Visual Art Disciplines and Non-Art Disciplines

The visual arts are art forms such as ceramics, drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography, video. Many artistic disciplines involve aspects of visual arts as well as arts of other types. 

The current usage of the term 'visual arts' includes fine art. Before the arts and crafts movement in Britain and elsewhere at the turn of the 20th century. 

Louise Janetta

Louise Janetta is the first artist I looked at within the the visual art disciplines. She mainly focuses on collage, mixed media., Louise is a versatile artist, she is happy to work in many different mediums, expressing an explorative attitude, artistic curiosity and diversity. Currently Louise is exploring pattern. Alongside Louise creates a visual response to memories, dreams and images held in our subconscious. The tree series is my favourite piece of her work, this is because it expresses experiences, corrupted by memory, into a deep love of a moment. 

Louise is currently working on a series of paintings of depicting trees and woodlands inspired by the landscape around her studio in Buxton. She is concentrating on the patterns and textures playing with the light, both within across it. Louise achieves an almost hypnotic invitation to the mysteries and beauty of a forest. Louise is a very versatile artist, she is happy to work in many different mediums, expressing an explorative attitude, artistic curiosity and diversity. She uses medias such as: 

Mixed media, painting, drawing, printing, illustration, pen and ink, charcoal, collage, felt work and paper. I could possibly use a similar ability I have to create a collage within my own work.

Ellyn Abraham

Ellyn Abraham created a few prints from fabric mesh and also returned to the idea of distortion in regards to the physicality of a material. He began to build upon the print by enhancing the linear details through crayon and charcoal. Abraham then looked back at the printed acetate sheets a few weeks before had and by layering these sheets of acetate, it enhanced the image in particular sections and gave the piece a focus point. He says "I am particularly drawn to this idea of focusing in on one section of the work almost in a microscopic manner. I am also looking forward to exploring this idea further as I feel it has a lot of potential".

This is my favourite piece of his. This is because it's very well researched and I like the fact it's done with all completely different media, such as acetate, crayon, charcoal and pencil. I am hoping to do something similar in my own work with my bird masks and hopefully give them a focal point. Also I would hopefully be able to use different media similar to what Abraham used. He is a big inspiration in my work and I look forward to using his media, and techniques within the next couple of weeks.

Alina Zamanova

Alina has always been interested in combining different techniques to create an image. One in particular that I like was a task to create an editorial shoot for a specific magazine. She has a big passion for fashion photography aswell as fashion illustration. Alina Zamanova is from Ukraine and in 2013 she was studying fashion illustration at the London College of Fashion and she also has been working as a freelance artist based in London.

She studied graphic design in Ukraine for a year then moved to London because she felt like it wasn't really for her. She says "I have been drawing since I can remember." She started when she went to art school in her home town but it was more of a hobby.

Her influences and inspirations are a very big thing to her and during her process of completely the finals. The best place she says to get inspiration from was London, watching movies, going to exhibitions and museums. Her two main inspiration was from Alexander McQueen and Rick Owens.

My favourite piece of Alina's is from a series of photographs and illustration inspired by Gothic Culture, Rick Owens and Tim Burton.

Matt Wisniewski

Wisniewski is a Brooklyn based web developer, and he makes series of surreal collages. He searches for images on Tumblr and uses them to make collages. A mix of fashion with beauty and the natural world can be seen. Matt is a collage artist based in New York now. He was born in 1990 in Philadelphia 

Matt is a new york based artist and he creates mixed media images that are beautifully refreshing. His digital art collages create a stunning fashion and nature mash-up. The artist creates surreal visual experiments, currently featured on Wisniewski's own Tumblr entitled Five Minutes to Live. The grainy texture of soil, the coarse surface of mountainous regions, and the salty flow of ocean water add visual excitement and intrigue. Landscaping the contours of the human figure gives a whole new meaning to human nature.

Some of the pictures emanate an imaginative power and dreamlike essence that has the sense that they could be connected to the world of dreams. They're more day dreams than anything. Matt says he has experimented with architectural elements but they tend to be tougher to incorporate and maintain the same quality. Urban photography often has a lot of minute details that don't translate well in his work. Matt also says sometimes he has an idea of what portraits or textures, he'd like to use that's about as far as he go's in terms of planning. Through experience he's learned what works well so there are certain things he won't try.

