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other artists and their works
in Unit 1
Automat by Edward Hopper (1927)
Hopper’s work is probably one of the most recognizable, and yet only a few know its creator. In this piece, the artist depicts a solitary woman having a beverage at an automat. The woman is meditative and as she swirls her drink around she is hypnotized by her thoughts.
Solitude by Daler Usmonov (2015)
In this painting, Usmonov shows a young man sitting on the floor of a dark room, watching the light percolating through the window. In this painting, solitude can be interpreted as the enlightenment we need to understand ourselves by brightening our shadowed minds.
Night window by Edward Hopper
Night Window consists of a lady doing her work in her apartment and a stranger is watching her from some faraway place. This painting subtly displays the opportunities a city offers its inhabitants and urban loneliness.
in Unit 2
influential artists
Mamma Andersson
Mamma Andersson's paintings depict domestic interiors and lush landscapes to allow their otherworldly air to take hold. Characterized by a unique combination of textured brushstrokes, loose washes, stark graphic lines, and evocative colors, Mamma Andersson’s works embody a new genre of landscape painting that recalls late nineteenth-century romanticism while also embracing a contemporary interest in layered, psychological compositions
Her often-panoramic scenes draw inspiration from a wide range of archival photographic source materials, filmic imagery, theater sets, and period interiors, as well as the sparse topography of northern Sweden, where she grew up: mountainous backdrops, trees, snow, and wooden cabins are recurrent elements within her works. Yet, rather than conveying specific spatial or temporal reference points, they revolve around the expression of atmospheres and subjective moods, and frequently appear to merge the past, the present, and the future.
When I watch her works, I feel connected. Those barren landscapes collapsing into marble-clad modern interiors, the raging fire in the corner of an otherwise ordinary living room, woods growing on vast dark seas...
It is the world of strongly narrative mystery . I was so attracted and desiring to find out more.
I’v been always looking for new forms and the broader future of landscape paintings , because of my personal interest. And when I saw her works, my eyes twinkled, I knew I found a direction, Mamma Andersson’s works embody a new genre of landscape painting that recalls late nineteenth-century romanticism while also embracing a contemporary interest in layered, psychological compositions.
David Rayson
David Rayson graduated from the RCA having studied painting.
His early work concentrated on meticulous paintings of urban and suburban scenes.
“My pictures are all of real places reconstructed from memory. The works depict remembered spaces from the Ashmore Park and the Wednesfield area in Wolverhampton. Through these works I am exploring the psychological impact that these suburban environs had upon me whilst growing up in the area. Different aspects of a landscape are reconstructed, enabling me to scrutinise it’s houses, gardens, spaces and the people who live there and in turn reflect on myself, who no longer does. ..."
I particularly like the perspective of this painting.
This one makes me thinking about mirror , which is an element I attend to add in my imaginary landscapes, or the combination of landscapes and city sense. That mirror is invisible, in the middle vertically, is a trick played by sophisticated layout design, making a cinematic feeling .
Jonas Wood
Jonas Wood’s paintings, drawings, and prints can be described as a myriad of genres, such as domestic interiors, landscapes, still-life and sports scenes.[1]Translating the three-dimensional world around him into flat color and line.
In The Huffington Post Wood is described in reminiscence of classic masters: "Although Wood pays homage to Van Gogh along with other abstract colorists like Matisse, Picasso and Keith Haring, his works are decidedly modern... Both steeped in tradition yet completely fresh, Wood captures the impossible sharpness of modernity with the familiar feelings of home."
In T(T: The New York Times Style Magazine ), he was described as working "With one foot in Modernist cool and the other in vibrant Pop Art" Similarly, Artspace describes his work as if he works "With one foot rooted in Analytic Cubism and the other in Contemporary Pop art".
