Sunday, February 12, 2012

Project 23: Blazing biographies

Week2: Music Career

Kurt Cobain ( kurtis donald Cobain) was an american singer and song writer .He was said to be one of the most ' iconic rock musicians in history''. Mtv ranked him in 7nth place in the ''22 greatest voices in music''. Through time he andafew others became band nirvana and with the single 'smells like teen spirit' they enterend into the mainstream music industry but with a new style of music which was classed as grunge
The single  'smells like teen spirit'
  • Since their debut they have sold over 50million copies world wide
  • Grunge became a dominant genre of music in the U.S in the 90s
Kurt Cobain the Artist

Kurt Cobain was also a talented young artists. He loved oil pastel paintings and his room was described to look like an art studio.As a child he used to draw his favourite characters. His best known works where mostly recognised on his designs for the nirvana covers. Kurt did paintings drawings sculptures and colages and video montage






  • Gory imagery and humans with deformed body structure
  • Wierd and hard to understand the concept behind some paintings such as ..the alien with the red rose...
  • The beautiful sunflower backgroundwith the dark bloody body





  • He was attached alot to his  guitar / The guitar with the snake wrapped around it may show that it belongs to him alone
  • He made funny comic strips 










Ideas Continued 

  • Fender bender - Create a design that you can apply on a fender guitar that represents Kurt. 
  • Find an object that i am attached to and make a design on it that represents my personality or feelings or somthing that i believe in. Or base my design on Kurts lifestyle ,Art or music 
           - Hoodie  - Phone - Trainers - Hat - ect

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