Artist Research Mixture of Artists

I have decided to use Roy Lichtenstein as an artist for my project due to the main reason; that he pushed the boundaries with his art with the new type of art “Pop Art”. This I feel will work well with my art project because I §want to push the boundaries with the way that I would like my art to be put across to the audience and the way that it is perceived. I feel the way that I could do this is by using bright colours in my work like Roy Lichtenstein with his pop art work as I feel that the bright  colours will draw in people and the piece will have their attention. I feel that the bright colours could be mixed in with dull colours and dark colours as this will emphasise them. I feel that I could use the bright colours to show emotions and feelings that the people or beings might be having in the piece; like blue to show depression or sadness and red for anger or disgust. I feel that this will make the piece be seen was a living thing and will give a grater impact to the people viewing it.

Roy Lichtenstein’s Drowning Girl is a good example of how the colour of the piece gives the piece life when you look at it. The blue of the girls  hair draws your attention straight to her and yo see her emotion straight away with the tear and the blue hair showing fear as she is drowning. Overall I feel the way the that he has done the piece with the blue hair makes the piece come alive and adds more meaning. 

This piece has the same kind of effect due to her holding a blue coat showing that she is “feeling blue”, which makes the piece seem realistic and see it in a different way than before and adding more depth to the  piece and its meaning.

Another artist that I found was Jan Weenix who’s work I saw in the Scottish National Gallery of Art. 

 I like her work due to the way that the detail of the piece is amazing and very realistic and beautifully painted in the background and in the foreground she has painted dead animals which have been hunted. The rabbit and the pigeon has blood all over it, emphasising the brutality within the action of hunting. I feel that I can incorporate this in to my idea by making the piece pop out from the background emphasising the emotions and the realism of the piece. I feel that this would draw the audience deeper into the piece and its true meaning it is trying to portray to them.

Another artist that I found in the Scottish National Gallery of Art  was Giovanni Battista who creates these pieces where the virgin Mary and the baby jesus are perfectly painted but the people around them are just sketches. I really liked this due to the way that it puts its meaning across as they have done a very simple way but very effective. I feel that the message it is trying to put across is that even though you are by amazing and perfect things / or even if you surround yourself with pretty thing you will not be. this I feel could be used to show your emotions also as you could surround your self with happy and amazing this but you yourself could be sad and depressed and that the amazing this will not help this at all. Even the surroundings won't help, this is shown with the sketch of the tree in the piece.