posmodernism

Part 2

Postmodernism

Abstract Expressionist

• Jackson Pollock
• Willem de Kooning
• Mark Rothko

I decided to look in to the art work of Jackson Pollock and try his way of painting and try to become him just for a while. First of all I was really surprised when I red from the that he had a lot of controlled while creating his paintings. Many times they look as they have been created by mad accident when if fact that wasn't true at all. Jackson Pollock had an idea and story to tell behind his art work. Apparently there was no unwanted and unplanned layer when he was splashing paint on top of another one.

I do also feel close to the art work of Mark Rothko in therms of the size of his paintings. It is interesting statement which came from him about the size of his rations. He said if you paint a big picture it makes you feel like you are in it. I totally understand that description. The small canvas or a paper makes me feel restricted and just like I need more room to express my ideas. I do often realised that if I had more room I could create better art work. In terms of the style comparing to Jackson Pollock we can see totally different examples of Abstract Expressionism

Post-Modernist artists like:

• Jasper Johns
• Frank Stella
• Donald Judd

from these three artists I found Jasper Johns as the most interesting Post-Moderst artist. The reason why I found his art work intriguing is the way how he decided to show in different way the amreican flag. This proves about his original way of looking at the ordinary thing and the items of a daily use. The objects we look and use every day he saw as an extraordinary objects and creating a piece of art was for him a natural reaction.

Pop-art artists:

• Richard Hamilton
• Andy Warhol
• Jeff Koons

I will focus on Richard Hamilton and Andy Warhol in this section of my course. Those artists were looking at the art from different perspective. They also used different art material to fulfilled their art visions. Richard Hamilton was well know for the passion for collage when Andy Warhol made his way in the art by using ordinary objects and turning them into something extraordinary. I was very lucky and pleased when I could watch the most famous art work by Hamilton in Polish art gallery in my family town Lodz a few years ago. This art work is called :”Just what is it that makes today's homes so different, so appealing?”. I have to admit when I was looking at this exhibition more than ten years ago I could not understand this idea. It was to far from the typ of art I was interested in that time. Now looking back with some bigger art knowledge I can easily appreciate his collage and his style. It is the same with Andy Warhol, the more I know about the art the more I can understand and appreciate different style than mine. I am bit far from Pop-Art however the Campbell's Tomato soup by Warhol makes me think different about ordinary daily objects. It takes some sort of bravery to take this challenge and appreciate different point of view and art vision.

Conceptual Art artists:

• Joseph Kosuth
• Piero Manzoni
• John Baldessari

This art movement was based on the believed that the most important about the art is the idea behind the artwork and the creating process.

I have never heard abut all these three artists and after a little research about all of theme I found American artist John Baldessari the most interesting and close to my heart. I do find his bright bold colours and the idea of his collages very appealing and exciting.

From Polish artist representing this art movement it is worth to mention surname such as Roman Opalka. These artist was really important for Polish culture for the reason of being brave and innovative for the time in which he was creating. Roman Opalak was famous for the selection of art work about the numbers. He was painting one number every day as his diary. The creating process for more important for him not the look of the art work. When I was bit younger I could not understand why only the process and not the finish product was the goal for him, therefore I did not pay bigger attention to this artist. Until now when I have more time and I am mature enough to look more into the art and the concept.

Performance Art artists:

• Yves Klein
• ORLAN
• Gilbert & George

This section of the art seams to me more controversial and more shocking then the previous one. I am more familiar with the artist Klein and Orlan however they are not the one who I would like to fallow in the future. I have never heard of Gilbert and George before and by looking at their art career I have to admit I found their work quit challenging to understand. I do know Klein from the blue period and I love his painting which he created perfect deep blue canvas. The another work I am familiar with is his photo-montage which shoves him jumping from the top of the building.

Orlan is the artist which makes us think about the body as a part of art. She used her face and documented her plastic surgeries or his performance.

