RESEARCH POINT 1 Look up interviews with and texts about the British artist Lubaina Himid and Kerry James Marchall. ( Study material offers suggestions of youtube video to listen to, as well as other online sites, such as MOCA) I am asked to reflect in my learning log in writing or in the form of […]
11 JANUARY 2020 A local newspaper in South Africa wrote the following of above work in 1990: The artist stands outside society and scrutinises the historical and bourgeois norms, taboos and ideas of what art en-tails and disconcerts with its honesty. (https://repository.up.ac.za/bitstream/handle/2263/15043/Oppermann_Contrasting%282003%29.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y) William Kentridge managed to stay away from politics, capturing a moral message or […]
These works are done on a daily basis – I do not expect any outcomes other than a continued process of drawing after a walk. I do not judge the works, but can see that it will influence further works. I am focussed on my actions and not necessarily what the experience represent. Walking is […]
TOPIC 1 POLITICAL DIMENSIONS In the course material I read the following: In this topic, you will examine the practices of artists who use their work explicitly or implicitly to address social and political concerns using visual means. They may seek to uncover past or present injustices or shift personal or societal attitudes. Rather than […]
From the study material: You will be introduced to a variety of short texts, some that you will be guided through in depth, others that will be offered more like a taster for ideas that whet your appetite. It is possible that an essay from a particular author or anthology resonates with your work and […]
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 […]
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. […]