Michael Zavros

I really like Zavros. In the film we watched in class of him, where he showed his house, I used to live on that street- i know exactly where that house is. I could walk there right now if I wanted to.

I like how he captures such simple ideas, like the Balenciaga bag in timeless fashion, and the faceless model, and makes them look so elegant and easy to understand. He has such a beautiful hand, too.

I love the way he uses tone to create the illusion of form, especially in the horse drawings he does. He seems to have a real affinity with his pencils and charcoal.

Unlike the other two artists I have looked at, he has a much more realistic style of making art, but it transcends the notion of realism into being something so impressive and beautiful.

I really love his art.

Jenny Saville

Jenny Saville... So where do I start?

I'd like to say I like her work, because in many ways I do. Honestly, though, she freaks me out. A lot.

I like the way she interprets the body and the mutilation of the body... but the way she expresses it sometimes makes me feel very uncomfortable.

The blood, and the dismemberment is startling, but gets her message across.

"It is interesting to note that Saville once worked in a plastic surgeon's office in New York and frequently visits a London medical museum as member of a pathology group. She shares with Francis Bacon a fascination for collecting pictures found in old medical journals of bruises, scars, gun shot wounds, pictures of deformities, and traces of disease which leave inscriptions on a body over time, like a memory, or a mark on a canvas."

http://www.gagosian.com/exhibitions/24th-street-2003-04-jenny-saville/#/images/4/

the picture above scares me the most ^

i can't put it on my blog, but there you go.

the way she paints can be nice, but i don't personally like it. the strong tonal contrasts are too abrasive, and i do not personally like the overwhelming-ness of the warm colours.

Nicholas Hutcheson

Nicholas Hutcheson

I love the way he uses line and crosshatching to create texture, and his colour schemes are generally so muted it leaves all the focus to the silhouettes and the lines.