AAW 2D ART

Assignment: Fractal Art

2012-01-29T14:18:00.000-08:00

This assignment was done last year. Follow this link, read the whole post carefully, and follow the directions. You will be creating a piece of fractal art!

You can see student examples from last year by clicking here.

AAW student paints graffiti mural in our hallway

2012-01-26T15:26:00.000-08:00

One of my art students, William Rundquist, painted this mural at school yesterday. He painted the whole thing in under three hours!

An Award-winning Portfolio

2012-01-19T18:41:00.000-08:00

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AAW Visual Art student Anthony Chirco recently competed in the Scholastic Art Awards, and has received a Gold Key award for his portfolio. Anthony also received two additional Gold Key awards for two of his paintings. Scholastic is highly competitive, so this is a real accomplishment.

Anthony is equally adept in 2D and 3D art-- drawing, painting, ceramic sculpture, and even glass. Congratulations, Anthony!

(Click on the images to see a much larger view)

Green Thoughts

Red Thoughts

Urban Elephant

Concrete Thoughts

The Doctor

Pretty Boy

Mucho

Blue Glass

AAW 10th Annual Spring Art Show

2011-05-16T19:05:00.001-07:00

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(click on the image for a larger view)

Map and directions

Student Fractal Art

2011-05-04T20:04:00.000-07:00

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We had an assignment here on the blog last week-- students went to a website where you can create and save fractal art. Here is some of what they produced.

www.easyfractalgenerator.com

(Click on images for a larger view)

Elaina Barnes

Lindsey Burcar

Lindsey Burcar

Celia Eddy

Rose English

Deidre Griffith

Joseph Humphreys

Molly Jeffrey

Christina Lowery

Jessica Macumber

Sarah May

Iris McNitt

Laquerida Meriweather

Melanie Mondro

Angela Ulinski

Melissa Watson

Noelle Willis

Assignment: Lowbrow Art / Pop Surrealism

2011-04-27T19:01:00.000-07:00

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Your next art assignment is to create a piece of “Lowbrow” art (a. k. a. Pop Surrealism). First, however, you are going to do some research on the web. (Note: you will be receive a handout for this assignment with the specific requirements.)

Todd Schorr

FOR TODAY... You are going to post links to some Lowbrow art that you like. (details below)

First, take a look at what Wikipedia has to say about Lowbrow-- it's a pretty good description.

Also, I have made a previous post about Lowbrow on this blog; take a look at that as well.

Then, look at some artwork. Here is a great website with a TON of Lowbrow / Pop Surrealism-- La Luz de Jesus gallery.

The website for Juxtapoz Magazine is worth looking at as well. Juxtapoz is the first magazine to feature Lowbrow (and other related art).

High Fructose is another magazine that has a website you might want to look at.

Mark Ryden

TODAY'S REQUIREMENTS:

Post links to at least FIVE pieces of Lowbrow or Pop Surrealism that you like, by making a "comment" below.

Robert Williams

Assignment: Fractal Art

2011-04-25T12:43:00.000-07:00

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For this assignment you will create a piece of "fractal art". What is fractal art? What is a fractal?

Very simply put, a fractal is a geometric shape that can be split into parts, with each part being a reduced-size copy of the whole.

Fractals can be found in the natural world, but can also be described in mathematical terms. In recent years, mathematicians and artists have been creating "fractal art".

Romanesco Broccoli

What we are going to do is, after reading a little more about fractals, go to a website that will allow you to create and save your own fractal art.

Jacobi, Fiery Tree

To begin, follow these links to get some basic information about fractals: 1) fractal, and 2) Mandelbrot set. After you have read these pages, go here to see some examples of fractal art. (Difficult as it may be, try not to spend all day exploring, as you will need to go on and create your own fractal art.)

ASSIGNMENT: Create and save your own piece of fractal art.

1) To do this, go to the website Easy Fractal Generator.

2) On the top menu bar, click on "Mandelbrot Set". Read the basic information, and don't worry too much about the math-- the beauty of this website is that you don't need to understand the math to create your fractal art.

3) On the same page, look at the fractal image with the black shape on an orange background. You will see some buttons directly above it: In, Out, Select, and Move. Use these buttons to zoom in (or out) and explore the fractal. You can also change the colors: click on "Color Management" (directly above the other buttons), and select "Change Fractal Colors" from the pop-up menu.

