Art and the Removal from Influence

Inspiration: German Painter Caspar David Friedrich

I tried: Rückenfigur (seeing a figure from the back), in an isolated landscape allowing the viewer to share experiences with the figure

Carlo Mosel

Title: Me, Myself and I

Medium: Oil paint

Intention: My intention was to communicate the removal from influence. I created this piece because I wonder what it is like to be surrounded by no influences of society and our modern world, and be isolated to oneself within nature. I want my audience to share my point of view, and understand that I see nature as something neutral, a place to possibly remove yourself from things influencing you all the time.

Mimi

Title: Who are you to judge?

Medium: Oil paint, Acrylic paint

Intention: My intention was to communicate the importance of creating a non-judgemental environment for different students specially in a school community. I created this piece because I am one of those students who struggle with expressing ideas in front of a crowd. I wanted to emphasize how scary it can be for a student to share their opinions in front of a judgemental crowd. I want my audience to relate to this emotion and realize how their actions and attitude during discussions and presentations can strongly affect another student’s self esteem and their confidence level.

Art and Prejudice

Inspiration: Vincent Van Gogh

I tried: his technique of overlapping the similar color to create depth in his painting, along with featuring a clear light source in his paintings.

Art and life pace

Inspiration: French painter Claude Monet

I tried: his plein air technique to get the impression of certain materials and make them seem blurry.

Tobi Howe

Title: Views

Medium: Oil paint

Intention: My intention was to communicate how people are so focused on the destination that they do not take time to realize what is going on around them. If people took the time to notice the small things that go on around them, I believe that they would be happier.

I want my audience to look at my piece and realize that all these beautiful things surround them on a daily basis and all they have to do is take the time and focus on them.

Art and Serenity

Inspiration: French impressionist Claude Monet

I tried: His technique of short strokes to bring attention to color and form.

Cole

Title: 憧れの過去 (Longing for days of the past)

Medium: Oil paint

Intention: My intention was to communicate the beauty of calm moments of daily life.I created this piece because I find that I am calmed by the feeling of reality fleeting away and time slowing down during these moments. I want my audience to appreciate those moments of calmness and relax themselves.

Art and Freedom

Inspiration: George Stubbs

I tried: George Stubbs technique of capturing the movement of the horse, his smooth brush strokes, use of color to create mood, realism, composition of the horse.

Lucy Lu-cao

Title: Spirit of Freedom

Medium: Oil paint and acrylic paint

Intention: My intention was to communicate the spiritual freedom inside you is beautiful.

I created this piece because I believe everyone has their own inner spirit of freedom. With this artwork I am conveying my personal view of the beauty of freedom. I want my audience to think about my picture of freedom and think about how the inner spirit of freedom is beautiful to them.

Art and Religion

Inspiration: Caravaggio

I tried: Realism, Chiaroscuro

PAULA HEILE

Title: Under My Spell

Medium: Oil paint

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I created this piece because I wanted to question who we believe in/look up to and why.

I want my audience to think about what distinguishes the icons/idols/heroes of our society from each other and why some have more meaning to them than others.

Art and Subconsciousness

Inspiration: Hyper Surrealist Salvador Dali

I tried his technique or making the artwork look hyper surrealism.

Sumin Gi

Title: Ripples of the dormant

Medium: Oil paint

Intention: My intention was to communicate how subconscious emotion and memories affect the conscious thoughts.

I created this piece because I wanted to express how the vision of my human mind has changed.

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I want my audience to realise that everything that one experience can affect the view on life.

Art and False Identity

Inspiration: Picasso

I tried: Picasso’s style, where the colors used in his artworks can be clearly distinguished from one another, rather than having a smooth gradation between different values.

Julia Kuehnle

Title: Under the Mask

Medium: Oil paint and Acrylic paint

Intention: My intention was to communicate that I have an inner identity which I feel the most true and comfortable in, which is different from the identity others associate me with.

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I created this piece because I wanted my last artwork for this class to be something meaningful for my personality.

