Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol to this day remain one of the world most inspiration artists in contemporary art. He worked with all different types of media. He lead the way in Pop Art. He coined the phrase "15 minutes of fame". He started out doing illustration art for commercial, which proved to be very successful career for him. I love his use of bright vibrant colors. His images with repetitions in four square but different colors can still be seen today, so even with him gone he still has a very strong presence in today's art. In researching him i found out that his Eight Elvises sold for $100 million and that only six other artist have ever achieved that mark.

Sport Is Art

If you haven't noticed by know i love shoes, and Nike in specific. Earlier this month they released their 2011 Sportswear t-shirt that wear designed with cultural and creativity  from artist from the US, England,Spain, Brazil, Indonesia, and Canadian/German worked together.Nike has done a great job in incorporation today artists into there designs. Below are some of my favorite design that are coming out. I really like the collage of shoes that create the skull and how every single piece is a shoe.I really enjoy the tongue one also because it saying this is my taste and the black shirt kind of resemble a sneaker head so my loving shoes of course why not like the sneaker head Afro.

Aaron Stephan

I first was exposed to  Aaron Stephan work when we started a book art project. His work is amazing  in how he created a three dimensional space just by stacking books. Of his works the one I like the most is Building Houses/Hiding Under Rocks. I don't understand how he got all the book to stay up and create a dome with a whole at the top. 

Sal Rojas

Sal Rojas. I first came across his photograph a few years ago and was really intrigued. He photographs different places troughtout Los Angeles, fashion, lowriders, graffitii etc. I really like his work because eventhought there photographs they still tell you a story of the place or person. He let the world see other peoples art that is confound and wouldn't be scene with out his help. He lets the world see a lifestyle that still exists within the mexican communies with lowriders and graffiti the chicano lifestyle. He also takes his pictures in mexico. the are very strong it show emotion and hardship. I like this because I can relate to some of his images because i have seen and been in a place shown in his work first hand.

Donald Judd

Donald Judd was a minimalist artist. His work is very geometrical and simple. I love the symmetry of all his work. It is so crisp and clean.He also has a lot of repetition in all his work. It is very modern. I really like his collection of "Specific Objects", It first came to be because of an essay. He was a really good writing about art because that's how he put himself through school at Columbia taking night class at the Art Students League of New York and by day writing critiques for major American art magazines from 1959 - 65. "Specific Objects" is what lead him to create a new form of art. Where actual space is art not the space where art is created. By enclosing space that creates art in a three dimensional way. He also refused to call these sculptures, or paintings. 

James Turrell

James Turrell is a unique artist that creates his art using light and space.I first saw his work during class.. I thought it was interesting. His artistic creations are very well thought out and seem time consuming, but all the work and time are worth it when the end product is complete. I have never seen anyone try to create art by manipulating the light and space to their advantage.The one thing i like the best is Roden crater. the first time i saw this in the video i was blown away how buy  how he created this crater and by laying down in the middle and looking back at the sky it seem like you looking a the world being round. 

Richard Serra

Richard Serra is known for his enormous scale sheet metal creations. He create interesting abstract assemblies with the metal. A lot of his work reminds me of a maze. It make the viewer want to go in and through it to see if they will make any surprising discoveries. It is simple not to over the top, organic and free flowing. 

Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright is seen as one of the best architects that ever lived, but i see his as an artist as well. Throughout his life he designed over one thousand project and at least five hundred of those were realized and built. the one i like this best is Falling WaterThis year marks the 75th anniversary of Fallingwater. It is a master piece and his most famous residential creations. He created it to blend into it natural surrounding. I had a water fall running under neath it giving it its name Fallingwater.he made it as to appear floating above the water fall. He wanted the house to be part of nature and not just a place to look at it.Wright  even took the outdoor feel in  to make it all blend with nature.

Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso is one of the most famous artists of all time.He is the co founder of cubism. I extremely like it  because it make you look for what is behind all the different layers. It has two dimension and three dimension aspects in it.  It something else. I have not seen any create such a beautiful painting by chopping it up, layering it and having different view points.  

