50 word description of Zoetrope + Video

Zoetrope: A reciprocal action and persistence of vision.

For our Zoetrope strip, we got into partners to create 2 sets of 6 images that depict a short story, so we could when complete, create movement. Once the first 6 images were created on the first 6 squares, they were re-drawn accurately on the other 6 squares with the exception that the order was mirrored. We then tested a few to see if they worked.

Jonathon Borofsky

Jonathon Borofsky was born in Boston, Massachusetts.

He received his Bachelor of Fine arts at Carnegie Mellon University in 1964, after which he continued his studies at France’s Ecole de Fontainebleau and received his Master of Fine Arts from Yale University in 1966. He lived in Manhattan until a teaching position at the California Institute of the Arts brought him to Los Angeles in 1977. He resided in Venice and Tuna Canyon, Los Angeles from 1977 to 1992, in the 1960’s, Borofsky’s art sought to interconnect minimalism and pop art.

On May 21^st, 2006, Borofsky received an honorary doctorate in Fine Arts from Carnegie Mellon, his alma mater.

 

Jonathan Borofsky's most famous works, at least among the general public, are his Hammering Man sculptures. "Hammering Men" have been installed in various cities around the world. The largest Hammering Man is in Seoul, Korea and the second largest is in Frankfurt, Germany. Other Hammering Men are in Basel, Switzerland, Dallas, Denver, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, New York, Seattle, Washington, D.C. and Lillestrom, Norway.

Commissioned by developer Harlan Lee, Borofsky’s 30-foot-tall sculpture Ballerina Clown was erected above the entrance to a drug store in a mixed use, residential and commercial building in Venice, California in 1989.

Christian Boltanski

Christian Boltanski was born in paris, France in 1944.

Boltanski was a French sculptor, photographer, painter and film maker.

Boltanski in 1986, began creating mixed media/ material instillations with light as an essential concept. Using tin boxes, altar-like construction of framed and manipulated photographs of Jewish school children taken in Vienna in 1931 and was then used as a grim reminder of the mass murder of Jews by the Nazis. Boltanski’s work featured in an exhibition at Basel, Museum Gegenwartskunst, 1989. His enormous instillation titled ‘No man’s land’ (2010) at the Park Avenue Armory in New York, is a great example of how his constructions and installations trace the lives of the lost and forgotten.

 

Boltanski has participated in over 150 art exhibitions throughout the world. He has also had solo exhibitions at the New Museum (1988), the Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Magasin 3 in Stockholm, the La Maison Rouge gallery, Institut Mathildenhohe, the Kewenig Galerie, The muse d’art et d’histoire du judaisme and many more.

 

In 2002, Boltanski made the installation "Totentanz II", a Shadow Installation with copper figures, for the underground Centre for International Light Art in Unna, Germany.

 

His awards won include;

 

• 20.07 billionéateurs sans frontières award for visual arts by Cultures France^[6]
• 2007  Praemium Imperiale Award by the Japan Art Association^[6]
• 2001 Goslarer Kaiserring, Goslar, Germany^[6]
• 2001 Kunstpreis, given by Nord/LB, Braunschweig, Germany

 

 

 

 

 

Experimental Portrait Evaluation

I decided to produce portraits of my peer because I found that drawing myself would be the easy way and also I found my peer to have interesting features. I decided to look at Andy Warhol's work for inspiration due to his fame in portrait work and also interesting use of colour. 

From this project, I have learnt better ways to use acrylic to re create accuracy in my portraits and also the importance of shadow and how one difference can change the entire face. 

I feel that my mood boards with the coloured pencil studies of Natalia turned out the best and I am also proud of how they turned out because I am not at all familiar with using this media, especially solely using skin tones. I found relying on coloured pencils difficult because of my inexperience with them but in the end I am happy that I took the risk and am satisfied with the outcome. 

I feel that my final piece should have incorporated the different mark making techniques such as graphite on white emulsion and mono printing. Also, that she should have been facing more toward the front but at the time I had wanted to make her positioning different so ended up giving her an almost profile shot. I did like the outcome of the centre piece but ideas ran out when it came to the background and I daren't take risks due to my fear of it in some way disturbing the portrait that I had taken time on and was also painted (so much can go wrong e.g. Water running and smudging the paint/ damaging the paper). 

I feel that I have slightly improved my experimental portrait skills but still have lots of improvements to make, I need to have more confidence in trying new things and taking more risks, to stop playing it safe with acrylics and simple backgrounds. But I still do feel that I have improved in the area of creating at least semi realistic looking portraits of people that I know. 

I feel that I could have improved my time management throughout the project because I spent too much time on one piece of work, starting and restarting it again in different medias because one of them felt comfortable or right and that made me lose a lot of time that could have been spent on other sheets of work. 

I will never believe that I have produced the best mood boards or final piece possible because I always feel that there is room for improvement in my own work, I have always lacked confidence in this specific area. 

My overall thoughts on this project was that I enjoyed attempting to replicate other atrists' techniques but found it difficult to create an accurate replica of their pieces due to the fact that drawing one line in the wrong place or wrong thickness can change the look of the whole picture and allow the end result to hold little resemblance. 

