Tuesday, 1 December 2009

Graham Sutherland

I found that many of graham Sutherland's work linked in with pictures in my project, as his work portrays many ambiguous shapes like m yown pictures which , as they are taken in macro mode, allow the eye to interpret teh shapes in many differnt ways.
Graham Sutherland ..








Sunday, 29 November 2009

Gallery: Glenn Brown





Glenn Brown - The Gagosian Gallery


Glenn Brown’s exhibition at the Gagosian Gallery showcased seven paintings and two sculptures. His work is very precise and intricate and has been subject to fierce criticism, with some branding his turner nominated painting plagiarism. What is clear from Brown’s paintings is that the process from which Brown borrows an image to the finished piece is long and laborious. Though he may ‘copy’ the work of renowned artists from Dali to Rembrandt, he appears to change their meaning and distort the message while at the same time bringing them to life again. Brown’s work has been described as corpse like with little life in the works; his paintings often have cold hues yet I think they are also lifeless in the way that they are so flat in texture on the board, a technique known as Trompe-l'œil. Not only this but Brown’s technique appears emotionless as if every step that takes Brown away from the original painting or image, takes the subject further into meaningless.


The gallery itself is set over two high-ceilinged and spacious rooms. With walls that are a blank, concrete grey they do not provoke a warm and welcoming atmosphere yet they seem to work well with Brown’s paintings that too appear cold and openness of the space allows the paintings room to breath.


To conclude i found that there were aspects of this exhibition that interested me, i found the process in which Brown develops his work a process that i could possibly use in my own project.


Monday, 16 November 2009

The 'Formal Elements'

There are seven formal elements:

LINE
COLOUR
FORM
SHAPE
SPACE

TEXTURE
LIGHT

    These elements are key to our undertstanding of visual analysis and developing our own artistic practise.

    Line

    Line is a human invention, something we need in order to communicate what we see.
    Line can be used in a number of ways:
    in  a painting lines can occur by contrasts of light and shadow or through colour or shape.
    Whether seen or implied, line is unquestionably one of the artist's most articulate tools.

    It encloses or liberates space        expresses feeling           conveys movement                  suggests mass or volume           creates an image.

    It may be used evenly or in a modulated way to express a wide range of qualities :
    from fast to slow         from serene to frenetic         or rigid to relaxed.


    I used Edward weston as a starting point for my own photograph.
    This is because i wanted to use the use of line in my own picture.here the use of lines
    help the eye read teh image. in teh Westin photograph the lines create a direction.
    in my own photo the lines centre the image and tells the eye how to read the photo.

    Colour
    It could be said that colour is the most important element of Art. How we see colour is affected by our environment, culture and reitnal ability. Colour effects our emotions, natural instincts and our very wellbeing. Colour has no boundaries, it affects every aspect of life.









    Form
    Form has mulitple meanings in Art.
    As a verb (to shape and create)
    the organisation and composition of a piece of work
    the illusionary representaion of something three dimensional on a two dimensional surface.
    A mold in which a meterial  is poured
    A three dimensional solid or contained space


    Glenn Brown
    Glenn brown's style of painting uses the technique called 'trompe l'oeil' .
    (french for 'trick of the eye')
    Trompe l'oeil is the technique using extremely realistic imagery in order to creath th optical illusion that the painting is a three dimensional object.
    While this painting appears textured with thick brushstrokes and layers of paint, in reality this oil on board is extremely flat using the finest of brushstrokes.
    In my own work my photos were very close up showing every detail and in my drawings and paintings i focused on the shading toning of the picture therefore creating a very detailed and realistic work that almost creates a three dimensional form, similar to Brown's work.

    Shape
    Shape has three fundamental purposes in art:
    To portray a physical form.
    To achieve a harmony and order in a composition.
    To express the different qualities of moods and feelings.
    The term 'shape' refers to any area of real or imagined object created and rendered using the all other formal elements.
    Shape is different to form because while form has mass and volume, shape is only two dimensional.



    Karl Blossfeldt

    Space
    Nothing can exist without space


    Texture


    'tool drawing' Jim Dine
    Light


    Friday, 13 November 2009

    Wednesday, 21 October 2009

    Arstist: William Morris





    William Morris is usful to my project because I like how he makes patterns out of natural forms. His designs would work very well as a print and I could use these Tiles as a starting point in my project.

    Sunday, 18 October 2009

    Artists: of New Objectivity

    New objectivity was a German art movement of the 1920's as an outgrowth of,
    and in opposition to, expressionism.
    The movement essentially ended in 1933 with the fall of the Weimar Republic and the rise of the Nazis to power. The term is applied to works of pictorial art, literature, music, and architecture.



    Renger-Patzsch’s Die Welt ist Schön (The World is Beautiful) is a collection of one hundred of his photographs in which natural forms, industrial subjects and mass-produced objects are presented with the clarity of scientific illustrations.

    I think this relates to my pictures in the way objects are close up and in detail and how this takes them out of there context

     August Sander



    I think that the idea of new objectivity relates to my project as, like my artist Blossfeldt, it takes objects and life forms out of context, therefore detatching them from reality.

    Flock Wallpaper



    This particular pattern of wallpaper reflects my my pictures, and in particular one of my black and white drawings, with its intricate sequrnce of shapes, like a repeated motif.