Artist reasearch
Kim noble
Kim noble is an artist with DID (Dissociate identity disorder) a multi personality mental health disorder. Kim Noble has up to 100 different personalities in one body/ alter which is Kim. Kim has a very rough childhood and when a teenager got admitted to several mental health institutions. It took over a period of 6 years of therapy to diagnose Kim with DID. I love this artist because she uses her personalities to her advantage 12 of Kim’s personas have different art styles and ways of expressing themselves as a personality. Kim feels like she is sleep walking when having switches during painting. Each picture Kim creates shows a whole different side in each piece. Kim was told to settle down and come back to the art scene when her pieces correlate to her, but she believes it will never settle because they a different people using their own styles. Kim believes art is a big healer when it comes to mental health and that is why I like this artist in this project because she has got the same view as me on art through mental health. Ria one of Kim’s personalities her work is very bright but graphic all her pieces resemble some sort of abuse. Kim shows that even though she has mental illness it is not a barrier when it comes to expressing yourself and I truly believe that this is the most important thing when it comes down to things you love doing and doing things that help you.
Darren Macphearson
Darren's work are mostly paintings, He uses bold and strong colour, lots of shape to create moods. Darren uses acrylic and mostly spray paint. I love his artwork as they are visually pleasing. Darren uses layers of colour and texture to create expressionist characters. I really like his use of faces and all the mystery they have and how they are all different I've took inspiration from his work because I feel like it comes in handy with me trying to create personalities and people. I really like Darren's use of colour and blending techniques his art stands out because of this. Most of his works are based around auras and how he sees the female form. This speaks a lot to me because I'm trying to display characters as emotions and personalities.
George J Harding
George's paintings are based on his own experiences and other peoples experiences around us. Through this he shows the bad sides to everyone's mental health, the struggle and the daily issues that people may experience. George's intentions are to celebrate people going through this. George is an artist based in Bristol I think his messages are so important when living in a big city because people will value what he is saying more if his target audience is much bigger. “I want the value of art to be seen by all”. Georges has a series of oil paintings showing a human face but with a blur so you can't quite make out who it is or what the emotion of that person is. This shows quite a strong message on a mental health part because it shows you don’t really know what people are going through and everything is blurred for that person, I really love this work because of how strong the messages are behind George's work.
Charlie and Eddie Proudfoot
Charlie and Eddie are brothers from New York. All their works are defaced photographs. Charlie and Eddie have never explained their works to anyone, but people have picked up on reasons why. The two brothers have always been in and out of foster care and psychiatric hospitals and prisons the two haven't had a good upbringing to say the least. The brothers don't speak to anyone that much just between themselves and they have also chosen to be hidden from people and live in a self-inflicted isolation. They use magazines and newspapers from bins to use for their work. I really like the idea of defacing people because it speaks for the emotions and how Charlie and Eddie see them. I feel like the brothers have gone through a lot of traumas and their art is a therapy for the brothers. They use bright colours on black and white photos to create a contrast between paint and paper.
https://www.huckmag.com/art-and-culture/art-2/secretive-siblings-creating-beautiful-defaced-artwork/
Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon was born in 1909. Francis had an okay upbringing until his father found he was homosexual. Francis’ father threw him out with a wage of £3. Later, in his life he worked as a furniture designer and an interior designer up until the 1930s. Francis Bacons work began as cubism and geometry for his designing but when flicking through the years his work starts to get deeper and more different. Francis paintings are hard to explain because they bring an overwhelming factor to art. In his pieces there's a lot going on and it's difficult to explain why he has created these pieces because their meanings are completely different to what they present. Francis went through different stages in his art through the decades. In 1980 he created pieces of people mainly men's faces but he used soft beiges and pastel blues in mainly all of he works I really like this idea because he practiced with different colours to express different things.
Barbara Kruger
Barbara Kruger is an American conceptual artist and collagist. Most of Barbara's work is black and white images/ pictures of people with a red bold text over them. Normally the text is something short and powerful. Some of her famous lines are "Your body is a battleground” and “Your fictions become history.” Barbara is a feminist artist that explores her views in society. Barbara's work has a lot to do with gender roles and other strong subjects she believes in, she uses her work to express her views on these subjects. I really like Barbara's work because I think the way she applies strong messages over images gives it an important look. She wants people to read the writing before looking at the images. Barbaara is famous for using red outlining of her text and that gives her message that important touch because red is a colour of importance.
Jenny Savile
https://gagosian.com/artists/jenny-saville/
https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/name/jenny-saville-ra
Jenny Savile specializes in the arts of the human body. Jenny's works are oil paint based and she works in heavy layers to resemble indents of human skin. Jenny uses a mix of tones and scraped and smears the paint around to create texture over large scales of canvas. Jenny is interested in ‘imperfections’ in the human body. Her work shows different types of bodies and bodies who belong to people who are normally challenged by society for the way they look. Jenny is best known for her painting of larger fleshy women she uses the paint to express a bulk figure with stretch marks and indents something that is normal seen as bas, jenny's work really speaks to me because she is creating pieces of things other people find upsetting, but she is turning them into beautiful pieces of art and displaying them in famous museums it shows that everything is beautiful from a different perspective.
Keith Haring
Keith haring is an American artist that has a pop art cartoon style for his art. Keith has worked 100 solo and group exhibitions and is quite well known by the rich and famous. Keith Haring has worked with Madonna, Grace jones, Bill T. Jones, William Burroughs, Timothy Leary, Jenny Hozier, Yoko Ono and Andy Warhol. Keith is well known for his movement in making AIDs known, he was diagnosed with AIDS in 1989 and created organizations to expand his audience and make people aware of aids. Keith's style is very basic and easy to understand therefore it was a big thing when he created posters and imagery for aid programs. Keith's work stuck with people and was an iconic when it came to art making a difference in people's lives. Keith Harding used his work to make people more aware of AIDS and is fun and colourful. I think Keith is an amazing artist because he has meanings behind his bright cheerful pieces.
