End of term

Sorry everyone that I had to bail out early today. Life is always full of the unexpected.

Pradyna, you canvas looks fantastic! Well done. Please post the image on your blog.
I hope the rest of you were able to get things printed.

Pete stop looking at Roach..!!! he is just one example. There are many artists who put images next to each other, so that they "feed" off each other.. if Roach is confusing look elsewhere..be yourself..the idea is how one chooses to link images.. there are many ways to do this...Rauschenberg is different to Ernst, is different to Mathiesen...

What if you put an Photographic image next to a sign or symbol? Does the symbol influence how one might read the photo?

James, Take some CLOSE UP shot of the heros in focus...other work looked good.

Lidia I will see your work on Friday to resolve Ron Rado.. same with Alycia..(hope u r feeling better).

The invites are now printed and I collected them this evening they look great.

We will next meet on the Friday 8th October no class Tuesday.
We will visit Franston campus on the Tuesday 19 Oct. at 11.30am.
We will now go to the Zoo on the 13 Oct (not the 6th) as I won't be able to make it for medical reasons.

Have a good break, come back refreshed.. Term 4 will come and go before you know it!

To Sean...good luck with the rest of the year..hope to see you next year.


Take care everyone

David.

FINAL WEEK TERM 3

www.squarical.com.au/remoteness


There is an exhibition of Digital Media Art until the 12 Sept at Frankston Art Centre. Check out the above link.

RON RADO

The work so far looks good.

Completed: Pete, Pradyna, John, James
To stretch canvas : Sandra, Ben
The rest of you, please bring in folios next Tuesday. This is important as work for exhibition needs to be resolve by end of term.


INTERACTIONS.

John has completed the invite..

Congratulations:

To Pradyna for her work "Discovery" selected for a TAFE exhibition at the Crown Casino complex.

Term 4:

No class Tuesday 5 Oct.

Meet at Melbourne Zoo on Wednesday 6 October.
Bring camera, sketchpad, drawing tools, etching needle, LUNCH Student card $18.50.
Meet railway entrance 10.30 am.

CALDER 2

Questions and lack of sleep!

It was a good day on Friday...some clarity towards Ron Rado and the Interactions exhibitions... a humble but good feeling in the class..and at last some direction with the last video painting...well done.
Ron Rado was a business man with vision. I met him only once a few months before he died. He came in to the department because he want th art students to help design go karts for kids..at Gumbaya Park..One got the feeling this man lived every day..

Reading "Questions" I'm not sure we have a choice much of the time. As much as we want to think we can control tomorrow, it really isn't up to us. The word" important" too, seems very relative...important to who, what, etc...

The artist Turner, produced both quality and quantity.. (most of his work is stored in the vaults under the old Tate Museum in London). Van Gogh lived quite a tortured life, yet read his letters to his brotherTheo, and it reveals a man of great intelligence and sentitivity...the moments he spent painting and drawing were his bliss...

The Sculptor Alexander Calder (see the film of his CIRCUS that he made out of wire)had an almost childlike wonderment about life...and lived a long life.

I guess for me you are in "the moment" and you make of it what you can. Try to say yes to life...when things are low, there is always another perspective and it's our choice what we do with our minds...there is the thought..that every challenge brings with it an opportunity...

The camera idea for the video ...I like it Pradnya...it takes the viewer into your world....go for it!

D

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.

D

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!

:)

"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...

D