Fine Art Review

                                                                   Fine Art Review

 During the fne art taster week, we focused on shape and colour to create a series of experimental paintings. These were produced from drawing around projected shapes and using the objects themselves to apply paint.This created a very free method of painting which was quite liberating. The colour's used were also very experimental as i used a variety of colour s mixed to create greys, purples,blues and reds,most of which were used to contrast and compliment one another. The experimentation of colour was very important as i feel this is a skill i will need to take with me to my specialist area as colour is significant in creating a mood,message or representation.I liked the overall outcome of the series as i choose to use similiar objects to create similar shapes on each painting.Moreover the application of paint was interesting and the way in which i created texture was very interesting, the more application of paint the more textured and interesting the painting becomes, as i believe.Overall the fine art taster week was interesting in allowing me to really begin to understand the meaning of fine art as being a way of creating meaning and themes, by making useless things or aesthetically pleasing objects. I like the concept behind fine art but i dont think it is the specialist area for me as there are no jobs that i wish to do in this area,however, i could see myself creating series of works based on theme and messages rather than 3d assosiated work where i am creating a new product.

Life Drawing- Ipad

                                                                Ipad Life Drawing Session

During this weeks session, we spent three hours on the ipads on the app Brushes to draw from.As you can see some of the drawings lack accuracy, but the main reason behind this was to experiment with the use of the ipads and how technology can be used within art to create or manipulate images. It was very interesting to experiment with the different methods that you can use the app brushes to draw from life.Some of the drawings were more successfull than others and that was due to layering up of lines, using more transparent  lines as the underground layers with larger more bold lines as the foreground layers. This created more depth behind the images.The Fifth image was the most succesful as i used a lighter coloured line to create highlights on the image which make it look more realistic and creates depth and tone to the image.With further time i could have developed these images even further to build further layers to create more detail and depth.

Damien Hirst

    Damien Hirst
"This is the first substantial survey of his work in a British institution and brings together key works from over twenty years. The exhibition includes iconic sculptures from his Natural History series, including The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living 1991, in which he suspended a shark in formaldehyde. Also included are vitrines such as A Thousand Years from 1990, medicine cabinets, pill cabinets and instrument cabinets in addition to seminal paintings made throughout his career using butterflies and flies as well as spots and spins. The two-part installation In and Out of Love, not shown in its entirety since its creation in 1991 and Pharmacy 1992 are among the highlights of the exhibition." Tate gallery Website

"As crowds flock to Damien Hirst's retrospective at Tate Modern, his signature spot and spin paintings, his diamond-studded skull and his animals in formaldehyde are the focus of intense interest. But is Hirst an important artist of our time? Or is he merely an accomplished showman?"
-Theres always controversy around Hirst
-stunt- skull with diamonds, which famously didnt sell
-like few artists, is his own improsario
-art world money and drama
-teams of workers in studioes produced his work whilst he was restoring a location to place his whole collection.
-themes of life and death
-became darker assosiation of death
-shock tactics
-overproduction of work
Financial times-Very money orientated,refering to damien as overpricing and having alot of money and suggesting that he remakes some of his work to make more money.

"Damien Hirst’s spots, sharks and carcasses certainly have their critics, but it seems even they have been drawn in for a peek at Tate Modern’s summer blockbuster.

The gallery announced today that the exhibition - an unashamed bonanza of the artist’s greatest hits, including 1991’s notorious, if now crumbling, tiger shark - has become their most-visited solo show ever, ahead of 2010’s blockbusting Gauguin show and 2004’sEdward Hopper retrospective." The sunday times

These three articles differ slightly, in that the writers all hint at their own opinions of Hirst. The finincial times was the most opinionated and most orientated around money,suggesting on several occasions that hirsts work was overpriced or that he was money orientated.It was also the most in depth as it was a 6m long video, therefore it described different works. It overall cast a fairly negative light on damien hirst himself, suggesting that he had a team of artists reproducing his work so that he could gain more money.

axisweb

axisweb

online resource for contempory artists.
online society
easy way to locate different artists and curators.

Yorkshire artist:Daniel Cimmermann

I would like to meet Daniel or see his work because i feel that the process in which he goes through to create a piece is very obsessive and jittery and i would like to understand the reason behind such a method. He works with image-trhough reproudction to expierment with colour and scale, removing the image from its original context to create a distortion and create a personal response.He draws over paintings with graffiti and markers to create different textured surfaces and  experiments with layering, which i like to do to as i feel it creates an obscuirity and secrecy to a piece."The act of defacing the image is paramount. It then becomes mine and gives me the right to be selfish and manipulate it as I desire." are words of Daniels that i find very interesting as it is allowing me to see that his work has a personal significance as appose to wanting a public acceptance, therefore i would really like to meet him to as him about why he 
creates such distorted and defaced images, and what their importance is to him.