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Art and Emotion

Inspiration: Arshile Gorky, The Artist and his Mother

I tried: Finger painting to add more of an emotional attachment to the piece and to create a more smooth surface when applying the paint.

Kaishyu Higashiyama

Title:The Red Seed

Medium: Oil paint

My intention was to communicate that my anger is something that won't stop growing and is changing my　outlook on my life.I created this piece because I wanted to express that feeling and apply it onto my canvas. I want my audience to realize that one emotion can easily lay over the others and change your perspectives on something

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Art and Identities

Inspiration: Pablo Picasso

I tried: Using the colors to show and express a certain point.

Sungwon Choi

Title: Trapped in Mother’s Warmth

Medium: Oil paint

Intention: My intention was to communicate that I am always within my mother’s range. She is always able to look through me and understand how I feel, what I am up to, etc.

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I created this piece because I wanted to express how I felt about being within my mother’s range and control.

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I want my audience to think about their view on their parents. But at the same time I want them to be more thankful for raising them despite their view on their parents. whether it’s good or bad.

Art and the natural world

Inspiration: Camille Pissarro

I tried: His painting knife technique in the water.

Meadow Carraway

Title: Her Beauty

Medium: Oil paint

Intention: My intention was to communicate that the natural world is beautiful. I created this piece because I believe that this particular image reflects nature in its most natural beauty. I want my audience to see Her as beautiful and not feel the need to change Her.

Art and Empathy

Inspiration: Norwegian painter Edvard Munch

I tried: His smooth lines and gradation, as well as his use of layering paint

Spencer Jensen

Title: Final Embrace

Medium: Oil paint

Intention: My intention was to communicate empathy, more specifically in the context death. I created this piece because I think that almost everyone loses somebody that they are close to. I wanted to communicate how the feeling of wanting to embrace that person one more time, but also what would be required for that to happen.

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I want my audience to think about what others may be going through, and try to put themselves in others situations.

Art and

Expression: Edvard Munch

I tried: To use directional lines within my artwork to copy the style and brushstrokes used by Munch in his famous piece, The scream. I also liked how he left some small areas of the canvas uncovered and more black especially at the edges which gave the impression of unfinished work. In my artwork I tried to do this with the sky, using the palette knife i was able to leave some of the underpainting and canvas showing and also around the edges I did not completely fill with pain. This gave a stormy yet stuck with this unfinished type look such a munch used. As for the directional lines I tried to show this through my brush strokes in the cliff from the bottom corner going into the tree making it the focal point, the tree also clings off the cliff in this direction.

Peter Barrett

Title: Clinging On

Medium: Oil paint & Acrylic Paint

Intention: My intention was to communicate how at times I struggle with anxiety and how that makes me feel.

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I created this piece because anxiety is something I struggle with and through the medium of oil paint I thought it would be a good way to express my feelings regarding anxiety and the ways in which I struggle with it

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I want my audience to experience the feeling that I struggle with and understand more about me and the deeper things I don't show on the outside.

Sophia Smith

Title: Ocean Eyes

Medium: Oil paint

Intention: My intention was to communicate the mirroring aspects of human emotions and the physical world (nature). Influenced by the quote “You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing”. I created this piece because I wanted to paint something that depicted my own imagination and turn a feeling into something you can see on a canvas.

I want my audience to be able to find something in the piece that resonates with them and gives them a complex emotion.

Art and Human Emotions

Inspiration: Georgia O’Keeffe and Roy Lichtenstein

I tried: to combine Lichtenstein’s pop art (the girl) with O’Keefe’s style of enlarged flowers which I thought looked like a wave. I also tried O’Keefe’s technique of just squeezing the paint onto the canvas without mixing it or adding any oil.

Art and Identity

Inspiration: Francesco Clemente

I tried: his style of brushstrokes. Specifically, the way he created smooth flowing lines that still appeared a little rough, which resulted in a serene, yet slightly chaotic scene.

