Metamorphosis of Narcissus (1937) is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Spanish surrealist Salvador Dalí.

Dalí completed this painting in 1937.

The painting shows Narcissus sitting in a pool, gazing down. Not far away there is a decaying stone figure which corresponds closely to him but is perceived quite differently; as a hand holding up a bulb or egg from which a Narcissus is growing. The egg has been used as a symbol for sexuality in other paintings by Dalí.

Relenting, the gods immortalised him as the narcissus (daffodil) flower. For this picture Dalí used a meticulous technique which he described as 'hand-painted colour photography' to depict with hallucinatory effect the transformation of Narcissus, kneeling in the pool, into the hand holding the egg and flower. Narcissus as he was before his transformation is seen posing in the background. 

I don't really enjoy looking at this painting because its confusing to my eye, there is so much happening at once and it isn't making any sense to me.
This piece reminds me of a board game.

Maurits Cornelis Escher, usually referred to as M. C. Escher, was a Dutch graphic artist.

Born: June 17, 1898, Leeuwarden, Netherlands.

Died: March 27, 1972, Laren, North Holland, Netherlands.

This woodcut artwork was made by Escher in June 1938.

It is called ‘Sky and Water I’ and it measures 43.5 cm x 43.9 cm.

The basis of this print is a regular division of the plane consisting of birds and fish.

As the fish progress upward and the birds downward they gradually lose their shapes to become a uniform background of sky and water, respectively.

According to Escher: "In the horizontal center strip there are birds and fish equivalent to each other. We associate flying with sky, and so for each of the black birds the sky in which it is flying is formed by the four white fish which encircle it. Similarly swimming makes us think of water, and therefore the four black birds that surround a fish become the water in which it swims."

I really enjoy Escher’s work especially this particular piece, it has so much meaning and its very powerful, he is comparing two animals a fish and a bird, which is impossible for a fish to be like a bird because it swims under the water whereas a bird fly's in the sky.

The colours on this print are black and white.

Euan Ernest Richard Uglow was a British painter.
Uglow was born the 10th March 1932 and died the 31st August 2000.
He is famous for his nude and still life paintings such as German Girl and Skull.
Uglow was from London, England and lived in Tulse Hill in south London.
Uglow went to Strand School in Tulse Hill but afterwards he studied at Camberwell School of Art from 1948 to 1950 and from 1951 to 1954 at the Slade School of Fine Art, where he came under the influence of William Coldstream.
Uglow’s three-dimensional canvas paintings are sharp very well shaded and realistic.

Uglows technique is sigh size painting and drawing, Uglows art is very neat, simple and detailed.
He uses primary and secondary colours, the light areas are painted with light colours and the darker areas are painted with the same shade but with a darker colour.

Materials Uglow uses are a paintbrush, canvas and watercolour.

Uglow mostly draws nude paintings and still life for example pears, apples and lemons.

My point of view on his art is that it’s very enjoyable to look at, his paintings are simple, warm and calm, mainly because of the colours he uses, when I look at his paintings it reminds me of a vintage home.

Uglows drawings don’t really relate to mine, only the fact that I have drawn some fruits too but I have my own technique.
I have enjoyed drawing fruits, but it was very tricky to shade in the lemons and pears as they are round and I had to make them appear three-dimensional. 

Eugene Delacroix was a French romantic artist.
Delacroix was born the 26^th of April 1798 and died the 13^th of August 1863.
He was from Charenton-Saint-Maurice in Ile-de-France, near Paris.
Delacroix's use of expressive brushstrokes and his study of the optical effects of colour profoundly shaped the work of the Impressionists.
Delacroix’s drawings are filled with so much detail and great range of colours.
This is a study drawing of flowers, the tone and colour in this paintings is very simple but still a great drawing, very realistic and the line in this paintings is soft and smooth almost invisible to see in some areas.
The shading varies from light to dark in some areas such as under the leaves, it is a darker shade as the top.
Materials used for this drawing was a pencil, watercolour a brush and paper.
I like this study of flowers it is simple but detailed, very smooth not too harsh or it isn’t just one dark line everywhere, it varies from tone, light to dark where you use the pencil right.
This work reminds me of Vincent Van Gogh’s flower drawing.
The colour used in this drawing is very similar to the colours Van Gogh has used in his flower drawing.
I have drawn a group of flowers (lilys) that is kind of similar to Delacroix’s study, like the line and shades, light and dark, but I believe I should have added more shading to my flower drawing. 

