Tuesday, June 4, 2013

ARTIST ARTICLE OF PHOTOGRAPHY (TASK 2)

MICHAEL GRECCO

  
Figure 1: Michael Grecco, Michael Grecco Websites (2013)


Figure 2: Classical Portrait ‘Head Guitar Bass’ Michael Grecco Websites (2013)

Artist of Photography

Michael Grecco is one of the best known celebrity photographers in the world. His work beautiful, insightful work is all around us on movie posters, in advertising, on magazine covers, everywhere. Michael Grecco said “I delight in inspiring people. “I want them to stop, think, and feel”. Michael Grecco is like to shares the secrets of great photography with photographers at every level, in Lighting and the Dramatic Portrait. Sections on cameras, illumination, film and digital, creativity and conceptualization, connecting with the subject, and having a point of view, plus intriguing case studies that show how he got that picture and Michael Grecco also is an American commercial and fine art photographer. (Michael Grecco, 2013)
He studying filmmaking and photography at Boston University and Michael Grecco began working freelance for the Associated Press as a photojournalist. Whatever the picture he snap and sale will be satisfactory customer and people interesting with the picture of he and He have a good skill and have the commercial art, He like take the picture landscape and portrait. Sometimes if he take picture portrait he like snap in black, white and Sepia. (Michael Grecco, 2013)
Michael Grecco has born May 20 1958 and He age, 54. He lives in United States of America and his education, Boston University and his still life and still active doing his work. The difference between a dull portrait and a creative work of art that dramatically expresses a concept or emotion can be as small as moving a light, adjusting a camera angle, or turning the model's head a fraction of an inch.
Michael Grecco is a master of creative portraiture and more than 50 of his innovative images are reproduced, with full explanations of exactly what methods and equipment he used to get each specific shot. Most of the photos come with a diagram of the lighting and equipment used. Behind the scenes information on most of the shots is also provided including the pre-shoot brainstorming where the concept for the shot was born. (Michael Grecco, 2013)

    The artwork of artist Michael Grecco  is iconic,  portrait classical, Urban portrait, Urban landscape, the  body and I’m choose the artwork is portrait classical, Why I’m choose the portrait classical because interesting, beauty and unique and have the element of graphic design. Beauty and drama, Michael Grecco’s black and white images are powerful and iconic. His stunning use of light allows the famous and the infamous’ private personalities to emerge to create a collection of contemporary and timeless evocative images. You can’t help but to sink deeper into each image where there is always more to discover. Based on the artwork of Michael Grecco the classical portrait is picture fine art, Head guitar bass, about the artwork of fine art, head guitar bass is from the art perspective. (Michael Grecco, 2013)


Figure 2: Classical Portrait ‘Head Guitar Bass’ Michael Grecco Websites (2013)

 An element of graphic design from the artwork is texture on the head of the guitar and I like its interesting texture. The lines that is nice, beautiful and interesting and on the circumference. From the artwork shape which are beautiful, wide and unique. The balance color of the artwork is in white color addition with the color of black and sepia. As it shows that the picture looks more classic and beautiful. In every frame, He rides the line between beauty and drama. The artwork that he used is in manner of classical portrait. He took the picture from the part of the head of the guitar bass because that guitar implicates and shows the types of old style guitar the reason why he took that guitar because the guitar impressed and visualize the classic, unique and beauty characteristic in line with the beautiful artwork. (Michael Grecco. 2013)    

         In a nutshell, the artist Michael Grecco is a kind of professional photographer with outstanding skills and the way he snap the portrait link with my heart attraction which impressed unique characteristic that was what I’m looking for. This contributes to effectiveness of my assignment which I can take many points to add in my assignment. About his artwork, the classical portrait was very attractive and the content of the element design with colour of beauty and classical.




Bibliography:
Michael Grecco(2013) Artist of Photography. Available at: http://michaelgrecco.com/about/
(Accessed: 30.5.2013)
Michael Grecco(2013) Artist of photography. Available at: http://michaelgrecco.photoshelter.com/gallery/Classics-Fine-Art/G00003MSlBx1vwuU
(Accessed: 31.5.2013)

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