Evaluating my Sucesses, Failures, and Processed. ( Feedback)
feedback for units
"Technology and our world" Written essay including 6 artists.
Final critiques- 7th December 2016
Tom- asking about his palette choice and his use of natural shadows. Using colour to manipulate the shape and help it stand out as a 3D image.
His use of Marballing. Tom
Doesn't think his use of material was successful, he believes he should have trailed and tested the surfaces more as the paint was warped by the card and it didn't behave as he intended.' I suggested Use of mirror as fractals.
Feedback: what kind of protection I should use on my book if anything, not using byro because it makes it look tacky, how I came to write the idea via my walk.
Don't use byro. Byro makes outlining look very bad. Explain how the walk by the river make me feel in regards to writing my story. How did I write my story?
What new ideas did I get from my feedback?
I think my new idea is to perhaps work in a better fine liner or online using paint. My pens broke over and over again. My feedback has encouraged me to develop more into my story's building and maybe think about how I present my idea. There could be a way I can protect my paintings. Maybe a layer of film or special protecting spray. My medium used was effective because the thick layer of watercolour allowed for a very interactive feel and texture. It was smooth and the colours used were well balanced and chosen.
Janet is inspired by Andy golds worthy for her final piece. The price includes lots of interesting experiments, her mothers necklace, old handwriting, autumn represents a time of decay and her essay is tied with red string, red string meaning blood, life, death, and tiring fates together. The piece took a few months. Janet says if she could change anything she would change up some of her pieces of material layered on top, as some of them aren't as relevant as others.
Beth
She has created a price about the importance of butterflies, she was influenced by Damion hurst because he put bees in a fridge to make them docile and she didn't like that, she wants to inform the importance of protecting and preserving nature. If she could improve anything is could be to add more destructible surfaces to be incorporated into her work to define the world being destroyed by humans
Izzy
Working with layers different etchings and layering them up against each tie he representing the layers of the mind and memory. Printed them at different states if completion, memory can fade. She had drawn the natural history museum as one of her buildings and it links back to her work about memory, the building fades out of detail which helps to link to memory. If she could continue this further she would make it more personal and use specific buildings and also using colours to layer. She also thinks she could hang it on a wall and look around it so she would like to change that.
Emily
Layering different camo-like materials one in front of the other and quite well spaced apart. If a light is shine through it creates detailed patterns. The layers are meant to represent the layers of the earth and nature. She has cleverly submerged her evaluation into a clear set material, making a solid block of plastic material with the essay trapped inside.
Natasha
Has created a has hung price but didn't intend for it to be at first, she changed the organisation of her piece, and changed the colours from bright to earthy and rustic. Focusing mainly on detail she has created a texturised price, fit with feathers, felt and other material. Her evaluation is put onto cello-tape by transferring the ink onto it.
Lucy Goddard
Lucy has been studying bones and skills for her project, why people are fascinated with collecting them and patterns created by skulls. She has been studying the fractals made out of skulls when she edits them on photoshop, she has put her final price on a screen print. For multiples she has printed multiple prints on her tie dye piece.
Lucy chapman
Studying anatomy, at Kew she took lots of pictures but descoveres she didn't want to get into plants. Practised wth Screen printing and really likes it. Did research at reading prison and the criminal psychology . Researching why people are aggressive, bought a pig brain, drawing and studying the brain. Deconstructing the Brian. Researched Leonardo da Vinci. went into to violence against women research.
Tanyth
The spiritual self. Questioning if there is life after death. Layering skills and people together. Her piece while well presented she says is poorly printed and wishes she could do it better. Her piece involves photoshopping skulls over skin, representing the physical self over the physical. She has also put a Painting in the bottom left corner to retain some traditional art values.tanyth doesn't like the work because of the way it's stuck together, the prints are all on the same page in a collage.
Rosa
Rosa is working on an autumn piece, reflecting the delicate nature of the environment and leaves in fabric and material. Translucent, and earthly. Incorporating sticks and the natural forms. How did she do the rusting? She took metal and made a solution of vinegar and water and left overnight the rust formed on several different fabrics. The rust made out to be a nice autumn colour. Ephemeral is used.
Tom- asking about his palette choice and his use of natural shadows. Using colour to manipulate the shape and help it stand out as a 3D image.
His use of Marballing. Tom
Doesn't think his use of material was successful, he believes he should have trailed and tested the surfaces more as the paint was warped by the card and it didn't behave as he intended.' I suggested Use of mirror as fractals.
Feedback: what kind of protection I should use on my book if anything, not using byro because it makes it look tacky, how I came to write the idea via my walk.
Don't use byro. Byro makes outlining look very bad. Explain how the walk by the river make me feel in regards to writing my story. How did I write my story?
What new ideas did I get from my feedback?
I think my new idea is to perhaps work in a better fine liner or online using paint. My pens broke over and over again. My feedback has encouraged me to develop more into my story's building and maybe think about how I present my idea. There could be a way I can protect my paintings. Maybe a layer of film or special protecting spray. My medium used was effective because the thick layer of watercolour allowed for a very interactive feel and texture. It was smooth and the colours used were well balanced and chosen.
Janet is inspired by Andy golds worthy for her final piece. The price includes lots of interesting experiments, her mothers necklace, old handwriting, autumn represents a time of decay and her essay is tied with red string, red string meaning blood, life, death, and tiring fates together. The piece took a few months. Janet says if she could change anything she would change up some of her pieces of material layered on top, as some of them aren't as relevant as others.
Beth
She has created a price about the importance of butterflies, she was influenced by Damion hurst because he put bees in a fridge to make them docile and she didn't like that, she wants to inform the importance of protecting and preserving nature. If she could improve anything is could be to add more destructible surfaces to be incorporated into her work to define the world being destroyed by humans
Izzy
Working with layers different etchings and layering them up against each tie he representing the layers of the mind and memory. Printed them at different states if completion, memory can fade. She had drawn the natural history museum as one of her buildings and it links back to her work about memory, the building fades out of detail which helps to link to memory. If she could continue this further she would make it more personal and use specific buildings and also using colours to layer. She also thinks she could hang it on a wall and look around it so she would like to change that.
