Understanding Visual Culture with the Open College of the Arts
The last module of level 1 of a Fine Art degree.
Feedback took place in the form of a written report. I took my tutor’s advice and revisited the assignment, trimming the history a little and using another example of Nam June Paik to extend the point about participation versus voyeurism. I also trimmed out the section about box-office sales. It was suggested that I look …
Continue reading “Reflections on Part Five, and on the course as a whole.”
Feed back took place as a written report. These are strange times for everyone, and I freely admit that my studies have taken a back seat for a few weeks. I work in the health-care profession and recently I have not had the brain-space to think about my studies; but the dust is settling a …
Charleston Farmhouse, home of the infamous Bloomsbury Set, opened its new exhibition space in September 2018. Presently it is showing work by Shani Rhys James, who was born in Australia in 1953 and came to the UK when she was 10 years old. The exhibition blurb tells us that “in her portraits, interiors and still-lifes, …
Paik was born in Seoul but lived and worked in Japan (where he studied musicology), Germany (more music, philosophy and art history) and the U.S. Whilst in Germany he met and worked with several avant-garde composers including Karlheinz Stockhausen, who had been working with early audio synthesizers. Paik met George Maciunas in 1961, and joined …
Continue reading “Nam June Paik at Tate Modern February 2020”
I admit to becoming a little frustrated with UVC. I am enjoying the research elements, and discovering new paths of thought, and hopefully am learning to harness what I discover in structured writing. I am missing practical work: I was led to believe before I began this course that it had been re-written to include …
The Sculptor David Nash graduated from Kingston College of Art in 1967. He subsequently moved to the Ffestiniog Valley (where his family had lived for generations), purchasing two cottages: one for living and one for creating in. He divided his time between North Wales and London, eventually fully relocating to a large old Methodist chapel …
Continue reading “David Nash at the Towner Gallery, Eastbourne 27 December 2019”
I feel it is sufficient to have written reports at the moment: these seem to suit both me and my tutor. Overall comments from Michele are that she can see I have put good effort into part 2 , with a developing and more secure voice. Going forwards it is noted that it wold be …
I admit to having problems with understanding the notion of the simulacrum. It has caused much head-scratching, and I have struggled with trying to understand the relevance with all this. I found Baudrillard’s “Simulacra and Simulation” but found it impossible to understand. It was peppered with phrases like “whereas representation attempts to absorb simulation by …
This is the transcript from a short film published at art21.org. McCollum is speaking in 2010. My interest in the way we construct emblems is something I’ve been thinking a lot about more lately because it seems to cover my very earliest work to my very present work and when I started, for instance; my …
Continue reading “Allan McCollum: talking about his Surrogate Paintings and Plaster Surogates.”
I am always seeing similarities between pieces of art. Sometimes they make sense, sometimes they probably don’t but I thought it would make sense to record them, as they pop up in my head! Anish Kapoor and Amedeo Modigliani The first is Anish Kapoor’s monumental piece Dismemberment which made me think of Modigliani’s limestone “Head” …
Understanding Visual Culture with the Open College of the Arts