Tony Cragg

Tony Crag was a laboratory technician at the Natural Rubber Producers Research Association 1966 to 1968 before he attended Gloucestershire of art and design, Cheltenham College. He achieved his BA from Wimbledon College of Art (1970 to 1973) and a MA from the Royal College of Art, in London. Since he finished at Royal College of Art he moved to Wuppertal in Germany. In 2009 he was appointed Director of Kunstakademie Dusseldorf.

Tony has won the Turner Prize in 1988 and represented Britain at the 42^nd Venice Biennale in the same year. In 1994, he was elected Royal Academician and in 2007 he was awarded the Premium Imperials for his sculpture.

 This an organic shape with flowing movements. These look of texture but it’s

Smooth texture. It’s   light, mid and dark tone in the angles of the sculpture.

                                                                       Off the mountain

                                                                             A bronze piece

http://www.sculpture.org.uk/sculpture/411/off-the-mountain         A bronze piece 

Printmaking Artist research

• ·      Erich Heckel is a German expressionist (1833, 1944) and Gabriele Munter (1877, 1962) is credited for producing the first Lino prints.
• ·       The 1^st Lino prints appeared in the UK in the 1912.
• ·      Russian Constructivist were using it by 1913
• ·      Picasso where producing them in 1936 and continued doing them in the early 1960s
• ·      Matisse also made Linocuts and in recent times Namibian John Ndevasia Muafangelo has produce Lino prints. 
• ·      Historically they where using Woodcuts and Wood engraving but recently we have been using plastic and Metal. This is using copper plats the lines and tone are etch in strong acid etching ground is use to draw lines through.

 

  

Unknown Artist  

Leonado Da Vinci is a self taught artist, his formal education was very basic and finshed young. He had one of the bes creative minds of the Italian Renaissance, hugely by his art work and sculptors but also he was a engineer, scienctist and inventor.

Lenardo Da vinci was  apprenticed to a sculptor and painter called Andrea del Verrocchio. Da Vinci did is own version of "The Last Supper."  During his time in Florence he painted alot of portrait but the only one what survived was the famous " Mona Lisa."

In the painting the colour in the foreground are a lot brighter than the background what also creates a depth of tone. I prefer Da Vinci's drawing to paintings 

I like this drawing because of the little detail by the crosshatching what makes it have a shade where it makes it three dimensional, there is also a contrast in tone where the light is hitting the drawing.

www.leonardo-da-vinci-biography.com/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/da_vinci_leonardo.shtml