Chiaroscuro

Day and Night by M.C. Escher, woodcut

Chiaroscuro

Ritual in Honor of Psyche, c. 1602

Giuseppe Niccolo Vicentino
Woodcut


~Alyssa Hendricks

Chiaroscuro

M.C. Escher "Portrait of Jetta" 1925 woodcut print

NEW chiaroscuro

One that's not a photograph....
http://images.fineartamerica.com/images-small/thoughtful-pug-in-chiaroscuro-dan-haraga.jpg

Dan Haraga

Chairoscuro

Eric Fishcl- Bad boy

Dominique's Chiaroscuro

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3333/3247415185_0a3e909fe8_z.jpg

:) like the lighting

Obi's Chiaroscuro

Triton Blowing on a Conch Shell, c. 1615
Jacques de Gheyn III
Etching

Obioma's Artists Presentation

Irving Amen

Irving Amen is widely known as one of the most important and successful printmakers in the United States. Born in 1918 in New York City, Amen began to draw at the age of 4. By the time he was 14, he was awarded a full scholarship to Pratt Institute, which is quite remarkable might I add. Amen worked extremely hard and spent seven years of classes perfecting his drawing skills to his idol's standards, Michelangelo. Amen is a much well-rounded artist, creating all types of art such as lithographs, oil & acrylic-based paintings, etchings, woodcuts/woodblocks, sculpture, and even computer art. His work is very positive, loving, and colorful. He seems to love to depict people, chess, music, and religious indentations.

Tinker Hatfield

Tinker Hatfield, VP of Innovation and Creative Design, is the creator of many of Nike's most popular shoe designs and considered to be the greatest athletic footwear designer of all time. Being an all-star athlete in his high school in Linn County, Oregon, playing basketball, football and track, Hatfield experienced all types of shoewear at a young age. He later attended the University of Oregon, joining the track team coached by Nike co-founder, Bill Bowerman and graduating with a degree in architecture from Oregon's School of Architecture. Hatfield joined Nike in 1981 originally to design Nike's new world headquarters, not for footwear which he didn't start to do till the mid '80s. He appeals to me a lot because of his drawings and sketches and how he caters to Da Vinci's style by using a lot of labeling and words in them. He might be a much more commercial artist than traditional but that's just exactly what I like.

Chelsea Rowe Artist Presentation

Fred Tomaselli

Fred Tomaselli was born in Santa Monica, California in 1956 and grew up surrounded by the drug and surf culture of his hometown. He was very involved in all kinds of drugs, and also worked in local surf shops building surf boards. His work later in life reflected the way he was raised; Tomaselli is most well known for his large wooden boards on which he creates incredibly detailed and intricate collages. In these collages, Tomaselli incorporates many different kinds of real drugs in beautiful patterns mixed in with small detailed pictures of natural elements, like parts of the body or different plants. He finishes his pieces by coating them in a thick layer of resin (the same material that coats surf boards). On top of the resin, Tomaselli paints even more intricate detail to create very large pieces that seem, when you look at them, to completely be a window to a new world that you could fall into.

Antonio Frasconi

Antonio Frasconi was born in 1919 in Buenos Aires to Italian parents and grew up in Montevideo, Uruguay. After studying in New York, Frasconi became a widely recognized graphic artist focusing on woodblock printing. Throughout the second half of the twentieth century he illustrated and designed over one-hundred books. His work, Los Desaparecidos (The Disappeared), “push[es] the viewers into knowing, into recognizing their own collective culpability, and into remembering.” This work deals a lot with the horrors of war and torture, and these pieces were compiled into a book with a companion text written by Mario Benedetti.

Chiaroscuro: Marcos Chin

(Irina Wang)