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Thursday, 26 September 2013

Art History: Sculpture Park section 2

My photographs from YSP

Josephson's work was the opening to the gallery

This sculpture was my favorite of his pieces but I wasn't fond of his other work


I like the textures created with these pieces but I'm not fond of the form

I'm not keen on the abstractness of the pieces which is why I prefer the first figure sculpture

What I do like about his work is the organic style of the piece and how it fits into the scenery



Masayuki Koorida creates granite sculptures

What I like about them is the smoothness of the sculptures



Brian Fell - the HaHa bridge

Barbara Hepworth

She creates geometric sculptures focusing on shapes stacked together

These sculptures come in a variety of mediums including wood and bronze

I like the difference in texture on the piece how both smooth and rough edges have been used on the piece

Lynn Chadwick - Seated female figures

Cloaked Figure IX, these pieces are striking in the aspect is the geometry and their triangular heads, there's something eerie with these pieces and a sense of mystery

Nikki de St Phalle - Buddah

What I like about this piece in particular is are the colours and patterns, it's really pops out of the scenery and is very surreal

William Turnbull - Large Horse



Marcia Farquah - The Horse is a noble animal
I like this piece, the mass scale of it is brilliant and has context of reliving childhood in regards to the rocking horse being larger than the viewer


Sophie Ryder - Crawling

I like these pieces of sculpture, the scale and detail on the piece is brilliant. It is created using plaster and I like the context of the piece as it's an odd subject matter

Magdalena Abakanowicz
I like the colours on these pieces and how the orange colour has eroded away, it gives a nice sense of time

Sophie Ryder - Sitting

This is another piece I like, same reasons as her other large rabbit, I perhaps prefer the other, but the scale on this piece is phenomenal and standing aside it shows the grandness of the size

Peter Liversige - Everything is connected

Michael Zwinggann - Invasion
This piece resembles man's intrusion on nature by showing sculptures looking like hay bales scattered in the middle of a field and this links to the title of the piece "invasion"

Anthony Caro - Promenade
I like the shape of this piece and the curves created in the sculpture, I like how they curl around all the other shapes in a sense of geometry

Sol LeWitt's brick piece is a good example of minimalist work, although I don't think much of it at first sight, had it not been there would have left an empty space in the garden. It fits in nicely with the scenery and works well as a piece of sculpture


Photos of the lake


James Capper -Tread Pad pair one
This piece reminds me of some kind of medieval device but with the twist of bright colours and simplicity. It has a toy like fashion based on it's smooth shape and bright colours but the spiked edges take that innocence away



Lucy and Jorge Orta -Ubelka

This piece by the Orta's was one of my favorite pieces in the park, I had been looking forward to seeing this piece on visiting and it was well worth it

The smooth texture on the sculpture reminds the viewer that the sculpture is a spirit and delecate, whilst the detail level is so concentrated that the piece looks impossible to not be a real person. Clearly a skilled piece of art.

I like this piece for the practicality o the piece and it goes to show that you can create a good looking piece of art using everyday found objects

Their clouds pieces were the second thing I was excited to be seeing at the YSP and they are a really interesting piece. The bottles create an interesting shape to the piece and is then cast in resin. It's a hard smooth sculpture to touch and is very solid and stable.

The ideas behind the piece is something surreal and seeing what is capable from recycled materials is really something beautiful


Raft of Medusa
This piece shows the use of everyday items to create a work of art. Not as strong as the other cloud pieces I don't think, but the use of colour and playfulness of the animal sculptures more than makes up for that

I really enjoyed the Orta pieces and would consider going to the sculpture park again just to see her work, it's something you don't see everyday and seeing it and feeling it in person was a great experience

In conclusion to the trip, after seeing the pieces by Josephson and Jorge and Lucy Orta up close, I warmed up a little to the work of Josephson since prior to the trip I wasn't fond of his work although after seeing it displayed in the surroundings it is in I did like some elements to his pieces like the texture and how it works into the scenery like carved stone.
The Orta pieces I really enjoyed, minus the long walk to the gallery, but seeing their work up close and being able to touch it was something spectacular and the scale of their work in comparison to how they look in pictures works well in their surroundings



Context

Where they are placed, positioned and relation to history. How history relates to ideas and modern art. Context :- definition
The situation with which something exists or happens, and that can help explain it.

Immediate environment :- The location of the artwork. What is surrounding the work when you explore it close-up.

Wider environment: The bigger picture of where it is location e.g in a gallery or a public space.

Historical Context: The history behind the artwork, What period does it originate?
The artist and what era they belong to. The history of the places in which the artwork is located.

Personal experience:-the experience of the individual or group of individuals viewing the work.

