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Semester Exam Barry Mcgee

"Compelling art to me is a name carved into a tree. Sometimes a rock soaring through a plate of glass can be the most beautiful, compelling work of art I have ever seen." Barry attended high school in the San Fransisco area, right out of high school he started to graffiti buildings and do his own art. He is a very well known artist in the San Fransisco area. He was greatly influenced by the urban areas of San Fran. as well as his wife who passed away in 2001.Barry uses spray paint, as well as other paint to create his art work. Some of his walls he creates are made from sketches he does of other artists graffiti and frames them to create a full wall of sketched graffiti as shown above. His art is 21st century because it uses techniques that are out of the ordinary, he uses buildings as his backdrops. I would compare Barry Mcgee's artwork to Diego Rivera because they are both mural artists. You could also compare him to cave painters who painted on whatever surface they wanted, and expressed their emotions, and what they saw on the cave walls. Although most of the murals Barry paints are abstract flat faces and objects, it still has some techniques as Diego.



Mark Bradford



Mark Bradford was bron in Los Angeles in 1961 he later studied at the California Art Institute. He is very well known for his paint and collage type artwork. He has won many awards over the past few years for his avant garde style of artwork. Bradford incorporates elements from his daily life into his canvases: remnants of found posters and billboards, graffitied stencils and logos, and hairdresser’s permanent endpapers he’s collected from his other profession as a stylist. Marks art is very abstract, but sometimes you can pull out what the "painting" is about. An artist I can compare Mark Bradford to would be Picasso, Picasso was the person who coined the name collage. Although Picasso used paper to make his collages, Mark uses everything he finds. His abstraction is a mixture between expressionism and street art. He is a 21st century artist because he uses many different types of media and techniques.

Robert Adams   "The history of art is filled with people who did not live long enough to enjoy a sympathetic public, and their misery argues that criticism should try to speed justice." Robert Adams was born in New Jersey, but at a young age his family moved to Colorado partly because of chronic bronchial problems. He attended the University of Colorado, Boulder, but after a year transferred to University of Redlands in California. Robert loved the outdoors, he was active in boy-scouts, but received his PhD in English and started teaching. Robert Adams is a photographer of nature and architecture. In 1963 he started taking pictures, and soon in 1970 started working as a photographer full time. There are multiple artists Robert Adams is similar to, the first being Ansel Adams, who shares a last name, but was also a nature photographer, but in the early 1900's. I also relate Robert to Paul Cezanne, because Paul was a nature painter and wanted to simplify the world down into basic shapes. He is a 21st century artist because he is a minimalist, he doesn't take pictures of crazy things, just simply nature, he tries to express what he sees but through photographs. He doesn't use crazy techniques to get his art out there, just simply a camera. The third image on the bottom is a photo by Ansel Adams, one of my favorite artists to show similarity.

Citations http://www.photoquotes.com/showquotes.aspx?id=11&name=Adams,Robert http://artgallery.yale.edu/adams/landing.php http://www.pinocchioisonfire.org/ http://nymag.com/arts/art/features/37954/ http://www.deitch.com/artists/sub.php?artistId=1 http://www.gallerypauleanglim.com/Gallery_Paule_Anglim/Barry_McGee.html