Images by Matthew Stone. Courtesy of Gentle Monste
Lee Krasner
Lee Krasner (1908–1984) was born in Brooklyn as Lena Krassner and grew up in an Orthodox Jewish, Russian émigré family. She decided to become an artist at the age of 14, and was one of the first artists in New York to adopt an entirely abstract approach. She went on to be one of the pioneers of Abstract Expressionism. In 1942, her work was included in a group exhibition entitled French and American Painting, and the only fellow exhibitor that she had not met was Jackson Pollock, so she decided to visit his studio. From then on, they were together and in 1945 they married and moved to Springs, Long Island.
Unlike many of her contemporaries, Krasner refused to develop a “signature image,” which she considered to be “rigid rather than being alive.” Working in cycles, she continually sought out new means for authentic expression, even during the most tumultuous of times, which included Pollock's emotional volatility and his sudden death in a car crash in 1956. Krasner's formidable spirit is felt throughout the body of work that she created over more than fifty years in the studio—celebrated in this exhibition.
Combat, 1965
Is that face on the right Pollock’s? … a detail from Icarus, in Lee Krasner: Living Colour. Photograph: The Jewish Museum
Dynamic paintings that fizz and fascinate rescue the endlessly surprising artist from her husband Jackson Pollock’s shadow in this thrilling major retrospective.
Krasner began conventionally enough, with self-portraits whose masses of hair and clotted paint already had in them the kind of organised turmoil and tonalities that would reappear in her mature work. Her naked life drawings (much better, it must be said, than Pollock’s Michelangelo-inspired early drawings), had a kind of smoothed beefiness. One female nude floats rather than sits on her diminutive chair. Later, Krasner began classes at Hofmann’s 9th Street school, where she encountered his very physical teaching style – correcting students’ work by drawing over it, or tearing up drawings and reassembling them in new configurations.
Murakami Takashi
He is one of the most influential Japanese artists born after the 1960s. He is not only a widely loved artist in Japan, but also an idol of the new generation of young people in Japan. He strongly realized that contemporary Western art is completely different from Japanese art creation. The important thing is how our generation does not rely on any inherent cultural system to create the most essential things. Therefore, his works not only integrate the elements of opposition between Eastern tradition and Western civilization, elegant art and popular culture, but also retain the entertainment and appreciation of his works. It is a product that combines the characteristics of Japanese contemporary popular cartoon art and traditional Japanese painting style. The interestingness of his works is worth mentioning. Takashi Murakami implanted a variant image of Mickey Mouse in his own work and regarded it as his own incarnation and a unique visual symbol.
Pablo Picasso
Picasso's artistic career almost throughout his life, his work styles are rich and varied, and later generations used the phrase "Picasso is always young" to describe Picasso's changing art forms. Historiography had to divide his vast works into different periods-the "blue period", "pink period" in the early years, the "black period" in the heyday, "analysis and synthesis of cubism", and later " Surrealism period" and so on. His "Girl of Yavignon" created in 1907 was the first work considered to be cubist and a famous masterpiece with landmark significance. It not only marked a major turning point in Picasso’s personal artistic journey, but also a revolutionary breakthrough in the history of modern Western art, which triggered the birth of the Cubism movement.
The painter Vincent van Gogh is known for one specific aspect of his art and his personal life: the Post-Impressionist painter spent time in a psychiatric clinic. There he created works of art such as The Starry Night and many of his famous self-portraits.
In addition to anxiety and depression, the artist faced a crisis of epilepsy. Some experts believe that the painter also suffered from an excess of lutein — a factor that affected his art, as Van Gogh was able to see more yellow, which he intensified in his paintings.
Besides Van Gogh, many other artists had similar problems. Today I'll profile four artists with mental illness and how it affects their art.
Louis Wain
Louis Wain was an English illustrator born in 1860 who became well known for his illustrations of anthropomorphic cats.
The big-eyed cats, who are usually in social situations, such as games or dating, were not initially created on a commission. Although Wain was already known by the public, he began to draw cats to amuse his wife.
Unfortunately, shortly after his marriage, Wayne lost his wife to cancer. Her death was the trigger for a deep depression in the artist's life.
At the age of 57, he was diagnosed with schizophrenia, a disorder that affects not only the way a person thinks but also their behavior. Wayne became aggressive and thus spent the last 15 years of his life in a mental hospital.
