Ignacio Uriarte, Process art, Chris Drury and Niki de sant Phalle

Ignacio Uriarte

Bic Cycle- 2010- each 65X65cm

Uriarte's work is of a very minimalist style and the work is all about music and noise this is the biggest inspiration to him. This has been done so many times before, but Uriarte does this in such a way that has never been done before. The pieces like my work are done in simple different coloured biro pens. He says that in his work also he is looking at the way that office work is "dematerialised labour" that we have to put ourselves through.

He says that most people will doodle at work and he has taken this to a whole new level, but has kept it in such a controlled way that it becomes something else. He argues that most artists actually will spend most of their day at a computer the same as someone who works in an office.  You can see that there is a clear influence between Uriarte's work and Frank Stella even Reinhardt.

He uses normal biro colours that are produced, but you can see that there is a pastel pallet that is deliberately chosen to keep his work as minimal as he can, but to also give it a very gentle feel to it. From a distance you can barely see what it actually is made up of this is something that I would really like to include in my work.


http://www.ignaciouriarte.com/

Process art

This week I have decided to look at process art because it ties in so well with my project. This is an art movement where the actual finished article of work isn't the most important part of the work it is the concept behind it. I is what the actual craft of it behind it is important, this can be from the patterning to the gathering of the materials to make it.

This movement happened in the 1960's and has been popular in Europe and America; it is thought to have come from performance art because the two have very similar concepts. However it is also very similar to aboriginal art for an example, which predates any modern art in a long way. Some people argue that any art could be classed as process art, but in my opinion I think that there is a fair reasoning to this because anything has a process to getting to the final outcome, but this form of art does have more of a story it provokes the viewer to think more about it if they want to appreciate it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Process_art

Chris Drury

Rhine Mosel Slate Whirlpool- 14 X 14M- 2010

Chris Drury is a progress artist who is inspired by nature and its forms, most of his work is very organic and at one with nature. His work comes in many forms them being paintings, land art and sculpture. He says that his work is about the connections between culture and nature and how they can work in unison or clash. He is very serious about his work and doesn't want to get anything wrong so he works with technicians and scientists to make sure that the work is scientifically correct. It is also an interest to him he likes to understand science, it's all part of the process.

Drury often collaborates with institutions, he wants people to know and understand his work, and he doesn't just want them to see the finished articles of work. This is one of the reasons he creates videos of his work. He is obviously inspired by nature, but there are other key inspirations such as Henry Moore, Andy Goldsworthy and there is a clear connection with aboriginal and cave art in the work. The link with the Aboriginal work is very clear in the land art it is created in the same circumstances as the aboriginal art; outside on the ground looking up to the gods.

I like the work because of the link in with history and the patterns that are involved with the work, I also like the way that is fits right into the landscape and a lot of them aren't permanent. I think that like Drury I need to start taking videos of the process in my work for people to see how it is made.

http://chrisdrury.co.uk/about/artist-statement/

Niki de sant Phalle

shooting picture Tirage-1961

1430 x 780 x 81 mm

I was looking specifically at her shooting painting as the way that the paint has moved is very similar to the way in which I have been conducting my ink to move. This is a form of process art and the process is very important to Phalle as it was just after the war. She actually stopped creating these works in 1963 as she felt that she was now getting addicted to shooting, she said it was like a drug to her.

The paintings were created just after the second world war, which is quite significant considering that there was a gun used to create the work, this suggests some sort of nod towards the war effort, it wasn't until the 1960's that she started to make this work up until then she worked in collages and oil paints, before moving into sculpture briefly before these works started being created.

This shift in her work happened when she visited Paris and saw an American exhibition that included the likes of Jackson Pollock and De Kooning. She had a good friendship with Jasper Johns who is famous for his "Target" paintings which undoubtedly is a key influence of Phalle's work. Phalle said that she found these works exciting because of the way that the ink might or might not fall; you never know quite what's going to happen. In time you are bound to learn what might happen, but the fact that different people are shooting each shot makes impossible to know, but also gives Phalle no control over her work it is more of a performance.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niki_de_Saint_Phalle