Madame Peripetie

Though she works primarily as an art director and fashion photographer, Madame Peripetie approached her subjects with an off=kilter aesthetic that evokes Man Ray's photography. Peripetie's approach, however is more contemporary, if not futuristic. Her models are often embellished with technicolour props designed to look like extraterrestrial armour. Rather than focusing on conventional beauty signifiers like pouty lips and sensually- exposed body parts, Peripetie goes beyond the limits of the human body to turn her subjects into otherworldly beings- club kids from outer space, or however else you wan to conceptualize them. The images are open ended enough to keep the viewer guessing

Sylwana Zybura aka Madame Peripetie is a Polish/German linguist and image maker based in London/UK. Part of the series won many prizes worldwide like the Double Gold at PX3 in Paris, and recently it received an honourable mention at the international photography awards in NY.

As part of this in camera process, body painting, prosthetics, wigs, unusual 3D make-up techniques as well as real flowers that were used in order to enhance and distort the bodies of the models. Peripetie's motto is 'If it can be imagined, it exists'. This reflects the overall approach used in its creation, since the images it contains plunge straight into a surreal world of mixed references.

Out of all the Visual art disciplines I personally find Madame Peripetie the most interesting. This is because she includes something called 'fetishism' in her work, all the pieces she has created are all so surreal but they work very well with one another.

Non Art Disciplines

This is a non-art discipline, it is photography combined with astronomy. This is one of the best photographs of the stars, planets and galaxies. Each year this competition grows and over 1200 entries are submitted from photographers all over the world. I really like this photo because of the different tonal qualities and also it is a picture that draws you in straight away and makes you think how amazing the world and space is outside earth. This photograph is called 'guiding light to the stars' by a photographer called Mark Gee who is from Australia.

Cath Hodsman

Here Cath created the British Barn Owl in Watercolours. She has captured the deep beauty in its eyes and delicate feathers. The Barn Owl is one of the most iconic of British birds. It's night-time lifestyle and the deserted barns it inhabits, give it a certain mystical quality that cannot be matched by many species of birds.

In this beautiful portrait, Cath has paid particular attention to the owl's eyes. Their dark colour and shine gives the owl a strong presence and intensity. I like the way she uses different brushes to create different brush strokes. She inspired me greatly to continue on looking at birds, specifically owls. So I carried on to create a range of work based on birds. Hodsman is celebrating British wildlife and Natural History through beautiful art.

Martin Creed

I have also been looking at Martin Creed. I really like his work because it is bright, it catches the eye of the viewer. Also he uses the english language and could help foreign people understand what some of these words mean. He has been exhibiting his work for almost 20 years all over the world. This artist struck me because I thought I want that in my work, I would like my work to be caught immediately by the viewer. Even if it's something small. This piece is especially my favourite. It is so simple but it works so well. It's quite a calming piece because the colour yellow is calm. This is something I really like about this piece, he says he spent hours trying to figure out what colour to have these words written and he seems to have picked the colour carefully. Alot of his work is calm but very eye catching.




Paul Duncan

Paul Duncan uses his iphone to create amazing rock layered photography. He calls it Iphoneography. He mainly takes these photographs with his iphone 4 and all editing is done on his phone as well. Duncan is an Art director with a passion for photography and iphoneography. His work is so beautiful, his famous photographic print 'the lonely boat'is my favourite piece. This is because it shows so much meaning in it. The colours are calm and pretty and for me as the viewer as I look at it and get taken to the place in the photograph. The colours are so pastelly and textured.





Andrea Pramuk

Andrea Pramuk uses her knowledge from geology to create these amazing oil paintings. The colour are amazing, she spends hours and hours on her work. The outcomes are fantastic though. She focuses on abstraction within her work and she mainly works on really big scales. She uses alcohol inks and encaustic on clayboard. She started painting at an early age of 2. As a child of an art professor she was absorbed into art openings, slide lectures, studios and life drawing classes. Now Andrea is a full time artist working in a range of media but she also is a full time marketing director for Ampersand Art supply. Andrea's work is mixed media, she says it is out of necessity because one kind of paint can not always express her ideas because she works in such ethereal subject matter. She blends watercolours, alcohol inks, oil paint and encaustic wax as well as cold wax on 'clayboard'. Sometimes in her process, in fact quite often her brush never touches the surface. I like this technique because it's experimentational and also it shows the viewer you don't need to use a paintbrush in the traditional way to get an amazing outcome.