Week 8 Research

 This week, I decided to look at works created by Benedikt Amrhein. He creates his works with multiple techniques, but primarily fractals and photography. The piece that I would like to focus on is his piece titled Ecce Mundus. This piece is a picture of a sphere and, using fractals can create a unique design and the water pattern added after some photo editing. This piece looks like a utopian image, like something that you would see in the future, and for me, my mind instantly thinks of the sphere in Vegas that has just recently been opened. 

Week 8 Research

 This week I am talking about Scottish artist Will Johnson. Will was born in the Shetland Islands, a small array of islands north of Scotland and west of Norway. He was raised there and still lives there today. He is a self-taught digital artist. He uses very familiar programs, Apophysis and Ultra Fractal. He uses both of these to find and create fractals that have a different picture feel to them, rather than the traditional fractal. I chose two of his works, "Cutting Torch" and "Dream Staircase". In Cutting Torch, there are two squares, both being cut through by some kind of torch. I really like how only the outside of the squares is exposed by this torch, so it gives the illusion that there is only one torch cutting through both boxes. The second, it shows an unique linear fractal of stairs. I like its unique component that the stairs don't go forever, instead they turn into a different linear design. 

The artist doesn't have a website, but here is his MOCA gallery: Will Johnson MOCA Gallery Link

Week Eight Research Assignment

     I came across the landmarks collection while looking through the AI-generated art on the MOCA website. Within this, I found a generated image of the Eiffel Tower. It had piqued my interest because I had taken French for two years. France is neat, and this image captures the tower very abstractly.  

No artist was tagged for this work, so I can only assume that Don Archer created it. Don Archer was one of the two AI artists who had made the MOCA website to archive and show off their pieces and other AI artists' works. Don Archer is very passionate about his AI creations, almost aggressively so.

This piece stood out to me due to the bright light at the top, looking almost like a lantern. The sky behind the tower resembles the galaxies seen in artist recreations of space and pictures taken by the Hubble telescope.

Week 8 Research - Hayden Grigas

 

This piece was posted by an artist by the name of Don Archer, Archer created this piece with AI. The reason I picked this piece in particular because it looks like a fun little ad for something. It looks like something you'd see on the back of a milk carton and it's a cool piece in general. 

Week 8 Research (Toby M)

     For this week, I decided to do research on the artist Russel Scott-Skinner and also chose a piece of art from him. Russel was originally from South East London as well as North Kent but was born in South East London in 1979. He moved to North Kent once he hit the age of 10. So when people ask where he is from, he says "A bit of everywhere" since he's moved around quite a bit. Scott-Skinner has been an artist professionally since he was 21 years old, but his main passion has always been the visuals so before he was always paid, he was shooting lots of photography and creating design work or painting pictures for the people around him. "My work took off from here into being trained up in the photographic studios in South East London, which in turn led onto me building and selling my own two successful photographic studios. I've also been fortunate to have worked commercial video and photography in Morocco and France" (Scott-Skinner). Russel, now a famous artist, has work done all around the world and he is extremely proud of it, and for all people to see. 

Artist Quote:

"My artwork is all about reflecting the beautiful energy in nature so that a piece of it can be taken for the home. This could be a photographic print or a large original painting. My paintings are created differently. They are grown and developed through time rather than painted to give them a quality that truly reflects how nature sculps her landscape. I create a layer then wash it down and erode it, then do it again and again and again. Sometimes they come together in a day, a week or a month, some I'm still working on" (Scott-Skinner). 

    I chose this piece of art by him because it reminds me of Fractals and what we are learning today. It looks like a mirror image of a tree that has perfect symmetry. And I have also realized that it is not just the tree but the background as well with the blue sky and pink clouds. It really intrigued me to use this because it relates to what we are doing in class and all getting better at, creating fractal images. 

Website of Artist:

Russel Scott-Skinner Artist

Week 8 MOCA Benedikt Amrhein- Andre Marcano

 

This piece is called "Ecce Mundus" created by Benedikt Amrhein. 

Amrhein was born in 1975 to a family of artists in Lubeck, Germany, near the Baltic Sea. Today, Amrhein resides in Bonn, Germany. He was very fond of all types of art. He wrote short stories, composed, and many other things. He discovered graphic design relatively late (late being the last few years) and since then he became passionate for creating graphic art combined with photography. Amrhein regularly uses Apophysis, Bryce, and photoshop to create his pieces. 

