Tuesday, 28 June 2016
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
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
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.
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.
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
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
Douglas Gordon
Douglas Gordon is showcased in what have i done at the Hayward Gallery, his first major solo show in London. Gordon's work, which encompasses film, photography, installation, text and sound, explores themes such as temptation and fear, life and death, good and evil, and innocence and guilt, sucking the viewer into a world simultaneously familiar and unfamiliar.
Christian Baltanski
He is a self taught sculptor and photographer. He is best known for his elaborate installations of found objects. He's also known for his short films and notebook publication. Later her began using clay, sugar, and gauze to create objects for his series attempt at reconstitution of objects that belonged to him between 1948-1954. His whole body of work has dealt with notion of death and the ephemeral as experienced.
Its a jumble out there
Its a jumble out there
The roaring sonorous boom of white noise separates into deep, regular thuds, and above it the croak of frogs or the alarm calls of unseen jungle birds. There are disco squelches and native drums. These sounds are all human heartbeats. Visitors can make their own contribution by having their heart rhythms recorded by white coated technicians in booths off the main space. Christian Baltanski collected over 15,000 individual recordings. One day these beating hearts will all belong to the dead. One might also imagine that the visitors who make it to the island in the future have yet to be born.
He deals in traces rather than ghosts, with shadows and lists, photographs of the dead and piles of old clothes. His art, ultimately, is a memorial to nothing, to everyone and no one.
symbols and representation
Symbols exist differently they are members of the minds library of symbolic meaning.
Images are viewed while symbols are read.
A category of thought not an image anymore.
Images are viewed while symbols are read.
A category of thought not an image anymore.
Spectacular bodies The art and science of the human body
Anatomical drawings
Leonardo de Vinci, Michaelangeo, Durer and stubbs a group from the 17th + 18th century portraits of dutch surgeons artwork
masterpieces by Rembrandt, gerleault, courbet, Degas and frith
photography, sculpture, video, and installations
contemporary artists
Christine Borland
Tony Oursler
Mark Quinn
Bill Viola
They provide new perspectives on the subject issues raised by historical material, the contemporary works provide alternative ways of the thinking about our relation with science and medicine
A testement to human curiosity interweave 5 centuries of history, science and art.
Models waxworks drawing
gets under your skin
Fear and art
Joseph Beuys
Christian Baltanski
Louise Bourgeois
Nan Goldin
Douglas Gordon
Antony Gormley
Mike Kelley
Annette Messager
Tracey Maffatt
Tony Oursler
Carnelia Parker
Gerhard Richter
Gregor Schneider
Rachel Whiteread
Leonardo de Vinci, Michaelangeo, Durer and stubbs a group from the 17th + 18th century portraits of dutch surgeons artwork
masterpieces by Rembrandt, gerleault, courbet, Degas and frith
photography, sculpture, video, and installations
contemporary artists
Christine Borland
Tony Oursler
Mark Quinn
Bill Viola
They provide new perspectives on the subject issues raised by historical material, the contemporary works provide alternative ways of the thinking about our relation with science and medicine
A testement to human curiosity interweave 5 centuries of history, science and art.
Models waxworks drawing
gets under your skin
Fear and art
Joseph Beuys
Christian Baltanski
Louise Bourgeois
Nan Goldin
Douglas Gordon
Antony Gormley
Mike Kelley
Annette Messager
Tracey Maffatt
Tony Oursler
Carnelia Parker
Gerhard Richter
Gregor Schneider
Rachel Whiteread
Human curiosity- further development from research
Why are we so curious?
Tom Stafford
We have a curious nature, and often is about the minor tittle-tattle in our lives. Our curiosity has us doing unproductive things like reading news about people we will never meet. learning topics we will never have use for. or exploring places we will never come back to, we just love to know answers to things.
Wisdom commons
wisdom and insight
how we learn
It guides us to attain our desires and goals in life.
