Installing and promoting work
Fauvism (1905-1910)
Derain- Chateau Yvelines (1880) Colour is the subject matter. He doesn't represent the colours that are actually there, eg, trees are red, the sky is yellow. This was the beginning or expression and it was revolutionary. Traditionally blue is shadow, it's used for cold and cool area, yellow is traditionally used for highlights. The paintings colour proportion is around 60% warm colours and 40% cool colours.
Maurice de Vlaminck- The Orchard (1905)
Very expressive, the paint is packed on top of each other, he places colour all over the place making optical illusions.
Henri Matisse- The Red Studio (1911)
Matisse decided he would use depth at all and wanted to just show what was in the studio. He scratched in the objects and subtly changed the red throughout the red studio which is difficult to see with the naked eye but gives the painting depth it wouldn't otherwise have.
Chris Ofili
Uses colour beautifully, he uses classic opposite complimentary colours (red and green). Red is being used as space and it indicated the air between the green leaves which creates calmness. Ofili is British with an African heritage and is know to use elephant dung in his work.
In a separate image elephant dung is uses as objects in his work, he uses it also to build texture. He uses very thin layers of paint as well as collage, he would often use collage faces and he'd brush the thin paint over the top. He uses a cut and paste technique and is somewhat influenced by pop culture. He wanted to bring two things together that wouldn't naturally go together. He won the Turner Prize in 1998 for a paining called No Woman No Cry about Stephen Lawrence's mother, Stephen Lawrence was a black teenager who was murdered at a bus stop by white teenagers but the police did not take it seriously because of his race. The painting shows a mothers pain in a horrendous situation. Ofili wanted to respond to the horribleness in the world. "There's no such thing as a bad idea, only poor execution"- Chris Ofili
Jessica Stockholder
Stockholder creates work that look like paintings but are actually installations in big spaces. This means that people can walk around her art in an open space. Abstract shape is used in the form of plastic, sheets and random object such as bins.
'Colour Jam' is a piece of art Stockholder created where the outside world is her canvas, buildings and pavements. It took around 8 months for the work to finally be completed. She used very saturated colour (where the colour is the most pure and intense as possible).
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Today we learnt about...
•Colour Proportion
•Saturated Colour (Chromatic Colour- how you understand colour, black to white)
•Opposite Complimentary Colour
Megan Chilcott
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