Artists (term1-week 2)

 Claes Oldenburg 

    

            ·          Date of birthday: 28th January 1929;

·          Nationality: Swedish-American;

·         He is married with Coosje van Bruggen, a Dutch Sculptor, art historian and critic;

·          Field: Sculpture and public art;

·          Movement: pop art;

·          Main characteristics of his arts: large scale daily life objects; consumer objects;

·          He went to the USA at the age of 7 so he had all of his graduation and education in the “States” where he attended Latin School of Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago and Yale University;

      While further developing his craft, he worked as a reporter at the City News Bureau of Chicago. He also opened his own studio and, in 1952 became a naturalized citizen of the United States. His first recored sales of artworks were at the 57th Street Art Fair in Chicago, where he sold 5 items for a total price of $25. He moved back to New York City in 1956. There he met a number of artists, including Jim Dine, Red Grooms, and Allan Kaprow, whose Happenings incorporated theatrical aspects and provided an alternative to the abstract expressionism that had come to dominate much of the art scene. 

Jeff Koons

Jeff Koons in New York Photo: Chris FanningBirth nameJeffrey KoonsBornJanuary 21, 1955 (age 58)

 York, Pennsylvania, USANationality American FieldArtistTraining School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Maryland Institute College of Art, BaltimoreWorksPuppy (1992)
Balloon Dog (1994-2000)Influenced by H.C. Westermann, Salvador Dali, Marcel, Marcel Duchamp

Jeffrey "Jeff" Koons (born January 21, 1955) is an American artist known for his reproductions of banal objects—such as Balloon animals  produced in stainless steel with mirror finish surfaces. He lives and works in New York City and his hometown York, Pennsylvania.
Koons' work has sold for substantial sums of money including at least one world record auction price for a work by a living artist. The largest sum known to be paid for a work by Koons is Tulips which was sold for US$33,682,500 (£21,219,975) at Christie's New York on November 14, 2012 (Lot 35) in the Post-War & Contemporary Art Evening Sale.[1]Critics are sharply divided in their views of Koons. Some view his work as pioneering and of major art-historical importance. Others dismiss his work as kitsch: crass and based on cynical self-merchandising. Koons has stated that there are no hidden meanings in his works,[2] nor any critiques.[3]

  

Ron mueck 

Ron Mueck has become internationally recognised for his unique sculptures, which replicate the human figure with unrivalled technical skill. His work has a powerful psychological range, focusing not only on universal experiences like birth, life and death but on emotional states such as isolation, fear and tenderness. His startling manipulations of scale are key to our experience of each work.Mueck's work showed at the Christchurch Art Gallery from the end of 2010 through to January 2011. Research Mueck's sculpture in order to answer the following questions;1. Mueck's sculpture is described as 'hyper-real'. Define the meaning of this term and explain how it is evident in his work.(Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Art Terms) involving or characterized by particularly realistic graphic representation.It is evident in his work with a special type of hyper-real sculpture. He has exhibition that he can show and aloud people to have closer looks at his sculpture.

I've learned many wonderful qualities in this art class.It has shown me different tools to work with art. I also learned how to work with the apple imac computer. How to change the wallpaper and saving things into a folder in the documents. And opening new tools and working with them like the safari how to use bookmarks to save and organize your favorite websites. I also enjoyed meeting new people in class and getting to know them. It was so difficult for me to get along with new students also when I'm nervous when speaking in front of the class. And I enjoyed learning different artists and their work like Claes Oldenburg, Jeff Koons and Ron Mueck. Meeting everyone has been a wonderful experience and learning all these new skills has also been enjoyable. I also look forward to pushing myself out there being around people again and not feeling nervous and anxious all the time. I look forward to learning as much knowledge and skills that I can. I like seeing other students artworks because you see what they really into with art also seeing different types of art skills.