Coursework, Part 4: Environmental interventions, Project 3: Installation

Part 4, Project 3: Installation

Aim: An installation drawing positions the viewer in a completely different way to the way the viewer looks at work on a wall within a frame. Continue reading “Part 4, Project 3: Installation”

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Coursework, Part 4: Environmental interventions, Project 2: Interacting with the environment

Part 4, Project 2: Interacting with the Environment

Aim: Drawing in a favourite or inspiring place can be very rewarding, but a great deal of translation goes on – in terms of scale, for example, as well as the information from other senses than the visual which is harder to convey. Continue reading “Part 4, Project 2: Interacting with the Environment”

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Coursework, Part 4: Environmental interventions, Project 1: Found images

Part 4, Project 1: Found images

Aim: The aim of this exercise is to open up your mind to new possibilities in terms of understanding what line can be. Continue reading “Part 4, Project 1: Found images”

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Coursework, Parallel Project, Part 3: Physicality & gesture, Research Points

Research: John Virtue and Mandy Payne

My tutor asked me how my parallel project may change from being focused on industrial buildings by looking at John Virtue and Mandy Payne. Continue reading “Research: John Virtue and Mandy Payne”

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Coursework, Part 4: Environmental interventions, Research Points

Review: Bansky’s ‘If you don’t mask – you don’t get’

According to the BBC News website (14/07/2020), a new artwork purportedly to be by Banksy, was removed from a London Underground train. Continue reading “Review: Bansky’s ‘If you don’t mask – you don’t get’”

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Assignment 3, Coursework, Part 3: Physicality & gesture

Assignment 3

Aim: Select a piece of music (preferably classical or at least rhythmically complex) and allow your movements to be affected or generated by it whilst producing a drawing. Continue reading “Assignment 3”

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Coursework, Part 3: Physicality & gesture, Research Points

Research Point: Erased De Kooning

In 1953, Robert Rauschenberg asked Willem De Kooning for one of his drawings. Amazingly, he agreed. Rauschenberg then proceeded to rub out De Kooning’s drawing and exhibit the resulting near blank sheet. Continue reading “Research Point: Erased De Kooning”

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Coursework, Part 3: Physicality & gesture, Project 4: An emotional response

Part 3, Project 4: An emotional response

Aim: this project is in some ways the antithesis of the previous one. Last time, you used an object to draw ‘for’ you; this time you’ll allow your own emotional responses to direct your physical mark-making. Continue reading “Part 3, Project 4: An emotional response”

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Coursework, Part 3: Physicality & gesture, Project 3: drawing machines

Part 3, Project 3: Drawing ‘machines’

Aim: push the concept of marks as a tracery of movement to its logical conclusion by making marks incidental to your own movement. Continue reading “Part 3, Project 3: Drawing ‘machines’”

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Coursework, Part 3: Physicality & gesture, Research Points

Research Point: Abstract Expressionists

The Abstract Expressionists’ use of gesture was caught up with notions of authenticity and even of purity of intent. Continue reading “Research Point: Abstract Expressionists”