Sarah Lucas

Sarah Lucas
Lucas left school at 16; she studied art at The Working Men's College (1982–83), London College of Printing (1983–84), and Goldsmith's College (1984–87), graduating with a degree in Fine Art in 1987

Lucas was included in the 1988 group exhibition Freeze along with contemporaries including Angus Fairhurst, Damien Hirst, and Gary Hume. In 1990, Lucas co-organized the East Country Yard Show with Henry Bond, in which she also exhibited. Her first two solo exhibitions in 1992 were titled The Whole Joke and Penis Nailed to a Board. It was in the early 1990s when Lucas began using furniture as a substitute for the human body, usually with crude genital punning. Created for a show organised by fellow artist Georg Herold at Portikus, Au Naturel (1994) is an assemblage of objects—a mattress, a bucket, a pair of melons, oranges and a cucumber—that suggest male and female body parts. For six months in 1993, Lucas and fellow artist Tracey Emin rented a retail space in east London, The Shop, where they made artworks, ranging from printed mugs to T-shirts with slogans, and put them on sale. In works such as Bitch (table, T-shirt, melons, and vacuum-packed smoked fish, 1995), she merges tabloid culture with the economy of the ready-made. In earlier work, she had displayed enlarged pages from the Sunday Sport newspaper. Through her career, Lucas has continued to appropriate everyday materials (including, for example, freshly made fried eggs) to make works that use humour, visual puns and sexual metaphors of sex, death, Englishness and gender.

 

Sarah Lucas is also known for her self-portraits, such as Human Toilet Revisited, 1998, a colour photograph in which she sits on a toilet smoking a cigarette. In her solo exhibition The Fag Show at Sadie Coles in 2000, she used cigarettes as a material, as in Self-portrait with Cigarettes (2000).
Writing in The Guardian, in 2011, Aida Edemariam said that "Lucas was the wildest of the Young British Artists, partying hard and making art that was provocative and at times genuinely shocking." In 1996, she was the subject of a BBC documentary, Two Melons and a Stinking Fish.

 

 

Dave Nash sculpture

David helped clear and replant a nearby forest that his father owned, and also worked for the Commercial Forestry Group. He learned about wood of many kinds

He attended Brighton College from 1959 to 1963, then Kingston College of Art from 1963 to 1967 and the Chelsea School of Art as a postgraduate from 1969 to 1970. Nash was elected a member of the Royal Academy of Arts in 1999. In 2004, he was awarded the Order of the British Empire. A significant exhibition of his work is displayed in the Yorkshire Sculpture Park for a period in 2010/11. Kew Gardens currently has a working exhibition, launched in June 2012. David Nash is working on site in a 'wood quarry', his first for 10 years, to create new works at Kew.

David Nash is known for works in wood and shaping living trees. His large wood sculptures are sometimes carved or partially burned to produce blackening. His main tools for these sculptures are a chainsaw and an axe to carve the wood and a blowtorch to char the wood.
Nash also makes land art, of which the best known is Wooden Boulder, begun in 1978. This work involves the journey of a large wooden sphere from a Welsh mountainside to the Atlantic Ocean. Wooden Boulder is a large wooden sphere carved by Nash in the North Wales landscape and left there to weather. Over the years, the boulder has slipped, rolled and sometime been pushed through the landscape following the course of streams and rivers until finally it was last seen in the estuary of the river Dwyryd. It was thought to have been washed out to sea but, after being missing for over five years, the boulder reappeared in June 2009. Indications are that it had been buried in sand in the estuary. The sculptor had no idea of its location, and enjoys the notion that wood which grew out of the land will finally return to it.
Nash also makes sculptures which stay in the landscape. For example, Ash Dome is a ring of ash trees he planted in 1977 and trained to form a domed shape. The dome is sited at a secret location somewhere in Snowdonia and whenever it's filmed, crews are taken there by a circuitous route to guard its security.
In the late 1980s, Nash worked at the Djerassi resident artist program, near Woodside, California, where he used Redwood and Madrone wood for his sculptures. Nash has worked with schools, university groups, and teachers throughout his career. He has created a varied body of work in which the relationship between man and nature is a central theme. His artistic ethos has been one of direct, physical involvement with his chosen material – wood – and the landscape.
Since 1967, his sculpture has formed two distinctive groupings; sculptures which connect with the outside, the landscape of making and placements, and works which are presented inside, within and in relation to, architectural environments. The inorganic, non-allusive sculptures that Nash makes using unseasoned wood are based on the universal geometry of the cube, the sphere and the pyramid. He uses the directions of mark-making to his favoured forms: vertical for the cube, horizontal for the sphere, and diagonal for the pyramid. Although the innate character of the material is taken into account, and allowed to affect the outcome, he never allows it to dictate the sculpture's final identity.
Nash takes a different approach to carving. Rather than chisels and abrasives, he uses chain saws and a blowtorch.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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1950s ipressentations

Matt illustration
in the 1950s illustration was seen everywhere, Books, Magazines, Billboards etc
America advertised using media tools. Illustration became a more common use for ideas.
The salary went up by 50%
Lots of new brands and product was provided.
everything began to expand for restaurants, outdoor cinemas etc
when the america came in to the big boom illustration was used in ,movie posters.
illustration was also so used for necessary purposes such as news desks and newspapers.
illustration began to generate more for more of a target audience for children
Dr Seuss was used during the ww2 for political drawing he then re appeared after the war and was used in children's books.


