new task for this week ...

My task this week is to come up with 3 ideas and arguments that i can then portray in my up and coming Power point presentation.  The Power point presentation is in a Pecha Kucha style which simply means there is 20 slides and you only have a sort amount of time to explain on the slides mainly only with images. 

This is my chosen image and the idea from the brainstorming I want to mention is the use of colour and how that can interpret the meaning behind the work by Catherine Yass. 

1. My first argument and idea i would like to put across is the image itself has a lot of questions about it and it is not actually quite clear of what it is trying to tell us maybe this is how  Catherine Yass wanted us to think. Behind most of her work is hidden meanings of the subject she has chosen to display. I believe in this picture that I have chosen the colour show hidden meanings and that every colour has a meaning that goes with it. the idea of the colours seeping through each other and the light box is making this more noticeable and making the colours brighter.

2. The most prominent colours that come through in the picture are green and blue and when exploring into the meanings of colour I realized how they go together well but also how they contrast with each other because blue is one of the most popular colours out of colour wheel and it mainly means that it is calm and relaxing but it also has the feeling on sadness and like the phrase ' feeling blue' this is also like the colour green which is associated with peace and nature because of the grass and countryside we see but green can have a dark side to it and also represents envy. This relates back to the picture of what is an asylum and the idea of depression and peoples feelings.

3. My final argument could be about saying how this picture relates to depression and it could not be an actual asylum and could be in someone's head and they feel like they are going mad or depressed and feel they are locked up and the colours that are used are what they associate with these feelings. The idea of it all being in their head and they are imagining these colours and they are not real cause this wouldn't be the real colour of the asylum or in a way this is what they would want it to look like. 

task 3- ' e-resource'

http://www.colourtherapyhealing.com/colour/blue.php

positive aspects of this colour	negative aspects of this colour
loyal	unfaithful
tactful	untrustworthy
trustworthy	self-righteous
peaceful	cold

BLUE relates to the Throat Chakra. Associated organs to this chakra are the throat, lungs and the endocrine gland is the thyroid gland. The upper digestive tract can be affected by imbalance in this area.

Blue relates to self expression. Speech, communication, the ability to communicate our needs and requirements. Spirit of truth and purpose.

Using Blue in Colour Therapy

BLUE Calming, relaxing and healing. Not as sedating as indigo. Also the colour of communication. Can be used in any rooms except those used for physical activity or play.

This is due to me looking at the colours within the piece of art work i have chosen and their reflection on the image and photograph in reference to depression and mental health. 

task 2- ' newspaper or periodical '

FRIEZE magazine
Issue 68
June -August 2002


Catherine Yass.
http://www.frieze.com/issue/review/catherine_yass/

' Catherine Yass’ recent exhibition ‘Descent’ comprised one film and two light boxes. As the film - also titled Descent (all works 2002) - begins, to the left of the image we see the uncompleted framework of a building, to the centre and right, an illegible white expanse. Visual information enters at the top edge of the frame and disappears at its bottom. As the camera ascends, it reveals to the left a sequence of receding half-constructed spaces. One light twinkles through the opaque whiteness, which gradually disperses; only at the moment of its disappearance does it become apparent that the whiteness is fog. To the right, a grid of green windows makes us realize that the space into which we are looking is a gap between two skyscrapers, which we seem to be travelling perpendicular to. The structure to the left begins to look more complete, now walled with white metal planks. This is strange, for how could this building stand if those floors at its top end were heavier than those we saw earlier at its base? The answer quickly becomes apparent: at the top of the frame a horizon emerges - the street. Only now does it become obvious that the film has been projected backwards. But it’s bewildering, for how could the street be at the top of the frame and how would the workmen walking along it be moving forwards? No, the film is being shown in the same sequence as it was made: during filming the camera was on a platform being lowered by a crane. Yass then rotated every frame by 180 degrees. By the end you feel inverted; as if your head might crash into the ground.' 

Mark Godfrey 

task 1- '' quote from a book''

In my task this week I have to find 3 sorts of research going towards my contextual review. Here is the quote from the book ' Catherine Yass works 1994-2000' it relates to what I think I want to write about in my review.

Catherine Yass talking in a interview named ' Light Pictures' with Parveen Adams

' I worked with positive and negative images taken within a few seconds of each other. The negative image makes bright areas blue, so bright or transparent areas get blocked by the blue.The final picture is produced by overlaying the positive and blue negative images and printing from that. I think of the space between positive and negative images as a gap. I was thinking of this gap when I spoke of the movement in my photographs.'

Mark Chadwick

This guys work is a amazing and so inspirational !

The colours flowing into one another i just wish i could grasp his technique of how he does it 

hopefully you will like it.

Heres his website to find out more ...

http://www.markchadwick.co.uk/

brainstorming ideas for contextual review .....

This is my chosen piece from the 'The New Art gallery Walsall'
My task for this week is to brainstorm my ideas of what I could write the contextual review on.

1. Choosing to talk about the colours and the meanings behind the bright simple colours and how the light box enhances the colours, and if it wasn't on a light box would the colours stand out as much.

2. Choosing the idea of mental health and the idea of the gate and the hidden meanings that could be behind it like the gate to the future or locking you out as the lock is the focus point, the gate could be just inside someone's head and they feel like they are locked away and trying to get out.

3. I could also write about the artist Catherine Yass. After reading up about her and her work I found out about how she creates her work and she found this process of her work by making a mistake I could link this back to my work and most of my work is not planned and comes from mistakes.

