ArtMode

had a life drawing lesson today, very interesting and cant wait to try again, draw, draw, draw. 

In college we are looking at links between art movements and how they have influenced artists today i decided to look at Fauvism and cubism to start it off. It was produced by a group of artists from 1905 to 1910, it uses strong contrasting colours and heavy brushwork. When critic Louis Vauxcelles saw the work of Henri Matisse and Andre Derain he said there work was like les fauves (‘the wild beasts’) which coined the name fauvism. Fauvism:   Cristopher Kane Matisse inspired dress - La Danza Cristopher Kane dress inspired by Matisse's Blue Nude. Sonia Delaunay  designs always contained a juxtaposition of geometric shapes and squares from Cubism, and colours and distortions from Fauvism. Her designs were popular within the French film industry, with actresses including Nancy Cunard and Gloria Swanson I love that these combine two of the movements i am looking into.   Lulu's.com  outfit is inspired by Fau...

On wednesday we went to the wilton museum to look at an exhibition, it was very interesting to see the different types of artists. i found it quite hard to wrap my head around some of the art. I felt frustrated that i was not as open to the work i was looking at as i would have liked to be. The only one i connected with was Siobhan O'Hehir's Yellow song. She told us about some of her work and how there was a loneliness to them, but not necessarily in a bad way but that landscapes were very therapeutic for her. When she said this i thought about what landscapes are like for me, i get an over whelming sense of freedom, but also a sense of feeling small, like i am just a speck of dust in the galaxy. That is the only way i can explain how that exhibition made me feel. very very small but with a sense of freedom. looking at other artists work with my classmates and tutors made me feel very lost, which is strange because obviously i have been to other exhibitions before. I think what...

Another movement we looked into was cubism, Cubism was created by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque in Paris between 1907 and 1914. By breaking objects and figures down the artists showed different viewpoints at the same time within the same space, suggesting their three dimensional form, Highlighting the two dimensional flatness of a canvas, instead of creating the illusion of depth.  I wanted to create a cubism face painting. i realised t o do this i needed to flatten my face and make it appear to have multiple view points.This was harder than i first thought as i just threw myself into it, then realising i needed to take a step back and figure out how i was going to make something three dimensional look like it is two dimensional, but once i planned it out i found it pretty fun and i am happy with the end result. 

we have been looking at different movements in college over the last few months. I have really been enjoying learning different ways to create art and learning to draw again has been a lot of fun, as i can see myself improving. but i sat down today to make something in fauvism style and looked over to see my body paints and i realised i have not been using them. and i asked myself why, why have i not been using these to create pieces inspired by the art movements i have been looking at? so i did.

We have been learning about Fauvism And the artists involved. It was produced by a group of artists from 1905 to 1910, it uses strong contrasting colours and heavy brushwork. When critic Louis Vauxcelles saw the work of Henri Matisse and Andre Derain he said there work was like les fauves (‘the wild beasts’) which coined the name fauvism. We looked at some of the work and expressed our feelings towards the work, I really liked the vibrancy of the work and the way colours were used to express emotion and feeling but it did not excite me as much as matisse's cutouts, which we looked at next. These amazing peices of work were in keeping with the bright contrasting colours but were cut out from paper free hand. We were then told to make our own in any theme we wanted. I wanted to do a sun and stars theme with fire and I wanted to add a female cut out to keep a Matisse feel to it.  This was a lot harder to accomplish than I first thought, I felt it was a lot like a collage but...

trying to wrap my head around  perspective.