Tuesday, 19 April 2016
Research: Laurae Pritchett and Saul Leiter
Instagram painter and photographer that i follow on Instagram. I like the simplicity in both her paintings and photographs, and i also like the palate of colours that she works with, which is only one of two colours per work.
I especially love how she paints and photographs fabric.
Saul Leiter
"I like it when one is not certain what one sees. When we do not know why the photographer has taken a picture and when we do not know why we are looking at it, all of a sudden we discover something that we start seeing. I like this confusion."
(http://thephotographersgallery.org.uk/saul-leiter-retrospective)
Both his paintings and photographs also have minimal colours in them and i really like how although there are only a few colours to look at, they still pop and are interesting to look at.
I especially like his photographs that he took on the streets and how the colours of the taxi and bus stand out against the greys of the street. I also really like his photos of foggy or rained on windows. I might try my hand at this type of photography.
Don't be mini me.
Questions to ask yourself when making work:
- What is it? What am i trying to make?
- How is it made?
- Who else is making it?
Research: Liyen Chong
- 'air pregnant with possibilities'
- write down notes/ record 24/7
- craft is the skill and art is the idea
- abject- repulse (e.g hair on the body is beautiful, whereas hair off the body repulses because it represents death)
- mantra- define it again, define it again, define it again....
Research: Ben Cauchi
- 1850s photography
- 'simplictiy of the older camera'
- his photography is about photography
- style of photos have a old, vintage and gloomy feel
- 'having a mental conversation with the lens'
I really like the colour palate of the photographs in Cauchi's work. I like the earth tones, the dark colours. I also really like the simplicity of his photos; having minimal subject matter.
Research and Experimentation: Drawing Techniques found in Library.
I got out the book DRAWN FROM ARTIST COLLECTIONS- The Drawing Centre and picked out 4 artist and their drawings to emulate.
1. PAUL CEZANNE
(1839-1906)
Self Portrait, CA. 1880
Pencil on Paper, 32.1x14.6
COLLECTION OF JASPER JONES
2. BALTHUS
(B. 1908)
Untitled, CA. 1952
Pencil on Paper, 50.8x35.6
COLLECTION OF ALEX KATZ
3. ROBERT GOBER
(B. 1954)
Untitled, 1988
Pencil on vellum, two sheets, (16.5x17.2) each
COLLECTION OF ELIZABETH MURRAY
4. WILLIAM BE KOONING
(1904-1997)
Untitled, 1969
Charcoal on paper, 47.6x61
COLLECTION OF ALEX KATZ
Exquistite Corpse
Exquisite Corpse
Exquisite corpse, also known as exquisite cadaver (from the original French term cadavre exquis) orrotating corpse, is a method by which a collection of words or images is collectively assembled. Each collaborator adds to a composition in sequence, either by following a rule (e.g. "The adjective nounadverb verb the adjective noun", as in "The green duck sweetly sang the dreadful dirge") or by being allowed to see only the end of what the previous person contributed.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exquisite_corpse)
Drawings
Collage
Installation
Stained Glass
Artist
(http://www.theartstory.org/artist-breton-andre.htm)
Andre Breton (1896-1966), Jacqueline Lamba (1910-1993), Yves Tanguy (1900-1955), Exquisite Corpse, 1938 Collage, Gale and Ira Drukier © 2012 Atists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris, © 2012 Estate of Yves Tanguy / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
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