It wasn't just his personality that suffered: Wayne's art also began to look less and less like his original. His cats, formerly smiling and cute, started to show different traits, they became more geometric and colorful. Most of these psychedelic kittens were born while Wayne was hospitalized at Knapsbury Hospital, where the artist eventually died.
Edvard Munch
"I can't get rid of my ailments because much of my art exists only because of them," wrote the Norwegian painter Edvard Munch, best known for his paintings The Scream, and is one of the main artists of the painting. Expressionist movement.
Munch's family background already predisposed him to possible mental health problems. His mother and one of his sisters died of tuberculosis when he was very young. His father suffered from depression and his other sister was diagnosed with schizophrenia. Munch didn't come out unscathed. He suffered a nervous breakdown in 1908, which was exacerbated by alcoholism, and he was admitted to a mental health clinic in Denmark.
In addition to known mental problems, the painter faced other problems: In 1937, his work was confiscated by Hitler's government and labelled "degenerate art" by the dictator.
"Sickness, madness, and death are the black angels guarding my crib," wrote Munch, who was even diagnosed with neurasthenia, a clinical condition associated with hysteria and hypochondria. His work is characterized by the desperation and suffering of the characters that are palpable. The brushstrokes and colors Munch used in his work often expressed his own state of mind.
Francisco de Goya
At 46 years old, Goya was confined to bed, had lost hearing, and was very sick with something that was not diagnosed at the time. His deafness had several explanations, such as syphilis or lead poisoning. However, the artist also showed signs of mental disorders which affected his work.
More current speculation suggests that Goya suffered from Susac Syndrome, a disease that, in addition to causing hearing loss and vision, also causes brain and balance problems.
Attacks of hallucination and delirium were also frequent during the most critical period of the painter’s illness. External factors such as the Napoleonic Wars deeply marked the painter, too. In his works, he portrayed the gravity of human melancholy, with paintings depicting human suffering becoming more and more common.
Yannoulis Chalepas
Chalepas began his artistic career relatively quietly and even opened an atelier in Athens after studying in Munich. However, around 1878, he began to show the first symptoms of mental illness. Ten years later, he was diagnosed with dementia, being only 36 years old.
Chalepas’ mother believed that art was really responsible for his son’s mental state, so she tried to keep him away from sculpting. Only after her death in 1916 did he actually return to work. Researchers agree that in this period he began to create sculptures with more freedom and was not so attached to neoclassical ideals.
Clare Woods
Clare Woods (born 1972) is a British artist who lives and works in London and the Welsh borders.
Her work uses a lot of amzing colors to express her emotions on the canvas, such as this work called Daydreaming , I think the colors she uses in this work are very dreamy, just like the name of the work, Day dreaming.
English Smile
DAY DREAMING
Tobacco Mosaic
Plum Pox
London-based artist Matthew Stone is known for working across mediums. He combines traditional painting techniques with digitalisation to create figures that look both three-dimensional and hollow, as if he had photographed a very delicate sculpture made out of a thin layer of acrylic paint. Recently applying his hybrid technique to the cover art for FKA Twigs’ latest album Magdelene, now Stone is bringing his trademark aesthetic to the first instalment of Korean eyewear brand Gentle Monster’s “My Mars” campaign, with other interpretations to follow.
While the compositions are reminiscent of Renaissance paintings depicting Hellenistic nude scenes, the clash of colours, computer-generated hair and addition of Gentle Monster’s Bibi, Bling and Cracker frames crates a surrealscape somewhere between the past and future.
Images by Matthew Stone. Courtesy of Gentle Monste
Lee Krasner
Lee Krasner (1908–1984) was born in Brooklyn as Lena Krassner and grew up in an Orthodox Jewish, Russian émigré family. She decided to become an artist at the age of 14, and was one of the first artists in New York to adopt an entirely abstract approach. She went on to be one of the pioneers of Abstract Expressionism. In 1942, her work was included in a group exhibition entitled French and American Painting, and the only fellow exhibitor that she had not met was Jackson Pollock, so she decided to visit his studio. From then on, they were together and in 1945 they married and moved to Springs, Long Island.
Unlike many of her contemporaries, Krasner refused to develop a “signature image,” which she considered to be “rigid rather than being alive.” Working in cycles, she continually sought out new means for authentic expression, even during the most tumultuous of times, which included Pollock's emotional volatility and his sudden death in a car crash in 1956. Krasner's formidable spirit is felt throughout the body of work that she created over more than fifty years in the studio—celebrated in this exhibition.