Emily
Layering different camo-like materials one in front of the other and quite well spaced apart. If a light is shine through it creates detailed patterns. The layers are meant to represent the layers of the earth and nature. She has cleverly submerged her evaluation into a clear set material, making a solid block of plastic material with the essay trapped inside.
Natasha
Has created a has hung price but didn't intend for it to be at first, she changed the organisation of her piece, and changed the colours from bright to earthy and rustic. Focusing mainly on detail she has created a texturised price, fit with feathers, felt and other material. Her evaluation is put onto cello-tape by transferring the ink onto it.
Lucy Goddard
Lucy has been studying bones and skills for her project, why people are fascinated with collecting them and patterns created by skulls. She has been studying the fractals made out of skulls when she edits them on photoshop, she has put her final price on a screen print. For multiples she has printed multiple prints on her tie dye piece.
Lucy chapman
Studying anatomy, at Kew she took lots of pictures but descoveres she didn't want to get into plants. Practised wth Screen printing and really likes it. Did research at reading prison and the criminal psychology . Researching why people are aggressive, bought a pig brain, drawing and studying the brain. Deconstructing the Brian. Researched Leonardo da Vinci. went into to violence against women research.
Tanyth
The spiritual self. Questioning if there is life after death. Layering skills and people together. Her piece while well presented she says is poorly printed and wishes she could do it better. Her piece involves photoshopping skulls over skin, representing the physical self over the physical. She has also put a Painting in the bottom left corner to retain some traditional art values.tanyth doesn't like the work because of the way it's stuck together, the prints are all on the same page in a collage.
Rosa
Rosa is working on an autumn piece, reflecting the delicate nature of the environment and leaves in fabric and material. Translucent, and earthly. Incorporating sticks and the natural forms. How did she do the rusting? She took metal and made a solution of vinegar and water and left overnight the rust formed on several different fabrics. The rust made out to be a nice autumn colour. Ephemeral is used.
Narrative
the story for my final set of ideas is about one individual living in an alternate reality where people having mishapen faces is the norm. Our character however doesn't have distorted features, and bares normal eyes, noses and mouth. out of fear of bieng judges he covers himself in a hood and dons a mysterious bag of unknown content, he likes to spend time with the swans who also don't happen to be considered "mutated" when passing others on the street he gets looks of dissaproval and misunderstanding and when trying to pet a dog in the park, the deformed dog becomes agressive and hostile. disheartened by the world around him he heads back to swan fals, where it is revealed his mysterious bag is full of bread and is greeted by a giant swan. the narrative is sort of random in nature and is thought to be sort of dream-like and hallucinatory in appearance. my main insparation for this story came form walking along the riverbank and thinking about what my favourite thing to there is, see the different kinds of birds. i wouldn't say the character is a fragment of myself, I dont really compare myself to someone who is an outcast, and the world does not make me feel different in any sort of way. I just took my love of swans on the river and ran with it. I really liked the dada movement and was intrigued by the notion of "what if people really looked like dada pictures?" and then I went a step further and thought "well what if that was normal, and symmetrical looking faces were considered to be abnormal?" so In this dream-like reality I have flipped the ideas behind aesthetics and really think that if there was amessege behind this story is that if you ever feel like you look different as long as you're doing the things you like, you should get on in life just fine.
Journal notes
Suggestions- Mount ifnal peice on mounboard
Report Evaluations on zines.
Report Evaluations on zines.
Digital artists - using photoshop
Alpthough Simon Stålenhad doesn't neccesarilly use storyboard, he does use ustilise technology and photoshop to create his work, it is good research for me because I can see how he best uses technology to create his work.
Zines
Zines didnt work out towards my final project peice, this is because A zine, no matter how big the paper you use to create it, it will only have so many pages. I cannot portray my story over a zine as it doesn't have nearly enough pages to do the job, I was suggested to stick bultiple zines together but it would be too complicated of a job and the flow of the story might be compramised if it breaks or falls apart. I would next suggest to mount my frames up instead so the eye dances naturally across the work. however, I may be able to incorporate zines into my evalutation, as we discussed what we could do with left over ideas today in class.
Embossing artist-
BRENDA HARTILL
Etching artist- Keith mallet.
Technology and Art.
How has renneisance changed the art world?
What is the difference between a movement and a period?
Reference : https://prezi.com/m/r_6axgwk_rdn/how-did-the-renaissance-affect-our-modern-day-world/
Renneisance has influenced our modern world of art through their techniques used. The renneisance for example had very strong emotions involved in them, they were very imotuonal pieces. With this, the wrists were able to create new techniques that were considered unorthodox and strange at the time. An example of this (apart from The fall of Icarus) would be the Las supper by Leonardo de Vinci. In this piece it shows the passion (albeit for relegion, not my favourite subject) For the stories told by the bible, the characters, and the feeling in that moment. religion was the greatest feat of human imagination and determination in its day. It takes many people with a lot of love for what they believe in to create such works of art. It still remains as a famous piece of art to this day,
many parodies have been made. And everyone thinks of this image when the last supper was made. If you were to read the story of the last supper, looking at this picture would have the same depth of detail
Renneisance has influenced our modern world of art through their techniques used. The renneisance for example had very strong emotions involved in them, they were very imotuonal pieces. With this, the wrists were able to create new techniques that were considered unorthodox and strange at the time. An example of this (apart from The fall of Icarus) would be the Las supper by Leonardo de Vinci. In this piece it shows the passion (albeit for relegion, not my favourite subject) For the stories told by the bible, the characters, and the feeling in that moment. religion was the greatest feat of human imagination and determination in its day. It takes many people with a lot of love for what they believe in to create such works of art. It still remains as a famous piece of art to this day,
many parodies have been made. And everyone thinks of this image when the last supper was made. If you were to read the story of the last supper, looking at this picture would have the same depth of detail
Period: Period of time represents an era of length of time. it often contains within it certain movements even go as far to represent that century. An example of this would be the 19th century, a time where people such as Edward muybridge and the lumiere brothers began their work. it is period of time where events took place, the style of work can be influenced by the social comments of that time.
movement: A movement often happens within a time period, as a sort of sub-section of that era. A movement is often informed by goings-on at the time such as politics, Social issues or culture. A movement is an idea and an agenda pushed forward by in this case: art.
