Quoteskine - Lee Crutchley

  

  This week I bought a book of an illustrator I follow on Tumblr his name is Lee Crutchley and he has put all of his jottings, lyrics he admires and sayings into a book called Quoteskine Volume One. It's printed in color and he has individually scanned every one in. I really like his work and the messages behind it he uses clever color techniques to be able to make people see exactly what he wants you to. His art is really interesting and simple drawings are a great way to be able to establish yourself with a particular style. 

  After looking at Lee's work I would really like to incorporate text / lyrics imagery against some of my photography because as well as being able to have my photo to look at the words add depth to the photograph giving it a better understanding and adds to the understanding of the photo I have produced.  

'99 Problems' - Jay Z paraphrase, Lee Crutchley

Joy Division, Lee Crutchley

http://www.quoteskine.co.uk/

Crutchley, L,. Quoteskine Volume One.

Daniel Shea

  

Racine Ohio, 2010 Daniel Shea

Old Lock 24 Campgrounds, 2009 Daniel Shea

 Removing Mountains, 2007, and Plume, 2009-2010.

  Daniel Shea is a photographer I found when blogging on tumblr, I didn’t particularly take much notice instantly but after looking at this website I became a little bit obsessed with his project he shot in Ohio concerning the study of the social and political institutions surrounding these practices he carries on study further into the cultural implications this sort of coal collections has caused. He included a PDF file with this images explaining what exactly he wanted to do and this made my understanding of the work a lot more in depth and precise. His social documenting techniques fascinate me and I really love his work in Ohio.

Raymond City West Virginia, 2010 Daniel Shea

                            http://www.danielpshea.com/photography/coal-work/

Marco Rea - Altered Visions

My Sad Clown, Marco Rea

  Marco Rea an Italian artist born in Rome in 1975 has lived and worked there his whole life and is amongst one of the only artists that creates and uses spray on his advertising posters. His pop surrealist influences mean that he takes close reference from the emptiness and silence of aesthetics as a general. He begins his work with a glossy image one which is aesthetically pleasing to sell a product and then the fascination and desire to see this allows him by simply editing out the original image to completely change the image to bend the atmosphere of the art itself; making it other than self.  
  The work is somewhat creepy but making the images of exactly what he wants to portray by using mixed media makes the image very powerful and personal to the artist himself.

no name, Marco Rea

 http://marcorea.carbonmade.com/about

Damien Hirst

Beautiful, amore, gasp, eyes going into the top of the head and fluttering painting, 1997

 On Wednesday I visited the highly hyped new Damien Hirst exhibition at the Tate Modern. I must say it’s basically the best exhibition I have ever been to mainly because I have always been a huge fan of his work, but also because from looking at this work in it’s physical form with his thoughts has allowed me to properly understand the concepts of his art and how his background heavily influenced him.

  Growing up in Leeds Damien Hirst was expected to fit a certain criteria his mother had set him; it soon became obvious that Hirst wanted to pursue a career in the arts and has made a ton of money in doing so. His eccentric ideas have provided fascinating works based mostly around the topics birth, death and decay; in his exhibition a collection of his work provides a fascinating thought provoking insight into his mind.

A Thousand Years, 1990

  I particularly enjoyed his project “A Thousand Years” a sculpture of a vitrine is split in half by a glass wall: a hole in this partition allows newly hatched flies from a box reminiscent of a die in one half, to fly into the other where an Insect-O-Cutor hangs. The corpses of the flies inside the vitrine accumulate whilst the works are on exhibition. In ‘A Thousand Years’, a decaying cow’s head is presented beneath the fly-killer. 

A Thousand Years, 1990

  It’s not a particularly aesthetically pleasing sculpture but the thought behind it and detail makes it beyond fascinating. Damien Hirst has really hit the nail on the head with successfully providing a visual display upon the exploration into the research of life and death and in-between. His use of movement with flies allowed suspending things without strings or wire and makes you realize the extent of how precious life is.

  Hirst has many talents but the way in which he provokes reaction to the art forms he assembles, then closely narrates with his concepts really makes you think and wonder exactly how one person could create such a grand intelligent understanding of the world yet capture imagination in all that view it. I was very happy after visiting the Tate Modern and am glad to have been able to have to opportunity to be in the same room as such magnificent art with admirable narration throughout. 

I Am Become Death, Shatterer of Worlds, 2006

http://www.damienhirst.com/
http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibition/damien-hirst
(notes taken from exhibition pentathlete also)

Haifa Street Art.

Haifa Broken Fingaz Studio. (Rudi Khalastchi)

  London's idea's upon street art have previously been highly popularized by Banksy but recently a group of Haifa style street artists have brought its wild Israeli style to the chic London galleries inhabited previously by D*face, JR, and Banksy. The work has been criticized by Governmental bodies saying street art is a form or graffiti and vandalism however the group are young, local artists who are contributing to a changing face of the urban landscape and simultaneously redefining the boundaries of their medium. I love the work and there is no political reasoning for the work it is simply art and the group enjoy speaking about inspiration and their own opinions.

Bat Yam, Israel BFC

 http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/97274/broken-fingaz%E2%80%99s-graffiti-art

Cinemascapist Photography

  After looking at Gregory Crewdson's work I came across artist Aaron Hobson who uses Google earth to collect images and use them as photographs. I don't know a lot about Aaron Hobson but I am fascinated by the way he uses a complex worldwide system to make this amazing photographs.

Examples of his work: 

 

Route 17, South Africa

Canary Islands, Spain

Prague, Czech Republic

http://aaronhobson.com/

Megatherium - Andre de Freitas

  
  Photographer / Illustrator Freitas is interested mostly in capturing stillness and when drawing he tries to capture illustrations by imagining in fact he is taking a photo of the subject. So by doing this it was his gateway in the photo-graphical world.

 
The most interesting to me were the set of double exposed images; below are a few pieces of his work.

  http://andredefreitas.com/