2. Influences
Tapestries were ubiquitous in the castles and churches of the late medieval and Renaissance eras. At a practical level, they provided a form of
insulation and decoration that could be easily transported
The Drowning of Britomartis, 1547–59
Probably designed by Jean Cousin the Elder (French, ca. 1500–ca. 1560); possibly woven by Pierre II Blasse and Jacques Langlois (both French, active 1540–60)
Wool and silk
Otto, Count of Nassau, and his Wife Adelheid van Vianden, ca. 1530
Bernaert van Orley (Flemish, ca. 1488 or 1491/92–1542)
Pen and brown ink, watercolor over traces of black chalk; on verso, tracing in black chalk of the figures on recto
3. Influences
Marc Chagall (1887–1985), born in Belarus to a Hassidic family, began his education at a traditional Jewish school in Vitebsk. After studying with a local artist for
several years, the artist moved to St. Petersberg in 1907 and continued his studies at the Zvantseva School. Chagall moved to Paris in 1910 and his inventive
imagery won immediate recognition in the city's avant-garde circles. Here he began to assimilate cubist characteristics into his expressionistic style. He is
considered a forerunner of surrealism. Chagall's dream-based imagery was revered by contemporary Surrealists yet he refused to join the movement, preferring
to pursue his individualistic path. Chagall maintained a consistent style throughout his long career. His frequently repeated subject matter was drawn from
Jewish life and folklore; he was particularly fond of flower and animal symbols. The artist translated his imaginative folkloric imagery to stained glass and
designed windows for cathedrals in Metz and Reims. Among his well-known works are I and the Village (1911; Mus. of Modern Art, New York City) and The Rabbi
of Vitebsk (Art Inst., Chicago). He designed the sets and costumes for Stravinsky's ballet Firebird (1945). Chagall's twelve stained-glass windows, symbolizing
the tribes of Israel, were exhibited in Paris and New York City before being installed (1962) in the Hadassah-Hebrew Univ. Medical Center synagogue in
Jerusalem. His two vast murals for New York's Metropolitan Opera House, treating symbolically the sources and the triumph of music, were installed in 1966.
Much of Chagall's work is rendered with an extraordinary formal inventiveness and a deceptive fairy-tale naïveté. Chagall illustrated numerous books, including
Gogol's Dead Souls, La Fontaine's Fables, and Illustrations for the Bible (1956). A prolific artist and dazzling colorist, Chagall's vast oeuvre of both religious and
secular subjects has gained worldwide recognition.
5. Influences
Laura Owen’s large scale abstract minimal paintings and naturalistic subject matter in her
tapestry work.
6. Influences
Rothko’s created environments i.e. Rothko Room, Tate Modern and the Rothko Chapel, Houston,
Texas. In addition, the spiritual and meditative qualities in his work.
7. Environmental
Influences
The markets, village, beach, aquatic migration, and the Sea of
Cortez in and around Puerto Penosco, Mexico influenced
woodcut and intaglio work from 1994-2000.
12. Environmental
Influences
Roman Aquaducts-The Pont du Gard is an aqueduct in the South of France constructed by the
Roman Empire, and located in Vers-Pont-du-Gard near Remoulins, in the Gard département. The ancient
Romans typically constructed numerous aqueducts to serve any large city in their empire, as well as many
small towns and industrial sites.
13. Environmental
Influences
Rousillion, France The history of Ocher in Provence began 110 million years ago when the area was
covered by a sea, which deposited a mix of gray clay and sea sand full of minerals. These
minerals included Glauconite, the distant ancestor of Goethite which gives Ocher its color range
from yellow, the iron oxide limonite, to orange, to red or iron oxide hematite. Man or pre-
humans' use of Ocher began with body painting, burial and fertility rites as found in both
Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon archeological sites. But the most dramatic prehistoric use of Ocher
can be found in the nearby caves of Lascaux and Chauvet where some of the most beautiful
examples of early human art have survived for over 30,000 years.
14. Environmental
Influences
Lascaux is the setting of a complex of caves in southwestern France famous for its Paleolithic cave
paintings. The original caves are located near the village of Montignac, in the Dordogne département.
