Classical Landscape, 3rd November 2015

Classical landscape was much popular particularly in the 17th and 18th century. Mostly from French artists, economic migrants that started to live in Rome, the capital of the world for it’s Classical art at the time (and probably, still now).

Landscape with a calm, 1650

The castle represents the grand, wealth of this life he is capturing.
The herds of sheep represent a following (where the phrase ‘you are like a sheep’) of something, maybe capturing Italy’s growth in economy and in art.
Or perhaps  this figure (probably showing a figure that is meant to be a shepherd) that is herding the sheep represents the guarding of the sheep, looking after them – which brings warmth and happiness to the painting. It can also be seen a ‘working life’ which finds the harmony between the two of ‘wealth; from the castle and the delicate, looked-after landscape; and the not-so idealistic life that the shepherds have.
I find that there is a strong sense of light in the painting.

Nicolas Poussin, The landscape of the body of Phoia carried out of the Athen in 1648

Religious questions for research and enquiry

Today I was asked to take part in a quick survey about my beliefs. Some of the questions asked where about my attitudes/views on morality, afterlife/what happens after death, why we are here/purpose of being here, and God – is he existent and do I believe in God?

At the end of the survey it said I was a nihilist. I did not know what a nihilist was.. It said about my summary of my answers and this was what it best matched to a ‘belief’. I was disappointed when I was told nihilism was a person that believes in nothing, has no loyalties and wants everything to be ‘destroyed’. I thought this generalisation was harsh. The answers that were in a multiple choice for me did not particularly make sense to the belief they gave me.

I found that this was really about the ISIS attacks that have been recent in the few years especially the very recent Paris attack. The person asked me if I think there is an all-round base of GOOD vs. EVIL. For example,

 

 

Imaginary worlds in future generations

Let’s take a look at these imaginary worlds perhaps seen in a future life: films

The Hunger Games

The Purge

The Host

I am Legend

The Walking Dead

Wall-E

 

The greatest palaces in the world

Why do I think palaces are important? 

I think they important because they are real monuments to a country or culture. Just like mosques (such as the Masji al-Haram in Mecca) and churches/cathedrals (Vatican City) have a religious iconography/religious status, a palace has the status of a person and they don’t cut off other religions – sometimes and more likely bringing them together.

Palaces are areas that have occupied an important person such as a King, Queen or another type of leader. For example, Buckingham Palace is where the Queen of the Commonwealth lives – and the Grand Palace in Bangkok where is the residence of the Siam Royals since the 18th Century.

A palace is an art form that can be viewed in the outside and the inside; they are pieces of art that are durable and long lasting, unlike art on a piece of paper or canvas, or a ceramic piece which are normally small and easy to destroy or dispose of.

The famous Mysore Palace , Mysore , India

I love this palace as

Final post that displays 5x doc links and 5x context links

Documentation

https://charlotteundergradblogblog.wordpress.com/2016/02/17/silk-painting-in-pictures/ – A post that demonstrates a skill you have gained. ( in a TD session).

https://charlotteundergradblogblog.wordpress.com/2016/03/14/projections-for-field/ – a post that demonstrates the work undertaken in the field collaborative.

https://charlotteundergradblogblog.wordpress.com/2015/12/07/final-drawing-machine-material-groups/ – posts that demonstrate/show the work from both of the material projects groups. – https://charlotteundergradblogblog.wordpress.com/2015/10/24/clay-groups-on-mondays-term-1/

A post that demonstrates the development of your first Inside Outside final piece. https://charlotteundergradblogblog.wordpress.com/2016/06/01/development-of-the-first-inside-outside-final-piece/

A post that demonstrates the development of your second Inside Outside final piece
https://charlotteundergradblogblog.wordpress.com/2016/06/01/a-post-that-demonstrates-the-development-of-your-second-inside-outside-final-piece/