Minimalism Artists:

• Eva Hesse
• Sol LeWitt
• Ellsworth Kelly

Eva Hesse played important role in female art history. She was one of the female artist that made to the art and left a legacy by her Minimalism and Post-minimals art works. She is famous for : Repetition Nineteen III, Accession II, Hung up and many work with textiles. She claimed she never wanted to create a feminist art and many art critics called her a feminist artists for the fact of being a female.

Elsworth Kelly and Sol LeWitt represent very similar style. They both used big spaces filed up with bold colours. They used geometric shapes.

Photo-Realism artists:

• Chuck Close
• Marilyn Minter
• Duane Hanson

Chuck Close is very impressive artist who managed produced a number of large paintings representing portraits. His style is very unique and demands a lot of skills and patients. I was absolutely amazed by his work during this research. His talent to combining different colours so they look from the distance as it is colour of the skin is great.

Marilyn Minter is another artist I have never heard of before this research maybe for the fact I have never been interested in modern art so much. It is good to broad mind and see other artists and their ideas. She defiantly is a female artist I will remember for the reason of her controversial art work. The selection of work under the title “Dirty/Pretty” is worth mention.

Land Art :

• Robert Smithson
• Andy Goldsworthy
• Christo and Jean-Claude

Andy Goldsworthy is the artist I have discovered through this research and I have fall in love from the first moment. I heard about the Land Art however it was not my cup of tea as people say. Although this artist has changed my perception about this movement. His art work has something magical as it perfectly reflect the place where he decided to create his art work. It is very feminine and gentle in my opinion.

Christo and Jean-Claude are definitely on top of the list. They have created amazing pieces of art and I can not express my excitement when I look at their huge art projects.

YBA artists

• Damien Hirst
• Tracey Emin
• Ian Devenport

Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin are the artists I have been to see their exhibitions in the last few years. Damien held his exhibition at the Tate Modern in 2012 and this event made massive impression on me as a creative person. The scale of his work was big and different medium he used to create his projects was staggering.

Tracey Emin had her exhibition at the Turner Contemporary in Margate in 2012. It made me think about motherhood as a female artist as she reflected on the time that she lost. Tracey produced a selection of drawings about female body in which she expressed her regrades about not having kids.

Project 2: Practical Research into Postmodernism

 

Two art work inspired by Jackson Pollock

 

 

This technique is fun to use and the beginning I did not have idea about how  easy is to control the brush and by this it was easy to shape the composition. I can see how Pollock was able to manipulate with his art work.

 

 

 

One art work inspired by Mark Rothko

 

This technique looks simply but it is all about the colours and the distance between one line and another line.


Other sketches inspired by abstract art.

Contextual Focus Points

Abstraction

Philip's Guston abstract art looks very similar and in my opinion his art work is very predictable in terms of colour and form. What he was trying to imply is actually hard to say in my opinion....

research point

Alexander Tinei showed that the paying attention to face was not necessary the main part of his art work. He proved that creating piece of art does not have to mean painting details of the person on the canvas. Am I concern with identity in my work? I am very aware of the face and the details of the person who I would like to paint. I have made a few portraits in my life so far and every time the face was the most important part of the painting to me. It is like a paying tribute to the person who I chose to paint. I can only paint someone who means something to me and in that way I create more personal art work. The face takes not long to paint as I always know how do I want them to look on the painting but only when I am close to the person. I love choosing the colours for the face as thy can create a mood of that person. This time I will try to paint a portrait of my little boy who is only 3 weeks old without paying attention to the details on his little face. I am very interested how will I do on this task set by myself.

 

And there we are.... it was exciting exercise and it took me only 5min per picture. Should I spend more time on each individual work? However whenever I spent more time I start to think too much about each individual line and colour of the paint I use to produce my paintings. I am very happy with the result. I have used a limited palette of colours like pink, beige and black. Baby Henry has still a bit of baby jaundice therefore the colour is bit more yellow and pink like a baby skin. I know I still could limit the amount of details on his face nevertheless I am very pleased as for the first time.

