Wednesday 15 June 2016

Katie Lewis

She devises elaborate methods of recording data about herself, mean sensations felt by various body parts or other aspects of life minutiae plotted over time using little more than pins, thread and pencil marked dates. The artworks themselves are abstracted from their actual purpose, and only the organic forms, representing the accumulation data over timer left. She describes her process as being extremely rigid, involving the creation of strict rules on how data is collected, documented, and eventually transformed into these pseudo- scientific installations. The work is often organised into grid like charts and diagrams mimicking science and medicine representations of the body as a specimen, visually displayed for the purpose of gaining knowledge.

Francesa Pasquali

matting and weaving
contemporary materials
chromatic interlacing
experimental research and materials
about the journey and idea development
straws
work on the floor
sculpture that come to life
a point of departure
interactive sculptures
we usually see straws one at a time
organic coral
bacteria growths
straws that can also be heard (auditory perception)
the complete sculpture acts as a sound board
alveolar surface and height of straws
she wonders around her work checking each point of view and angle so she doesn't just focus on one point. But there are multiple areas to be observed (controlled or not controlled

Jackson pollok

Tuesday 24 May 2016

contextual essay preperation

Abstract expressionism



 Abstract expressionism is the term applied to new forms of abstract art developed by American painters such as Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and Willem de Kooning in the 1940s and 1950s, often characterised by gestural brush-strokes or mark making, And the impression of spontaneity.

Mark Rothko
art was profoundly imbued with emotional content that he articulated through a range of styles that evolved from figurative to abstract.
His early figurative work included landscapes, still lifes, figure studies, and portraits. Demonstrating an ability to blend Expressionism and surrealism. His search for new forms of expression led to his collar field paintings, which employed shimmering colour to convey a sense of spirituality.


Willem de Kooning

Jackson Pollock

Clyfford Still

Franz Kline

Hans Hofmann

Robert Motherwell

http://arthistory.about.com/od/modernarthistory/a/abstract_expressionism_10one.htm
(Research about, Abstract expressionism, Colour Field painting, and more artists).

Arthistory.about.com

Video
- What is Abstract Expressionism?

Milo De Prieto- Contributor

-Is a WW2 art movement
- First American art movement to first gain international acclaim and to be internationally influencel.
- Known as New York city centre western art world.
- Uses Diverse styles and techniques- (like what)
- Emphasises the artists freedom in emotions and attitude.
- Non traditional memes

Movement characterised by
- Emotional intensity.
- Anti figured asthetics
- Anarky
- freedom
- Rebelion.

Recognised by
-brush strokes and mark making left on the canvas
- Beyond the decorative
- Dripping, Smearing, and pouring.

Personal feelings through colour, movement and gesture.

Gestural abstraction

Action Painting
- Jackson Pollock
- Franz Kline
- 1940s-50s
- Irrational
- Impulsive
- Instinctive
- Performative
- Trace and movement of a body left upon it.

Colour field painting 1960s
- Mark Rothko
- Angis Martin
- Large coloured areas
- Hard edged paintings
- Geometric
- Clean compositions




Expressionism denotes the use of distortion and exaggeration for an emotional outcome. Exaggerated brush strokes, intense colour, agitated lines and disjointed spaces were combined to create expressionist art pieces. But expressionism was also an artistic style that also affected dance, cinema, literature and theatre. The main themes within expressionist art, include distortion, exaggeration, primitivism and fantasy that are often constructed using vivid, jarring and dynamic application of formal elements. Expressionism is one of the main currents of art in the later 19th and 20th centuries and its qualities of highly subjective, personal, spontaneous self expression are typical of a wide range of modern artists and art movements.

1880-1916
Franz Marc was a German painter and print maker that became one of the synonymous names in the expressionism art movement. He began painting in a strictly traditional style, but after meeting various artists and discovered a strong affinity for Vincent Van Gogh, his work became an iconic example of expressionist art. Amongst painting, Marc created around sixty prints in lithography and woodcut. His work is characterised by his use of bright primary colours, cubist-style depictions and simplicity. The subject of which are mostly natural forms such as plants and animals. He used colour to denote emotions. Blue- was used for masculinity and spirituality. Yellow- represented feminine and joy. Red- encoded the sound of violence.

Abstract art
Abstract art uses a visual language of form, colour and line to create a composition, which may exist with a degree of independence from visual references in the world. Abstraction indicates a departure from reality in depiction of imagery in art. Abstract artists usually take the subject of their pieces and simplifies or exaggerates them for a distorted affect.

Jackson Pollock
Jackson Pollock is an icon in the abstract art movement. Abstract expressionism is characterised by a lack of representation and by an emotional approach to concept and execution. And Pollocks most famous paintings were created during the "drip period". During this period he began painting with his canvas laid out on the studio floor and he developed what was later called his "drip" technique. He used household paints as a natural growth out of a need. He uses hardened brushes, sticks and even basting syringes as a paint applicators. "I continue to get further away from the usual painters tools such as easels, pallets, brushes, eat. I prefer sticks, towels, knives and dripping fluid paint or with sand, broken glass or other foreign matter added".
Pollocks technique of poring and dripping paint thought to be one of the origins of the term action painting. With this technique, Pollock was able to achieve a more immediate means of creating art. The paint now literally flowing from his chosen tool onto his canvas. By defying the convention of painting on an upright surface, he added a new dimension by being able to view and apply paint to his canvases from all directions.



Wednesday 2 March 2016

metaphysics

The branch of philosophy that deals with the first principle of things, abstract concepts such as being knowing, identity time and space.

they would regard the question of the initial conditions for the universe as belonging to the realm of metaphysics or religion.

reflective practice being human 2/3/16

The theme i seem to be taking an interest to is human curiosity, fear and change.

Practically i like the idea of body deformation. how we put so much effort and time in trying to better ourselves this involves a lot of change wether is with looks or education, we are all learning new ways to experiment on ourselves emotionally, socially, physically and intellectually this is what makes us human

Food, people, technologies and environments carry signs of real or imagined threat that causes us anxiety. Fears of pollution or contagion have acquired widespread currency and the new bogey-man are paedophiles and terrorists. Fear pervades every aspect of life and defines how people relate and interpret the world around them.

Tracey Moffatt
- Deformed
- we adjust our bodies and our life decisions reflected from the environment and people around us to "fit in"

Tony Oursler
- collage
- face deformation

Gerhard Richter
- paintings
-smuged
- patterns
- photography
- reflect emotional damage

Practical ideas
photography
collage
painting
body deformation

Next look into....
changes we make
cosmetic surgery