Timur Lysenko

Timur Lysenko is a Polish tattoo artist who's style features 3D aspects with faces or geometry. He combines many elements and styles of tattooing into his work such as Trash polka, etching, sketch like designs, and black work. His pieces feature dark and creepy designs with bold colors, as well as realistic portraits and surrealism. I chose this artist because I think tattoos are a beautiful art form and his work stood out to me because of the many combinations of styles he uses. His materials are ink, tattooing equipment, and people as the canvas. 

Roxy Paine

Here's another artist I found in the book who is vastly different from Nauman, but I really love their
abstract and nature inspired work and I aspire to do things similar.

Bruce Nauman

This is some work created by Bruce Nauman. His neon signs were often advestisments of another kind. They were always bright, flashing or moving in some way, and often included dry humor and word play. They can either make you laugh or evoke many different feelings based on the message he's trying to portray. I love work with neon lights or moving words, because they're beautiful and attractive to the eye but always has a message that you can read and contemplate. I also am fond of his sculpture, art involving the human body is almost always really cool and stimulating to look at in my opinion. The circle of hands, connecting by them holding each other reminds me of a really creepy baby mobile and the floating heads are one of my favorite pieces by him.

MASKS

From the images Kristen showed us in class, I was most drawn to the Japanese masks. There are various types of masks in this category, but I liked the oni masks and the hannya masks the most. Oni are Japanese demons or orges, they range from goofy faces to terrifying faces. People often wear them during festivals and cause trouble. Hannya masks, probably my favorite, are female demons. They have similar characteristics of Oni, but with horns. I love how creepy the faces are and how much detail they have, like how deep the creases in the face; I just find them really interesting and beautiful. I found one image a mask that was more human like but the face is splitting in half, and where it's splitting there's a third eye. It's got human characteristics but kind of like a cyclopses. In class, I'm combining the Hannya with the splitting face idea.

Frank Stella - Sculpture

Frank Stella was born in 1936 in Malden, Massachusetts. His first important show was at the Museum of Modern Art in 1959, where he was immediately recognized for his Black Paintings. His concepts and concerns with his art were always changing and growing and became more focused on certain things, such as shapes, for a period of time. I enjoy his paintings and his more architectural sculpture, such as the last three pictures, but I'm not the biggest fan of his larger, crazily abstract, colorful wall pieces like the first three images. Something about them just doesn't grab my attention like the bottom three pieces. I love especially the bottom two because they're little buildings that are incredibly structured detailed and I love the simple, tiny figures surrounded them and I'd love to create something similar to those.

Illusion Magazine // Art that uses figures

Philip Pearlstein