 

 

Detailed Observations

David Hockney is one of the most successful British artist of our times. He managed to established big number of people who admire his style. David Hockney always has been brave in his decisions about his art and it happen this time again when we talk about The Red Table. This art work makes us wonder about the perspective. What do we actually know about it? Is the perspective on this photo-montage right? Did he make mistake or was it actually an act of deliberate creativity?

If we have a close look we can clearly see that David used an reversed perspective. He used it in such a clever and playful way. He always wants to surprise the viewer and it happened again on this piece of art.

Research Point

David Hockney happened to be the artist respected by many people for the amount of art work and the style he represents. His unconventional way of thinking about the art found many fans around the world. It happened to be that I am one of them. Why do I fell close to his art work? The colours are always his strong side therefore fore someone like me passionate about colours and tones he gets straight one top of the list of artists. Another exciting and inspiring thing about David Hockney is his selection of media he wants to speak to us. The photo montage, drawings, paintings are always his strong points as he try to think outside the box when he creates new project.

 My attempt of photomontage for my boys Baptism this year.

I would  like to hare my impressions about David's Hockney last big exhibition at the RA in London.
I was very excited when I booked ticket for this exhibition called : " 82 portraits and 1 still-life", moreover it was the first time when I supposed to go to London with my little baby boy(5weeks old). that made my expectation about this event even higher perhaps. When I got to the gallery I could not believed I was about to spent time amongst David's paintings. However it happen to be more disappointing exhibition than I expected. Overall the paintings were pretty amazing but there was something that made me a bit bored after a few minutes. The quality of paintings looks like some of them weren't finished, what I mean by that is when you have a close look the layer of the paint is not thick enough to cover some parts of the canvas. The acrylics look sometimes like the colour has not been well executed and my final impression was that this exhibition was bit rushed. Or David Hockney made himself bored while painting this exhibition therefore there is not a lot of excitement in his paintings. Maybe I am wrong.

 

 

Landscape research point

I really took a lot from watching a video with Anselm Kiefer. His art seams to be very brave in terms of the subject as he treats a lot about the Holocaust. You have to be very understanding and forgiving when you look at the German art that treats about the war and this human sadness. The scale of the art is also very impressive as the painting are enormous. The colours represent the sadness and create in great way very dark and gloomy mood.

I have painted some landscapes in the past however never as big as created by Kiefer. I managed to paint some small very colourful landscapes of the seaside using the gypsum on the canvas as a first layer to make the surface uneven.

A short note about my current and future progress:

How do see my current work with this course? I am very happy with course Paiting2 as it surprisingly fits with my current life style so well. I am mother of two kids one is 3 years old and the other is one month old only. This course gave me enough writing and researching tasks to keep my art hunger satisfy. The time that is given me currently is very hard to predict therefore it is easier for me to look on internet and researching new artists and new art movement, I also go to the library whenever I can to spent some time looking into the written words about artists and their lifestyles. I enjoyed so far the course structure and the way how the tasks are presented in this booklet. There is enough indication for me which directions to broad up my art knowledge and there is also enough space for me to stay fresh and true to my art interests, if that makes sense?

And how do I imagine my future progress with this course? According to current researches and exercises I had privilege to go through I can see my progress:

• being more adventures in terms of experimenting with the colours
  
  
• being more brave with the composition
  
  
• being more brave in terms of subjects of my art work
  
  
• thinking what do I want to achieve with my art
  
  
• trying to take less time producing my art as sometimes less is more

Is there anything I would like to change at this point of my course?

• Take more active part on students forum
  
  
• wish to make more sketches

 

Timeline for Modernism ( Projects and Researches)

Timeline for Modernism

 

Romantic opens the timeline something we called Modernism. It started around the 1790 and lasted up till 1850.

