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Margaret Olley and Her Works of Arts

Margaret Olley is considered to be one of the most prized still and interior painters in Australia and born in Lismore in 1923. The exquisite arrangement of fruits, flower, and objects can seduce her viewer with her inherent grace and technical virtuosity. Her subject is her own home which is elegant. Her painting are also casually appended because it is not difficult to image just like the his famous figs and glassware who’s subjects are simply the fig fruit and the glassware which can easily be recognized and considered to be her still life elements. Her other set of common subjects in her other arts is table covered with tangerines and gourds, a Turkish pot, jars, and flowers, as well as raspberries (Eva Breuer Art Dealer, 2008).             Olley is sensible and unique for conveying lights and colors that serves as medium for painting. It has also the tone in consummating skill that can draw from the understanding of the European painting’s long tradition. Besides, its placement of the objects within the composition had been done by with the aide of the exquisite eye in pictorial and detailed harmony as the figs and glassware wherein her objects had given weight, perspective, structure, form, and dimensionality. This implies that the viewer can reach in its painting and can grab that piece of the fruit into the table (Griffit, 2006).             In the composition of Olley, her genres and subject matter had move across with the skies, buildings, and the land and are treated same as the human figure or still life painting of everyday life. The lights and the forms had been translated to the color of surface of the painting which can give three dimensions subject. From her past roller coaster experiences, her genres will reflects on doing whatever she wants by following her instinct and doing detailed sketch and all because of creativity (Ibid). Tony Cragg and his Art             Tony Craggs is British sculptor and acclaimed artists during his generation. His sculptures are organized and group in accordance to material used as the clay, stone, bronze, and glass and to the other synthetic materials. In his famous sculpture belongings his subjects are primary chairs, tables, bottles, jars, cabinets, and other this which can be seen at the living room. Though different materials can give different emotional experiences, he had been known for pictures and sculptures for the things he found as the furniture, plastic toys, and other households objects (Artmag, 2008).             Cragg’s sculptures had been used by the industrial and urban detritus that had opened up in the new territory in the field of sculpture while dealing with the social and environment concerns in the Britain’s post industrial. In this way, he used the miscellaneous items as plastics, vacuum, axe head, figures, and vessels and others. In her sculpture belongings he used stones to form his subjects to use the aesthetic materials in sculpting (Sculpture, 2008).             The life of Cragg had been spent for his big wave of people and therefore had been influenced by the works of other artists and he did not want to make their specified work. In this way, he has also his rules and what he did is to break up others’ rules due to his own terms. In his belongings it signifies that it has the freedom to do whatever subject he wants and go out in the studio. He also been aware on the culture of Europe wherein he strove hard to reflects his works on the said continent and to refer this in the development of economic, intellectual, genealogy, and climate. This also reflects his concerns and knowledge on scientific matter and vocabulary for bodily functions (Centre for Contemporary Art, 2008). Frida Kahlo’s Art An artist in many ways as in her mind and body is what can define to Frida Kahlo who is a native Mexican. Everyone was unaware that the art of Frida Kahlo were all because of her emotional background. This made her to decide to express what she felt and show it on her canvass. In this way, she can paint her anger, pain, happiness, physical and mental suffering and other emotions. In her painting Pitahayas, her still life elements are leaves, fruits, other plant, and the human skeleton and hook, and others. In her life, she did not receive recognition as great artists while her painting as the Pitahayas, had been rooted for the Mexican portraits that introduce the culture of Mexican pop and pre-Columbian primitivism which had done before. In this manner, the simple yet simple and intimate painting will contrasted on the grand mural during her time and commonly done in the sheet of metal as canvass which has the style of the Mexican streets or the small paintings of votive (Lenin Imports, 2008). In the year 1925, Kahlo experienced car accident that made her to hospitalize for long time and relapses in that fatal fatigue and suffering in her entire life. In this way, her emotions had been put all that out in the canvass that she painted. This also includes the emotional and physical suffering that she underwent due to the said accident. The work of Kahlo had been greatly influenced by the Mexican culture by using the dramatic symbolism and bright colors. This can also reflects to her painting that can also signifies death which had been caused for many reason as her stormy marriage, the accident, and childhood experienced. Though, bright colors and fruits signify her achievements, happiness, and all the people that touched her life (Olga’s Gallery, 2008).   Bibliography Frida Kahlo 2008, Olga’s Gallery, viewed 14 August, 2008, http://www.abcgallery.com/K/kahlo/kahlobio.html. Frida Kahlo 2008, Lenin Imports, viewed 14 August, 2008, http://www.leninimports.com/frida_kahlo_bio.html. Frida’s Art 2008, James Logan High School, viewed 14 August, 2008, http://www.jlhs.nhusd.k12.ca.us/classes/social_science/Latin_America/Frida%20Kahlo/ARt.html. Tony Cragg 2008, Centre for Contemporary Art, viewed 14 August, 2008, http://www.csw.art.pl/new/97/crag_e.html. Tony Cragg 2008, Sculpture, viewed 14 August, 2008, http://www.sculpture.org.uk/biography/TonyCragg/. Tony New Sculptures 2008, Artmag, viewed 14 August, 2008, http://www.artmag.com/museums/a_suede/malmo/cragg.html. Margaret Olley & Donald Friend 2006, Griffith, viewed 14 August, 2008, http://www.griffith.edu.au/centre/artworks/pdf/content_olleyresource.pdf. Margaret Olley 2008, Eva Breuer art dealer, viewed 14 August, 2008, http://www.evabreuerartdealer.com.au/olley.html.           Credit:ivythesis.typepad.com

Margaret Olley and Her Works of Arts

Margaret Olley is considered to be one of the most prized still and interior painters in Australia and born in Lismore in 1923. The ex...