Keith Haring

Keith Haring's work was very comical where he used bold lines and vivid colours in his pop art, which I feel was also a fun and colourful way to bring in light certain issues or norms of the world around us if not to just express his own views of the world. 

I like this drawing as you can just see the joy in the person who is 'coming out' with the perfect use of colour and lines.

Here the bottle is drawn large and the people small, all wrapped around the beverage almost as if they are praising it.

Some pieces were very simple to read where as others were quite complicated and made the observer contemplate the art. He entwined many images into one, with a face coming out of somewhere, someone going through another person's body, with something growing out of another, all a huge complex picture but very exciting to see.

This picture I feel shows that death will get us all. The heart is broken, which could either mean that death was caused from a broken heart, or the simple fact that when you die your heart 'breaks' and therefore can function no more. The snakes  are on either side of the skull about to bite the skull and people with it's vicious bite, which I think is either showing how certain unkind people can bring a person down to their grave, or even what will happen to our bodies once we're in our graves.

Rihanna, a world renowned artist too used Keith's art in one of her music videos.

Rihanna wearing a Keith Haring print leather jacket designed by Jeremy Scott.

Rude Boy, partially inspired by Keith Haring.

Egon Schiele

Egon Schiele was an Austrian expresionist painter. He had a very interesting way of painting and I find that each stroke of his is strong and speaks a great deal.

Self Portrait

Dead Mother
I really like this picture as I find it a very dark but beautiful way of expressing the relationship between a mother and a child. The mother is drawn skinny with sharper and more defined brush strokes as if she is almost losing her life after giving birth to her child. She is holding her baby tightly, close to her, giving all the love she can in her final hours. It shows her lament because she may not be around for her child. On the other hand, the baby has pink cheeks full of life, using softer colours and strokes and has a peaceful expression though he/she is surrounded by death. The black strokes encircle the two figures putting more attention to them. I find this a very interesting way of expressing 'ignorance is bliss'.

Man Bending Down Deeply
I like this painting. He has used swift turns and curls in his brush strokes and emphasised colour on certain parts of the man, the coat, but has left other parts of his body as mere lines to indicate their presence.

In this painting he has changed the direction of a simple line as he has in many of his work, which has accentuated the detail and texture of the lady's dress.

Self Portrait

Girl in Black
I love how he his lines are so free and loosely drawn yet are in so much control, allowing just a mark on the
paper to do all the talking making it seem so effortless.

Another self portrait i like in which he has only used two tones.

Otto Dix

Otto Dix, was a German expressionist painter born in Untermhaus, Germany. In 1914 when World War One began he signed his name in the army and fought in the battles from 1915-1918. Being highly traumatised by the experience, he began expressing it in his drawings.

This passionately drawn picture- The Wounded Solider, shows the depth of the horror screaming out of the soldier's eyes, mouth and hand gestures, leaving me, the observer lost and bewitched by the haunting reality so thoroughly expressed in this piece of work. The more you observe the fine lines, softness and sharpness of his strokes and detail, the more you fall in love with it.

Corpse in barbed wire- another print of his I adore.