art presentation on texture

1. Artist Texture
By: Joseph Buzhardt

2. DALeast
Name: Does not reveal his real name. His artist name
comes from the Indian meaning of “Dal” which means
“from”. The artist is from the East which is where the
“east” comes from.
- He was born in 1984 and is from Wuhan, China, as his
first projects began in Beijing, China in 2005.
- DALeast grew up in Wuhan, China, living with his
single mother. When he was three years old, he shocked
his mom by telling her that he would be an artist and
travel the world. He grew up with a fascination for
everything art, and continued telling himself he would
be an artist. DALeast studied sculpture at the Fine Art
Institute in Wuhan, but dropped out in his final year to
pursuit graffiti and street art.

3. DALeast Artworks
As you can see from his artwork,
DALeast uses shadows and different
values to create a sense of texture. In
the top picture, you can see that the
jaguar looks as if it's made from metal
shards. This is created from different
shades and the shadows that are below
the jaguar. DALeast uses this in most of
his street work, as the metal shard
design is common in his work.

4. Chuck Close
Name: Charles “Chuck” Close
- Born July 5, 1940 in Monroe,
Washington
- Grew up in Monroe, Washington with
his single mother, as his dad died when
he was at an early age. He went to the
University of Washington, and Yale.
His early works include large portraits
that are based on/inspired by pictures
(photographs).

5. Close Artworks
By looking at Chuck Close’s artworks
and portraits, you can see he has a very
unique style of texture. Close uses
many different shapes and sizes of
small bubbles to create texture and
overall the image that he is trying to
portrait. He uses many colors to detail
the face and show the shadows and
more.

6. Comparison
Both Close and DALeast use different
shapes and values of color to portrait
their sense of texture and shadows.
They may be very different in style, but
overall they both use the same concepts
of shape, size, value, and shadows to
detail to texture in their artwork. The
textures of their artwork truly helps the
viewer picture their art in a more three
dimensional sense and it makes the art
look developed and detailed.