Justin Cheetham

Title: Shed Carapace

Medium: Oil paint

Intention: My intention was to communicate how we never really show our identities to anyone, instead hiding it behind mental armour, not even revealing it to ourselves. I created this piece because I noticed how people act significantly different when in different situations, to the extent that one cannot really identify an individual’s “baseline” identity, as only the varying layers of armour are seen. I want my audience to think more on their own identities, and try and see what they are.

Art and

Inspiration:

Frida Kahlo

I tried: different brushstroke techniques to create some depth in my painting.

ADINA SAMUELSSON

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The butterfly

Medium: Oil Paint and Acrylic Paint

Intention: My intention was to communicate that hope can be seen in any dangerous situation.

I created this piece because because I think it’s important to use hope and find strength to overcome fear. I want my audience to be able to lift their spirits and break out from incapacitating circumstances.

Art and Emotional Conflict

Inspiration: Edvard Munch

I tried: To use the background as a way of expressing the tone of the artwork. In the Scream, the background is supposed to represent the connection between nature and emotions.

Monika Fukuda

Title: The Root of Conflict

Medium: Oil and Acrylic paint

Intention: My intention was to communicate that emotions cannot be covered up by another and they are all connected in some way. One can never be truly be hidden.

I created this piece because it is something that I can personally relate to. At first, I wanted the audience to feel family conflict, but I ended up focusing on the background emotions and showing it by the use of colors.

I want my audience to be able to relate to the feeling of mixed emotions and being overwhelmed. Also, I wanted my audience to sense the struggle/conflict, but how in the end it connects creating a natural feeling.

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Caycee Dolan

Title: Stripped culture

Medium: Oil and acrylic paint

Intention: My intention was to communicate that going to an international school packed with many different cultures from around the world overpowered aspects of your own, thus making each student unoriginal (for example, not many students in the school have a distinct accent, everybody talks the same way which explains why my mouth has the American flag although I do not have any American blood). �I created this piece because I wanted my audience to be able to recognize that many of the students in the school did not have a distinct characteristic from their own culture.

I can relate to this piece because I feel that aspects of my own culture, including my accent, were weakened and heavily influenced by other, more common cultures from going to an international school.

Art and Stripped culture

Inspiration: Pablo Picasso

I tried: The abstract technique from Girl in the mirror by Picasso

Art and Celebrities

Inspiration: Mucha

I tried: Natural gradation between different shades

Rica

Title: An Imaginary Relationship

Medium: Oil paint

Intention: My intention was to communicate the one sided relationship/interaction between celebrities and the public.

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I created this piece because I noticed how many people in society create deep personal connections to celebrities, although there is very little influence that we make on their lives.

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I want my audience to be able to relate to the message of my work and to reflect on their behaviours towards celebrities.

Art and Childhood

Inspiration: Mary Cassatt

I tried: to use loose brush strokes and bright colors similarly to Mary Cassatt as she tended to use those skills during the impressionist movement.

Tyler Detrick

Title: Optimism truly only comes once

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Medium: Oil paint

Intention: My intention was to communicate the idea that we're truly optimistic once in our lives when we're young kids. During that time were carefree and sometimes I wish I could relive that time period for myself.

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I created this piece for me personally because there are things that aren’t included in the painting and the things included in the painting I think I’m the only person who could understand why certain ideas and things depicted were significant to myself.

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I want my audience to just see if they can relate to my intention because the painting was made to relate to my own childhood.

How to take a good photo of your oil painting:

• Even lighting - White balance
• Tungsten lights or cloudy day - Use a tripod (in focus)
• Square in lens frame - Don’t zoom in all the way (Distortion) instead crop digitally

Watch your shadow

Square in the lens frame

Strong light from behind

Bright spot from single light source : On Floor

Art and Conformity

Inspiration: Cuban artist Yunior Hurtado

I tried: Her composition strategy,

expressive color scheme, realistic brushwork

Example Chika Terada

Title: I AGREE

Medium: Oil paint, acrylic paint on scissors

Intention: My intention was to communicate how people hide behind societal customs and rules. I created this piece because I feel like I have agreed to everything my culture has told me to be “good” my whole life but I believe we should challenge cultural norms more frequently to be individuals. I want my audience to think about how they conform in society.