tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1104719614891605902012-02-16T21:33:17.554+10:00an attempt by the user to keep track of her art progressyenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02630136809431613802noreply@blogger.comBlogger681100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-110471961489160590.post-84992862763182419262010-03-06T08:40:00.001+10:002010-03-06T08:42:20.263+10:00

I'm moving on from this particular blog to a newer one so I can keep my game design segments in a different area. This blog might get updated but I'm not sure yet.New Blog: Button Bash Design

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Not sure which of these I am going to put in, most likely the last two. The first two look pretty dodgy.. I did a head count last night, there is 53 images in my section of the assignment so far...

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Some more stuff, there's still a lot to go and not enough time.Concept painting:Layout maps:Environment Designs/Concepts

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Let's take a step back in time, to the begining! Here's a bunch of Neuromancer sketches, there are probably more but I think they may be tiny ball point doodles in a book somewhere.

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Moving on with environments, going to take a really long time to get something out of these.Some Environment concepts

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Continuing on with the Neuromancer assignment.. Taking a looong time and still not sure what I should be doing next.Sketches:Linda Turnaround and poses:Case Turnarounds:Poses for Case:Key Prop Design/ConceptsBrazilian Dex:Gun:Cobra:Neural nodes and Neck Plug:Some concepts on how to 'jack in' to cyberspace:Some colour schemes with environmentsStreet MarketDay:Night:Alternate night:Streets of Chiba

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Really rough looking turnarounds and gesture drawings of two characters from Neuromancer.Case:Linda:

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This is pretty much what I spent my mid-semester break doing. It's still pretty rough and needs a lot of work. Which I don't think I will have time to finish it all. Lots of things still need labels so I'm sorry if you have to guess.Grisaille exercise:Isometric grid exercise from class:Axonometric exercise from class:Trying to sort out Robert Neville, again! Going from pencil sketches to actual

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What precedes a long furious battle with trying to get shit done. This post is picture heavy and it is sad that I am getting Photoshop lazy so these pics are too big.Concept design involves much planning and the nuts and bolts of it doesn't look pretty. Which means I am trying to cover my ass from putting up "ugly" drawings.Robert Neville from "I am Legend"Initial attempts at Line of Action:Much

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For no apparent reason, a hilarious description of Sherlock Holmes. Brought to you by Tv Tropes and They Fight Crime!". Try it, you'll like it.He's a battle-scarred veteran of the war in Afghanistan! He's a substance-abusing dilettante grad student! They Fight Crime!

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Here's some sketches from the visual diary that I had to keep over the last semester. Excuse the bad scans but it was a big sketch book.Couch:I like this one, though it's not 100% accurate drawing of the couch. Cloth is difficult to get right. I was sitting about a meter away from it. For some reason, I don't really sit on the couch, I'm usually on the floor.Shoes:My favourite, I'll try and get a

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It's been really hectic at uni hence the extreme silence on the blog. Since April I have:- had to give up Coffee- procrastinated- survived life drawing with Kay- got to know my fellow students better (promise of beer seems to keep them happy)- designed 3 pretty good game prototypes and 1 not-so-good with an awesome group- (maybe) survived programming- learnt more about working (or not working)

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Some stuff from uni, here's some photmanlipulations for Digital Production. The assignment was to create 3 images, based on the theme of "Beyond the Surface". You have to hand in:- 1 naturalistic (realistic) image- 1 abstract image- 1 title design (see below)The assignment has to be handed in on CD/DVD, with a outside and inside cover, this is mine, as it will look for the assignment. The inside/

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My poor blog's feeling a little abandoned since I haven't been maintaining it (writing). So here's some more stuff about studying Games Design at QCA. It's still fairly interesting, by far the most interesting class is "Principles of Game Design" which is the new title for "Intro to Games Design". It's been undergoing some reconstruction since our convener Arash decided the original structure and

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Something that I saw a part of the other night and decided to watch this morning. It's a seventeen minute video of Adam Savage talking about obsession and motivation. Or perhaps something about the creative process.Adam Savage: Dodos and the Maltese FalconOkay, sometime on the weekend I'll write about the Games Design degree.

