2020 Foundations

Simon Cooper is a contemporary American artist and designer based in New York City. His page on GIPHY: https://giphy.com/simoncooper-07d3/.

I’m obssessed with the way he combines handdrawing with photos.

Lance Letscher is an artist based in Austin, Texas. He uses collage to tell story and preserve memory.

To import an existing GIF into your Timeline:

– Find and download a GIF from Internet with a transparent background (or make your own)

– Open/drag your GIF into Photoshop

– Open timeline window (you will probably start with frame animation).  Make all additions to timing between frames now.

– Convert the frame timeline to a video timeline. You should see multiple layers within the timeline window to match the layer window

– Select all your layers

– Right-click and click “Convert to Smart Object.”  If done correctly, your layers should all have become one object.

– You are now free to manipulate the GIF in your Timeline and Transform, etc. You can drag, resize, mask, and use other effects.

You can also create a GIF animation from a series of photos or from a video clip.

 

Erik Winkowski site

@erik.winkowski

Armenian American abstract artist, 1904–1948.

Agnes Martin, Canadian-born American abstract painter, 1912–2004.

The art is never ending and has a unique feel, drawing your eye everywhere and making you feel very uncomfortable and unsure of what to do.

Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan as a Dutch painter and theoretician who is regarded as one of the greatest artists of the 20th century. He is known for being one of the pioneers of 20th-century abstract art, as he changed his artistic direction from figurative painting to an increasingly abstract style, until he reached a point where his artistic vocabulary was reduced to simple geometric elements.

Mondrian’s art was highly utopian and was concerned with a search for universal values and aesthetics. He proclaimed in 1914: “Art is higher than reality and has no direct relation to reality. To approach the spiritual in art, one will make as little use as possible of reality, because reality is opposed to the spiritual. We find ourselves in the presence of an abstract art. Art should be above reality, otherwise it would have no value for man.” His art, however, always remained rooted in nature.

He also has painting about cities.

In looking for work related to Invisible Cities and abstract interpretations of cities and landscapes in art, I came across the work of Mary Clanahan. I was particularly drawn to her used of extremely bright and highly saturated colors that make real natural elements (such as trees) appear completely fantastical.

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hellllllo- last week I went to Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts to see the Wake in the Woods exhibit, but also was fortunate enough to see all these great abstract works relating to our project. You guys should go- it’s free for Philly Uni students!