GreyZ13215216: 2013

Wednesday, 11 December 2013

Painting Crit Research

Jackson Pollock

Number 18 - 1950 - Jackson Pollock

Pollock paints his work on the floor, he dripped the paint which meant that he never quite had control of the way that it would fall and the shapes that are made have movement. He has been influenced by the Mexican artists Orozco and Rivera. His painting are very free and fluid. They like my work have a movement within them and also play with colours.

Piet mondrain

Mondrian

Piet Mondrian is inspired from architecture and creates very structured and bold paintings. He only uses primary colour and black and white. The lines are very bold and clean cut, they are often in grids and are regular patterns. I think that I could take his use of line and take it to influence my work when I develop it.

Bridget Riley

Movement in Squares- 1961- Bridget Riley

Riley uses line and contrasting colours to create optical illusions. The paint is very smooth and the lines are perfect. She uses black and white quite often because they are quite easy to trick the eye. Her paintings have movement in them because of the illusion that they give they look like water and as if they are moving into another part of the painting. her work is inspired by events in her life and how she overcame them. I think that I could reflect her use of line in my work.

Staying faithful to paint- Fiona Rae

Fiona Rae

Fiona Rae's work uses very fluid use of bold line and complimenting colour combinations. Her work is mainly meant to be ascetically pleasing rather than have a hidden meaning behind them, they are just meant to please the eye. This is a quality I tend to have with my work Rae just wants to evoke emotion from the viewer. I really like Rae's use of colour, but I'm not overwhelmed by her actual work it just doesn't seem to have more substance. I think to develop my work more I need to give my work more of a reasoning.

Screen Printing

These prints I have made using a Photo silk screen of one of my lino cuts. I have been layering the ink to create interesting shapes and patterns. I think these work well, but I prefer the Lino cuts because the patterns are more interesting.

Screen Print- 30 X 42 Cm- 2013

Project development-A2 drawings

I have developed my drawings on to A2 size to see how it would work on a larger scale an how I would show the change in energy.

Biro Drawing- 60 X 42 CM- 2013

Fine Liner Drawing- 60 X 42 CM- 2013

Biro Drawing- 60 X 42 CM- 2013

Tuesday, 10 December 2013

Visiting Artists

Stuart Cumberland- Four Circles- 2001

Stuart Cumberland

He showed us his "Four Circle" paintings and his main inspirations are Picasso and Patrice. The works lack depth they have no emotion they don't provoke any feeling. He doesn't want his work to be compared to Mark Rothko as his works are mainly inspired by colour combinations. The works are created by large stencils that come from drawings. He uses oil paint because of the high pigment. Cumberland likes to think of his work as an ornament and decorative, they are also on a really large scale to make sure that they have some sort of impact. Other influences are Jasper Johns, Christopher Wool and Christopher Williams.

Caroline Archaintre- Insider- 2008

Caroline Archaintre

Archaintre lives and works in the UK and is an artist a the Saatchi Gallery. She mainly works in sculpture which is inspired by Britain in post war conditions and German Expressionism. She is inspired by both ancient and modern, and a mixture between new and traditional materials and technology. Her work looks like its been removed from time and bought into a modern version. Her work isn't planed it is made on intuition there isn't anything particularly planned.

Baroda Artists

Artist Ajay Kanwal the professor of sculpture at Baroda University gave a talk on his work. He mainly works with ceramics and instillation. His work is make up of loads of very small ceramic elements that are in a geometric shapes. there are thousands of these shapes in his works, he want them to provoke feelings in everyday objects. I really like the simplicity of it, but the detail that is in it and the organisation within the piece.

Theres a wind blowing-2010- Serena Korda

Serena Korda

Korda is mainly a performance artist who's performance are about abandoned histories and conversation. She collects data throughout her performance, they are things that get overlooked in everyday life. Korda was born and still lives and works in England, she did an MA at the Royal College of Art, which has obviously influenced her work.

Screen Printing

I have been experimenting with screen printing using both paint and pencils. They creates a paintily effect, but the paint is so thin and flat it creates a really nice effect. I have then been looking at layering and colour combinations, i think that the different layers make a really interesting pattern, also because the layers are quite see through it makes it really interesting. I think that the flatness of the image is the best thing about it. To move on ad develop this I think that I will get a photo silk screen of my lino cuts and then turn it into a screen print.

Screen print 30 X 42 CM

Printing Project

I have developed my printing project by creating a large lino cut. I wanted to make it larger and bolder, and have loads of colours rather than my other lino plates. I think it works better than the one colour plate. I have stopped printing on the paper at different points so I have different outcomes. I wanted white to be my last colour because it would compliment all the other colours, but it was also what they did in aboriginal art. I have then inked up the whole plate and embossed it so that I get all the marks that I made come out. I think that these work really well because they are so much more detailed and they seem to have this movement within them.