Exhibition Review
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Wednesday, 2 December 2009
Art rabbit
Artrabbit.com is a website that tells you what art exhibitions are currently running and the time, place and location of the such exhibitions. I wanted to find out about pop art exhibitions as i was inspired by the study of Wayne thiebaud. Pop art related to my developed concept of glossing over things by painting them in bright colours or alongside everyday themes. It was through artrabbit that I found out that the Tate Modern had a pop art exhibition called 'Pop life' and also had a room dedicated to one of the most famous pop artists Andy Warhol. Therefore I decided I would go to the Tate modern for my Gallery research.
Artist research
Wayne Thiebaud
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Formal Art Evaluation
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Ghosts
The concept of ghosts was to see how people remember details of a piece of art after they had seen the piece previously. This was to see what were the most prominent formal elements of the piece that stuck with people. I copied this concept and the results I recieved told me that the most memorable elemnts of Wayne Thiebaud's 'Cakes' 1963 was the roundness of the cakes and the bright candided colours used.
A further development of ideas
As my profect progressed I started to look at the themes and issues relating to how people try to cover up ar distract themselves away from big or unpleasant issues and in this particular death.
Therefore I started to look at the the baroque and vanitas paintings - theses were all about opulence and indulgence but with the underlying thme of death and mortality. I then looked at art and images from a culture that freely accepted and outwardly dealt with the concept of their own mortality therefore I looked at the Mexican 'Day of the dead festival'. In the mexican culture they chose to acknowledge thier mortality and celebrate the lives of the deceased. They decorate replicas of skulls and make sugar candy skulls which therefore brings out the issue of death out into the open the decoration serves to put emphasis on the topic encouraging a different take on it than other western cultures.
2nd drawing
The second drawing is from a photo of a button, rosary beads, earrings and white wool strewn over each other. This reminded me of how everyday objects such as theses bits and pieces are bundled together sometimes just left in a mess inside a drawer. The presence of the rosary beads relates to the way people try to push certain issues 'out of sight - out of mind' because they cannot deal with it such as the rosary signifying death or even faith in God as many people seem to be losing faith and religion in recent times.
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