Margaret Calvert was born in South Africa and raised in England. Best know for for road sign designs in the United States and England. She also developed a new font and named it after herself which is the Calvert font.
Monday, April 27, 2015
Graphic designer Chip Kidd
Chip Kidd originates from New York city. Chip is notorious for his book jacket designs for many celebrities such as Katherine Hepburn, Henry Louis Gates and Paul Simon just to name a few. He has also been the editor and director for many cartoonists. Below is some of his work.
Chip Kidd originates from New York city. Chip is notorious for his book jacket designs for many celebrities such as Katherine Hepburn, Henry Louis Gates and Paul Simon just to name a few. He has also been the editor and director for many cartoonists. Below is some of his work.
Monday, April 20, 2015
Florence Griswold Museum
This past week I went to the Florence Griswold Museum. My mother was supposed to come with me but she was unable to, so I again went alone. I was a beautiful day and there was hardly any traffic going to Old Lyme and the drive was shorter than I expected. Driving up, the estate was a mixture of old and new. It had the original building when Mrs. Griswold was alive but it also had the modern building in the back of the estate that blended beautifully with its surroundings.
The boarding house where Mrs.Griswold took care of and allowed the artist to express themselves freely was in pristine condition and it was interesting to know that the artist painted on the doors of the interior. Also the dinning room had the walls painted by all the artist. Something interesting to know was that they only had one woman artist living at the boarding house.
Moving on to the main building. In my opinion it looks bigger from the outside than what it is on the inside. In the main exhibition room the have the Big Paintings of Peter Halley. I was not expecting what I saw. The magnitude of these painting was impressive also the time that Mr. Halley must have spent on each painting.
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| Cartoon Network, 1997 Acrylic, florescent acrylic, metallic acrylic, and Roll-a-Tex on canvas |
The paintings in this gallery come from a period in Mr. Halley's life were he was very productive in his work. Mr. Halley developed the geometric icons using a somber color palette punctuated by bright passages of fluorescent Day-Glo colors and rough texture surfaces. The rectangles or solid squares are cells, indicating the space and structures that separate individuals from one another. In the words of Mr. Halley, "the cell is a reminder of the apartment house, the hospital bed, the school desk-the isolated endpoints of industrial structure.
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| Panic Room 2002 Acrylic, fluorescent, metallic, pearlescent acrylic and Roll-a-Text on canvas |
This painting was inspired by the writings of the French philosopher Michel Foucault.
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| The Acid Test, 1991-1992 Acrylic, fluorescent acrylic, and Roll-a-Text on canvas |
For this painting Mr. Halley plays with the meaning of the title. Referring to the similarly fluorescent imagery of the 1960's psychedelic drug culture within rigidly contained geometries.
Sunday, April 19, 2015
Park West Art Auction
This week I was away on a cruise. I was aboard Carnival Victory and I attended the art auction. I took pictures of the beautiful collection they had on board so I can share as my blog this week. Since their founding in 1969, Park West has brought fine art to more that 1.4 million collectors around the world. They spread their collection through galleries, land auctions and auctions at sea aboard the finest cruise ships afloat. The collection was beautiful. I will share two for this blog.
Peter Max Umbrella Man on Blends Iconic Suite 2005,
Mixed media with acrylic painting and color lithography on paper. This painting was nice,colorful and had a warm look to it. I like how his work had his signature painted in it. A lot of his work displayed the colors of the rainbow. This painting shows a man seems to be that back of the man. There is no face just he silhouette of a man holding an umbrella. Very creative and different.
Itzchak Tarkay Waiting for Love 2005
Itzchak work comes from the love to paint. His paintings express passion and have seductive compositions that showed visual poetry. I can see in the picture why the name can be women waiting for love. The woman is clearly dressed and sitting patently at a table the view of the open window shows that she can be in the comfort of her own home. As anyone knows waiting for love can be lonely, so it seems like her face is sad. This was a nice picture, colorful and has a lot of emotion in it.
Weekly Blog 4/6-4/11 Wadsworth Museum
Wadsworth Museum
Last week April 9th I visited the Wadsworth Museum. I had some time to myself before a meeting at work, so I took the ride to Hartford. I really liked this museum. A lot of pieces caught my attention but for this blog I will share a few.
Duane Hanson Sunbather, 1971
was a polyester resin and fiberglass, polychromed in oil, mixed media, with accessories. Hanson work was popular with the public because of its lifelike qualities. with this piece the Sunbather lies surrounded by the debris of consumer culture , junk food and celebrity gossip magazines which reveals the forces that have made her what she is. This piece reminds me of the average american sunbathing at the beach. I like the ordinary creative debris that was set around her to depict her lifestyle.
Hank Willis Thomas Basketball and Chain, 2003
This picture Digital C-print immediately caught my attention and I already knew what it was portraying. Thomas appropriately manipulates the slick advertising photography of Nike, with dramatic lighting and graphically strong imagery, to question the role of the media in shaping African American identity. Here the ankle of the soaring black youth is tethered to a basketball like a ball and chain. The ironic commentary situates consumerism and stereotypes as forms of enslavement.
Ahmed Alsoudani Untitled, 2012
Acrylic and charcoal on a canvas. Untitled depicts the chaotic aftermath of a car bombing, with bloodied flesh and severed limbs lying alongside the cold, jagged metal of the car. Alsoundani commingles shocking realism with colorful, cartoon like imagery to temper the horrors of war and conflict in his native country. The charcoal passages, with haunting visages, perhaps of the dead, contrast with the vivid intensity of the horror.
This museum was really cool, and I would visit it again, They had two floors focusing on Coney Island that was really cool, however you are not allowed to take any pictures of any of the Coney Island material. Very nice museum with a lot of great pieces of art.
Friday, April 17, 2015
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Monday, April 13, 2015
Graphic Designer David Carson
Graphic designer David Carson is known for an eclectic blend of font usage including the font Dingbat, Carson was inspired to become a graphic artist after taking a two week course in Graphic arts during college even though his degree major was Sociology. His resume is quite extensive. He produced art for many different companies ranging from magazine publications to airline corporations,
Some of David Carson's work
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