4. Also going back to Catherine Yass and the way she overlays images the positive and negative image on top of each other I can relate this back again to myself as I use layering and layers to create my artwork and I know how important it is. 




steel continuous casting by Catherine Yass


coiled metal by Catherine Yass

Walsall Art Gallery Trip ....continued.

Catherine Yass

'Cell'

Lightbox

This is my chosen piece i will be writing my critical review about.It was part of the exhibition 'Behind Closed Doors'. The exhibition was curated and helped by students from a Walsall college and is all about mental health.

'Behind Closed Doors' explores the issues around depression,inner turmoil,intense emotions,highs and lows and features photography,painting,prints and sculpture, presented through the point of view of young people today and how they deal with and experience such issues.

When entering the space where this light box is the first thing you see in a dark sectioned area it really captures your eye and draws you in to look closely because of the bright colours being exposed through light but in contrast in a dark area so it stands out even more. This is how i truly knew there and then that I'd like this piece cause of the  way the colours and light really draw people into the work and make you want to find out more. When i walked in closer to the work and looked very closely at the image i then stood aside to read the writing and noticed the name 'Catherine Yass' I had a very small amount of knowledge of her work but i knew the name and recognised a few of her works. Whilst reading on a student from Walsall college had interpreted it in her own way.

I thought that this would be a good piece to choose as i really liked the colours and the idea of putting it on the light box as i have always in my work wanted to work with light and light boxes, also wanting to find out more about Catherine Yass and her work but also like Rebecca Maybury i wanted to show my interpretation of what i think the work is and when jotting down notes about the piece my mind was going crazy about ideas of what it could be.

I have lots of ideas and thoughts and opinions of what this work represents to me and i will not be telling you them all in this post but i will enlightening you in the upcoming posts. I will leave you with the idea of Rebecca sort of saying that the person is entering the through the gate to the pathways, however what if the person is leaving the other way and looking behind leaving the pathways and moving on and what if it is all in the mind and just a dream as the colours convey a trippy dreamlike quality.

Walsall Art Gallery Trip ....

This section will be about when we went to the Walsall Art Gallery and my chosen piece. Firstly i will be showing you a piece i really liked and then in my next post will be my chosen art work that i will then be writing my critical review about later on.

Sally Ryan

(1917-1968)

Plotted Plant

Oil on canvas

This painting by Sally Ryan really caught my eye when I first saw it as it was just up the stairs in the Garman Ryan collection. It was positioned alongside all other brightly coloured paintings to do with flowers, this one though I instantly walked to to look closer as the colours were bold and when i look at something my eye is instantly drawn to colour. 

Sally Ryan the artist of this painting is one of the two main collectors of the Garmen Ryan exhibition. Even though being one of the collectors she is the less well known between the two but i truly think that she has a great talent in art. 

The painting not only stands out from a distance but when you look close up you can really see the technique. The way she has applied the oil paints onto the canvas very thickly i find is a really good technique and it is something i do myself in my own work.

You can really see the the movement of the paint when you look close up and how the paint looks randomly been put on the canvas overlaying the paint but when standing back it is quite unique how it all comes together to create the flowers.

The reason i didn't  choose this piece is because i feel that i wouldn't have alot to mention about it except for the technique as this is the only thing that relates to my work and if my task is to write a contextual critical review i feel that i wouldn't have alot to say and i would rather choose a piece i could go into more depth about.

the new art gallery Walsall...

yesterday we took a class visit to the new art gallery in Walsall.
we took this trip because we would be following on what we found and saw and writing a contextual review about a certain piece we had really taken to.
 I realised as soon as i entered the entrance i had many years ago ( when i was alot younger) visited the art gallery but the place has defiantly grown in scale alot more and has become more of a contemporary place to be.
The gallery was created to house the Garmen Ryan collection of art works which is really the main attraction to show the Epstein works and Sally Ryan and Kathleen Garman.

The best way to find out more is to actually visit the website and find out about the amazing family history.

http://www.thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk/

In the next couple of days i will be showing you the pieces that i found really inspiring and then give you an insight to what my chosen piece for my contextual review shall be.

excititng stuff .

heres one of my favourites...

this artist is a huge inspiration to me and doing more research about him over the past months has made me love his work alot more and i can really relate to him alot !

GERHARD RICHTER

he uses alot of colour in his work in a very interesting technique he has done so many different kinds of photographs in his lifetime but i am more interested in his colour works. the best way to find more about him is to visit his website. you will be amazed by how much there is and how amazing it is.

he has also got a exhibition coming up at the Tate modern London i will put up dates soon when i know.

hopefully uni will be taking a trip down if not i am there definitely . 

take a look at his work cause im in love ! 

http://www.gerhard-richter.com/art/

heres the link to my tumblr...

i use tumblr to find artists or just for general inspirations not all based on art but sometimes fashion ... you may want to check it out if you wanna know what im really into .

http://glitternightsky.tumblr.com/

heres a snap shot of what it looks like.

my first blog entry ...

just giving you an insight to begin with
what i like and what i do and who inspires me through this ..



this is one of my own pieces of art created through photography and i like to experiment with shutter speed and the zoom. these were 2 canvases from my summer project for uni 'HOLDING ON: LETTING GO' they consisted of painted on disposable pictures of my old houses from how i moved down the road showing stage by stage a bright marbled backgrounds. from this i changed the shutter speed and came out with
a quite eerie looking picture i like the blending of the colours.