Chuck Close

Inka Essenhigh

Alphonse Mucha

Yuko Shimizu

A Closer Look at Stuntkid

I actually met this person many years ago and he sold me a print. Oddly I can't seem to find that specific work anywhere online. Either way, I do appreciate his work as a whole simply because of his technical skill. And although some of the ideas and concepts he tries to create seem pretentious and typical, there are some explorations of compositions and color schemes, as well as subject matter that look modern, sleek, and graphic in terms of design quality, and I have not personally encountered them before, which in a way makes them very original, to this viewer at least.

Perfect examples

These belong to an artist is very much enjoy who goes by the alias of Stuntkid. However these are very good examples of what I was pointing out in my last entry.

Personal Commentary about "Young Art"

Something I've noticed about young artists in general, is that for the most part they love the taboo. They love being noticed, which is all very understandable. But at some point it turns into a sort of pretentious attempt at innovation. Flashy colors, particularly the color red, are used. For some reason the only solution, in different critiques I've been a part of, seem to be that something needs to be red.

They also love nudity. I suppose this is a sort of expression of maturity and a right of passage but on the same note it seems as though young artists use it in excess. It all seems like the easiest solution to being noticed and talked about. And in some ways it reminds me very much of Hollywood and the media, and how pushing the limits and being provocative to get some shock value is predominant in both silly little Hollywood scandals and young art.

But that's simply what I've observed.