Author: sianiwoods

Levalet is a french street artist whose works integrate the environment into his storytelling. He often uses fountains, windows, etc. to help inform his vignettes depicting a man in black and white. The male forms often evoke the feeling of sadness or woe, but he on occasion will highlight the comedic nature of the man’s trials and tribulations.

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Marian Bantjes is a Canadian artist who specializes in graphic art. Her style is inspired greatly by baroque ornaments and Islamic calligraphy with the curly, wrapping, and overlapping lines. She also creates a lot of her own typography, often embellished with curving elongated asymmetrical vectors. She works with patterns, and is known for using precise vector art in her designs. I find her work to be incredibly visually engaging — both images I chose have a strong sense of movement and depth. The multi-colored one uses very simple repeating and rotated strokes coupled with varying intensities of blues, yellows, and reds to create a piece that looks as though it’s flowing off the page. The black and white image reminds me a lot of the work some of the students in this course did with Project 1.1. Although only black and white are used, the image feels three dimensional with these shapes (that almost look like organs/intestines to me) twisting about each other.

Kandinsky was a Russian painter and artist that is oftentimes viewed as the catalyst for abstract art. He was inspired by color symbolism, psychology, and sound. His older paintings were more impressionistic, while his return to Russia and Germany in the 1920s began the era of his most iconic work which was radically expressionistic — which you can see in the photos of some of his work I have attached. He started with biomorphic shapes and leaned into non-geometric lines to reflect sounds around his world.

His style is very on-par with the activities/studies we’ve done so far in class, with the exception that his works were all done by-hand through paint while we’ve worked mostly digitally.

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