What does media mean?

Bill
9/14/16

Media can refer to many different types of either tool or material that can be used for communication, social interaction or for art. it is definitely considered to be a indispensable part of people's everyday life.

People use internet seeking information form this mass world, people use different kinds of social software for communicating and interacting with each other, people use Photoshop for advertising, people use camera for photography...Media has been structured into this age of technology. Today a person may be subjected to more new information in a day than a person before the birth of internet in his entire life. Media makes different types of life style.

Art of Human form.

Bill Wu
5-4-16

Romina Ressa's photography perfectly uses figures, especially the face part of human, for her illustration. She combines surrealism elements with unique artefacts (like traditional beauty) into her photography.

This one somehow includes some oriental elements.

Superman.

Benjamin Zank's body illustrations are very inspired to me not only because of   his manifold expressions and unique view of modern surrealism but also his     combination of surrealism and human figure.

                                               

His sense of space is also remarkable.

Philip Pearlstein

Bill. 4-7-16.

Philip Pearlstein is a American artist who is universally acknowledged as the most representative painter of new realism. He is one of those few new-realism artist who rarely uses photography, slide shows or any other digital image for their creation.

Pearlstein's work commonly utilizes the natural light indoor and objectively describes the object as well depicts the texture in a highly detailed way, which is usually composed of models in detailed and complex interiors, dramatic value and sort of abstract constructing.

 Oil on canvas, created in 2008.

“Mickey Mouse Puppet Theater, Jumbo Jet, and Kiddie Tractor With Two Models” (2002) by Philip Pearlstein.
His sense of space is the thing that impresses me from his pieces: what I can see form these pictures are not only his unique understanding of human figure but also his sense of space, which is appropriately blended together.

Philip Pearlstein 'Nude on Striped Hammock', 1974.

Keith Haring.

3-31-16.

Keith Haring, who was born on May 4th, 1958 in Reading, Pennsylvania, was a great American artist famous for street culture art.  Keith contributed his talents and resources to variety of cases. He produced sculpture and paintings for health centers, created emblem and logos for public services agencies, even established a foundation in 1989. But the most impressive thing of this man was his widely recognized art.He studied painting in School of Visual Arts in New York City.

This is the Political line finished by Keith in which variety of shapes are well managed in a space and what I like is this piece shows both balance and variety incredibly. Those shapes are really pop out if you look into it, I would say.

 Dog,1986 created by Keith Haring. 

Pop art elements and human figures art in Keith Haring's art pieces.

Jacob Lawrence.

Bill.

Jacob Lawrence is a African-American painter who's famous for his modernist depictions of his daily life as a native American. Born in 1917 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, he experienced the Civil War that brings some changes to his panting during certain period: his work has been focused on the justice and freedom of American within the style of every day life. In late 1960s, his work was characterized by every day imagery and optimistic expression.

    Café Comedian. 1957.

        Workshop, 1972.

The Swearing In No. 1, 1977.
 I personally some of his pieces that are positive and optimistic expressions are sort of close to pop art in some ways. 

Human Form in Art.

Bill.

3-16-2016

Art in the form of human figure goes back ancient time in Egypt: people were portrayed with their head in outline and with entire eyes visible. They kept this Egyptian style in Egypt for approximately 3,000 years. Initially, people were portrayed in the form of profile then things got a little more interesting that people began to put more details in work. As time goes on and with the art has been developed in various doctrines, human figure becomes a popular form of art.

The life drawing shown above kind of inspires me in some ways. It is a good way for people to study shape, line work, tone and surely, human structure. Human figure in art bases on human figure and putting art elements that makes it pops out or something else.

Also these collage are some cool style of human figure arts in which surrealism is also involved in.

 I like this piece because it pretty close to my line work style as far as I can see in this picture. Loose line work and gesture drawing makes the figure in this piece even more active, dynamic.

About Modern surrealism art.

About Surrealism Today.

2-4-16.

Modern surrealism somehow tends to be more skillful and precise in digital area, and as it compares to the former surrealistic art, it gains more attention from mass public. Surrealism today develops in a successful shape that it possesses more commercial elements, which is kind at odds with the idea of art as being a discipline of imagination, creativity and aesthetics. But the art theory is being measured by business and commerce during its long development. Current surrealism is being accepted by public, including artists. It is being acknowledged by mass aesthetic.

The picture shown above is a art work by Ben Zank, a New York young artist who's originally a journalism student but soon found his passion in photography. This artist is a modern surrealism art artist and his works are surely good. His creation is based on the exploration of his emotional experience and often involve his struggling. The picture could be a typical one of his works.

The other modern surrealism artist that is pretty worth talking is Glenn Brown. He is a painter and a sculptor who's best known for borrowing images from artists like Salvador Dali and some other unknown artist of Sci-Fi paperbacks. He brings sci-fi figures in his art work and make it wild and transform it familiar with alien.
Deep Throat, 2007.

 Some Velvet Morning When I'm Straight I'm Going To Open Up Your Gates, 2007. 

Layered Portrait (after Rembrandt) 7, 2008.

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