Sir John Lawes Art Faculty

Ordinary and or Extraordinary - Henry Moore Mixed Media

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Henry Moore was a War Artist during the Second World War. He was inspired by seeing Londoners sheltering in the Underground Stations to avoid the air raids of the Blitz. He went down to observe and make quick sketches which he then worked up with watercolours later. The mixture of materials gave them an extra ordinary quality.

The mixed media technique was used in his other sketchbook work, layering watercolours, inks, oil pastels and chalks in his observational and thinking drawings

Ordinary and or Extraordinary - Arcimbaldo

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Giseppi Arcimbaldo (1527 - 1597) Arcimbaldo was a court portrait painter - and was employed to paint portraits of the royal family and officials in Vienna and Prague. He is remembered for his imaginative 'surreal' paintings of people made from objects. Inspired I think by the Celtic and early Christian tradition of Green Man carvings on Churchs no one else would paint like this until Salvador Dali and the Surrealists nearly 400 years later

Ordinary and or Extraordinary - Biographical paintings - Anthony Green

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Anthony Green (1939 - ). Anthony Green is an English painter who paints or records his everyday life. His paintings where we are looking down into these scenes from unusual angles make the ordinary extra-ordinary

http://anthonygreen.org.uk/

http://www.chenderit.northants.sch.uk/visualarts/gallery/showgallery.html?id=400

Ordinary and or Extraordinary - Landscape and a sense of place

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During the 1930s photograpers explored the excitement in the ordinary. Looking at everyday street scenes from above these images with strong shadows by Otto Umbehr are typical

The one above 'The Mystery Of The Street' says it all

http://weimarart.blogspot.com/2010/10/otto-umbehr.html

Ordinary and or Extraordinary - Surrealism - Photography

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Jerry Uelsmann - Surreal Photographer

Jerry Uelsmann

Jerry Uelsmann website that shows more images click here

Man Ray (1890 - 1976) untitled surreal photograph

Ordinary and or Extraordinary - Surrealism - Salvador Dali 2

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Salvador Dali - The Persistence of Memory - Painting 1931

Lobster Telephone - sculpture using found materials - Salvador Dali

Disappearing bust of Voltaire - painting 1941 Salvador Dali

Ordinary and or Extraordinary - Surrealism - Salvador Dali

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Surrealism

Artists have created Artwork by combining ordinary objects in unusual ways to create new objects or new imaginative compositions

This is a painting by Salvador Dali of an imaginary room based on the face of Mae West an american actor from the 1930s and 1940s. He becams fascinated with the idea of Mae West Lips sofa and eventually had a room made in his house that re-created the imaginative painting

Inside and Outside Similarities And Differences

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Samuel Van Hoogstraten Viewbox

http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/samuel-van-hoogstraten-a-peepshow-with-views-of-the-interior-of-a-dutch-house

Edward Hopper Nighthawks

Pieter De Hooch

Pieter De Hooch

Pieter De Hooch

Similarities And Differences - Crowds and Queues

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George Grosz

Links

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Grosz

Similarities and/or Differences- LS Lowry

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Going to the Match

Lowry paints scenes of Salford where the people appear in their environment like ants.

Similarities and /or Differences- Tai Shan Schierenberg

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Similarities and/or Differences- Edward Burra

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Three Sailors at a Bar

The Snack

Minuet Chanson

Edward Burra was born in England in 1905. His early work was mostly focussed on scenes of everyday city life and the variety of social activity and people in London, Paris and New York.

Similarities and or Differences - Still Life Vanitas

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Pieter Claesz Vanitas 1630

Johann Friedrich Grueber 1681

Vanitas - still life painting where objects are symbolic

Links:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanitas

http://www.chrispeters.com/

Similarities and or Differences - Joan Bevelaqua observational paintings

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Beautifully produced watercolour paintings of themed still life groups

Link: http://www.joanbevelaqua.com/gallery.htm

Similarities and or Differences Lisa Milroy Collections

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Lisa Milroy 1988 Lightbulbs

Lis Milroy Shoes

Lisa Milroy Shoes 1985

Links:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/sep/09/artist-lisa-milroy

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These paintings focus on wheels,cogs and machines. they are painted by Chap Isham. They are painted in watercolour on paper.

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Herve Leger painting of structures La Ville.

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Franck Sorbier clock skirt from his fall collection 2007 as well as the image below.

