4. Henri Matisse

Henri Matisse ( 31 December 1869 - November 3 1954)

I like Henri Matisse's work they are abstract and colourful and my fave work out of all of these are 'Icarus' the bottom one with the black silhouette, it tells the story of Icarus who escaped by making wings out of wax and feathers but failed as he flew to close to the sun because the wax has melted and he fell into the sea. The little yellow spark around him shows that the wax has melted and that the sun had burned him and i think that the blue around him is the sea underneath.

His other works are colourful ond lively the divine blue one a simple art work made to show the beauty of a woman's body. He died a very happy man in 1954 finally finished his final work ever the stained glass window in the memory of the the client's mother in the Union Church.

Simplicity is best in my opinion, if Henri added more of things to his art it will spoil then.

5.Andy Warhol

Andrew Warhola (August 6, 1928 - February 22 1987) also known as Andy Warhol was an American painter, filmmaker and printmaker and was a famous leading figure in the movement called pop art. Andy Warhol likes using bright colours and patterns in his work his can of condensed tomato soup is amazing it is cartoony looking and looks like it belongs in a comic book.

His Mickey mouse portrait he had done is one of my favourite works, I loved Mickey Mouse when I was younger the bright colours suit the Disney character nicely because of it's joyful pressence.

The Marilyn Monroe portraits are his famous works ever, I like the colours he used to do the portrait of her i like how he is good at choosing what colour he put together to do the work the red, purple, green and yellow etc.

Andy Warhol was also a filmaker, director and had directed sevral film's and more like, Poor Little Rich Girl, Suicide, 13 Most Beautiful Women and 13 Most Beautiful Men etc.

Sadly he is dead now but if he is still alive he will produce beautiful colourful paintings, portraits and maybe direct a new film.

6. Andreas Gursky

Andreas Gursky (January 15, 1955) is a German Visual artist known for his enormous architecture and landscape colour photographs.
When i first viewed Andreas's work I thought 'is this guy crazy or what', I like his photographs because of all the amazing landscapes and architecture photographs he had took.
The landscape one with the little island is very beutifull i don't know how hw had took this the place would problaby u can't find it on a map, they look like the little island's of the coast of Thailand they look beautiful.
The bottom pic confuses me, Andreas favourite piece it combines the 3 elements together(Water, Earth, and Air) in my opinion i think is a good idea to have in a photograph.
I like how this photo turned out the land in the foreground then the water, land in the distance and the sky thurther in the distance, i thought that piece was a painting when I first look at it.

7. Ansel Adams

Ansel Adams (Febraury 20, 1902- April 22, 1984) was a famous photogropher in America for his Landscapes photos, he liked to take picture of National Parks and other western things like the Grand Canyon.

I have fallen in love with his Landscape photo that shows the trail of mountains in the distance with the moon in the sky, it makes me want to go there in the near future to check the place out, he had taken the photo in black and white which in my opinion is lovely the smoothnes of the two opposites come together. I find that coloured photos are too 'much' and black and white is simple and effective.

His rose against the wooden plank is beautiful I would like to have that on my kitchen wall in a big canvas it is a lovely piece it shows the softnes of the rose petals like u can touch them and pluck them out. The shading is lovely perhaps in colour it was a white rose he used but taking it in black and white was a good idea it shows the inner depth of this rose. The road photo is cool i only seen these kind of roads in movies but looking at this photo makes me want to stand in the middle of that road when the photo was taken the road seems endles and it can go on forever and ever never stops.

8. Kyffin Williams

Sir Kyffin Williams (9 May 1918- 1 September 2006) was a welsh artist from Angelsy who inspired many artists with his amazing paintings. Kyffin Williams style of painting is slab random sploshes of paints on with oil paints, his works are mostly from looking at Mountains regions and lonely farm houses on distance hills. I like the quirks of Kyffin's paintings all the earthy colours combine together to match his theme, also his life drawings are quick sketches the one of a horse above shows that Kyffin has capture its movements.
To me Kyffin was interest in the mountains of Snowdonia, North Wales for his paintings and rocky beaches, his Snowdon painting above is my favourite it shows that mountains are dangerous at night and it looks like it is raining heavily with gales and the little man in the painting trying to go home through the storm, Kyffin died in 2006 but his paintings are still coming strong.

9. Katsushika Hokusai

Katsushika Hokusai (葛飾 北斎, October or November 1760 – May 10, 1849) is a Japanese artist from the Edo Period of Japan, he was known as the author of the woodblock print series 'Thirty-Six Views Of Mount Fuji (富嶽三十六景, Fugaku Sanjūroku-kei, . 1831).
His works including his famoue piece 'The great Wave of Kanagawa' with the view of Mt Fuji in the Distance, his other works including 'Dragon Of Smoke Escaping from Mt Fuji', which is my favourite piece of work he had done and the great wave comes second as my favourite piece. I really like the carp jumping up the cascade waterfall the scales on the carp looks like actuall scales but they were made by wood cutting.
Hokusai means 'North Studio' because of his artistic skills he is a buddist so looking at the North Star as associated as the diety Myoken (妙見菩薩), Mt Fuji has been traditionally linked with eternal life This belief can be traced to Tale of the Banboo Cutter where a goddess deposits the elixir of life on the peak.
I like Hokusai's work it is quirky and lively as you can see the picture come alive as you look at it and the great wave is popular today as it was hin Hokusai's era. I cvan feel that the fishermen in this piece frightend of the big wave but they are brave risking their lives for feeding their family.

10. Masashi Kishimoto

10.Masashi Kishimoto

Masashi Kishimoto (岸本 斉史, Kishimoto Masashi) (Born 8 November 1974) is a Japanese Manga Artist known famous for creating Naruto.
Masashi Kishimoto is one of my favourite manga artist ever, he created Naruto and Naruto Shippuden. I like the way he had drawn the characters, I have tried to draw some of my own characters but fail. Masashi is like my greatest Manga artists ever and I am a big fan of Naruto and Naruto Shippuden. I like the whole idea of ninjas as his characters because Japan has been famous for it's ninjas and mercenaries, I find that the characters he had created Hinata one of the characters is my top fave and Karin the second and the little quirky little country's named after the elements. fire, wind, water, earth, lightning, earth etc. Masashi must have used the ninja idea's from the history of the Feudal period of Japan, hence there are different Feudal Lords in the anime and manga.