Tuesday, 24 September 2013

Vision week 2

Wednesday:
Wednesday morning we went out taking photographs using the digital cameras experimenting with different settings such as aperture, shutterspeed, iso and macro. My work for photography is found on my photography blog here

Wednesday afternoon in 3D I researched some relief sculpt artists and produced a quick plan of how my relief will be set out from a diagram in my sketch book


Thursday:
Thursday morning in art history we produced a written piece on Jorge and Lucy Orta and Josephson which is found on the post prior to this one
and Thursday afternoon I produced a self portrait of myself as seen here




Friday:
Friday morning I finished up my 3D research and began an A3 painting working from one of my photos used in my primary research

Thursday, 19 September 2013

Art History: Yorkshire Sculpture Park


Yorkshire Sculpture Park

Lucy and Jorge Orta

What materials is their work made out of?
Their sculpture work is created using materials such as aluminium and Bronze on their Ubelka piece and then painted using epoxy paint and enamel on their Ubelka piece again. For some of their sculpture art they use found recyclable objects such as plastic bottles, an example of this are their clouds pieces.

What is the scale of their work?
Their sculpture pieces are usually created on a large scale, their Spirits of Huveaune pieces are around 200cm to 250cm high and their other sculpture pieces are usually scaled around the same dimensions

In what context do they display their work?
Their work is displayed both indoors and outdoors. Their spirit pieces are permanently placed at the sculpture park to interact with the surroundings like the sculpture placed in the lake for example as it provides the right setting for the piece. Some of their other pieces such as their clouds are placed in exhibitions to be viewed with other pieces of art.

What are they inspired by / what influences their work?
Their pieces are largely influenced by social situations and ecological issues. They focus their work on tackling problems in the world and they travel to regions of the world stricken with issues to draw influence into their work.

What are the main ideas / concepts behind their work?
Some of the common themes I have seen in their work are elements of fantasy and myth gathered from their Spirit pieces and their clouds containing concepts of magic carpets. They combine these ideas with the world issues and the things they have seen and gathered from those issues.

 

Josephsohn

What materials is their work made out of?
Josephsohn’s sculptures are created using plaster and bronze

What is the scale of their work?
Josephsohn’s scales of sculpture range, his half figures are very large pieces up to 80cm high whereas his smaller sculptures are around 20 cm high.

In what context do they display their work?
Josephsohn mainly displays his work in indoor exhibitions however at the sculpture park, his work is displayed out in the gardens as due to the texture it fits in like a natural form.

What are they inspired by / what influences their work?
His sculptures are inspired by particular people or features from portraits

What are the main ideas / concepts behind their work?
Josephson’s style is focused on capturing intimacy, experience and presence of the human form through sculpture.

 

 

Tuesday, 17 September 2013

Back to college, Vision week 1

New college days so my posts are gonna be different to last year's format. Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.

Wednesday:
We have begun thoroughly learning to use the digital cameras, the functions and buttons because we have begun a new qualification in photography and we will set up a new blog for this.
In the afternoon I printed my contact sheets from primary research and a few A4 photographs that I will work on in my Option lessons and drawing lessons

Thursday:
For the morning we have Art history and we looked at sculpture artists and talked about an upcoming trip to a sculpture park and watched an interview with Lucy Orta, a sculpture artist who works with her husband Jorge
In the afternoon we got back into a drawing frame of mind and did some peer drawings of the class and some portraits. I've definitely got rusty at drawing figures in full so I plan to practice whenever I can.







Friday:
Fridays are our option days so I researched panoramic painters as part of my work, this clued me into a style of work I should look into myself and I looked at Mary Giacomini, Kiril Stanchev and Elizabeth Tyndall. I then produced a quick sample painting to get me back into a frame of mind in painting townscapes

Thursday, 6 June 2013

Finished FMP

I think I may have missed a week updating this blog so instead I'll just post all my work that I've done since the last post :) enjoy.

My first FMP piece is in the style of Bruce Timm and is based on my photographs as a baby


My second piece is in the style of Frank Miller and I did this with a Black Marker pen. Undiluted indian ink would have worked better but I only discovered this later on. It is based on my photographs from nursery

My third piece is a painting and collage based on the work of Dave McKean. For this I used photos of me at primary school

My fourth piece is an acrylic painting in the style of Jack Kirby based on my high school days.


This is the pencils for my fifth piece



After pencils, using a black marker pen I added a hard edge to the subject

I then inked the piece using diluted indian ink
Next I added blue ink to the piece as I began to colour it
Finally using blue, red, green ink and watered down yellow acrylic I coloured the piece finishing my fifth piece in the style of Mike Mignola and showing my first day of college


This is the sketch for my final fmp piece
For this I worked in the style of Alex Ross using goache paints and acrylic paints to created this mixed media piece showing me working on my FMP to symbolize the current stage of my life