21/02/2018 - Wednesday
This week I have chosen my art history piece. It is from one of my three artists, his name is Jim Dine.
The piece I am studying is called the Jewish heart, 1982.
Here is a picture:
We are to do two artists, I have only chosen one so far. But I was thinking of doing another piece from one of my other three names.
Yesterday we started drawing/ planning our folio. We had to think about the series and sequences in out work too.
For my theme Uneqiness and personality, celebration, my plan ending up turning out like this:
9/8/18 - Monday
Three names:
Christine Webster:
Born in Pukekohe Auckland 1958.Her photography is based on fiction. It is unsettling with its probing into society’s accepted boundaries(which look scary in a way).
Her interest lies in working with others to explore the human psyche – people’s different personae, fantasy, identity, gender stereotypes and sexuality.
Ans Westra:
Ans was born in the Netherlands in Leiden in 1936 28th of April. She left the Netherlands for New Zealand in 1957. She is a self-taught New Zealand photographer with an interest in Maori. Her art was amplified in 1964 by one of her pieces called Washday at the par (book). Here is a picture:
Jim Dine:
He was born June 16, 1935 in cincinnati Ohio.
He is a pop artist, and he is sometimes considered part of the Neo-Dada movement( a movement with audio, visual and literary manifestations that had similarities in method or intent with earlier Dada artwork).I have also noticed he likes hearts.
7/2/18 - Wednesday
Brainstorm
Very excited to get started with art this year. I will be doing NCEA this year so it is going to be challenging but fun and exciting. I hope this year I will complete everything to the best I can with hopefully a excellence.
To start the year we did a brain storm about trying to find our Why. Here is mine:
Looking forward to art, can't wait to start :)
Thank you for your positive start to the year. When we chatted, your strongest theme was a celebration of personality and uniqueness. Maybe that would be better worded as a celebration of diversity and individuality?
ReplyDeleteI have written down here that you have an interest in photography. In that, Looking at Christine Webster might well be a good start for you. Please look at the lists I sent on email, under Painting and Photography.
thank you for posting these images up, I like them. There is something quite special about how Ans Westra frames her work. It is really hard to identify, and to be honest, for a long time, I couldn't see what everyone else thought was so special. It has taken me a long time to develop an appreciation of her work. The one of the horse and children; the view point - she is looking up at them which creates a more dramatic effect. But it is not overwhelming. The lines of the road, the way the children are facing backwards and facing forwards on the other side, that none of them are paying attention to her. All of it comes together to be a very cool piece of photography.
ReplyDeleteJim Dine is one to grab onto a motif and use it a lot. Hence the hearts series. He draws and paints and draws and paints almost repetitively with a really high output. When you do that, the subject becomes heavily practised and easy for the artist. The ability to rework it is also easy. Make it different, focus on texture and colour over form, because thats already down pat.
My question now would be where do you want to go with your practical work if I say I want you to use these artists as inspiration?