4th Exhibition ( Alfred Chircop)

Alfred Chirchop specializes in modern abstract drawing. This exhibition was based on abstract expression, Heavy brush strokes were visible in most of his paintings. This notion resembles Post-Impressionism examples could be Starry Night of Vincent Van Gogh. The paintings only held his signature and no names were assigned to them. The medium is assumed to be Oil on a canvas base.

Personal site link: http://www.alfredchircop.com/about.html

Works

His work is amazing in the way it is created handled and viewed

Visited on the 8th April 2013

3rd Exhibition (Various Artists)

This exhibition was found at the stationary  Vee Gee Bee which is near the entrance to Valletta  There were several artists that were exhibiting to sell though there very impressive pieces that are truly worth mentioning.

Marsaxlokk boat berth

Painting is made using acrylic on board. Painted by Phillip Aguis resembles Impressionism due to its visible brush strokes.

Hal-Lija Bel Veder Tower

Oil on Canvas by Joseph Ballucci

Freedom

Alfie Gatt used acrylic on canvas touched up using graphite to produce this amazing piece.

Archbishop street

Wayne Atwood produced this painting using oil on canvas which is exceptionally detailed.

Violet voltage

Alfie Gatt also produced this work of a coloured silluete.

Visited on the 8th April 2013

2nd Exhibition ( Chris Ebejer )

Shades in White

This Exhibition was found in Palazzo Messina in the center of Valetta.

The artist hand sculpted the pieces and hollowed out the innards to avoid explosions in the kiln . When bone dry he applies a wet sponge to the piece to smooth it out, and left to become bone dry again before firing. After firing he applies a ceramic glaze that when fired it applies glass coating that melds with the clay that gives a nice clean finish.

Works

Mediterranean legend

Barocco Veneziano

Winter drops

Detachment from reality

Capiccio

Surrealism with a baroque flare is the theme of the exhibition which is apparent in the works

Visited on the 8th April 2013

1st Exhibition (Marco Cremona)

Marco Cremona

Located in Rabat the exhibition was in is initial stages as it was n ot open though we had a sneek piece through the glass.

Ceramic plates

Ceramic plate which are hand paint, the thought is that it was inspired from cubism were warping and manipulating of traditional forms and colours to create these designs.

Paintings

Some paintings were found in the exhibition. Assuming Acrylic on canvas they depict traditional scenes.

Visited on the 8th of April 2013

Josip Kelava

Bio

Joaip Kelava featured in Advanced Photoshop Gallery

He studied and graduated from Swinburne Faculty of Design. He kept one thing im mind that a teacher had told him after he graduated.

“The worst thing a designer can do is not get noticed.”

Keeping that in mind he he learnt that it was not only important to make something look good but make the piece something that would strike the viewer emotionally. He used this as a motivational encouragement he pushed himself to make hie work as he says :

"bold, confident and memorable."

The artist may use various programs, such as the popular Adobe Photoshop or Adobe Illustrator, also in conjunction with his digital manipulation he would need either stock images or images he would take manually.

Awards

" Canson & Arches National Photographic Competition – First Prize for Best Colour
   MADC Best Dimensional Mail – Bronze Award for Dulux Little Men
   Cannes Lion Promo & Activation - Bronze Award M&M’s Bare All "

Works

Geomas

Inspired from the music Dubstep . He listened to a track and got inspired to make these futuristic designs which he calls bold,calculated and systematic.

In my opnion the text resembles Egyptian hieroglyphs which would either be engraved on the walls. Theses are a form of evolved version of the tradition. The pictures mean letters not words or sentences thus a more contemporary form.

Click Magazine 2

This work reminds me of the thought the Cezanne had put forward which was "treat nature by the cylinder, the sphere, the cone". The artist through out the traditional symbols of text and used basic shapes to convey its meaning. The artist either left the text blank which would be can help the viewer decipher the words easier or added a photo background to the piece.

Melbourne Dance Company 2012

These piece resembles the Impressionists motive to enable them to observe nature more directly and to capture the fleeting characteristics of the moment which meant that the piece was trying to " capture the moment. We see this in the picture  as a ballet dancer is caught in mid jump. through the use of photography it is easier to capture the moment and convey it to the user producing a contemporary marketing design

The Chronicles of Narnia

The lions face is simplistic in design tough the way the mane flows outwards reminds me of the Baroque embellished art and architecture using natures twisted vines to decorate the piece. The lions mane does exactly that where the simplistic face is adorned by outward flowing designs.

