Anish Kapoor and Public art

Anish Kapoor , The Bean, Chicago

There was an interesting program on TV on Saturday about the respected artist Anish Kapoor. There is a piece of his work at Heide Art Gallery if anyone has been there. Kapoor creates images that seem to have a strange ability to engage the viewer with the experience of looking
and what it means to be the viewer. Some of his work seems to have a power to transcend beyond the material and questions without imposing some "big truth". The above piece 'The Bean" has clearly has a positive impact on the people of Chicago.

Some of you may have watched the video by Andy Rooney: A Critique
of Modern Art recently posted. While the examples used in this essay are deliberately chosen to maximise a laughable view of Modern Art, we are also left with the opinion that there is not much in the art world to respect.

If the world of art was what Rooney portrays I would want to agree with him, there is certainly an enormous amount of mediocre and empty objects veiled as art. However, Rooney fails to give a balanced picture. For all the rubbish out there, there is also the amazing, incredibile, inpiring creations that remind us of our time, that transport us to world beyond the mundane. I think Kapoor is one of these artists and there are others.

Rooney makes a point, but it is short sighted. Perhaps the strength of art education is to learn to see what is really there, and to make up our minds independant of persuasive yet quite limited perspectives.

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Review, upcoming "Interaction" exhibition and Ron Rado

Hi Everyone

A few people away yesterday due to illness. Please make sure you bring your work in next week.

The Review:

Photography:

The 12 photos based on mood seems to be well resolved. I think it allowed you to look at alternative ways of developing the photographic image using Photoshop. It also showed that a tutorial is only a guide and for final resolution one's own aesthetic needs to apply. This is art...learning the rules, then breaking them!

We will need to see all the photos from the group to resolve presentation for the exhibition.

Printmaking:

The etching were very strong...well done! Also some meritable results with the collographs and monotypes. The digital side in some instances could still develop further.

Drawing:

The head is difficult to draw and I think from where you started there was progress.. drawing is a skill and like most skills needs practise, keep drawing...

The range of approaches to the head, from text to looking at other artists produced some varied results...the idea of exploring differentways of looking and interpreting.

The projection painting:

Wow! Congratulations to Pradnya, John, Pete and Narmin.This is learning curve stuff, with all the pitfalls of learning what the game is about.. you have created some great results..they are exciting...I'm also looking forward to seeing how James and Alycia resolve their pieces.. and those of you not here yesterday.

NEW BLOCK of work:

We start the final Block next week. I will present the assignment on Tuesday. We also start up again with figure drawing.

Ron Rado:

Please speak to me on Tuesday about what you have.. you may need to bring in work on Friday ..or we will need to go through what you have on the computer.

Next Friday:

Discussion on what to show for the Interaction exhibition.

Preparing folios for interviews. specially those interested in Graphic Design and Dip of Visual Arts ..

New assignment will follow on My Chisholm soon!

A tip for next block if you are struggling with the completion of work... don't open FACEBOOK!

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"The Sheltering Sky "director Bernardo Bertolucci

The following quote was read in class on Tuesday.

The author is Paul Bowles.

"Death is always on the way, but the fact that you don't know when it will arrive seems to take away from the finiteness of life. It's that terrible precision that we hate so much. But because we don't know, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens a certain number of times, and a very small number, really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, some afternoon that's so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more. Perhaps not even. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet is all seems limitless."

Try to see this movie...

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See the light!

Well done to those who are resolving the painting - video assignment. I think they will look great in the exhibition. It has been an interesting assignment with lots to learn. Some of the results in printmaking, drawing and photography are also promising.

Those of you who have not resolved it needs to be by next Friday as the work will be assessed and graded (see handout). I will not be giving extensions (without doctor's cert).

We will be moving into the last assignment starting on the 31st August. There are 3 weeks left of this term and 5 weeks left in term 4. Not much time!

If you are thinking about study for next year, now is the time to start resolving your portfolio. I'm happy to work with you to prepare folios.

ALL work from this block needs to be presented on Friday.. see the posting below for details.


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What Is Postmodernism?

Philosopher Roger Scruton (3/6)

Philosopher Roger Scruton (2/6)

Philosopher Roger Scruton (1/6)

Critique and Assessment update Friday 27 August

Block 1 assignments are due on the 27 August. Work will be graded on the day. Please have your work organised and neatly presented in folio.

Critique will start at 1pm 10- 15 minutes each:

Ben
Sandra
Sean
John
Lionel
Pradyna
Lidia
Alysia
Pete
James
Kacie





What you will need to prepare.

Drawing: 10 drawings plus journal 20 noses, mouths, ears.

Weeks 1-2 : 1 portrait front view or 3/4 view.
Week 3: 1 profile.
Week 4: 4 drawings in the likeness of Auerbach, Jawlensky, Cubism, Giacometti.
Week 5-6: 3 drawings Text and Self.
Week 7: Distortion portrait.

Printmaking:

Two etchings (edition of 6).
large digital etching
6 best monotypes
1 digital monotype
2 best collographs
1 digital collographs

Photography:

12 thumbnail photos in journal plus short description of technique.
12 portrait images printed 30 -35cm X 40 cm.

Video and Painting.

Dream/memory video projection and painting to be completed and presented. 3 -5 pm.
Completed story board, timeline and concept to be included.