Check out more of his work here:https://moca.virtual.museum/autogallery2012/autogallery_amrhein/index.asp?mode=view&Image=3&ReturnPage=1

week 8 research

 

This is called Beijing Shadows by Sasha Meret . he was born in Romania in 1955 and is now based in New York, and is a versatile artist who combines various techniques and styles in his work. He blends symbolism from different cultures and explores a range of artistic mediums, from painting to digital art. Meret's focus on detail and composition creates a sense of mystery in his artwork, challenging traditional photography. With this piece of art, I don’t know the meaning behind it  

Week 8 Research

 Dolores Glover Kaufman, a Cleveland Institute of Art and Case Western Reserve University graduate, transitioned from colorful abstract art to photography in the late 1970s. She showcased her black and white photographs in various exhibitions, including the Cleveland Museum of Art's Juried May Shows. Notable exhibitions include "Parma Piece" in 1980 and "Portfolio '83" in 1983. She taught art and photography in public and private schools, eventually joining Bill Braden in a commercial photography studio. In 1995, their studio invested in a PowerMac system to enhance image control. Dolores embarked on a journey of self-learning in digital imaging, which ultimately paved the way for her to explore the creative possibilities of digital technology in her projects. I chose this piece of art because I like it a lot. When you first look, the first thing you see is the black-and-white contrast in the art. It is a simple piece, yet it has a powerful message. 

Her work is currently feature : https://moca.virtual.museum/kaufman_new/kaufman01.htm

https://dolores-kaurman.pixels.com

week 8 lisle drake

     Lisle Drake, living in the Texas Hill Country, she is an artist who believes in the magic of turning ordinary things into extraordinary creations. She's been an artist for a long time, using different materials like pen and ink and fabric techniques. Since 1985, she's been using computers in her work, starting with a Mac Classic. What makes Lisle different from other artist is that she gets her ideas from dreams. Her dreams often follow a series and can last for years. which makes me wonder what would happen if she stopped dreaming? Each time she has a dream, she finds new ideas, which she carefully records in sketchbooks or digital files. These ideas become the building grounds for her final artworks. The reason I chose this artist is because i read her biography and it caught my attention on how she uses her dreams for her artwork and if this is true i saw her art work and it made me wonder in what dream does she see this type of image. i want to know the background information in her artwork. i also wished that she explained her dreams a little in depth to give information about her artwork. Im not sure if this artwork is supposed to be a scary dream or a just weird dream or something like that it makes me interested in her imagination.

Week 8 Research

For this weeks artist, I chose Myriam De Maio. Myriam is a self taught digital artist who discovered fractals five years ago. She believes tyhat they are a beautiful and creative mode of artistic expression, as she is also diving into didigtal painting as well. I found her interesting because before her journey through digital art, she always felt that she “hated” computers, but actually found that sh is very good at what she creates. Her interests include music, mountains, and deep ecology. Based off of her interests, you would probably have never known she would be into digital arts! I found her story inspiring because sometimes in the midst of what we think we might “hate” or dislike, it turns out it's something we are good at or we enjoy. We just have to give it a try. I chose a few of her pieces that stood out to me. I really loved her art in terms of the color combinations she uses, I think the pieces always blend so nicely. I loved the depth and dimension she had within her fractal pieces along with the vibrance of the colors themselves. She brought in certain elements of texture as well that I thought were cool. It almost looks like the colors are dancing. I love very colorful bright pieces of art, things that look like they're in motion! Kind of jumping or swirling through the screen. Her personal page that was linked in a few places seems to be down, but I was able to find her work on Flickr! 

https://www.flickr.com/photos/myriamdimaio/7796951618/in/photostream/

Week 8 Research- Kyle Dann

 

John Hughson is a Professor Emeritus of Visual Art and New Media at the State University of New York at Fredonia. He received his BFA from Hull College of Art in England and received his MFA from Tulane University in New Orleans. His art has been exhibited across the United States and even abroad. John uses paint-and-draw applications. He says that when he uses his computer for work, he draws directly on the computer for drawing and painting. Nothing is predetermined beforehand, he likes to create art based on what comes to mind when he starts. He is able to draw from his own imagination and imagery that pops into his head. His creation process is based on quick decisions and just goes with the flow. Whatever happens when he draws just happens. He doesn't have any set plan when he starts. John is a brilliant and dark colorist, that uses lots of abstract with almost oriental lyricism. His art has almost any color that you can think of. There is so much going on in his painting that your mind can create and see objects all over the painting. I like how he uses bright colors to draw attention to different objects and different points of the painting. 

http://notthetate.co.uk/gallery.asp?a=jhughson

Week 8 Research

 

The artist I picked this week is Carmen Dell'Aversano. A link to her website can be found here. She is a professor at a university in Italy but enjoys making computer art when she has time. To make her pictures, she sets up objects in certain ways, photographs them, then adds finishing touches using a digital art program. She says most of her art is influenced by classical Western art and scientific imagery. She describes her art as quirky, melancholy, and madness of her own. Additionally, she is a comparative literature professor and says she visualizes all of her work before making it. Being a professor has helped her imagine and work on her art pieces.

