Extra post on design. Clayton Falzon

Essay Design.

Samuel Bing.

Samuel Bing was a person who made his living thanks to art, Samuel was an art dealer who was a key factor to introducing Japanese art and artwork’s through the Western countries. Which later on it lead to developing the Art Nouveau style in the late 19^th century. The South Kensington Museum was buying art objects from Bing in the year of 1875 the art objects that were bought from Bing were all Japanese and Chinese styled artworks.

 (Picture of Samuel Bing from https://aboutartnouveau.wordpress.com/2013/11/11/siegfried-bing/)

Bing was originally born in the city of Hamburg Germany, but later on at the age of 16 he moved in the country of France. His career began in the Bing family business of manufacturing ceramics, from the 3^rd quarter of the century at the year of 1870 he began dealing and importing mostly Japanese art objects and also some Asian styled Artwork’s through galleries. The redesigning of his art gallery took place in the year of 1895 with naming his gallery as  ‘Maison de l’Art Nouveau’. ‘This gallery sold contemporary art objects with a Japanese influence , in what came to be known as the Art Nouveau style.’ (Article: Siegfried 'Samuel' Bing URL:
http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/s/siegfried-samuel-bing/ Published on N.D.)



 

(A stoneware jar by Alexandre Bigot with silver-gilt mount. Purchased from Maison Bing, Paris, 1900)

(Picture of a Japanese vase taken from http://www.ebay.com/gds/Your-Guide-to-Buying-Japanese-Vases-/10000000177627939/g.html)

Bing was an inspiration to many artists especially young artists that he have had helped a lot through his life introducing Art Nouveau in Europe, He inspired a lot of people with the introduction of Japanese art in Europe and gave them bases and opportunities for contemporary artist to exhibit their work and even sell artist’s work. Many artist are well know today all because of the invention of the gallery La Maison Bing, This gallery helped artist show and sell their work in his exebhition one of the artist that also exhibited there was Henri van de Velde. Henri was a well known Belgian architect who designed mostly furniture and also used to be a writer. Bing won a gold medal Paris World’s exhibition and the quality of his work has proven that a certain quality in decorative art pieces in large scales was possible.

Samuel Bing’s work was influenced a lot by the Japanese style and that is what created the introduction to Art Nouveau with European countries his work is decorative and gives an element of perfection and precision.  Bing’s influence on today’s design is mostly evident on house wear products such as decorative vases with the interpretation of the Japanese style. This is on what Bing has mostly influenced the world of craftsmen today his influence in pottery is still in existence.

References

http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/s/siegfried-samuel-bing/ (Siegfried 'Samuel' Bing - Victoria and Albert Museum. 2015. Siegfried 'Samuel' Bing - Victoria and Albert Museum. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/s/siegfried-samuel-bing/. [Accessed 09 March 2015].)


https://aboutartnouveau.wordpress.com/2013/11/11/siegfried-bing/ (Siegfried Bing (1838-1905) | Art Nouveau. 2015. Siegfried Bing (1838-1905) | Art Nouveau. [ONLINE] Available at: https://aboutartnouveau.wordpress.com/2013/11/11/siegfried-bing/. [Accessed 09 March 2015].)


http://www.senses-artnouveau.com/biography.php?artist=BIN
VAN DE VELDE, Henri VAN DE VELDE biography by senses-artnouveau.com . 2015. VAN DE VELDE, Henri VAN DE VELDE biography by senses-artnouveau.com . [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.senses-artnouveau.com/biography.php?artist=VAN. [Accessed 10 March 2015].

Essay on art.

Artist Cy Twombly.
By Clayton Falzon.

 Cy Twombly is an artist that was born in USA in the year of 1928, Twombly got his name thanks to the New York art world in the early 1950’s. He was able to bring a distinctive approach to art, painting and sculpting that avoided contact with the predominant era’s in the 20^th century, like Abstract art, Expressionism, Pop art and Minimalism. Cy Twombly was mostly inspired by ancient Mediterranean previous activities (history and Geography), he also used to look up to Greek and Roman Mythologies and also poetry. His works reflect on his inspirations and also used to use grand scales art works.




                                                                                                         (CYCNUS, ROME, 1978 / WOOD, PALM LEAF, NAILS AND PAINT, 16 X 9 3/4 X 2 1/4 INCHES (40.6 X 247 X 5.7 CM).            

(QUATTRO STAGIONI: AUTUNNO, 1993-5. / ACRYLIC, OIL, CRAYON AND PENCIL ON CANVAS SUPPORT: 3136 X 2150 X 35 MM FRAME: 3230 X 2254 X 67 MM)

Cy Twombly is an artist that shows sensitivity and also sometimes luscious painting, His work shows personal details added in each work with a touch of history and cultures mostly in the Mediterranean. He is well know of using materials that are found in everyday life, You can find a lot of his work done in the Assemblage form of art, these artistic pieces of art show the nature of found materials and using them to create an artistic 3D or 2D artworks putting tighter found objects to create a composition. One of the most inspiring person to Twombly was a Spanish artist called by the name of Pierre Duara which he also used to attended some of this classes at the time of the 2^nd world war, Twombly attended his art classes to learn how to perform Modern European art. At the time he was only 14 years old. Twombly was graduated from Lexington high school and continued his art studies in the early 50’s Lee University in Washington, during the late 40’s Cy’s main interest was the German Expressionism. His departure to Europe was done in the year of 1952 which he was granted by the Richmond Fine arts museum for his first temporary stay in Europe and North Africa. He travelled to a lot of places but the main city that keep deep in his heart was Rome in Italy he also was truly inspired by the movements in that city.

Twombly with no doubt had made an effects on today’s artist mostly on European artist’s that are interested in Roman and Greek mythology. He also is well known and left us with his influences on how rich history is and can be interpreted such on the same note in art. His artworks also show the combining of European art with American influences. Twombly is a very inspiring artist to myself that keeping in mind were we came from and keeping the rich history that our world shares which is very important, Writers, historians and artist today could see Cy’s work as an inspiration and would lead to better outcomes by different artist in the future. 

 http://www.cytwombly.info/

Cy Twombly. 2015. Cy Twombly. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.cytwombly.info/. [Accessed 12 March 2015].

http://www.theartstory.org/artist-twombly-cy.htm
Cy Twombly Biography, Art, and Analysis of Works | The Art Story. 2015. Cy Twombly Biography, Art, and Analysis of Works | The Art Story. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.theartstory.org/artist-twombly-cy.htm. [Accessed 12 March 2015].

http://www.cytwombly.info/twombly_biography.htm
Cy Twombly | Biography. 2015. Cy Twombly | Biography. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.cytwombly.info/twombly_biography.htm. [Accessed 12 March 2015].