learn.oca.ac.uk/pluginfile.php/1124/mod_resource/content/1/part 1.pdf I feel frustrated that it took me so long to spend some time with this very valuable and useful document. I need to thank my tutor and OCA for this document. Finally I got the message and I am awoken to its meaning and content! Wow it took time to get into this. […]
But what of understanding, of being understood? Understanding what? Does it matter? Why should art be “understood” (and what does “understanding” mean in this context)?’ The quote in our study material is part of a fax conversation which took place during 22.08.98 – 02.09.98 and was taken from Barlow’s Book, Objects For…and Other Things, (2008, […]
24 August 2020 I had a positive and inspirational virtual meeting with my tutor to discuss her assessment of my work done in my learning blog for the first part of this course. I also wanted to discuss my temporary situation due to lockdown which is concerned with my access to the online course material […]
Modern art by 1960 saw rising ideas by artists that form could be expressive even if it became divorced from appearances, example would be abstract art. Sontag writes when art was dominated by Formalism, but moving towards Postmodernism. I want to consider her discourse as a reaction to American art critic, Clement Greenberg, the Freudian […]
TOPIC ONE The artwork and the audience Reading point 1 Sontag, S. (1994) ‘Against Interpretation’ I added my research and reading notes for this exercise in my blog, Reading List , under Part Two. I would however like to put forward the following opinion which I read: “ …..Sontag proposed the transcendental power of art […]
DAILY PRACTICE During my reading and research for this first part of UVC 2, I became aware of ideas around a practice of doing things repetitively, whether it is deliberate or unintended, action that flows from it. I love walking in nature……where I collect ‘physical objects’. Do I do it out of habit? What pushes […]
Researching texts required to read as well as extra reading during this course will be journaled here. I will also use my sketchpad for notes…hope the thinking will become more integrated into my work PART ONE Lisa le Feuvre Failure Whitechapel Documents of Contemporary Art 1. I downloaded this on SCRIBD on June 29, 2020. […]
In this study blog I will discuss three topics and show the research and exercises as requested in my online study material. Idea and Reality Art and Life Action as habit, method and rule Exercise 1 Practicing The above image was made by an artist who, for most of her life, seemed to work under […]
Thanks for joining me! This is the next level of my Fine Art studies with OCA, London. I started my studies towards a BA Honours in Fine Art with Open College the Arts during 2018. My life always included a love for art and the on and off dabbing into drawing – especially when I […]
I enjoyed the part about art and identity, and as a woman I have found that the work of Frida Kahlo has given me the opportunity to explore my own identity as an aging South African woman, who started to explore her own identity and personal struggles through art. I live in Dubai and would […]