Shadow art

Looking at shadows in photography;


Tim Noble and Sue Webster

Alexey Bednij

Photogram artists

Man Ray

Adam Fuss

Susan Derges

Life drawing

Throughout the 8 weeks of life drawing lessons I have been asked to look into the works of different artists who work with figures and bodies.


Georges Seurat

Caravaggio

 

Frida Kahlo

2D Design artists

Stefan Sagmeister

I was immediately intrigued by his work when I saw it as I feel there is an inevitable truth behind his work. He chooses strong words to include in his works and that is what makes them so overwhelming.

Noma Bar

The saying 'less is more' came to mind when I saw Bar's work. His simple use of block colour (usually no more than a few colours together in one piece of work) is very eye catching. He also very cleverly interlocks different objects and pieces them together so they all create one. I thought that was really interesting and I have never seen anyone do something like that before.







Timorous Beasties

I really like his work and the intricate detail and subtle repetition in is very beautiful and elegant. Contrasting dark and light colours together allow even the smallest details to stand out without looking too cluttered overall.









Hollie Chastain

When working in the illustration area, my favourite technique I learnt was collaging and these pieces of work are great examples of collages. I also really like how the black and white gives a vintage feel but adding geometric shapes into the work contrasts the new with the old.







Sara Fanelli

Her work is really playful and child-like whilst being very eye catching and thoughtful. She uses a range of colours and her collaging techniques are clever as she layers different pieces, and uses strong sharp lines against smooth curves.

Different ways of using photography;
Working in pairs, we picked out a random action and a random place from a pile and used them together to create a photograph.

The first was -
Gallop, on the floor; looked like this

The second was -
Fist bump, the wall; looked like this

50 Photographers of note

My top 3 photographers;

Steven Klein

The distressed burned look in this photograph really caught my eye and I think this technique is quite effective. I'm not sure if this has been done with Photoshop or if a negative was burned but either way it is extremely interesting


 Nan Goldin

I am greatly inspired by Goldin's work. I think her work is simple and clean but her ideas are very clever. Her work seems almost amateur but she still shows thoughtful compositions and lighting in the natural surroundings.


Martin Parr

Parr's work is always interesting compositionally and this photograph is no exception.

Transform - Fine Art

For this weeks private study task I have been asked to research and post 3 artists who use walking as part of their creative practice.

The first artist I came across was Jan Dibbets. He is a Dutch conceptual artist born on 9th May 1941.

His work does not show an obvious approach to the use of walking but I find his panoramic like images give a fantastic sense of movement across a landscape. This piece of work is called Panorama Dutch Mountain 12 x 15° Sea II A, and was made in1971.

The second artist I found was Richard Long. Long's work is similar to David Nash and Andy Goldsworthy who I wrote about in a previous post. 

Richard Long is an English sculptor, land artist, photographer and painter. 

His work stems from taking walks through rural and remote areas in Britain, the plains of Canada, Mongolia and Bolivia. When researching into his work, I found this piece to be one of my favourites. The simple lines of repetition show a natural yet thoughtful composition.

"Nature has always been a subject of art, from the first cave paintings to twentieth-century landscape photography. I wanted to use the landscape as an artist in new ways. First I started making work outside using natural materials like grass and water, and this led to the idea of making a sculpture by walking. This was a straight line in a grass field, which was also my own path, going 'nowhere'. In the subsequent early map works, recording very simple but precise walks on Exmoor and Dartmoor, my intention was to make a new art which was also a new way of walking: walking as art. Each walk followed my own unique, formal route, for an original reason, which was different from other categories of walking, like travelling. Each walk, though not by definition conceptual, realised a particular idea. Thus walking – as art – provided a simple way for me to explore relationships between time, distance, geography and measurement. These walks are recorded in my work in the most appropriate way for each different idea: a photograph, a map, or a text work. All these forms feed the imagination."
—Richard Long

The final artist I found was Hamish Fulton. He is a British artist and photographer, born on 21st July 1946. 

He is an artist that works solely on the idea of walking, solo or as a group. 

He has stated "If I do not walk, I cannot make a work of art" and has summed up this way of thinking in the simple statement of intent: "no walk, no work".