Tom Scott was an interesting artist. His style of photography reminded me of Vincent Van Ghogh's style of painting. His photographs look dreamy and depict a mellow mood. The photos of the beach actually reminded me of Stary Night in a way because of the use of line in his technique. I guess the reason he reminds me of Van Gogh is because I actually traveled to Amsterdam where the Van Gogh museum is. Van Gogh's style of depressed emotion can be seen in scott's work.
I also liked the fact that he was photographing different subjects. He transformed a beach scene into a emotion filled piece of art. His photography almost looks like a charcoal drawins in a way. The monocromatic effect works well and maybe there is some light tyo be shed in combining the two mediums.
The other artist Arturo Herera was also interesting because of the technique he used to create his photographs. He said he uses the "Lens as a blade" that cuts at a camera frame. So basically he takes photographs of his drawings and puts them in water during the film process and lets the water emulse the film to get a desired effect. After that he takes all kinds of different abstracted photos and places them together to make a masterpiece. In doing so he feels that "Life is about connecting things." These images are not ment to go together, but somehow coexist together. The idea of forcing abstracted images together to make a large scale masterpiece.
Reza Abedini and Saed Meshki had similar styles. The use of text is very important in their work. They both use pharsi in their work which converts the images into a calligrafy state of mind. To tell you the truth it kinda reminds me of tattoo art because of the calligraphy style of art. Also I think it relates to graffiti in the fact that the strokes in Pharsi are similar to graffiti. The way a fat Magnum44 marker acts the same as a calligraphy pen. In graffiti there is actually a special spray nozzle(tip) that sprays in caligraphy. I like the way they also used images in their work to blend or flow with the Pharsi text. These artists showed me that negative space can be a great thing when developing a book. I never knew so much unused space can look so filled.
Oliver Herring was an experimental photographer. He had a man spit on his face with paint. Then he took a photograph of the emotion in the subject. He said he wanted the viewer to feel like the photograph was a stranger. Although he used photography he also plays with paint. I think its very important for artists to develope innovative styles of art by fusing different mediums together. If artists arn't trying new things then the art world will never advance.
