1. Mark Tansey By: Khadija. Osman

2. Year of Birth/ Place of Origin Mark Tansey was born on 1949 in San Jose, California and he also lives and works in Portsmouth, Rhode island and sometimes New York. He is known for monochromatic works, elaborate paintings and incorporating hidden text, also images and symbols and his invention of the color wheel. It is a wooden wheel that consists of three rows with ambiguous words is spun the, so that Mark Tansey can work on his next subject.

3. Years/ Place of Productivity He started his first major exhibition in New York and it also started in 1997.

4. Purpose/ Message Mark Tansey’s paintings represent every historical occurrence. They also reveal certain characteristics under close detail. From Rene Magritte’s eight methods he decided that the illustration and the representation were fundamentally need to improve the flaws between art and practice, also symbol and meanings. The purpose of Tansey’s artwork is to articulate the thought and feeling about our world. Based on his paintings it looks like almost all of his paintings are based on sadness.