Letters and Numbers with Dave

Radicchio

It is grown as a leaf vegetable which usually has white veined red leaves.It has a Bitter and Spicy taste. Which mellows when it is grilled or roasted.

Piny the elder claimed Radicchio was useful as a blood purifier and an acid for insomniacs in naturals history.

contains intybin
originated in Italy.

began in the fithteenth century

reflective practice

words and numbers- Alternative miss world, for this project so far i have looked into the background of alternative miss world, looking at the boldness within the personalities of the artists. the way they express themselves and how open they are about themselves, i find it inspiring to see how people can be so comfterble in their own skin. from this research i have tried to bring in colour and boldness which reflect the meaning of alternative miss world. using abstract forms to create a poster reflecting alternative miss world. we also did a excessive where we were each given a name of a fruit or vegetable which most of us didn't know what they were or had never heard of them. we researched into that fruit looking at the colour, texture, shape and what effect it could have on the human body. from this research i tried to incorporate these different elements into my work.

In the box
this excursive involved a cardboard box and our own thoughts, making our own meaning to what the box was, what it meant and what it could represent. i started by concentrating on how the box made me feel and expanded from there. for example...

im in my own little world
cracks of light shining through
privacy
maybe too much privacy
personality shines through
hope
trapped
bravery
blocked
shut off
peaceful
surrounded by mirrors- all there is to look at is yourself- everything reflects on you
fixed with your own thoughts and feelings
can be stubborn but free
trapped in your own mind
can only hear past the box don't know whats going off outside
all to see is what u can make out through the cracks
sound-rhythms, echoes
like a chick hatching from an egg
scratches, scraps
no one knows whats going on inside the box, mystery
protected
vulnerable
innocent
a secret to hide
shame
crumbling box, reflects on emotions
exploratory- kids find so much fun with a piece of cardboard why?
torture
restricted
is this by choice or not
Dens, rockets, houses
pretend your in a different reality
a way to escape
characters
games
from another world
could be used as a good prank- humour
the unexpected
whats on the outside can be different to whats on the inside
different size of boxes
uncomfortable
issues with expression

from this exercise i created a starting mind map for alternative miss world. after this excursive

Rene Magritte

Surreal artist Rene Magritte would describe his paintings saying,"My painting is visible images which conceal nothing; they evoke mystery and, indeed, when one sees one of my pictures, one asks oneself this simple question, 'what does that mean?' it does not mean anything. Because mystery means nothing, it is unknowable."

He was born in 1898, into a wealthy family. His mother committed suicide in 1912, and the family was publicly humiliated. Rene went to go and study in Brussels at the academie des Beaux-Art from 1916-1918. He decided to leave as he saw it was a waste of time. Afterwards all his paintings reflected cubism, introduced by Pablo Picasso which was very popular at the time. He married a women called Georgette in 1922 and took on a number of small jobs which included, painting cabbage roses for a wallpaper company, in order to pay his bills.

Shortly following his marriage, during the early days of his career, Rene Magritte spent his free time creating forms and created a number of pieces, this was when he realized the art form he most enjoyed was surrealism. one of his earliest pieces called The Threatened Assassin was created 1926, which showcased the surrealist style which he had been working on. Another early piece, The lost Jockey which was introduced in 1925, which also showcased this art form. He produced a number of variants of this piece over the course of his career and, changed the format to recreate what the viewer was experiencing.

Rene Magritte had his first one man show in 1927, in Brussels which took place at the Galerie la Centaurie. He was producing nearly one piece of art work each day, which made for an extensive showing, which critics heaped abuse on the exhibition. From this he decided to move to Paris where he met and became close friends with artist Andre Breton, the founder of Surrealism. Andre published his famous, "The Surrealist Manifesto", in 1924. In which he based Surrealist theory on a simplistic understanding of the psychoanalysis work of Sigmund Freud. In particular his interpretations of dreams. Rene Magritte became actively involved in the surrealist group from 1927 to 1930, and much of the works were described as cavernous, with many of his paintings showcasing bizarre scenes, with a hint or eroticism.

Life drawing digital

Life drawing- struggled at first but I feel like I'm getting the hang of it feel like I'm enjoying it and I want to develop further. I need to work on the features of the face and I need to work on getting everything in the right proportion.

