Body Painting Artists

Chadwick Gray and Laura Spector

Chadwick Gray and Laura Spector, who are currently living in Houston Texas. Before they were living in Chiang Mai, Thailand for ten years Both artists, Chadwick and Laura have been participated in the prestigious New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship award in 2001, they also participated and were finalists in the Sovereign Asian Art Award in the years of 2006 and 2008 in which in the museum anatomy photographs were auctioned at sotheby's Hong Kong. There work has been published in The Harvard Review, Ripley’s Believe It Or Not!, and in the book, The Real Real Thing:  The Model in the Mirror of Art by Wendy Steiner.  Museum Anatomy artwork can be seen in exhibitions and collections around the world. While the museum Anatomy project was created, they had the privilege of working with the curators from The Victoria & Albert Museum, The Prado, The National Gallery (Prague), The National Gallery (Athens), MuseuMAfricA, The Civica Museum (Palermo), Berkeley Art Museum (Berkeley), National Gallery (Bangkok), among others. In the current future the Museum Anatomy is expanding into three dimensional work of art.

Reference:

• About | Chadwick & Spector. 2013. About | Chadwick & Spector. [ONLINE] Available at: http://chadwickandspector.wordpress.com/about/. [Accessed 05 March 2013].

Industrial Revolution

Industrial Revolution

The industrial Revolution started from the 18th and 19th century, rural societies like Europe and America became industrial and urban. Prior in which the industrial revolution began in Britian in the late 1700s. Manufacturing was often done in people's homes, which was done using hand tools and machinery. Industrialization marked a shift to powered, special-purpose machinery, factories and mass production. The iron and textile industries, and also tagging along is the development of the steam engine which played central roles in the industrial revolution, which also saw improved systems of transportation, communication and banking. The industrialization brought along and about and increased volume and variety of manufactured goods and for some people and more improved standard of living, this also showed grom employment and also living conditions for the less fortunate meaning the poor and for the working class meaning the rich.

Reference:

• Industrial Revolution — History.com Articles, Video, Pictures and Facts. 2013. Industrial Revolution — History.com Articles, Video, Pictures and Facts. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.history.com/topics/industrial-revolution.

Gustave Courbet

Gustave Courbet

Jean Desire Gustave Courbet was born on the 10th of June 1819 and died on the 31st December 1877. Courbet was a French Painter who moved towards the realism movement in the 19th century French painting.

"I am fifty years old and I have always lived in freedom; let me end my life free; when I am dead let this be said of me: 'He belonged to no school, to no church, to no institution, to no academy, least of all to any regime except the regime of liberty." 

Courbet was a figure composition painter, and a landscapes and seascapes painter. Courbet used to look at poor people work and paint their composition. His work belonged neither to the predominant Romantic nor Neoclassical schools. Courbet always believed that the realist artists work is to capture the true image you are seeing, which by that would help erase social contradictions and imbalances.

Reference:

• Gustave Courbet - The complete works. 2013. Gustave Courbet - The complete works. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.gustavecourbet.org/. 

Realism

Realism

Realism refers to the accuracy, unembellished representation of the observational world without idealisation. Art realism is known for the objects and figures as they appear in real life. The art realism movement emerged in France, in the early 1848 Revolution and lasted till 1880.  Several attempts at infusing realism into art had been made throughout art history, but the actual wave of realism art swept the art world after Courbet's independent exhibition in 1855 of his shocking truthful realism paintings to a scandalized publish who until then had only been exposed to original art steeped in the sublime aesthetics of Romanticism or the classical ideal of the Old Masters. In realism paintings, ordinary, familiar and unadorned figures and objects become worthy subjects. Realism paintings present a straightforward depiction of the grim lives of the common folk. Realism paintings are not all intentionally imbued with social consciousness or political subversion. Some realist paintings capture every day scenes of contemporary life the the audience may find sweetly sentimental or innocuously spontaneous. 

Reference:

• Realism Art | Art Realism | Realism Paintings. 2013. Realism Art | Art Realism | Realism Paintings. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.starrabbott.com/article-realism-paintings.htm. [Accessed 05 March 2013].

Caspar David Friedrich

Caspar David Friedrich

Caspar David Friedrich was born on the 5th of September 1774 and died on the 7th of May 1840. Caspar was a landscape painter of the nineteenth century German Romantic movement. Caspar is ow known as the most important painter. Although he is known for his landscape paintings he is also a draughtsman. He is best known for later allegorical landscapes, which feature contemplative figures silhouetted against night skies, morning mists, barren trees, and Gothic ruins. As an artist his favourite subject of drawing was nature, in his work he often seeks to convey the spiritual experiences of life. Caspar is a German Artist, and he was born in the north of Germany in Greifswald. He studied in Copenhagen till 1798. He studied in Copenhagen until 1798 before settling in Dresden. He came of age during a period when, across Europe, a growing disillusionment with an over-materialistic society led to a new appreciation for spiritualism. This was often expressed through a reevaluation of the natural world, as artists such as Friedrich, J. M. W. Turner and John Constable sought to depict nature as a "divine creation, to be set against the artifice of human civilization". Caspar's Art work was mostly known during the second half of the nineteenth century. his art was getting famous while Germany was moving towards modernisation. His rediscovery began in 1906 when an exhibition of 32 of his paintings and sculptures was held in Berlin. During the 1920s his work was appreciated by the Expressionists, and in the 1930s and 1940s, the Surrealists and Existentialists frequently drew on his work. Nowadays Caspar is seen as an icon of the Germa Romantic movement, and a painter of international importance. 

Reference:

• Caspar David Friedrich - The complete works. 2013. Caspar David Friedrich - The complete works. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.caspardavidfriedrich.org/. [Accessed 05 March 2013].

Romanticism

Romanticism

Romanticism is both in its origin and its influences. Artistic movements do not have comparability, variety, reach and staying power, this started since the end of the middle ages. Romanticism represented different thoughts. Romanticism has different aspects, emotion, and imagination. Beginning in Germany and England in the 1770s, by the 1820s it had swept through Europe, conquering at last even its most stubborn foe, the French. It traveled quickly to the Western Hemisphere, and in its musical form has triumphed around the globe, so that from London to Boston to Mexico City to Tokyo to Vladivostok to Oslo, the most popular orchestral music in the world is that of the romantic era. After almost a century of being attacked by the academic and professional world of Western formal concert music, the style has reasserted itself as neoromanticism in the concert halls. When John Williams created the sound of the future in Star Wars, it was the sound of 19th-century Romanticism--still the most popular style for epic film soundtracks.

Beginning in the last decades of the 18th century, it transformed poetry, the novel, drama, painting, sculpture, all forms of concert music (especially opera), and ballet. It was deeply connected with the politics of the time, echoing people's fears, hopes, and aspirations. It was the voice of revolution at the beginning of the 19th century and the voice of the Establishment at the end of it.

The nature of the style and its origins are the Folklore and Popular Art, Nationalism, Shakespeare, The Gothic Romance, Medievalism, Emotion, Roussaeu, Exoticism, Religion, Individualism, Nature, Victorianism and Reactions.

Reference:

• Romanticism. 2013. Romanticism. [ONLINE] Available at: http://public.wsu.edu/~brians/hum_303/romanticism.html. [Accessed 05 March 2013].