Lisa Milroy quick imagary

Lisa Milroy 

Milroy is a contemporary still life painter known for painting everyday items such as clothes, shoes and vases in the form of collections. She uses positive and negative space, painting her subjects in formations such as grids, groups, lines, rows and columns, often on plain backgrounds. Sometimes her arrangement of objects are influenced by their functional identity, so that, for example, stamps become islands for the eyes to travel between or wheels speed forward at an unstoppable visual pace.She uses white backgrounds to show that we have very plain lives.

The Way Milroy uses posotive and negative space in her artwork is very clever, also by repeating images and paterns is a clever techneque as it makes the pieces of artwork her own, yet the way the objects stand out upon the crisp white background is a techneque i would like to use while painting although this isn't my style of work i like how clear the objects are.

Robert Rauschenberg research and my preferences (check spelling)

Robert Rauschernberg

In the early 1950s, Rauschenberg launched his artistic career with series of monochrome paintings in black, white, gold and red, featuring varied textural effects produced by the marouflage and painting of newspaper. Even then he wanted to abolish from art the sacrosanct principle of self-expression. These surfaces, and in particular his white paintings, offer themselves as mirrors, neutral surfaces waiting to accept the reflections of the world. “Today is their creator,” the artist once said of these works. TheCombines period followed immediately after. “Rauschenberg: Combines” is the first exhibition dedicated exclusively to this essential creative phase of the artist, which marked the beginning of his international artistic influence.

this piece of artwork as seen in the background is called BLACK MARKET, a collection of items rauschenburg has found,as seen in the painting combined with mixed media, also is a box of objects he had found, this piece of work is interactive and encourages you to take an item from the box and replace it with one of your own, but you must draw the item you have taken out, on one of the four pads in the middle of the piece of artwork. 

i think this art piece is very clever as rauschenburg has made this piece of work himself, yet is encouraging people to interact with the piece themselfs by drawring items of his and replacing them with there own changing the artwork all together, i also find this piece interesting as he combines painting and drawring with the items he has found, giving the piece a 3D effect linking to his sculptures. combining 3 techneques he is familiar with. making iit all one. 

This i will use myself, as the combonation of the 3 techneques work very well together and the effect it gives the final piece of artwork is very clever as its shows all the things rauschenburg is good at but in one. 

This piece of artwork Called 'MONOGRAM' was created over a 4 year period witch was completed in 1959, this artwork,combined painting with sculpture, The stuffed Angora Goat who's nose has been painted with multicolour war paint as if graising at the pasture, the canvus upon witch the goat is placed upon contains a number of images from everyday life, the canvus itself as a artpeice is much like rauschenburgs other work, combinig newspaper clippings and fragments of a wooden post, there is also a tennis ball behind the goat this represengs the animal has deficated on the painting, this fuses this mixed media piece as it was created from a number of different materials; oil paint, paper, fabric, printed newspaper reproductions and paper, metal, wood, rubber shoe heel, police barrier, a tennis ball and a tyre.

this makes up a good mixed media piece as it tells a story aswell as combining a mixture of materials, this i shall try to use in my own artwork as teh combination of all these objects together work well in tearms both with tellling a story aswell as making the art piece his own.

jim dine research and my preferences

JIM DINE

Jim Dine is most know for his pop art work, using hearts and everyday household objects, using mixed media such as etching, drypoint and lithograph (A printing process in which the image to be printed is rendered on a flat surface, as on sheet zinc or aluminum, and treated to retain ink while the nonimage areas are treated to repel ink) 

Jim Dine was born in 1935 in Cincinnati, Ohio. He studied at several art schools before 

graduating from Ohio University, Athens, in 1957. In 1959 he moved to New York where he 

started to exhibit his work. Along with artists Claes Oldenburg and Allan Kaprow, Dine 

became involved in the first “happenings,” the name given to the theatrical art events of the 

1960’s performed at the Judson Gallery. Within four years of arriving in New York, Dine 

became a key player within the New York Art scene. In his paintings, he began to combine 

everyday objects and possessions in a personal iconography of symbols, including the hearts and 

tools for which he is known. Dine has worked in sculpture, installation, photography, drawing, 

painting and printmaking, producing over three thousand works since the 1960’s, in addition to 

publishing several books of illustrated poetry.

what i prefere in jim dines way of work is how he doesn't make the work look perfect (as in there are smudges and things going on in the background, i like how he manages to give the effect of the tool he is drawring yet have distinct shaddow, giving his images a more messy look, this i will try to portray in my own work, as i prefere working to a more messy look rather than a perfected piece.