Week 7 Review

Friday 29.10.10

We didn't have a lecture because of an optional trip to the Eden project, and as I've been before, I decided to go home for the weekend!

Thursday 28.10.10

Wednesday 27.10.10

Lecture – Post Modernism.

Painting is ‘washed up’, Duchamp said in 1912. In abandoning painting, he said ‘I want something where the eye and the hand count for nothing’

1960’s onwards. Post-war period, 2^nd world war changed society

Duchamp, godfather of post modernism. Decades before, ahead of his time. Art becomes more accessible, to everyone, but less accessible To the common man, why is that art?

Marcel Duchamp’s ‘Fountain’… 1917! Wasn’t allowed in the show, thrown out.

Bicycle wheel and snow shovel. When he was looking for objects, stuff that DIDN’T inspire him, ordinary on display and call it art.

Godfather of conceptual art.

·      Everyday banality

Warhol. Richard Avedon photographer. Interested in celebrity.

“Warhol’s Brillo Box was the end of the modernist lie… Art had completed the line of questioning…etc’

Brillo Box. Andy Warhol asking what art is, doesn’t have to be lofty. Graphic Illustrator rather than fine artist.

‘If brillo box represented the end of modernism in Danto;s schema, fot the commodity critics it marked the beginning of postmodernism. For them it’s key element was the recognition of the identity of artworks and consumer products’

Campbell’s soup. about repetition.

·      Cross cultural references, eclectic

Euro-centric so goes out to elsewhere. Yasumasa Morimura. Takes other’s art and uses it himself, dressing himself etc. Olympia by Manet etc.

Vermeer, girl with a pearl earring.

Chan-hyo Bae

1990, Existing in Costume

‘The sun never sets over the British empire’ etc.

·      Democracy

Modernism not accessible to common people, not only people who go to art galleries. Postmodernists wanted art to be seen by more people as well as done by more people

Susan Philipsz – sound artist

Filter – Tesco 1998

Shallow sea – New York, Guggenheim 2009

Lowlands – under bridges, Glasgow 2010

Haunting singing. Embed video.

·      Semiotics

Signs/signifiers

Ori Gersht, Israeli (Tel Aviv)

Weird still lives, shooting an apple etc! making still image suddenly explode.

Original composition of renaissance tries to capture a moment in time, this is the opposite.

Juan Cotan

Alessi – SMI – sensation, memory and imagination. Triggering memory to make a sale

Aldo Rossi teapot.

·      Material playfulness

Chris Ofili, the upper room 2002, elephant dung. With this work, olli raises questions about the relationships between civilisation and…

“the upper room is like a single entity’ HAH

The last supper, 12 elements with 13^th most important element,

Tate website.

Mark Quinn, self in blood, also in poop.

Anselm Kiefer poppy seeds and remembrance. 2^nd world war artist

·      Feminism

Barbara Kruger, we don’t need another hero, not stupid enough, yur body is a battlefield

Andrea Dezso, embroidery, lessons from my mother

·      Environmentalism

Tuesday 26.10.10

Monday 25.10.10

Woodshop

Week 6 Review

Friday 22.10.10

Thursday 21.10.10

Wednesday 20.10.10

I also had my 2nd life drawing class

Tuesday 19.10.10

Research day

Monday 18.10.10

Printing

Week 5 Review

Friday 15.10.10

Thursday 14.10.10

Photography Day

We were given Nikon D80's, which was a little annoying as my Canon D550 is a much better camera, however the Nikon does have a multiple exposure setting which I liked.

We had to shoot the objects on the tables and come up with one final piece:

I kind of got a little obsessed with the yellow vase, it has beautiful texture.

I also went to do a shoot by the pier with my Canon and Zoe, which was fun.

It was really good to do something that I'm good at, I felt I helped others who were learning too!

Wednesday 13.10.10

Lecture – Making Things, 3D Design

Hans Hat – Give & Take.

Chairs, Product design

Art Nouveau - flora and fauna, tripod, roman.

Ruskin, Unto this last. Contemporary, Bauhaus. Conrad

Chairs- Mondrian painting

Philippe Starck - Amazing contemporary designer.

This lecture was interesting and well-presented, but didn't tell me anything I didn't already know. I plan to go into design so have researched the area thoroughly. It did make me think about design more though, and go back to my design books, especially my eco-design book,a dn re-read them!

Tuesday 12.10.10

Ill, catch up Painting day

Monday 11.10.10

Bookbinding

We had to bring 10 A1 sheets of good quality paper, and any end paper we wanted.

First we used a bone to help rip all the paper in half, and then in half again, either to landcape or portait depending on whether we wanted a landscape or portrait book. I chose landscape.

We then divided one section into two to make the end papers.

We used a bit of scrap paper placed on a board to mark where we needed to make needle holes - 2.5cm from the top and the bottom, and then 2cm apart, either side of the 4 tapes used to bind the book together.

I loved bookmaking. It’s exactly the kind of perfectionist process I like, and I’ll definitely be doing it again. I’m thinking of making a storybook for my brother’s 7^th birthday in November. My book came out pretty well, and I was good at the stitching. I don’t exactly think it’s art but it’s definitely a very useful skill to have!

Week 4 Review

This week really disappointed me, I thought we would get more done, and I would feel more challenged. It still feels like I’m just going through the motions. The object classification was the only thing I really enjoyed, and that was still more of a childish enjoyment than an artistic sense of fulfillment. I don’t really have that much to say about this week, only that I hope next week excites me a bit more!