I used as feature image a picture taken as a still from the movie, Dead Poets Society – During this chapter of the studies, reading Plato and trying to get to grips with the theory I came upon the discovery that the USA was born with the idealism embedded in the Platonic optimism. Susan Sontag […]
‘The nineteenth century witnessed a revolution in the sciences in which the relatively small-scale 18th century disciplines of natural history (which recorded and classified the world) and natural philosophy (which explained and investigated natural phenomena) gave way to large, influential and powerful sciences – the specialised, professionalised and distinct disciplines of physics, chemistry, mathematics, biology […]
With regards to the assignment I think I had some positive feedback, and hopefully with regards to the length of the assignment, I did ok! My tutor added some extra pointers which I really appreciate in terms of further understanding and connecting the process to the learning. I would like to add this to my […]
In “The Monochrome and Black Canvas” by Thierry de Duve, the author is developing a discussion around several works of critics such as Greenberg, Fried and Judd and challenging how minimalism is affecting the definition of the modern painting. I need to explain the relationship to Modernist art and theory by using a work of […]
Exercises within Part Two The Modern in painting and sculpture 2.0 Find two paintings and one sculpture, each of which appears concerned with modernity, modernism and modernisation. Indicate the relevant features on annotated reproductions. The following should be addressed: Does the subject seem to be of its time? Does the work or its subject matter […]
The term ‘mechanical’ : Greenberg also uses the term ‘mechanical’ to describe a characteristic of kitsch and is also used in describing the processes of producing some Pop Art. Thinking about Postmodernism in comparison with Modernism Postmodernism is typically defined by an attitude of skepticism, irony or rejection towards ideologies and various tenets of universalism, which […]
Demonstration of subject based knowledge and understanding This part of the course made me very aware of the influence of different causes on the life of artists and art. The happenings in the art world in the years since World War II was to greatly advance modernism. I have tried to read as wide – […]
Assignment One , My tutor suggested that I keep additional material in a separate section of my blog. I decide to add the extra writing about the Potter work in this section and took it out of the original essay. In my comments on Tansey’s painting I found and interesting link with work of Potter, […]
My tutor is appreciative of the reading I have started to do and commented on the length of my assignment essay as I did not keep to the word length. I should work on structuring my writing to keep to the word length – mine was twice the approximate 1000 words required!! Background research material can […]
Thoughts on life studies as a common subject throughout art. Looking at human bodies in art is also a way of looking at ourselves. I interpret the part in the study material (p 86) referring to art history and long traditions of depicting or representing the human head and form, as a challenge to draw […]