They contain some of the best-known Upper Paleolithic art. These paintings are estimated to be 16,000
years old. They primarily consist of realistic images of large animals, most of which are known from fossil
evidence to have lived in the area at the time.The cave contains nearly 2,000 figures, which can be
grouped into three main categories — animals, human figures and abstract signs. Notably, the paintings
contain no images of the surrounding landscape or the vegetation of the time
18. Environmental
Influences
Paris since Roman times buried its dead to the outskirts of the city, but this changed with the rise of Christianity and its practice of burying its faithful deceased in
consecrated ground in and adjoining its churches. By the 10th century, because of the city's expansion over the centuries, there were many parish cemeteries
within city limits, even in central locations. When Paris' population began to rise rapidly in the following centuries, some of these cemeteries became overcrowded
where expansion was impossible. Soon only the most wealthy could afford church burials, which led to the opening in the early 12th century of a central burial
ground for more common burials: initially dependent upon the St. Opportune church, this cemetery near Paris' central Les Halles district was renamed as the
'Saints-Innocents cemetery' under its own church and parish towards the end of the same century.
24. Environmental
Influences
The Japanese rock gardens ( karesansui?) or "dry landscape" gardens, often called "Zen gardens" were influenced mainly by Zen Buddhism and
can be found at Zen temples of meditation.
Japanese gardens are a living work of art in which the plants and trees are ever changing with the seasons. As they grow and mature, they are constantly sculpted
to maintain and enhance the overall experience; hence, a Japanese garden is never the same and never really finished. The underlying structure of a Japanese
garden is determined by the architecture; that is, the framework of enduring elements such as buildings, verandas and terraces, paths, tsukiyama (artificial hills),
and stone compositions.
26. Environmental
Influences
The beauty of Shoji screens originated in Japan as lightweight, wood framed panels used primarily as sliding doors or room dividers. Initially,
Shoji contained a grid on one side with a thin paper, which was replaced every Japanese New Year, glued to the back of the screens.
Shinto ( Shintō?) or kami-no-michi is the natural spirituality of Japan and the Japanese people. The word Shinto ("Way of the Gods") was adopted from the
written Chinese ( ),[1] combining two kanji: "shin" ( ?), meaning gods or spirits (originally from the Chinese word shen); and "tō" ( ?), or "do" meaning a
philosophical path or study (originally from the Chinese word tao). Shinto is a religion in where practice (actions) and ritual, rather than words, are of the utmost
importance. Shinto is characterized by the worship of nature, ancestors, polytheism, and animism, with a strong focus on ritual purity, involving honoring and
celebrating the existence of Kami ( ?). Kami are defined in English as "spirit", "essence" or "deities", that are associated with many understood formats; in some
cases being human like, some animistic, others associated with more abstract "natural" forces in the world (mountains, rivers, lightning, wind, waves, trees, rocks). It
may be best thought of as "sacred" elements and energies. Kami and people are not separate, they exist within the same world and share its interrelated complexity.
35. Public
Art
Chandeliers: Sunshine, Planes, Mountains, Waterfalls
Artprize 09 Huntington National Bank, Grand Rapids, MI
fiberglass, varnish, pigment
8’x4’x4’
36. Public
Art
Chandeliers: Sunshine, Planes, Mountains, Waterfalls
Artprize 09 Huntington National Bank, Grand Rapids, MI
fiberglass, varnish, pigment
8’x4’x4’
41. Blue Rain Next Rain
varnish, pigment on wood panel varnish, pigment on wood panel
20”x20” 20”x20”
42. Playing Rain over
varnish, pigment on wood panel varnish, pigment on wood panel
20”x20” 20”x20”
43. Rainy sun Rain under
varnish, pigment on wood panel varnish, pigment on wood panel
20”x20” 20”x20”
44. Public
Art
Catholic Diocese, Grand Rapids, Michigan
“Let the waters bring forth...”
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45. Public
Art
Chandeliers
Fiberglass, varnish, pigment, LED lights, anodized aluminum, cable
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