An example of a movement can be shown through Dadaism and Hannah Hotch. her motives and ideas were expressed though her obscure photograph manipulations, which told a story.
movement: A movement often happens within a time period, as a sort of sub-section of that era. A movement is often informed by goings-on at the time such as politics, Social issues or culture. A movement is an idea and an agenda pushed forward by in this case: art.
An example of a movement can be shown through Dadaism and Hannah Hotch. her motives and ideas were expressed though her obscure photograph manipulations, which told a story.
Timeline of related work.
Here is a timeline of artists who relate to my current project 40. what they did, when they did it, and how it effected the world of art at that time. and wetheror not is was a movement or a period
*-1878-*Edward muybridge
Eadwaerd muybridge was a photographer from the 19th century who was tasked with setting up cameras at a local horserace, as people at the time were debating wether or not all 4 of a horse’s hooves left the floor during its run cycle. these images below proved that a horse could indeed “fly” as you can see in 3 frames it isn’t touching the floor. What was more revolutionary about these set of images is that when the pictures were stacked together and plated quickly back to back, it became the first piece of moving image to ever exist. from here, soon to be filmogrophers such as the Lumiere brothers used the same technique of flashing single frames to create movies, this technology evolved until we have the movies we have today. the flying horse is seen to be the foundation for all film and animation.
While not starting out as a movement, the piece of work exploded as a technological phenomena, it was picked up by soon to be famous film makers such as the lumber brothers. sparking the world of film that is such a big industry today in the 21st century. it informs my work because it is the building blocks for moving image, and, I will be able to strip this back and understand the fundamentals of film . the topics very, talking about social issues such as Racism, Feminism, and political issues,
While not starting out as a movement, the piece of work exploded as a technological phenomena, it was picked up by soon to be famous film makers such as the lumber brothers. sparking the world of film that is such a big industry today in the 21st century. it informs my work because it is the building blocks for moving image, and, I will be able to strip this back and understand the fundamentals of film . the topics very, talking about social issues such as Racism, Feminism, and political issues,
*-1775-* ZINES
Zines are self published pieces of work that contain original pieces of text accompanied by pictures, and are often a means for storytelling. Zines can very in style ranging from formats such as Comics, to desktop published text and even handwritten texts. they're often known to have only small circulation per piece often not making more than 1000 copies each. to compare them to anything would be comics the most, this will relate back to my work well because the study of comics and storytelling comes hand in hand with my ideas of storytelling. http://www.rookiemag.com/2012/05/how-to-make-a-zine/
*-1916-* Hannah Hötch and the Dada movement.
The Dada movement began in 1916, Dadaism was a Chaotic and erratic Art movement that was conceived out of the distaste and disgust for Cultural, Social, and political values at the time. it embraced several different aspects of art at the time such as theatre, politics, Music and dance. Dadaism wasn't exactly a traditional style of art like Fauvism or Cubism was, however it was more of protest movement with an anti-establishment manifesto.
Hannah Hötch, who was born in 1889 was one of many famous Dada artists, who strived to put forward the message that she didn't like what was going on in the world at the time, her work shows her pleas for justice and change, form her work, you can see distortions and mutations from regular photographs She cuts and sticks other photographs together to make something entirely new. this would be important to my work because these pictures tell a story.the expressions and shapes are very obvious which is why I would like to incorporate this into my own research and work. |
*-1995*- Triptych: Ai Weiwei - Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn
To explain Triptych, as you can see we have only 3 boards per piece, To show movement and characteristics on the subject, or in this case we have ai WeiWei, Dropping a Han dynasty urn, from 1995. As you can see, these 3 boards really tell a story, he is dropping a very important urn on the floor, in frame one, he holds it, frame two he drops it, frame 3 it’s broken. A simple yet interesting concept. These 3 frames together show movement, one object moving form one place to another and changing state from being fixed to being broken, you could also read it the wrong way around, and look at the pot being fixed again, only to be dropped once more.
Modern art and renneisance
contesteted knowledge is often opinionated and can be questioned as non factual an example would be politics and people's idea of what's best for the world, not everyone agrees but they all believe it to be true for one reason of another.
uncontested knowledge- stone cold facts that cannon be changed and example would be that we breathe air and gravity keeps us grounded.
art period- style\techniques or group of artists- defined by art historians after the event.
art movement- a big group of artists. Set up goals and ideologies. Eg: "isms", dada
Manifesto: set out aims and intentions
renneisance: rebirth, early Renneisance took place in (C. 1300- 1500) Gio, the deposition, (c1304, fresco Arena, chapel, Padua, Italy)
uncontested knowledge- stone cold facts that cannon be changed and example would be that we breathe air and gravity keeps us grounded.
art period- style\techniques or group of artists- defined by art historians after the event.
art movement- a big group of artists. Set up goals and ideologies. Eg: "isms", dada
Manifesto: set out aims and intentions
renneisance: rebirth, early Renneisance took place in (C. 1300- 1500) Gio, the deposition, (c1304, fresco Arena, chapel, Padua, Italy)
we were presented with a photo in class.
