I knew immediately who was going to be my modern artist except I could not remember his name but then I remembered that his nickname was 'Human Camera'. The person I mean of course is Stephen Wiltshire.
Stephen Wiltshire is an artist who draws and paints detailed cityscapes. He has a particular talent for drawing lifelike, accurate representations of cities, sometimes after having only observed them briefly. He was awarded an MBE for services to the art world in 2006. He studied Fine Art at City & Guilds Art College. His work is popular all over the world, and is held in a number of important collections.
Sadly none of his works are on the Bridgemaneducation website and I could not find any copyright free images to include but his work can be viewed on his website http://www.stephenwiltshire.co.uk/
My pre 20th century artist is Albrecht Diirer.
The rebirth of Western drawing in the 15th century came with the widespread production of paper. At the same time the artist became interested in representing in great detail the physical world around him. Renaissance artists made innumerable exploratory sketches and studies of objects, figures, and nature. They formulated laws of perspective, foreshortening, shading, anatomical proportion, motion and direction, and other principles and techniques of drawing. The primary aim of many Renaissance draftsmen was to create the illusion of visual reality in their works.
Albrecht Diirer, a contemporary of Leonardo da Vinci, was also among the first great graphic artists. Diirer is famous for his detailed studies of anatomy, plants, and animals, as well as for his religious subjects, which include the Holy Trinity (Boston Museum of Fine Arts) and St. Catherine (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City).
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Hands of an Apostle, 1508 (brush drawing) |
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