He also designed this robot costume of a breast plate made from real clock faces for the film Tales of Hoffman in June 2008 it was also part of the fall 2007.

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Knitted Toolbelt by Theresa Honeywell. Who says tools need to be made from metal??
Check out her kitted motorbike too!! www.theresahoneywell.com

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Dior again inspired by the clowns we see at the Circus.

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Christian Dior inspired by the circus and the performers from cirque de soleil

Work Rest Play - Play Skating

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Hendrick Avercamp A Winter Scene With Skaters Near A Castle 1608-09

website http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hendrick_Avercamp

Work Rest Play - Work Ford Madox Brown

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Ford Madox Brown Work 1863

website http://www.manchestergalleries.org/ford-madox-brown/

Work Rest Play Rene Green Printed Textiles

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Renée Green, In collaboration with The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Mise-en-Scène: Commemorative Toile, 1992 (detail), Hand silkscreen on cotton sateen, Width: 57 inches,

Work Rest Play Pieter De Hooch

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Pieter De Hooch A Woman And Her Maid 1660-61

More paintings by Pieter De Hooch http://www.abcgallery.com/H/hooch/hooch.html

Jan Vermeer Mistress And Maid 1667

http://www.essentialvermeer.com/vermeer_painting_part_one.html

Work Rest Play - Eating And Drinking in A Cafe

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Edouard Manet Corner of a Café-Concert 1878 - 1880

weblink http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89douard_Manet

Work Rest Play - Rest on the beach

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Claude Monet The Beach at Trouville 1870

website http://giverny.org/monet/welcome.htm

Work Rest Play Gustave Courbet Resting

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Gustave Courbet 1857 Young Ladies On The Bank of The Seine

weblink http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave_Courbet

Work Rest Play - Playing Games

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Jan Steen Skittle Players outside an Inn 1660-63

weblink http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Steen

Work Rest Play - Playing with a sailing boat

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Francis Danby Boys Sailing A Little Boat 1822

weblink http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Danby

Work Rest Play - Rest / Play Visiting Zoo

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Pietro Longhi Exhibition of a Rhino At Venice 1751

Pietro Longhi wikipedia webpage http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pietro_Longhi

Work Rest Play- Sculpture Duane Hanson

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The Traveller Fibreglass 1988

The Tourists 1988

Queenie Bronze and accessories 1988

The Flea Market Vendor fibre glass sculpture 1990

Duane Hanson Webpage http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/duane_hanson.htm

Work Rest Play - Play Sony Play Station

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Megan Davis Gran Turismo

Work Rest Play - Work LS Lowry

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Here is the original of the Coming From The Mill Painting by LS Lowry

Lowry webpage http://www.pamalam.co.uk/L%20S%20LAWRY.htm

Here is an artist copy done by Rolf Harris

Work Rest Play: Work Maggi Hambling

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Dorothy Mary Crowfoot painted by Maggi Hambling

Work Rest Play - Work : Tailors Shop

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The Tailor's Workshop. 1661

Quiringh van Brekelenkam Interior of a Tailors Shop 1665

Work Rest Play Factory Work

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Laura Knight - Ruby Loftus screwing a breech ring 1943

Laura Knight website http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Knight

Work Rest Play Paul Gaughin The Breton Shepherdess

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Post Impressionist Painter - great use of colour http://www.paul-gauguin.net/

Work Rest Play - Experiments Joseph Wright Of Derby

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Joseph Wright Of Derby An Iron Forge

A travelling scientist is shown demonstrating the formation of a vacuum by withdrawing air from a flask containing a white cockatoo, though common birds like sparrows would normally have been used. Air pumps were developed in the 17th century and were relatively familiar by Wright's day. The artist's subject is not scientific invention, but a human drama in a night-time setting.The bird will die if the demonstrator continues to deprive it of oxygen, and Wright leaves us in doubt as to whether or not the cockatoo will be reprieved. The painting reveals a wide range of individual reactions, from the frightened children, through the reflective philosopher, the excited interest of the youth on the left, to the indifferent young lovers concerned only with each other. The figures are dramatically lit by a single candle, while in the window the moon appears. On the table in front of the candle is a glass containing a skull.

