Exploring the Work of Up-and-Coming Artist Alejandra Ico Chub - Oli And Alex (2024)

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What techniques does Alex Garant use? ›

A trailblazer in Contemporary Figurative Op Art, Garant's oil paintings blend graphic elements with traditional portraiture techniques. She pioneers analogue Glitch Art, employing patterns, duplication, symmetry, and image superposition to craft her mesmerizing visuals.

"The job of the artist is to make a gesture and really show people what their potential is. It's not about the object, and it's not about the image; it's about the viewer. That's where the art happens."

Minimalism emerged as an art movement beginning in the 1950s. The overarching aesthetic themes of minimalist art call for purifying beauty, finding fundamental truths in objects, and reducing art to necessary elements.

The term ''non-objective art'' first appeared in 1918 as a description of his own work by the Russian painter Alexander Rodchenko (1891-1956). Around that time, non-objective painting became more popular in Europe as artists reacted against centuries of representational artwork to create new, more abstract styles.

Canadian artist Alex Garant is known as the Queen of the Double Eyes and a pioneer of figurative op art. Her signature drawings and oil paintings are portraits that seem to almost vibrate, thanks to her use of symmetry, superposition, and repetition.

Ross's style, which usually employs a combination of gouache and wash, has been said to exhibit "a Norman-Rockwell-meets-George-Pérez vibe", and has been praised for its realistic, human depictions of classic comic book characters.

Artists create art that conveys to us how they think and feel about things. Artists use different lines, shapes, and colors to express their feelings. Every artist chooses their own colors, lines and shapes that are meaningful for them. Learn more about Expressionism as an artist movement HERE.

Jeff Koons has been associated with pop art, conceptual art and minimalism. His use of themes and subjects from popular culture (such as toys, ornaments and advertising) is characteristic of pop art. But Koons's work also has qualities that suggest minimalist art.

Koons's ready-mades represent his desire to recollect childhood moments through common objects. Nearby, the notorious Rabbit (1986) crosscuts through Koons's most recurring themes: childhood and sexuality.

Minimalists don't focus on having less, less, less. We focus on making room for more: more time, more peace, more creativity, more experiences, more contribution, more contentment, more freedom. Clearing the clutter frees up the space.

What is the main idea of minimalism art? ›

With minimalism, no attempt is made to represent an outside reality, the artist wants the viewer to respond only to what is in front of them. The medium, (or material) from which it is made, and the form of the work is the reality.

Minimalistic design has been highly influenced by Japanese traditional design and architecture. The works of De Stijl artists are a major reference: De Stijl expanded the ideas of expression by meticulously organizing basic elements such as lines and planes.

He was a leading figure of Abstract Expressionism. His style strongly influenced art after World War II. De Kooning attended the Rotterdam Academy of Fine Arts and Techniques and was drawn to Cubism.

First articulated by Piet Mondrian in the journal De Stijl (The Style), Neo-plasticism (the new plastic art) was a response to the devastation wreaked by World War I, offering a way to achieve a visual harmony in art that could provide a blueprint for restoring order and balance to everyday life.

Name given by the artist Kazimir Malevich to the abstract art he developed from 1913 characterised by basic geometric forms, such as circles, squares, lines and rectangles, painted in a limited range of colours.

Through his design, illustration and typographic practice he has developed an intuitive way of working that has resulted in his expressive visual style. For Alex, typography functions on two hierarchical levels. First, there is the image of the word we see; reading comes secondary.

Indeed, Katz at first rendered the figure in a painterly style, looking to the example of Abstract Expressionism. This manner of painting quickly gave way in the mid-1950s to a flatter, more reductive way of painting.

Alberto Giacometti used a variety of techniques including etching, engraving and lithography. Alberto Giacometti is a Swiss artist that created sculptures as well as prints with influences in cubism and surrealism. Browse a selection of Alberto Giacometti work on 1stDibs.

His technique is focused on the use of thread as medium to make merge different times and spaces in the realized pieces. Embroidery technique is used on paper, as well as on photograph, with no fear of breaking the support since it is part of the process too.