Pallet of greens and blues. The mans red creates emphasis in the page, like complementary colours, the colour makes your eyes travel across the page in a certain way, your eyes are guided around the picture with the use contrasting colours , and this helps us understand the story as we register different events occurring in the price of work. It's a scientific method.
the man in the picture of ploughing and a shepherd looking after his sheep.
aparently a man has fallen from the sky Into the ocean. It is believed to be Icarus who's wings had melted from the sun. He is falling to his death. It's a very sublte detail however is the pivotal part of the picture, a story from Greek mythology. This is very interesting as this one picture tells a story, that even less than the 3 panels of a TripTych which I thought wasn't a lot.
The perspective of the picture despite being about the death of Icarus, is more focused on the man ploughing his field. The warped style as seen wth the horse being smaller than the man gives it a dream like feel.
the fall of Icarus- 1565.
Pallet of greens and blues. The mans red creates emphasis in the page, like complementary colours, the colour makes your eyes travel across the page in a certain way, your eyes are guided around the picture with the use contrasting colours , and this helps us understand the story as we register different events occurring in the price of work. It's a scientific method.
the man in the picture of ploughing and a shepherd looking after his sheep.
aparently a man has fallen from the sky Into the ocean. It is believed to be Icarus who's wings had melted from the sun. He is falling to his death. It's a very sublte detail however is the pivotal part of the picture, a story from Greek mythology. This is very interesting as this one picture tells a story, that even less than the 3 panels of a TripTych which I thought wasn't a lot.
The perspective of the picture despite being about the death of Icarus, is more focused on the man ploughing his field. The warped style as seen wth the horse being smaller than the man gives it a dream like feel.
the fall of Icarus- 1565.
My Ideas presentation:
TripTych
Triptych is the art of creating a story or series of pictures or relief carving or print on three panels it is without commentary and usually conveys a short narrative. It is relevant to my work as using frames to tell a story is how I’d like to go about approaching my 40 brief. I have already given a full length example of using 40 frames by making tea, but would like to challenge myself to using 3 frames as an example, for the sake of short storytelling and to have more time to test out more and more ways of utilising Triptych.
Why Triptych is successful: http://www.finearttips.com/2014/01/3-reasons-why-triptych-art-is-successful/
Triptych artists: this piece is by Adraen Isenbrant and is clearly Early Christian art, Depicting rather well known imagery within Christian culture. These images have an aesthetic appeal to them. 3 bold images to communicate more of a message than anyone one painting can do on its own.
Moving onto something a little more modern, we have ai WeiWei, Dropping a Han dynasty urn, from 1995. As you can see, these 3 boards really tell a story, he is dropping a very important urn on the floor, in frame one,m he holds it, frame two he drops it, frame 3 it’s broken. A simple yet interesting concept. These 3 frames together show movement, one object moving form one place to another and changing state from being fixed to being broken, you could also read it the wrong way around, and look at the pot being fixed again, only to be dropped once more.
Why Triptych is successful: http://www.finearttips.com/2014/01/3-reasons-why-triptych-art-is-successful/
Triptych artists: this piece is by Adraen Isenbrant and is clearly Early Christian art, Depicting rather well known imagery within Christian culture. These images have an aesthetic appeal to them. 3 bold images to communicate more of a message than anyone one painting can do on its own.
Moving onto something a little more modern, we have ai WeiWei, Dropping a Han dynasty urn, from 1995. As you can see, these 3 boards really tell a story, he is dropping a very important urn on the floor, in frame one,m he holds it, frame two he drops it, frame 3 it’s broken. A simple yet interesting concept. These 3 frames together show movement, one object moving form one place to another and changing state from being fixed to being broken, you could also read it the wrong way around, and look at the pot being fixed again, only to be dropped once more.
powerpoint presentations
I am watching other people's power point presentations about their projects. Here are my thoughts and how their presentations can benefit my own.
presentation 1 by izzy had good information, she had a really clear idea about what she wanted to do, and had the research to back it up. She is doing project 40, researching artists like mark rothko, idris Khan, and is Murphy with archetechure and texture. She could have more colours on the presentation and more supplementary images like a mood board.other feedback from around the table includes making the project personal with each idea and each artist you descover. Make similarities to existing work and your interests.
presentation 2 focussed on multiples. She is a textiles artist and wants to make it about surfaces and textures. Natural forms such as rocks and decaying plants. Their techniques consist of patterns, and experimenting. The presentation has done well to explain all aspects of their project, they show what they're doing and why they're doing it, a long list of potential techniques, favourites aesthetic, primary and secondary research. With this research she can test out what she likes best. And narrow it down to one or two major styles.it is a very organic project.
presentation 3 was focused on the brain and psychology. Research showed they bought a pigs brain and has done a lot of research on the mind, and Wa ta to focus on the anatomy of people. The psychology of criminals. And what drives them to be violent. Cases of violence against women, parts of the brain, anatomical structures. Has provided extensive knowledge on the subjects with primary and secondary research, knows what they're talking about.
presentation 1 by izzy had good information, she had a really clear idea about what she wanted to do, and had the research to back it up. She is doing project 40, researching artists like mark rothko, idris Khan, and is Murphy with archetechure and texture. She could have more colours on the presentation and more supplementary images like a mood board.other feedback from around the table includes making the project personal with each idea and each artist you descover. Make similarities to existing work and your interests.
presentation 2 focussed on multiples. She is a textiles artist and wants to make it about surfaces and textures. Natural forms such as rocks and decaying plants. Their techniques consist of patterns, and experimenting. The presentation has done well to explain all aspects of their project, they show what they're doing and why they're doing it, a long list of potential techniques, favourites aesthetic, primary and secondary research. With this research she can test out what she likes best. And narrow it down to one or two major styles.it is a very organic project.
presentation 3 was focused on the brain and psychology. Research showed they bought a pigs brain and has done a lot of research on the mind, and Wa ta to focus on the anatomy of people. The psychology of criminals. And what drives them to be violent. Cases of violence against women, parts of the brain, anatomical structures. Has provided extensive knowledge on the subjects with primary and secondary research, knows what they're talking about.