Work Rest Play David Teniers The Four Seasons

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great set of seasonal paintings in the National Gallery

http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/david-teniers-the-younger-winter (great zoom facility)

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Early in 1940, during the London Blitz, the artist Henry Moore noticed long lines forming outside the Underground stations. One evening, instead of driving to his home in North London (which was destroyed a few months later by a bomb), he took the Underground.
As the train beaded north, Moore saw people lying in the stations and mothers undressing their babies on the platform. For Moore, this subterranean scene of civilians seeking shelter from the bombing was a revelation. "Even the holes out of which the trains were coming seemed to me to be like the holes in my sculpture,' he later wrote. "...There was tension in the air. [People] were a bit like the chorus in a Greek drama telling us about the violence we don't actually witness."

When Kenneth Clark, director of the National Gallery, saw the first of Moore's Underground drawings, he urged his friend to document the shelters for the War Artists'Advisory Committee. Moore, who had been gassed at Cambrai during the First World War, reluctantly agreed. Clark described Moore's figures "lying helpless deep in the earth, as if wrapped in winding sheets rather than blankets." Francis Bacon commented that the drawings looked like knitting with the needles pulled out.

Moore never drew in the shelters. "It would have been like making sketches in the hold of a slave ship,"he said. To jog his memory, he jotted down notes. "Remember figures seen last Wednesday night (Piccadilly Tube)." 'Two sleeping figures (seen from above) sharing cream-coloured thin blankets (drapery closely stuck to form). Hands and arms. Try positions oneself."
Moore often spent the entire night below ground. At dawn he returned to his studio where he committed to paper what he had seen. He drew on cheap notebooks with pen and ink, crayon and watercolor. Of the shelter drawings, Clark wrote that they"will, I am certain, always be considered the greatest works of art inspired by the war."

More (or should that be Moore) of his Air Raid Shelter sketches - http://www.henry-moore-fdn.co.uk/matrix_engine/content.php?page_id=3145

Henry Moore Foundation website - http://www.henry-moore-fdn.co.uk

textiles inspired by Natural homes.

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This flamingo is made by txtile artist Abigail Brown. She has also created beautiful textile pieces inspired by bird nests and houses. All of her work is very 3D. www.alison-brown.co.uk

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These brightly coloured nests are made by recycle inspired artist Alison Harper. These pieces were made with everyday objects and materials. She created them with students when she went out into schools and colleges to run workshops. www.alisonharper.net

textiles inspired by Natural Homes

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This piece is created by a batik and print artist called Robin Paris. All of her work is inspired by nature. www.robinparis.co.uk

Textiles inspired by Natural homes.

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These are a series of nests created by a textile artist/ quilter from Canada called Kirsten Chursinoff. She has also created lots of pieces inspired by birds and other wildlife. www.chursinoff.com

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These nests have been painted by Susan Hostetler. She has painted lots of birds as well as their nests. She is an eco artisit who works in mixed media. You can see lots of detial in the way the nests have been "woven" together by the birds. www.susanhostetler.com

Tetiles inspired by Natural Homes

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these delicate nests are made from metal wires by artist Fiona Heron. www.fionaheron.com

textiles inspired by Natural Homes

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Lovely 3D textiles by Tamar Mogendorff include birds and sealife such as this Clam. to look at more of the work go to www.tmogy.com

textiles inspired by natural homes

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Birds nest inspired hat by Pierre Cardin in Spring 2008

Textiles inspired by Natural homes

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Gaint Clam like head piece by Stephen Jones for designer Giles Deacon in Spring 2009. (very Rainbow!)

Textiles inspired by Natural homes

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Headdress inspired by nests is made form birch twigs by artist Tonya Douraghy.

textiles inspired by Natural homes

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Coats by Pierre Cardin. A true revolutionary who was interested in using unconventional fabrics often plastics to create space age clothes especailly in the 60's when he was at the peak of his career. These were said to be Sleeping bags that you wore! and are from his 2008 winter collection.

Textiles inspired by Natural Homes

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These dresses with their gathered and pleated fabrics again resemble the pleated outside of the cocoons made by caterpillers as they turn into butterflies or moths. They have been designed by Korean Lei sang bong and appeared in the Paris Fashion Week for Spring 2010.

Textiles inspired by Natural Homes

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From Doir 2008 these dresses have "peplum" styled skirts that resemble the shapes of butterfly cocoons, though the colours that John Galliano has used remind us more of the colourful butterfly that would emerge from the cocoon!

Textile Creations inspired by Natural Homes

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These dresses have large skirts that resemble huge shell like structures. They are designed by Prada.

natural homes

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This is a cocoon inspired wedding dress by Yves St Laurent. It is a knitted creation from his 1960's.