4) Experiment for a while... when you get something that you like, you can save it. To save an image: click on "Export" (to the left of Color Management). You will see a pop-up menu with three options-- custom-size file, poster size, and mouse pad size. If you want to save some images just for fun, select custom-size and save at either 640 x 480 or 800 x 600. Click on Export to File. This will create your image (it may take a few moments). When your image appears, click on Save image to PC. Save your image to your personal folder on the school server.

5) REQUIREMENT: create a fractal design with custom colors, save it at mouse pad size, and save it in your personal folder on the server. THEN, send it to me at my school e-mail address. (see AAW website for my e-mail address)

Note: when in the Computer Lab, do NOT create an image at "poster size". This will be a large file and will take several minutes to process. Of course if you are doing it at home, go for it if you want to.

When all of your pictures have been submitted, I will make a new blog post and post some (or all) them. If they come out really super-cool, I may print some of them on the "good paper" and exhibit them in the showcase.

We will be in the lab working on this project for two days. Of course, you may work on it at home as well if you need or want extra time.

--Jacobi

Figure Drawings

2011-03-07T19:57:00.000-08:00

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Here are some figure drawings from my students. They took turns posing for the class. The poses were all for approximately ten minutes.

Scholastic Art Awards - portfolio gold awards

2011-01-19T17:38:00.000-08:00

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Three of my students entered their portfolios into the Scholastic Art Awards this year. All three won a "Gold Key" award for their portfolio. Congratulations to student artists Lindsey Burcar, Celia Eddy, and Sydney Wright. Here is their award-winning work.

(Click on the images for a much larger view.)

Lindsey Burcar

Celia Eddy

Sydney Wright

Scholastic

2010-12-13T10:17:00.000-08:00

For info on Scholastic Art Show, scroll down past the post below, or, simply click here.

The Seven Deadly Sins

2010-12-10T20:06:00.000-08:00

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Various interpretations of the Seven Deadly Sins, from the Advanced 2D Art class.

Celia Eddy

Sydney Wright

Artina Gomez

Corinne Grendon

Joseph Humphreys

Lindsey Burcar

Elaina Barnes

Christina Lowery

Rose English

Scholastic

2010-12-09T19:08:00.000-08:00

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Students-- here are links for info, registration, etc. for The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards.

Scholastic national website; register here online:

http://www.artandwriting.org/

Regional information (Macomb, St. Clair, and Lapeer):

http://www.collegeforcreativestudies.edu/scholastic/MI002

Self-Portraits from Advanced 2D Art

2010-10-21T18:37:00.001-07:00

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Molly Jeffrey

Sydney Wright

Celia Eddy

Angela Ulinski

Lindsey Burcar

Artina Gomez

Anthony Chirco

Jessica Macumber

Deidre Griffith (portrait of Alex)

New Student Art from fall 2009

2010-02-03T18:58:00.000-08:00

Here are some recent paintings from the Advanced 2D Art class.

Taylor Wilder

Taylor Wilder

Taylor Wilder

Taylor Wilder

Sydney Wright

Noelle Willis

Iris McNitt

Rebecca Turner

Sydney Wright

Lowbrow Art / Pop Surrealism

2009-10-26T20:10:00.000-07:00

Robert Williams

Lowbrow Art, also known as Pop Surrealism, is an art movement that has its origins in the 1960s and 1970s, coming originally from California hot rod / kustom car culture, underground comix, countercultures from the 1960s, 70s, and 80s, and other subcultures as well.

The term Lowbrow art came about as a reaction to the highbrow* art typically found in many art galleries and museums. Where the mainstream of much contemporary art places little emphasis on skill, artists in the lowbrow movement are typically highly skilled; many come from an illustration background.

*definition of highbrow: a person with intellectual or cultural pretensions; an intellectual snob. May also refer to pretentious art galleries and museums-- supposedly sophisticated, but maybe not!

One of the major promoters of lowbrow art is the magazine Juxtapoz, founded by lowbrow artist Robert Williams. Williams worked as an "underground comix" artist in the 1960's, appearing in Zap and other comic books as well. Prior to that he worked for Kustom Kar designer Ed "Big Daddy" Roth, who was also the creator the the character Rat Fink.

