Visit to Liverpool

We are planning to go to Liverpool to look at different galleries and museums as well as visit Anthony Gormleys installation piece "Another Place" which are 100 cast iron men, made in his image, placed in many locations along liverpools beach, as the water goes out the figures become visible, as the water comes in their heads are menacingly watching out at the on coming water.

Here are some of the photo's I took;

But first we will be visiting The Walkers Gallery

I would like to find "Peter Getting Out Of Nick's Pool" an acrylic painting on disblay from 1966, by David Hockney as well as other paintings.

Albert Richards born 1919 in Liverpool, he studied at Wallasey Art School. However he was soon called upon for his services in the war, he painted whenever he could, trying to capture army life, this painting was called the seven legends self portrait.

David Bomberg 1948

Art Deco 1920

Nightfall, Luxor 1910

Sir David Young Cameron, Scottish artist in 1865-1945.

Summer lighting

Walter Richard Sickert 1860-1945

A struggle for existence

A size comparison

Gliders

Love and the Mermaid, plastered in 1895, cast in 1896 by Charles John Allen, a liverpool sculptor.

Green marble plinth

Peter Getting Out Of Nick's Pool

Next we will be visiting The Blue Coat Center, A gallery dedicated to contemporary crafts and designs since 1959.

Show biz

Here is a tester with the Dogs I had finished, my glamorous assistants seemed to enjoy themselves while chasing each other around, it was also fun to watch so I think this would be the better idea instead of using them as wall decorations.

From this I made more dogs that would be either side of the person instead of only one side, this is entirely for convenience. 

Here are the dogs in action, I think it went well however there was a late minute change of plan for where two of the dogs would be walking, they walked round twice before waiting till their time to run down the middle to Diana (Kim in the nature themed dress).

Conceptual art

Which means the idea is as or more important than the asthetic (how it looks).

For example chair

which tests this theory, showing an image of a chair, a physical chair and the definition of a chair.

Fluxus is a group of artist who did not have political plans, instead tried to basically make everyone chill and not be so serious so often.

The image or creation in your mind is suppose to be the most real while the physical aspect of it is false or a material possession, conceptual art is to treasure the memory of something instead of something for you to hold or touch.

Robert rouschenberg made a collar with the well known abstract expressionist William de kooning, after asking him if he could erase one of his work, kooning aloud him and gave him lots of choices and robert spent time choosing the hardest image to erase, and then erased it. this was to test the teary of if an action happened and were erased, would it still be a statement?

However conceptual art has been quite contradictory in a way as artists like Guy Debord and marcel Duchamp(even though Duchamps work was more Dada) wanted to show how foolish art was and how easy it was to create something, however in doing so they became artists and they have changed the outlook of what art can be.

T-shirt Design Research

My original plan was to have designs that illustrate different puns and play on words, for example 'I would choose no otter' with a Otter holding another otters paw, something cute and most likely bought for valentines day but of course not all the designs would fit this category constantly, which is good, however the more I planned the quicker I ran out of ideas, so here are some research I have gotten of animals who I can use for designs


sea creatures;
Hagfish

The slime Hagfish Produce would make interesting patterns that could go into the shirt design, it may not need text or a pun, it could be entirely imagery

Basking Shark

Gulper Eel

From looking at the two images above i could imagin a story play out, not such a pun but more of a funny conversation over the frankly startled looking creatures.

Oarfish

Sea Slug

There are many different kinds of  sea slug, so picking but a few images would never truly suffice, in my opinion they are quite cute and so i could use it as a different

Sunfish

Seahorse

Monkfish

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Birds;
Ducks
Chickens
Geese
Pidgeon

I decided to stick with recognisable birds as they are easier to mock or use, I could also get primary research into them unlike everything else I have chosen

Presentation

Our Project was to focus a sculpture based around Ovid's poem "Metamorphosis which is a 15 book long and about many different mythological tales. Unfortunately for Ovid he was exiled and later died, however his last few poems show that he had become to grow familiar with death, almost excepting, though his work did inspire artists and the gallery event.

so first I looked into Titians painting, Ovids poem around his time was as well known as the bible, and three of his paintings that I have seen follow them

The story of Diana and Actaeon, Actaeon (the hunter) wondered in on Diana (the goddess of the hunt) in her bathing area, she was obviously very annoyed to be seen in such a vulnerable possition, so she turned him into a stag(male deer) and hunted him with his own dogs

now with this I had to make a decision between going down a literal route of sculpture or doing something more figurative

My first decision was to do some research, seeing though i aspire to be an illustrator, it made sculpture something i couldnt really focus on, so i tried looking for sculptures that either looked sketchy or a mixture of both sculpture and 2D work. 

