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[Dandelion_Blood]

Good Day my felllow followers of the expression, gather yee round and partake in a little excercise for mee if you will.

I should really rather love it if you would share with the rest of the people from this forum about your personal favourite artist(s). Post a link, why you like them, perhapes an example of your favourite one and tell us a bit about the artist if you like too. It can be as long or as short a post as you like, depending on how enthusiastic you are about it!

Look forward to seeing what you all come up with!

http://www.hipforums.com/forums/images/smilies/smile.gif Think of this not as homework but the ideal time to spread the word about an artist, it can be someone well known or perhapes someone you think whos under appreciated even or goes unknown!

Class dimissed!

[chickabean]

my favourite artist is definately..desinger Rebecca Earley...she is a fashion desinger that is completely eco and environmentally friendly and her clothing ranges are just so beautiful.

Her latest area of work is in creating heat-photogram printed textiles, for fashion and interiors. She uses completely environmentally aware techniques - exhaust transfer printing, recycled paper and fabrics, no water pollutants...which i think is fab...i find her so inspiring.

http://www.edenproject.com/3499_4413.htm (http://www.edenproject.com/3499_4413.htm) this link takes you to a little bit of info on her when she did sum workshops at the eden project..the pic is of her in the indigo yurt (which i helped her to dress!) and is where she first taught me how to dye fabrics with indigo dye from the woad plant...

"Rebecca Earley uses a fleece-like product made out of recycled plastic bottles which have been melted and manipulated to form an extruded fibre which can be then spun. Often used in sportswear, Earley coats the fleece with a special photosensitive chemical. This records the subtle imprint of selected objects placed on it, resulting in an ingenious fabric of mysterious beauty. "

how cool is that^ ?!!
rebeccas work ahs really inspired me with my own textiles work and really helped me find my own particular style...i think her ethical approach to fashion is really encouraging...and i aspire to be an ethical desinger aswell! in particular, rebeccas work inspired me to create my newborn collection which is made solely out of recycled fabrics and old unrecyclable (is that a word?!) objects such as plastic dummy lenses from the optician s that get thrown out in their thousands every week.

she rocks my tractor :)

[borut16]

I wonder if I could do it on more artists?
Like two poets? :)
*poets count, right?*

*listens to what Dandy Pandy, whatever as long as she's not all sandy, says*
Ok, I take that as yes. http://www.hipforums.com/forums/images/smilies/wink.gif

First, as for the poetry, there are two.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning, you probably know her already.
She's Brittish, lived in 19th century.

*I wrote a long article already, but I figured it had many mistakes in it, so I'll just copy it now*

http://img.allpoetry.com/images//custom/gecko/elizabethportraint3.jpg

Elizabeth Barrett was born 6 March 1806, eldest daughter of Edward and Mary Moulton-Barrett. She grew up in a secluded little place called Hope End with her ten brothers and sisters. She was a fairly precocious child, reading voraciously, writing odes at age nine, and learning Greek along with Bro, her favorite brother.
At 15, Elizabeth, along with her sisters Henrietta and Arabel, contracted some sort of disease. Elizabeth was much slower to recover for some reason, and it was around then that she started talking about her chronic ill health and a myriad of strange symptoms. She went to a spa in Gloucester, becoming addicted to laudanum (prescribed to help her sleep) and staying a little over a year, long past the point when her doctor was telling her to go home.
But she never let anything stop her from reading and writing. In 1826, she had a poetic "Essay on Mind" published, at family expense, along with 14 shorter poems. By this time, she had firmly decided that marriage was awful and not for her; her life would be completely devoted to poetry.

Her mother died suddenly in 1828, which really shook Elizabeth. She pulled even further away from society. In 1832, when the family finances sank too low, Hope End had to be sold and the family moved to Sidmouth, Devonshire. This house was along the seashore, which tempted Elizabeth into walking, which improved her health noticeably.
She also published (again at family expense, which couldn't have been easy to manage) a translation of Aeschylus' Prometheus plus 19 more short poems of her own. When, in 1835, the Barretts moved to London, Elizabeth saw her chance. She began meeting (with great nervousness) several of the literary giants of the day, such as Wordsworth and Mary Russell Mitford. A year later, Elizabeth read Paracelsus by the distinctly un-famous Robert Browning. She loved it, but was too shy to even think of meeting him.

The Seraphim and Other Poems was printed in 1838, the first volume to have Elizabeth's name on it, and it was generally well received. Elizabeth's health had taken a turn for the worse, and she was ordered to winter someplace warm. Bro and Henrietta went with her to Torquay that same year. In 1840, brother Sam died of fever in Jamaica, followed a few months later by Bro's death in a boating accident. Elizabeth was devastated. It took about a year, but it was eventually the prospect of writing that pulled her out of her depression. She returned to London in 1841 and took up literary criticism.