Stephen Knapp

Stephen Knapp art is known world wide and is very awesome.He uses different types of media but best known for his use of  lights to create his art. His lightpainting is the best piece by far. He assemble piece of colored glass in a unique way and then adds light to shine through it and it creates something really spectacular. It really intrigues me that simple colored glass can be transformed in to a masterpiece. From a distance it appear to be a painting or something but up close you realize it all being create by colored glass and light. His concept of lightpainting is something that is very aesthetically please to any viewer. I know my son would love this because he love the light that I shine for him on the wall at night. 

Jeff Koons

Jeff Koons art is recreating objects and making them his on artwork. His art is Pop Art. but some people may see it kitchy. He reproduces his art into large scale with different material. The first piece of art work i saw of his was the big balloon dog. It is very childish and that why i think i like it it fun bold and colorful. Its interesting how he takes a simple item and makes it him own. I love the BMW art car he created. It races on the tracks of the Le Mans 24 hour. It continues his bold and brightness. in makes it seem like its moving while it sitting there parked. the back of the car pulls you in.

Chip Foose

Chip Foose might not be a typical artist. His art is designing custom cars. He started at the age of seven working for his father. Thought life he worked at many different shops and studied at  Art Center College of Design. In 1998 he opened his own shop Foose Design. I love his work because he take an old hot rod and adds a little modern look to it. I love cars. especially old classic muscle cars.His whole art is crating a concept car out of old cars and make it something never seen before.

The Converse Chuck Taylor Canvas

I came across the when looking through freshnessmag.com. It is one of the site I often check for the latest trends in art, fashion, shoes etc. This Chuck Taylor canvas caught me attention and amazed me. Converse created this wall of 480 interactive Chuck Taylor's. It is connected to motion sensor so they move to display you full body motions, and can be programed to display text. This is really an amazing piece of Art i have never seen before. I wish i could see this in person but will only be on display in Paris and Berlin through the month of May. 

Tara Donovan

Tara Donovan an artist that uses everyday objects such as styrofoam cups, Scotch tape, straws etc. Her work she creates is very interesting and i like it because it somthing i persoanlly have not seen before. it looks fun. I love her Styrofoam cups hanging from the ceiling. It look time consuming but all her art is very carefully laid out and ascetically pleasing.

Frida Kahlo

Frida Kahlo is a great inspiration artist. I love all of her art. It is art full of emotions. Initally she didn't even think of art, she wanted to go into the medical field. That all changed Sept. 17, 1925 when she was invloved in a really bad accedent when the bus she was on crashed and almost killed her but did break every bone in her body. While reovering she was confined to a bed in a full body cast. That how her art career starte. She lay in bed and the only way to occupie and express her feeling was by painting. Her art was all based on her emotions. It was sometimes very graphic She felt that tere was no hope for her.I like how she wasn't afraid to paint and show what was going on inside.If you look at all her painting you can tell that she had a hard and rough life. I think the only thing that kept her going was her art. It gave her the will to live.

Nina Katchadourian

Nina Katchadourian art is very different. She does alot of different things from photography, sound, video and sculpture. What I really like from her was her photgraphy. Eventhought her photagaphy is only picture of what she really creater. For example she finds patches of moss that look like different countries from around the world. She then she addes text on told of the moss with the name of the county it looks like. It seem very time consuming using nature a your art. I also love the way she find spider webs and some how weaves colored text into the web or just color to part of the web.I love how she uses found objects I shows how anything can be art and any one can create art if they have a creative mind.

                               












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Duane Hanson

 Duane Hanson artwork in one of a kind.His is art is looked at as Pop Art. Since the 70s he's been creating life size sculptures of people out of bronze or  fiberglass and bondo. He get theses sculpture by casting live models.He even includes himself in one of his pieces.  This gives it the more life like look. The sculpture he creates are posed in various positions depicting everyday  scenes. Some of his most known sculpture scenes are  Accident (1967) which showed a motorcycle crash; and Race Riot (1969–1971) which is seven figures a white policeman terrorizing an African American man as well as an African American rioter attacking the policeman. His art has a very serious conceptually  meaning but at first glance is very comical. The comical part is what I liked at first seeing his work. For example Tourist II, he depicts what the typical tourist would look like back in the 80s early 90s by having the colorful shirts multiple cameras around there neck.