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I was going to documente about life on uni but I guess this entry is just going to be me whining about stuff. Bear with me, I will probably edit this all out.My first week at uni has gone off with a lot of smoke and confusion. I've had to rearrange my timetable to accomadate for overflowing classes. Gwah... The whole program is still interesting but my timetable is all over the place now, and

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For the sheer heck of it, a car commerical that's fairly impressive.

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Even if it's dated 4th Feb, these are more likely Jan-Feb works. Here's a continuation with the "piper" sketch from the last entry. I really need to work on my anatomy. Here's some costume(?) clothing designs for an idea that I really haven't done much with. These are based on Asian costume. Some stuff I found on the computer, it's an attempt at Tegan's character Ozy, who is very difficult to

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Just some bits and pieces that I've done since my last post. Here's the finished tree picture. Some exercises in body language, posing using a body type. This is a kind of ongoing project that I'm using to help me with characterisation. The anatomy isn't correct but the pose/character feels right. Some old thing I found on my computer. Didn't really go according to plan.An attempt at buildings or

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In the January offer round you have been offered:241312 Bachelor of Games Design - full-time - Griffith University, Queensland College of ArtStart Month: March 2009You have firmly accepted this offer and you will not be considered in any further offer rounds.Clearly a sign from the heavens to haul some ass and make something. Hopefully I'll stop foaming at the mouth to make something of this

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Some doodles from this weekend that I did at Alice's house. Not sure where to go to next. I've been stressing over my university application which ended up in a nightmare about it last night. Hopefully I'll have happy news to post here at the end of the week.This is one that's been in my mind but I can't really get it down clearly. I knew it was something with a long hidden head.Same thing but in

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It's been too long since I last updated and I don't really have anything to show for it. Well except that I have technically graduated from the "Southbank Institute of Technology" and now hold a Diploma of Visual Arts. I've been trying to draw but nothing noteworthy has come out. Hopefully something will come out of the ideas that are roaming in my head.Some sketches of fnatasy buildings/

yenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02630136809431613802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-110471961489160590.post-23813913661859690782008-12-05T06:30:00.007+10:002008-12-05T10:55:02.423+10:00

On the suggestion of Alice, I've started this summer off doing landscapes. This week it's speedpainting, below are the results. I only like the one with the trees, all the others are pretty bad. I'm going to keep going with this for a little while and then maybe try out something a little different.Edit 10:51 am: Not entirely happy with these ones either, but thought I'd try vertical format. I

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She's finished. Starting from there to here. I decided to go with a loose paint style than paint it detailed like I did with her head.Detailing the hair.Changing colours on the "wings" - going for "loose"End result.

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Here's some photos from the setup of the exhibition, I didn't take any during the show so please excuse the mess. I ran out of memory on the camera and forgot to clear it during the course of the exhibition. You can see more photos at Looking Glass and some at Ann Valentine's blog. You can find more about some the works in these photos from here.

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I'll be updating this blog soon once I sort out my photos and back some stuff up. But here's some online gaming fun!PETA's Cooking Mama - An unauthorised parody of a cooking game. Katamari Offical Site - Features a few fun things to play around withOffice Wars - The Good Game Game, Office Wars is now available for testing.

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Okay I forgot to take pictures of the exhibition, so that will happen soon. But here's some details of what I'm trying to play around with at the moment. Redrew the sketch on the computer, I was trying to emulate the rough lines I get while drawing with ballpoint pen. I fixed up the pose and the feathers.Some rough colours to test out the scheme, for some reason I always end up playing around

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Gwah, only a few more days till the exhibition and it's getting a little frentic. I'm going to take some pictures of the place this morning so they'll be up tomorrow. It's all very exciting, it was one big hub of activity yesterday and promises to be the same today.Anima/Animus Redux is mounted on some board and is downstairs as part of the main exhibition. Anima/Animus is upstairs since it

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Seems like I'm finding a fair few things to stick in this blog. Here's some drawings from Drawing class. This set is more of a process of how I went from little sketch, to bigger one to finalised piece.

