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 […]
For this assignment I will show 2 A1 sized figure studies and a self-portrait. 1 Figure study using line – a seated model in an upright chair Quick drawing in the group in SA – on newsprint paper. During the life figure drawing sessions in Dubai the model held a piece of cloth in her […]
Exercise 1 Facial features “The face, for all of its animation, is a thin layer of soft tissue on top of a surface of inflexible bone. It is most technically accurate when it is depicted in terms of form.” Daniel Maidman. I think the face shows the unique in each human and also relates to […]
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PROJECT 4 Structure Exercise 1 The structure of the human body work in sketchbooks I looked at a a painting Picasso made in 1910 of Ambroise Vollard and a graphite drawing of the same person 5 years later. In the 1910 painting Picasso is immersed in his formulation of Cubism – seeking cones, spheres and […]
Thinking about describing form of the figure I look at ‘boxes’ in the body : head, rib cage and the pelvis. The head is a vertical square, the rib cage a vertical rectangular and the pelvis a horizontal rectangular. Robert Zeller, in The figurative artist’s handbook ( 2016) refers to “looking” for these boxes when […]