In August 1844, the two-volume Poems was published, containing a work in which Elizabeth paid homage to those she considered the great poets of her time: Wordsworth, Tennyson, and Robert Browning. He was in Naples when the book was published, but as soon as he could, he wrote to Elizabeth to thank her. . Robert eventually got her to agree to a visit, which was soon followed by another, which was soon followed by a proposal of marriage, which Elizabeth turned down cold. Robert soon figured out that the surest way to Elizabeth's heart was through her work, so that was the way he went. They were married, secretly, on 12 September 1846, and acted like nothing had happened until they set off for Italy a week later.

Six months later, Elizabeth had decided she was an Italian at heart and was writing poems on Italian politics. On 9 March 1849, Robert Wiedmann Browning was born, a very healthy child, which surprised Elizabeth a great deal, since she was still taking laudanum and had already had two miscarriages. Robert's mother, whose maiden name had become Pen's middle name, died without knowing about her grandson, and in order to cheer Robert up, Elizabeth presented him with the "Sonnets from the Portuguese" that she had written during their courtship.

Her health was continually fluctuating during these years, but she still managed to write Aurora Leigh , the epic poem that made her reputation then and has just recently been discovered to be on women's rights. Elizabeth started dabbling in spiritualism about now, possibly because she sensed her health failing, or maybe just because Italy sometimes got a little boring during the off-season. This dabbling increased somewhat after Mr. Barrett died in 1857, never having forgiven his daughter. Elizabeth became convinced that she'd actually seen spirits, in spite of Robert's efforts to talk her out of the whole thing.

It was becoming more and more difficult to pretend that the warm weather of Italy was helping Elizabeth's health anymore. Writing was the only thing that really made her feel any better, though the publication of Poems Before Congress in 1860 got her into a little trouble back home with what the reviewers called her anti-British sentiment. In November of that year, Henrietta, who had actually run off and married her beloved Surtees back in 1850, died of cancer. Elizabeth herself now felt so ill that she was taking far too much morphine and eating almost nothing. She fretted constantly that she was holding Robert and Pen back, though neither one seemed to mind.

In June of 1861 Robert finally called in a doctor, somewhat against Elizabeth's wishes. The doctor diagnosed an abcess on the lung as the cause of her respiratory distress and increased her dose of morphine. On 29 June 1861, Elizabeth died in Robert's arms, probably from paralysis of the breathing caused by the excessive morphine. Robert took it very well at first, handling most of the necessary details calmly and more capably than usual, but he broke down a week or so later. Like his wife, he got through the sadness by working. Elizabeth's Last Poems , edited by Robert, were published in 1862.
To read more, check out:
http://oldpoetry.com/author/Elizabeth%20Barrett%20Browning

She also wrote one of my favourite poems: 'How Do I Love Thee?'.
It's really a very beautiful poem.


Sonnet XLIII: How Do I Love Thee?

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of being and ideal grace.
I love thee to the level of every day's
Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.
I love thee freely, as men strive for right.
I love thee purely, as they turn from praise.
I love thee with the passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints. I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life; and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.
That's about her. :)

Then, there we go, my second pick is a Slovene poet from 20's of previous century;

Sreèko Kosovel
(Poet, visionary)
http://www.slovenija-expo2000.com/osebe/images/800x600/kosovel_flash.jpg http://www.slovenija-expo2000.com/images/10x10.gif http://www.slovenija-expo2000.com/images/10x10.gif http://www.slovenija-expo2000.com/images/10x10.gif

Sreèko Kosovel, Slovene lyricist, impressionist and constructivist. Died in 1926, aged only 22. The visions of some of his poems are relevant only today, at a time of European unification and recognition of the pitfalls of a technological society.


My favourite poem by him (translated):



kons. 5

Manure is gold
and gold is manure.
Both = 0
0 = µ
µ = 0
A B Ð
1, 2, 3.
He who has no soul
needs no gold,
he who has a soul
needs no manure.
FOR SURE.
These two poets also influenced my poetry writing the most, I think.

And, I believe Sreèko could make it big if he wasn't Slovene, how unfair, lol! :)

Check more of his work here if you will: http://www.slovenija-expo2000.com/osebe/eng/p29.html

Love,
Borut

P.S.:Great idea with the thread, too, Dandy!

[JOsie]

I shall choose HR Giger...

He is most well known for designing the creature in the film "alien" and the biomechanical architecture and structures that appear in the film too. He has been credited with originating the biomechanical style. He has had nearly 20 books of his artwork published and has created artwork specially for Debbie Harry and ELP for use as album artwork.

I don't know much of the details of his life. They don't really interest me to be honest...i am much more interested in his sculptures, paintings, sketches and designs.

My favourite piece of his work is a piece called "Birthmachine". It was originally a pen and ink drawing of a cutaway of a fully loaded gun. Modelled on an actual gun and bullets, it shows the bullets are shells with human children inside. It is his "artisitic manifestation" of his belief that the greatest threat to the world at the moment is overpopulation.

After some years Giger took on the task of creating a sculpture of the original piece. It is over 2 metres high and stands outside the Giger museum. Along with a sculpture of the bullet baby.

http://www.hrgiger.com/newborn.htm
http://www.hrgiger.com/birthmachine.htm

[Spyder]

borut
dandies doing a few like this
shes starting with this one on painters and tradition art forms

then poetry music etc etc etc etc

shes away at the mo:)

[Dandelion_Blood]

For me, i think..


