Unit 5: Artists Research cont.
Nam June Paik
Nam June Paik is a performance artist known to be one of the greatest of the 20th century. He created interesting and thought provoking installations using various mediums such as a television, when it was only just starting to gain popularity.
Nan Goldin
Nan Goldin is an American photographer. Her photos are known to make a lasting impression as they showcase different lifestyles and communities in different perspectives.
Neville Brody
He is a British graphic designer, typographer and art director. His popularity started after creating various album covers, after which he began exploring in creating art which combined visual and architectural elements
Nick Knight
Nick Knight is one of the most influential photographers after collaborating with numerous high fashion designers to create photos that alter the traditional meaning of beauty. He is known to experiment with the latest technology when creating his pieces.
Paul Rand
Paul Rand is said to be responsible for defining visual culture in America post World War II. He transformed advertising after creating logos for large businesses such as IBS, UPS and ABC.
Peter Doig
Peter Doig is an English painter. His pieces are known to combine realistic images with a more abstract approach as they have a very dream or fantasy-like atmosphere.
Peter Saville
A pivotal figure in graphic design and style culture, Peter Saville is well known in the industry. He is known for his pieces for popular companies which can be quite contradictory in their own right.
Powell & Pressburger
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger are a directing and film writing duo. They created films recognised by their passion and fantasy during a time when the realism genre dominated cinema.
Rachel Rose
Rachel Rose is an American artist. She creates installations and videos commonly showing various perspectives on death.
Rei Kawakubo
Rei Kawakubo is a fashion designer and founder of 'Comme des Garcons'. Her work within her brand tends to be in more neutral colours but expresses anti-fashion usually missing elements making them very unique.
Robert Rauschenberg
Robert Rauschenberg is known as an individualist whose work could never be put into one specific genre. He is an painter, printmaker, photographer and performance artist who is credited for being a major influence in the return to favour representational art in the USA.
Robert Smithson
Robert Smithson is an American artist. His is known to have experimented with materials without being limited to a genre making it have a large impact on the art world.
Ron Arad
Ron Arad is an Israeli industrial designer, artist and architect. He focuses on trying to avoid categorisation combining interesting forms and experiments with advanced technologies.
Ron Arad is an Israeli industrial designer, artist and architect. He focuses on trying to avoid categorisation combining interesting forms and experiments with advanced technologies.
Sarah Lucas
An English sculptor and artist, Sarah Lucas is known for her somewhat provocative pieces. She has used multiple materials to create her work, often human bodies, sometimes her own.
An English sculptor and artist, Sarah Lucas is known for her somewhat provocative pieces. She has used multiple materials to create her work, often human bodies, sometimes her own.
Saul Bass
Saul Bass is best known for designing film posters and title sequences. He was a graphic designer and film maker and has also made some well known logos such as the AT&T logo in 1969.
Saul Bass is best known for designing film posters and title sequences. He was a graphic designer and film maker and has also made some well known logos such as the AT&T logo in 1969.
Sigmar Polke
He created Capitalist Realism in response to the popular Pop art genre. In his work he tends to create visually complex and abstract pieces by reconstructing simple objects.
He created Capitalist Realism in response to the popular Pop art genre. In his work he tends to create visually complex and abstract pieces by reconstructing simple objects.
Sol LeWitt
Sol LeWitt was essential to the turning point from the popular Abstract Expressionism of the 1960s. He is an american artist linked to many movements and known for experimenting with multiple materials.
Sol LeWitt was essential to the turning point from the popular Abstract Expressionism of the 1960s. He is an american artist linked to many movements and known for experimenting with multiple materials.
Sonia Delaunay
Sonia Delaunay created multiple pieces of artwork that involved many skills such as paintings and designing fabrics. She experimented with geometric forms and strong colours to create a new and interesting style of work.
Sonia Delaunay created multiple pieces of artwork that involved many skills such as paintings and designing fabrics. She experimented with geometric forms and strong colours to create a new and interesting style of work.
Stefan Sagmeister
Stefan Sagmeister is a graphic designer and typographer born in Austria. He has created various posters and album covers, made noticeable by his edgy and rough combination of images and text.
Stefan Sagmeister is a graphic designer and typographer born in Austria. He has created various posters and album covers, made noticeable by his edgy and rough combination of images and text.
Tal R
Tal R is an artist originally from Israel. His work is known to be exaggerated expressions of simple images using flamboyant colours and strokes.
Tal R is an artist originally from Israel. His work is known to be exaggerated expressions of simple images using flamboyant colours and strokes.
Verner Panton
Verner Panton is considered to be one of Denmark's influential interior and furniture designs. He assisted in bringing the pop influence into furniture by embracing the more futuristic style of design in the 1960's.
Verner Panton is considered to be one of Denmark's influential interior and furniture designs. He assisted in bringing the pop influence into furniture by embracing the more futuristic style of design in the 1960's.
Viktor and Rolf
Viktor & Rolf is a fashion house based in Amsterdam, founded in 1993. Their creations commonly create interesting silhouettes when worn and expand the guidelines of haute-couture.
Viktor & Rolf is a fashion house based in Amsterdam, founded in 1993. Their creations commonly create interesting silhouettes when worn and expand the guidelines of haute-couture.
Walter Gropius
Walter Gropius was a German architect. He famously founded the Bauhaus school and with his interesting designs and structures are claimed to be a leading influence in modern architecture.
Walter Gropius was a German architect. He famously founded the Bauhaus school and with his interesting designs and structures are claimed to be a leading influence in modern architecture.
Willem de Kooning
He is an Abstract Expressionist sculptor and artist. He is important in the development of the Abstract Expressionist movement due to his changing style of work, from his geometric shapes and strong colours, to his black and white mixed-media pieces.
He is an Abstract Expressionist sculptor and artist. He is important in the development of the Abstract Expressionist movement due to his changing style of work, from his geometric shapes and strong colours, to his black and white mixed-media pieces.
William Eggleston
William Eggleston is credited for his eye catching colour photographs. He is known to photograph anything in the world around him everyday objects, in a way that makes them monumental enough to make viewers look into every detail.
William Eggleston is credited for his eye catching colour photographs. He is known to photograph anything in the world around him everyday objects, in a way that makes them monumental enough to make viewers look into every detail.
William Morris
An English textile designer, artist, writer and socialist. He is best known for his intricate and heavily detailed wallpapers as well as his textile and tile designs.
An English textile designer, artist, writer and socialist. He is best known for his intricate and heavily detailed wallpapers as well as his textile and tile designs.
Wolfgang Tilmans
Wolfgang Tilmans is a fine-art photographer. His photos were usually casual-looking images of the ongoing change in social movements around him as well as people in his on-going surroundings and scene.
Zaha Hadid
Zaha HAdid is an architect whose buildings are very neofuturistic. They all include smooth curving forms as well as a more fluid like structure.
Zhang Huan
Zhang Huan is well known in both painting and performance art, having succeeded in creating interesting pieces in both fields. His pieces are commonly controversial and provocative.
Zhang Huan is well known in both painting and performance art, having succeeded in creating interesting pieces in both fields. His pieces are commonly controversial and provocative.
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