Ed "Big Daddy" Roth

Robert Williams

Todd Schorr

Mark Ryden

A great place to see a lot of lowbrow art online is the website for the California gallery La Luz de Jesus.

Some lowbrow artist links:

Robert Williams
Todd Schorr
Mark Ryden

Mr. Jacobi at CPOP Gallery

2009-04-20T17:56:00.000-07:00

The Opener of the Way, acrylic, 18" x 24", 2008.
(click on image for a larger view)

Mr. Jacobi's painting The Opener of the Way will be included in the show “It’s All About ©” at Detroit's CPOP gallery. The show opens on May 2, and runs through mid-June. For more details, see Mr. Jacobi's personal art blog by clicking here.

New student art from this year, fall/winter 2008-2009

2009-03-13T18:57:00.000-07:00

Taylor Wilder

Duron Lawler

Holly Phelan

Artina Gomez

Aric Pasciak

Alex Roberts-Perazza

Taylor Wilder

Ramon Roberts-Perazza

Miles Martinez

Sydney Wright

Duron Lawler

Artina Gomez

Alex Aniol

Melissa Desrochers

Heather Bommarito

Carmel Liburdi

Alex Roberts-Perazza & Carmel Liburdi

Text Messenging can be Hazardous to Your Health

2008-07-31T08:15:00.000-07:00

Hey, all you text messengers-- please read the article below. It's kind of funny, but actually, it is quite serious.

Hey, oblivious texters! Doctors want you to read this message

That edge of technology? You're teetering on it

By CLAIRE TRAGESER
P-I REPORTER

You see them everywhere: driving, crossing streets, buying groceries or ordering coffee.

Their heads bent over open cell phones as their fingers leap across their keypads, unaware of the world around them.

These "texters," who send and receive messages on their phones, are not just living on the edge of modern technology. They are also safety hazards.

Put moving while texting up there with skating on thin ice and playing with matches.

In an alert issued this week, the American College of Emergency Physicians warns of the danger of more serious accidents involving oblivious texters. These doctors cite rising reports from around the country of injuries involving text-messaging motorists, pedestrians, bicyclists, even Rollerbladers. And ER doctors who responded to a recent informal query from the organization reported two deaths, both in California.

A San Francisco woman was killed by a pickup truck earlier this year when she stepped off a curb while texting, and a Bakersfield man was killed last year by a car while crossing the street and texting.

Harborview Medical Center has not knowingly treated anyone injured while texting, said spokeswoman Susan Gregg-Hanson. However, after a driver typing on a BlackBerry caused a five-car pileup on Interstate 5 in December 2006, the Legislature enacted a law that banned texting while driving. This year has seen one accident caused by texting and 18 tickets given to text-messaging drivers, said Freddy Williams, spokesman for the Washington State Patrol.

As ubiquitous as texters are on Seattle's streets, no one seems willing to fess up to texting-related injuries. But they do seem to have friends who have suffered such a fate.

"I'll stop for a second at a stoplight to look around and make sure I don't hit anything," said Katie Castro, 24, who was caught texting while walking Wednesday afternoon on Sixth Avenue at Pine Street. "But I text all the time, while I'm walking, driving, at work. I really don't even talk on the phone that much anymore."

Two other pedestrians, Sarah Polachek, 21, and Emily Crawford, 22, both said their friends walked into poles and swerved their cars while texting, but wouldn't admit to having any accidents themselves. In fact, both condemned continuous texters.

"They think they can sense everything around them while texting, but they're oblivious," Crawford said. "For them, texting takes priority over safety."

Polachek took her disapproval a step further.

"I think texting is impersonal and stupid," she said. "It gets on my nerves."

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has no national estimate on how common texting-related injuries are. But among the reports it has received were of a 15-year-old girl who fell off her horse while texting, suffering head and back injuries, and of a 13-year-old girl who received stomach, leg and arm burns after texting her boyfriend while cooking noodles.

Valerie Jarrett, an aide for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, lent the issue some political weight when she fell off a curb in Chicago several weeks ago while typing on her BlackBerry.

"I didn't see the sidewalk and I twisted my ankle," she said. "It was a nice wake-up call for me to be a lot more careful in the future, because I clearly wasn't paying attention and I should have."

Click here for original article.