Contextualisation

A post that shows us the most influential artwork you have seen first hand either on a London trip or in a gallery in Cardiff, with a brief description of how it has influenced your practice: https://charlotteundergradblogblog.wordpress.com/2016/05/29/post-that-shows-us-the-most-influential-artwork-you-have-seen-first-hand-either-on-a-london-trip-or-in-a-gallery-in-cardiff-with-a-brief-description-of-how-it-has-influenced-your-practice/

A post that shows us the most influential concept you gained from the Big Question lecture series, with a brief description of how it has influenced your practice. – https://charlotteundergradblogblog.wordpress.com/2015/11/24/altarpieces-2411/

A post that shows us the artwork you have seen first hand or found in a book/journal in the library that has had a profound influence on your second Inside Outside outcome, with a brief description of how it has influenced your work – https://charlotteundergradblogblog.wordpress.com/2016/04/29/stained-glass-aus-edition/

A post that shows us the artwork you have seen first hand or found in a book/journal in the library that has had a profound influence on your first Inside Outside outcome, with a brief description of how it has influenced your work. https://charlotteundergradblogblog.wordpress.com/2016/04/29/oriental-carpets-v-a-collection/

A post that shows us an artwork you have seen in a book/jpurnal in the library that has influences on your field project. https://charlotteundergradblogblog.wordpress.com/2016/05/12/the-theatre-for-field/

A post that shows us the most influential concept you gained from Constellation, with a brief description of how it has influenced your practice – https://charlotteundergradblogblog.wordpress.com/2015/12/01/fine-art-body-in-society/ & https://charlotteundergradblogblog.wordpress.com/2016/02/19/the-zoot-suit-subcultures/

 

 

 

 

A post that demonstrates the development of your second Inside Outside final piece

My second piece from the subject brief came from my ideas of religious material which sparked from the lighting ideas and stained glass windows, also from paintings that included religious iconography.

I decided to make something in 3D that also used paint. Some images to show the development of this project: that sparked new ideas:

Using cereal boxes made sense of sustainable materials – surprising to see the turnout of how using paint can disguise them.

• this final piece is a suggestion of a theatre set. It came into mind from religion – from ‘God’s light’, and then into suggestions of garden of Eden paintings (from my formative) to then icons/celebrities such as Michael Jackson, Elton John, Prince, Eminem, Einstein, Hawkins and many others who are really powerful in contemporary histories. They are seen as ‘God’s’ because they have so much power in society, especially in more recent years because of easily accessed media.
• I felt that the theatre uses insecurities as therapy for actors, singers and dancers  – using masquerade as a cover from their true emotions. An inside vs. outside feeling.
• Some of the selected images below explore painting techniques from Monet to Mattisse exhibition from the RA.
• Sketches from theatre: concise history book from the library
• Lighting also playing an important part in this final 3D piece, focusing on different parts of the stage set by using lamps/artificial light rather than natural like the silk paintings.
• Exploring David Hockney’s theatre design sets;
• Ceri Richards’ prints into drawings that to me, explored a narrative taste.
• Narrative plays an important part in religion, thoroughly told on bible stories and stained glass windows and the theatre does this well for a whole audience, of different ages and personalities to enjoy and understand.

 

Development of the first Inside Outside final piece.

Photos I took from Llandaff cathedral,

A close up shot of the stained glass window in Llandaff

Development of the final piece using Gutta resistant

The first Inside Outside final piece consists of a stained glass window. For the exhibition, and the installation of this, I made the decision to use previous silk paintings to demonstrate the qualities of silk when used with a natural lighting combination.

• Inside outside project fed into ideas about light and windows at first. I was really intrigued by the way an atmosphere and feeling can change standing on either side of a window where you can see two total different viewpoints of life.
• Stained glass windows especially change a viewpoint as from the inside of a building, where the light is coming behind the window – the viewer can see the colours and the story line.
• Although from the outside, where the light doesn’t come through behind it. the viewers cannot visually see the strong colours of the glass or the specific shapes or lines of people or patterns.
• My previous silk paintings were experiemental and quite random as in patterns I used. Inspiration from oriental carpet designs V&A collection book from the library.
• There is white gutta and clear gutta resistant I used for my final stained glass window for the silk.
• I feel that silk is a great material for this particular idea

 

post that shows us the most influential artwork you have seen first hand either on a London trip or in a gallery in Cardiff, with a brief description of how it has influenced your practice

 A post that shows us the most influential artwork you have seen first hand either on a London trip or in a gallery in Cardiff, with a brief description of how it has influenced your practice..