The Tracy Emin debate.
Tracy Emin: Comparing two Articles.
we have been asked to do two things: to compare two tracy emain articles and to write about multiple other articles too, however since the tasks are vastly similar, i thought i'd combine the information i've discovered on each and fuse it into one peice of work, as talking about Tracy emin can be lumped into one category.
The guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/oct/07/tracey-emin-review-the-last-great-adventure-is-you-white-cube-gallery-london
Jonathan jones chimes that the work produced by Tracyis Admirable, Beautiful and is simple expression of the female form. Despite its controversial approach this wetter seems to appreciate the openness and honesty that tracy emin seems to convey. at the end of the day if they're putting down ideas that mean something to them, the author doesn't mind that the style and topic is slightly unorthodox. i can tell this person really appreciates her work when saying
" These nudes are eerie, poetic and beautiful. Faces are left blank or blotched out." some find the female lifestyle and form to be something of intrigue, something far different than the life they have.
Mail online: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2796506/tracey-emin-s-vulgar-proves-art-luvvies-dragging-civilisation-backwards-quentin-letts-finds-artist-s-latest-exhibition-embarrassing-infuriating.html
The article written by Quentin Letts portrays a mood of unease and irritation at the sight of Tracy emins work, they can see through the imagery that tracy has tried to put up, despite her best efforts, some are not fooled by the image of an unmade bed or any of her other work. And, the article has done well not to sugar-coat the reality of how they feel. This art does not appeal to them plain and simple. This article tends to focus on the negative aspects of her work, and things she has done or said that seems pretentious or too left wing for the sake of being left wing, perhaps to make money? We can tell that the Author isn’t left wing because of the way he regards Tracy’s art as being over progressive, when saying “The Left has hailed it as an event of rare and wide importance.”
Suggesting that he is against any such notion. The author’s article is obviously his opinion, and anyone’s view on art is valid, Quentin has traditional standards for art like most people, and detests the idea of pointless art being created, he especially hates the idea of Tracy making large amounts of money off pieces of work he doesn’t feel worthy of even being called art. “Now that she may have learned one end of a pencil and paintbrush from the other, who knows how many noughts she can add to her bank account and that of her impresario, the White Cube's Jay Jopling?” which although is a playful stab at her, can also have a lot of meaning behind it to him yet again displaying his disgust for her work.
My opinion:
I personally do not like tracy emin's work. I agree with the Mail online's opinion, however i wouldn't go so far as to insult tracy for it. I do however feel that certain subjects such as feminism and sexuality have been done to death in our modern society. there's not a lot Tracy has brought to the table to add something to the conversation, and her unmade bed is not art in my opinion. her at best is mediocre, but the most shoving part of it is the amount of money she makes. If anything I'm more impressed with her, she's managed to almost trick people. and i admire the narrative she has spun in order to make money, and shocked at the people that buy into this art style.
we have been asked to do two things: to compare two tracy emain articles and to write about multiple other articles too, however since the tasks are vastly similar, i thought i'd combine the information i've discovered on each and fuse it into one peice of work, as talking about Tracy emin can be lumped into one category.
- Source information about the artist from three very different sources. One at least, must be
The guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/oct/07/tracey-emin-review-the-last-great-adventure-is-you-white-cube-gallery-london
Jonathan jones chimes that the work produced by Tracyis Admirable, Beautiful and is simple expression of the female form. Despite its controversial approach this wetter seems to appreciate the openness and honesty that tracy emin seems to convey. at the end of the day if they're putting down ideas that mean something to them, the author doesn't mind that the style and topic is slightly unorthodox. i can tell this person really appreciates her work when saying
" These nudes are eerie, poetic and beautiful. Faces are left blank or blotched out." some find the female lifestyle and form to be something of intrigue, something far different than the life they have.
Mail online: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2796506/tracey-emin-s-vulgar-proves-art-luvvies-dragging-civilisation-backwards-quentin-letts-finds-artist-s-latest-exhibition-embarrassing-infuriating.html
The article written by Quentin Letts portrays a mood of unease and irritation at the sight of Tracy emins work, they can see through the imagery that tracy has tried to put up, despite her best efforts, some are not fooled by the image of an unmade bed or any of her other work. And, the article has done well not to sugar-coat the reality of how they feel. This art does not appeal to them plain and simple. This article tends to focus on the negative aspects of her work, and things she has done or said that seems pretentious or too left wing for the sake of being left wing, perhaps to make money? We can tell that the Author isn’t left wing because of the way he regards Tracy’s art as being over progressive, when saying “The Left has hailed it as an event of rare and wide importance.”
Suggesting that he is against any such notion. The author’s article is obviously his opinion, and anyone’s view on art is valid, Quentin has traditional standards for art like most people, and detests the idea of pointless art being created, he especially hates the idea of Tracy making large amounts of money off pieces of work he doesn’t feel worthy of even being called art. “Now that she may have learned one end of a pencil and paintbrush from the other, who knows how many noughts she can add to her bank account and that of her impresario, the White Cube's Jay Jopling?” which although is a playful stab at her, can also have a lot of meaning behind it to him yet again displaying his disgust for her work.
My opinion:
I personally do not like tracy emin's work. I agree with the Mail online's opinion, however i wouldn't go so far as to insult tracy for it. I do however feel that certain subjects such as feminism and sexuality have been done to death in our modern society. there's not a lot Tracy has brought to the table to add something to the conversation, and her unmade bed is not art in my opinion. her at best is mediocre, but the most shoving part of it is the amount of money she makes. If anything I'm more impressed with her, she's managed to almost trick people. and i admire the narrative she has spun in order to make money, and shocked at the people that buy into this art style.
