Friday, 26 June 2015
Thursday, 25 June 2015
Dark twist
Well, I can't help but notice my interest in other artworks and artists have somewhat revealed a darker appearance on my pinterest board.
It has somewhat been frowned upon, from an academic point of view, of using pinterest as a source of gathering material. I can understand to a point what they require in the way of referencing, is lacking a bit in pinterest but the array of visuals you can gather is a fantastic basis to build on for investigating artists you never would have came across otherwise! So I honestly cannot praise it enough. I have used it more than once when starting a new semester to get myself geared up.
After writing my 4,000 word essay the theme was beginning to touch upon the concept of legacy and what is left our identity when we are no longer here. There is no doubt that current family situation is shaping this outlook just now. Personal experience shapes creativity.
A few artists I have came across and beginning to research their works further from finding them on pinterest are:
Greg Sand - "My work is about memory, the passage of time, mortality and the photograph's role in shaping our experience of loss. Photography's unique ability to capture a fleeting moment allows it to expose the temporality of life...my work aims to question the nature of photographs and challenge the traditional definition of photography." (http://www.gregsand.net/statement.html)
Christopher McKenney - Specializes in horror, surrealist photography. Follow the link to his website - http://www.christophermckenney.com/ Some of his photographs have a real shock value and can be quite disconcerting to view!
Rob Mulholland - "My practise aims to explore all aspects of life. I'm interested in the theme of ancestry and continuity. Our world is in constant flux and our own personal lives are shaped by political and social powers beyond our control. I want to celebrate the individual, explore the resonance we have with the natural environment and convey how we are affected by the elemental forces of life and creation." (http://www.robmulholland.co.uk/about-contact/4530071531)
Herbert Bagilone - who painted shadowy figures within an abandonded psychiatric hospital, again well worth a look, follow the link - http://www.citylab.com/design/2013/07/humankinds-creepiest-art-appears-abandoned-italian-mental-hospital/6285/
Also what came up was the visual of 'death' from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, follow the YouTube link to remind yourself of the animation - https://youtu.be/IdSpZgE3fD4 -
I always found the style quite striking, simplistic in design but works so well.
"One of the things that got me excited about it in the early stages was the question of what it should look like. We knew it was going to be stylised, but not exactly how. The producers came along with the suggestion of creating something in the vein of Lotte Reiniger, an Austrian-born animator working in the 1930s and 50s doing silhouette style animations. What we got out of that was a certain simplicity and naivety. We knew it had to be told very graphically with bold silhouettes. But Ben and I were keen to make sure it wasn't only that, that there was something else we could add.
Ben brought along the notion of Eastern shadow puppetry in terms of projecting shadows onto a cloth via a flame. The way that they made these things was to stand behind a bunch of pole puppets and have a fire burning. The closer you were to the fire the more blurry the shadows became, whereas the closer you brought your puppet to the cloth or the surface upon on which the story was told, the crisper it appeared. So we tried to transfer that device and use that in our animation. It was something that was quite enigmatic in terms of drawing on blurry shadows and indistinctness." (http://www.fxguide.com/featured/framestore_deathly_hallows_animation/)
Also the idea of present absence - a theory which has stuck strongly in my mind with the reading into to Jacques Derrida. Whereby there are traces of everything before now present today. Constantly being 'haunted.' It's such a deep subject and I'm finding myself struggling to keep up with all the influx of visuals and other artists branching out as I investigate further. But as I said perhaps a darker twist on things to come....
It has somewhat been frowned upon, from an academic point of view, of using pinterest as a source of gathering material. I can understand to a point what they require in the way of referencing, is lacking a bit in pinterest but the array of visuals you can gather is a fantastic basis to build on for investigating artists you never would have came across otherwise! So I honestly cannot praise it enough. I have used it more than once when starting a new semester to get myself geared up.
After writing my 4,000 word essay the theme was beginning to touch upon the concept of legacy and what is left our identity when we are no longer here. There is no doubt that current family situation is shaping this outlook just now. Personal experience shapes creativity.
A few artists I have came across and beginning to research their works further from finding them on pinterest are:
Greg Sand - "My work is about memory, the passage of time, mortality and the photograph's role in shaping our experience of loss. Photography's unique ability to capture a fleeting moment allows it to expose the temporality of life...my work aims to question the nature of photographs and challenge the traditional definition of photography." (http://www.gregsand.net/statement.html)
Christopher McKenney - Specializes in horror, surrealist photography. Follow the link to his website - http://www.christophermckenney.com/ Some of his photographs have a real shock value and can be quite disconcerting to view!
