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”
Book review: Gilda Williams – How to Write About Contemporary Art
This book has been invaluable in helping organise the 2000-word critical review essay. Continue reading “Book review: Gilda Williams – How to Write About Contemporary Art”
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’”
Video review: Brian Eno’s Oblique Strategy Cards
Review: Jarvis Cocker interviews Brian Eno for BBC 6 Music about the conception of Brian Eno’s Oblique Strategy cards. Continue reading “Video review: Brian Eno’s Oblique Strategy Cards”
Tutorial: Ass 3
Notes from Assignment 3 tutorial. Text in red added by my tutor. My response in blue. Continue reading “Tutorial: Ass 3”
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”
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”
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”
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’”
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”
Alison MacPherson: Investigating Drawing 