Name of Artist: Niklas Thorben
Dates of Artist’s Life: born July 09, 1996
1. Personal Background:
Niklas Thorben was born in the beautiful city Karlsruhe in south Germany. He started with Youtube four years ago and did his exam one year ago. Later he uploaded less videos and he began to take photos. Now, in his free year after exam, he gets money with assignments for photography and videos.
2. Style:
He works with strong colors, symmetry, strong contrasts, and clarity. Also are his pictures abstract, surrealistic, hyper realistic, and have a really good quality. You can see a lot of details and all pictures have a thing, what they make magical.
3. Philosophy:
Sometimes Niklas Thorbens' pictures are just beautiful. Mostly they are critical, abstract or should be thought-provoking, but this is often very hidden. You must look a longer time at this picture to see his message.
4. Influences:
His work influenced me, because I tried to take pictures which look sometimes similar. The edited pictures are interesting, so that I would have the same effect of this pictures like his pictures. Also he influenced me in my scenery choice, which is really similar now. I didn't upload this pictures, which are similar like his pictures, before, because it is just a hobby and so I don't use it for class.
5. Sources: (His work / my work)
Dates of Artist’s Life: born July 09, 1996
1. Personal Background:
Niklas Thorben was born in the beautiful city Karlsruhe in south Germany. He started with Youtube four years ago and did his exam one year ago. Later he uploaded less videos and he began to take photos. Now, in his free year after exam, he gets money with assignments for photography and videos.
2. Style:
He works with strong colors, symmetry, strong contrasts, and clarity. Also are his pictures abstract, surrealistic, hyper realistic, and have a really good quality. You can see a lot of details and all pictures have a thing, what they make magical.
3. Philosophy:
Sometimes Niklas Thorbens' pictures are just beautiful. Mostly they are critical, abstract or should be thought-provoking, but this is often very hidden. You must look a longer time at this picture to see his message.
4. Influences:
His work influenced me, because I tried to take pictures which look sometimes similar. The edited pictures are interesting, so that I would have the same effect of this pictures like his pictures. Also he influenced me in my scenery choice, which is really similar now. I didn't upload this pictures, which are similar like his pictures, before, because it is just a hobby and so I don't use it for class.
5. Sources: (His work / my work)
Humanimal
(https://www.instagram.com/p/BamgVtkg7Wj/) |
Level
(https://www.instagram.com/p/BVkWwAUgFpH/) |
6. Compare and Contrast:
You can see that the both pictures look really different, but it is the same theme: clouds.
It is different, because clouds are never the same and look never identical. So you see always a different result. This mean that you can't take the same picture. But if you got it, it was really luck. |
Here you can see that the pictures look different, too. This have the same reasons like the first image: fire looks all time different, so you can't take a identical picture.
When you use different places and different number of wood or other material, you have a different result always. |
In the third and last picture of my final research you can see on both pictures a bridge, though you have a other background and a other location.
You could try that both pictures look the same, but for this you need the same bridge and the same angle. But this isn't possible, because this bridge / location is in Germany and not here in the USA. |
7. Personal Artist Statement:
You musn't have more pictures to tell a story. Each picture can have a story, but you must look at the picture and really let it go...
...It was a beautiful day. My friends and I walk to a park and we lied in the grass. We watched the clouds and relaxed the whole day. All clouds looked like animals or other creatures, but one time the clouds were still there and we couldn't see figures. But you don't need a cloud, which look like a creature. You can create your own.
...It was a evening with people from my exchange organisation. We did a camp fire, ate s'mores and talk. The time goes fast and so we set there in the dark backyard from a house with the beautiful, warm campfire, which protect us before the cold.
...Who said that just the nature can be pretty? If you walk in a park, in the woods or in other nature location and you find a bridge, which is adjust perfect in the scene, the bridge will be beautiful in this area, doesn't matter which kind of bridge.
You musn't have more pictures to tell a story. Each picture can have a story, but you must look at the picture and really let it go...
...It was a beautiful day. My friends and I walk to a park and we lied in the grass. We watched the clouds and relaxed the whole day. All clouds looked like animals or other creatures, but one time the clouds were still there and we couldn't see figures. But you don't need a cloud, which look like a creature. You can create your own.
...It was a evening with people from my exchange organisation. We did a camp fire, ate s'mores and talk. The time goes fast and so we set there in the dark backyard from a house with the beautiful, warm campfire, which protect us before the cold.
...Who said that just the nature can be pretty? If you walk in a park, in the woods or in other nature location and you find a bridge, which is adjust perfect in the scene, the bridge will be beautiful in this area, doesn't matter which kind of bridge.