Work Rest Play - Landscape Photos for Claus Oldenberg sculpture lesson

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Work rest play. pattern repeat in textiles

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Marcia Copeland designs retro-modern home textiles in fun, colorful prints often with familiar objects featured.Swizzlestix.

Work, Rest,Play. Pattern repeat in textiles.

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Printed clothes designed by Zandra Rhodes. They are a mixture of images printed onto a variety of materials. Many of the images are abstract and she uses this well when repeating the patterns over a length of cloth. Very often Zandra bases her collections on wonderful places she has visited.

Work Rest Play. Pattern repeat printed textiles.

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Traditional printed textiles from Laura Ashley.

Work Rest Play. Pattern repeat in textiles.

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Floral patterns associated with Liberty prints. The peacock feather is most famously linked to the department store.

Work, Rest, Play. Pattern repeat in textiles.

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Printed Textiles by Cath Kidston. Brightly coloured textiles for the home that feature images relating to places you may have visited ( London print shopper) or floral patterns.

Work Rest Play Giant Sculptures American Folk Art

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There is a tradition of giant sculpture in the US with examples that date back to the begin of the 20th Century. Some are quirky and strange, some are huge adverts or signs visible over long distances on the highways advertising businesses, hotels, cafes etc.

These are an institution in America, tourist attractions with people travelling huge distances to see them.

http://www.roadsideamerica.com/set/coffee.html

http://watertowers.tripod.com/

http://www.yorklib.org/local/artistic-water-towers

Work Rest Play Claus Oldenburg

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Claus Oldenburg took the American tradition of making giant roadside objects and folk art and turned it into his own Pop Art

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claes_Oldenburg

http://www.oldenburgvanbruggen.com/

Work, Rest , Play- Millet

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Jean-Francois Millet's paintings of French Peasants making a meagre living from the fields

Work, Rest , Play- Renoir

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Pierre-Auguste Renoir was a French Impressionist Painter.

Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre-Auguste_Renoir

Work, Rest , Play- Seurat

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Georges Seurat painted in a pontillist style. These paintings depict the French enjoying their leisure time in the late 1800's

Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Seurat

Work, Rest , Play- Edward Burra

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Edward Burra an English painter, draughtsman and printmaker, best known for his depictions of the urban underworld particularly in America.

Harlem Life

Work, Rest, Play- David Hockney

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David Hockney is a British Artist
His images of pools give us an insight into the world of the rich and famous in LA.
Bigger Splash

Website link: http://www.davidhockney.com/

Work, Rest , Play- Claes Oldenburg

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Claes Oldenburg changes the scale of objects and turns the everyday tools of work, rest and play into giant sculptures that often interact with the environment.

Claes Oldenburg website: http://www.oldenburgvanbruggen.com/

Work, Rest, Play- Martin Parr

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Martin Parr's Photographs of every day life

Martin Parr's website: http://www.martinparr.com/index1.html

Work, Rest, Play- Bill Jacklin

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Bill Jacklin's urban portraits of the city reflect the daily journey to work

A monoprint of figure walking in the rain- he has splashed white spirit onto the glass to give the effect of water

Bill Jacklin biography: http://www.bjacklin.com/biography.html

Work Rest Play Stanley Spencer shipbuilding on the clyde

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Series of paintings (actually part of a large mural) by Stanley Spencer showing workers in a shipyard on the river Clyde

Stanley Spencer page on Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Spencer

Stanley Spencer website http://www.stanleyspencer.org.uk/

Work Rest Play Reclining Figures Ron Mueck

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Ron Mueck is a hyper realist sculptor using techniques developed during his career as a model and prop maker for films. He plays with scale to create sculptures that divide opinion

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Mueck

article and photos

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/gallery/2005/12/29/GA2005122900888.html

Work Rest Play - Reclining Figures

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Sculptures by Henry Moore - Reclining Figures figures that are resting

http://www.henry-moore-fdn.co.uk/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Moore

Work Rest Play - Textiles Inspired Links

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Nancy Marks http://nancymarksart.com

Henri Matisse

Nancy Marks Narcissus Dreaming

Diane Keen

Diane Gilder http://www.dianegilder.co.uk

Charlotte Clowes http://www.charlotteclowes.co.uk/

Henri Matisse

Work Rest And Play - Going Out

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Julian Bell 2003

http://www.franciskylegallery.com/sites/Bel.htm

Work Rest And Play - Shopping

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Frans Synders - Grocers Stall 17th Century

