The essay discusses three famous artists, Louise Bourgeois, Andy Warhol and Vincent Van Gogh.
Louise Bourgeois The work of Louise Bourgeois is influenced by traumatic events from her childhood and manifested a feminist-inspired body art that carried a strong influence on other artists. It is the highly personal content in her artwork that relates to sexual desire and the body. Perhaps she sought a therapeutic process in her art and developed a highly personal visual language. One finds the use of archetypal imagery in her works based on the adoption of objects such as cages, spiders, medical tools, and spirals that symbolize the feminine psyche and psychological pain. Bourgeois juxtaposes her materials to deal with the notions of universal balance. She makes use of a wide variety of media and abstract forms that can be considered either male or female. For example, her soft biomorphic forms are suggestive of femininity while hard materials can be associated with masculinity (Louise Bourgeois 2016).According to her, her work deals with pre-gender problems.
Andy Warhol Andy Warhol is a famous illustrator who was born in Pennsylvania and went on to become a leading artist of the Pop art movements in the sixties. He explored a broad range of art forms such as video installations, performance art, writing and filmmaking, and thus constant blurred the lines when it came to art and mainstream aesthetics (Andy Warhol 2016). He relocated to New York City after receiving his Bachelors in Art and landed a job with Glamour magazine. Because of his unique and whimsical style, he soon became one of the most successful commercial artists. Soon, he developed the concept of "pop art” that focused on commercial goods and everyday consumer products. His famous artworks showed vacuum cleaners, Coca-cola bottles, and hamburgers. He used vivid and garish colors in his portraits of celebrities which soon gained fame and notoriety. His portrait “Eight Elvises" remains one of the most expansive paintings in art history.
Vincent Van Gogh Vincent van Gogh was born in Netherlands and is world renowned post-impressionist painter whose work is noted for his unique style. The profoundly influenced 20th-century art brims of strong emotions and vivid colors. His art perhaps helped him to stay emotionally balanced. “Potato Eaters" was to be his first masterpiece (Vincent Van Gogh 2016). He is considered the greatest Dutch painter ever and completed more than two thousand works in oil and more than a thousand in watercolors, drawings, and sketches. Some of his paintings are the most expensive in the world, fetching millions. The artists developed a symbolic brushstroke that released intense color, thus created powerful movement and vibration on canvas in the forms and lines. Van Gogh is well known for his dramatic, rhythmic and emotional form and content in his artwork.
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