Research -YBA artists
YBA ARTISTS
Jake and Dinos Chapman
Yinka Shonibare - Yinka Shonibare, MBE was born 1962 in London and moved to Lagos in Nigeria at the age of 3. He now lives and works in London. Shonibare's work explores issues of race, class and other issues through the media of Film, Sculpture, Painting, and photography. Having described himself as a "post-colonial" hybrid, Shonibare questions the meaning of cultural and national definitions. His trademark material is the vividly coloured ‘African' batik fabric he buys at Brixton market. The fabric was inspired by Indonesian design, mass-produced by the Dutch and eventually sold to the colonies in West Africa. In the 1960's the material became a new sign of African identity and independence. - http://www.stephenfriedman.com/artists/yinka-shonibare-mbe/
YBA ARTISTS
- Synthesise information from three different sources about the group of young artists from the 1980’s. Reference these sources.
Jake and Dinos Chapman
Yinka Shonibare - Yinka Shonibare, MBE was born 1962 in London and moved to Lagos in Nigeria at the age of 3. He now lives and works in London. Shonibare's work explores issues of race, class and other issues through the media of Film, Sculpture, Painting, and photography. Having described himself as a "post-colonial" hybrid, Shonibare questions the meaning of cultural and national definitions. His trademark material is the vividly coloured ‘African' batik fabric he buys at Brixton market. The fabric was inspired by Indonesian design, mass-produced by the Dutch and eventually sold to the colonies in West Africa. In the 1960's the material became a new sign of African identity and independence. - http://www.stephenfriedman.com/artists/yinka-shonibare-mbe/
- Compare and contrast the different types of information. Consider what are actually facts and what is opinion by the author.
Secondary research - 40
I’ve found a website called http://storiesandchildren.com/story-telling-through-drawings/ on this site shows several pictures of children drawing things through several states and the photographs and annotations explain how the children made their pictures. although this doesn't look too relevant to my work upon first glance, It is still a story being told. it’s a process being explained and the pictures clearly demonstrate the children making progress, it shows time passing, and a story being told. This is very basic secondary research, s i’ve sound a source who has already covered this topic and has demonstrated how it has worked, i can use this existing knowledge that has already been established to influence me, and to help me understand how to communicate a story or flow of time through images alone, i do not intend to use annotations on my final piece, as i would prefer my work to speak for itself, so in that aspect out work is radically different.
Primary research - 40
As for primary Research, It was Observational. I have spoken with Disney Storyboard Artist Barry Jhonson, Who has worked with the company for some time, He is known for his works on Mulan, Wreck-it Wralph, Frozen, and many more. Speaking with him over the internet allowed me to see his work up close and personal and to integrate it as part of my research, I was able to observe his personal style and how he maps out a board. Asking how he collects his ideas together for his projects, I’ve learned from this that the Storyboarding process. it was a very personal experience and deem it a primary research technique. from my notes I can tell you that Barry jhonson has been using a lot of ink lately. I may consider trying to replicate this style in the future for my own work, as i really enjoy working with ink too. see the following pictures for more evidence behind this. Storyboarding is the base for an animation. telling the animators what expressions, actions and angles to take the direction of the animation. http://barryjohnson77.tumblr.com Is his main blog, and where he showcases some of his work. I’d like to refer to this to inspire some of my work, particularly for this project 40. I’d like to work on 40 frames to tell a short story, nut not quite an animation yet. that’s where the storyboard lies.
I’ve also been to New york city as a primary location, I was aware that the graphic novel shops have an array of comic books, I picked up a few there to use as inspiration to my own work, in their essence, Graphic novels and comics are nothing more than Storyboards in print, they communicate the same information, Angle, Expression, Action, Location, They are very similar in that aspect. I’d like to show off some of the comics I bought In Manhattan as some of my primary research, as i’ve been interested in exploring this area for my 40 frames project, and would like to show off a story like this in a similar way, but with 40 pictures instead of a book full.
I’ve also been to New york city as a primary location, I was aware that the graphic novel shops have an array of comic books, I picked up a few there to use as inspiration to my own work, in their essence, Graphic novels and comics are nothing more than Storyboards in print, they communicate the same information, Angle, Expression, Action, Location, They are very similar in that aspect. I’d like to show off some of the comics I bought In Manhattan as some of my primary research, as i’ve been interested in exploring this area for my 40 frames project, and would like to show off a story like this in a similar way, but with 40 pictures instead of a book full.
EMBOSSING.
these prints you’re looking at is what’s known as Embossing. I used a mix of some of my Deconstructed parts and some new material to create a 3 dimensional printing piece, which is also known as a mould. On elf my Prints I pressed through without using any ink, All I did was wet the paper. As you can see above the moisture in the material allowed for a more intense impression. you can see where my objects made pressure on the surface, creating various Textures. turn back a page to find the inked versions, I left a blank page on the other side as the ink never really dries and was sure to leave a stain, however i made the most of this and allowed for additional prints. As you can see from the inked up versions of the prints, It took two runs through the prints, the second time proving more successful. If i could repeat this again i would use less ink, as the first prink was much too dark for my liking. you can see I even sticked in the Original Embossing tool I've used, you can clearly see which textures align with which impressions in my art. I was shown this Process by my teachers in class, who demonstrated the importance of always using what you’ve got, and that any old scrap can be used to create texture.
Ocean Jasper.
The Ocean Jasper piece turned out very well, I like how my work with etching created this interesting pattern. It isn’t just the object itself that is interesting however, it’s the shapes on the object too, the circles are what i’d like to focus on as part of the development process. As you can see I had printed my etching piece several times, each with different press pressures, and ink thickness. It went well in areas that I had showed even distribution of weight and not too much ink, however in one example i had the pressure too much on one side and the print came out unbalanced, so that didn't go quite as well. Although it wasn’t as successful as my other works it did show my development process, and mistakes are just as important as achievements when exploring new art techniques.
