Julie Merehtu

Julie Merehtu

This lady is so unique and is a product of Art + Culture. I love the acrylic paint she used. Ms. Julie Merehtu is really excellent and creative in motion. When Im looking at this particular piece, I can see fun, excitement and movement I think that her work is 100 per cent 21st century!              

Julie Mehretu

Julie Mehretu is an artist from Ethiopia. Using acrylic paint, ink, and pencil she has created some beautiful pieces of art. In a her pieces you can see all different types of lines, colors, and shapes. I thought it was unique how she use the layering technique. This is what someone said about her paintings and I couldnt agree more. "Her paintings present a tornado of visual incident where gridded cities become fluid and flattened, like many layers of urban graffiti". Julie's paintings reminds me of Jackson Pollock's art. The confused lines make your eyes wander all over the pieces.

Julie Mehretu

Julie Mehretu was born in Ethiopia and raised in michigan. Her works of art depict cities, urben environments, and other strucutres. She takes the structures or environments and dipicts them as abstract works of art that are fluid instead of ridged and gridded. She uses Acrylic paint, ink, and pencil as her mediums. Acrylic paint enables her to make layers of paint and creates texture in her art because it is not re-hydratable and once it has dried it can be re painted over again with out making the colors run together, and builds on top of itself creating texture. This helps her create a feeling that a city is more then just one layer and is made up of multiple things such as people. The layers she makes with the paint allow her to illustrate the many different things that make up a city or environment. (Ex: The Dense population) Acrylic paint is also very useful in mix media which Mehretu takes advantage of when she uses ink and pencil as her other mediums of choice. Once acrylic paint is dry it allows the artist to draw over it with different mediums such as the ink and pencil Mehretu uses in her paintings. Being able to use different mediums on top of the acrylic paint enables Mehretu to be able to add line to her paintings and to make movement in her painting that bring the movement of the city to life in her paintings with her lines drawn with ink and paint. Also, she uses ink and pencils to depict different aspects of the envirnoment she is trying to encompass. She captures the speed of the city with all her crazy lines and the way she makes movement in her paintings with the lines she draws out of ink and pencil. With the mediums she uses she can create movement and emotions in her art work. Her abstrat art allows people to look at every day places like cities in a way we never have before.

Julie Merehtu

Julie's Work focuses on systems and the movement into the in-between. Her paintings are made up of fragments, movements and levels that represent a broad range of influences. From the smaller movements to her larger scales explosions, she brings an expressive visual language into the art that deals with reality today as much as it deals with a biography of herself as an artist in the 21 century. She creates new narratives using abstracted images of cities, histories, wars and geographies with a frenetic mark making that for the artist becomes a way of signifying social agency as well as suggesting an unraveling of a personal biography. Julie’s paintings are built up through layers of acrylic paint on canvas overlaid with mark-making using pen, pencil ink and thick streams of paint.  Many of her paintings refer to mapping elements and architecture that she creates into her own unique way to make her own art.
 

Pick an artist !!!

What I really love about Julie paintings is that her work look so unique. Julie has a different style of drawing, unlike other artists. She doesn't put some big images on her work but lines and pieces of details, along with colors. She can express a lot of emotion through the movement on her brush, or the tone of color she choose, which produce a seductive, light and flowing paiting.

A Day Ahead, A Head A Day

This painting was done by Trenton Doyle Hancock. The painting reflects a battle between good and evil. I selected this photo because the colors used will definitely capture the audience's attention. We all know that good and evil go head to head with each other. The painting depicts the good by using symbols that look like raindrops. Raindrops make you think of water, purity, and calmness. The evil is confined to plain black and white place. Black and white is always boring and cut and dry. The question is will the good outweigh the bad. This piece of artwork is brilliant.

5 Questions on Video

1. Do most artists have everyday jobs to support their love of artwork?

2. What is the motivation behind abstract art?

3. Why don't more artist do realism art?

4. Is there really a connection between drugs and artwork?

5. Who is your all-time favorite artist and why?

Through watching the video the artist that was in the wheelchair was extrememly impressive. He is a very motivational person. My favorite artist was the last person who did the realistic drawings of the people. It is truely amazing to make art look as realistic as a photo.

Homework 11-4-11

Julie Merehtu

This is an abstract artist that I actually like. I like alot of her work. The way she layers and using different strokes on her drawings/paintings is wonderful. Her artwork is abstract but you can almost see different things in her artwork almost like a cloud.

I like this art work by Trenton Hancock because it shows a fall tone. It expresses calmness with all it's colors. His color scheme provides a theme of a happy feelings. I think the artist is trying to convey a message of peace and relaxation.

Trenton Doyle Hancock

Trenton Doyle Hancock is a very unique artist. He makes prints, drawings and collages. I personally like the fact that he portrays animals in such a way that he makes them look very powerful and in control. He also paints these imaginary worlds of his which is very odd and creepy. People don’t see that many grown up man painting imaginary worlds in which he includes animals and plants.

"Go Vegan" by Trenton Doyle Hancock

One of Trenton Doyle Hancock's drawings titled, "Go Vegan", caught my attention instantaneously which by just looking at it looks controversial. To me he is depicting how vegetarians seem to appear physically, offending most people who are vegans. Besides that, it came to my attention that in this abstract drawing  he used pastel colors from how the apple was colored in.In my opinion what made this drawing contentious are the words " Go Vegan" that appear on the guys forehead which is the title of this drawing also.I think that it wouldn't be that much of a big deal if those words were not there. One of the things that I like about this drawing is the way he formed the human's body and face structure to make it look boney. The shadows to me are an example of chiaroscuro and tenebrism which represents the gradual change form light to dark on the bones shadows. Although it is offending to the vegan community,in my perspective it is an astonishing way to address his judgment towards the physical appearance of a vegetarian.       
     

Homework 11/4

I woud have gone with the lion but someone had done that already. But this piece by Trenton Doyle Hancock is kind of touching in a way it tells a story about... color and how life is with color all in just one image.

Trenton Doyle Hancrock- HW..11/4/11

This art work by Trenton dont really have a name. It says it was a collaboration with a fabric workshop. It might look like just a bunch of different color trees but I think it means more then than that. They say his artwork is always representations of creatures and weird charaters. I think that is picture is in another world and possibly the trees can be the charaters. I would love to see this in person because even though it looks like paint is what made this piece of work, I think its fabric from reading the title.

HW 11-4-11 Arista

For my research I picked Trenton Doyle Hancock, because his picture of the lion appealed to me the most from the others. The types of materials he uses range from simple graphite and ink to more colorful acrylic. I believe he has used collage(s), mixed media, multimedia in some of his other works. Most of his work focuses on abstraction, as he likes to play around with reality, but other times such as this picture he uses realism. He does so to bring about his messages as he uses wit and satire to influence people. He has also done performance arts such as “Sesom,” “Color Babies” and “Black Bhetto.”

Color Babies
Production still from Ballet Austin's Cult of Color: Call to Color
A collaboration by choreographer and Ballet Austin artistic director Stephen Mills, visual artist Trenton Doyle Hancock and composer Graham Reynolds
Photo: Tony Spielberg

 Doyle does so in this piece here that was posted by our teacher. The lion calls the jungle creatures together to give a great speech and to mourn together, but towards the end the lion warns everyone that eulogizing makes him hungry, so they should scram before he starts tearing heads.

Other times such as this other piece of work he uses some creatures called “mounds,” which are half plant and half animal and are worshiped by some evil  things called vegans. They represent the abstract part of him, as they seem real, but are far from the truth.

Vegans Do Their Dirtiest Work, 2002
Acrylic and mixed media on canvas
16 X 20 inches