John Marin

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Water color and landscape are two elements that I do not usually present in my art assembles, but John Marin's abstract painting of landscapes is really something that would take me to a new area. He is a early American modernist artist who is noted for his painting styles: he uses water color and acrylic to represent a very loose handling in his art pieces.

His landscape paintings are a assemblage of different shapes and little pieces that collage together; It's a bit childish when I took my first look at his art: incomplete shapes, loosen lines and weird composition, but I think this is the most attractive part of his painting when I looked closer. I really appreciate his representing of collage-like landscape painting; it's pretty much a bold attempt considered of his time. 

John Marin's artwork of Brooklyn Bridge:

Aubrey Beardsley

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Aubrey Beardsley is a British illustrator who is (at least from my perspective) pretty much noted for his highly distinctive line works. He was somehow underestimated at his time; most of his drawing and illustration made their first appearance on books and magazines "with relatively limited subscription." With a strong handling of lines, Beardsley's black-and-white illustration creates a revolution of line techniques and textures unquestionably.

  Many of the black-and-white drawing he did represents figures of witch in different forms, but all of them somehow visually possess a dark tone.  Compare to artist who has very distinctive line works like Joan Miro or Sergio Toppi (Italy illustrator), Aubrey Beardsley's line looks more solid in shapes but more soft on the outline (contour) of human figures; also, his line gives a sense of movement.  

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About  unintended project.

So I would like to talk about some "pieces" which I've done recently. After a certain period of struggling with working inspiration, the idea that people grant me is combing my drawing and my photograph together, which is pretty much a new thing that I've thought about but did not intended to do before because I wasn't seriously a big fun of paper collage--I thought that is the only way to do this combing thing. But why not doing something digitally? Photoshop sounds a lot more viable for me. Eventually I did something pretty much unconsciously but came out okay after some experimenting--probably the whole thing is a experiment.

Instead of all black-and-white or all texture fulfillment, some bright colors are added to fulfill the spaces with textures and lines.