Ben Shahn & Timorous Beasties

Some more drawing to aspire to - by the great Ben Shahn: Tutorials Tuesday as planned on moodle for Lev 4/1 with Mark B ( Mack in PM for tutorials for Lev 4/2 and 1 but by sign up email ) Your Drawing is still key to this assessment - your 3d ideas are experimental and a finalized 'idea' visualized ( not made ) is requited for hand in assessment and a maquette where appropriate. Show us material and samples if it is to be a textile piece or dress or similar BUT your drawings will be key to evidencing your process and also your final designs - PRINTING an image onto material is acceptable as a 3d piece. But your drawings again are key here to the success of this so KEEP DRAWING ! A full 'Portfolio of drawing is to be handed in for this unit - and will be graded on quantity, quality and bravery - experiments and mistakes.

Design museum profile and write up here  http://designmuseum.org/design/timorous-beasties

http://www.vam.ac.uk/channel/people/textiles1/timorous_beasties_urban_fabrics/

Watch the film above. Paul ( with beard ) will be coming in soon hopefully for a guest lecture -  they are an Internationally respected duo so be great to have them guest if we can get them -  shop in Glasgow and London look on site and research their ethos and work

website here also http://www.timorousbeasties.com/products/Showrooms/

Look at the lovely Carolyn Gowdy work here  - drawings and prints
no copying mind magpies ! as Carolyn is part of my Magic Theatre collective and I'm protective !
we are showing in Norwich next - work is for sale via gallery and Carolyn

http://www.englandgallery.com/artist_group.php?mainId=59&media=Drawings+%26+works+on+paper

Magic Cabinets

Show now up and ready to visit - come in Monday or Tuesday and see Cabinets also 

For your first evaluative written task - do as discussed - or why not evaluate the Drawn line and small magic theatre shows in the Holden Gallery

Consider what it is emoting as a whole and the individual works and books etc 

write up 500 words to 1500 ( your choice ) for this first written task 

film book or show 

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Practical Visual Language task 3 

Design an object that connotes the concepts of adornment and Celebration - evolve your ideas based on your drawing practice and design and make a first stage maquette - this should be 3d and scupltural in form using ANY material - we will discuss materials over the course of the remaining semester - you will make drawings working plans and a final set of 3d maquettes - experiment and choose to make abstract or representational objects ... Scarf ,Rug, Head , Jewellery, Paper sculpture, Textile, Cloth, Material, Metal, Stone, Soil, Sand, Clay ,Ceramic are all possible However your material should folow the magical ideas of your concepts and thoughts - to celebrate subvert or disturb - you choose - surprise us !

  Deadline end of term formative internal assessments mid December ( but mid crit in 2 weeks )

Look at:  Jean ARP, Joan Miro, Alexander Calder, Eva Hesse, Hepworth, Lucienne Day, Frink and  The Chapman brothers, Look at Rachel Whitreads WAX & RESIN pieces and Cornelia Parker 

Tuesdays Crit / Pin Up

CRIT Pin UP info;
see you Tuesday kick off is 11.30 - hang your work up however best and lunch at 1pm.
( here is a great insight for you in the meantime ) Mr Grayson Perry's Studio - an insight at www.TATE
http://channel.tate.org.uk/#media:/media/1218055017001&list:/channel/playlists/41803706001&context:/channel/playlists

Poets Selima Hill & Poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning (and son)

Regarding 'The Object' click and read this piece by Christine Barkla and note the refences to Roland Barthes book Camera Lucida and the Artists Boltanski and Susan Hillier 

http://www.plymouthfineart.co.uk/WritingsOnArtCBarkla.html

Tuesday UPDATES and contact Times

No late tutorials tomorrow for Lev 4/ 2  - postponed to next week as I have to leave at 5pm
New Students in Lev 4/1
Meet Up seminar groups at 12.00 -1pm  and another at 2pm - 3pm
YOU CHOOSE YOUR GROUP TIME FOR PEER DISCUSSIONS 
TUTORIAL INPUT with Mack 12-1 pm or 2- 3pm pm      
Just to confirm tomorrow is a good day to get on with your project task independently -  drawing in the studio or at the museum. Its up to you ? depending on what you are doing.
I will be around all day but we will have a sit down and look at what we have been doing later in the morning at 12pm or after lunch at 2pm day in small groups ot one big one  -we will see

