Monday 30 November 2015

Collective Artists

Today in 2D we explored Artists who had made or displayed their work in the form of a collection.

Rachel Whitread
-Works with negative space
-Plans in 2D and turns it into 3D eg Whitereads House Project that won the Turner Prize in 1993.
-"What is inside becomes outside."
-Rachel Whitereads collection of boxes.
-Organised space of negative and positive.
-Made by casting the negative space (inside) of a personally sentimental cardboard box.
-Whiteread uses warm and vivid colours to make the work more personal and humble.
-Collection of objects organised into groups.
-In a vitrine (behind glass)
-She organised similar shaped and sized objects together.
-Whiteread's collection of organised and present objects.

Mister Finch
-Textile artist
-Fake birds placed on a dirty floor (consideration of the background he wanted) which gives the feel of unwantedness.
-The texture Mister Finch has created a distressed and aged feel which compliments the unwantedness he's trying to convey.

Max Ernst
L'évadé (escape), 1926
-Experiments with lots of materials to explore texture and Natural History.
-Nature History- communicating with nature.
-Imagination played a great role in Ernst's work.
-'The Nature Feeling' the feeling of being both outside and inside, both free and imprisoned.
-Used the technique of rubbing- Frotage.

Hannah Hoch
-Collage collectives about politics.
-Post war artist passionate about women's role post war.
-Hoch uses converging, wandering lines, this makes the eye flow around the collage and catch in important area which shows her view on politics.

Leonardo Da Vinci
-15th Century.
-Made thousands of drawing which are inventions.
-Collections of 2D drawing illustrating 3D inventions.
-Da Vinci uses graduated tone which builds the idea of a 3D object.

Marcel Duchamp
-Suitcase with the ability to be opened and explored.
-Documenting his life in miniature objects.
-Duchamp uses a very warming, classic shape to his display box, this gives the feeling of love and life.

Andy Warhol 
-Collection of bought glass eyes.
-He displayed them in a velvet box in his home for private viewing.



Megan Chilcott


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