Studio 1A: Manifesto 35 sentences/questions

1. Wonder information lasts
2. Small escape, failing free
3. Helping colour quits death
4. Consumer takes evicted help
5. Your greatest homeless dilemma
6. Your humble success
7. Art to me is the freedom to express my  ideas freely
8. Formulate ideas visually  which cannot be just written now
9. Art is subjective, and can be interpreted differently depending on the individual
10. As long as viewer appreciates the piece of art, is its message behind it important?
11. Art opens up conversation, debates amongst peers
12. Never be too precious over a piece of work
13. Destruction can lead to succession
14. We all have different definitions on what art actually is, if we took a piece of rubbish off the floor and appropriated it into a gallery, our perception of it would change.
15. Critique towards an artist helps them grow as an artist
16. Never thrown anything away, become a hoarder
17. The artists mistakes shows the artists journey and development in one
18. Traditional art is being lost within the modern age of digital media
19. Who decides something is art? The artist or viewer? If either party can appreciate the piece, there does not need to be a mutual agreement.
20. Aim to be bold, daring, and ambitious. Art has no limits
21. An idea can be art, and interpreted differently by artists creating a range of artworks derived from the same idea.
22. Artistic blocks; the inability to produce art because the artist has hit a metaphorical brick wall. Break free through energy and productiveness  
23. Be expressive, make a mess, capture, document and preserved  it
24. Working on multiple projects at once helps see work with fresh eyes
25. Set rules, be strategic and see where they take you
26. We leave ourselves open to interpretation by others from what we leave behind
27. Recycle, transform waste into art
28. Gestural movements create energetic art, distinctive to the individual
29. Experimentation within art leads to self-discovery
30. Become involved in the art world, build networks
31. Visit galleries regularly
32. Be objective, ask questions
33. Seek multiple viewpoints and outsider perspectives
34. A good artist is always learning
35. Immerse yourself in the art world and discover what new art happening.  

Artist talk at the Collection Jennifer Vanderpool

Artist/Curator
Large scale digital prints

"Fantastical Dream Scapes"

Surrealism, Vanderpool's work questions reality, what it is. Deals with a personal narrative.

• Patterns 
• Abstracted
• Modern design
• Layered
• 3D work
• Dream like
• Historical
• Modern
• Collected

Textiles/Fashion influence

She creates decorative, colored pieces with layered and manipulated imagery

often she will reuse material, recycled, reclaimed 

Takes mass produced culture, layers with hand crafted/vintage materials.

"Collection is organised"

Vanderpool creates a hysterical paradise, using sculptural objects, recycled materials hand grounded to the smallest form. 

"Whimsical colour pallet"

She also has done performance pieces, interactive video 

Contemporary work, layering historical imagery with modern patterns. 

Historical Pop culture 

interested in Ukraine heritage, mythology

  

Practice 1A Duration Rotation: Passenger Unknown 08/12/14

Train journey back to Lincoln 08/12/14 

Tickets found 08/12/14  

Nottingham Plat 1B

19.20 To Lincoln Central 20.20

Seat 60 window

Tickets found folded

In pull down table

Return. Class: Standard

From

Birmingham

To

Syston   08/12/14

Adult

Price £18.50

Journeys interest me, especially train journeys, the accumulation of people traveling going to different destinations for different reasons, they can each tell a story, they have their own life, but it’s easy  to seclude yourself, in a busy train people still often will search for a seat on their own.

I found these tickets and they made me question what their story was, a person was once sat in the same sit I was, traveling to Syston, for some reason, I started to question what this person was like, although I will never actually know, or meet this person, the information we leave behind that could defines us, interests me.

Practice 1A: 3D Rotation Plaster Workshop

T

 Tights

Sarah Lucas "Ordinary Things" NUD 19' (2009)
Tights, fluff, wire, breeze-blocks, MDF plinth

I took influence from Sarah Lucas's tight sculptures
she creates intricate sculptures of stuffed tights.

Working with plaster I became interesting in combining
soft, delicate materials with hard, rough materials,
to make them more defined and capture a definite shape

I filled tights with plaster and let them set, it was interesting to see individual creases form and take place, it was an interesting test as I did not know what the result would be.

In this piece (Above) parts have sunk in or cracked, which adds dept
the stitch line at the end is an interesting aspect as it serves as a reminder
of the original material and it's purpose.

Practice 1A: 3D Volume Rotation

Hand

Working in the 3D workshop 

I experimented with plaster, my starting point was a shower glove I bought from wilkos, I was interesting it it's textural qualities and wanted to try capture them with the plaster.

I am please with the outcome, even though three of the figures broke off during the process it allowed me to view them as individual pieces.

I like the range in sizes to, it has a delicacy to them.   

Studio 1A: Provocation 3 'Contain'

As part of this provocation I used a box I found in a charity, the history of an object interests me, the box looked handmade, it looked like a money box, with the coin slots at the top.

I started to become interesting in changing the original purpose of the box, to develop it, a new owner, a new story.

