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Relevant artists and how they inspire and relate to this project.
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William Kentridge
William Kentridge makes animated films, some of them he used book pages to draw on for individual frames of his films. they are shownn in grid-like displays below. He touches on the idea of small separate works of art being combined to make an overall piece. he is an artist interested in book pages, much like my childhood large scale drawing. his use of frames around animation frames or drawings emphasises the unique piece of work. in my response to his artwork, shown in 'physical sketchbook', I used black paint and a fork to paint, echoing techniques I used earlier in 'media experimentation '. His works on books were to erase the boundaries between drawing and collage with underlying artistic and political preoccupations.
Lucy Raven (click here to see her gallery page)
On the 17th December 2016. I went to the Serpentine gallery to see a show of projection and installation by Lucy Raven called 'Edge of Tomorrow'. Being in the cinema rooms inspired me greatly as it enabled me to see moving projected images and installations. the flashing images and projectors made me realise for the first time that art does not solely rely on still painted or drawn images but can be shown through things such as technology.
the Arizonan Artist looked at using old tapes to flash through many images in order for the repeating images to form a pattern in the subconscious. I like this concept of repetition building up a form of pattern spotting.
Ekaterina Panikanova
Rome-based russian artist Ekaterina Panikanova uses open faced books aligned near one another in a series called 'Eratta Corrige'- She uses old books and antiquated texts to draw over. Like a puzzle, her drawings are applied to pages across books. A journalist said on the press release for Panikanova's works "since childhood, everyone holds a storage of images, traumas and experiences that they carry for all of their lives." This directly translates into Panikanova's drawings shown here.
Some objects like the cake, rabbit and bike are small, often overlooked items that children remember. I like her fixation on strange and overlooked memories. I'm also extremely fond of her visual decision to use open old books in a grid-like pattern which resembles Kentridge's book pages. The old books enhance the feel of vintage memories.
On the 17th June 2017. I went to the National Portrait gallery to see a show to commemorate the death of Howard Hodgkin called 'Absent Friends'. The art in general I found garish and difficult to emphasise with, however there were areas and concepts that were fascinating and I definitely wish to expand on them. THis exhibition is in some aspects to commemorate the death of Hodgkin on the 4th march 2017, aged 84/ His paintings were painted from memory of his childhood.
Hodgkin's works are nostalgic- halfway between figuration and abstraction.
I found Hodgkin's use of warm tones of colour contrasting the cold tones (see 'colour theory') striking, bold and colourful- especially his contrast in 'when did we go to Morocco' of green and blue against the red. However at times the coarse and direct primary colours seemed distasteful such as in the painting 'big and sombre and unexpectedly free-flowing'.
What I did find in his works such as in 'portrait of the artist' was Hodgkin's courage to go outside the lines. he made his frames and then exceeded them by painting on them. It is his bravery of going outside of boundaries and his nostalgic workings form childhood imagination that left me speechless from Hodgkin's work.
Howard Hodgkin (click here to see his gallery page)
Summary
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I like Lucy raven's use of looking at projection and flashing patterns that imprint on the subconscious.
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I like Ekaterina Panikanova's childhood memory focus, and her use of vintage open books to represent this.
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Howard Hodgkin's nostaligia bordering on abstraction interested me and I also liked his going over frames.