Lucy Kenny

 Lucy Kenny is a comic book, graffiti artist. Lucy Kenny is someone that my older sister knows personally. 

Her main character that is shown in most of her work is based on her daughter, Bam (Amber) which makes her work personal to Lucy and also contains the memory of her daughter when she was younger.

Here is just a few of her designs. One (below) was done on a wall which adds an interesting texture to the painting. The others were made for a Project known as The Coffee Club Collective. 

Lucy's body of illustrates mainly uses pens, washes and hand printing.

 This has been made on a wall that looks old and faded. There are holes and crackers which adds an interesting texture and look to the finish design. 

This piece contains her daughter, Bam. It is colourful which could suggests her daughter's personality or how light hearted she is.

This piece was made for the Coffee club Collective. I found this piece interesting because you can see her pen marks and brush strokes. This piece shows a person which is a container and this one here is a container of fear.

College piece

Elizabeth Peyton

 Elizabeth Peyton is an American painter who is a contemporary artist best known for portraits of famous people. Next to this and below are some examples of her work.

Her work is very expressive and this is shown through her interesting mark making but you can clearly see who the portraits are meant to represent. I think this mark making is very interesting and somewhat abstracted.

The Age of Innocence (2007) by Elizabeth Peyton (Click here)

 

 After researching this body of work I have discovered that this work is heavily influenced by Romance. She has gained inspiration from historic figures, film, novels, music and poems. Her body of work is always personal to her and contains a collection of her personality and emotions at her point in time. 

"The Age of Innocence, 2007, again combines the historic and the contemporary in its representation of Countess Olenska and Newland Archer, the illicit lovers in Edith Wharton’s novel, who bear a striking resemblance to the stars of Martin Scorsese’s 1993 film version – Michelle Pfeiffer and Daniel Day-Lewis." - (For quote click here)

(Left) Elizabeth Peyton

The Age of Innocence
2007 -Michelle Pfeiffer and
Daniel Day-Lewis.

Her collection of work shows a running theme of love. Each piece shows iconic moment for example the image below. This is an iconic scene in the movie "twilight". 

This collection is oil on board and some are pencil drawing. Although I cannot find much on this body of work, I think her style is interesting as you can see every brush mark she has made or pencil mark. 

Her work work links well with my theme because she work shows a collection of containers containing love.

Reference:

> Elizabeth Peyton's Snapshot Romanticism: New Work at GBE (A Review)

> Elizabeth Peyton - Gagosian Gallery
> IMMA - Elizabeth Peyton

Marlene Dumas

"Blindfolded" by Marlene Dumas (2001, Ink on Paper)
I've choose to look at this artist because this piece shows a collection of containers. The people are the containers of emotion, life, souls and so on.

They are quick simple sketches made with ink on paper. The colours are black, brown and white with could represent the emotion of the people at the time of this piece.

My Sketchbook

Photographs of My Sketchbook throughout my AS Fine Art Exam. 

My Theme: Collection of Containers

Artists

Artists and Containers...

This is a collection of work that I have found on the Tate.org. I have have discovered artist which I believe use containers in their work.

'Container [blue]' by Gerd Winner (1969-70)

'The Proposal' by Kurt Schwitters ( 1942)

Her work in the 90s was responds to her daily routines and her own surroundings. She produced her first “Living Unit”--an experimental structure intended to reduce everything necessary for living into a simple, compact system.   This artist is called Andrea Zittel who studies containers and there uses. She is an American sculptor.

Collection of Containers

Containers found in the kitchen...

 Plastic containers holding dried food in a cupboard. Food could also be classed as a container of nutrients.

Containers holding herbs on a spice rank. Herbs are containers of flavour.

Vintage Domino tea set made in the 1950s displayed in my kitchen. Was once a container when it was being used as a tea cup. Could also be classed as a container of memories.

A vase containing flowers which are dying. A container of life or death. The flowers could be containers of life.

My fridge that contains a collection of containers.

Collection of Containers in my bedroom ...

A photograph in a frame of my friends (Me, Beth, Becki and Frankie). This is a container of a photo but also a container of a memory.

A biscuit tin which contains nail item. A container that has been reused for something else other than containing biscuits.

The outisde of the container above.

A CD case which contains the CD but also now the music. This is a CD of one of my favoutite bands which is personal to me.

A container that contains my collection of CDs. It is a collection of memories as well as music.

A basket of clean washing.

A draw of clothes which is a container.

The box of CDs I own under my bed. Other containers surrounding the box of CDs.

A vintage camera case made from brown leather.

A collection of perfume bottles.

Collection of Containers in my sister's bedroom...

A gothic looking pottery trinket box.

A collection of buttons and craft stuff in fancy jars on a shelf in my sisters room. Shows her hobby and they are containers of who she is as a person. This shows memories of my Nan too becuase my Nan use to collect buttons is a jar when she was alive.

A collection of containers of perfume that my sister has.

A Collection of Containers found in my Living Room...

A watering can that was my Nan's. This is a container of life becuase plants couldn't live without water. This could also be a container of mermories because this was my Nan's

Collection of conatiners of makeup brushes. Reused jar with a material lining.

A container of bobby pins (hair pins). A reused shallow jar.

A collection of makeup brushes in reused jars and a glass.

Abbie's Art (My old Blog click here)