TRADITIONAL VS CONTEMPORARY ART

By Jess Macbeth and kaysie gabsch 9g

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Gustav Klimt

Gustav Klimt was born on July 14, 1862 and died on February 6th, 1918.

he  was an Austrian symbolist painter. Klimt is noted for his paintings, 

murals, sketches, and other objected art. Klimt's primary subject was the female body.

Gustav Klimt was born in Baumgartner, near Vienna in Austria-Hungary, the second of seven children—three boys and four girls.

Jean-Michel Basquiat

Jean-Michel Basquiat was born on the 22nd of December in 1960 And died on the 12th of August 1988.

Jean-Michel basquiat He was an American artist who had several careers as a graffiti artist, painter, poet, musician and producer.

He was born in Brooklyn, new York and lived there his whole life.

He died due to a heroin overdose at his art studio, he was sonly 27.

Gustav Klimt:Gustav used different sized pencils and different colour paints to create the look he wanted for his pieces.

Jean-Michel Basquiat:Jean used various materials to create his artwork such as acrylic paints, oil stick and spray paint.

Materials The Artists Used

Gustav KlimtGustav’s paintings constitute a sublime frontier between traditional and modern, figurative and non figurative. HE Created ARTWORKS MOSTLY CENTRED ON THE ‘FEMALE BODY’ WHICH WAS WHAT HE WAS KNOWN FOR PAINTING. THEY REMAIN AMOUNG THE MOST RECOGNIZED WORKS OF ART IN THE WORLD. HIS ‘FEMALE’ PAINTINGS ARE OFTEN POTRAYED IN DIFFERENT WAYS AND YOU CAN ONLY SOMETIMES SEE THE LADY IN THE PAINITING AS ITS QUITE DISUISED.

Distinctive features of Gustav’s art work

Distinctive features of Jean-Michel Basquiat’s

artwork

Jeans artwork was cantered around street art and graffiti. He had a very messy style of artwork.

He mostly created poetry, drawing and painting, and married text and image, abstraction and figuration, and historical information mixed with contemporary critique.

In Basquiat’s artwork he aimed to attack on power structures and systems of racism, while his poetics were acutely political and direct in their criticism of colonialism and support for class struggle.

How has art changed?

Art has had some changed but has also kept some of the techniques used from the past. Traditional art is still being taught in schools today, as well as Contempory art which has been recently introduced. Structures and building have dramatically changed and have become more modern.

In old times, mostly painting and sketching was being used, today we can now do these things with technology, creating masterpieces ‘in the palm of our hand’.

It is important to remember where art came from and how it evolved into something much more appreciated.

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