Drawing artist research

My work has been inspired by the work of Hiroyuki Doi. I have mainly been attracted to this work simply because visually they where very similar, but then when I looked into it it is made up of loads of small circles which is how I make my work. The work was inspired by his morning after losing his brother. He works as a chef as we'll and used creating art as a release to ease his stress and get over losing his brother. The work is also clearly influenced by the artist Yayoi Kusama by the use of dots and repetitive patterns.Kusama uses art as a mental release as we'll she has suffered from mental illness from a young age and has lived In a mental assilam since 1977 and has her studio next door. Her work is very repetitive and reflects what's happening in her head.

The work of Paul Klee has also inspired my work, most of his paintings started as a response to architecture, I went to see his exhibition at the Tate where it was clear that a lot of his work was inspired by the new forms of architecture around him. His paintings are a representation of this and to me his works are painted in such a way that there is a movement of evergy within. The image that I show here it's really interesting because of Klee's use of colour and line makes the painting quiver in the middle and shows a uneasy movement that looks like its going to collapse at any moment. Klee's work is small and intricate and although being abstract it was inspired by architects drawings, perhaps why it's so intricate. I am mainly focusing on his patchwork paintings which where created at the start of the First World War and it was this point that he really became popular. Maybe it's the colours that he dared to use in the time they where in, maybe it lifted people's sprits, but he is one of the most famous artists of the time and is compared to Kandinsky and has inspired the likes of Rothko. 

I'm looking at Van Gogh simply because of his The Starry Night painting and the energy in the sky. The deep swirly pattern shows a transformation of energy across the canvas. Van Gogh was influenced by the impressionists of the time and has been an inspiration to many famous artist to date. He was excited by the new colour pallets that where now available they where allot brighter than before and made him want to paint in both an expressionist style but also more freely. Gogh may have behaved in the way that he did because he is believed to have suffered from bad mental health, he suffered from epilepsy which he then agrivated by drinking a cocktail of alcohol and drugs. He was also believed to have suffered from bad depression and lead poisiioning from his paints.