Art
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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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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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After creating my clocks piece, I began to see the lines on the faces of the clocks point to each other, forming patterns and shapes. Wanting to explore this, I took some tracing paper and followed the lines to a satisfactory shape that I was happy with aesthetically. Rather than just repeating the same
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Session 3 began with a question on our behaviours: ‘When do I cry?’ For me the answer is not often, although I may want to or be in a situation that makes me sad and tear up, I can’t actually cry unless in very extraordinary circumstances. This is because it is a learned behaviour I
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Rosalind Krauss in her article ‘Allusion and Illusion in Donald Judd’ criticises Judd, who believes in creating works with no allusion or illusion, saying that his work does allude to other things. Allusion can be a property of the thing itself (e.g. I recognise a bottle because I know bottles because of my culture. Do
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Towards the middle of the 20th century Modernism was becoming the dominant movement in the Avant-Garde. One critic in particular believed it to be the destiny of Art to be brought to its ‘purist’ form through the guise of modernism. Clement Greenberg described his idea of ‘purity’ in the arts in his 1961 essay ‘Modernist
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