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 […]
…..and my critical evaluating views on my own learning “Just because you have a figure, that doesn’t mean you don’t realize it’s also an abstraction. It’s also a painting, it’s also a thing on a wall.” marlene dumas I would like to give my tutor credit for this opportunity to explore and learn, as she […]
I decided to use a De Kooning painting of a woman figure done in 1961. This was after his first period and the Woman Series, which was I – VI paintings of grotesque proportions of abstracted and distorted woman figures. Between 1964 and 1966, de Kooning painted a series of larger-than-life female images on hollow-core […]
This was my last formative feedback from my tutor, before I start to prepare for the Digital Assessment of June/July. I would like to reflect critical on this, as these are areas I need to develop as well as do some re work and look at my own development compared to the desired outcomes of […]
A SERIES OF PAINTINGS ON A THEME Subject matter, approach and techniques are entirely upon me and three to five paintings should be produced. The spread of the pandemic Covid19 virus changed the course of my choices. I am in South Africa till the lock down ends, and my husband and I are allowed to […]