For the last week session, we had a lecture about the famous British singer and also an artist - David Bowie. We look at his influence and some artwork he had created and perform. Excluding the identity of singer, he was also working with music, fashion, theatre and art. In my impression, he was really famous for the red white lightning makeup and wearing with full of Avant grade style clothing, I do not know he also participated with working as an artist, therefore this lecture had been a nice opportunity for me to get to know more about his artworks.
David Bowie had been working in the neo-expressionist movement, most of the works were sketching and painting. His artwork style was bold, gorgeous and exaggerated as same as his perform stage. He painted lots of self-portraits and the work called 'DHead Series' also recorded many appearances of his friends and musical partners in his life. I had done further research about his biography and the artwork that he had created, it can be seen the painting had a great influence on his songs, the song "Joe the Lion" salute for the performing artist Chris Burden and "Unwashed and Somewhat Slightly Dazed" had mentioned the French artist Georges Braque in his lyrics.
I was not a big fan of his music but I really admire his attitude, he was just being himself and do what he what to do, like he was just the only one who can define who he is. Although David Bowie was not a really high technique of painting, all of the works are full of passion, the visual work can clearly present out the distinctive, unique style himself.
Reference:
Dazed (2012) Dazed & Confused: Intergalactic. [Online] Dazed. Available from : https://www.dazeddigital.com/artsandculture/article/13415/1/dazed-confused-intergalactic [Accessed 16/03/21].
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