Julian Bell - Grazia 2008

more information -

http://www.jbell.co.uk/home/index.htm

http://www.franciskylegallery.com/sites/Bel.htm

Frans Snyders - Fruit Stall 17th Century

Frans Synders Market and Kitchen Paintings

http://www.abcgallery.com/S/snyders/snyders.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frans_Snyders

Work Rest And Play - Playing Games

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Henri Matisse Playing Chess

links for Henri Matisse

http://www.abcgallery.com/M/matisse/matisse.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Matisse

Marcel Duchamp - playing chess

John Tenneil Illustrator of Alice In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Tenniel

http://www.johntenniel.com

Pieter Brueghel Children Playing

link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieter_Bruegel_the_Elder

Work Rest And Play - Still Life

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Pieter Roestraeten Still Life painting

other examples of his work http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/html/r/roestrae/index.html

Cezanne Still Life Painting

other examples of Cezannes work and information -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_C%C3%A9zanne

http://www.abcgallery.com/C/cezanne/cezanne.html

Cristoforo Munari Still Life Painting 17th Century

Cezanne Still Life Painting

Wilson Marlatt 1887

Cezanne Still Life Painting

Work Rest And Play - Patrick Caulfield

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English Pop Artist

Patrick Caulfield's style of working links well to Michael Craig Martin if you are looking for another Artist to compare to

Work Rest And Play - Michael Craig Martin

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Michael Craig Martin is a contempory Artist who mixes observational work with a bright slightly abstracted style influenced by Pop Art and Patrick Caulfield

Follow links for more information

http://www.michaelcraig-martin.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Craig-Martin

I Me Mine Anthony Green The Path Journeys

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This is one of a series of paintings Anthony Green did of a personal journeys, this describing a dreamlike journey down the garden path

http://www.artspacegallery.co.uk/MainImagePages/Artists/Paintings/Green/Green_CV.html

I Me Mine Chaim Soutine Paintings of food

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This would link well to the work by John Bratby

I Me Mine - Chaim Soutine expressive personal portraits

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Very atmospheric, expressive and highly personal portraits

http://www.abcgallery.com/S/soutine/soutine.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaim_Soutine

I Me Mine - Joe Tilson Collections of Important Objects

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Collages of collected material that has caught the eye of the artist.Photos of the artist, images from the media,

I Me Mine - Looking down at the earth personal viewpoint The Boyle Family

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The Boyle Family choosing locations at random using a map

Boyle Family

Study from the Broken Path Series with Border Edging - 1986

The works of Boyle Family replicate the world with the minimum of artistic intervention and as objectively as possible. They aim to make us look at reality with the same attention we would devote to a film or to the visual arts. Chance also plays an important role in determining what they will reproduce. This is one of a series of random studies of broken black and white paths, showing the process of disintegration and change. It is one of their ‘Earth Works’, in which they reproduce a section of ground, whether it be pavement, sand or soil.Accession no. GMA 3016 Medium Painted fibreglass and mixed media Size 182.70 x 305.00 x 12.50 cm

Addison Crescent Study (London Series)1969

This is part of the 'London Series' group of works by Boyle Family. It is an exact, three-dimensional replica of a kerb from Addison Crescent in West London. The artists chose this area to replicate by throwing darts, at random, at a map. The work was made by spreading a plastic substance called Epikote on the ground, which lifts up all the surface debris when removed. This was then given a fibreglass support and painted. Working in this way and recording whatever is within the chosen area, removes the aspect of subjective choice and reduces the conscious, decision-making process.

Medium Painted fibreglass and mixed media

Size 247.00 x 244.00 x 19.00 cm

Credit Purchased 1974

Boyle Family (Scottish, Mark Boyle 1934 - 2005; Joan Hills b. 1931; Sebastian Boyle b. 1962; Georgina Boyle b. 1963)

Mark Boyle was born in Glasgow. During the 1960s he collaborated with his partner Joan Hills (born 1931) in making assemblages of junk and found objects, before moving on to produce replicas of sections of the earth. Their project 'Journey to the Surface of the Earth' was launched in 1968 - 69. After being blindfolded, they threw darts at a world map, in order to pinpoint 1,000 areas of the earth's surface to duplicate. On travelling to a selected site, the Boyles would throw a T-square in the air to select a random area to replicate. In the 1970s their two children (Sebastian, born 1962 and Georgia, born 1963) assisted in producing these works; together they operated under the name 'Boyle Family'

http://www.boylefamily.co.uk/

I Me Mine Gilbert and George Portraits and Maps

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Here are some examples of works of art by the duo Gilbert and George. The Images are created by manipulating and combining photographs

