Day Seventeen : Print Part 2

Friday 11th October 2019

On Friday, our lecture was about more printing, but in my opinion it was more interesting than the first. We were looking at the work of artists that took inspiration from the past. We also learnt about 'Japonisme'.

In the late 19th /early 20th century, there was a fashion for 'oriental' art and design in Europe, this was particularly true for Paris, it was known as 'Japonisme' and was a big influence on artists such as the Impressionists.

Some artist-types that took influence from the past/Japan are as follows:

Cargo Collective

Pierre Bonnard

Katsuhire Otome

Masami Teraoka

Dan Hays

Grayson Perry

Linda Florence

Timorous Beasties

Faile

Gary Taxali

Marilène Oliver

Richard Woods

Here is a bit of a biography about Dan Hays, an artist whom I quite like his prints:

https://www.eyestorm.com/Pages/Browse.aspx/Artist/Dan_Hays/75

Dan Hays makes images that present the natural world as tightly controlled and heavily mediated. Presented as views of animal cages painted in punchy heightened colours, or pixelated paintings of woodland that feature psychedelic effects, his techniques invest the domestic and the everyday with surprising new meanings.