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Satoshi Morita Analysis

Satoshi Morita was born in 1974 in Tokyo, Japan what I find appealing about his work is his use of textiles but the way he combines seeming random parts of fabric to create captivating installations. The thing that inspires me the most is with my exploration of installation I can relate with how complex something as simple as his work can be. I have chosen to study his as it allows me to explore texture, colour, line and form in my textile work, with texture being something I haven't included much of in my work so far this year in comparison to my A level studies.

Hinke Schreuders Analysis

Hinke Schreuders born in 1969 has been making small paintings or drawings on canvas with needle and thread since 2002. Using textiles and particularly free hand sewing she explores the 'field of tension between feminine role models, sexuality and pornography. Parallel to this her work is there to explore the vulnerability and identity confusion in general.
She uses carefully constructed compositions to evoke associations with more sinister undercurrents in a language that is prosaic (meaning commonplace or unromantic.) She draws her inspiration from both traditional Victorian samplers and modern pornographic websites. The idea about identity confusion is something I could take further with my project by looking at gender confusion and that could come into my project.

Lauren DiCioccio Analysis

Lauren DiCioccio is a born and raised in Philadelphia artist currently living in south San Francisco, she recieved her BA from Colgate University in 2002 where she studied art and art history. When researching about her work I found particularly fascinating was how she wanted to explore the presence and disappearance, of objects common to day to day life and the relationships we make to them.
One quote from her artist statement garnered my attention with how thought provoking it was to me as I find myself doing something not too dissimilar to it.
'Objects like the newspaper are very tactile and also dependable and loyal in their daily renewal. Because of the comfort found in ritual and routine we build around the newspaper, the relationship we make to it is not dissimilar to a relationship we would make with another person.'

Sarah Watson Analysis

Sarah Watson explores the beauty and dynamism of the natural landscape using pastels, charcoal, felt tips and watercolour. She translates simple yet descriptive marks onto canvas in her studio, much of her work leans towards abstraction but the form is still held. Her response to the landscape around her is always dictated by the state of emotion she is in. Lincolnshire provides her daily dose of inspiration and she is enthralled by the changing colours and patterns in crop fields through the changing seasons.

I want to take this idea of Watson's of being out there in the landscape when creating it to gain a first hand experience and knowledge of the marks she creates.

Ian Liddle Anaylsis

Ian Liddle is a 43 year old British artist and has been based in Berlin since 2002. His work is multidisciplinary: drawing, painting, printing, photography, sculpture, collage, observational/life drawing are all fundamental to his artistic practice. His distinctive style has led him to work as an illustrator for various musicians including Scuba, Christoph De Babalon, Dalglish and OST and create large scale mural works in clubs, bars, hotels and shops in Berlin. He also produces tshirts, prints and fanzines of his work.

I find it interesting how Liddle using an abstract approach to portraiture something I feel is out of my skill range so to see an abstract take on it has given me ideas on how to approach this portraiture project to suit my abilities and challenge them to push myself. I also like his use of colour to highlight only the facial features and sometimes skin tone to give life to these illustrative drawings/paintings.

Franz Kline Analysis

Franz Kline born 1910, died 1962 was an American painter born in Pennsylvania. Famous for being associated with the Abstract Expressionist movement of the 1940's and 1950's. In 1948, Willem de Kooning advised an artistically frustrated Kline to project a sketch onto the wall of his studio, using a Bell-Opticon projector Kline described the projection as such:

"A four by five inch black drawing of a rocking chair...loomed in gigantic black strokes which eradicated any image, the strokes expanding as entities in themselves, unrelated to any entity but that of their own existence."

As Elaine de Kooning suggests, it was then that Kline dedicated himself to large-scale, abstract works. However, even though Willem de Kooning recalls that Kline delved into abstraction "all of a sudden, he plunged into it", he also concedes that it took considerable time, stating that "Franz had a vision of something and sometimes it takes quite a while to work it out." Over the next two years, Kline's brushstrokes became completely non-representative, fluid, and dynamic. It was also at this time that Kline began only painting in black and white. He explains how his monochrome palette is meant to depict negative and positive space by saying, "I paint the white as well as the black, and the white is just as important." His use of black and white is very similar to paintings made by de Kooning andPollock during the 1940s. There also seem to be references to Japanese calligraphy in Kline's black and white paintings, although he always denied that connection.

Japanese Calligraphy is something I decided to look further into in my studies as I particularly liked the artistic nature of the Kanji alphabet, after exploring this and the marks made using this language. I then wanted to explore the nature of the ancient way of writing and how elegant and free flowing it is in comparison with modern Japan and the clean cut, neon lights, futuristic city that is presented in modern media today.