From Romantic epoch personally I have seen a lot attending to different art galleries but the one worth of mentioning is "Ramsgate" painted by J.M.W Turner who was the son of William Turner and he painted this art work around 1824. This painting was displayed in the Turner Contemporary in Margate in Kent few years ago; however we can currently watch this watercolour at the Tate Britain's Prints and Drawings room by appointment only. I also have been lucky to see the other painting from the same era created by John Constable which is displayed at the Victoria and Albert museum in London. It is beautiful art work so delicate and full of light brush strokes combined with architectural precision. It gives us amazing impression of a life from Constable times.

Romantic is very interesting part of the art history that is based on the emotions which were reflected in the paintings. It was also focused on the nature by giving it an extra power just as it should be another very important player in the picture. Artists also were showing some fears and worries by personification and anthropomorphism of the nature and the animals. A very good example of this could be a selection of art work by Spanish painter Francisco Goya such as "Caprichos".

 

My passion for art started to develop from Pre-Raphaelite. This is time where my fascination with paintings began. The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford has a large collection of art from this period. Their magic is based on the way how most of the paintings were painted such as finesses. They also tell such a moving stories just like the one painted by John Everett Millais called "Ophelia" in 1851 located in Tate Britain gallery in London.  We all know more or less story of the Ophelia from "Hamlet" written by Shakespeare however this painting gives us something more. We all treat this painting as her portrait in my opinion.  There is a big colour contrast where the deep dark water takes away her pale body and the light bright little flowers in the background. This painting is one of my favourite of all that have been created ever.

 

My heart started to be excited just when I say the name of another period called Impressionism. We marked it on the timeline from the 1870 till 1890. It was only 20years but very important for the art.   

We think of artists such as : Mary Cassatt, Eugene Boudin, Camille Pissarro.

 

I recently watched documentary program on Sky Arts about the Impressionism from Musees De Luxemburg & Orsay ................................... and found few interesting information. This secondary source was great way of refreshing my art knowledge gained already at school as I may say long time ago.

 

Talking about the Expressionism we think about the time from the 1910 till 1915. This was very short time in the art history however also very important. There are names such as : Egon Schiele, Franz Marc, Marc Chagall, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Edward Munch. This movement was based on the emotional experience. It is very hard to make a judgement on this period int the art as most of the artists created rather disturbing images. They are sometimes uncomfortable to watch for us as we have not been able to experience what they have seen. Saying that I do wonder why? We live in such a cruel world and we have been surrounded by media where the access to the current news is faster. We can see current world afers and wars unfortunately. When the Expressionism was established artists had enormous power to translate their emotions on the canvas by this way the viewer could relate to their emotions. Most of the models from the paintings look tired and sad even depressed. There are many paintings about the death and sickness.

Tate Modern was exhibiting Norwegian artist Edward Munch work in June till October 2012. I was very impressed by his talent and the emotional impact he made on me that time. I do remember when I had an idea to produce some painting based on my experience while I was working in a care home. Edward Munch painted very disturbing paintings of ill and sick people which I could not forget as they looked so upsetting and intriguing at the same time. I started to put some of my images which I had in my memories hoverer I thought I would rather forget about them than keep digging in the uncomfortable memories. At the end of the day I was there to help elderly people not to use their difficult and sad moments as an inspiration for my art work. I decided to keep them to myself, although I thought it could be a good way of healing and a type of therapy as this job was very hard physically and emotionally. Maybe one day I will paint something what I have seen at that time but for now I would rather forget and crate something that would bring a smile on someone face. Talking about that exhibition I was disappointed I could not see his famous painting called “The Scream”, not knowing why it was not on display at that time.

Wassily Kandinsky is another artist who impressed my with his work. Unfortunately I have not been able to see any big exhibition of his work only managed to look closer on his painting at the Vatican Museum a few year ago. Tate Modern has also one of his paintings on display and is the “Cossacks1910-1911. However his book under the title “Point and line to plane” written by himself helped me to understand the meaning of art of his time. It is easier to understand the art that has just some images like portraits or landscapes rather than an artwork constructed on the lines and some shapes therefore I could recommend his books to everyone who has problems to red different art.

