Robin Leverton

Artist and Technologist

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  • 100 Cups of Tea, 2014

    I made this film last year as part of my A2 in Art and Design. I previously uploaded it to youtube but it got taken down for being too long, however now it is up and available for watching. This piece was very important for me, as much of my work today, including all the

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  • Business Cards!

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  • To What Extent is the Monochrome the Logical Conclusion to Modernist Painting?

    The Monochrome in the tradition of modernist easel painting is defined as being a colour field painting consisting of a single colour or tone (Corris, 2009). Monochromes have had an influential effect on analytical and formalist paintings, with their appearance occurring mainly in the late 1910’s with suprematism, and the early 1950’s with formalism. It

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  • To What Degree and How Does the Meaning or Experience of a Work of Art Depend on Context?

    This essay will answer the title question by analysing 3 forms of context that affect a work of art: The author/spectator relationship, the artwork’s historical relationships and its institutional setting. It will question how each of these aspects affect Enrico Castellani’s “Superficie biangolare cromata” (2011) (displayed at Dominique Lévy London in the “Local History” exhibition

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  • Theory Seminar: The Shape of Behaviour 3

    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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  • Theory Lecture 1: Formalism

    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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