Douglas herbert Courtenay Auburn
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Douglas Herbert Courtenay Auburn (1916-200) was a British Abstract Geometric artist. Although he had made a profile of art works he had never exhibited, his paintings focus mainly on geometric shapes and vibrant colours. Some ofAuburns works are titled as modern but there are a selection which could be contemporary due to the fact that the artist will have painted in both periods. I am fascinated in Auburn's paintings because of his array of colours, I believe they link in with my work as I am using Geometric shape and vibrant colour within my paintings. I have chosen to show two pieces from a large collection of works with similar appearances. I have chosen Geometric Abstract Original Painting - British Artist (1980) and Geometric Abstract Painting - Amazing Shapes & Colors (1980). Both pieces are similar in style and appearance yet give of a total different vibe, I believe these could represent moods, one being much lighter in colour, maybe suggesting Auburn was in a happier/relaxed place when painting. with only little going on in the image, in comparison to the other painting which has much more going on. Containing more shape and a larger variety of colours. Both of the pieces have been left unframed deliberately to best compliment the interior in which it is being placed.
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Geometric Abstract Original Painting - British Artist, 1980 Geometric Abstract Painting- Amazing shapes & Colors, 1980
Tempera Tempera
24 in x 24 in x 0.25 in 24 in x 24 in x 0.25 in
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Florian Baudrexel
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Florian Baudrexel is a German artist who was born in 1968. Baudrexel has had a number of gallery and museum exhibitions, including the CCA Andratx and the Linn Lühn. He creates both large and small scale works, his larger scaled installations are what attracted me to his work. He works from models and his small scale sculptures often resemble them. I chose to look into Baudrexel's work when I first seen an image of his work, Have A (2010), I liked this piece as I am using colours and shapes in a similar way to how this collage is presented. I use bridges as my focus point in my work and I choose to add vibrant colours to the image, I love the idea of been able to add the colour to the actual bridge, in a similar way to what Baudrexel has onto a building, transforming something I would say was plain and boring, into something worth stopping and looking at. Chrome heart(2014) is a large instillation of his, I am very interested in this piece, the ability to recycle a material which is used everyday around the world, and create something that can be seen as fascinating interests me.
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Have A, 2010 Chrome Heart, 2014
outdoor wall collage, billboard paper Cardboard on wooden frame
instillation view centre Berlin 310 cm x 195 cm x 90 cm
368 cm x 256 cm
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Pieter De Haard
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Pieter De Haard was a Dutch visual artist, born in 1914 and died in 2000. His work was based on musical rhythms
which where translated into visual art with the use of geometric abstraction. He started to experiment with geometric abstraction during world war two , which resulted in a serie of pastel work. In 1946 De Haard, who was inspired by the work of Vordemberge-Gildeward, started to produce abstract geometric art. There is one piece of De Haard's work, which has inspired my work, this piece is Untitled, 1950. The reason for this being the style in which its been created, the use of geometric shape along with colour is similar to my work. The piece is abstract and doesn't make a specific image, but when looking at the painting and thinking of music it makes sense to me, the shapes now representing notes, almost looking like there moving around the inside of the squared frame, bouncing of one another.
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Untitled, 1950
Oil on Canvas
23.25 in x 31.25 in
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Kazimir Malevich
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Kazimir Malevich (1879-1938) was a Russian avant-garde artist and art theorist. He had a large influence on the development of non-objective, or abstract art in the 20th century. Malevich worked in a number of styles such as Symbolism and Fauvism, impressionism, and cubism after visiting Paris in 1912. Gradually simplifying his work and style his work consisted of geometric forms and their relationships to one another. One of Malevich's works that caught my eye and has influenced my own practice is Suprematism, 1915, this piece is made up of a number of colourful geometrical shapes, I like how most of the shapes are overlapping, but there are some the are just touching one another and aren't actually layered on top of each other. I have done his myself in my most recent woks, I think it allows me to add shape to where is needed for the viewer to understand that there is something there and not use an empty space.