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Had a showing of everyone's final works, and "Anima/Animus caused bit of a stir. Mainly because it's supposably an unexpected side to my personality or as how people know me.Here's some sketches of some drawings I want to fiddle around with during the holiday while I await for the uni entry rounds. Fingers crossed.

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The rope sculpture installation is finished. It's almost like a set of strange Christmas decorations. Thanks go to Ray, Stephan, Cherie and Ted for helping me out with this yesterday.

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Just about finished, hopefully the first 8 of these are going into the exhibition. Glad to get them done and I feel pretty happy with them. It's my first time doing something this big and a lots happened with them over the last 2-3 months.So here's the final shots! The actual pictures aren't this dark but since they aren't with me I can't adjust the pictures accurately.The Anima/Animus

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This is the posters/flyers that we've been working hard to get around Brisbane, so hopefully people will come to the show. It was designed by the awe inspiring Natalie. You can check out more of her stuff at her DA account.Some of the artist exhibiting:Natalie HoganTeagan WattsAnn RoworthAlice CarpenterCarly MilliganNick SimpsonDeborah BaasAlichia ClementsDavid MackeeTegan CroftAnn

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I've been neglecting this blog lately since everything is moving really fast. Only about less (!) than two weeks till the exhibition. So here's some progress shots.Had some troubles integrating the heads of the females so on the suggestion of a teacher, I went at it with a stanley knife. The result is quite nice, I was a bit worries but the more I look at it, the better I feel about it. Not quite

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Some progress shots of the project, things are changing really quickly. I've had to cut out the black ones with arms, and now they are becoming an extension of the "Anima/Animus" project. Hopefully it will all come into play soon. But the new drawings, which use the old drawings will be based off some of the work of Ben Tour and possibly Blaine Fontana will have some influence there.It's really

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Just an update on how the Anima/Animus pictures are going. As predicted by this week, they are heading more or less in the right direction. There are some problems to fix and a whole barrel with the Female/Male ones.I tried covering them in ink and now I'm sort of stuck as to keep attacking these in hopes something comes out or leaving them out. Hopefully something comes out soon.Right now the

yenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02630136809431613802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-110471961489160590.post-12292775141688008082008-10-09T14:10:00.008+10:002008-11-15T11:30:46.874+10:00

I've decided to refer to the animal head drawings as "Anima/Animus" instead of "Project Arms". "PA" as a name isn't relavant anymore, I'm not sure what to refer to the other drawings as.I did a little more work on the animal drawings. To do them properly, I'm going to have to get some more reference pictures. I should explain a little more about these pictures. Starting back again at the arist

yenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02630136809431613802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-110471961489160590.post-83054924467885579552008-10-09T08:44:00.003+10:002008-10-09T08:52:35.729+10:00

I just found this via Web Designer Wall, but hitotoki is a site which describes itself as "an online literary project collecting stories of singular experiences tied to locations in cities worldwide". Which means I've found something else to keep me sitting in front of a computer. I'm pretty excited about finding this, it's simular to the One Book Many Brisbanes Anthologies that's still going

yenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02630136809431613802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-110471961489160590.post-3499431546762477882008-10-08T09:12:00.003+10:002008-10-08T09:19:27.757+10:00

Some shots of the new additions to the rope sculpture family. I think there's going to be about 6 - 8 of these, I still don't know how I am going to hang them so hopefully I'll sort it out soon.For those who can't remember here's,theother ones.Rope Sculpture - the begining

yenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02630136809431613802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-110471961489160590.post-89104132383991226692008-10-06T06:01:00.007+10:002009-02-04T14:06:47.759+10:00

Some drawings/paintings from last year. They where about working in black and white. I really like the 2nd one where I poured ink over it.Some concept drawings from last year? or the year before. I did these during work so I can't really say much about their quality.I was thinking of the really nice backgrounds from Breath of Fire IV with this jungle one.I like the idea of a city in the clouds, I

yenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02630136809431613802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-110471961489160590.post-48646019556926936942008-10-05T09:18:00.002+10:002008-10-05T09:21:29.157+10:00

Okay,I just found this now and I have to share it. The Whitlams on You Tube I will probably spend too many hours watching video clips.

