Michael Borremans

Michaël Borremans (born in 1963 in Geraardsbergen) is a Belgian painter and filmmaker. His painting technique draws on 18th century art. His earlier drawings, many of which belong to the collection of Van Imschoot, are often used as a basis for his later paintings. In recent years, he has been using photographs he has made himself or made to order sculptures as the basis for his paintings. When I looked at his drawings, I thought most of his drawings were kind of depressing and creepy. and most of his drawings were all humans. I personally didn't really like his drawings but it was a new and interesting explore!

Huang Yong Ping

Huang Yong Ping is a contemporary French visual artist of Chinese origin. His work basically combines many media and cultural influence, but is particularly strongly influenced by Chinese traditions. His works are not paintings or drawings anything like that but object-like artworks. The first work of his is made of concrete, reinforced steel, animal skins, paint, fabric cushions, plastic, wood, and cane seat. This work is very elaborate and it really looks like real animals. The second work of his is also amazing that how he comes up with the idea that is very creative and unique. The third one has a feel that it's from the ancient century. His art works were very different than the other artists I've explored. I actually really liked exploring and looking at his artwork!!

Vik Muniz

Vik Muniz is a visual artist. In some of his drawings, he used jelly and peanut butter which was very fascinating.  He mostly used everyday objects such as sugar, wire, thread in order to create his artwork. He used reinterpreted a number of Monet's paintings.  the one drawing that captures my eyes was the painting of Sigmund Freud because I am a psych major and definitely learned about him. Vik used chocolate to render the image. very creative and it looks like real sigmund Freud. 

Yoshitomo Nara

Yoshitomo Nara is a japanese artist who is one of the most influential artists to emerge from Japan during the Pop art movement. Most of his paintings are sculptures of cartoon children and animals. Many people can easily approach his drawings because most of his drawings are familiar child-like art. Probably most of people might have seen the similar characteristics of his paintings in some kinds of Japanese cartoons.  He draws mind toddlers or infant animals with balloon heads...I was surprised that his art is the product of a painfully lonely childhood. I think thats why some of his paintings are little girls smoking in order to express the painful lonely childhood! I personally liked this artist paintings!

Chris Johanson

Chris Johanson is an American painter and street artist. He is a member of San Francisco's Mission School art movement. Johanson's works, involving expressing urban themes through found and recycled materials and graffiti, are a response to his suburban childhood.  Most of his works are brightly colored and and humorously colored. First of his drawings is very colorful and it seems like he wants to express every different type of cultures. He draws many different types of people with various colors in most of his drawings. I read explanations about his artworks and learned that bright colors not to draw an insect to a flame to be harmed but show possibility. I personally liked his drawing styles because his works were easily approachable. 

Ryoko Aoki

Ryoko Aoki is a japanese artist who draws landscapes of pastoral scenes, and everyday objects. Her drawings looked very simple and child-like to me when I first glanced at her art works. Drawings feel spontaneous and improvised, with lines that are alternately delicate and thick, looping, and stick-straight. Her drawings also have a feel that they are definitely East-Asian drawings. When I first looked at the first drawing of her works, I didn't think it would be such a masterpiece of an artist because it looked just like non-artists could draw it like this too. I saw so many kinds of the second drawing types of work in East-Asian cultures, but I was not sure she wanted to express... probably some flowers and trees? The last drawing captured my eyes... I thought this artwork was unbelievably amazing that she used unique colors to make the nature so beautiful. Delicate and fantastic illustrations take inspirations things around her like plants...She used fine lined drawings to create more sensible drawings and imaginations!!!! absolutely amazing!!!

Nobuya Hoki

Nobuya hoki is a japanese artist who was born in 1966  and a graduate from the kyoto city University of Art. When I looked at the list of artists on Journal's page, this person captured my eyes because Nobuya hoki was definitely a japanese name and I thought it would be interesting to explore Japanese's artist's world.  Nobuya hoki's drawings appear to consist of little more than nondescript linear expressions when I first glanced it, but if you glance at the drawing carefully, most of his lines are made up of two lines. First two drawings look like he drew these with a graphite pencil. I honestly don't really know what his drawings represent because his drawings look like doodling. The last drawing is a little different than the first two drawings that he used acrylic on paper.

