Thursday, 24 January 2008

Anselm Kiefer




Trees creating barriers Andrew Wyeth



Andrew Wyeth paintings of trees with the branches and leaves creating a screen or barrier that we are looking through

Edward Hopper Outside Looking In







Excellent paintings looking into spaces. Elements of Pop Art with hoardings, signs, lights and street furniture with atmospheric spaces. The windows are the barriers and we are looking into bright uptouchable spaces.

Edward Hopper website http://www.artchive.com/artchive/H/hopper.html
Excellent website on Edward Hopper exhibition http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2007/hopper/introduction/index.shtm


Edward Hooper Interiors With Windows





Edward Hooper superb American painter records these very cool spaces full of people deep in thought. Slightly melancholic

Andrew Wyeth Interiors With Windows





Andrew Wyeth works in watercolours building up wonderfully textured atmospheric paintings, often with a great sense of light

Andrew Wyeth Wikipedia webpage http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Wyeth
Andrew Wyeth's official website http://www.andrewwyeth.com

George Tooker

George Tooker painting of American Immigration Control with people queuing up to visit or move to America.


Subway Rather melancholic painting by George Tooker with the banisters and turn styles creating barriers

George Tooker Self Portrait with the hand obscuring the face or creating a barrier



George Tooker double portrait - door creates a barrier between the two figures and different moods.

George Tooker - slightly scarier image - is that a second figure or somekind of twisted reflection

http://www.tendreams.org/tooker.htm good webpage with good images that you can grab using print screen

David Hockney - Pearblossom Highway Photo Joiner

David Hockney - Pearblossom Highway Photo Joiner 1986
The roadsigns and instructions painted on the road create a barrier to the drivers etc.

http://www.davidhockney.com/