101 ARTISTS SERVE 1 PURPOSE, TO INTRODUCE THE READER TO 101 EXCITING VISUAL ARTISTS. LOVE THEM OR HATE THEM AT LEAST APPRECIATE THEIR ART. ANYONE CAN ENJOY THIS BLOG SO PLEASE SHARE WITH ALL... REMEMBER ART IS FOR THE PEOPLE AND CAVIAR FOR THE BOURGEOISIE!
Nadav Kander is a master of both light and composition. They say in order to be a great photography you must have an eye, Nadav has a gift. I believe he could make a paramount image from any subject matter i.e. Torn Posters, England while it is the simplest of compositions it somehow has great depth. Diversity is often a skill that artist lack especially photographers. Nadav shoots it all which is a rarity in an arena where there are "Portrait Photographers" and "Landscape Photographers" Nadav stands atop each genre.
Please check out his website it was extremely difficult to get images as most of his work is heavily copyrighted. His portfolio is absolutely one of the best and will inspire you to capture better images.
Has everyone forgot about Blek Le Rat? Le Rat was stenciling the streets of Paris long before Banksy's work ever surfaced in London. Yet Blek Le Rat has never become American institution, he has never created the opening sequence for "The Simpson's" and Brad Pitt has never been photographed in attendance at one of his gallery exhibitions. Well he is French and there for a moment we were eating "Freedom Fries"? Yet at almost 60 years old he continues to create "street" art with no signs of slowing.
Interview selection from Format Magazine 2007:
FM: Why are they doing this?
BLR: “The graffiti movement,” he says, “has no other intention than to speak via pictures. Words for the community, words of love, words of hatred, of life and death.”
“It’s just a fine and subtle kind of therapy and an attempt to fill the emptiness of this terrible world, to cover public space with pictures that people going to work can enjoy.”
Going "Green" is all the fad these days hell even I often paint on found wooden panels. However while the bandwagon of artist turning "Trash" into art is currently vast it is by no means new. John Chamberlain has been turning trash into art for over 50 years. John has yet to slow now into his eighties he still creates awe-inspiring sculptures from discarded items. John has a soft spot in his heart for junk cars using metal panels and parts to create magnificent sculptures from waste. While you may not enjoy John's work one should respect what John has brought to the table and is unflinching work ethic.
What can I say about Anthony Lister that this book title doesn't Anthony Lister: Tales of a White Trash Prophecy. Born 1979 in Brisbane Australia he now resides in Brooklyn New York where he is considered a leader in the "Low Brow art Movement". A movement consisting of artists who don't care if they are recognized by the fine art community instead want their work to speak to "the people". Raising his middle finger to the fine art community has in turn rocketed him to the top of commercial success where ironically he is now considered by fine art collectors as 1 of the 50 most collectible artist of today. Anthony balances his fame by completing "uncommissioned street art" at a prolific rate providing free art for the masses. Stay tuned as Lister may be coming to a town near you.
A professor in college once told me that art's sole purpose should be to elicit emotion. That simple statement was the greatest thing I learned in my 6 years (yes 6 years and I am not a doctor) of higher education.
Lieko Shiga's work does exactly that it provokes an emotional response in the viewer whether it be positive or negative her work makes the viewer think and feel "something".
"Her photographs are mysterious, intimate and emotional. For her series Lilly she photographed the people living in her block in East London. She covered an outside wall completely with a black cloth and photographed the people in front of it."
Conceptual art is often so far-fetched and personal to the producing artist that the public struggles to perceive the underlining meaning. In 1977 Jenny Holzer pushed past the boundary producing short statements using standard text these statements were labeled "Truism's". Printed on shirts, hats and posters these works were later displayed on a large scale using neon/LED signs and Xenon projection. Jenny Holzer displays her work minus a signature or any identifying mark so that the work remains anonymous in an effort to not "Cloud" the purpose of the text. When viewing her work remember art can be whatever you want it to be.
The "Art World" is a pretentious place where you will often find artists spewing forth nonsense so that their work may serve a higher purpose and ultimately be sold to an individual with more money than taste. Then there is Neck Face whose work looks as though it was produced by a satanic preschooler. Neck Face is best known for his "Devilish Street Art" with a humorous twist but in recent years has transcended past the streets on to the gallery walls. Neck Face has stayed true to his style and technique, his work serving the primary purpose of mass appeal and disgust. Neck Face makes art for the "Wal-Mart Audience"; enjoy his work and leave the glass of wine and beret behind.
Quote from Neck Face:
Interview: What do you think you're bringing to the "Art World"?
