Contextual Studies
Carlos Acosta- explains his background in Cuba and what ballet school meant to him. He explains the poverty in Cuba. It is hard to imagine that someone from this background would rise to become the world's leading male ballet dancer, when ballet is normally regarded as elitist and only for the well educated and well to do.
David Bowie- died peacefully on the week of 11th January 2016. The influential singer-songwriter and producer excelled at glam rock, art rock, soul, hard rock, dance pop, punk and electronica during his eclectic 40-plus-year career. He just released his 25th album, Blackstar, Bowie's artistic breakthrough came in the 1972's The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars, an album that fostered the notion of rock star as space alien. Fusing British mod with Japanese kabuki styles and rock with theatre, Bowie created the flamboyant, androgynous alter ego Ziggy Stardust.
L.S Lowry- Lowry's paintings are silently polulated with anonymous figures whose sole purpose seems to be the embodiment of the life's existential mechanics. Lowry's characters are as much representative of human emotions as they are of the city's industrial surroundings: they perambulate the streets going about their daily routine while remaining un-involved with each other and the objects that surround them. And yet, the mere presence of these figures suggests a powerfully
emotional sense of purpose and hope for individual lives and collective existence.
Annie Leibovitz- Photographer to the stars Annie Leibovitz has been recruited to photograph some huge celebs for Disney World's Year of a Million Dreams campaign. So far she's turned Scarlett Johansson into Cinderella (with the help of a Harry Winston's $325,000 tiara), Beyonce into Alice in Wonderland, and David Beckham into a prince (2007). Popular culture transformed into aesthetic pieces.
Georges-Pierre Seurat - A Sunday on La Grande Jatte (1884)
This park scene may hold hidden sex workers. The titular locale was a favourite of prostitutes on the prowl, so some historians suspect that fish are not what the fishing-pole-toting waman on the left was hoping to hook. The same speculation has arisen around the lady on the right, with a monkey on a leash and a man on her arm. It's one of the most reproduced and parodied paintings in the world. It's been parodied by Sesame Street, The Simpsons and the American version of The Office.
Grayson Perry on the visual environment people build around themselves- ''When i got older, I wanted to decode their choices. Why did my Nan's front room, with its brass ornaments and pot plants, look like it did? Why do middle-class people love organic food and recycling? Why does the owner of a castle and 6,000 acres wear a threadbare tweed jacket? People seem to be curating their possessions to communicate consciously, or more often unconsciously, where they want to fit into society. The British care about taste because it is inextricably woven into where they want to fit into our system of social class.''
David Shrigley
Uncomplicated art is how David Shrigley works. He does not want his work to be layered with the concept which is high brow and traditionally closely related to Art. Ironically he was nominated for the prestigious art award The Turner Prize.
Megan Chilcott
Grayson Perry on the visual environment people build around themselves- ''When i got older, I wanted to decode their choices. Why did my Nan's front room, with its brass ornaments and pot plants, look like it did? Why do middle-class people love organic food and recycling? Why does the owner of a castle and 6,000 acres wear a threadbare tweed jacket? People seem to be curating their possessions to communicate consciously, or more often unconsciously, where they want to fit into society. The British care about taste because it is inextricably woven into where they want to fit into our system of social class.''
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