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In the last entry, I had a tentative artist statement for the work going into the exhibition. Here's the latest version of it:These are a series of works that explore the relationships between male and female identities through the use of representation. Sourced from how each sex represents each other in their own media, these works are trying to re-evaluate the concepts of male and female

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I've been asked to write an artist's statement about the work going into "Exit", the end of year exhibition. It's quite challenging because I still haven't figured out why I make art in the way I do and what the art is about. It's getting to be a problem since I've never been able to describe stuff, I just "know". So far this is what I've gotten from my brain last night about the drawings that

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Just some drawings from last semester that were using the campus as an influence. We had to mix things up, by painting part of the the campus, then drawing an unreleated detail on top then add text. Some interesting results. I might use this in some upcoming stuff for my digital art class.And a little something that I'm trying to work on during my spare time. I'm still somewhat undecided if I

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Just some pics on how the project is going,so far I'm still not too sure what's going to happen.And some shots of how the rope sculptures are going.September Progress - Some early progress shotsProject Arms2.0Rope SculptureProject "Arms" hybrids - variaents on Project ArmsProject "Arms" - All about the ProjectA Look - Retrospective on past drawings

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Last Friday we had to present our ideas so I ended up making a Powerpoint presentation on the project. Unfortunately one the teachers did say it wasn't ambitious enough which left me in a fairly despondent state by the end of the day. So much of that weekend and this week has been on trying to get it to be better.Some prototypes of how it was going to be:I did end up thinking of doing a series of

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A series of images from one of the painting classes that was hung in the gallery on campus. It seems a little in line with Project "Arms"Here some pics that I'm going to be basing another body of works that does relate to the human body in some way. These drawings are going to be reworked into a sculpture installation but in 3D. I'm going to "drawing" these in rope and then suspend a number of

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Chris pointed out quite a few artists that have simular work or themes to Project "Arms". So sit tight for a lot of pictorial information.I've had to remove the expandable post code for the viewing pleasure of others.Be warned lots of these pictures may offend.Auguste RodinSarah LucusTim HawkinsonLouise BourgeoisPBS profileJonathan OwenThis was shown to me by Scott, and sadly it's exactly what I

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In allience with past enteries, at the start of Project "Arms" development, I'd been told to keep it aligned with other classes to keep the workload down. So I thought I share a few pieces that come from my Drawing with contempoary techniques" class.These drawings are based on the concept of combining a "no fine art" image/item and use it to create an artwork. Of course, how could I resist

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The new art project will be tentatively called Project "Arms", which best describes what is going to be involved in it. I will go back to this entry as more thoughts and edits come.The ConceptTo create a series of drawings of human hands/arms, these limbs will be drawn without bodies, requiring the viewer to develop their own idea of what and why these arms are being presented. The concept behind

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I've been asked for a class to make blog posts about an upcoming art project that has to be completed this semester. So I have to record my thoughts, ideas and influences in a easy access medium. So I'm thinking of doing some pictures based on the techniques that I learnt from these pictures I did last semester.This one is my favourite, it involves two pieces of paper,charcoal,white conte and a

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testing click to expandthis piece of code which comes here care of the categories template.clicking hereto see if this works as well.

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The goal here was to set up an installation of sculpture that had to use its environment as part of the work. Since we had been working on making moulds and cast objects,most of the class decided to work with this approach. Of course this includes me,next time I'm going to try something else. I will be sticking up pictures of how I came to this and pics of the site without any art in it. Me

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Right now I've been trying to juggle assignments so I've been negeleting my art blog. I'll be dumping huge amounts of post come the end of November so look forward to it. This site relates to a colour theory assignment I'm doing which is to do some clothing design based on the work of Issey Miyake who work I do like even if it is fashion design which is something I don't bother about. What do you

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I was going though my digital art magazines when I came across this quote. "I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to,and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration." Frida KahloI'd really like to use that as a reason as to why I should not explain my art because sometimes I just really can't.