Letters and numbers - Dave

being in the box

im in my own little world
cracks of light shining through
privacy
maybe too much privacy
personality shines through
hope
trapped
bravery
blocked
shut off
peaceful
surrounded by mirrors- all there is to look at is yourself- everything reflects on you
fixed with your own thoughts and feelings
can be stubborn but free
trapped in your own mind
can only hear past the box don't know whats going off outside
all to see is what u can make out through the cracks
sound-rhythms, echoes
like a chick hatching from an egg
scratches, scraps
no one knows whats going on inside the box, mystery
protected
vulnerable
innocent
a secret to hide
shame
crumbling box, reflects on emotions
exploratory- kids find so much fun with a piece of cardboard why?
torture
restricted
is this by choice or not
Dens, rockets, houses
pretend your in a different reality
a way to escape
characters
games
from another world
could be used as a good prank- humour
the unexpected
whats on the outside can be different to whats on the inside
different size of boxes
uncomfortable
issues with expression

MY DEPTH IDEA BEHIND MY ALTERNATIVE MISS WORLD PROJECT

Automatic drawing Joan Miro

mind map

automatic actions
of the norm
surrealism
assemblages
deformed
making sense out of no sense
consequences
feedback
judgment
final outcome
automatic drawings

elsa von freytag-loringhoven

Early Life

She started of studying art in Duchau, near Munich, before marrying in 1901, Berlin based architect, August Endell at which time she became Else Endell. She had and open relationship with her husband, and in 1902 she became involved romantically with a friend of Endell's the minor poet and translator Felix Paul Grove (who later became the Canadian author Frederick Phillip Grove), And all three went to Palermo in late January 1903. They then moved to various places, including Wollerau, Switzerland and Paris-Plague France. In 1906 She and Grove returned to Berlin, where they were married on August 22 1907. In July 1910, she followed Grove to North America, where they operated a small farm in Sparta Kentucky, not far from Cincinnati, Ohio. Grove eventually left in 1911, and went west to Bonanza farm near Fargo, North Dakota, and came to Manitoba in 1912. She started modelling for artists in Cincinnati, and made her way east West Virginia and Philadelphia, Before she married her third husband, the German Baron Leopold Von Freytag- Loringhoven in November 1913 in New York. There she became known as the Dadaist Baroness Else Von Freytag- Loringhoven.


Poetry

She was given a platform for her poetry in The Little Review, Where starting in 1918. Her work was featured alongside chapters of James Joyce's Ulysses. Jane Heap considered the Baroness "The first American Dada" She was an early Female pioneer of sound poetry. But also made creative use of the Dash, While many of her portmanteau compositions, such as Kissambushed and Phalluspistol, miniature poems. Most her poems remained unpublished until the publications of body Sweats.


Collage, Performance and Assemblages

non sequitur

Non Sequitur

an inference that does not follow from the premises; specifically  :  a fallacy resulting from a simple conversion of a universal affirmative proposition or from the transposition of a condition and its consequence

feminist manifesto

Mina Loy

Mina loy worked as a poet and visual artist in Paris, Florence, and New York City, where he beauty and outlandish behaviour shone at the centre of several avant-grade circles. She made colourful appearances of biographies of many other writers and artists. Including Marcel Duchamp, Djuna Barnes, James Joyce Marianne Moore and Gertrude Stein.

She was born in London December 27th, 1882. She attended a conservative art school and was influenced early on by impressionism. She achieved some success as a painter. Her paintings were displayed in the prestigious Salon d'Automne show in Paris 1905. She moved to the united states in 1916. Although her reputation preceded her, while hailed representing "The New Women"and the last word in modern verse, Loys poetry disturbed a few of her more conservative contemporaries. Marianne Moore found herself uneasy in Loys company. Jon Collier cited Loys verse as an example of the need for "objective Standards". Still she had many admirers like Marcel Duchamp, William Carlos Williams, and the members of the New York Dada group, including the Poet/Boxer Arthur Cravan home she married in 1918.

Being an artist Mina Loy was also labelled a Futurist, Dadaist, Surrealist, Feminist, Conceptualist, Modernist, Post-Modernist, Experimenting with media in her artwork she moved from oil to ink by world War one then lighting fixtures in the lat 1920s, and finally to sculptures featuring items collected from the streets and garbage cans of Manhattan. She hailed herself with her visual art more than her writing claiming that at the end of her life that she"never was a Poet".

She was a, poet, playwright, novelist,futurist, actress, Christian scientist, feminist, model, nurse, designer of lamps, and bohemian. She was one of the last of the first generation modernists to achieve posthumous recognition. 