To create a vision and to dream.
We find deeper meaning
Creates passion and enthusiasm
Tom Stafford
We have a curious nature, and often is about the minor tittle-tattle in our lives. Our curiosity has us doing unproductive things like reading news about people we will never meet. learning topics we will never have use for. or exploring places we will never come back to, we just love to know answers to things.
Wisdom commons
wisdom and insight
how we learn
It guides us to attain our desires and goals in life.
To create a vision and to dream.
We find deeper meaning
Creates passion and enthusiasm
being human
What makes us human?
our innate curiosity and our ability to laugh
Newstatesman
every language on earth has a word for "why"
why are we the only species that is concerned about things that don't directly concern our survival, that of our off spring.
Animals don't look up at the sky and wonder what are all the sparkly bits. Animals don't worry about what other animals think of them.
Human curiosity
Why is there something and not nothing?
Laughter makes us human
But why do we laugh
Its the simple things that don't have any answers
What is life? no one knows.
Scientists can't agree on the meaning of the word "meaning'
Where do ideas come from?
What is consciousness?
Where is the last Thursday?
Once you start asking questions you soon turn into a five year old again, you just can't stop. And you become very annoying.
Why do you think the universe is interesting?
Dan Gordon
"Art is what makes us human, and its for everyone"
"Arts is not a luxury they are a right"
"It is as important to be able to sing, Dance, Paint and sculpt as it is to live and breathe. otherwise we just exist as a basis level similar to slugs"
"Making art is how we express and identify who we are as human beings"
"It is not exclusive and that we have to seek it out as well as expect it to come to us"
People had to go somewhere to experience art and now art is coming to us we're building better venues, more festivals in more communities.
Art is becoming a byword for progress.
The traits the make human beings unique.
Many traits once believed to be uniquely human from morality to culture, have been found in the animal kingdom.
so what makes us special?
there are some traits of ours that no other creature on earth can match.
"we are rationale animals" pursuing knowledge for its own sake. We live by art and reasoning. Philosopher Aristotle
Yes we see the roots of many behaviours once considered uniquely human in our closest relatives, chimpanzees and bonobos. but we are the only ones who peer into their world and write a book about it.
Why are we still the only human species still alive today whereas many of our early human ancestors went extinct.
We started with language
like symbols as a way to represent the world around us.
before you say a word your brain first has to have a symbolic representation of what it means. These mental symbols eventually led to language in all its complexity and the ability to process information is the main reason w are the only hominin still alive.
Its not clear when speech evolved, or how, but it seems likely it was partly driven by another uniquely human trait. "our superior social skills".
Children are innate helpers, they act selflessly before social norms set in.
We are unique in the level of abstractness with which we can reason about others mental states.
We tell stories
We dream
We imagine
We spend a great deal of time thinking about the future and analysing the past.
our innate curiosity and our ability to laugh
Newstatesman
every language on earth has a word for "why"
why are we the only species that is concerned about things that don't directly concern our survival, that of our off spring.
Animals don't look up at the sky and wonder what are all the sparkly bits. Animals don't worry about what other animals think of them.
Human curiosity
Why is there something and not nothing?
Laughter makes us human
But why do we laugh
Its the simple things that don't have any answers
What is life? no one knows.
Scientists can't agree on the meaning of the word "meaning'
Where do ideas come from?
What is consciousness?
Where is the last Thursday?
Once you start asking questions you soon turn into a five year old again, you just can't stop. And you become very annoying.
Why do you think the universe is interesting?
Dan Gordon
"Art is what makes us human, and its for everyone"
"Arts is not a luxury they are a right"
"It is as important to be able to sing, Dance, Paint and sculpt as it is to live and breathe. otherwise we just exist as a basis level similar to slugs"
"Making art is how we express and identify who we are as human beings"
"It is not exclusive and that we have to seek it out as well as expect it to come to us"
People had to go somewhere to experience art and now art is coming to us we're building better venues, more festivals in more communities.