I’d like to develop the ocean jasper piece a little more, only to see what else I can do to make the object look different. I may carry these different kinds of art over to my final 40 project, as some of these results are proving to be more successful than I ever would have guessed. I’m going to try the Ocean jasper shape with an array of cut outs, Water colour layering, and acrylics, digital, Pens, pencils, and maybe a mix of all. I’d like to reference back to artist i’ve already Analysed to see if their style can offer any new angles to me, for example, Cao Fei, And their Ironic approach to Photography, And may even try my hand at incorporating a few of my designs in that way.
I’d like to develop the ocean jasper piece a little more, only to see what else I can do to make the object look different. I may carry these different kinds of art over to my final 40 project, as some of these results are proving to be more successful than I ever would have guessed. I’m going to try the Ocean jasper shape with an array of cut outs, Water colour layering, and acrylics, digital, Pens, pencils, and maybe a mix of all. I’d like to reference back to artist i’ve already Analysed to see if their style can offer any new angles to me, for example, Cao Fei, And their Ironic approach to Photography, And may even try my hand at incorporating a few of my designs in that way.
OXFORD
We were tasked with visiting many Exhibitions and museums within oxford to gain more knowledge about our upcoming projects. here are ism elf the pictures i've taken and you can see which ones i had gone on to develop more along with my brown book within my project book. I particularly liked looking at the rocks and the birdlife and found the natural art in animals, bugs and rocks the most interesting.
Researching 3 artists
Kara walker
Kara Elizabeth Walker is a contemporary artist and painter of african american origin whom explores race, gender, sexuality, violence and identity in her works. she is best known for her black silhouette works which seem to be telling a story, I like the simplicity of the work how no facial expression or explicit colour is shown but the power of impressions and shape forms a story on the paper. the movements of the characters are of course exaggerated to really communicate what is being said in each scene. each action is having a reaction which is pushing to narrative forwards. this piece makes me want to focus on the specific details of each character, and ask questions like “ why are they doing that, how are they feeling?” upon first glance it’s hard to tell what’s going on but you can see what’s going on, on each of their faces after a time.
the surface is quite flat and the texture very smooth.
Kara Elizabeth Walker is a contemporary artist and painter of african american origin whom explores race, gender, sexuality, violence and identity in her works. she is best known for her black silhouette works which seem to be telling a story, I like the simplicity of the work how no facial expression or explicit colour is shown but the power of impressions and shape forms a story on the paper. the movements of the characters are of course exaggerated to really communicate what is being said in each scene. each action is having a reaction which is pushing to narrative forwards. this piece makes me want to focus on the specific details of each character, and ask questions like “ why are they doing that, how are they feeling?” upon first glance it’s hard to tell what’s going on but you can see what’s going on, on each of their faces after a time.
the surface is quite flat and the texture very smooth.
kate mcgwire
Katie Mcgwire is a british sculptor who uses natural materials to create her peices, Typically feathers in her most proud and popular works, often in a snaking or serpentine illusion crafted to be viewed at every angle, a 3d work like this can be look at from any point within 360 degrees and looks like a mythical monster. she has been making these works since she graduated from the royal college of art in 2004. unusual sculptures such as this have been exhibited at the Saatchi Gallery (London), the Museum of Art and Design (New York), Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature (Paris) and recently at Glasstress, an official collateral event of the Venice Biennale.
While the work doesn’t relate to any social or political problems of its time it it more focused on the strange and obscure looking almost animal like it should relate to works both inside and outside of the gallery because its a very unique piece and can easily stand alone as well as act as a multiple within a gallery instillation.
i think the artist would link to me because i really like her use of feathers as a material of choice. I like the texture they give off, in the sunlight some feathers can actually shine different colours and give off a sheen. you can see this as the light hits the feathers from different angles . The art work is a distortion piece and isn’t meant to reflect real birds and the way they look, however the texture and the way the piece moves could perhaps be a comment on the movement of birds. Kate often uses darker colours in her works, represented through darker feathers and her instillations usually have clouded or darker lighting which is a conscious decision she has made for her exhibition.
Katie Mcgwire is a british sculptor who uses natural materials to create her peices, Typically feathers in her most proud and popular works, often in a snaking or serpentine illusion crafted to be viewed at every angle, a 3d work like this can be look at from any point within 360 degrees and looks like a mythical monster. she has been making these works since she graduated from the royal college of art in 2004. unusual sculptures such as this have been exhibited at the Saatchi Gallery (London), the Museum of Art and Design (New York), Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature (Paris) and recently at Glasstress, an official collateral event of the Venice Biennale.
While the work doesn’t relate to any social or political problems of its time it it more focused on the strange and obscure looking almost animal like it should relate to works both inside and outside of the gallery because its a very unique piece and can easily stand alone as well as act as a multiple within a gallery instillation.
i think the artist would link to me because i really like her use of feathers as a material of choice. I like the texture they give off, in the sunlight some feathers can actually shine different colours and give off a sheen. you can see this as the light hits the feathers from different angles . The art work is a distortion piece and isn’t meant to reflect real birds and the way they look, however the texture and the way the piece moves could perhaps be a comment on the movement of birds. Kate often uses darker colours in her works, represented through darker feathers and her instillations usually have clouded or darker lighting which is a conscious decision she has made for her exhibition.
Cao Fei
http://www.caofei.com/Uploads/ExhibitionsFile/ExhNewImgFile/20121203/20121203005253_0156.jpg
this piece is called “vessel floating in the meandering river” and it was made in 2000 This piece was made by Cao Fei.
Cao Fei is a Chinese contemporary Artist based in the Capital city of Beijing. Her work is Multimedia based and explores themes of The young Chinese generation and their strategies for “overcoming” and escaping reality.
Other artists such as Ai weiwei who also resides in Beijing have work that is entirely different to Cao Fei. Who’s work is more about activism, and videography, and song.