Combat, 1965
Is that face on the right Pollock’s? … a detail from Icarus, in Lee Krasner: Living Colour. Photograph: The Jewish Museum
Dynamic paintings that fizz and fascinate rescue the endlessly surprising artist from her husband Jackson Pollock’s shadow in this thrilling major retrospective.
Krasner began conventionally enough, with self-portraits whose masses of hair and clotted paint already had in them the kind of organised turmoil and tonalities that would reappear in her mature work. Her naked life drawings (much better, it must be said, than Pollock’s Michelangelo-inspired early drawings), had a kind of smoothed beefiness. One female nude floats rather than sits on her diminutive chair. Later, Krasner began classes at Hofmann’s 9th Street school, where she encountered his very physical teaching style – correcting students’ work by drawing over it, or tearing up drawings and reassembling them in new configurations.
Murakami Takashi
He is one of the most influential Japanese artists born after the 1960s. He is not only a widely loved artist in Japan, but also an idol of the new generation of young people in Japan. He strongly realized that contemporary Western art is completely different from Japanese art creation. The important thing is how our generation does not rely on any inherent cultural system to create the most essential things. Therefore, his works not only integrate the elements of opposition between Eastern tradition and Western civilization, elegant art and popular culture, but also retain the entertainment and appreciation of his works. It is a product that combines the characteristics of Japanese contemporary popular cartoon art and traditional Japanese painting style. The interestingness of his works is worth mentioning. Takashi Murakami implanted a variant image of Mickey Mouse in his own work and regarded it as his own incarnation and a unique visual symbol.
Yayoi Kusama
The works of Yayoi Kusama are classified by critics into quite a number of art schools, including feminism, minimalism, surrealism, native art , pop art and abstract expressionism. But in Kusama's description of herself, she is only an "obsessive artist". From her works, we can see that what she is trying to present is an autobiographical, psychological, and sexually oriented content; the creative techniques Kusama uses include painting, soft sculpture, action art, and installation art. Yayoi Kusama and his works Yayoi Kusama and his works Kusama developed her own characteristics in a fairly early creative period. She made good use of high-color contrast polka dot patterns and mirrors to cover the surfaces of various objects, such as walls, floors, canvases, and items that will appear at home. . Her own dressing often has a high homogeneity with the work, and is known for her short top and very strong eye shadow makeup. Kusama once explained that these visual features all come from her hallucinations. She believes that these dots form an infinite net , which represents her life.
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Pablo Picasso
Picasso's artistic career almost throughout his life, his work styles are rich and varied, and later generations used the phrase "Picasso is always young" to describe Picasso's changing art forms. Historiography had to divide his vast works into different periods-the "blue period", "pink period" in the early years, the "black period" in the heyday, "analysis and synthesis of cubism", and later " Surrealism period" and so on. His "Girl of Yavignon" created in 1907 was the first work considered to be cubist and a famous masterpiece with landmark significance. It not only marked a major turning point in Picasso’s personal artistic journey, but also a revolutionary breakthrough in the history of modern Western art, which triggered the birth of the Cubism movement.
Qibaishi
He worked as a woodworker in his early years, and later made a living selling paintings, and settled in Beijing when he was 57. He is good at painting flowers, birds, insects, fish, landscapes, and figures. His pen and ink are strong and moist, the colors are bright and bright, the shapes are simple and vivid, and the artistic conception is simple and simple. The fishes, shrimps, insects and crabs are made by nature. Qi Baishi's calligraphy and seal scripts are based on the Qin and Han stele plates, and the calligraphy is of ancient and clumsy interest.
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Vincent Willem van Gogh
Van Gogh has a high enthusiasm for farmers, life in the fields, and the scenery of the countryside. He loves everything about farmers, especially sunflowers, wheat fields, pea flowers, etc. He often chooses these objects exuding the fragrance of earth as his painting subjects. In his short artistic career, Van Gogh relied on his keen artistic perception to affectionately and meticulously depict these simple, natural landscapes, still lifes and He is also known as "the purest painter among painters". Compared with the gorgeous paintings, Van Gogh's paintings are more simple and timeless. He poured his infinite passion into these simple flowers and field life, making the paintings produce an art that cannot be surpassed and cannot be imitated. magic. Van Gogh once painted many paintings about sunflowers. Although the number of sunflowers and the posture of the flowers are different each time, they all show a kind of fullness and energy. In addition, Van Gogh often chooses wheat fields as his subject matter for his paintings. From his paintings of various wheat fields, it seems that one can perceive the sadness emanating from the wheat fields. Such as Van Gogh’s creation in Auville
Van Gogh's paintings also involve many subjects and objects, but without exception, they are all simple and unpretentious, and are closely related to life.