Marc Chagall's art at that time was gloomy, scarry and the shapes were more looking as a cubs.

Fauvism is the next movement and last only a few years from 1915 till 1920. This movement decided not to copy anything that was created before them and took massive step forward forgetting about the Impressionism. The surnames that represent this movement are: Andre Derain, Henri Matisse, Raul Duffy,

Henri Matisse was the main artist standing behind this movement as he decided to use the space of the canvas in a different way. He wanted to define the space by the movement of the colours. He used a space and filled it with mainly a one colour then moving to another part of the canvas and using another colour. His models look like there are build from different blocks and geometrics shapes. At the first glance we may have an impression there was something wrong with their proportions however when we look closely we find out that there were absolutely fine. The style of his painting is rather messy and looks like Matisse was satisfied with the painting at the first stage just like he made a sketch and decided to move to another project. Why do I have this impression? The canvas looks like has just one layer of the paint and some spaces look like there is not enough of to cover the canvas. It looks like he used too much of paint that was not thick enough. However this is the style we fall in love with. His most famous art work is: The open Window (1905), Women with The Hat (1905), Blue Nude (1907), Dance I (1909).

Andre Derain created Regent Street, Fishing Boats and many more. The Regent Street is very charming painting with loads of movements and running horses. The colours are bright and light. His srt work looks like from the Impressionism rather than the Fauvizm.

Cubist started from the 1920 up till 1925 with two main artists Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso. They used the subjects that were recognizable in normal day life. In Tate Modern Gallery we can get close to the paintings fro this movement such as : “Bottle of Vieux Marc, Glass,Guitar and Newspaper” or “Still Life” by Pablo Picasso. “Clarinet and Bottle of Rum on the Mantelpiece” by Georges Braque. Speaking about Pablo Picasso I cant forget the exhibition I have seen at the Museum of Picasso in Barcelona in 2014. This museum has an amazing collection of his work and it is really worth of going there once you are in Barcelona.

The main Polish artists who represented this movement was Tadeusz Makowski and I can proudly say I am a graduate of his school in Lodz. This school is called Tadeusz Makowski School of Fine Arts in Lodz. One of the paintings created by him were:”Palacze fajek”, “ Three Children Near a Road Sign”, “ The Shoemaker”, “ Winter”. His paintings are very much like the kids were painting them not and adult therefore he has never been taken as someone as good as Pablo Picasso for instance.

Surrealism 1925 till 1930 thinking about this time we have the artis such as Marcel Duchamp, Joan Miro, Dorothea Tanning.

Bauhaus starts from 1930 till with the artist such as Paul Klee, Lazslo Moholy-Nagy, Naum Gabo.

 

 

Research point

Laurence Stephen Lowry

Laurence Stephen Lowry in documentary movie about his art work expressed his passion towards the art in such a simply way. He often says that he paints what he sees and he likes what he sees. He was incredible good in executing the urban composition and in such a naïve but yet charming way he knew how to paint people walking and moving from one place to another. He was also painting on the white background many times.

 My plan for this exercise is to go to the nearest town and sit down on the fence to paint a couple of little quick paintings. I will go to Harlow Town with my little easel and acrylic paints as they dry quicker and they are nearly as good as oil paints. I am not sure how will I paint surrounded by people but it will be good experience for me as a developing artist.

 

This first one does not look very impressive to me I have to admit. What should I change ? What do I like about it? The first thing I am pleased with is the freshness where the brush line is till looks like it needs to be corrected it makes it look as it is just a sketch. I am pleased with the colour of the background the reason for this is the medium I have used by this I mean a small cardboard. What I do not like is look of the people where I can not show their small individual characters. It is not easy to paint while you are sitting on the edge of the fence in the busy shopping street. I will use different colour to paint the people on the street.

