TOPIC 2: INSTITUTIONAL CRITIQUE EXERCISE 4.2 TRANSPARENCY Research the types of galleries and cultural institutions where you live. What are you able to find out about them? Record your findings in your sketchbook in a form you find appropriate. Are they privately or publicly funded; who runs them; who sits on the board; who works […]
RESEARCH POINT 1 Research some of the artists that subsequently emerge as a result of these shifts. Look up: Kurt Schwitters, Merzbau, 1937; Marcel Duchamp, 1200 Bags of Coal, 1938; Roy Lichtenstein, Stretcher Frame, 1968. Look at installation images of exhibitions by Frank Stella, Kenneth Noland and Helen Frankenthaler. Kurt Schwitters Below is a picture […]
TOPIC ONE THE WHITE CUBE Exercise 4 Display To the contemporary artist, this is quite an unfamiliar approach. Look at your work in the studio, choose a work – it could be finished or in progress, if it is on a table, place it on the floor, or if on a wall, or in a […]
From the study material: “Look back over your sketchbook and learning log so far and reflect on what has shifted in your thinking. For this assignment, you will create a studio work in the media of your choice that draws from what is located outside of your direct experience. So, like Derrida, you could try […]
KEEPING UP MOMENTUM This blog will be updated over the next few weeks, as we progress with the session which will go over two meetings during October 2020 First Zoom meeting : 3 October 2020 – 10am – 12pm UK time Google meeting with group, led by H Resemier and dr Bryan Eccleshall. We had […]
Zoom workshop on Between Islands, a current exhibition at the Harley Gallery Research and preparation for the planned Zoom workshop on Wednesday 30 Sept 2020 The artist has collaborated with artist, David Orme in this exhibition which consists of paintings, drawings and ceramics. The artists intention as on her website: “I will be working with […]
19 September 2020 I received a formal feedback today and think it is important to comment and reflect on this as soon as possible. Having started on Part Three and listening/watching a video by Bloomberg, ( How Richard Mosse documents life in photography/Brilliant Ideas Ep. 75) my tutors’ feedback suddenly made more sense. I was […]
General comments on the work below. In this part of my studies, when I started the reading for Research Point 2, I decided to first continue with the exercises of the Topic Experience and Authenticity and then come back and fill in the details and start writing them. I did the same with Research Point […]
Topic 1: Experience and authenticity Identity In the study material on Identity I read the following: “The debates at the time around authenticity, appropriation and authority that Love raises in her essay ‘The Experience of Art as a Living through of language’ are equally relevant today.” I looked at the artwork shown in the study […]
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 […]