Mono print

For the mono print, it was a simple technique. The materials used follows as; Sheets of paper, Roller & Ink.

Started by choosing my design by cutting out shapes from the pieces of paper I had, next spreading ink across the sheets of A3 to create a layer on top which then I used the shapes which were cut out to create a pattern on the exterior of the ink by laying it on top. Afterwards I got a blank sheet laid it on top of the ink & used the roller to press the sheet down to leave a pattern I’ve created, which the outcome was many different shapes & that was the final piece.

Harry Bertoia & Orna Feinstein have used mono print in their work, I had no doubts about myself finalising my piece, as it was most of all fun and involved lots of creativity.

                                                          

Stencil

With the stencil piece I did I got a copy of a stencil, with the same technique used in mono printing, except with sheets of paper, ink & the stencil alone, I placed the stencil on of the ink to create a template which all I needed to do next is roll a blank paper on top for the stencil to duplicate the image which is on the stencil. I found this piece particularly fun as I was able to duplicate an original art from a stencil provided.

Banksy uses this type of technique in his art.

Styrofoam

This technique was exciting, to start off I had a piece of Styrofoam which I used a pencil to mainly mould a design/pattern onto it but just before cutting forward I did plann for the design, which the design was sketched out on a blank paper before carving it into the Styrofoam. Similar technique to linoprint, I spread the ink across the Styrofoam piece & to imprint the design onto a blank page. The design is similar to a stamp.

A Malaysian artist called Cheeming Boey uses this method.

Lino Print

To start off this piece required a lot of attention, from chiselling out the linen to create a pattern or design. Required a lot of force as compared to the other prints such as mono print & stencil, this technique requires focus but however it uses the same materials used in mono printing & stencils which is ink. Same method with ink, except I spread the ink across the lino print ive created & lay it on a blank sheet to duplicate the design onwards.

I found this type of art/technique competitive as patience was needed & it devours time.

Pablo Picasso uses this technique.

Alexander Brodsky was born in 1955 in Moscow, where he lives and works.

Ilya Utkin was born in 1955 in Moscow, where he lives and works.

The imaginary architectures of Alexander Brodsky and Ilya Utkin rethink the city as a dream landscape, blending memories of the past with visions for the future.

From the early 1980s, Brodsky and Utkin collaborated primarily on etchings, working on each copper plate for years. Their dense style of engraving emulates the antique appearance of prints from the eighteenth or nineteenth centuries.

The etchings in this display are all taken from their Projects portfolio (1980-90) and draw upon a variety of architectural, literary and visual sources, from classical mythology to science fiction. They depict absurd proposals and fictional cityscapes as eclectic mixes of ancient mausoleums, early industrial structures, neoclassical utopias and constructivist towers. 

Brodsky and Utkin's work uses light and dark tone, called chiaroscuro.

These etching pieces remind me of another artists work called Piranesi, their work connects in light and tone.

Andy Warhol is an artist was born in August 6, 1928, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, died February 22, 1987, New York City, New York, United States.

Screen printing is a printing technique that uses a woven mesh to support an ink-blocking stencil to receive a desired image, Warhol's pieces are also silk screened.

The attached stencil forms open areas of mesh that transfer ink or other printable materials which can be pressed through the mesh as a sharp-edged image onto a substrate.

A fill blade or squeegee is moved across the screen stencil, forcing or pumping ink through the mesh openings to wet the substrate during the squeegee stroke.

Andy Warhol makes pop art and also has silk screened images of Marilyn Monroe.

Warhol’s work is very bright and funky, he tends to repeat the same image down and across.