art resources for all!

So in class we were all given two art magazines to try and find two art sources for our project due next week.  One artist that I found was ELIZABETH MURRAY and specifically her piece called The sun and the Moon.  The piece is very vibrant and bold, full of energy.  It has a very comic book/cartoon feel to it and I like that about it.  It uses a wide variety of bold lines and bright vivid colors.  I LOVE all of the colors she used in this piece.  I also enjoy how she cut into the shape of the original canvas and created this irregular shape of a canvas.  It reminds me of a piece that I recently did in 2D-Design where we used only a variety of black and white media and cut into the original shape of the canvas to create this new shape.  

Her gallery is very colorful and energized.  It looks almost like graffiti art, cartoonish.  It's so much fun to look at and I would LOVE to have some of her artwork in my home.  I feel that it would give off a positive vibe to my visitors and myself.  Her work intrigued me! I choose her because I absolutely love color, color makes objects, life more beautiful, whether it be black and white or all teh colors of the rainbow at once. Also, her incorporation of the use of abstract shapes and lines, very geometric was captivating. It made her work bold, stick out. It was very dynamic and had so much to look at. It wasnt borng at all. That's why I chose her.

I plan on looking up some more of her work and probably using her for inspiration for my next project.  I now want to use a variety of lines and bold vibrant colors for it but Im not sure how to incorporate time into that with a use of bold shapes.

Another artist that caught my attention is WILL RYMAN who makes sculptures.  Of course, they aren't the normal sculptures; they aren't really eye appealing and don't look as if they require that much skill but when you take into consideration the media that he uses:  resin, PVS pipe acrylic pipe, wire mesh and papier mache then you realize that the sculptures he makes do in fact require a good amount of skill since the materials he used aren't really the normal materials used to make sculptures.  They look a bit like the playdough things I used to make as a kid but a little bit more skill oriented.  

You can tell that he paid attention to detail; not with the people particularly but more with the trash standing next to the lamp post. I choose him because I've always been fascinated by sculpture but i've always been timid to actually try making sculpture. It had a nostalgic feel to it when I looked at his work, the whole playdough resemblence. I think that's what initially caught my attention.