Gallery work

Exhibition Review

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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.

John Berger

Art Essay

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Drawing from the pictures of the wide world.

After we had taken the inspired photos in and around the world we were to pick one and draw as accurately as possible using pencil. I decided to chose one of the photos that I created with material i found at home as it had the best effect in terms of composition and range of tone. I had chosen this photo to draw as it reminded me of cakes and icing decoration but also of the fact that many people in society tend to gloss over unpleasnt things like the fact the drawing is of a photo of bits of rubbish I had found and made a cake theme of it.

Out into the wide world

After we had taken our second set of photos of the still life, we were then to take photos based on our ideas out in the world around us outside. I really liked my ideas concerning the cakes and Wayne Thiebaud so I decided to find a cake shop in order to take pictures of cakes. Therefore I went to Patesserie Valeries on Marylebone high street and they were kind enough to allow me to take some pictures of their cakes. I also used objects from around the house such as a coffe cup cover, a red rubberand and plastic toy grapes to 'create' a cake using a variety of differnt lighting.

re-taking the photographs.

After we had explored and developed ideas from the first set of photos we were to go back and take more pictures of the still life with a more focused look including our new ideas. I tried to focus on areas that looked like clothing, drapery and layers so as to make them support my developed ideas.

Developing ideas

After we took our first set of photos we were asked to look at the pictures and develop themes and ideas inspired by the composition and visual effects of the photos. The pictures i took reminded me of historical costume of the rococo period. Therefore i researched rococo costume and Jacobean portraits - at the same time it lead me to think about 17th century and Edwardian hair styles and wigs which correlated with the photos I had taken (I looked at artist Katherine wardropper whose fashion creations are similar to the Jacobean fashion). These types of costumes seemed to me to look like elaborate cakes like wedding cakes so i researched wedding cakes and looked at the artist Wayne Thiebaud who is famous for his paintings of cakes and confectionary.

After the begining we took photos.

When we had finished creating the hanging still life we were asked to take photos of the still life in varying and interesting angles and light making sure we were taking high quality photos with a good range of tone. While taking these photos we were to be keeping in mind composition, tone, lighting and angles, atching out for any interesting images and positions of the added objects and their impact on the still life.

In the beggining .....

At the begginning of our art project we were asked to create a large still life to hang up using brown parcel paper, charcoal and chalk. First we we asked to chose a section of the paper and start drawing with charcoal using objects, art books and images as inspiration. The next step was to introduce chalk into the drawings to contrast with the charcoal to make the drawings less flat. When we had finished that step we were asked to cut sections out before finally hanging them up in the corner of our art class where we were to add objects brought in from home onto the hanging and draping still life.