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Can't belive I forgot to write something about this - Metaphysical painting As liberally poached in the middle of the night from the dark forest itself. And can also be found here.Actually I should have read this much earlier and then Chirico's paintings would have made much more sense to me."Metaphysical Painting sprang from the urge to explore the imagined inner life of familiar objects when

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More of how the painting came to be. This is a progression shot of the picture during my first lesson. I was aiming to get simular colours to the original painting here. As it turned out I had to make the background more interesting later on. I admit it looks pretty flat at this stage.Adding in the towers,it really annoyed me that I didn't have very good brush control here,but I don't think I've

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A few things about towers since the subject of the paintings are tower(s). From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TowerTowers are tall man-made buildings, always (and usually much) taller than they are wide. Towers are generally built to take advantage of their height, and can stand alone or as part of a larger structure. Examples of the various uses of towers include: * To save ground-level space:

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For this lesson,you will require a dictionary.According to dictionary.comNostalgia noun1.A wistful desire to return in thought or in fact to a former time in one's life, to one's home or homeland, or to one's family and friends; a sentimental yearning for the happiness of a former place or time.2.Something that elicits or displays nostalgia.3. The condition of being homesick;

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Giorgio de ChiricoThe Italian painter Giorgio de Chirico (1888-1978), acclaimed by the surreallists as a forerunner of their movement, founded the school of metaphysical painting.Giorgio de Chirico was born on July 10, 1888, in Volos, Greece, the son of an engineer from Palermo. The family settled in Athens, where De Chirico studied art at the Polytechnic Institute. His earliest works were

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A look into my visual diary.A look at some of my planning,looks like. After I did the copy(picture coming!) I took on the suggestion of my class mates,to make the tower twist. A friend says it looks like the tower melted. So I moved on and tried a free-form kind of approach. I had a better picture in my mind so of course,it never came out. I tried to make a tower that had a lot of empty space

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The subject of the painting is a large tower. The scene is struck by low, angular evening light. In the foreground below the tower are two small shadowy figures reminiscent of those in future works by Salvador Dalí. This painting is the most famous example of the tower theme which appears in several of de Chirico’s works.Though the painting is dated 1911, this date is generally held in question.

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This composition presents one of the artist's famous deserted public squares rendered in simple broad forms. Somber monolithic arches on the right cast a heavy geometric shadow filling two�thirds of the right foreground. On the left, seen slightly from above and in a vertical perspective, is the statue of the sleeping Ariadne. The background is sealed by a brick wall, beyond which rises a squat

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The term "metaphysical" represented to de Chirico a search for the essential meaning hidden behind the surface of objects. He believed that objects acquire various meanings when imbued with the memory of their viewer. If that which de Chirico called the "chain of memories" is broken, the objects acquire a new and disquieting guise, "a ghostly and metaphysical aspect that only a few individuals

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Found while trawling the web,I can finally present some noteworthy research and abuse the Ctrl-C and V functions of my keyboard. This post's sponser is Migraine AuraMore hilarity ensured if you click on above link!The Italian painter Giorgio de Chirico is more and more appreciated as one of the emblematic figures of 20th century art. He has developed the style of "metaphysical art" and is seen as

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Metaphysical art is the name of an Italian art movement, created by Giorgio de Chirico and Carlo Carrà. Using a realist style, they painted dream-like views of squares typical of idealized Italian cities, as well as apparently casual juxtapositions of objects. Their art represented a visionary world which engaged most immediately with the unconscious mind, beyond physical reality, hence the name.

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Chirico developed his enigmatic vision in Munich and Italy and from 1911 to 1915 he worked and exhibited in Paris. His powerful, disturbing paintings employ steep perspective, mannequin figures, empty space, and forms used out of context to create an atmosphere of mystery and loneliness. His work exercised a considerable influence on early surrealist painters but was never successfully imitated.

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In the Beginning, The Nostalgia of the Infinite caught my eye. I was already in a relationship with Vase with Fifteen sunflowers so it seemed unfaithful to be looking at someone else. If anyone was too blame it was Dali's fault. I had been researching him approximately 3 weeks before hand and had finally come to some point where I actually understood Surrealism. I could also blame this which had

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