I find her art very unique and interesting to look at. Every image has aspects to it that only an artist like Dell'Aversano would be able to come up with.

Week 8 - Research

For this week's research, I will write about Karin Kuhlmann's AbstraXness. Karin used the Photoshop filter KPT5's FraxFrame. Also, Karin uses a series of inspiring and associative shapes on transparent layers and combine them to form subtle arrangements of glowing transparent areas of colors, including the light behind it Karin Kuhlmann was in born 1948, lives and works in in Verl, Germany. She has been a commercial artist for many years, and works for such firms as Bertelsmann and Nobilia, and as a publicist. Karin's website http://www.karinkuhlmann.de/

Week 8 Research Assignment - Ian Garcia

 For this week's research assignment, I decided to write about Björn Dämpfling. Bjorn was born in 1949 and now currently lives in Berlin, Germany. Björn's style of art is known as unique and "fertile." His style is now easily identifiable; his art is usually filled with "improbable biological specimens," which include fish, fauna, insects, or birds. Björn has a doctorate in economics, but his hobby and passion have been art for most of his life. Although, now he is mainly interested in art. Björn utilizes different painting programs like Fractal Painter and Freehand. He often uses a Wacom tablet, though sometimes he uses scanned paper sketches. Björn wishes to continue creating art for as long as he can surprise himself; his definition of surprising himself is by neither copying others nor himself. He also wishes his art to be "identifiable 'Dämpfling' yes." Though notably, Björn believes that the most important thing of value within the creation of art is the freedom of creating. The link below is the link to Björn's own website.

https://www.creativecreatures.com/

Week 8 Research - Reagan Franzoni

The artist I chose for week 8 from the Museum of Computer Art is Lisa Yount. She is a digital artist from El Cerrito, California. She considers herself a magician and transformer because she guides people through magical and unique worlds and dimensions that we don’t always see in everyday life, throughout her art work. She is influenced by the uniqueness of nature such as rocks and tree bark, paint chippings, sunsets, and galaxies. Lisa Yount uses the software Adobe Photoshop and Corel Painter to put her designs together. She combines each canvas with photographs, vintage paintings, fractals, computer-generated patterns, line art, and digital paintings to create collages that reveal hidden places beyond what we see everyday. She derives her work from themes of spiritual and magical dimensions in the world, and changes occurring over time. 

The image that I chose from Lisa Yount’s collection is called “Fairy Chess 2,” and it is a collage combined of what looks like a digital illustration of a chess board and chess pieces, a photograph of a woman, assuming that is the fairy, and the background is a fractal pattern. I chose this piece because I like the sense of depth in the image and I really like the use of different art mediums such as fractals and photography. I think this piece is trying to say that there is always something telling you to make the right move and in this case it is the “fairy” guiding the chess pieces in the right direction. This piece reminds me of Alice in Wonderland because of the hallucinogenic look of the collage with giant chess pieces and spiraling fractals in the background as the sky. Lisa Yount’s piece and the theme of Alice in Wonderland both are about the changing of time and the changes happening as people grow up and approach the real world that we don’t always notice because we are so focused on the real-world, that we don’t get to see the fun and magical changes happening. 

https://lisa-yount.pixels.com/

Week 8: Research Assignment

    For this week I chose the artist Artem Chebokha who created this piece with Photoshop. They used Photoshop to sketch out and colorize the piece. They also used Photopshop to add lighting to the piece and added a layer or transparency that makes the bubble seem real. The piece that Chebokha made was to examine the interesting nature of the sun and sunlights on nature. I also believe that they are trying to convey to the viewer that the sun is the birthplace of all beautiful things in nature. I believe this because you can not only see the sunlight being the focal point of the image but also the trees seem to be stretching towards the light. However I believe that Chebokha is trying to convey that the sun is all powerful. This can be shown through the ground around the trees slowly starting to float up into the sky near the sun. As well as the sun seeming to start spewing flames out its top. So all in all I think it is showing nature in a sense of duality.

This is there page: https://www.artstation.com/rhads

Paul Piorkowski - Week 8 Research Assignment

 The artist I chose to share this week is Bill Elis. I wasn't able to find much about his personal life other than the fact that he is based in Edinburgh, Scotland. Elis began sharing his artwork on Instagram in 2013, and has since done artworks for many different entities, including Apple, Lionsgate, Netflix, Blizzard, Bethesda, Nike, Red Bull, and Northern Monk, as well as having produced album artworks for the albums Godlike by the deathcore band Thy Art is Murder, and Tr3s by the alt metal band Project46.

The artwork I chose to share today is titled Transcendence:

Here is a link to Elis's site: Billelis