robinleverton
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Acrylic on Paper. I decided to make this painting having seen all the pins on my noticeboard. The spread was rather interesting, so I took a photograph and then plotted all the points onto a different piece of paper and began to join up the dots rather randomly. Then, starting with the base colour of yellow,
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The Uk Black Arts movement grew out of the Post-Colonial state which was concerned with the impact and implications of colonialism on the current state (A Post ‘-ism’ being the transformed presence of the ‘-ism’). The mid 20th century saw global independence movements from British rule to self-governance including the Indian and Kenyan Independence movements along
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The tutorial began by talking about my tape and the great weight that it seems to betray and that it was reminiscent of Antoni Gaudi’s cathedral in Barcelona and the way in which to find the stress points on the arches, Gaudi hung string and attached weights to them, creating the shape for the supporting
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Conceptualism grew from the misprisms (the creative misreading of a former art form) of Minimalist art. The concepts behind the minimalist works such as those by Carl Andre or Dan Flavin were opened up as the work rather than looking solely at the object itself, this was the dematerialisation of the art object. An irony
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Maurice Merleau-Ponty expressed that outside things are ‘encrusted in the joints of my body’. Robert Morris expressed a similar sentiment in his essay ‘Notes on sculpture pt.2’ where he talked of how we experience sculptures though our movements around them, e.g. the way we compare ourselves to the monumental, step back, get up close and
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I asked my tutor for a short tutorial about my work and my painting, asking his opinions on the pieces I had made and of my plans. Of the painting he explained that the background as it is is too distracting in the image (echoing my own thoughts), that its casual nature detracts from it
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Tuttle’s work on display in the Whitechapel gallery appears to have the underlying theme of appearing functional and yet having no actual use e.g. in ‘Systems, VI’ the construction appears to be some form of table or other and yet is held together by wires rather than being able to do so on its own.
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Overnight, it all fell apart. Literally but not figuratively, I expected the tape to fall down as the tension was very high and parts had failed to remain attached to the canvas whilst I was putting the tape on. This break up of the painting is awesome and I love the way the tape
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