Arstist: William Morris

William Morris is usful to my project because I like how he makes patterns out of natural forms. His designs would work very well as a print and I could use these Tiles as a starting point in my project.

Artists: of New Objectivity

New objectivity was a German art movement of the 1920's as an outgrowth of,

and in opposition to, expressionism.

The movement essentially ended in 1933 with the fall of the Weimar Republic and the rise of the Nazis to power. The term is applied to works of pictorial art, literature, music, and architecture.

Renger-Patzsch’s Die Welt ist Schön (The World is Beautiful) is a collection of one hundred of his photographs in which natural forms, industrial subjects and mass-produced objects are presented with the clarity of scientific illustrations.

I think this relates to my pictures in the way objects are close up and in detail and how this takes them out of there context

 August Sander

I think that the idea of new objectivity relates to my project as, like my artist Blossfeldt, it takes objects and life forms out of context, therefore detatching them from reality.

Flock Wallpaper

This particular pattern of wallpaper reflects my my pictures, and in particular one of my black and white drawings, with its intricate sequrnce of shapes, like a repeated motif.

Artist: Stazeder and Glenn Brown

Stazeder

I found these works by Stazeder bare a string similarity to the work we did in making connections between a chosen artist and our own pictures. Glenn Brown also uses a similar process of development for his paintings.

Glenn Brown

In my house I have a collage Brown made that shows the process taking an image of a rnaissance painting then putting the transparency of another painting over the image.

The lines created by the transparency over the detailed image is how Brown creates his fascinating paintings.

Artist; Gaudi

Gaudi
Gaudi creates organic forms in architecture.
here we see a collonade using cement to represent the trunks of trees. 
I think Gaudi's designs are very effectinve, his designs are not just there to fulfil their purpose. His approach to Architecture is completely unique, studying natures angles and curves and incorporating this in his work.

Gaudi's unfinished masterpiece:

 La Sagrada Família

Having visited the Sagrada Familia, its clear that these pictures do not do the temple justice. The sheer size of the project and the inexplicable detail put into every inch of the building, is like nothing I have seen before.

The project has been under construction since 1882 and is not expected to be finished until 2026.

Gaudi once remarked "My client is not in a hurry."

In my project I have been taking pictures natural elements including zoology. I think that gaudi's architecture has a link to my pictures as i have been very interested in the shapes and patterns that that can be found in a zoological form and how this can look almost man made. Gaudi is also famous for using organic materials in architecture and when designign the Sagradda Familia remarked:

"Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator"

Artists: Karl Blossfeldt

Karl Blossfeldt

“My botanical documents should reawaken a sense of

nature, point to its teeming richness of form, and prompt

the viewer to observe for himself the surrounding plant world."

Karl Blossfeldt 1865 –1932

His subjects were plants and living things

He is famous for his close up photographs of plants.

Blossfeldt was a German photographer, sculptor, teacher and artist who worked in Berlin, Germany. 

He worked as an apprentice in a artistic form of iron casting at the iron foundry in Mägdesprung and studied art at the Institute of Royal Arts and Crafts Museum in Berlin between 1884 and 1890.

In 1890-1896 he participated in a project in Italy, run by Moritz Meurer, collecting plant material for drawing classes. During this period Blossfeldt started systematically documenting plant samples photographically. Some of his photographs appear in Meurer’s publications at the turn of the century.

His first exhibition was held in 1926 in Berlin; and published the book Urformen der Kunst in 1928, which was highly appriciated by both critics and public.

Blossfeldt died in Berlin.