Takashi Murakami was one of the most toughtful and thought proviking artist in japaness of the 1990's.Murakami used his understanding of the western art in added to his own art to bring revolution to his own art. He has many diff ways to show his art like japaness art, animators,cartoones ect. He attended the university of arts of tokyo. With his art he changed our notions of history and culture.

Layla Ali was born in Buffalo, New York in 1968 and have now grown to an artist who adds time and effort in her work to create pieces of art with precision and perfection. Her work depicts social and political issues. Every picture tells a tale and puts across a social / economic point that her audience gets a chance to think about. Her pictures are clear and neat and conveys perfect rhythm and repetition. Every picture has the same face of the people but the class differentiation is shown with the different clothes. The color of skin and clothes of the people are also repetitive and similar.

I love how her pictures make you think about atrocious issues in the world and still look pretty and appealing to look at.

Laylah Ali

Laylah Ali was born in 1968. She creates visual art out of social and political commentary. She has a facination for weakling superheroes, regimentation, alliance and betrayals, ambiguously tense enviroments, and, curiously, dodgeball. This led to her most famous series of more than sixty paintings called the Greenheads. In her paintings are figures dressed in meticulous detail. They are very expressive, brown limbed, and razor thin. They are all related by thier green heads, but segregated by color of uniform. Ali's Greenheads has sparked debate from dicussions of race, class, and political content. Although some people argue that they do not know the full meaning because she does not use any slogans, captions, or loaded titles. In her artwork I see alot of rhythm and repetition. All of the figures have the same bodies and same faces, but some have different expressions and clothing. The different clothing in her artwork to me gives one figure power over another figure as in the picture above.

Artist from Buffalo

Laylah Ali, an artist born in Buffalo, New York, in 1968. Her drawing style is include the simplest looking figures as also as the most complicated thoughts and organizing using art methods. Look at her drawing, the first hit into your eyes is repetition which creates rhythm. Those little cute faces are showing a series of emotions, directions, and connecting by a same mood rhythm. By using repetition and rhythm, Laylah Ali wisely put the other art method into her drawing; it is union and emphasis. All the figures seems connected and related by a story. This is what the artist most wanted to increase the value of their art, the meaning behind an art. Using those cartoon figures to show art method and shine out the value of her art, Laylah Ali is a talented artist who created the most valuable things from the most simplest things.

Takashi Murakami

Wow this artist is not one I have seen before, but I love his use of colors and the way his art always has eyes all over it like it's watching you. I like that Murakami says that he doesn't truely give meaning to his art rather that he wants the audience to come away thinking,"WoW that was big!" meaning that you get your own interpretation of it. He began actually working with creatures that reminded him of the original Mickey Mouse. He loves having the feel of Japan Walt Disney and shows how much of an effect it has on people. Although some of his art can be very graphic going as far a bodily fluids coming out of the sculpture. I like his style and flair that he brings to the table he is deffinatly not someone you would put under the umbrella of "MODERN ART."

Frida Kahlo

Frida Kahlo de Rivera was, a Mexican painter, born in Coyoacan, and perhaps best known for self-portraits. Kahlo contracted polio at age six, which left her right leg thinner than the left, which she disguised by wearing long, colorful skirts. It has been conjectured that she also suffered from spina bifida, a congenital disease that could have affected both spinal and leg development.On September 17, 1925, Kahlo was riding in a bus when the vehicle collided with a trolley car. She suffered serious injuries as a result of the accident, including a broken spinal column, a broken collar bone, broken ribs, a broken pelvis, 11 fractures in her right leg a crushed and dislocated right foot, and a dislocated shoulder. Also, an iron handrail pierced her abdomen and her uterus, which seriously damaged her reproductive ability.The accident left her in a great deal of pain while she spent three months recovering in a full body cast. Although she recovered from her injuries and eventually regained her ability to walk, she had extreme pain for the remainder of her life.

After the accident, Kahlo neglected the study of medicine to begin a painting career. She painted to occupy her time during her temporary immobilization. Her self-portraits became a dominant part of her life when she was immobile for three months after her accident. Kahlo once said, "I paint myself because I am so often alone and because I am the subject I know best." Her mother had a special easel made for her so she could paint in bed, and her father lent her his box of oil paints and some brushes. Drawn from personal experiences, including her marriage, her miscarriages, and her numerous operations, Kahlo's works are often characterized by their suggestions of pain. Of her 143 paintings, 55 are self-portraits which often incorporate symbolic portrayals of physical and psychological wounds. She insisted, "I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality." Kahlo was influenced by indigenous Mexican culture, which is apparent in her use of bright colors and dramatic symbolism. She frequently included the symbolic monkey. In Mexican mythology, monkeys are symbols of lust, but Kahlo portrayed them as tender and protective symbols. Christian and Jewish themes are often depicted in her work.She combined elements of the classic religious Mexican tradition with surrealist renderings. Kahlo created a few drawings of "portraits," but unlike her paintings, they were more abstract.

LAYLAH ALI ARTWORK

I preferred Laylah Ali's artwork because it has simplicity to it. I do not truly know the meaning behind all of his drawings but I like the fact that I can look at it and recognize what the objects or persons are in her art. Her artwork uses a lot of rhythm and repetition. Her style of rhythm and repetition was something I had never seen before until I witnessed it our Art Appreciation class. It really seems that her artwork is telling a story. Unfortunately, I might not understand her true interpretation of her art but I still appreciate it none the less. I also realized that her art work has a very "Sunday morning paper" comic type drawing to it to me. Her style of lines and the repetition of it makes her artwork fun and refreshing to look at. Everything is so unison and structured as well.