The Burlington house Cartoon – The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne and the Infant Saint John the Baptist, In the national portrait gallery in London by the great Leo Da Vinci.

I have visited this gallery before, on probably each occasion of going to London. The building is so big, and normally really busy, that it has taken a few visits for me to see every piece of work in the gallery.

The last time we went  to London for the uni trip, I found the space/room where this painting is placed. What I loved about this especially was how it was exhibited, in a dark room – there was purposeful artificial lighting that gave another dimension to the painting/for the viewer.

I felt that it gave the painting a realistic approach, however mysteriousness came out through the transparency of the charcoal in contrast to the brown canvas. The piece seems and gives the impression that it is valuable and precious like gold, as of it’s installation of lights in a dark room, that makes it stand out from the other pieces.

The bodies are intertwined with one another, as the baby sits upon both women’s laps, where it is puzzling to indicate which set of legs matches to each torso. The arms of the woman at the front are missing, and blends in with the baby’s body. This also makes the prep drawing (for a later painting) (nationalgallery.org.uk) muddled and scatty, that for me makes a piece of work stand out because it brings curiosity and creepiness.

 

My silk paintings can relate to this piece because of it’s transparency, even as a total different 

The exhibitions at the Royal academy were insightful and thought-provoking too, such as Ai Wei Wei’s installations in December that were personal outcomes from his time in prison, when he was looked over 24 hours a day, even when showering and going to the toilet.

I liked the way this was interactive, and felt really real compared to a painting or 2D piece.

Therefore has influenced my future decisions/ideas of how installations and  3D pieces can have huge benefits to a piece of work.

 

Cindy Sherman, Big question – self portraiture

Today we were looking at the truths of a self-portrait. We looked at Rembrandt and Lucien Freud’s self-portraits.
What one was the most truthful as a self-portrait?

I think that Rembrandt’s self-portraits were made for an acting purpose. It conveys Rembrandt’s, to me, a probably humorous person – and a bubbly friendly man – due to his facial expressions, his dressing up, and his very flexible ways of drawing himself – which were different every time he drew himself.

Similarly like Rembrandt; Cindy Sherman, a modern photographer, dresses up to portray a variety of characters to show the stereotypes she is thinking of. Sometimes she does this due to issues raised in the media, or a political attitude which makes some of her work, perhaps, on a more interesting stance…

This photo by Sherman is from her 2008 collection; about status and this generation’s increase on this ‘status-obsessed’ culture.

Silk painting – new ideas and textures

A book in the library I found on silk painting, new ideas and textures by Jill Kennedy and Jane Varrall 1993.

I found interesting techniques and methods for silk painting that relate to my inside/outside project.

GUTTA – using the gutta was first how I started to begin my journey in silk painting, which was due to a TD session ‘ silk painting ‘. I am able to look through this book to get inspiration from the work shown. The work in the book is varied; some are larger drawings of flowers which are boldly coloured in red and green dyes, others that demonstrate the painter’s attention to smaller detail that has acted as a resistant to the dyes. This gutta chapter has informed me on different types of gutta there are available such as metallic and coloured guttas, said to be ‘very attractive’ that can add sparkle and depth to the painting.

I am now knowledgeable of the traditional uses of gutta – which is the way I have been using it so far which is: to create a barrier and a resistance for the dyes – flowing along the warps of the silk – ‘allowing a controlled design to be created’. However, coloured dyes can be used the same as paint, applying them on top of the dyes to create more textures and depths.