This one looks more interesting and the people have great look. Much more specific than on my first attempt. I am very impressed how much different it looks by only changing  the colour. I decided to paint only a shape of some people I have met on the street. If gives a charm to this naïve small sketch.

This third one is much more advanced in my opinion as I already knew what to do to guide my brush in the way how I liked. I am very impressed and really happy with this little painting.



 

 

Research point – practical

Matisse

I was not aware of Matisse creative carrier life. After a little research I found out that the most important for us pieces were created when he was bit older and he was not able to paint as he use to do it when he was young and healthy. It was really inspiring to read about him and how devoted to the art he has. Not many artists can do something like not giving up on dreams and keep creating despite of disability and limitations of different kind. I do remember when I broke my left wrist and was off from work for six months I was so determined to not to waste that time and I created the biggest paintings and most colourful from my all collection. The mind try to take away you from the worries and physical pain that you can be in that is why creativity is very helpful to survived the difficult times.

How did I do with my attempt of crating an art work based on Matisse  cut out style? I admit I had lots of fun with quick cutting out some round shapes and placing  them on the big paper. Actually it did not make me think of some childish paper art work as I thought at the beginning. It was a great relaxing creative time.

 

 

Research Point

 

Automatism in art.

 Automatism in art is all about letting your unconscious mind to create whatever it wants. I had no idea how does it work until I decided to try sketch a few pages wile my little one was watching a telly. After w while my hand was drawing some amazing shapes I had no idea of existing in my head. Some of them are bit sharp and some shapes are loose and soft. It is bit like with dancing when  your body to relax and you  just let go then body creates some new moves.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Part One-Exploring the Field ( Pre Modern Timeline)

Exploring the Field

 Pre Modern Art Timeline

 

Five hundred words is not a lot if I have to write about art from 15,000 BC till 1770. This time is called Pre Modern Art. I will pick two the most important surnames or places from each epoch and write why they are so import for us still.

The Ancient Art left us so many beautiful hand made objects and buildings. The best examples of Ancient paintings were found in the cave in Lascaux in France. In my opinion is hard forgotten about them as they show beautiful animals. Another important place I have to mention is the Palace of Minos where we can admire amazing fresco. Ancient people used pigment to create their art work unfortunately so many of them have faded therefore we do not have many examples of the art from this epoch.  

Classical Art left us Greek Sculptures and Etruscan Art. Greek sculptures show us beautiful nearly perfect human and God bodies. In my opinion they are absolutely perfect in terms of proportions and capturing the moment and the mood of the models. The Etruscan Art has been influenced by Greek style however human body looks more as a statue rather than a live object of glory. They used mainly bronze as a material while the Greeks preferred marble to a bronze.

The importance of Byzantine Art we can see based on Roman Catacombs where we can see the mosaics and frescos so crucial to study the meaning of life and dead for people they lived in Rome. Ravenna Mosaics tell us about early Christian life.

Jan van Eyck and Hieryonomous Bosch are the surnames of the Gothic period.

When we talk about the Renaissance we have to mention Donatello and Raphael. The key term for this epoch is allegory however this term was also popular until the Baroque.   

 Correggio and El Greco represent Mannerist.

Caravaggio and Jan Vermeer are the surnames from Baroque.

Talking about Rococo we have two artists as William Hogarth and Canaletto.

The Neo-Classical is represented by Sir Joshua Reynolds and Jean Ingres.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Research Point ( JMW Turner)

 

 

Romantic means someone who is guided by his heart rather than his mind.

 

Romanticism was an art movement shredded across Europe in the first part of the XVIII century. It shows strong preference towards the nature very much dictated by emotions.

 

Landscape is showing the natural scenery such as mountains, rivers, fields.

 

 

Looking at the National Gallery there is a collection of ten of Turner's paintings.

