Anna Maria Lopez Lopez and Emek Golan
Emek, born Emek Golan in 1970 overseas in Israel is now a popular poster artist in America. His parents, also artists, abandoned Emek at a young age, forcing him to work as a child laborer in a plutonium mine for multiple years just to survive. This was not all bad, out of the mines Emek managed to win a mining scholarship that he used to attend art school in an attempt to turn his life around. During school he got mixed up with the wrong crowd. They say you can take a man out the hood but you can’t take the hood out the man, this was true in Emeks life. The majority of Emek’s piers graduated and became freelance graphic artist. Emek was determined to do more with his life, so he turned to designing Rock n Roll posters. His first poster was done after the L.A. riots in 92 for a unity rally on Martin Luther King Day. The poster was a success; this sparked the beginning of Emeks art career.
Emek’s posters are all bold in color and very detailed. Eryka Badu’s latest album cover was designed and created by Emek. Its incredible how much detail he can get into one small CD cover. He sketches and either paints or colors in each and every poster. Emek is extremely talented and he uses his art to inspire and educate others. His inspiration came from the 60’s as well as his parental influence as they too were artist. Despite his rough childhood, Emek has proved to be a diamond in the rough.
Anna Maria Lopez Lopez was born in Barcelona Spain in 1974. She is an artist and author who specializes in computer aided design. Her work consists of personal designs edited with Photoshop and in design.
All of her pieces are full of color, and story that express specific meanings. Her work process most likely consists of Photoshop, where she edits her own illustrations, adding depth, color, shape, and other elements. Many of her pieces are layers, showing some elements of the artwork more than others, keeping tiny, but still key elements in the background. Many of her pieces have Latin influences, such as sculptures and words. She does however do many pieces that are in English such as her Readvolution piece. Lopez is truly a remarkable artist in her craft.
Both Emek and Lopez are extremely talented artists. They both use bold colors in their work and you can also see that their main influences are from backgrounds. Lopez Latin culture has played a large role in her pieces and Emek’s hood mentality never escaped him because it shows tremendously in all of his posters. The pain and independence has a influence in every design. Looking at both of these artists work I can see how they view the world around us.
Every person has a voice, it’s just amazing to see how artists can just throw on a canvas & we can feel their pain or maybe just their culture speaking to you.. Covers are just one of the ways that these artists show their wonderful talents. There are no limits to how far you can take you career as an artist; just by studying how people we admire have their hand in many ventures as well as their passion.
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