Friday, May 07, 2004
Sunday, February 29, 2004
Miro, A Just Man
Miro was goodness, a just man in all things. He did not speak much but was very couteous. I never saw him with a camera or a ballpoint pen, but he would sometimes spend an hour contemplating the landscape. He and I were alone. I prudently kept my distance. He liked places that were difficult to get to, with a good view.
[Francesco Sole, Miro´s chauffeur during 25 years. Interview at ABC, in Spain, 1983.]
Miro was goodness, a just man in all things. He did not speak much but was very couteous. I never saw him with a camera or a ballpoint pen, but he would sometimes spend an hour contemplating the landscape. He and I were alone. I prudently kept my distance. He liked places that were difficult to get to, with a good view.
[Francesco Sole, Miro´s chauffeur during 25 years. Interview at ABC, in Spain, 1983.]
How good was Barcelona?
The sun
The Art
Casa Batllo
The Miro Foundation
The lamp posts
Caroline Conte's punctuality
Here's a cool site:
Art Daily
It is the best online Art Newspaper - lots and lots of resources
Date for your diaries:
Thursday 29th March
The world's best ever IB Art exhibition opens at St George's
The sun
The Art
Casa Batllo
The Miro Foundation
The lamp posts
Caroline Conte's punctuality
Here's a cool site:
Art Daily
It is the best online Art Newspaper - lots and lots of resources
Date for your diaries:
Thursday 29th March
The world's best ever IB Art exhibition opens at St George's
How good was Barcelona
The sun
The Art
Casa Batllo
The Miro Foundation
The lamp posts
Caroline Conte's punctuality
Here's a cool site:
Art Daily
It is the best online Art Newspaper - lots and lots of resources
Date for your diaries:
Thursday 29th March
The world's best ever IB Art exhibition opens at St George's
The sun
The Art
Casa Batllo
The Miro Foundation
The lamp posts
Caroline Conte's punctuality
Here's a cool site:
Art Daily
It is the best online Art Newspaper - lots and lots of resources
Date for your diaries:
Thursday 29th March
The world's best ever IB Art exhibition opens at St George's
Right then....
I am in Dubai talking about you lot and what bizarre stuff you make.
So that means:
Year 12 get on with your Workbooks. A bit of printing is OK, but wait until I get back if you are in any doubt!
Year 13 - I haven't updated the clock of doom so it is 3 hours slow.
Make sure you are ready for Barcelona
If you are worried about me here is a link to the Dubai weather:
Scorchio
I am in Dubai talking about you lot and what bizarre stuff you make.
So that means:
Year 12 get on with your Workbooks. A bit of printing is OK, but wait until I get back if you are in any doubt!
Year 13 - I haven't updated the clock of doom so it is 3 hours slow.
Make sure you are ready for Barcelona
If you are worried about me here is a link to the Dubai weather:
Scorchio
Wednesday, February 18, 2004
Year 12 should have completed 12 sides of research specifically on Miro, Gaudi & Picasso by the end of the half term break. ( as part of their minimum 80 sides to be allowed on the trip). Year 13s should have completed at least 6 sides of research on the artists prior to the trip.
Here is the Picasso Museum in Barcelona
Here is the Picasso Museum in Barcelona
Friday, February 06, 2004
Monday, February 02, 2004
Late news flash....
Grayson Perry DID win the Turner prize - beating bookies favourites those naughty Chapman brothers:
Not for small people....
Grayson Perry DID win the Turner prize - beating bookies favourites those naughty Chapman brothers:
Not for small people....
OK, it has been a while, so I'd better start putting relevant information up here....
ANTON GAUDI
Year 12 & 13 artists start researching now! You'll be seeing a lot of his work in Barcelona
ANTON GAUDI
Year 12 & 13 artists start researching now! You'll be seeing a lot of his work in Barcelona
Tuesday, November 25, 2003
Artist Website of the week No.8
Odd Nerdrum
Blimey, he's a bit good...
Think post modern, post apocalyptic Rembrandt and you're nearly there!
Odd Nerdrum
Blimey, he's a bit good...
Think post modern, post apocalyptic Rembrandt and you're nearly there!
Wednesday, November 19, 2003
Workbook Suggestions
JC
Artistic reference to stage, performance and theatre in a number of cultures. How does the social and cultural context of the performance influence its visual representation in another art form? Degas, Lautrec, Schiele, Hogarth, Japanese artists such as Hiroshige, Hokusai and Kunisada, Traditional African /art itself interwoven with the performance). Japan
PS
How has the image of women (as a subject) in painting changed through the 20th century? Liberation? Emancipation? Political change including the vast increase in the number of women artists. Feminism. Look at Picasso, Klimt, Modigliani, Giacometti, Warhol, Gwen John, Frida Khalo, Dali, Freud, Jenny Saville, Paula Modersohn-Becker (amongst others!) Read Germaine Greer on the subject for a feminist perspective "The Obstacle Race: The fortunes of women painters and their work", (book in the library)
AG
The changing roles of the human figure in Art in the 19th & 20th centuries – from portraiture to symbolic presence. Cezanne (figure as motif rather than specific portrait) through Expressionism/Cubism’s distortions and simplifications, then body art and performance of 60s & 70s. Move on into the recent work of artists like Gormley in which the body is represented as a volume in space, a symbol or a vessel.