Thomas Houseago

As you can see some of his work contained a mixture of texture and sketches which i really liked, one side being smooth and planned out in appearance showing patients however the other side which is more textured shows a much more rushed and emotion filled response, well in my opinion any way.

His work references cubism and futurism and toys with the idea of sculpture, he is a very much figurative sculpture

Jean Debuffet

another figurative artist, their sculptures give off the illusion of movement or melting, they are still very interesting to see.

I then tried my own hand at making paper maquettes with any ideas i could come up, these are a few of my personal favourites

This was mostly inspired by Thomas' work, however it went no further, none of these maquettes did

here are a few paper maquettes i found searching the web

Then I looked to some artists that didnt fit in to my sketchy or 'mixed' sense of sculpture, the more literal or form based.

Sarah Lucas

Anthony Gormley

I later went to liverpool to see Anothony Gormleys 'another place' piece which includes around 100 sculptures lined along the beach.

here are a few primary images

I found his sculptures very lifelike, when  i looked out to the water i could have guessed they were all just passers by watching something in a far off place, which is why i think it was named 'Another Place' as they all appeared to be day dreaming, even when the water is well up to their shoulders.

But i started to wonder from sculpture, i became fascinated with puppets, even making my own, all because of what a test with bin bags lead me to

one idea was to dress up in a sort of sculpture/costume so that i could be some what of a living sculpture, like Gilbert And George

On a visit to the Victory and Albert museum i came across this particular exhibit on puppets depicting a scene of a woman carrying a body while business men tried to fool her into a false sense of protection or blame

I also found outfits that i could possible incorporate into my final piece (as i was convinced this puppet idea would be)

Even though i was convinced i felt the need to look into more life like puppets, incase i could come up with any other ideas, which i had many of its just choosing the right one always seemed bias to my opinion instead of what would really suit

Lion King

The puppets are used in a way to show emotion even though they are perfectly still, some even having deeper meanings for example

Simba's farther is always seen as good, not only to simba and the audience but also how he is made, with a halo around his head very similar to that of a holy figure shows his pureness, Scar does not have this so it cannot be coincidental. Scar has what appears to be flames

I also looked into the 'War Horse' which not only uses a very detailed horse puppet but also needs horse behaviorists to use to become a convincing horse, not even speaking to each other to determine their next move just moving with it.

I found this facinating.

but eventually i had to rethink my designs, i started to go down the preformance sculpture ideas, coming up with a 'monster' that could have just portrayed Actaeons fear of what he had seen and the inevitable doom he had brought to himself

I had planned it out so a veil would cover a pot/modrock mask underneath which would look very pretty but would not be visible till i lifted the veil from the monsterous look

I planned and came up with a few possible mechanics to the face making it moveable, even going as far as creating the eyes for my final piece

However asking my class for opinions they told me to look back into puppets and what i had learnt from them, so i did

I looked back mainly to Thomas houseago and the lion king puppets

these caught my attention and i started planning my own performance once again with still puppets

Flat and motionless, however when they are used as part of a performance it gives the illusion of movement which I really liked

so I thought of making a more literal piece

paper maquette practices

I would of course need to look into deer and dog poses more, I first planned to make wolves/german shepherds however in the painting they are clearly beagles, as well as beagles being the typical choice for hunters, you may remember from the higher class hunters going after foxes with the sight of like 15 beagles jumping over each other with their tails pointed high, this is to help the hunters find their beagles if they go in high grass or etc.

I decided to keep the Stag white because of the story of Albin, an albino moose that was said to bring good fortune which used to be able to walk by hunters who simply saw it as a magnificent creature and would never go for it, until not too long ago when a Dane hunter finally killed the legendary moose.

I have a few options for presentation my sculpture

either with posing and a use of photography,

I could hang them from walls to portray its story, or my personal favourite I could get my class mates to run after each other as I record it to show the 'movement' or business of my sculpture

Marvin Gaye Chatwynd

or 'Sparticus'

Is a British artist who does a mixture of performance and material sculpture in that she will make items for a performance that will later on become art themselves.

her art is sometimes called 'intentionally bad' or 'amateurish' when really she is trying to portray her ideas as fast as she can while they are raw in her mind.

She also uses just random people to preform, they don't have to be dancers or performers, and they have no set movements, it is just what they want to do

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I would like my performance to be described as 'intentionally bad', even though I have put a lot of thought into my creations, perhaps I could make my performers have some throw together outfit, that from a distance will look highly thought out but up close look rubbish.