted black or plastered on flat white fields. The artist sometimes covers the work with spray paint marks and screen-printed elements, erasing and relaying it while he goes. His process of focusing on reproduction, conversion, and spreadability is as important as the outcome itself. In his textured painting, wool contrasts white background with thick stencil text or abstract brush strokes. Going over and over again to get the specific line and details.

Banksy

Banksy is a British-based pseudonym artist and is based in England. Not only is he a talented graffiti artist, but his work suggests that he is a political activist. In addition, the release of the 2011 film reaffirms his artistic talent. Many of his works can be seen as dark humor that some people find unpleasant.  However, some of his social and political commentary work was used in world-class architectural structures, walls, and streets. He deals with modern activities within the news and around the world in a clear but controversial way, ranging from issues such as government, social class, capitalism, war, and poverty. He uses paint markers and draws them with his hands to create his own stencils, play with the negative and positive space of his artwork, use his skills, and focus on outlining his point. He often uses distinctive artworks by combining his dark humor with slogans on how to imagine the world surrounding him. His works are often related to political topics, satirically criticizing war, capitalism, hypocrisy, and greed. Typical topics include mice, apes, police, royalty, and children.