Art History

Artist statement: In this unit we learned about the various art movements that took place in history as well as what artists were involved in these movements. The final project was a culmination of things that we had learned over the unit. This piece of art was inspired by piet mondrian and rene magritte. The inspiration comes from these artists because the background is very geometric as well as having primary colors as the main colors in the piece. The skull is also partly matisse inspired because it is a sort of outlandish enlarged human feature in the middle of an otherwise regimented scene. This work was made with simply marker and colored pencil. These are the two materials that I feel most comfortable with because I have used and had access to them the most, despite them being the most simple, I still think you can make an interesting piece of art with just marker and colored pencil. At times, it was hard to get the yellow to not mix with the pencil lines but it worked out okay. the colored pencil on the skull was to create more of a realistic effect. The processes that I went through to make this art included a few things. First I had to research the artists I wanted my work to be inspired by. I already knew a lot about Mondrian and his style and I like using primary colors so that was a go, and Matisse was another artist that I liked because his art is a bit unusual but it also has a scene that is very normal in the background. I combined the two artists by having a magritte feature with a mondrian and color inspired background. I added the black square in the middle because I thought it would look like an effect that the light or primary colors were running of of it. I tried to make the top of the piece vanish away from the middle as if the skull was in a drop of some sort. Overall I liked this project because it was free to interpretation, but also gave a starting point for inspiration, I had a good time making this piece of art!