Tag: Art

Notes, Research & Reflection

Duane Michals Talks and Compilations for You tube Videos

Duane Talks and Compilations for a You tube Video Duane Michals Best Creative Photography Advice (compilation) Dynamic Photography Workshops 01:16 and then I began to tell stories and 01:18 expand the decisive moment – one two 01:21 three four five moments and then I began 01:24 to write on photographs which gave me I 01:27 couldn’t put something in a picture that 01:28 wasn’t there … Continue reading Duane Michals Talks and Compilations for You tube Videos

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Coursework, Notes, Part 5, Research & Reflection, Uncategorized

Project Two – The revival of craft and the hand-made – Craft

Yayoi Kusama What is their craft and how do they approach it in their work? Kusama is a Japanese contemporary artist, who works with sculptures and installations, along with painting, textiles, and other art forms. She was inspired by abstract impressionism. Because at a young age she was forced to spy on her fathers womanising, she was traumatised and feared sex, as well as became … Continue reading Project Two – The revival of craft and the hand-made – Craft

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Coursework, Part 4, Uncategorized

Photography – art or science?

Research Talbot’s The Pencil of Nature Is Photography mechanical or creative? “Now Light, where it exists, can exert an action, and in certain circumstances, does exert one sufficient to cause changes in material bodies. Suppose, then, such an action could be exerted on the paper; and suppose the paper could be visibly changed by it.” (The Pencil of Nature by Fox Talbot ii) In this … Continue reading Photography – art or science?

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Part 3, Uncategorized

Film Posters

Exercise 3 – For every moving image film there’s an equivalent paper-based poster designed to promote it. Choose a film and its corresponding poster and reflect on how the typography, image, colour and composition are used to reflect the nature of the film. You may want to choose a film you’ve seen or can view some clips from; alternatively, you could start from the poster … Continue reading Film Posters

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Assignment 1, Assignments, Coursework, Part 1, Research & Reflection

A Reflection

My views have not changed on Art. I have always believed it to be a form of communication. I draw ideas, because I sometimes cannot explain myself in words, they may not be good drawings, but they get the idea across. Art is many forms, everyone sees, feels, smells, touches and even sometimes tastes art. Human nature is inquisitive, naturally, I feel we will always … Continue reading A Reflection

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Assignments, Coursework, Part 1

Looking at Context in Art

Damien Hirst – The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living. My first reaction to seeing this piece of art was ‘Wow, that’s a cool piece of taxidermy.’ I’ve seen taxidermy before, but not with actual pieces of meat encased in a formaldehyde solution, to preserve it, only in a science lab. Then of course my mind starts to wonder, how long … Continue reading Looking at Context in Art

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