Carolyn Burke

surrealist manifesto

symbolist manifesto

Harley Gallery

artists
Rachel Wood- Ceramicist
Simon Mount- Furniture
Steve Handley- Furniture
Phil Neal- Sculpture
Ashley Thomas- Pattern Designer


Phill Neal talk

modelling wax
acrilyic material
medical prospects
worked for bbc making monsters for doctor who
red dwarf
bsb sky 1980-1990s
life casting
used the same techniques but had a different line of outcome
toilet role advert
Fur fabric
pereditiors- athlete paul
polystyrene, tin foil, wax
latex foam
cylian rubber
community projects- dragonfly sculpture for a primary school
camalot
freelance sculpture
technique- Harry, computer
plastering
worked with selvester saloan making gun props

propaganda in the art industry

humour
shows creativeness
impressive set of skills for life
you can be unique and not boring
something to be passionate about
expressing yourself
everything u see started of with an idea and a sketch
great connections in the art industry for new discoveries
opens up many suprising job roles
new experiences
colour
bold
exciting
be yourself
home made
experimental
product design
teacher
freelance
fashion
prop design
film maker
illustrator
graffic designer
art therapist
architecture
pottery
furniture design

John Heartfield

photomontage and dada.

anti Nazi photomontage

How the photomontage art of John Heartfield, a contemporary and friend of Brecht, warned the world of the rise of Nazism.

In the 1930s the Nazis were gaining ground in Europe. Many chose to ignore or had a Laissez faire attitude to the national socialist policy of expansionism, known as Lebensraum or the threat of war that Germany now posed to the world. John Heartfield ( above, doing Hitler's hair), A German citizen born Helmut Herzfeld, was one who chose to criticize the regime through art. He produced a remarkable series of photomontages (decades before Photoshop ) The audacity of which can still astonish today.

Blood and Iron

Bismarck had stated that the German people would be reformed through a combination of blood and iron. Heartfield's 1939 photomontage shows exactly how this was to be interpreted in reality. Heartfield had always been a reactionary when it came to German Nationalism. Born 1891 as Helmut Herzfeld he saw the true horrors of the first world war first hand. Although propaganda was rife and rabid on both sides he made the extraordinary move of anglicising his name in 1916, in the middle of the war, to protest against such nationalism.

Hitler prepares to kill the French cockerel

Although some of his work may seem a little primitive in them days of Photoshop, the meaning of Heartfields 1939 work is as sharp as the knife that the dictator is holding. The caption jokes ironically around Hitler's vegetarianism, The French Foreign Minister is seen to be unperturbed at the sharpening of knifes. After all Hitler did not eat meat. Of course by this time Heartfield had to remove himself from Germany (in fact at the beginning of the Nazi Regime) as his sort of political satire would no doubt have earned him a visit in the night and a trip to a concentration camp. He left Germany in 1933, the year Hitler came to power and relocated to nearby Czechoslovakia. Perhaps a little too close for comfort.

Kaiser Adolf

The real motive for Hitler's stranglehold on political power in the thirties was something that was utterly transparent to Heartfield, Here he gives Hitler the emperor's old clothes and upturned moustache to reveal that power had simply changed hands and nothing had changed in democratic terms. As left wings socialist. Heartfield was diametrically opposed to the extreme right wing nationalism (Nazism) that swept Germany.(Although it borrowed policies from both left and right wing). It was after founding a satirical magazine, Die Pleite, that he met Brecht. Later he would work for the weekly A/Z (published in exile, of course, this sort of thing would never have been allowed inside the Fatherland). It was A/Z that he produced most of his photomontage work. 

The butter is gone

As the caption on the card says, this is bitterly satirical and based on the words of Goring in 1935. Hermann Goring. One of the potentates of Nazi Germany, said during a food shortage that Iron has always made a nation strong, butter and lard have only made the people fat. If one of the politicians were to say that today there would probably be a riot but satire like this was one of the few ways to injure the regime. possibly Heartfields most famous work. this family attempts to eat the various weapons fo war that have been built instead of the butter that should have been on their table. The swastika wallpaper in the background is a particularly deft touch and shows how the regime permeated all aspects of even domestic life.

The German oak tree

The oak tree is watered by the environmentally aware Hitler. However, what it produces is shells and iron helmets marked with swastikas. As potent an image about how the ideals of a nation will become perverted from the top politically, the oak tree is Germany- watered instead from the bottom. This was produced in 1939 by which time Heartfield had felt it necessary to retreat from his adopted host nation of Czechoslovakia. Soon after, he made it to England and lived in Hampstead, London, for the duration of the war.  

 Fathers and Sons, 1924 gelatin silver print of photomontage. Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Kunstsammlung

The Middle Ages and the Third Reich

With reference to the medieval torture instrument, the wheel, Heartfeild skilfully adapts the swastika (itself an image accosted and misused by the Nazis) to the picture what was happening to the German people under the "guidance "of Adolf Hitler and his cronies. some might say that this image of suffering is somewhat generous to the German people. portraying them as the victims of Nazism but once Hitler had secured absolute power for himself and with no way of democratically or governmentally relieving him of his position ( as was the case with Mussolini in Italy) then victims is exactly what they were.