City Hall of Buffalo, New York an Art Deco Masterpiece

i like this building it gives a depth of power in the structure as well as the way its laid out.

Horta Museum

The Horta Museum French: Musée Horta, Dutch: Hortamuseum) is a museum dedicated to the life and work of the Belgian Art Nouveau architect Victor Horta and his time. The museum is housed in Horta's former house and atelier (1898) in the Brussels municipality of Saint-Ghillies. In the splendid Art Nouveau interiors there is a permanent display of furniture, utensils and art objects designed by Horta and his contemporaries as well as documents related to his life and time. The museum also organises temporary exhibitions on topics related to Horta and his art. The building is inscribed on the UNESCO World Heratige List.

this is an image of the interior this looks very much like the Art Nouveau theme because its very vibrant and its glass and sleek design it has to it. i like this because of the eye catching, sort of shapes and styleings to it which makes it very impressive to look at and be around.

Kitagawa Utamaro

Kitagawa Utamaro (喜多川 歌麿 ^?, ca. 1753 - October 31, 1806) (his name was archaically romanized as Outamaro) was a Japanese print maker and painter, and is considered one of the greatest artists of woodblock prints (ukiyo-e). He is known especially for his masterfully composed studies of women, known as bijinga. He also produced nature studies, particularly illustrated books of insects.

His work reached Europe in the mid 19th century, where it was very popular, enjoying particular acclaim in France. He influenced the European Impressionists, particularly with his use of partial views, with an emphasis on light and shade.

"I chose to post this artist because a lot of the time Japanese, Korean and Chinese arts go over looked so i thought i would be a bit different. i picked this piece of artwork because of the cultural reference it has to the work. as well as the oil marks and how the work looks i think its very bold eye catching and distinct to the artist or place it came from. that is what i like about it."

Culture, Contemporary Art in Scandinavia

Lully Kiosterud was born in 1960s and lives in Olso, Norway she studied form and colour at the Elvebakken and Elisenberg Schools and later attended the San Francisco Arts Institute to continue her training. Her work has been exhibited in galleries throughout Norway. She uses tempra paint made by binding pigment in an egg medium, which is normally applied in thin, semi-opaque or transparent layers. This technique produces a smooth, matte finish to her work which resembles pastels when unvarnished.

i like this womans work because is like landscape based and the canvas is very bold yet has a cool feel to the work with her use of colours and texture to the works of art.

Pablo Picasso

Picasso got his infuence for his art work through african arts and tribel drawings mixing this into his artwork, which was cubisum. he was born in Málaga, Spain on 25th October 1881. his main field of arts was painting, its what hes best known for, The Weeping Woman, Massacre in Korea which was oil painted in 1951 with the expresstionisum movement.

Picasso died on the 8th of April 1973 in France aged 91 of natrual causes.

I like this piece of work because its showing how brutal the human race can be to one-another its very meaningful and will make you stop and think about how he came about it.

The Persistence of Time.

i love "The Persistence of Time" by Salvador Dalí, 1931. he got the idea from sitting indoors staring out the window on a rainy day and a clock above him ticking time away so he fused it into a oil canvas.

he was born in Spain on May 11th 1904 and died January 23rd 1989.

his field of work was: photography, drawing writing, sculpture and painting.
this was an idea later developed from "The Persistence of Memory"

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