banksy

Birth name	(unknown)
Born	Unknown Bristol
Field	Graffiti Street art Bristol underground scene Sculpture Satire Social commentary
Awards	Toronto Film Critics Association Awards – Best First Feature 2010 Independent Spirit Award for Best Documentary Feature Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association – Best Documentary Film 2010

 

Banksy is a pseudonymous England-based graffiti artist, political activist, film director, and painter.

His satirical street art and subversive epigrams combine dark humour with graffiti done in a distinctive stencilling technique. Such artistic works of political and social commentary have been featured on streets, walls, and bridges of cities throughout the world. Banksy once characterised graffiti as a form of underclass "revenge", or guerilla warfare that allows an individual to snatch away power, territory and glory from a bigger and better equipped enemy. Banksy sees a social class component to this struggle, remarking "If you don't own a train company then you go and paint on one instead. Banksy's work has also shown a desire to mock centralized power, hoping that his work will show the public that although power does exist and works against you, that power is not terribly efficient and it can and should be deceived.

Banksy's works have dealt with an array of political and social themes, including anti-War, anti-capitalism, anti-fascism, anti-imperialism, anti-authoritarianism, anarchism, nihilism, and existentialism. Additionally, the components of the human condition that his works commonly critique are greed, poverty, hypocrisy, boredom, despair, absurdity, and alienation.

Banksy makes art that says something about the state the world is in and he expresses his opinion trough it. I really like his art his technique isn’t one off a kind the colors aren’t as well but the story he tells trough his art is special. Banksy dares to speak his mind and just keeps on doing it spectacularly and for everyone to see.

Jeff koons

Birth name Jeffrey Koons Born January 21, 1955 (age 57) York, Pennsylvania, USA Nationality American Field Artist Training School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore Works Puppy (1992) Balloon Dog (1994-2000) etc. Influenced by H.C. Westermann, Salvador Dalí, Marcel Duchamp   Jeff Koons has said in an interview that his ideas are a natural process.    “Generally I walk around and I see one object and it affects me. I can’t just choose any object or any theme to work with. I can be confronted by an object and be interested in a specific thing about it, and the context develops simultaneously. I never try to create a context artificially. I think about my work every minute of the day”.   Jeff Koons isn’t the one who makes his art especially when they are as big as the hanging hart (see the picture in artists) he is just the idea man. His works are so special that they are sold for millions of dollars. Why they are so special, he works with everyday objects this can make the people want to look at the work because it’s familiar. All his works do have an extraordinary twist to it and they are just one of a kind.    I think Jeff Koons is a great artist. His way of making old common things into something special that makes you want to keep looking at it is just fantastic. With his work he touches people because they are familiar with the shape and the subject like Michael Jackson or puppy’s. By making them bigger, smaller, a different color, material or putting the objects in a different surrounding makes it even more interesting to look at. I don’t particularly like every piece of art by him but a lot I think are really special. Especially the series celebration I like because of the bright colors and the feeling that it makes me happy. The celebration makes me really happy because I like the idea of celebration and I associate it with happiness.

artists

Amis Kapoor



 
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Jenny Holzer 

Oliviero Toscani

Jeff Koons

Guerrilla girls

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Rem Koolhaas

Damien Hirst

Quentin Tarantino

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Difference between an art house and blockbuster movie.

An art house film is a film that is made with a small budget and for a niche market audience. Because of its low budget the movie doesn’t need a lot of viewers to become financially viable. It is mainly decided how many viewers there will be by columnists and bloggers because there isn’t any money for marketing campaigns . This of course also means that these art house films aren’t made with a lot of special effects, costly celebrity actors or any other expensive stuff. The art house films are produced for the people who know something about film making and know what’s needed for a good movie only they can really appreciate such a film. These sort of films aren’t shown in just any kind of theatre only a small amount of theatres show these films and they are also often shown at film festivals. Famous art house films are Andrei Rublev and a clockwork orange.

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A blockbuster film is a film that is made for entertainment purposes and for mass market audience. It is made with A ranked stars which get paid a lot to play in such film. A lot of money is spend to make the blockbuster film look real and the blockbuster films have huge marketing campaigns. This is really attractive for a lot of people. They want to see such a movie because it looks good and the story seems fun. Most of the people don’t even look at how it’s thought out and made when the spectators of art house films do. Blockbusters need a lot of spectators to make profit because they’ve invested a lot of money in it. So they are shown in almost all movie theaters  around the country to get as much spectators as they can. Almost all blockbuster films are popular and known by everyone but probably the most famous are avatar, titanic, the dark knight and  pirates of the Caribbean.
 

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One has high budged one low. One is made for market audience and the other for niche market audience. Art house and blockbuster film are actually opposites I think.

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a link to the questions of the interview.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/106270386/ckv-questions

CKV Art Interview
Subject: Rietje Kleibergen
Kind of art: Painting

 

Questions:

1.       How did you start painting? (O)

2.       When you were younger, did you already show any interest in painting?  (C )

3.       Did you also had any other interests? (O)

4.       Have you ever had any kind of art lessons when you were younger ?(our age *15* )   (O)

5.       Did your technique of painting change in the years that you grew up? (O)

6.       What kind of technique do you prefer now a day?(C )

7.       What is your biggest inspiration for your art work?(O)

8.       Do your paintings hold any stories, believes or opinions? (O)

9.       What does the word ART mean to you? (O)

10.   Did you ever had a commission? (C )

11.   (if the answer on question 10 is yes) How many commissions did you have? (C )

12.   What kind of art attracts your attention the most? (C )

13.   Why does that kind of art attract your attention? (O)

14.   Do you have any paintings that you would never dare to sell, or which have a really important meaning to you? (C )

15.   Why won’t you sell it, or what kind of important meaning is that?  (O)

16.   What do you paint mostly? (portraits, landscape, etc.) (C )

17.   Why do you paint that? (O)

18.   Have you ever tried painting something else?(O)

19.   What do you think about when you’re painting? (O)

20.   Name three colours which you use the most in your painting.  (C )

21.   Why those colours?(O)

22.   Do you visit a lot of museums? (C )

23.   What kind of expositions do you visit? (O)

24.   Why those expositions? (O)

25.   Do you know any other artists?  (O)

26.   What do you think about their work?(O)

 

27. Has painting changed your life? (C)

     
     28.What do you feel when people appriciate your paintings (O)

     29. What is your painting process like?(O)

     30. Why do you keep painting ( and don't start writing for e.g.)(O)

the meaning of art.

What is art?

I think art is everything you can sence with: ears, eyes, touch, nose and taste.

That expresses feelings/ emotions, thoughts and tells them through a (sort of )story.