Mark Tansey
By: Khadija. Osman
Year of Birth/ Place of Origin
•Mark Tansey was born on 1949 in SanJose, California and he also lives andworks in Portsmouth, Rhode islandand sometimes New York.
•He is known for monochromaticworks, elaborate paintings andincorporating hidden text, also imagesand symbols and his invention of thecolor wheel.
•It is a wooden wheel that consists ofthree rows with ambiguous words isspun the, so that Mark Tansey canwork on his next subject.
Years/ Place of Productivity
•He started his first majorexhibition in New York and italso started in 1997.
Purpose/ Message
•Mark Tansey’s paintings representevery historical occurrence. They alsoreveal certain characteristics underclose detail.
•From Rene Magritte’s eight methodshe decided that the illustration and therepresentation were fundamentallyneed to improve the flaws between artand practice, also symbol andmeanings.
•The purpose of Tansey’s artwork is toarticulate the thought and feelingabout our world.
•Based on his paintings it looks likealmost all of his paintings are basedon sadness.