Oscar-Claude Monet
Monet is one of the most important painters in France, and most of the theory and practice of Impressionism have been promoted by him. Monet is good at experiments and performance techniques of light and shadow. His most important style is to change the painting method of shadows and outlines. In Monet's paintings, there are no very clear shadows, no prominent or flat outlines. In addition, Monet's use of color is quite delicate. He used many paintings of the same theme to experiment with the perfect expression of color and light. Monet had long explored the expressive effects of light and air, and often painted multiple pictures of the same object under different times and lights, expressing momentary feelings from natural light and color changes.
Henri Matisse
Matisse publicly stated his artistic concept. He said: slave-like reproduction of nature... The choice of color is not based on science. I have no preconceived use of color, and color comes to me completely instinctively. He also said: The art I dream of is full of balance, purity, and quietness, without disturbing or eye-catching themes. A kind of art is a means of calming every spiritual worker, a means of spiritual comfort to iron his soul.
Paul Cézanne
His works and ideas influenced many artists and art movements in the 20th century, especially Cubism. During most of his life, his art was not understood and accepted by the public. Through his persistence, he finally challenged the value of all conventional paintings in the 19th century. Cezanne’s greatest achievement is an unprecedented incisive analysis of color and light and shade, which overturned the previous visual perspective. The structure of the space was removed from the impression of mixed colors, making the field of painting formally appear pure art. This is the past. No painting genre can do it. Therefore, he is known as the "Father of Modern Art". He believes that shape and color are inseparable. Use geometric brushstrokes to paint on the plane to gradually form the surface of the painting. He advocated not to use lines, light and shade to express objects, but to use color contrast. He uses color clumps to express the three-dimensionality and depth of the object, uses the cold and warm.
Roy Lichtenstein
Roy Lichtenstein, born in 1923, is one of the most important American artists and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters . As a representative artist of pop art, Lichtenstein is most famous for his paintings that combine comics and advertising styles. Borrowing the imagery of popular culture and media at the time, Lichtenstein used iconic tones and iconic large dots. To express the "American philosophy of life", Lichtenstein once said: I tried to use a vulgar theme, and then reorganized its form to make it immortal. The difference between the two may not be big, but it is extremely important.
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Andy Warhol
He is one of the most famous figures in the art world of the 20th century, an advocate and leader of Pop Art, and an artist who has the greatest influence on Pop Art. He boldly tried various photocopying techniques, such as letterpress printing, rubber or wood eraser, gold foil technique and photo projection. In addition to being a leader in pop art, Warhol is also a film producer, writer, rock music composer, publisher and star artist in New York society and art. In 2014, the portrait of Mao Zedong was auctioned for £7.6 million in the UK.
Murakami Takashi
He is one of the most influential Japanese artists born after the 1960s. He is not only a widely loved artist in Japan, but also an idol of the new generation of young people in Japan. He strongly realized that contemporary Western art is completely different from Japanese art creation. The important thing is how our generation does not rely on any inherent cultural system to create the most essential things. Therefore, his works not only integrate the elements of opposition between Eastern tradition and Western civilization, elegant art and popular culture, but also retain the entertainment and appreciation of his works. It is a product that combines the characteristics of Japanese contemporary popular cartoon art and traditional Japanese painting style. The interestingness of his works is worth mentioning. Takashi Murakami implanted a variant image of Mickey Mouse in his own work and regarded it as his own incarnation and a unique visual symbol.
Yayoi Kusama
The works of Yayoi Kusama are classified by critics into quite a number of art schools, including feminism, minimalism, surrealism, native art , pop art and abstract expressionism. But in Kusama's description of herself, she is only an "obsessive artist". From her works, we can see that what she is trying to present is an autobiographical, psychological, and sexually oriented content; the creative techniques Kusama uses include painting, soft sculpture, action art, and installation art. Yayoi Kusama and his works Yayoi Kusama and his works Kusama developed her own characteristics in a fairly early creative period. She made good use of high-color contrast polka dot patterns and mirrors to cover the surfaces of various objects, such as walls, floors, canvases, and items that will appear at home. . Her own dressing often has a high homogeneity with the work, and is known for her short top and very strong eye shadow makeup. Kusama once explained that these visual features all come from her hallucinations. She believes that these dots form an infinite net , which represents her life.