2008 2D Art Graduating Seniors

2008-06-09T06:54:00.000-07:00

Congratulations to all of the graduating seniors in 2D Art!

David Aniol, acrylic, 16" x 20"

Ricardo Balkcom, colored pencil, 16" x 20"

Emily Brush, acrylic, 16" x 20"

Jordan Hildwein, acrylic, 16" x 20"

Dominique Liichow, acrylic, 16" x 20"

Andrew Maslowsky, colored pencil, 12" x 16"

Kellen Miller, acrylic, 16" x 20"

Jeremy Rogers, acrylic with marker, 16" x 20"

London Rose, colored pencil, 16" x 20"

Nick Whateley, graphite pencil, 12" x 16"

It has been a real pleasure to work with these students-- most days, anyway. (Just kidding; they're a great bunch of kids!) I have had many of these students in my class for all four years, and it is amazing to see how they have grown as artists and as individuals.

My sincere best wishes to all of the2008 2D Art graduates!

RJ

Abstract Expressionism

2008-04-06T11:42:00.000-07:00

I have not been on this page for a while-- it seemed as if nobody was even looking at it (see previous post). Although nobody has left a comment since then, I note that there have been a fair amount of hits on the page. Thusly, I think that I will post a few pictures.

We basically do not do abstract art in my classes, for a variety of reasons that I am not going to go into at the moment. Some of my students may assume that this is because I do not like abstract art. This is not necessarily true. While I find much of it to be questionable at best, I do actually like some of it.

Here are the two most important abstract painters of the mid-twentieth century, Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning. These two artists (with a handful of others), living and working in New York, basically defined what most people think of when they hear the term "abstract art".

Jackson Pollock is easily the best-known abstract painter to the public at large. This fact is largely due to the feature article that Life magazine ran on him him in 1949, skyrocketing him to fame. More recently, Pollock was the subject of the biopic "Pollock", starring Ed Harris. This is an excellent film, by the way, I highly recommend it.

(click on images below for a larger view)

Pollock, Male and Female, 1942

Pollock, She-wolf, 1943

Pollock, No. 32, 1950

Pollock, Lavender Mist, 1950

Willem de Kooning is less known outside of art circles. Within the art world however, many people feel that he was a better painter than Pollock, and de Kooning has been arguably much more influential to other painters in the last 50-60 years.

de Kooning, The Wave, 1944

de Kooning, Excavation, 1950

de Kooning, Woman V, 1953

de Kooning, Gotham News, 1955

Pollock died tragically behind the wheel in a drunk driving accident in 1956. De Kooning worked through the 1980s, but his work fell off as he suffered increasingly from Alzheimer's disease; he died in 1997, 93 years old.

Is anybody home?

2008-01-18T22:17:00.000-08:00

I started this page mainly as a resource for my students. It appears that it is not being used very much. There are a lot of great links here for galleries, museums, art schools, and more. The low number of visitors to this page does not give me much incentive to put a lot of energy into it. However, students, if you express some interest, I will start making some more posts.

Here is a little something for you to look at. There's more where this came from if anyone is interested.

Kehinde Wiley, Portrait of a Venetian Ambassador

Some more art blogs

2007-11-16T06:13:00.000-08:00

Two more art blog links have been added to the list of art blogs over on the right side of this page (scroll down). They are: Myartspace>blog, and Painters NYC. Both are well worth looking at-- check them out.

2D Art III Assignment: Fauvist Portrait

2007-10-01T09:51:00.000-07:00

In this assignment, you will be creating a "Fauvist Portrait" in oil pastel, on 16" x 20" drawing paper, working from photo reference. (You may shoot your own reference photo, or we can do it in class.)

Les Fauves (French for The Wild Beasts) were a short-lived and loose grouping of early 20th century Modern artists whose works emphasized exaggerated color, as well as simplified use of line, shape, and form. An art critic gave this group their name-- it was not a compliment!

Fauvism was the first of the major avant-garde movements in European 20th century art. While this art was initially considered to be shocking, it was to become extremely influential in the evolution of 20th century art.

The leaders of the movement were Henri Matisse and André Derain. We will also look at some work by Amedeo Modigliani; although he is generally classified as an expressionist painter, some of his work has a look that is similar to that of the Fauves.

To start with, we will look at a few Fauvist paintings that are not portraits, just to give you more of an idea of what the art of the Fauves looked like. Then, we will look at several portraits.

