Ruan Hoffmann

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Ruan Hoffmann's artwork gives a fresh eye on mix media. He graduates from South Africa and becomes a full-time artist who works with several mediums. Hoffmann has a highly distinguished style of transforming an unshaped, plain clay chunk into a piece of art by using photography, drawing, painting, type or metallics. The most impressive part is also the most indispensable part of the work to me is the base he uses for his art--ceramic. His pieces teem with a rich amount of mediums--it all depends on how would the artist arrange them.

No need too much interpreting toward his works because I think they are all kind of self-explanatory; It's never a well-planned, conscious process of creating art, those contents floating in pieces pretty much express Hoffmann himself as an artist.

Spencer Tunick

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Spencer Tunick is a American photographer who's noted for his large-scale nnize ude shot all over the world. He began to organize nude shots in different human installations and documenting human nudes in public locations in 1992. He becomes famous in his world journey of nude shots, followed by cameras from media all over the world. What he does emphasizes the beauty of human figures but also he digs downward: he makes a point that human equal to any life matters on Earth, they are born and fed and will be grown up on the Earth, and he a recorder who keeps the memo of this huge process.

In majority of his photography he places his model-volunteers far away from the camera lens; the composition becomes very interesting when the contrast between individuals and the background building or scenery becomes strong. His fulfillment of human figures in his works greatly enhances the most primitive beauty of mankind.