I destroyed the sides, breaking the doors and back, considering the subject of 'contain'  the box become vulnerable, to contain, is to protect, which the box has lost.

I plan to recreate and restore the sides adding a new element and purpose to the box.

Studio 1A: Manifesto Group work

Randomized Sentences 

As part of our exploration into manifesto's we were given a group task to cut single words out of a newspaper and pick them out of a bag not knowing what the result would be.

We could choose were to put them, individually this gave a interesting outcome,

words linked together and some created a thought provoking meaning/sentence

which could be expanded/developed on.  

Studio 1A: Manifestos 24/11/14

Manifestos

• Asking questions 
• Critical Thinking
• Agree/Disagree
• Sharp, Short, To the point
• Articulate 

Fluxus- Revolutionary art movement  

Avent- Garde movement 1950s, influenced by DADA

begun as anti-art, against commercialism. 

Fluxkit, 1964/65. Fluxus edition, assembled by George Maciunas (American, 1931-1978). Mixed media (vinyl attaché case), printed matter. 

• Built kits
• Constructive Play

Fluxus Influence:

George Maciunas

Martin Creed

Kurt Schwuitter

Aspects of a good manifesto

• Thought Provoking
• Individualistic
• Revolutionary 
•  Inaugural
• Fundamental 
• Pioneer 

Experimental Sculpture Workshop 10/12/14

Today I attended the Art and Design Society's Experimental Sculpture workshop.

Working in pairs, we made a cast of a hand grasping an egg.

Mixed media. Mod rock, Nylon, Egg, Colouring.

At the end we threw the pieces off the roof terrace, the egg breaking.

The remains of the cracked egg leaves an interesting feature.

Studio 1A: Der Lauf Der Dinge

The way things go by Peter Fischli and David Weiss 1978

How does the work travel through space and time?

TIME 

The whole piece is very structured, each action strategically setup which must have been very time consuming.  Everything is very precise; one action relies heavily on the other to continue.

Each object and material had varied time for how long it would take to process, I felt there were some repetitive motions


 for example waiting for certain objects to drop, or for water to fill up, some took longer which slowed down the piece.

For the majority of the film we see a clear realistic representation of how the objects and materials for naturally respond to each other, the speed of the wheels, the time it takes for water to transfer into another container.

The artist has taken everyday objects that appear to be garbage and reclaimed them. The piece manipulates time in some ways throughout, setting up static materials then creating a kinetic motion for the viewer to see and follow the process.

Place: 

The piece seemed to be filmed in a large warehouse; however we never see the full space. We watch a very linear performance from similar angles throughout, which reflected the sequence, being very straight and continual. It could be suggested that the place is the objects setup; the way they are connected makes a place within itself.

Der Lauf Der Dinge, The way things go

Peter Fischli and David Weiss 1978

Practice 1A: Critical Thinking

Important characteristics of a critical thinker:  

• Flexible

• Open Minded-Binary Positions, Multiple viewpoints, outside perspectives

• Acceptance of new ideas

• Changes position when appropriate

• Objective

• Subjective

• Holistic -  Sees the bigger picture, mind of the artist

• Ask questions

• Recognize emotions

Questions to ask:

