Blog 2: Two Simular Artist

     The first artist that I'm going to discuss whose work I feel that I have something in common with is Neo Rauch. Neo Rauch was born April 18,1960, in Leipzig, East Germany and works as the principal artist of the New Leipzig School. His paintings are a mix of painting styles ranging from state-sponsored Socialist Realism to Surrealism to the art of comic books and commercial graphics.

Neo Rauch, "Vater [Father]" (2007)

 

 

"Die Fuge [The Fugue]" (2007)

     I feel that we are similar in that we both use different techniques of painting to create a space and language with the medium. For example in the painting "Vader", Rauch uses different pictorial style to portray the figure holding the man child by giving what seems to be a colonial style painted body and head with cartoon style hands to the figure. I also believe that we both have a process of collage multiple images together in a painting to create a narrative. An example of this can be seen in Rauch's painting called the "Die Fugue".  What I feel I could learn from Rauch's work is his process of using multiple images to create interesting composition. I also feel that I could learn from his work is how to create my own style that is recognizable even though I'm using multiple techniques of painting.

    The second artist that I'm going to discuss whose work I believe that I have something in common with is Echo Eggebrecht. She was born 1977 in Bangor, Maine and received her BFA in 2000 at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and her MFA at Hunter College in 2006. Eggebrecht currently is a New York painter. Her paintings create surreal scenarios by combining thoroughly worked surfaces. 

Year One

2010
Oil on panel
24x30"

 

11 p.m.

2010
Oil on panel
25x29"

I believe that we are similar in that we both use the process of painting techniques to achieve imagery. A example can be seen in her painting called "Year One" were she has thoroughly worked the surfaces of her paintings by scraping, overpainting, and taping to create surfaces and space. I also feel that we collage multiple images together in a painting to create a narrative. The painting by Echo that gives an example of this is "11p.m." by the way she has combined the women on there knees with walls surrounding them that look like space. I feel that we both are concerned with the surface of the painting and that can be seen in both examples of her paintings. What I think I can learn from Eggobrecht's work process by the way she continually builds up her painting's surfaces by working and layering the paint through mistake and control. I also feel that I could learn from her concept of  letting the painting tell me what surfaces need as well as to using models and other resources to help me decide how to paint the surfaces of objects in my paintings.