5 Graphic Designers Relating to the Subject of High Vs. Low Culture
Damien Hirst
- English - 1965 to present
- Hirst is internationally renowned as one of the most prolific sensationalist artists of this time and is Britain's richest living artist.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damien_Hirst
- http://www.damienhirst.com/
- http://www.biography.com/people/damien-hirst-20683781/videos/damien-hirst-mini-bio-2172220660
http://www.damienhirst.com/artworks
- "Damien Hirst is a sculptor, installation artist, painter and print maker. Well known works include his series of animals in formaldehyde including a Shark and a cow and her calf, his ‘spot’ and ‘spin’ paintings, and installations such as Pharmacy.
Hirsts works often court controversy such as his most recent piece ‘For the Love of God’ which was a platinum cast of a human skull encrusted with diamonds.
Damien Hirst was a prominent member of the ‘Young British Artists’ (or YBAs) who rose to fame during the 1990’s and were seen as part of the wider Brit pop cultural movement. He gained institutional acclaim in 1995 when he won the Tuner prize. Many of his early works were bought by leading modern art collector Charles Saatchi. Hirst continues to exhibit worldwide and now works with a studio of assistants.
Damien Hirst was born in 1965 in Bristol UK and now lives and works in London and Devon."
http://www.artrepublic.com/biographies/116-damien-hirst.html
Alexander Rodchenko
- Aleksander Mikhailovich Rodchenko - Russian - 1891 - 1956
- Artist, sculptor, photographer and graphic designer famed as one of the most versatile Constructivist designers/ artists to emerge after the Russian Revolution. "His photography was socially engaged, formally innovative, and opposed to a painterly aesthetic".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Rodchenko
- "A distinctly Russian avant-garde in the visual arts took shape in the decade before the Revolution. By 1915, the painter Kasimir Malevich and the sculptor Vladimir Tatlin had created original styles of abstraction, grounded in the physical qualities of the artist's materials.
After spending his early childhood in his native St. Petersburg, Rodchenko attended art school from 1910 to 1914 in provincial Kazan, where he emulated styles that had been popular at the turn of the century. After moving to Moscow at the end of 1915, he made his mark in avant-garde circles by presenting a series of compass-and-ruler drawings at The Store, an exhibition organized by Tatlin in March 1916. The mechanical precision of these drawings introduced Rodchenko's artistic self-image as a professional technician or engineer. Not long after the exhibition, he began military service as operations manager of a hospital train, and he made little new work until after his discharge in December 1917.The Revolution forced Russian artists and intellectuals to make difficult political choices, and many emigrated. Rodchenko and other members of the avant-garde soon sided with the Bolsheviks, who welcomed their support. Thus it was that a tiny, gifted, obstreperous group, whose sophisticated art was unknown to the vast majority of the Russian people, set forth their own artistic ideals as the vanguard of Communist culture--and in the process created a unique and lasting body of art and theory."
http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/1998/rodchenko/texts/russian_avantgarde.html
Jock Kinnear
- Richard 'Jock' Kinneir - English - 1917 - 1994
- "When edging along the M25 on a hot August day stuck behind a car that suspiciously looks like it may overheat at any time, you could be forgiven for not noticing the splendid graphical qualities of the road signage. But this would indeed be a mistake.
For you would be ignoring the fruits one of the largest and most successful design projects that Britain has ever seen. In the late 1950′s the roads were covered with a confusing plethora of different types of signage created by different artists and agencies. With the advent of motorways, the government decided to standardise the graphics used and commissioned Jock Kinneir (Gatwick Airport signage) and his erstwhile assistant, Margaret Calvert to do the job."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/3671028/Alexander-Rodchenko-A-man-who-took-life-lying-down.html
http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/1998/rodchenko/texts/russian_avantgarde.html
http://zeynepkinli.wordpress.com/2009/05/14/graphic-design-aleksander-mikhailovich-rodchenko/
Keith Haring
- American - 1958 - 1990
- American - 1958 - 1990
- Artist and social activist whose work responded to the New York City street culture of the 1980s. He originally studied commercial arts but his practice moved on into the fine art sphere. He was a fine artist whose work could be described as low culture.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Haring
- http://www.haring.com/home.php
- http://www.haring.com/archives/interviews/index.html
- http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2012/may/04/keith-haring-google-doodle
- "The Keith Haring Foundation was established in 1989 to assist AIDS-related and children's charities, and maintains the largest resource of archives on the late artist, Keith Haring. Haring's bold lines and active figures carry poignant messages of vitality and unity. His legacy made an impact on late 20th century art and grants us all a vision for the future."
http://www.haring.com/home.php
http://www.haring.com/cgi-bin/exhibition_works.cgi?exb_id=105&exb_title=Keith%20Haring
http://www.haring.com/cgi-bin/art.cgi?date=1986
http://www.walkerart.org/magazine/2012/keith-haring-1984-mural-walker-art-center
Jock Kinnear
- Richard 'Jock' Kinneir - English - 1917 - 1994
- Typographer and graphic designer credited with, along with one of his students Margaret Calvert, designing the typeface for the modern British transport signage system. His font appears on the majority of street signs throughout the country. - http://designmuseum.org/design/jock-kinneir-margaret-calvert
- http://spiffingdesign.com/tag/jock-kinneir/
For you would be ignoring the fruits one of the largest and most successful design projects that Britain has ever seen. In the late 1950′s the roads were covered with a confusing plethora of different types of signage created by different artists and agencies. With the advent of motorways, the government decided to standardise the graphics used and commissioned Jock Kinneir (Gatwick Airport signage) and his erstwhile assistant, Margaret Calvert to do the job."
http://colourschool.co.uk/2008/08/jock-kinneir-and-margaret-calvert/
http://designmuseum.org/design/jock-kinneir-margaret-calvert
http://spiffingdesign.com/tag/jock-kinneir/
Thomas Kinkade
- American - 1958 - 2012
- Kinkade was a painter known for his paintings which readily sell throughout America as printed reproductions and on different objects such as mugs. He has been criticised and his work has been seen as 'kitsch'.
- http://www.thomaskinkade.com/magi/servlet/com.asucon.ebiz.home.web.tk.HomeServlet
- http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2012/may/09/thomas-kinkade-dark-death-painter
- http://www.kinkadecentral.com/
- "There is no greater testament to Thom's mission that art be accessible for everyone to enjoy than the millions of Kinkade images that grace the walls of homes across America and around the world. Through a myriad of genres, Thom's ability to present his subject in an idyllic setting inspires the viewer to imagine the world full of beauty, intrigue, and adventure."
http://www.thomaskinkade.com/magi/servlet/com.asucon.ebiz.biography.web.tk.BiographyServlet
http://www.kinkadecentral.com/
http://www.thomaskinkade.com/magi/servlet/com.asucon.ebiz.catalog.web.tk.CatalogServlet