Well my first artist is Van Gogh!

I am not a big fan of landscapes, i really never took to them. I apreciate the skills in painting them but to be honest they never really capture creation like abstract does. But i really enjoy his work, i just feel its on the verge of being abstract the deep, powerful, thick movement of the paint brings so much more the landscape. It has so much emotion, so much life its not only captured something real but its braught something more. How Van Gogh felt, he the surroundings made him feel, his emotions, his ideas, his thoughts its how he saw those objects, those landscapes and for me they are so much more than an observational/ landscape paintings! They are real, but not?

http://www.vangoghgallery.com/ (http://www.vangoghgallery.com/)


(others later but carpets fitted today house is a bit mad, leaning over a lot of things to reach computer.. going to fall over in a minute!)

please keep your artists coming...

[Power_13]

My favourite visual artist is probably Shigeo Fukuda.

Among other things, he specialises in tricks of the eye. Such as the pile of junk that, when you look at it from a certain angle, looks exactly like a grand piano.

Can't really think of anything to say other than that :-S...I like this kind of art because of the element of deception involved. The way that the artists are able to make people see things that aren't there.

Here are a few movies of his pieces. Check out Underground Piano for sure...stunning :O

http://neuro.caltech.edu/~seckel/mod/fukuda.htm

[Koolaid]

Not a long post but am short of time

Artist - Andy warhol
Poet - Allen Ginsberg
Writer - Jack Kerouac

[Claire]

Not a long post but am short of time

Artist - Andy warhol
Poet - Allen Ginsberg
Writer - Jack Kerouac
ditto:eek:

[Koolaid]

Great minds and all that :) (maybe its a june 1977 thing?)

[Smartie.uk]

wel my favourite artist is a guy called stelarc.. he astralian and the man is a genius..

he's a live artist so doesn't really paint anything but art is(for me anyway) more about concept than product.
he did a lot of stuff with hooks in his body and suspended himself above newyork city.. but i can't explain it as well as him so here is his webby
http://www.stelarc.va.com.au/
also if put stelarc into google or summink then there is so much on the guy.
have a look if u want.
he was a real inspiration for me when i was at uni.

[Hippie_Girl]

Hello there I have finally got around to doing this :) which I have been meaning to do for a while now. In th eway of artists I have a fond liking for Salvador Dali, Pablo Picasso (especially the blue period) and Henri Rouseau. Out of the these three I will write a piece about Henri Rouseau.

http://www.herodote.net/Images/Rousseau.jpg

I don't really know much about him which will make the reading that I am going to do for this piece more exciting as I shall be learning something new. I mainly got into his work after the print of 'Virgin Forest at Sunset' that we have had in our house ever since I can remember and also my grandad had a print of 'The Dream' that he had hanging in his house, which now my dad has got and has it hanging in his worshed. What I like about his paintings is not only the themes of them which are mostly forests and nature but also the colours are earthy and they are vibrant and they are bold. You could almost get lost in them if you could walk amongst the trees but you mind does wonder as you look at them.

Here is a bit about Rouseau himself...
Henri Rousea was born in 1844, in Northern France, to a family of plumbers. Rousaeu though was very much interested in the arts, music and drawing. After he finished schjool Rouseau went on to become a lawyer but in 1863 he joined the French army. In 1968 Rousau worked for the French Customs Department collecting which granted him his nickname la douanier (the customs inspector). This job was like gold, finally he had tme to paint. And in 1884 he got a permit which allowed him to sketch in the National museums of Paris. All the way from 1886 until his death in 1910 Rouseau would exhibit paintings at the Salon des Independants. This was an exhibition which allowed artist to exhibit their art for a small fee.

Rouseau retired in 1893 and became a full-time artist. During this time he gave violin and painting lessons to earn money and earn extra money becomming a street musician. As I said earlier his paintings are jungle scenes and it has been said that these were inspired by images of the Botonical gradens of Paris and the images of the animals taken from a photographs and a drawing book of his daughter's. In his painting he also incorporates animals that are found in different countries which are not often seen together. He would paint using colouras in groups. Rouseau would start by painting groups of blue, then green, the brown and so on until the painting was complete.

Near the end of his life Rousaeu developed his work to show signs of more imaginative worlds and he was recognised by the surrealist movement as one of its key artists.

Rouseau died in 1910 having created some amazing pieces of work which lets the mind wonder and be in the painting itself.

Here are the two paintings which I have spoken about in the introduction...

Virgin Forest at Sunset
http://www.greatmodernpictures.com/museumcollection30lg.jpg

The Dream
http://www.gvhs.muhsd.k12.ca.us/Academic_Programs/Visual_Arts/Teachers/Bolton/images/rousseau.jpg

I hope you have enjoyed thes pictures and enjoyed reading about him as much as I did :)

[Dandelion_Blood]

Thankyee for all your responces, i have read through them all . They'll be more tasks to perform..

so watch this space!