USE your space -  feel free to work on the walls and to make the tables more suitable - into clusters or a grouping. See you between 10 and 3pm only
Please note: Our normal times now are;
Open studio access Tues: 10am to 5pm and sit down crits and pin ups with me occurring where appropriate in this time window
n.b ( evenings are not required for you L4/1 unless you sign up with me via email 
L4/2 will see Mack in Eve slots only sign up when posted next week is our first meet up at 5pm

TASK ONE Drawing the Object Drawing Perception

Frida Kahlo notebooks

  ( order it ) here http://www.amazon.co.uk/Diary-Frida-Kahlo-Intimate-Self-Portrait/dp/0810959542/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1317232507&sr=8-1

Task 1: From Tuesday 27th to Tuesday 11th Oct Seminar 

A; HOME / The Domestic: Select an object ( 2d or 3d ) an object that suggests a memory or a time or sense of place - respond to this object with drawing in inks and charcoal and paint Chalk etc use black and white - maybe colour later after 20 or so studies  - make notes - improvise

B; MUSEUM / GALLERY OBJECT Select a Museum or Gallery Object or even an Antique shop object in a staged environment - NOT AT HOME but a setting and a context where the object is classified as 'special' and therefore is 'displayed' and on view. Draw the quality or history that draws you to the object / Image - ask what do you admire in this object, Its history and its story ? - imagine ? make notes

Draw several objects from the above or be specific. The AIM is that you EXPERIMENT and cultivate your Visual Language so do consider and experiment with a variety of marks and scales and paper sizes and paper surfaces as discussed this week - look to communicate feeling texture and meaning ? make notes, Prose etc 

Plan for next week: Tuesday 4th Oct SELF DIRECTED MUSEUM Drawing & OR Self directed in Studio drawing - dependent on what work you need to progress and what objects you have developed

Meet Up seminar groups at 12.00 -1pm  and another at 4..30 pm - 5pm  Cancelled

YOU CHOOSE YOUR GROUP TIME FOR PEER DISCUSSIONS and TUTORIAL INPUT with Mack 12-1pm or 2- 2.45pm         4.30 - 5.30 Now cancelled   

The DEADLINE for Task 1; is Tuesday 11th Oct 

PIN UP Critique in studio 10.30 to 1pm     ( and at 2pm new TASK 2 BRIEFING )

Barbara Hepworths influence 'CLICK' on image to ENLARGE & READ THIS page above 

Samuel Palmer age 16

Liz Frink above Eva Hesse Below

Good article here http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-reviews/5948238/Eva-Hesse-her-dark-materials.html and get the Eva Hesse book I recommended on Tuesday

*RESEARCH HER WORK & ETHOS - see Amazon uk books for Eva Hesse book and see below

 

Tom Phillips LINK here http://humument.com/gallery/slideshow.html

The images above are from Tom Phillips ongoing piece The Humument, a treated tranformed and drawn on old Victorian book 

READING material Susan Sontag

Summer Project

Cecil Collins  Anima and Animus (1933)  Pen and ink with watercolour wash on paper 71cm X 53cm

Summer Brief 2011 


D U E TS  BRIEF  (for those without an area specific brief )


Consider the meaning and concepts of the word DUET and the word DIPTYCH ( especially in Art ) use a thesaurus and research the various possibilities and meanings of these concepts and how they have materialized in many forms in the natural environment and in human life and of course in the Arts , the 'mirror to life' ?


