Nicole Korn 

           I like to express emotions in the way I create a piece. I want people to feel how I felt while I constructed something. When I create a figure drawing I want the viewers to feel the empathy that is viewed in each figure. When I paint a landscape I want them to come off as emotional and poetic. I like when there is a universal connection between my pieces and the style of how I design each and every one of them. The two artists who have inspired my style and choices in art are Paul Cezanne and Milton Glaser. Both of these unique and different artists help me create my own distinctive palette.
           Cezanne's work demonstrates a mastery of design, color, composition and draftsmanship. His often recurring, sensitive and tentative brushstrokes are highly characteristic and clearly recognizable. I have been able to take these characteristics of his famous pieces and have learned to mimic his style in brushstrokes to create my own version. He used planes of color and small brushstrokes that built up to form complex fields, at once, with both a direct expression of the sensations of the observing eye and an abstraction from observed nature. By using a palette knife mainly I have created this abstract and complex field for the observing eye. One of the paintings I have constructed was based off of Cezanne’s still life with apples. I found this piece to be the opening gate to a new style of painting for me. I continued to use this style by putting a twist on it. Instead of using a paintbrush I started to use a palette knife to give the piece more texture to create its dimension.
           Along with Cezanne, Milton Glaser inspires me to eventually become a graphic design artist. His lectures about “Thinking is drawing” helped me understand the importance of drawing and the fundamentals in engaging in the world. By visualizing what’s in front of me more than looking down at a page, I have learned to understand and gain knowledge because I become more conscious.
            My goal as an artist is to be able for viewers to connect to my pieces in some way and share my experiences through my art. I constantly try to find things that echo my life as I see it, and speak to each human’s experiences. The vibrancy of my work and the bold marks made in my artwork are two ways to determine my personality as an artist.