Derain, Mountains at Collioure, 1905

Derain, Charing Cross Bridge, 1906

Matisse, Open Window, 1905

Matisse, Madame Matisse, "The Green Line", 1905

Matisse, Self-Portrait in a Striped Shirt, 1906

Matisse, Woman with Hat, 1905

Matisse, Portrait of André Derain, 1905

Modigliani, Woman with Hat, 1908

Modigliani, Head of a Young Woman, 1908

Examples of student work from AAW 2D Art III in previous years:

Leah Garvin, Self-Portrait, 2004

Aaron Mickens, Self-Portrait, 2005

2D Art II Assignment: Pop Art II

2007-09-30T17:26:00.000-07:00

Last year in 2D Art I, we did a Pop Art project. As we learned, Pop Art was an art movement in the late 50’s and early 60’s that used as its source visual imagery from popular culture. We learned how Pop artists like Andy Warhol looked to things like consumerism and celebrity for subject matter for their art.

Warhol, Vegetable Soup, 1962

Warhol, Liz Taylor, 1964

The pieces that we did last year generally featured only one object, like Warhol's soup can, or a portrait of a celebrity such as Marilyn Monroe, or Elizabeth Taylor (as seen above).

This year, we will be focusing on the work of another Pop Artist, James Rosenquist. Early in his career, Rosenquist worked as a billboard painter, which required him to paint very large pictures of various products, in a very realistic manner. Moving away from advertising art, he brought his technical skill as a painter and his familiarity with popular culture into the world of fine art.

Differing from the single-object images that we see in much of Warhol's work, Rosenquist created complex compositions with a number of different objects or images, and attempted to “say something” about contemporary American culture. Rosenquist’s juxtaposition* of seemingly unrelated objects suggested hidden connections and new levels of meaning.

(*juxtaposition: placing two or more objects together, especially in order to suggest a link between them or emphasize the contrast between them.)

It is the juxtaposition of seemingly unrelated objects in Rosenquist's work that makes his paintings so intriguing. What do they mean? His paintings invite you to find your own interpretation.

(click on the images below for larger views)

President Elect, 1961

I Love You with My Ford, 1961

Nomad, 1963

World's Fair Mural, 1964

F-111, 1965 (these pieces are connected, and are 2 out of 4 panels)

The Swimmer in the Econo-Mist, 1998

Examples of student work from AAW 2D Art II in previous years:

Victoria Webb, 2006

Peggy Kittila, 2002

In your Pop Art piece this year, you will need to include at least three different objects. Your picture will be more interesting if the relationship of the objects is not obvious. Think carefully about this project. What will you try to say with this picture? What will it mean? Will the meaning be clear, or will it be more symbolic? Will it have a specific meaning or will it be vague? Or perhaps there may not even be a particular meaning-- you can let the viewer try to figure it out on their own, and come up with their own interpretation.

For more information on Rosenquist, click here.
To go to Rosenquist's website, click here.

Rothko painting sold for $73 million

2007-09-20T13:35:00.000-07:00

The record price for postwar art was broken twice at a Sotheby’s auction in May 2007, first with a painting by Francis Bacon and later with a Mark Rothko painting, which went for almost $73 million.

The 1950 Rothko painting, “White Center (Yellow, Pink and Lavender on Rose),” of blocks of color, sold for $72.8 million to an anonymous bidder.

Shortly before, a 1962 Bacon painting of a pope, “Study from Innocent X,” sold to an anonymous bidder for $52.6 million.

Another work, an untitled painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat from 1981, sold Tuesday for $14.6 million, setting an auction record for the artist.

Rothko, White Center (Yellow, Pink and Lavender on Rose), 1950

Bacon, Study from Innocent X, 1962

Basquiat, untitled, 1981

Comments?

Dana Schutz

2007-09-18T19:04:00.000-07:00

Dana Schutz (b. 1976) is an exciting and original young artist who was born in Livonia, Michigan and now lives and works in New York. Her work has been described as "teetering on the edge of tradition and innovation." (see link below for more.)