Jennifer Workshop (Cardboard City)

For our first lesson, we went down to the 5th floor to create images of already existing scenery, whilst videoing it using time-lapse. Once we had enough footage, we were able to add our own little scenarios to the scenery, whilst also documenting the changes to the backdrop as it appeared.

When finished, we travelled back up into the class room to create silhouettes by laying down on huge sheets of paper, whilst somebody else draws around you. We then selected two figures, one from either side of the room to draw onto a sheet of A4 paper. Then after chosing one of the two, we recreated the shapes out of wire, afterwards using thinner, coloured wire to make a brain, heart and set of lungs for them. 

We then got up and walked around the room together as somebody filmed the top half of our bodies using time lapse and somebody else filmed only our legs. Later, we set the camera up once again on time lapse, and each took a turn to walk past it while doing a silly walk and stand in a line out of shot with the rest of our class mates.

The next session, we created comic strips for the Zoetrope for an hour. We got into partners to create 2 sets of 6 images that depict a short story, so we could when complete, create movement. Once the first 6 images were created on the first 6 squares, they were re-drawn accurately on the other 6 squares with the exception that the order was mirrored. We then tested a few to see if they worked.

 In another session, we created forts made of cardboard as a warm up to get us familiar with constructing with boxes. We then demolished them to use them to create a large pyramid which we had to work together and communicate as a class to construct to its strongest and largest scale without it falling apart.

Once complete, we then demolished the pyramid and reused the boxes to create a large theatre (Theater d'ombre) in order to watch a light show made using the wire figures that we made during our first week. The figures were moved and shaken as we documented this by using slow motion, time lapse or taking a series of pictures that create the look of the images moving.
Once finished taking pictures and everyone had the chance to see/ participate in the light show, we allowed a few students to tear it apart from the inside whilst the rest of us filmed from different angles, using different methods (slow motion or otherwise).

 This week, we travelled down to the Matisse exhibition in Barnsley for a short time, to take pictures of buildings in the area as well as to gather information on the artist and his pieces. Once we were content that we had enough information and we were confident that we could create something using the pictures gathered as information, we returned to the class room to begin on cardboard box art pieces inspired by Matisse and Samantha Groom. Here are some photographs taken from the day and also some pictures of the boxes as they begin to take the shape of what I had imagined, as they are not yet complete;

 

 

For our final lesson, we were asked to create shapes out of cardboard whether it be scenery made up or otherwise, buildings, nature etc. Any shape that would allow light to come thorough and shine through the coloured acetate to create coloured shapes to shine through the gaps/ shapes we cut out to create images much like Boltansky. Many people chose to create images of the church outside or existing buldings, whereas we decided to create a silhouette of a city full of tall buildings with many windows like the scenery you would see in large cities like New York at night.

Harley Quinn Artist Research Sheet Refs

Animals Project Evaluation

I found working in Peter Clark's collage styled media to be difficult at first, to create an image that was accurate to that of the one used for my reference using only torn up pieces of newspaper/magazines. I did, however, begin to enjoy it and find it a useful change of styles once I felt that I had enough experience and began to find it easier to produce accurate pieces of work.

My Peter Clark artist research sheet did not turn out as good as I would have wanted it to be, mainly down to the placement of my pieces, leaving too many blank gaps in my work. I could have filled the gaps with annotations which seemes like a better idea now that I am able to reflect on my tutor's feedback.

The 3 animals that I decided to explore were; ring tailed lemurs, snow tiger and panthers. I felt that the tiger and panther reflected on my laziness as well as my tendency to calculate my actions prior to me performing them.


In the end, I decided on the ring tailed lemur as they don't seem to take anything too seriously, enjoy being active with friends, bursts of high energy, etc. I further explored this animal through creating my A2 oil pastel piece feautring 3 different studies of the animal from different angles.

For my final piece, I decided to create a 2D/3D face of the ring tailed lemur. I avoided creating a 3D full body model of the lemur due to my fear of the outcome deviating too much from my original plan and also because of my inexperience in the area of 3D modelling. The lemur's body shape also seemed a little too complex for me to create and perhaps fail to create in the small amount of time left to complete it. I was, however, more confident in creating an accurate depiction of the animal in the form of its face only, whilst experimenting with a less complex for of 3D modelling.


I feel as though I have improved my model making skills somewhat, given the fact that prior to this assignment, I had no experience what so ever in creating 3D models of any kind. I now have more initial ideas on how to go about creating a model of certain animals with at least some level of accuracy. I have learnt the basics through experiences in this course.

I feel as though I could have managed my time better toward the end of the project, since I was ahead of my work at the start of the project, I was too confident that the work would not have gotten ahead of me, which it did because I decided to work on work from another teacher that had a deadline close to the beginning of my current project instead of focusing on my current work.

My overall thoughts on the project are that I enjoyed the experimentation side of it especially with creating the 3D models, and that I would like to have another chance to imporve on those model making skills.