Biographical Artists Research part 4 - Samuel Price and Peter Clark

Hello everybody! In this blogpost, I'am doing something a little bit different. Instead of talking about one artist, I'am going to be talking about two separate artists. The reason I'm doing this is because both of these artists both have very similar styles of artwork. So without further adieu, here are the artists.

Here's the first one!

5'1.) Samuel Price

Samuel Price and his dog Buster.

Samuel Price is an artist from San Francisco who specializes in making collages. He uses recycled magazines to create his artwork because using recycled materials is more accessible for him to use. His most common pieces of his artwork tend to feature dogs, though he does other artwork with people, equestrian horses (not to be confused with the fictional world 'Equestria' from the cartoon show "My Little Pony Friendship is Magic", assuming there are any bronies reading this article), other animals, still life art, abstracts and landscapes all of which you can see on his Pinterest at http://www.pinterest.com/mydogcollage/. Now allow me to show you some of what I think are his best pictures.

Rhodesian Ridgeback

Blue Staffy (My name for the picture)

Beagle

American Bulldog

Blue Dog (Boxer)

Redwood Beagle

Blue Pointer

Portland

Saluki

Boston Terrier

I think these pictures are good because I like the way Mr. Price had cut the magazines that he uses and turns the pieces into squares. This in my opinion, gives the pictures a more pixelated feel to them. I also like the use of colours in some of his collages as sometimes they are bright, vibrant and unrealistic colours, which can give the pictures a more surrealistic and emotional atmosphere, while other times, the colours are more true to life, but at the same time they are much more brighter and slightly exaggerated. Some of the pictures can even look like paintings, like the picture of the Saluki dog up above.

Now as for the other artist.

5'2.) Peter Clark

Peter Clark (born 1929 in Simons Town, South Africa) is a much more highly accomplished and versatile visual artist who also works with collages, but he works with a more wide variety of media like newspapers, maps, construction paper and other resources. Before working as a collage artist, he was best known for both his graphic prints and his woodcuts and he still created much more colourful pictures. He was also at some point involved in literature as an internationally acclaimed writer and poet. Being alive for many decades, he has unsurprisingly create a large number of artwork that has been displayed in so many exhibitions.

Here are some of pictures.

Like with Samuel Price above, most of Peter Clark's pictures feature dogs, and like Price, they also feature other animals as well. He also creates collages of clothes, (mainly dresses) just to add in some variety into his work. Clark's overall compositions are very well crafted, because as mentioned above he uses a wide variety of different media. His collages have a bit of a three dimensional feel to them, it helps that he actually puts different layers of paper over pieces of cardboard (at least that's my hypothesis on a bit of the process on how he works). Clark himself claims that growing up in South Africa inspires him to create art, which is a good motivation for him to go by whenever he gets inspiration to create art. 

So overall, both Peter Clark and Samuel Price create the most intriguing pieces of collage that I'll ever see in my life. They both use this medium to creative effect, bringing in excellent results, both their collages have a wide variety of colours that really bring in the viewers attention and the amount of work they put into these collages must really be a lot of hard work, so there must be a lot of effort put into their work.

And that's all that I wanted to say about Samuel Price and Peter Clark's artwork, I will see you all in the next blogpost.