Tuesday, 22 April 2014
INFORMATION on Michael Landy
Michael Landy Saints Alive book The National Gallery resource
He was born in Hackney and went to Goldsmiths University which is where I plan to go to in September and he is one of my favourite sculptors.
Landy paints, detailed drawings, designs sculptures that can be installations or interactive/ kinetic sculptures. My specialism is Design and my big interests are sculptures and the theme on body form.
I prefer and appreciate more are the old masters paintings that the National Gallery present and I was really happy to see Landy twist and creations he designed and then got made on the subject of religion.
He is a contemporary artist so it is strange that the gallery asked him of all people to create art to be exhibited there.
His practises are from traditional themes such as his detailed drawings, well observed from looking at the paintings throughout the gallery.
Michael studied the paints and characters that cropped up e.g. Mary and Jesus but started to respond by
using cut ups of the saints and objects that were in the paintings to creating surrealist collage - a modern apporiate to then become large 3 D interactive, kinetic sculptures.
The exhibition he did was called Saints Alive where I visited it, he had designed sculptures that showed presenting religious figures (saints) and made their story and the saint come alive by making them able to move.
He was born in Hackney and went to Goldsmiths University which is where I plan to go to in September and he is one of my favourite sculptors.
He is a contemporary artist so it is strange that the gallery asked him of all people to create art to be exhibited there.
His practises are from traditional themes such as his detailed drawings, well observed from looking at the paintings throughout the gallery.
Michael studied the paints and characters that cropped up e.g. Mary and Jesus but started to respond by
using cut ups of the saints and objects that were in the paintings to creating surrealist collage - a modern apporiate to then become large 3 D interactive, kinetic sculptures.
The exhibition he did was called Saints Alive where I visited it, he had designed sculptures that showed presenting religious figures (saints) and made their story and the saint come alive by making them able to move.
Tuesday, 1 April 2014
Reflection on the Courtauld Gallery
I visited the Courtauld Gallery at Somerset House in London where I met with a lady art history researcher who worked their. For the day she planned to give us advice on researching through books and information towards our new project.
She showed us round the gallery and then let us wonder about and pick our favourite painting that we wanted to research and then present to our class.
I chose the painting Adam and Eve to research about because I liked the depiction of what the artist thought they would look like. The painting shows an important moment for Christian beliefs and religion.
I took a photo of the painting and the information panel that was right next to it.
While I walked through each room I noticed that the curator had put paintings together depending on if they were from the same time period.
The lady showed us where to look in the book for important information, we looked in books and the internet to find out more about the chosen painting.
One key point I noticed from researching about the painting, I saw that Venus looked the same as Eve and the paintings were done by the same artist.
The are many ways to depict the tree of life and the snake, the apple is a symbol of death, poison and involved with stories, films, books and religion.
I gathered research from different sources in the book and then presented my findings to the class.
I would save I benefitted from her intuitive feedback and pointers in how to research properly.
She showed us round the gallery and then let us wonder about and pick our favourite painting that we wanted to research and then present to our class.
I chose the painting Adam and Eve to research about because I liked the depiction of what the artist thought they would look like. The painting shows an important moment for Christian beliefs and religion.
I took a photo of the painting and the information panel that was right next to it.
While I walked through each room I noticed that the curator had put paintings together depending on if they were from the same time period.
The lady showed us where to look in the book for important information, we looked in books and the internet to find out more about the chosen painting.
One key point I noticed from researching about the painting, I saw that Venus looked the same as Eve and the paintings were done by the same artist.
The are many ways to depict the tree of life and the snake, the apple is a symbol of death, poison and involved with stories, films, books and religion.
I gathered research from different sources in the book and then presented my findings to the class.
I would save I benefitted from her intuitive feedback and pointers in how to research properly.
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