For centuries Chinese artist over time have depicted the cultural landscape in their works showcasing China’s land in a way that does it justice. Artist Fu Xiaotong continues this long tradition in her own unique way. Using a single tony needle and  large pieces of paper, Xiaotong uses the needle as a pen poking holes into the paper in the same manner as pointillism. Poking the paper with the need hundreds and thousands of times to create a monochromatic  version of the tradition of Chinese landscapes. After She had completed a drawing, she then names the artworks based the number of time she has pierced the paper which can go up to 700,000 times. The interesting thing I found about her work is that while the images are flat, when she is finished it almost as though she managed to make the forms in the drawings looks raised.

Works Cited: http://hifructose.com/2016/02/20/fu-xiaotong-draws-chinese-landscapes-with-thousands-of-pinholes/

Conor Harrington is a former graffiti artist and now painter from Ireland that combines the aesthetics of classical art with a contemporary twist. In his work he paints his subjects in a realistic and classical manner and juxtaposes them with the modern abstractions and motif of graffiti such a dripping paint and sporadic paint strokes. The majority of the time he depicts the male figure in the position of power and showcases male masculinity in the same that old classical paintings depicted men as stern, high class, and composed. Combined with vagueness of abstractions Harrington uses this a a comment on male identity and roles on society. While Harrington usually paints on more tradition surfaces such a canvas he is more known for his use of space with the murals he paints, using the shape of the wall and buildings as the shape of his giant canvas and composition.

Works Cited: http://www.streetartbio.com/#!about-conor-harrington-bio/cnt1

Ana Barboza is an artist based in Lima, Peru, and studied painting in PCUP. She experimented with embroidery at first with images of the human body, then expanded on into using embroidery as decorative patterns and camouflage. In her biography, she explains mostly of where her ideas start, and where they will continue to go. As of now, she is interested in the human body in relations to garments and animals with behavior. The pieces that I am most interested in, she does incredibly detailed embroidery of landscapes and plants. Her compositions start of as traditional embroidery images, but them spill out of the frames. She creates these 2d images with thread, that then pulls in the viewer and make the 3d space a part of her pieces. The thread, however, isn’t just laid about tangled and a mess, Barboza is very intentional to how she places her thread outside of the frame, most of which are netted and weaved together  and placed in a fashion that almost mimics the way plants and nature would be naturally.

Citations:

“Now Contemporary Art – Miami, Fl.” Now Contemporary Art – Miami, Fl. Web. 20 Feb. 2016.

“Embroidered Landscapes and Plants by Ana Teresa Barboza.” Colossal. 2014. Web. 20 Feb. 2016.

By; Kimberlyn Cook and Spun Ngoensritong

For this project we created an earth out of the brown paper, and then wrapped in in tape to create a sphere, which became the earth.  Next we painted it blue and green to represent the different continents.  After painting the globe we wanted to incorporate animals but in a unique way. Originally our idea led us to do a mobile, but we wanted to be more outside of the box, so instead we pasted the animals to the earth and played with line.  Some have lines drawn on them, some are plane cardboard, and our kangaroo has line work done with hot glue on  his body.  Our concept for this project was about extinction and animal awareness.  It is scary to think that the animals we have grown up with and come to know might one day not be on this earth for our children to see.  I think this is a topic that is too overlooked in our society and needs to be on a higher level of concern.

For the 3D drawing constructs, I started with the general idea of shaping the cardboard into small triangular pieces. Then I worked to combine the pieces to create a general pyramid shape. The artwork drew some inspiration from the artist Clemens Behr, whose work was part of the examples for 3D drawing. Behr uses multiples of shapes to construct her installations, which inspired the construction method and overall shape of my work.

The cardboard planes are defined by color, which helps to distinguish each plane from one another. I chose to keep the color scheme simple consisting of black and shades and tints of orange and blue.

For drawing in three dimensions, I chose to use straight, directional, and converging lines on the structure. I think this adds to the piece aesthetically as well as to give more movement to the piece. It helps to distinguish the planes but also to see how they interact next to each other. Overall I like the dimensional quality and aesthetics of the piece.

On February 1, 2016, Nicole and I installed our spatial drawing using the unconventional materials: string and yarn. The project was inspired from the space and environment. The juxtaposition of the brick and cement with the green vines and trees already made it a space of tension and opposites. Our initial intention was to start with weaving string throughout the space and bring attention to it. The process of running the pink string back and forth between the cement walls started to feel like a journey and inspired a concept about life and its ups and downs.

The addition of the white yarn that is attached to the trees and sits above the rest of the lines represents the good, peaceful moments. The drain in the ground and the black yarn that interacts with the pink string, represents the bad turns in life. These moments of color and placement meanings help to enforce the contradictions of the space with the contradictions of life.

This documented picture  was taken at night and the green filter from the camera helped to bring out the red and pink strings.

Edgar Mueller is German born artist who specializes in the art of street painting. Growing up, he got inspiration from urban art around him walking to school. Eventually, he earned the coveted title of “master street painter”. He now travels the world transforming streets and holding workshops.

Mueller showcases his talent with these ultra-realistic depictions of landscapes on different streets all around the world. He is able to completely transform a space with the simple swipe of chalk. His expert use of perspective causes the viewer to feel unexplainable and almost laughable fear. Even viewing these artworks on a computer makes my heart skip a beat. Take a look at a few of his sidewalk transformations.

However, with a few steps to the left or to the right, the art transforms completely. The beauty and mastery of Mueller is his ability to create these masterpieces from one perspective.

Imagine walking down the street and seeing this!

http://www.metanamorph.com/