Death Comes to Us All, oil on canvas, 2003
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Death Comes to Us All is the painting equivalent to a psychotic episode; Schutz's man and machine meld in convincingly scary hallucination. Dana Schutz's paintings draw a fine line between escapism and invasion: her elaborate scenes are not just depictions of fantasy, but portals to plausible realities where ‘life' and ‘art' converge. Creating parallel worlds contrived in their own rules of logic, Schutz paints an interconnectedness between function and form. Adopting the role of the artist as a Dr Frankenstein-like power, Dana Schutz consolidates figuration and abstraction as a monstrous experiment, the effect of artistic vision spun out of control. (from the Saatchi Gallery website-- click here)

Reformers, oil on canvas, 2004
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Reformers-- what's going on in this picture? It has a lot of bright colors, but......

Rejected And Ignored By The Fine Art Establishment

2007-09-14T20:08:00.000-07:00

The Art of Abdul Mati Klarwein

Klarwein is probably best know as the painter who created the album cover art for Santana’s Abraxas, and for the album that defined fusion jazz, Bitches Brew by Miles Davis, both of which were released in 1970.

Klarwein was a visionary painter who possessed an extremely high level of technical skill. In the second half of the twentieth century, the mainstream of the art world was focused mainly on abstract and/or conceptual art. Because Klarwein’s art happened to be on some album covers, and because he ignored the prevailing trends of modernism, Klarwein was considered by the art establishment to be “just” a commercial artist or psychedelic artist, and was as a result rejected and ignored.

You will probably never see Klarwein’s work in an art history class, and although a few books featuring his work have been published over the years, sadly, they are all out of print.

What does it say about the art world that it was immune to its [Klarewein’s art] clear and present beauty? – musician Jon Hassell

Bellin Family, 1973
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Laure Klarwein, 1986
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Soundscape, 1982
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You will find a link on this page to Klarwein's website, in the section titled "Artists Deserving Wider Recognition".

What is the purpose of art?

2007-09-08T08:53:00.000-07:00

Here is a clue: there is more than one answer to this question.

(Purpose: the reason for which something is done or created, or for which something exists.)

Who and what do you like in art?

2007-09-07T21:20:00.000-07:00

Who are some of your favorite artists? Why do you like them? Are there any styles, movements, or periods of art that you especially like?

I will start this off by mentioning the style or movement known as "New Old Masterism". This term was coined by art critic/hisorian Donald Kuspit. The artists within this category create paintings that utilize the painting techniques of the "old masters" (Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael, Caravaggio, Rembrandt, etc.), but their subject matter is typically very different-- often somewhat strange or bizarre. Although this work typically does not really look like what most people would think of when using the term "postmodern" (typically conceptual/minimalist art etc.), it is, in a sense, essentially postmodern.

One of the most important painters working under the banner of New Old Masterism is the Norwegian artist Odd Nerdrum. Nerdrum paints with a technique similar to that of Rembrandt. His paintings often feature figures in a bleak landscape, inhabiting what appears to be perhaps a post-apocalyptic world.

You will find a link on this page to Odd Nerdrum's website, in the section titled "Artists Deserving Wider Recognition".

Odd Nerdrum, The Water Protectors, 1985

Odd Nerdrum, The Night Guard, 1986

Welcome to the AAW 2D ART blog

2007-09-07T20:36:00.000-07:00

This blog is mainly for 2D Art students at AAW, but others are also welcome to participate. The purpose of this blog (for now, at any rate) is: 1) to serve as an art resource for students and anyone else that is interested, and 2) to provide a place for dialog for things pertaining to anything that has to do with 2D Art. Topics for discussion could include drawing, painting, printmaking, artists, philosophical issues regarding art, etc.

The main focus of the 2D Art classes at AAW is drawing and painting. We also do some printmaking, on a somewhat more limited basis (mainly linocuts). Of course, one could also consider things like digital art and even photography to be "2D Art". Feel free to discuss these types of things as well, but they do not play a significant role in the 2D Art classes at AAW. (AAW also offers classes in computer graphics and photography, but they are considered "technology arts" at our school.

Please also note that our main focus is on "fine art", whatever that means. The term "fine art" means different things to different people. One could argue that certain forms of illustration could be considered to be fine art. Others would have even broader definitions, and include things such as graffitti/tagging, comic book/graphic novel art, anime, etc.

I encourae you to explore the many links on this blog. My hope is that you will discover a lot of new artists, types and styles of 2D art, and broaden your perspective on art in general.

So... let's talk about art!