 

"Dutch Boats in a Gale" painted in 1801

"Calais Pier" painted in 1803

"Sun Rising through Vapour" painted before 1807

"Dido building Carthage" painted in 1815

"Ulysses deriding Polyphemus-Homer's Odyssey" painted in 1829

"The Evening Star" about 1830

"Margate (?), from the Sea" painted around 1835-1840

"The Parting of Hero and Leander" painted in 1837

"The Fighting Temeraire" painted in 1839

"Rain, Steam, and Speed-The Great Western Railway" painted in 1844

 

 

   I have been asked in this research to look at his paintings and try to figure out in what ways his paintings were pointing towards something new. William Turner was famous for his beautiful bright art work. He was a romantic person looking towards different art movement. His way of capturing the moment was bit different than the Romantics used to do. He was able to combine the Romantic subjects but with the lightness of the brush. The colours he used were different from the other artists. He noticed the air movements and how does it reflects on the landscape. Many artists started to think in similar way and managed to create a movement which we now called Impressionism.

 

 

Research point: Practical

 

 

Petrus Christus creating "Detail of the Annunciation" in 1452 used liner perspective in very clever way. This artist divided the canvas with horizontal lines on the floor and gradually making them smaller and smaller. It is easy to see the two parts of the canvas in terms of the tone. The half bottom part of the painting is lighter and the second top part is very dark and heavy. By this clever idea the viewer can experience a big contrast and therefore the most important objects are more visible to his eye. We can see clearly that the Angel is holding a long sceptre as well as the little white dove above Mary's head.  We have been also drawn towards the middle of the painting by division of the canvas with the open door guiding us towards the outside light.

 

 

 

Exercise with the model

 

 

I definitely forgot how to draw a quick sketch of the person. There was a time when I was drawing sketch after a sketch and the more I was doing it the quicker and confident I was with the lines and the proportions. I have a great pleasure of drawing my little son during his very busy afternoon today. It was not an easy task as he is very lively little boy and does not want to stay still and for that fact I thought he was perfect candid at for this exercise. It does make me think about the most important parts of the illustrations and to get the proportions correctly.

 

 

 

 There are my first sketches of my little one however these are not so successful in my opinion and I am hoping to get much better with more practice. Fingers crossed

 

 

The hand is more relaxed and more confident after a few times  observing and the execution seems to be much better.



 

These are  more successful. I know that the hand has to record very quickly what  the eye sees.  

 

These exercise made my little one very interested in the drawings and he even started to pose at the end of my practice.

Research point

 

 

With this research where was the practical part as well I decided to use different object rather than a brush. I looked around and picked a few totally unrelated little things:

 

• a piece of bread
• a pine corn
• a pipe cleaner
• a stick
• a leaf
• a bottle cup
• wooden block

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This painting has been made with the wooden square block and the thin brush. I have used the purple paint and black ink to finish it. I decided to use different types of crosses however the cross has just one meaning and it is very strong and powerfully. The position of each individual cross make this painting more interesting as everybody has the choice to imagine anything they want and read this piece in  own way.

 

 This painting has been made with the plastic bottle cup. I have used purple paint and the black ink for the details. Just wanted to show the connection between one and another person. Some people have more friends and are connected to each other in close way and some people like to keep their relations bit more privet. Hove ever in current world it looks like everyone knows everyone because of the social media.

 

 

 

 

 

 

I have used a bay leaf for this painting. The way of making the lines was very easy and it felt more organic and the fingers were closer to the paper. In this way I was more connected to the piece I was creating and the decision I was making were totally different then if I have used normal brush.

This painting was created with the stick and the lines are defenatly very stiff and straight hovewer the paint

Research point 

 

The link 10 which represents the Heilburnn Timeline of Art History will be very useful to me in the future. I just had a quick look at this website and already notice how easy and clear this link is. There are many interesting facts and art terms which are great for refreshing the knowledge about art movements, eras end so on. It was great to find about the relations between on e and atoner term based on the chosen area like political or geographical issues.  I am defiantly going to use it more often in the future.