Art is becoming a byword for progress.
The traits the make human beings unique.
Many traits once believed to be uniquely human from morality to culture, have been found in the animal kingdom.
so what makes us special?
there are some traits of ours that no other creature on earth can match.
"we are rationale animals" pursuing knowledge for its own sake. We live by art and reasoning. Philosopher Aristotle
Yes we see the roots of many behaviours once considered uniquely human in our closest relatives, chimpanzees and bonobos. but we are the only ones who peer into their world and write a book about it.
Why are we still the only human species still alive today whereas many of our early human ancestors went extinct.
We started with language
like symbols as a way to represent the world around us.
before you say a word your brain first has to have a symbolic representation of what it means. These mental symbols eventually led to language in all its complexity and the ability to process information is the main reason w are the only hominin still alive.
Its not clear when speech evolved, or how, but it seems likely it was partly driven by another uniquely human trait. "our superior social skills".
Children are innate helpers, they act selflessly before social norms set in.
We are unique in the level of abstractness with which we can reason about others mental states.
We tell stories
We dream
We imagine
We spend a great deal of time thinking about the future and analysing the past.
Wednesday, 20 January 2016
pop art
Roy Litchensutein
Eduardo Paolozzi
Richard Hamilton
Jasper Johns
Robert Rauschenberg
Andy Worhol
Pop art sculpture.
Eduardo Paolozzi
Richard Hamilton
Jasper Johns
Robert Rauschenberg
Andy Worhol
Pop art sculpture.
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
Barnett Newman
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
Barnett Newman
wired portrait
I have come up with an idea whilst researching into trapped feelings in the art form.
I want to create a wired portrait. First i will create a modroc cast of my full head and shoulders. this will make the strength that i need before i add my wire. (i want the wire to be fully fitted around the figure). After dried i will wrap chicken wire neatly around the head, this will be so i can intertwine the next layer of wire which will just be strips. I may add other objects and colour within the model depending on how my further development takes me.
This is to represent feeling trapped or caged within your own head. Not been able to think clearly. Or do what others want you to. Or this could represent not been able to express your own thoughts and feeling by being occupied by someone else so this is the camaflage you've created yourself. I think i want it to show blocked potential so having all these wonderful thoughts and ideas in your head but not been given the chance to show your hidden talents this could be because others are getting in the way or your not confident enough to try anything out. This could be linked to illness, loneliness, or self confidence
these are just a few different views of what everyone else could feel or try to understand from looking at my art piece.
I want to create a wired portrait. First i will create a modroc cast of my full head and shoulders. this will make the strength that i need before i add my wire. (i want the wire to be fully fitted around the figure). After dried i will wrap chicken wire neatly around the head, this will be so i can intertwine the next layer of wire which will just be strips. I may add other objects and colour within the model depending on how my further development takes me.
This is to represent feeling trapped or caged within your own head. Not been able to think clearly. Or do what others want you to. Or this could represent not been able to express your own thoughts and feeling by being occupied by someone else so this is the camaflage you've created yourself. I think i want it to show blocked potential so having all these wonderful thoughts and ideas in your head but not been given the chance to show your hidden talents this could be because others are getting in the way or your not confident enough to try anything out. This could be linked to illness, loneliness, or self confidence
these are just a few different views of what everyone else could feel or try to understand from looking at my art piece.
alternative miss world reflective practice
I want to go back to the experiment in the box. Put myself in a dark space, to be left with my own thoughts, feelings and opinions. everyone has a different view of perspective. And i want to reflect this in my work. make sense out of nonsense, have a bit of fun, something unusual but simple with a lot of depth. this is how it relates to the box something so simple but with a lot of hidden meanings.
sculpture
video scribe
costume
body art
plastic
fabric
homemade
assemblages
sculpture
video scribe
costume
body art
plastic
fabric
homemade
assemblages
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