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.
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.
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. 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.
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 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.
