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.

Anish Kapoor

The Sky Mirror


is a public sculpture by the artist Anish Kapoor, who was born 12 march 1954 and studied at colleges in and around London.

Anish was first commissioned to make this piece for Nottingham playhouse and has said that the sky mirror is inspired by a Dallas legend known as Robert Mundinger, who is said 'reflects the sky with his community spirit', It took 6 years from the initial idea for it to the unveiling in 2001 and it is placed outside of the Wellington Circus. The total price came to around £900,000, at the time this was one of the most expensive pieces of public art funded by the national lottery.


'Sky Mirror is a six-metre-wide concave dish of polished stainless steel weighing ten tonnes and angled up towards the sky. Its surface reflects the ever-changing environment.' from Wikipedia.


It went on to be copied a few times to try and relive its effects, a smaller one was put into a museum, though it could not do its job of reflecting the sky it is still getting attention, another larger one was placed in Rockefeller Center in New York City, it stood 3 stories high.


The Cloud Gate (Bean)

Is a public center piece in Chicago, it is nicknamed 'Bean' because of its shape, which sort of resembles the beans you get in cans. It is said that Anish was inspired by the liquid mercury and how it takes peculiar forms and movements in comparison to water, it is almost 13 times heavier than water.

It is made from 168 stainless steel plates welded together, it is extremely well polished and there are no visible seams.

Artist collection for 3D

Anthony Gormley

Anthony Gormley's still life work is all (or mostly) made from him being covered from head to toe in plaster by his wife, he finds the human body sacred almost, saying how it is "a vessel for personal space", that skin is not the beginning or end of our bodys.
The 20th century the human form was mostly used in art, however it was mainly women, children playing or soldiers, slightly generalising it.

Dave Nash

An artist who uses Art Nouveau, using natural forms to create pieces of art, in his case instead of being inspired by it (though he may still be) he uses natural forms to piece together his pieces. 

He does tend to stick to primary elements, shapes such as triangles, squares and circles, they are powerful shapes which are easily recognisable, however combining them or changing the placement of any single shape will give an unusual effect, even a texture without you needing to touch it.

This piece is known as 'Pyramid' and are made from a single Oak tree around 400years old, which he Charred, treated them with linseed oil then does the same things again to give such effect.

Eglin Marbles

There is no doubt in my mind that you have seen or heard of this collection of classic Greek Sculptures, they are usually pictured as pure white sculptures that look near perfect

They are only pure white now because that is the way Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Eglin wanted them to look, as they were originally brightly painted, almost 'cheery' looking for what they are

The act of cutting off pieces of marble sculptures, stealing them from their resting place, and removing the paint were illegal and acts of vandalism against the monuments of significant historical value. Greece continues to fight to this day for the sculptures to be returned to their home.

Henry Moore

Best known for his abstract human body work, which were usually based on women figures or reclining figures. Henry Moore was an English artist who was born in 1898.

His talent first showed while he was attending infant and elementary school, where he learnt how to use clay and carve from wood which he seemed to enjoy, by the age of 11 he decided he wanted to be a sculpture after hearing about Michelangelo's Achievements (best known for his statue of David).

I do like his work, its appearance is so smooth and fluid, it appears so simple however each work he did started off as sketches before they blossomed into something more.

Anthony Caro

whose work was abstract and almost futuristic, using simple shapes to make a more detailed piece of art, by 'simple shapes' I mean most if not all parts were found industrial objects. He had worked with the abstract artist Henry Moore earlier on in his career.

Paper machets

Planning work for a possible future sculpture

For this one I felt it would look interesting if there was an image that you could only see from one side, this idea is still a good one but I think it would be far more interesting if I made the sculpture into the image which could only be seen from one side.

I tried a folding technique to make a retro looking table!

not very appealing in the way of a sculpture but it would be interesting in the middle of my living room. I have learnt from this not to go down the origami route for future inspiration

This paper machet is the one I decided on, It made a triangle that could only been seen from a birds eye view but it would be interesting from all sides thanks to the spaces between, i will do more work on the plans later.