[Confirm Pentecost]

ENTRIES DUE BY: 12:00 AM 07/03/09

For this week, sigs submitted must emulate styles/movements or artists from art history (and up until now if you can bring up an artist.) And be aware, you can't just take a work and make a sig over it. For example, you can't rip a piece of the Sistine chapel for a sig, of course not everyone can make everything look like an oil painting, so photo manipulations are suggested, though this list will provide many different styles, thus many options, photography sigs are allowed, but "photography" isn't considered considered a style as it is a medium, so if you want to do photo sigs, you'll need to pick an artist.

NOTE: When you post your sig, you must also post what style or what artist you are emulating.

Note II: I'm starting off with the medieval arts, you may go even earlier up to the paleolithic if you'd like.
Note III: I know mostly of western art, I haven't listed eastern works because I don't know enough, but sigs influenced by eastern art ARE most definitley allowed.

* suggests mature content.

This list is organized as such:

Style: Information of style
Artist:Work of the artist

Illuminated Manuscripts: Highly ornamented letters, borders, and people, usually flat and usually colorful.
Various.
Limbourg Brothers: October (from Les Tres Riches Hures du Duc de Berry)

Byzantine Tradition, Maniera Greca and Sieneese: Usually flat, scale depends on importance of individuals in the piece, less attention to anatomy or weight, more attention to the actual meaning
Bonaventura Berlinghieri: Saint Francis Altarpiece
Cimabue: Madonna Enthroned
Duccio:Maesta Altar Piece
Ambrogio Lorenzetti:Peaceful City (detail from Effects of Good Goverment in the City and Country)

International Gothic: Highly ornamental in borders and shapes, anatomy usually isn't acurate.
Simone Martini: Annunciation Altarpiece
Gentile Da Fabriano: Adoration of Magi

Rennaissance: Greater importance to weight, space, anatomy, and perspective, (in otherwords, nature.) figures assist more with compositions. I'm combining the Italian with the North European, the early, high, and late.
Giotto: Lamentation (from Arena Chapel)
Heiryonomous Bosch: Garden of Earthly Delights (Central Panel)
Jan Van Eyck: Ghent Altarpiece (detail)
Albrecht Durer: St Christopher Engraving
Peiter Bruegel: Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
Raphael: Transfiguration
Michelangelo:Last Judgement

Mannerism: Think an elegant Renaissance, that pays less attention to nature.
Parmigiano: Self portrait convex mirror
El Grecco: The Burial of Count Orgaz (Note: El Grecco is considered to be Mannerist/Byzantine)
Tintoretto: The Last Supper (This is Venetian, but also considered Proto-Baroque, due to it's drama.)

Baroque: Think dramatic, and natural. Natural as in space and anatomy and depth, like in the Renaissance, Dramatic by it's lighting (the thick black of the chiaro scuro) and content.
Caravaggio: The Crucifixion of St Peter
Giovanni Batista Gaulli: Triumph of the Name of Jesus
Jose De Ribera: Martyrdom of St Phillip
Rembrandt: Christ With the Sick Around Him

Rococo: Light colors, playful, flirty.
Jeane Honore Fragonard: The Swing

Neoclassicsm: The revival of classical themes from antiquity.
Jaques Louis David: Oath of the Horatii

Romantiscism: Emotional, interested in the sublime, and the dark.
Delcaroix:Liberty Leading the People*
Theodre Gericault: Raft of the Medusa*
William Blake: Ancient of Days
Piranesi: Carceri Plate VII - The Draw Bridge
Caspar David Freidrich: Abbey In the Oak Forest


Realism: Paintings that strive to look as real as possible.
Thomas Eakins: Gross Clinic*

Photography: Camera!
Timothy O' Sullivan:A Harvest of Death, Gettysburg Pennsylvania, July 1863*
Eadward Myubridge: Horse Galloping

Impressionism: Fast brush strokes, capturing the current moment, trying to capture nature.
Claude Monet: Impression:Sunrise
James Abbot Mcniel Whistler: Nocturn in Black and Gold


Post Impressionism: A step away from impressionism for a better rendition of the work it self.
Henri De Tolouse Lautrec: Moulin Rouge
Vincent van Gogh: Starry Night over the Rhone
Paul Gaugin: Jacob Wrestling with The Angel

Symbolism: Less regard for nature and more for the imaginative, symbolic, and emotional.
Gustav Moreau: The Apparition*
Edvard Munch: The Scream

Art Nouveau: Designed with organic, flowing, plant-like forms
Alphonse Mucha: Les Saisons

Fauvism: The directness of impressionism with intense color juxtapositions, expressive, and emotional. "Fauves" is the French word for Wild beasts, and is what these artists where called.
Henri Matisse: Woman with the Hat
Andre Derain: London Bridge

Expressionism: Distorted, Ragged and emotional.
Franz Marc: Piggies
Kathe Kollwitz: Memorial for Karl Liebknecht

Cubism: Rejection of natural forms, creating abstract compositions with shape and the abstraction from dissected forms perceived in the real world.
Picasso: Guernica
Georges Braque: The Portuguese
Robert Delaunay:Champs De Mars

Futurism: Interested in motion and in the way Cubists dissect form, views war as a cleansing action.
Giacomo Balla: Dynamism of Dog on A Leash
Umberto Boccioni: Unique Forms of Continuity in Space (this is sculpture, but shows the interest in motion)
Gino Severini: Armored Train