( A mirror image is indeed the childs first experienced 'self ' Duet - the self reflected portrait ! -  also see 'Anima and Animus' theory by Carl Jung )


A Mirror - your self and a pen or brush and a Camera, may be a good place to start this project work - do a quick series of fast self portraits - ( see Frieda Khalo and the young, much missed, Francesca Woodman's photography )


Make a sketchbook and Journal or sheets of drawings and visual studies for September - no expectation on amount or on quality levels from us at this point  - just enjoy being experimental and investigative with drawing and making your sketchbook - expand this into three dimensions or photography and explore materials if you wish.


Research relationships between two things' be they material organic object or human ?


Mind Map - a range of these things, ideas, stories, people or relationships in the real world or in the fictional mythic imaginary world .... famous duets - things that work as a pair or in symmetry


Consider:


The idea of complementing pairs by juxtaposition


The Idea and aesthetics of  complementary colours in Art textiles, craft and Fashion - Objects and Duets


The idea of complementing by a 'like for like' matched harmony ?


OR the idea of complementing by duality -and opposites ? different elements or traits making one harmonious pair - a holistic unity


For Example read about the theory of Anima and Animus by Carl JUNG and Munch's Alpha and Omega  


Look at Morecombe and Wise .... celebrate or deconstruct things !


Be broad and focus on an area that fascinates you


Remember this is a project to enjoy and to get you thinking and making experimental work in any media you feel strongest, to express your ideas and findings - make it personal and autobiographical if you wish - then we can also get to know you a little bit more


Look forward to seeing your ideas maybe via blogs next term.... Mac ( Mark Manning )


Literature List try, Khalos diaries, Sebald's Rings of Saturn and Demien by Hermann Hesse, Rilkes letters to a young Poet, Sue Sontag on Photography, and see below also 

FEMALE Wanderlust & Dreams - sensitive and dreamlike

LINK Free of machismo ! see Reviews view 'inside here -  good for creative inspiration £3 pounds on Amazon

NABOKOV ' Speak Memory' Creative Practice' Reading Film List

Speak Memory' by Nabokov

Rebecca SOLNIT ' A History of Walking'

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International Cinema ( Creative Practice Summer reading & Film  List )

Francos Spain Film of the Month; 'The Spirit of the Beehive' 

synopsis here  http://homecinema.thedigitalfix.com/content.php?contentid=62868 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-N6dAXhXvVI&feature=related
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T A R K O V S K Y ....   A MAJOR INFLUENCE ON SO MANY ...CLICK THE LINK BELOW

http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=GB&hl=en-GB&v=a-2oUxYHdu8&feature=related

Danse Serpentine (1896)  Auguste Lumière (1862-1954) and Louis Lumière (1864-1948)

CLICK THE LINK BELOW AND ENJOY http://www.ubu.com/film/lumieres_danse-serpentine.html

The Zeitgeist of 1968 & Slavoj Zizek

1968/9 Below are some very rare VINTAGE images and this is what Oxford road All saints looked like when we had a lady called Maggie THATCHER as the Education minister threatening the student Union 

BLOW these Pics UP 

See Zikak article in new issue of FLUX - left is Clive Owen with Sir Michael Caine not Zizek ! - Zizek is here discussing the film 'Children of Men' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbgrwNP_gYE&NR=1

'Children of Men' a flawed film but some of the best 'futuristic London location scenes and highly believable cinematography - very brave and well Art Directed /  one for KINO4 in January


Zizek on the film here
link here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbgrwNP_gYE&NR=1

i.t

'International Times' along with OZ  ('it') was the ground breaking underground Arts, Music,and Left field Politics MAG/Zeen of its era 67 - 74- and was a huge cultural influence on design / Print and Vinyl sleeve artwork - many of the writers and Graphic designers who worked on i.t also were involved with the Punk explosion which was about to occur in 1975/6 - Punk and Stiff records etc