AD
The changing impact of Art when removed from its intended location. Comparing the potentially diminished impact of religious art when transplanted from church/temple to gallery/museum and graffiti when taken from walls, trains, subways to the ‘safe’ middleclass gallery environment. Giotto, Michelangelo, Haring, Basquiat, Kenny Scharf etc.
SMF
The influence of Fine Art on Fashion in the 20th Century and vice versa. Rely in part on your research for your Extended Essay. Modernist abstraction in fabric prints. Pop Art and space age art in the 60’s. Psychedelic art and its influence on ‘Hippy couture’. Destruction and despair in 70s underground and conceptual Art influencing Punk clothing aesthetics. Pop Art Fashion
S MdL
The continuing presence of the painted portrait in the age of photography. What can painted portraiture offer to the artist/viewer that photography can not? How has photography freed the painter from the need to reproduce only the ‘straight forward’ likeness of the sitter? How has photography fed the painters’ imaginations and furthered the development of painting? Bacon, Nash, Hockney, Degas, Sickert, Jenny Saville, Richard Billingham etc. Read some Susan Sontag on this subject Review of her book ‘On Photography’ with a few quotes: http://www.photo.net/books/on-photography or this Sontag
.
JC
Artistic reference to stage, performance and theatre in a number of cultures. How does the social and cultural context of the performance influence its visual representation in another art form? Degas, Lautrec, Schiele, Hogarth, Japanese artists such as Hiroshige, Hokusai and Kunisada, Traditional African /art itself interwoven with the performance). Japan
PS
How has the image of women (as a subject) in painting changed through the 20th century? Liberation? Emancipation? Political change including the vast increase in the number of women artists. Feminism. Look at Picasso, Klimt, Modigliani, Giacometti, Warhol, Gwen John, Frida Khalo, Dali, Freud, Jenny Saville, Paula Modersohn-Becker (amongst others!) Read Germaine Greer on the subject for a feminist perspective "The Obstacle Race: The fortunes of women painters and their work", (book in the library)
AG
The changing roles of the human figure in Art in the 19th & 20th centuries – from portraiture to symbolic presence. Cezanne (figure as motif rather than specific portrait) through Expressionism/Cubism’s distortions and simplifications, then body art and performance of 60s & 70s. Move on into the recent work of artists like Gormley in which the body is represented as a volume in space, a symbol or a vessel.
AD
The changing impact of Art when removed from its intended location. Comparing the potentially diminished impact of religious art when transplanted from church/temple to gallery/museum and graffiti when taken from walls, trains, subways to the ‘safe’ middleclass gallery environment. Giotto, Michelangelo, Haring, Basquiat, Kenny Scharf etc.
SMF
The influence of Fine Art on Fashion in the 20th Century and vice versa. Rely in part on your research for your Extended Essay. Modernist abstraction in fabric prints. Pop Art and space age art in the 60’s. Psychedelic art and its influence on ‘Hippy couture’. Destruction and despair in 70s underground and conceptual Art influencing Punk clothing aesthetics. Pop Art Fashion
S MdL
The continuing presence of the painted portrait in the age of photography. What can painted portraiture offer to the artist/viewer that photography can not? How has photography freed the painter from the need to reproduce only the ‘straight forward’ likeness of the sitter? How has photography fed the painters’ imaginations and furthered the development of painting? Bacon, Nash, Hockney, Degas, Sickert, Jenny Saville, Richard Billingham etc. Read some Susan Sontag on this subject Review of her book ‘On Photography’ with a few quotes: http://www.photo.net/books/on-photography or this Sontag
.
Thursday, November 06, 2003
Artist Website of the week No.7
Joe Schneider is a friend of the other Mr. Morgan
His stuff makes me want to go home and do some painting.
Joe Schneider
Joe Schneider is a friend of the other Mr. Morgan
His stuff makes me want to go home and do some painting.
Joe Schneider
Sunday, November 02, 2003
Artist Website of the week No.6
Grayson Perry
Transvestite Ceramicist
He's a Turner Prize Nominee
Do you think that he'll win?
Ooh let's have a look....
Grayson Perry
Transvestite Ceramicist
He's a Turner Prize Nominee
Do you think that he'll win?
Ooh let's have a look....
Monday, October 20, 2003
Art Department News:
Stefanie Ziesler wins first prize in the senior category of the F.A.O. World Food Day Poster Competition.
Phoebe Stannard & Amy Griffin are off to the Colle Sabine for an International Sculpture Symposium next week (29th October - 2nd November)
Year 10 GCSE Artists to visit Rome on Wednesday to sketch various fountains and the Cappucin Crypt.
Sophia Marinho De Lemos appears to have grown taller by 1 centimetre
Stefanie Ziesler wins first prize in the senior category of the F.A.O. World Food Day Poster Competition.
Phoebe Stannard & Amy Griffin are off to the Colle Sabine for an International Sculpture Symposium next week (29th October - 2nd November)
Year 10 GCSE Artists to visit Rome on Wednesday to sketch various fountains and the Cappucin Crypt.
Sophia Marinho De Lemos appears to have grown taller by 1 centimetre
Artist Website of the week No.5
One of my favourites - go and visit his studio at Dean Clough when you are next in Halifax
Tom Wood
One of my favourites - go and visit his studio at Dean Clough when you are next in Halifax
Tom Wood
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