Joseph Beuys

 


Joseph Beuys 

Born In krefeld but moved to kleve, an industrial town near the dutch border and schooled there.
Experienced the Nazi Book Burning in Kleve 1933.
1936, membership into the Hitler Youth.
Showed intrest in natural sciences from 15 and was going to take the route of medicine.
But in his last years became influences by Willheml Lehmbrucks Sculptures, and became a sculptor himself, 1941.
Later in 1941, he volunteered for luftwaffe(aerial warfare branch for Germans in wwII) and began his military training as a aircraft radio operater, whilst also attending lectures in zoology and biology.
1944 his plane was shoot down and crashed, his recovery story was very contravseral as he recalled being rescued by Tatar tribesman and nursed back to health by being wrapped in animal fat and felt.Served as a powerful myth and the origin for beuys artisitic identity.
Day After German surrended, Beuys was help captive in cuxhaven and taken to a british internment camp, where he spent 3 months.

I think that Joseph Beuys was a meaningful artist who could also be percieved as a teacher,political activist and performer.I this Beuys experiences led him to think differently to other artists which is why i think he clung his work to felt and fat due to other assosiations that he cannot understand in his head, therefore pscyoligcally created a reality for himself as a coping mechanism.I like his work because it has a raw militant feel to it, through the use of felt and the dull browns and greys that he used.

Galleries Research

   

Tate Modern-The Tanks

The tanks-Art in action is an oppurtunity for music and perfomrance art to be expressed as a form of fine art.
The curators wanted to create a sociable dimension through interaction and how contempory art has evolved, with a signifcance on space. They wanted to show the significance of performance art and how it has evolved.

I would have liked to have seen Haugue Yang's interactive sculptures that prvoke spontaneous choregraphy because i would have liked to have noted the different ways in which people moved/danced around the sculptures, despite their uncertanity and lack of rhymth, or so they may have thought.

Hepworth Museum-James Pyman 

I would like to see the exhibition by James Pyman due to his method of work. I like extreme scale works in which you can see every technique and mark therefore i think his work would be very interesting to see as he has made a series of hand drawin illustrations of walls, which were then reproduced to life size scale to then wrap around the building. 

Yorkshire Sculpture Park-Lynn Chadwick

I would like to see Lynn Chadwicks, cloacked Figures, as i feel they have a very eariness to them form the pictures therefore i feel they would be even stronger in person. He belonged to the group of artists called the geometry of fear at one point therefore i feel it would be a real experience to see his sculptures as i feel they would create a reaction and sensation, due to the scale,texture and location of the piece.

Site Gallery-Pilvi Takala

I would like to see Pilvia Takalas work at the site gallery due to the perfomrance art feature. I have only seen performance art once therefore i feel it would be a realy experience. Her focus is bizarre social situations therefore i think it would be really interesting to see the live responses aswell as the taped responses of the exhibition to compare.It is also said that she provokes the upspoken rules of society which i would like to see how exactly she does that and what methods she uses, aswell as what she thinks is socially bizarre and uacceptable.

Nottingham Contempory-Kafou:Haiti,Art and Vodou

I would like to see this exhibition as it would a nchance to see international art that i wouldnt otherwise get the chance to see. The colour palettes are very rich and varied therefore i think i would enjoy the exhibiton purely for that reason.Also it would be good to see how different contempory haiti art between 1940's to current day is, in comparison to english contempory art. I would also be interested in seeing the representations of vodou within the work and how these different artists paintings create spirtiual images.

Theory Work Fine Art

5 Crossover artists

1- Alexander Mcqueen-Luxury Designer

2-Colleen Atwood-Costume Designer

3-Thomas Heatherwick-3D/Product/Architectural designer

4-Jeanne Roberts,Textiles Fine artist

5-Ryan Bubnis,Illustrator/Fine Artist

The boundaires/definition of fine art is very broad as you can see from the variety of crossover with other creative practises.Fine art can be incorpurated into any form of creative industries. I Choose all these artists because they all show definitons of specialist areas aswell as having the design and uselessness making them also be categorised as fine art. For example Thomas Heatherwick creates fantastic architectural pieces, but these designs have no extra usefulnes other than they look attractive and original.Similarily with Alexander Mcqueen designs, they are exquisite, but cannot be worn because they are pieces of art as apposed to wearable garments.Fine art allows for a creation of anything, due to the desire to just create a piece or to express a meaning or theme.