This Artists work relates to my theme because it has a certain aesthetic and look that I really like. I’d love to incorporate the structure and colour in my theme of multiple, and it will be a great influence. There are some similarities between the artists work and mine. For example they will have a similar structure and overall “look” ( that being a very abstract scene of unrelated items) I think they will influence my work because I can relate to their chosen aesthetic as it’s something I really like and would like to incorporate into my own work.
The materials being used here are clearly real objects arranged in such a way and captured by a camera , such objects include a bathtub full of water, pot noodles, and a laptop.
I really like the obscurity and satirical take on chinese culture seen in this picture. summing up portions of their culture in different part of the picture like with the robes and noodles, both inside and outside of the bathtub, making the picture seem almost parodying and ironic, but put in a serious way. the overall theme created by this picture for me makes me feel very at ease when viewing. it’s funny and quirky.
http://www.caofei.com/Uploads/ExhibitionsFile/ExhNewImgFile/20121203/20121203005253_0156.jpg
this piece is called “vessel floating in the meandering river” and it was made in 2000 This piece was made by Cao Fei.
Cao Fei is a Chinese contemporary Artist based in the Capital city of Beijing. Her work is Multimedia based and explores themes of The young Chinese generation and their strategies for “overcoming” and escaping reality.
Other artists such as Ai weiwei who also resides in Beijing have work that is entirely different to Cao Fei. Who’s work is more about activism, and videography, and song.
This Artists work relates to my theme because it has a certain aesthetic and look that I really like. I’d love to incorporate the structure and colour in my theme of multiple, and it will be a great influence. There are some similarities between the artists work and mine. For example they will have a similar structure and overall “look” ( that being a very abstract scene of unrelated items) I think they will influence my work because I can relate to their chosen aesthetic as it’s something I really like and would like to incorporate into my own work.
The materials being used here are clearly real objects arranged in such a way and captured by a camera , such objects include a bathtub full of water, pot noodles, and a laptop.
I really like the obscurity and satirical take on chinese culture seen in this picture. summing up portions of their culture in different part of the picture like with the robes and noodles, both inside and outside of the bathtub, making the picture seem almost parodying and ironic, but put in a serious way. the overall theme created by this picture for me makes me feel very at ease when viewing. it’s funny and quirky.
PAULA REGO
Paula Rego is a painter and printmaker of Portuguese birth, lives in England. She studied and refined her skill at the slate school of fine art. She first won acclaim in Portugal with collage elements and semi-abstract paintings. In 1976 Rego returned to London and shifted from collage work to using acrylics on paper. Using a similar style to that of comic strips. And one of her commissioned pieces known as the Dancing Ostriches series was inspired by Walt Disney’s Fantasia. (1995)
Paula typically works from Myths, Fairy tales and Cartoons to inspire her work, she takes her sources from works like peter pan and classical Disney cartoons and occasionally Religious texts and other literature.
Paula typically works from Myths, Fairy tales and Cartoons to inspire her work, she takes her sources from works like peter pan and classical Disney cartoons and occasionally Religious texts and other literature.
MICHAEL MAPES
Michael Mapes is a Deconstruction artitst who takes apart different and famous pictures from across history, cutting them up into fragments and then spacing them apart. on top of the picture and in between the gaps he will use pins to secure objects of familiar colour or tone, in detail this is a jumble of objects and fragments of picture, however in the bigger picture, taking a step back you can appreciate he has not just deconstructed the picture, he has in fact reconstructed it with objects and pins. this could be linked back to a time when he was younger as he liked to collect and pin butterflies.
Why does he feel the need to deconstruct these images?
deconstruction artists have an array of reasons to deconstruct something that already ixitst. none of them are the same. for this artist it's likely stemming from his hobby of collecting objects and displaying them in such a way like he did with the butterflies, pinned and on display.
What is he hoping to find?
he is hoping to communicate the same image that he found before, however in his own way, i think he uses the objects to adapt it to his own unique style, and simply makes anew aesthetic for a previously normal version of that picture
how does his re-construction add to the image after taking it apart?
His reconstruction prices a new aesthetic to the image that was there before, the objects attached to it seem to be related t the image, which provides a sort of micro detail to the picture, clusters of information within the piece for the viewer to look at as well as the entire piece as a whole.
deconstruction artists have an array of reasons to deconstruct something that already ixitst. none of them are the same. for this artist it's likely stemming from his hobby of collecting objects and displaying them in such a way like he did with the butterflies, pinned and on display.
What is he hoping to find?
he is hoping to communicate the same image that he found before, however in his own way, i think he uses the objects to adapt it to his own unique style, and simply makes anew aesthetic for a previously normal version of that picture
how does his re-construction add to the image after taking it apart?
His reconstruction prices a new aesthetic to the image that was there before, the objects attached to it seem to be related t the image, which provides a sort of micro detail to the picture, clusters of information within the piece for the viewer to look at as well as the entire piece as a whole.
Mia Pearlman
Mia pearl man is greatly known for her work with paper and contracting intricate instillations out of a whole mass of paper. Her process includes her spending hours drawing lots of of fat lines and leaving open spaces with paint, with many varying patterns and random designs seeming to come out of nowhere. Her art is unique because her style doesn't particularly portray a lot of detail or reference in them. However, when heading over to the next part of the process we learn it is a lot more delicate than that.
http://miapearlman.com
Mia then takes the drawing over to her desk where she delicately assembles the mass of vivid and abstract lines into a an array of shapely paper sculptures and other 3d work. she cute the space in between the lines away the sense of a 2D image. She strings them up in all sorts of different ways to have them appeal more to the eye. they make for a very naturalistic look and similar to that of a willow or forest.
Mia then takes the drawing over to her desk where she delicately assembles the mass of vivid and abstract lines into a an array of shapely paper sculptures and other 3d work. she cute the space in between the lines away the sense of a 2D image. She strings them up in all sorts of different ways to have them appeal more to the eye. they make for a very naturalistic look and similar to that of a willow or forest.