Supporting Research for Part One

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...

Reflecting on tutor feedback for assignment one

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...

Part one Theory, Art and Visual Culture

20 June 2018 Art Theories Exercise 1.0 In his book, The Construction of Social Reality, John Searle writes that there are "portions of the real world, objective facts in the world, that are only facts by human agreement. I need to make a list of 10 such 'things' that exist...

The Journey Begins

Thanks for joining me!  This is my learning log and blog about my studies at OCA, and the subject for this blog is Visual Studies 1: Understanding Visual Culture.  This course is divided into 5 parts which I have to work through and hand in an assignment per part.   I...

Museum visits and exhibitions

During April to 8 May 2018  I visited 2 exhibitions by local artists. Invocations to the Plate by Deborah Bell : 12 to 2 June 2018 at David Krut Projects, Parkwood, Gauteng. Deborah Bell is one of South Africa’s most celebrated contemporary artists and works in a range of media...