Respond to a contemporary artwork

"Dali Dream" by Lenny

This painting is very surreal and detailed, and you have to look at it for a long time to find all the interesting details. My favorite one is that he copied Salvador Dali's melting clock in the backround. The painting looks very colorful even though Lenny didn't use a lot of colors.
He used a lot of lines that point to the middle of the picture but there is no special detail, so your eyes keep moving around the picture.
I like that Lenny used the bells, the checkered pattern, and the aqua blue twice in the picture, it calms the chaos in the painting down.

Respond to a historical artwork

 

Gustav Klimt - "The Kiss"



This has been my favorite artwork for  long time. Most of it is very flat and Klimt used a lot of lines without creating any value.

The only parts that don't look flat are the girl's feet and arms. I don't like the man's clothes at all because they are so flat but it makes the paining interesting.

I think it is interesting that the woman is so tall. She is on her knees and if she could stand up, she would be at least on foot taller than the man.
I also like that she has flowers in her hair and that there are the same flowers on the ground. So this artwork tells a story even though it is very simple.

Response to an Artist: Arthur Rackham





Arthur Rackham was born in the late 1800s in London. He studied at the City of London School and later at the Lambeth School of Art.

Arthur Rackham's style is dreamlike, fantastic, humorous, and romantic. He illustrated books and stories by reusing images from other magazines and books featuring several illustrators. 

Alice in Wonderland

The Meeting of Oberon and Tatina

He inspires me because he illustrated fairy tales and he names his art after characters, lines, and phrases from stories.

Fairies Feeling Undancey

Ragged Children

Beauty & the Beast

The Tortiose and the Hare

Once upon a time...

My Inspiration: Brothers Grimm

Once upon a time, we all heard Grimm's stories about pretty princesses, evil stepmothers, and happy endings.
Some people think that fairy tales are bad because they talk about scary things, but they do it in a safe way. They have been part in everyone's life and everybody will think of the same story when they see these pictures:

Most books, pictures, and movies about fairy tales are very colorful and bright. But they don't have to be because they usually start out very tragic and sad.

I like that there are a lot of different emotions in fairy tales and you could easily make different types of art with them. This is the only concentration I would be very interested in, even outside of school, and I would do more with it than only the assignments we get in class.

I chose the Brothers Grimm because they are the authors of my favorite stories and I grew up with Snow White, Rapunzel, Mother Hulda and Cinderella.

Here are some other examples I liked:

Little Red Riding Hood

Sleeping Beauty



Snow White

my favorite one:

Mother Hulda

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