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  1. Alright. So the artist I chose to focus on his name is Daniel Larson
  2. who pushes the boundaries of contemporary art with
  3. its focus on texture and fictional archaeology.
  4. So here's a picture of him
  5. and a little back story about him.
  6. Um He grew up in Miami actually and
  7. he went to college at Cooper Union in New york city
  8. which is where he is currently based
  9. and then onto his interests and methods.
  10. So the reason why I chose his artist, he has a very unique style which draws my
  11. I and
  12. some of the work I made actually was influenced by him
  13. but um a lot of stuff he does.
  14. So he touches with sculpture, architecture, painting and drawing.
  15. His main focus is sculpture and architecture work
  16. as you can see on the left side.
  17. Um the bottom left one shows a
  18. exhibition
  19. where he altered
  20. the surroundings. You know, he made a
  21. this big knot
  22. that's connected to the wall which I found very interesting
  23. And
  24. he does a lot of sketching before. He does his work.
  25. I didn't include any of the images here, but a lot of sketching is done
  26. and he's very talented painting.
  27. Again, I didn't include any pains in here but we can,
  28. I'll show you later.
  29. And then his method is
  30. his methods for making these sculptural pieces are very interesting to me. He
  31. uses geological rocks, volcanic ash,
  32. blue calcite,
  33. desalinate courts and rose court. So these are all
  34. sort of stones that he incorporates in his work.
  35. And it's a it looks like a very complicated process but
  36. usually a sculptural pieces are made out of plaster
  37. and then
  38. it will be carved that taken away
  39. and the negative space will be filled in with this.
  40. You know there's courts
  41. material
  42. and the reason why he does this is a lot of
  43. his work is focused on as I meant before fictional archaeology.
  44. So
  45. I'm gonna go down his work.
  46. We have fictional archaeology which
  47. you know he made, he presents his work in a way of what it would look like in the future
  48. ah
  49. if it was found at some sort of fictional archaeology archaeology site.
  50. And then
  51. on the left side here
  52. again here's a Porsche. So he's done numerous collab
  53. and
  54. one of the clouds have done is uh with the car company Porsche.
  55. And I've actually seen one of his works in our basil which is cool.
  56. But yeah his work, you know you can get as large as a car
  57. or he goes smaller like this Nikon camera.
  58. Um He's done collaborations with Dior which is a
  59. fashion companies.
  60. Um Pokemon,
  61. okay,
  62. all sorts of brands,
  63. you know that don't really have many things in common
  64. but they tend to like his art style as well.
  65. And then here's some of more of his architectural work on the bottom right side,
  66. you can see a figure kind of coming out of the wall with his cloth.
  67. So he likes, he likes to
  68. use his surroundings. But also you can tell
  69. another common theme he likes to do is
  70. use colors that are you know, not very colorful but even if they are colorful there
  71. There's a common theme like the
  72. Dior one, everything is pink or
  73. you know the car, everything is gray white.
  74. Oh and here's a picture of his painting in the middle here.
  75. So this is actually this is about like a P.
  76. But
  77. he's also very talented painter
  78. strengths and weaknesses
  79. to be honest. I couldn't really find any weaknesses that I thought were in his work.
  80. I'll go over some of those strings.
  81. So this is titled future relic 05
  82. Telephone again. So he made this
  83. to look like
  84. what the future
  85. if you were in the future you would dig up this telephone.
  86. But as you work as universal,
  87. which means he uses objects that
  88. everyone in the world would know whether that's a telephone or car
  89. camera.
  90. So he was universal objects
  91. visually aesthetic. Again, the reason why I was drawn to him is
  92. the way he presents his pieces. They're all
  93. very aesthetic and clean,
  94. very professionally done.
  95. And
  96. then um
  97. contrasting states.
  98. What I mean by this and you know, he's always
  99. touching between
  100. to sort of ideas, you know, like white, black
  101. light and dark um
  102. Mhm
  103. positive and negative space as you can see
  104. in while there's architecture work or even the
  105. the archaeology work.
  106. You know,
  107. he was taken away from the material and they're filling it with something else.
  108. And then of course there's close attention to detail.
  109. So a lot of these works actually can they can take up to two years to finish.
  110. I'll go back and
  111. Mhm.
  112. I can't remember exactly how long these ones took.
  113. But yeah, so the top left one, well those do take a long time.
  114. Because what he has to do is he has to cast
  115. make a mold of
  116. his piece
  117. and then he has to use his method.
  118. I actually looked
  119. try to look up his processes on how he makes
  120. look at these pieces and it's really hidden. I think he wants to keep this
  121. methods to himself.
  122. Yes.
  123. And
  124. then of course influences.
  125. So this is interesting that I didn't know about him but
  126. a lot of his work is influenced by Easter Island.
  127. So in 2011 visit the Easter Island where he discovered these
  128. more ways
  129. to pronounce it. But it's the
  130. it's a stone heads on Easter Island.
  131. But what really captivated his attention was
  132. there,
  133. how resistant they were to weathering how these sculptures have
  134. been here for a long time and you know,
  135. they still look intact.
  136. So he he likes that look and he went for it and I think it
  137. clearly it's worked well for him
  138. but today has become one of the most influential artists, you know,
  139. changed the way we look at design, fashion and architecture.
  140. So with its numerous collaborations
  141. and this insulation.
  142. He's given uh
  143. sort of different look to
  144. how artists can alter
  145. materials
  146. and then, of course, my sources.