• When the work was made

• What were their influences 

• Their contemporaries 

• Art movements

• Politics 

Practice 1A: Art Movement Timeline

Art Periods/ Movements	Characteristics	Chief Artists and Major Works	Historical Events
Stone Age (30,000 b.c.–2500 b.c.)	Cave painting, fertility goddesses, megalithic structures	Lascaux Cave Painting, Woman of Willendorf, Stonehenge	Ice Age ends (10,000 b.c.–8,000 b.c.); New Stone Age and first permanent settlements (8000 b.c.–2500 b.c.)
Mesopotamian (3500 b.c.–539 b.c.)	Warrior art and narration in stone relief	Standard of Ur, Gate of Ishtar, Stele of Hammurabi's Code	Sumerians invent writing (3400 b.c.); Hammurabi writes his law code (1780 b.c.); Abraham founds monotheism
Egyptian (3100 b.c.–30 b.c.)	Art with an afterlife focus: pyramids and tomb painting	Imhotep, Step Pyramid, Great Pyramids, Bust of Nefertiti	Narmer unites Upper/Lower Egypt (3100 b.c.); Rameses II battles the Hittites (1274 b.c.); Cleopatra dies (30 b.c.)
Greek and Hellenistic (850 b.c.–31 b.c.)	Greek idealism: balance, perfect proportions; architectural orders(Doric, Ionic, Corinthian)	Parthenon, Myron, Phidias, Polykleitos, Praxiteles	Athens defeats Persia at Marathon (490 b.c.); Peloponnesian Wars (431 b.c.–404 b.c.); Alexander the Great's conquests (336 b.c.–323 b.c.)
Roman (500 b.c.– a.d. 476)	Roman realism: practical and down to earth; the arch	Augustus of Primaporta, Colosseum, Trajan's Column, Pantheon	Julius Caesar assassinated (44 b.c.); Augustus proclaimed Emperor (27 b.c.); Diocletian splits Empire (a.d. 292); Rome falls (a.d. 476)
Indian, Chinese, and Japanese(653 b.c.–a.d. 1900)	Serene, meditative art, and Arts of the Floating World	Gu Kaizhi, Li Cheng, Guo Xi, Hokusai, Hiroshige	Birth of Buddha (563 b.c.); Silk Road opens (1st century b.c.); Buddhism spreads to China (1st–2nd centuries a.d.) and Japan (5th century a.d.)
Byzantine and Islamic (a.d. 476–a.d.1453)	Heavenly Byzantine mosaics; Islamic architecture and amazing maze-like design	Hagia Sophia, Andrei Rublev, Mosque of Córdoba, the Alhambra	Justinian partly restores Western Roman Empire (a.d. 533–a.d. 562); Iconoclasm Controversy (a.d. 726–a.d. 843); Birth of Islam (a.d. 610) and Muslim Conquests (a.d. 632–a.d. 732)
Middle Ages (500–1400)	Celtic art, Carolingian Renaissance, Romanesque, Gothic	St. Sernin, Durham Cathedral, Notre Dame, Chartres, Cimabue, Duccio, Giotto	Viking Raids (793–1066); Battle of Hastings (1066); Crusades I–IV (1095–1204); Black Death (1347–1351); Hundred Years' War (1337–1453)
Early and High Renaissance (1400–1550)	Rebirth of classical culture	Ghiberti's Doors, Brunelleschi, Donatello, Botticelli, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael	Gutenberg invents movable type (1447); Turks conquer Constantinople (1453); Columbus lands in New World (1492); Martin Luther starts Reformation (1517)
Venetian and Northern Renaissance (1430–1550)	The Renaissance spreads north- ward to France, the Low Countries, Poland, Germany, and England	Bellini, Giorgione, Titian, Dürer, Bruegel, Bosch, Jan van Eyck, Rogier van der Weyden	Council of Trent and Counter-Reformation (1545–1563); Copernicus proves the Earth revolves around the Sun (1543
Mannerism (1527–1580)	Art that breaks the rules; artifice over nature	Tintoretto, El Greco, Pontormo, Bronzino, Cellini	Magellan circumnavigates the globe (1520–1522)
Baroque (1600–1750)	Splendor and flourish for God; art as a weapon in the religious wars	Reubens, Rembrandt, Caravaggio, Palace of Versailles	Thirty Years' War between Catholics and Protestants (1618–1648)
Neoclassical (1750–1850)	Art that recaptures Greco-Roman grace and grandeur	David, Ingres, Greuze, Canova	Enlightenment (18th century); Industrial Revolution (1760–1850)
Romanticism (1780–1850)	The triumph of imagination and individuality	Caspar Friedrich, Gericault, Delacroix, Turner, Benjamin West	American Revolution (1775–1783); French Revolution (1789–1799); Napoleon crowned emperor of France (1803)
Realism (1848–1900)	Celebrating working class and peasants; en plein air rustic painting	Corot, Courbet, Daumier, Millet	European democratic revolutions of 1848
Impressionism (1865–1885)	Capturing fleeting effects of natural light	Monet, Manet, Renoir, Pissarro, Cassatt, Morisot, Degas	Franco-Prussian War (1870–1871); Unification of Germany (1871)
Post-Impressionism (1885–1910)	A soft revolt against Impressionism	Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cézanne, Seurat	Belle Époque (late-19th-century Golden Age); Japan defeats Russia (1905)
Fauvism and Expressionism (1900–1935)	Harsh colors and flat surfaces (Fauvism); emotion distorting form	Matisse, Kirchner, Kandinsky, Marc	Boxer Rebellion in China (1900); World War (1914–1918)
Cubism, Futurism, Supremativism, Constructivism, De Stijl (1905–1920)	Pre– and Post–World War 1 art experiments: new forms to express modern life	Picasso, Braque, Leger, Boccioni, Severini, Malevich	Russian Revolution (1917); American women franchised (1920)
Dada and Surrealism(1917–1950)	Ridiculous art; painting dreamsand exploring the unconscious	Duchamp, Dalí, Ernst, Magritte, de Chirico, Kahlo	Disillusionment after World War I; The Great Depression (1929–1938); World War II (1939–1945) and Nazi horrors; atomic bombs dropped on Japan (1945)
Abstract Expressionism (1940s–1950s) and Pop Art (1960s)	Post–World War II: pure abstraction and expression without form; popular art absorbs consumerism	Gorky, Pollock, de Kooning, Rothko, Warhol, Lichtenstein	Cold War and Vietnam War (U.S. enters 1965); U.S.S.R. suppresses Hungarian revolt (1956) Czechoslovakian revolt (1968)
Postmodernism and Deconstructivism (1970– )	Art without a center and reworking and mixing past styles	Gerhard Richter, Cindy Sherman, Anselm Kiefer, Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid	Nuclear freeze movement; Cold War fizzles; Communism collapses in Eastern Europe and U.S.S.R. (1989–1991)