Kim fashion
Small waists big skirts bright colours, patterns
wondering waistlines paris spring collection
1953 short sleek
clothes were kept simple due to the rationing during the war
war ended and rise ready wear fashion quality cloth and manufacturing.

Elicia architect
artist LE Corbusier roar concrete
Basil Spense
Brutalst
tried to change the way they built cities.
schools, shops
construction site on site as they thought it would be cheaper but wasn't
bad at keeping heat within the walls.
sheffield the slum

Jordan animation
1940-60 a list movies became to come out
disney
looney tunes
cinderella 1950
alice in wonderland 1951
lady and the tramp 1955
peter pan 1953
1958 warner brothers brought out knight knight bugs
looney tunes became more regular example tome and jerry
casper
road runner
woody woodpecker
racism was also a huge issue.


emma abstract expressionism artists

Jackson pollok
dripping paint, uses brushes and sticks
became a regionalistic style which is an american modern art movement they shunned city life where they wanted to change how city look s so countrysides
also moved to technical advances.
has his most famous paintings in 1946-1951

diego rivera

Mark tobey
poetry white writing, calligraphy which is visual art writing uses braod tip instruments or brushes

lee kranser
uses collage and oil paints

williem de kooning

robert motherwell

barnett newman

feedback- very well she wasn't reading of the board she seemed to know what she was talking about
she did the right info for a presentation not too much not too little could of looked into more artists
good eye contact more research into the other artists more as she mainly did about jackson pollok.


stacey costume and special fx

creature from the black lagoon
ben chapman actor
underwater photography
costume made of foam rubber and latex
simply made not heavy
the actors held there breaths no breathing devices

makeup artists
Bud westmore
jack kevan
chris muller

feedback
little quiet, she could of researched more into the makeup artists she found and then expand from there, so look into what there style is what else have they done what materials do they like to use ext.

Mel illustration

popilar for advertising
used in propaganda all though no one took too much notice no one wanted to be reminded of the cold war.
happy bright colours
positive attitude
women are over advertised
care free
drive through cinemas
dr seuss books fresh and easy on the eyes came from propaganda and turned into happy children books.
gyo fujikawa
worked at disney studios
oliver hurts
political and fashion illustration

feedback plenty of info interesting and enjoyable presentation good eye contact and humorous..

Beacky media/recording

people were unsure what to think at first.
was used for fashion, films, advertising, concerts, gigs, tv shows
posed atmosphere people were seen as happy but it was just for a pretty picture.
sexixm was an issue women were seen as they didn't know what they were doing with the cooking and cleaning men made them look stupid, and treated them like a piece of meat.

feedback
she sounded like she was confident in what she was saying she didn't read of the board but she lacked eye contact with the rest of the group.

Satire

Satire is the use of humour, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticise people's stupidity, or vices,  particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues.

chavs in trac suit bottoms
crocs
conservatives
duck faces
slag lines
drawn on eyebrows

1950

After the war was over there was this relief all around, people had missed out on design, colour and freedom. so after the war was over everyone went crazy with colour and design. Alao as women started to go out and get jobs it meant that there would be more money income for the family house. People were now able to afford a better life style within the family home, like a washing mashcine and toilets inside.

 

 

Philosophy and changing philosophy of bauhaus

The Bauhaus:

started in Weimar, Germany in 1919 - Director: Walter Gropius

moved to Dessau, Germany in 1925 - Director: Hannes Meyer

moved to Berlin, Germany in 1932 - Director: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

closed in 1933

(each move had a different director and each director had a different philosophy)



The Bauhaus was an Art, Design and Architecture School.



1. Philosophies of Weimar Bauhaus: The Bauhaus founder, Walter Gropius, devised the curriculum. He wanted to break down the barriers between craftsmanship, architecture and industrial production. he brought people together that wouldn't normally work together and removed all boundaries between their disciplines. All students learned together and learned from each other. They were exposed to a vast range of materials and skills and were encouraged to find new and improved ways of designing everyday items.


"The Bauhaus became the centre of new thinking. Functionality and simplicity were combined with aesthetics, to produce a purer form of design. Previously, Art Nouveau had been about creating ornate, complicated, decorative products. The Bauhaus reduced the complexity of design to simplicity, functionality and an pure form of aesthetics." http://www.technologystudent.com/prddes1/bauhaus1.html



History

- WW1 ended in 1918

- Previously it had been a dictatorship under Kaiser Wilhelm II. The Reichstag (Parliament) could not make laws and could not appoint the Government, that was the Kaiser's job.

