Pakayla Biehn

Pakayla Biehn's paintings derived from double exposure photography. Check out her whimsical paintings from her site: http://www.youshouldtakecare.com/

Contemporary Photorealist: Natalia Fabia

Proud "Hooker" painter, Natalia Fabia presents her latest collection East Village Sparklers featured in gallery from April 17, 2012.

Past Artworks

Photography into Painting

  

Kim Jong-un, 39 pieces (each 8"x11"), mixed media, 2012. 

 

Kim Jong-un, 54'x60', mixed media, 2012

by jihae Park


In this semester, I tried to study screen print and digital print technique.
I believe my works are related with this class; Photography into Painting. People can easily notice about specific figure picture at my works even though it was destroyed and painted.
I used digital print, silk screen, transfer images with yupo paper, and then acrylic and oil paint on papers and canvases. I'd like to express about photography as a painting itself with my perspective. I transferred his photography found at online and then painted overlapped of photographs itself with my statement about work process.

When I went to the Art Institute of Chicago, I stuck by Andy Warhol's Mao. I'd wanted to reference from it and make mine with Kim Jong-un image because I have some personal experiences about North Korea that I never forget it.
When I was young, my grandmother talked to me about the war between North and South Korea.
Few years ago, I could travel Gaesung city which is second capital city of North Korea. That made me remind of Kim Jong-un. However, I do not focus on political issue for my work. I'd like to think about just as one man who is just four years older than me. 
Kim jong-un is the current Supreme leader of North korea. He is born 8.January 1983. I kept considering to express and imagining about his non political and his unknown personal life. His life could be really different from our lives. I am wondering and interested in  his unveiled life to my work.

From Sang Ha,

Why we prefer a photorealist painting over a photo

Psychologist Paul Bloom does a really interesting TED Talk about how our brains value something more or less based on our perception of its origins. He begins with a story about a Nazi officer who learns that his prized Vermeer painting is actually a very precise forgery, and commits suicide soon after.


This explains why someone might pass over as image they perceive as a photograph without a second glance, and look at it for hours if they later learn its really a painting. Though I feel that we've sort of resolved this issue in class already, Blooms does a very thorough job of explaining why our experience with an object is altered according to our perception of it's history. A Richter painting, for example, would be received very differently if it were a photograph. I'm totally guilty of this. I kept walking through the Richter room in AIC without a second glance at that painting of the yellow flowers, thinking absentmindedly that it was a photograph. Only upon learning that it was a painted image did I begin to grow a fondness for it. When we experience a painting, we imagine that it takes time and effort. We are dissatisfied with simply the image, and need illusions of labor and process in order to respect or appreciate it.


The video's kinda long, but Bloom is a really engaging speaker and I bet if you start watching that you won't stop until the end. 

Andy Warhol (Marilyn Monroe)

        Andy Warhol who is one of the most influential and well-known artists around the world. Having made multi productions on a same object, especially famous for paining Marilyn Monroe, he is a leading figure in pop art. Warhol started to paint famous objects or people: Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, Elizabeth Taylor, Dollar Signs, and Coca Cola Bottles, with the series of other paintings called “death and disaster.” However, Warhol painted Campbell’s Soup cans not because they were very special, but rather he painted them because he wanted to paint nothing. In most of Warhol’s work, he often based on the photographs, and he made mass-produced objects, drawing on his extensive advertising background. Most importantly, Warhol liked using Fauve colors, the non-representational colors of Pop Art, or better known as artificial or flash colors. However, he did not know which colors were the right colors when he was in a progress of painting. Warhol was very fascinated with morbid concepts, but his art works came out with very beautiful and brilliant colors, especially in the images of Marilyn Monroe.

        Warhol painted Untitled from Marilyn Monroe in 1967 after sudden death of Monroe. While at that time, Warhol was really into pop culture, obtaining a black-and white photo of Monroe, taken in 1953 for her film Niagara. Warhol used this photo to create multiple series of images, and he used dramatic colors and shadow. Warhol was able to produce this multi images in a fast rate due to printing technique and the help of his assistants. In addition, Marilyn is a good example of Warhol’s multi-production piece and process. I really like how he used different colors in each images of the Marilyn Monroe, and the idea of multi-producing the same image of the piece.

Robert Doisneau

Robert Doisneau was a French photographer. In the 1930s he used a Leica on the streets of Paris. He and Henri Cartier-Bresson were pioneers of photojournalism. He is renowned for his 1950 image Le baiser de l'hôtel de ville (Kiss by the Town Hall), a photograph of a couple kissing in the busy streets of Paris. Robert Doisneau was appointed a Chevalier (Knight) of the Legion of Honour in 1984.

He worked at Renault before photographer career, but he soon got fired because of constant lateness. He first started his career as a postcard photographer, and he got fame because of his Le Baiser de L’hotel de Ville. He mostly took snapshots of paris living people. He was very skillful to take a picture of a moment. I really like his fun pictures.