Artists Who Broke the Rules (Week 3)

Hello everyone, now it's about artists who broke the rules. There are 3 of them who draw my attention and here they are.

Salvador Dali

Surrealism is the style of this man’s artwork. He is a Spanish artist who likes to draw things that just come out from his head. He did the paintings without thinking what the paintings will become that make him different with other artists. Other artists think first about what they are going to paint. His paintings are unique because he paints things not in the proper way, such as drawing elastic clock, distorted creatures, or even make an illusion paintings which give you different perspective when you see the painting from far distance or close distance.

 Salvador Dali, Old Couple or Musician, 1930

Salvador Dali, The Persistence of Time, 1931

Salvador Dali, The Temptation of St. Anthony, 1946

What inspires me from this artist is that we don’t always have to stick in the rules and that will make greater artworks that come out from our imagination.

Damien Hirst

           I think this man really broke the rules in art. He is a contemporary artist from English whose artworks are mostly preserved animal’s dead body placed in a box. This man chooses ‘death’ as his art concept which artworks are very different with other artists’. He also make skull as his artwork. He built a museum of his artworks that we can feel ‘death’ when we enter the museum and see the artworks.

Damien Hirst, The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, 1991

Damien Hirst, For the Love of God, 2007

This man gives me inspiration that art doesn't always come from proper imagination, knowing that he can put death into an art. I think imagination comes from countless sources.

Andy Warhol

             He is an American artist who is known for the pop art, which is a form of art that depicts objects or scenes from everyday life and employs techniques of commercial art and popular illustration that emerged in the mid-1950s in Britain and in the late 1950s in the United States. He used contrasting colors to draw paintings of celebrities, such as green and red, yellow and black but it can form a great painting of famous people.  

Andy Warhol, Mao Zedong by Andy Warhol, 1972

Andy Warhol, Marilyn Monroe by Andy Warhol, 1967

Andy Warhol, Michael Jackson by Andy Warhol, 1984

The contrasting colors that he used inspires me that color dissonance doesn't always make things look bad. Different things can be mixed to create a great artwork.