Simmon Faithfull

Simmon Faithfull is an English artist based in Berlin and London. Simmon's drawings often involve elements of failure and anti-heroism.His works revolve around research and experiments, and during the course of the past few years he has become known for his Lecture Performances that will often accompany his exhibitions. He's well known as a palm pilot artist. His drawings look very unique because it doesn't look like real paintings, but digital drawings to me. It seems like using a palm pilot forces to have the same rigor when one's attempting to express a very subjective experience of a point in time. His drawings are quite simple enough to understand...nothing abstract...the lines of his drawings are not really straight or distinct. My favorite drawing of his is the second one with the black background and with white drawing lines.. it is amazing that I can really picture the place in my head by looking at his drawing.

Amy cutler

Amy Cutler is an american artist. She has created a fantasy that is childlike but often perplexing. Inspired by stories and images encountered in current events and history. When I looked at her paintings, I recall my childhood. I used to see similar pictures of hers in fairy tales and dream of the characters in the fairy tale. On the other hand, there is a dark quality to her painting and there is also mysterious painting of women in dream like activities. I think in her most of her drawings most of women seem to be appeared. People in her drawings are always holding something as well. I don't know what she wants to express and show through this drawing but her drawings made me figure out what the meanings of her works. I really thought her drawings were very creative!

Sam Durant

Sam Durant is a multimedia artist whose works engage a variety of social, political, and cultural issues. Often referencing American history, his work explores the varying relationships between culture and politics, engaging subjects as diverse as the civil rights movement, southern rock music, and modernism. His work has been widely exhibited internationally and in the United States. First two works of Sam Durant is an architecture of house or building, some kind of model. He uses simple materials to create this elaborate work. I am not sure what kind of messages of emotions he tries to express through this art work. When I was first looking at his work, I thought he would be an architect rather than an artist. The last work is "Indian female", which is made of some kind of simple material also. It looks like he duct-tapped the arms. For some reason, the indian female's one arm is amputated. His works are very different from the past three artists I explored. But, most of them used simple material to create an elaborate work. I thought every artist has a different ability to twist art into their own color by using simple art supply.

Yun-Fei JI

I picked a chinese artist Yun-Fei Ji for this week's journal. The reason why I picked an asian artist is I wanted to compare Ji's drawings to Western or European drawings. Ji's drawings have a feel that is defferent from both Western and European pieces of and is similar to many other Asian countries.Ji  uses rice paper with translucent ink or paint based on natural pigment. Most of his drawings are the expressions of the failure of the communist utopia in China. The first drawing fascinated me because I didn't know it was an animal looking human who is riding a horse when I first was looking at it. Exploring new types of art which I have ever experienced was awesome. I think his drawings are various, and, in most of his drawings, I can feel different kinds of emotional stages.

Peter Peri

For this week's journal, I focused on Peter Peri. Peri's drawings are very different from the paintings of Anna Barbell last week. His recent paintings are linear geometric structures, which I have never seen drawings like his before...His drawings look pretty simple but kind of abstract to figure out what he tries to express in his drawings. I honestly stared at his drawings for a few minutes and tried to figure out what his drawings represent, but I failed to get his meanings in his drawings...so I had to read the explanations of his work. Personally, I think his works exhibit an almost alien logic that disorientates our understanding of perception...his works have been inaccessible to the public yet.

Anna Barrbell

This week, I learned about an UK artist Anna Barrbell. Most of her paintings are very common objects you can see everyday all around you. Rather than focusing on abstract objects, she focuses on exploring everyday objects through a variety of drawing processes such as tracing their forms. I honestly do not exactly know how she comes up with these drawing ideas, but it's fascinating that she even uses common supplies to create her paintings and sculptures, nothing fancy. One of my favorite works of hers was "door". She uses just a single pencil and a large piece of paper to make a door by placing a large piece of paper on a real door and rubbing it with a pencil elaborately. When I first looked at this work, I just thought it was a simple door. HOWEVER, it was a paper door that was placed on a real door!!!!!! What a surprise!