Maria Ismail

Intro to Painting

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Work Part 2

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Work Part 1

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Quality quarantine selfie✨

I loved learning new painting techniques in this class and I hope all of you guys have a great summer!

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A personal creative project I worked on for another class✨

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Aliza Nisenbaum

Aliza’s work speaks to women of color and representation of them in an intimate setting. It is amazing that she is able to build a relationship with the women she’s painting, while painting them live. I particularly love the extra details she adds surrounding her subject matter, with different prints, colors and textiles, it adds more of a rich, deeper meaning to her work. 

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Jordan Casteel

After watching the video, I loved how as a fine artist, she changed drastically from landscape painting to portraiture. She personalized her body of work, from including her own family, to students in her class. Her subject matter can be relatable to all minorities who are underrepresented or portrayed in a harsh/negative light. 

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Progress✨

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Finished! I used the collage as inspiration and made it my own using warm tones✨

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Definitely harder than I thought😬

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Progress✨

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Going to try do the taj but a simplified version✨

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Artwork page for ‘Just what was it that made yesterday’s homes so different, so appealing? (upgrade)’, Richard Hamilton, 2004

“Representations of interiors have preoccupied Hamilton for many years. In 1990 he wrote that the objective of his 1956 collage:

was to throw into the cramped space of a living room some representation of all the objects and ideas crowding into our post-war consciousness: my ‘home’ would have been incomplete without its token life-force so Adam and Eve struck a pose along with the rest of the gadgetry. The collage had a didactic role in the context of a didactic exhibition, This is Tomorrow, in that it attempted to summarize the various influences that were beginning to shape post-war Britian. We seemed to be taking a course towards a rosy future and our changing, Hi-Tech, world was embraced with a starry-eyed confidence; a surge of optimism which took us into the 1960s. Though clearly an ‘interior’ there are complications that cause us to doubt the categorisation. The ceiling of the room is a space-age view of Earth. The carpet is a distant view of people on a beach. It is an allegory rather than a representation of a room. (Quoted in Exteriors, Interiors, Objects, People, p.44.)”

Its hard to not think about this in relation to our Covid times, what we see ahead for the future…. The great thing about collage is it doesn’t have to make sense in an illusory way, rather, it’s a great way to draw together imagery to bringing a wider idea into view, one not yet articulated

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I remember learning about Richard Hamilton in an art history class. The way he collages found objects makes his works dynamic and layered.

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Heres a doggy to lift some spirits!

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Stella is SO cute!

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Quarantine has made me appreciate nature way more than before! These flowers reminded me of how beautiful spring really is and how sometimes we need to slow down and appreciate it while it’s here✨

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Glued down.

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This is working so well! Cant wait to see how it translates into a painting. Nice contrast of order (squares) and chaos (flowers), sets up nice tensions and rhythms

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Can’t wait to see it painted!

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Trying to get the same tone