- However, WW1 changed everything when Germany was defeated. The Government fell apart, the Navy rebelled causing food riots and Germany had to sign the Armistice in November 1918. Kaiser Wilhelm II fled to Holland.

- Soon after, during the political chaos, the members of the Reichstag met in the small town of Weimar, near Berlin. They decided to set up a new democratic government in February 1919, which was a Republic, meaning it didn't have a King. This is why we refer to it as the "Weimar Republic".

- The Weimar Republic was a good democracy because it had a Bill of Rights to protect the freedoms of the people and it gave the vote to all men and women over the age of 21 (equality). They elected MPs in line with the wishes of the people and let the people elect the Reichstag, which appointed the government and made the laws. Frederick Ebert was the President of the Republic, and he was also elected by the people.

- Lots of German people didn't like the new Democracy and they found themselves being attacked from both sides, left wing and right woing politicians.

- Communists (left-wing) hayted the new government, they didn't waqntdemcracy

- Many right wing germans (Nationalists) refused to belive that they had lost the war, it was the governemtntbhat surrendered, not the army.

- Proportional representation turned out to be a disaster too. It led to the election of many tiny parties, all of whom squabbled amongst each other, so no government could get a majority in the Reichstag – so it could never pass the laws it wanted. http://www.johndclare.net/Basics_Germany.htm



2. Philosophies of Dessau Bauhaus: Hannes Meyer

"Hannes Meyer moved away from artistic intuition towards building theory. He separated the sciences from the arts and introduced new subjects related to technology, natural science and the humanities. He also reorganised the workshops to meet the requirements of industry and an equal social ideal. The Bauhaus now aspired to two educational objectives: to educate the production or construction engineer and the artist. Instead of Gropius’s “exploration of the principles of design”, Meyer called on the students to base their designs strictly on the given requirements and to study the “life processes” of the future users. He promoted the expansion of the workshops on a cooperative basis and set up vertical brigades that united the students of various academic years in the implementation of projects such as the ADGB school building. The curriculum now included photography (in a photography workshop which was part of the advertising department) and lessons in urban planning.

Meyer’s continued critique of the direction in which the Bauhaus had developed caused increasing tensions with Walter Gropius, who had lost nothing of his power base even after his resignation. In addition, the Bauhaus’s students became increasingly politicised and radicalised as the communist influence grew. Because Meyer did not prohibit these tendencies in his role as director, Gropius ultimately pleaded to have Meyers fired in order to protect the school from political repercussions. On 1st August 1930, Meyer was dismissed summarily by the city of Dessau due to “Communist machinations”. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, who had also been recommended by Gropius, became his successor as director." http://bauhaus-online.de/en/atlas/personen/hannes-meyer



3. Philosophies of Berlin Bauhaus: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

"Both the school and the city of Dessau had hoped that Mies van der Rohe’s authority would have a calming influence on the school’s radicalised student body. However, because of the balance of power in Dessau, which was dominated by the National Socialists, even Mies van der Rohe was unable to maintain the school’s location. He attempted to continue the school’s teaching activities in Berlin until its enforced closure in 1932.

In 1930, Mies van der Rohe became the director of the Bauhaus Dessau and began his academic teaching activities. In his brief period at the Bauhaus, Mies van der Rohe was compelled to make more and more concessions to the political circumstances: Pressured by the risk of closure, the curriculum became more conventional, the experimental work was reduced, the workshops were combined and the preliminary course was eliminated. The duration of the studies was shortened and the tuition fees increased. The students’ studios remained closed and the Bauhaus GmbH was dissolved.

The Bauhaus Dessau was closed in 1932 by a newly elected city council with a National Socialist majority. After complex negotiations in relation to the dissolution of the city of Dessau’s financial obligations towards the Bauhaus and its personnel – including the accrued revenues for licensing contracts such as those with the Kandem lamp company and the Rasch wallpaper factory – Mies van der Rohe attempted to continue to lead the school as a private institute, based in an empty telephone factory in Berlin-Steglitz." http://bauhaus-online.de/en/atlas/personen/ludwig-mies-van-der-rohe

installation practice

from today we've been told to explore the possible areas in college of which we can use as a set up space for a video installation. we have been shown many places some of which i would like to use.  for example i like to use the area of which the top of the stairs are. i like the tall clear walls the big windows and how much of an echo you can get from the space i think that this may also be a plus for the audience as it will create an open atmosphere. i haven't got any ideas yet of what my video installation could be about, but i intend to find some inspiration. i would do this by looking into more research in artists from not just video installation but also art installation i know these are two separate things as art installation tend to be more 3d but I've thought about creating my own art installation then videoing it and edit into that as my final piece.
im not sure what i would do but i do know i want it to be something colourful and fun and will also appeal to students at the college so ages between 16 and 21.
items i could use for this could be
Balloons
pom poms
music
people dressing up and having a silly time
bean bags