Offensive Script

I take this to reason using all other art forms from the past. Each and every movement, era and period had the need to move on from the previous form and develop something different  something that would change the old into the new. Though not exactly like the past, meaning creating something such as the impressionism "capture the light on the world around us" or the cubist obsession on perspective. The artist used condemned vulgar words to give his piece a little more attention. Everyone is consumed by something that should be right yet is placed in open view for every one to see. 

Source: 

Josip Kelava. 2011. Josip Keleva. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.josipkelava.com/41371/gallery. [Accessed 09 April 13].

Contemporary Cubist Inspired Art

The Casa Playa Las Lomas I-05

Designed by Vertice Arquitectos. It focuses on cube like spaces, also contrasting with the sky and the rocky bed. This in my opinion developed from the cubist need of seeing an object from different perspectives and still look right. 

Marcos Andruchak -The key

The distorted perspective is apparent in this one as the faces are draw in in side view an the eyes in from. This is how to artists overcame the perspective obstacle.

Petra Stafankova

Subjects that depict words in the form of cubist art. It is built up of many distorted human portraits and figures. Reminds us of of some works of Pablo Picasso such as "Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (1907) – Pablo Picasso (1881 – 1973)"

Mischi92 Cubism Cafe

Sources : Adriana. 2010. THE INFLUENCE OF ART HISTORY ON MODERN DESIGN – CUBISM. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.pixel77.com/the-influence-of-art-history-on-modern-design-cubism/. [Accessed 08 April 13].

Cubism

Cubism (Origin)

Cubism was a revolutionary style of the modern art developed in Paris by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braques in 1907. Cubism was the first style of abstract style that was developed in a confused fast developing world. It was an attempt by artists to revive the traditions of Western art. Cubism tried to describe in visual terms a new way of seeing perspective.

Pablo Picasso, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, 1907

During it's four decades, society has seen a big technological progress where inventions like telephone, cinematography,  photography, the motor car and the airplane were invented. The problem for the artists was that photography began to replace painting as the tool for the artists to sit illustrating cars, planes and other technologies, yet this was not the challenge the artist was seeking at the time. This is why artists needed a ‘new way of seeing’ that was called Cubism which outspread the sensibilities of art in the same way technology has been expanding in communication and travel.

"Picasso and Braque developed their ideas on Cubism around 1907 in Paris and their starting point was a common interest in the later paintings of Paul Cezanne"

The Influence of Cezanne

PAUL CÉZANNE (1839-1906)
'Bibemus Quarry', 1895 (oil on canvas)

Cezanne saw the abstract aspect in the object seeing different ways in the arrangement of colour and construction on a two-dimensional surface. It was then that Cubists such as Picasso and Braque were appealed by this abstract approach and took to the extreme in their early paintings such as Picasso`s 'Factory at Horta de Ebbo' done in 1909 and Braque's 'Viaduct at L'Estaque' done in 1908

The Cubist vision

PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)
'Still Life with mandolin and Guitar'

The cubists saw perspective as an obstacle that had to be  overcome. Pictures from perspective could only work from one viewpoint thus restricting their options. as an image is is drawn from perspective the result is frozen, like a picture, this was the  thing cubists wanted to overcome and reach beyond geometry and perspective. 

"They wanted to introduce the idea of 'relativity' - how the artist perceived and selected elements from the subject, fusing both their observations and memories into the one concentrated image. To do this the Cubists examined the way that we see."

Cubism Overview

Started Around 1907 in Paris by Pablo Picasso and George Barque.

The first abstract style of modern art

It Ignores the common perspective drawing and viewers gets to see many views at one time

Painting had the new experimentation using collage

African Culture influenced the art greatly.

Two distinctive Cubist Style : Analyitical Cubism and Synthetic Cubism

It influenced many other following arts 

Sources:

Arty Factory. 2011. Cubism - The First Style Of Abstract Art. [ONLINE] Available at:http://www.artyfactory.com/art_appreciation/art_movements/cubism.htm. [Accessed 08 April 13].