Kara Walker 

Kara walker was born on the 26^th of November, 1969 in California. She had spent her childhood in San Francisco but in the year 1983 her family moved to Atlanta where she receiver her BFA from the Atlanta college of the art in the year 1991. BFA stands fro Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. The artist Kara Walker is best known for exploring the race, gender and sexuality through her bold silhouette figures which are either painted or made from cut out stencils which have then been put up in walls of the exhibitions that she has done. In Kara Walkers work she shows the relationship between the blacks and the whites at her time and the history of the slavery that happened in the past.

During the high school years for kara walker she had white friends that did not consider her to be socially black. Kara Walker got her inspiration and started doing her passion for black and white silhouettes from her father.

“One of my earliest memories involves sitting on my dad’s lap in his studio in the garage of our house and watching him draw. I remember thinking: ‘I want to do that, too,’ and I pretty much decided then and there at age 2½ or 3 that I was an artist just like Dad.” —Kara Walker ¹

Kara Walkers themes are mainly about power, repressions, history race and sexuality. Her work was influenced by reading historical harlequin romances. After she had graduated in 1994, Walker had a show at The Drawing Art Center in New York City, which attracted many critics. Three years later Walker was then received with the MacArthur foundation award, which made her the youngest recipient. Also she became so well known that the Time magazine included her in the annual ‘100 Top Influential People in the world’. In the year 2002, Walker moved to Manhattan where she currently teaches at the school of arts at Columbia university.

n my opinion Kara Walkers work interest me because not only is her work just a painting or cut out stencils of black and white, it also tells you about the past  history about the blacks and whites and the slavery which happened, giving us a story to read when looking at her work. Also, the fact that she only uses black and white to create her beautiful and powerful pieces of art. By just using black and white , i find it personally hard to show the features of a person especially if you are trying to capture the emotions of a persons feelings. However, kara Walker has done an amazing job in showing a fantastic silhouette of the different characters and showing what is happening in the image. 

Si Scott

Si Scott was born in the year 1977 and has been interested in art since a very young age. He left school at the age of sixteen and soon went onto doing a BTEC in design at the art college. Later on he then did a foundation course in order to study graphic designing for the two years at Buckinghamshire university college.

Si Scott is a full-time artist and designer based in the UK. He's known for his unique style, blending hand-crafted and hand-drawn artwork that has given him many awards for his work. So far in his career he has completed projects for Matthew Williamson, Vogue, Nike, Tiffany & Co and Sony. As well as taking part for advertising campaigns for Guinness, Absolut and American Express. He worked for a couple of small design agencies where he learnt more about the industry and how to use the different skills. While he was employed he worked on his own ideas and developed them even further making them his original design. However, Si Scott was made redundant twice but, for Si Scott it was a good thing that happened as it made him push more for what he wanted to achieve and succeed in life.

For now Si Scott has taking time out to take his work onto a further level of creativeness. Challenging the 2D side of his work by changing his hand drawn creations in 3D form.

Si Scott has given talks and exhibited his work at institutions in cities around the world including Tokyo, New York, Brazil and Sydney. He has also been involved in judging for the D&AD and Scottish Design Awards.

His experience, skills and knowledge mean he is able to give guidance and contribute to a wide range of projects.

Si scotts work is very intricate with the fine lines and the swirls that drift of the page. Most of Si Scotts inspirations come from the music that he listens too. He starts his work by picking out a font that fits to theme or work, then he starts to play around with the different layouts for a while. After that he then brings his piece to life by using fineliners to create the intricate swirls and designs. My favorite pieces of work by Si Scott are the drawings of the different animals, as he has only used swirls to create these beautiful designs.

I also love the way that he uses typography, the way that he uses letters and designs them to look like an art piece instead of using normal letters. I love the way he designs the letters according to the theme or to the word by either using colour or monotone and the movement of his drawings.

Mr . Brainwash

MR BRAINWASH , who is he ? Mr. Brainwash is the moniker (slang name)  of Los Angeles , also known as Theirry 

Guetta and was born in France, 1966 and has become one of America’s most popular street artists. Mr. Brainwash is an artist who creates interesting pieces of art on the walls of the streets from Los Angeles to Paris. By using his spray-painted stencils and posters which have inspired him to create his art piece along the streets.

Mr     Mr. Brainwash was a French man who had filmed street artists all around LA at night for three years but, he never made the film that which he intended to.  He eventually made his own graffiti and sprayed them onto walls, all around the world.

In June 2008 Mr Brainwash made his art show called ‘Life is Beautiful’ which had creative pieces of work such as a pyramid made from 20,000 books, many visitors were attracted to his work. In the year 2009, Madonna the famous singer had asked from him to design the cover of her greatest hits.

Mr. Brainwashes work is all mainly about pop art and he has been inspired by the other artists such as the famous artist Banksy.

Neu Black interviewed Mr. Brainwash

New Black: what were your inspirations for the show?

Mr.Brainwash: All of the artists I’ve seen inspire me. Banksy put me in the paper and said to me “you’ll do a show in June” He brought me out of the box 

Know that nothing is impossible, if you really want to do something. You really have to want to do it.  You think you see from your eyes but you really see from your heart. That’s why Life Is Beautiful.

This is an interview that Mr. Brainwash had and by what he says, his work is about pop art but also inspirations from other artists, mainly from Banksy.

My favorite piece of art done my Mr. Brainwash is the piece of a monkey sitting on a coca cola box and is using a spray can and has spelt out ‘Follow your dreams’. The reason for why I like this piece of art by Mr. Brainwash is because its not only strange but I like the colors that he has used in the background, it looks all messy as if it was a wall full of just paint and spray can but, if you closer at it you can see pictures in the background such as the Madonna face, spray can and the small letter ‘P’ in the background. I also like the phrase that he has used which is ‘Follow your dreams’

Mr. Brainwash’s work is strange in a way because of the different objects he uses and the wide range of different bold color. His work is very creative and some are unrealistic such as the monkey sitting on a coca cola can spraying out the words.  He has used his imagination and has created strange yet beautiful pieces of work, which the famous artist Banksy has inspired him.