Rob Mulholland - "My practise aims to explore all aspects of life. I'm interested in the theme of ancestry and continuity. Our world is in constant flux and our own personal lives are shaped by political and social powers beyond our control. I want to celebrate the individual, explore the resonance we have with the natural environment and convey how we are affected by the elemental forces of life and creation." (http://www.robmulholland.co.uk/about-contact/4530071531)
Herbert Bagilone - who painted shadowy figures within an abandonded psychiatric hospital, again well worth a look, follow the link - http://www.citylab.com/design/2013/07/humankinds-creepiest-art-appears-abandoned-italian-mental-hospital/6285/
Also what came up was the visual of 'death' from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, follow the YouTube link to remind yourself of the animation - https://youtu.be/IdSpZgE3fD4 -
I always found the style quite striking, simplistic in design but works so well.
"One of the things that got me excited about it in the early stages was the question of what it should look like. We knew it was going to be stylised, but not exactly how. The producers came along with the suggestion of creating something in the vein of Lotte Reiniger, an Austrian-born animator working in the 1930s and 50s doing silhouette style animations. What we got out of that was a certain simplicity and naivety. We knew it had to be told very graphically with bold silhouettes. But Ben and I were keen to make sure it wasn't only that, that there was something else we could add.
Ben brought along the notion of Eastern shadow puppetry in terms of projecting shadows onto a cloth via a flame. The way that they made these things was to stand behind a bunch of pole puppets and have a fire burning. The closer you were to the fire the more blurry the shadows became, whereas the closer you brought your puppet to the cloth or the surface upon on which the story was told, the crisper it appeared. So we tried to transfer that device and use that in our animation. It was something that was quite enigmatic in terms of drawing on blurry shadows and indistinctness." (http://www.fxguide.com/featured/framestore_deathly_hallows_animation/)
Also the idea of present absence - a theory which has stuck strongly in my mind with the reading into to Jacques Derrida. Whereby there are traces of everything before now present today. Constantly being 'haunted.' It's such a deep subject and I'm finding myself struggling to keep up with all the influx of visuals and other artists branching out as I investigate further. But as I said perhaps a darker twist on things to come....
Taryn Simon
She is an artist I came across when I was in Edinburgh with her piece 'A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters' installed in the Scottish National Modern Gallery.
Follow the link to the video of her at the Tate Modern, London, explaining the theory behind her work - fascinating!
http://bcove.me/2wrs0fpa
Follow the link to the video of her at the Tate Modern, London, explaining the theory behind her work - fascinating!
http://bcove.me/2wrs0fpa
Thursday, 18 June 2015
Scottish Modern Art Gallery- Edinburgh
Was down in Edinburgh for a few days, soaking up the wonderful sunshine!
Went a visit to the Modern Art Gallery.
Sol LeWitt. His work is seemingly objective, it's evident that any number of alternative permutations might be made.
"The most interesting characteristic of the cube is that it is relatively uninteresting."
Martin Creed 'work no 914' (pen on paper)
But yes, literally shop bought felt-tip pens colouring in a bit of paper. Creed is not someone who I have ever been able to relate to and never likely will!
Did like the wall painting but it's not in the least bit unique. Can see this in IKEA on a mass market.
"creeds reluctance to make conscious choices about what size of brush to use. 'I find that it's more difficult to choose, to decide that one thing is more important than the other...so what I try and do is to choose without having to make a decision"
Tuesday, 9 June 2015
Turn a negative into a positive
Look through art history and you will soon discover a great many artists who made, now iconic, pieces of art from a time within their lives that was particularly difficult.
Not that pain and tragedy are essential to make artworks! It's just in taking those emotions from a difficult time and translating them into art is a form of therapy and hold many layers.
Thursday, 4 June 2015
Research Methods
For the past three days I have marched myself to the college library and worked on my 4,000 word pre-dissertation essay. I am very nearly finished so I can submit a draft for feedback. This has been such a big deal for me to actually have been able to focus enough to achieve any sort of word count!
Tuesday, 2 June 2015
4th years degree show
Got an email through the college notifying us of the fourth years show opening very soon. 
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