My Interpretation of Jeremy Deller’s Battle of Orgreave

Re-worked and how I reflected upon the importance of time and place of this piece. “Every event described in history, every series of events reconstructed, has to have a place.” F. Lukerman Art History to me now forms a larger part of the Art world, this re-enactment the first of many for Deller proves the importance of such inclusion of this type of conceptual art. … Continue reading My Interpretation of Jeremy Deller’s Battle of Orgreave

Exercise 2 Interpreting video art

Sam Taylor-Johnson Still Life: [Online] At: https://samtaylorjohnson.com/ [accessed Jan 2019] My first initial response after viewing this clip was; – Slow decay, life ebbing away, mould, flies, rot, compost. My response to the media and form of the piece; – time lapse video speeded up, obviously a few takes, as by the slight jump on the video where camera or video cam has been changed … Continue reading Exercise 2 Interpreting video art

Photography as genre Exercise 1

What, in your view, makes photographs unique as an art form? The fact that an image captures a place and moment in time, forever. The scene may change naturally over time, but the photo stands still in time. You can never reproduce it exactly, just as you can’t reproduce a painting exactly, there will always be differences, the light, the brush strokes, the time of … Continue reading Photography as genre Exercise 1

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