Dada: Nonsense, absurd. "Dada" is the French word for a child's hobbyhorse, the name was chosen at random. One of the mainfestos states "Dada knows everything. Dada spits on everything. Dada says "knowthing", Dada has no fixed ideas." Sometimes is referred to as "anti-art".
Marcel Duchamp: Bicycle Wheel (Ready-made sculpture)
Man Ray: The Gift
Hannah Hoch: Cut with the Kitchen Knife Dada through the Last Weimar Beer Belly Cultural Epoch of Germany
Kurt Switters: Merz Picture 32.A The Cherry Picture

Precisionism: Fascinated by the precision of machines, and a goal to make art that is culturally American, inspired by the shapes/fragments of cubism.
Charles Sheeler: Study for Improvisation of A Milltown
Charles Demuth: Chimney and Watertower
Charles Demuth: I saw the figure 5 in gold(Demuth again to show that this isn't limited to machinery)
Edward Hopper: Nighthawks

Surrealism: Attractive to the Dadaists, who's movement was breif. Interested with dream imagery and the unconscious.
Max Earnst: Max Ernst Showing a Young Girl the Head of his Father*
Salvador Dali:Impression of Africa
Rene Magritte: Golconda
Paul Klee: Twittering Machine

De Stijl: non objective, balanced, harmonious.
Piet Mondrian: Composition II with Red, Blue and Yellow

Abstract Expressionsim: Expressive and abstract (duh), there are the ferocious "action painters", who's paintings are brutal and messy, and the calm color-field painters, that are like simple shapes of color.
Jackson Pollock: Convergence
Mark Rothko: No. 14

Post Painterly Abstraction: Less attatched to emotion than Abstract Expressionism, more concerned with the pictorial outcome.
Frank Stella: Sunset beach

Op Art: Optical Illusions
Victor Vasarely: Orion
Bridget Riley: Cataract

Pop Art: Art influenced by popular culture of the day.
Andy Warhol: Green Coca-Cola Bottles
Edward Ruscha: Every Building On The Sunset Strip
Roy Lichtenstien: BLAM

Photo realism: Use photographs as resources for the most precise rendition.
Richard Estes: Cafe Express
Chuck Close: Big Self Portrait (also check out his other portraits)

Neo expressionism: Reviving expressionism/abstract expressionism.
Anselm Kiefer: To The Unknown Painter

Some Contemporary:Some of today's artists.
Jerry Uelsmann: Untitled (Traditional Photomanipulations)
Meagan Jennings: Bear Market* (Drawing/Painting/Design)
DAIM: All Directions (Grafitti)
H.R.Giger: Biomechanical Landscape(Airbrush painter/Creator of Alien)

[Toxic`]

I'll see what I can do about this one, I don't think I am going to enter because I was never a fan of emulating other styles of art, or other artist's styles. It depends on what I come up with.

[Chid0x]

I wasn thinking of doing Salvador Dali or Vangogh right off the bat, I'll try both. =]

[Confirm Pentecost]

**pant gasp pant**

OKAY! I've finished the list. Since' it's nearly 5 O'Clock here, this is what the new entry dates will be:

06/25 - 07/02

[Confirm Pentecost]

Entries are due thursday...0-0.

[Mikhail]

Here is some Abstract. Not my best work I know but after the countless nights it took to perfect it, I am proud.

[Confirm Pentecost]

Dang man, your abstract expressionism beat me to my De Stijl XD.




Now seriously people, if you find this hard, here's some tips.

1) Photo manip, I said it before, but I'll say it again.
2) Pop art should be an easy one, you just need to find what's popular today.
3) You've got Abstract Expressionism and Destijl that you can do on MS Paint, you don't need to know how to draw for those.
4) Dada is completely random stuff that makes no sense, that isn't too hard to put together, dada collage.
5) Look at the contemporary
6) If you're really low on ideas, take a picture of something industrial, Precisionism.

[Confirm Pentecost]

Don't tell me i wrote that really long list for nothing.

[Vaati]

It's Dada.

[Sage]

Abstract Impressionism



Meh?

[doty]

god lol sorry I couldn't find time to look at all the links and the first ones were like o.o so I kinda passed by it, but dada sounds awesome xD
definitively gotta try something D;

[† Saint Christopher †]

If I can get a decent photo I might actually try this.

My friend is a pretty decent photographer and I've been wanting to get into the GFX section here for a while.

:O

[Mikhail]

Photography and Sketches are also art, guys don't think that the GFX section is mainly for Photoshop.

This is turning out to be a good SOTW.

[† Saint Christopher †]

Photography and Sketches are also art, guys don't think that the GFX section is mainly for Photoshop.

This is turning out to be a good SOTW.

I know. I've just been meaning to do a photo manip collaboration with this friend for a while. I figured this was a good place to do it.

[doty]

lol'd
had fun doing it xD

[Chid0x]

do not close entries without me pls. I 've been very busy

[johnny]

I really like these sigs so far.

This post has been edited by johnny: 02 July 2009 - 06:43 AM

[Chid0x]

something real fast
Vincent van Gogh

This post has been edited by Chido: 02 July 2009 - 08:59 PM