Gilbert and George on Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_and_George

Vincent Van Gogh Paintings Of Shoes

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Peter Blake paintings of collections

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Peter Blake (born 1932), who was as interested in folk art as in pop, collecting "outsider" paintings, pub signs and ephemera when he started making paintings and artworks of instantly recognisable popular subjects. Produces works of art based on collections and images around a theme

Internet Links:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2002/feb/02/art

http://www.waddington-galleries.com/exhibition/blake-1-10/

Lisa Milroy Painter of groups of objects

2009-01-18T15:42:00.000-08:00

internet Links

http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person.php?LinkID=mp59232

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Milroy

http://www.royalacademy.org.uk/academicians/painters/lisa-milroy-ra,193,AR.html

John Bratby 'Kitchen Sink' Painter

2009-01-18T15:24:00.000-08:00

John Bratby English Painter of ordinary objects and ordinary everyday scenes. Painted during 1950s and 1960s

Internet Links

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bratby

http://www.johnbratby.com/

http://www.modernbritishartists.co.uk/bratby_index.htm

I Me Mine Grayson Perry Ceramic Artist Portrait Pots

2009-01-13T14:57:00.001-08:00

Cries Of London 1996

For Grayson Perry, this is an expression of an unrecoverable lost innocence. Pastiched with delft images of ladies in waiting, delicate flowers, teddy bears, and embossed tear-drop patterns, Perry creates a hallowed place where unhappy souls exist as golden shadows of the children they never got to be.

Grayson Perry Links

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/collective/A13108079

I Me Mine Portrait Thomas Gainsborough

2009-01-13T14:47:00.000-08:00

Mr and Mrs Andrews 1748-49

Thomas Gainsborough (christened 14 May 1727 – died 2 August 1788) was one of the most famous portrait and landscape painters of 18th century Britain

I Me Mine This is a portrait of Mr and Mrs Andrews. They are wearing their finest clothing, with their finest hunting dog and an expensive hunting gun. The Andrews own all the estate land that we can see in this painting. So this is a perfect example of I Me Mine

I Me Mine Portraits with different expressions 2009

2009-01-13T14:35:00.000-08:00

Rembrandt Etching with Angry Expression 1630

Egon Schiele Pulling cheek

I Me Mine 2009 Portraits with different expressions

2009-01-13T14:09:00.000-08:00

Rembrandt Etching 1631

Rembrandt Self Portraits

Self-portrait in a cap, with eyes wide open, etching print, 1630.

I Me Mine - Portraits That Change through time

2009-01-13T13:56:00.000-08:00

Rembrandt Van Rijn 1606 - 1669
Dutch Painter famous for self portraits and portraits of others

Self Porait 1629 (age 23)

self portrait 1634 age 28

Self Portrait aged 34

Self Portrait 1661 age 55

Self Portrait 1669 aged 63

Links for Rembrandt

http://www.rembrandtpainting.net

http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2005/rembrandt/flash/index.shtm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rembrandt

I Me Mine GCSE 2009 - Portraits From Personal Objects

2009-01-13T13:46:00.000-08:00

Giuseppe Arcimboldo (also spelled Arcimboldi; 1527 - 1593) was an Italian painter best known for creating imaginative portrait heads made entirely of such objects as fruits, vegetables, flowers, fish, and books — that is, he painted representations of these objects on the canvas arranged in such a way that the whole collection of objects formed a recognisable likeness of the portrait subject.

Vertemnus 1591

The Librarian - 1566

Links for more Arcimbaldo

http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/html/a/arcimbol/index.html

http://www.all-art.org/early_renaissance/arcimboldo01biography.html (very good pictures)

Chris Peters Vanitas

2008-05-15T23:58:00.000-07:00

wonderful painter of Vanitas / themed still life paintings. Skulls as barriers that protect
his website http://www.chrispeters.com/
direct link to the vanitas paintings http://www.chrispeters.com/vanitas_still_life_paintings.htm

Lorraine Shemesh Swimming Pool Paintings

2008-02-08T15:43:00.000-08:00

Water as a barrier
http://www.lorraineshemesh.com/