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Suprematism, 1915
Oil on canvas
87.5 cm x 72 cm
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Bryce Hudson
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Bryce Hudson is a contemporary artist, a large amount of his work is base around social issues surrounding ideas of race, beauty, gender identity politics and stereotypes in contemporary society. Hudsons esthetics is influenced by historical art movements such as modernism, post-modernism, minimalism, pop, neo plasyicism, yet his work is inspired by life in contemporary society. He uses bold colour, patter, composition, symbolism and digital manipulation of preexisting imagery within his work. I have chosen to look into Hudsons work based on his use of colour, line and shape, focusing on his geometric abstract paintings. His hard-edge forms are lined with bright blocks of contrasting colour which play against one another. I like his piece Geometric Abstraction - Untitled composition (40) as it involves a large amount of colours such as red, orange, yellow, black, white and blue which I use myself in my paintings. I'm fascinated in how Hudson creates illusions within his paintings with the use of shape and line, the way in which he has chosen to locate each shape changes the direction in which the painting is going, depending on what shape I look at the image changes for me. For me I would like to be able to do this in my own paintings, allowing the viewer decide what is happening, not knowing which shape has been layered on top of the other, allowing them to decide what the image is about.
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Geometric Abstraction - Untitled Composition (40), 2014
Acrylic on canvas
48in x 48in x 2.5in
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Nicholas Alan Cope
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Nicholas Alan Cope is an American contemporary photographer, who was born in 1983. He focuses on Black-and-white photography as well as colour photography. I am fascinated in his Representations of architecture, and his work focusing on line, form, and shadows. Cope photographs his adoptive hometown, Los Angeles, taking away its original colours and presenting them with the use of white and velvety black. I have been looking into Copes work and I have chosen one which I like the most, theres not much to read about cope and his work, and his photographs have no titles. But they are categorised into specific subjects such as landscape and architecture. From his architecture collection I have chosen this images, the reason for this being the number of shapes involved in the image. The image appears to be the side of a building with stairs leading to the roof, what I like most about this is that Cope has almost re-created the image into a cartoon like version. The contrast of the the black and white allows the white shapes to step forward and stand out, its not until you look down to the curb/pavement the image becomes reality, and you realise it is an actual image. Although I have been using vibrant colours in my work I am intrigued to try subtle/muted colours, such as black and white. After looking at Copes work I now want to see how I can incorporate black and white and these of shadows into my own work.
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Nicholas Alan Cope
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Lygia Clark
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Lygia clark (1920-1988) was a Brazilian Painter, Sculptor, Installation and Participatory Artist. Clark's work aimed to break down the barriers between art and everyday life, creating a relationship between the object she was using and its audience, falling into the development of participatory art. Clark has influenced generations of artists, pushing boundaries of sculpture and performance. She is best known for her painting and instillation work and was associated with the Brazilian Constructivist movements of the mid-20th century. Although my work does not relate performance art, my work is influenced by Clarks use of geometric shape and muted colours within her two to three dimensional works. I have chosen two of Clark's works which have had an impact on my own work, these are Planes on Modulated Surface (Study) (56) and Planes on Modulated Surface (Study) (61). Both pieces are part of a series of preparatory drawings which Clark produced between 1954 and 1958. The series all feature variations on the theme of the plane, the square and other geometrical motifs. Both of the drawings I have chosen are very similar to one another, both using the same shapes and colours. I have chosen these two because they are similar to the work I am producing at the moment with graphite, Clark's work has influenced my work and pushed me to try something I've not before, I have kept a similar style to hers, and I believe my work has been a reflection on hers. I wanted to use the same theme in my work with the use of bridges and the build up of shape and colour but use black, white and grey in the exact way that clark does, than my usual vibrant-neon colours.
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Planes on Modulated Surface (Study) (56), 1957 Planes on Modulated Surface (Study) (61), 1957
Graphite and Gouache on paper Graphite and Gouache on paper
2050 x 350 mm 250 x 350 mm
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