Tuesday, 17 May 2011
The Moniker International Art Fair Exhibition...
Continuing on with my passion and love for street Art and urban Art today, The Moniker International Art Fair showed me how to exhibit art pieces whilst promoting and selling them at the same time. I find that with Street Art exhibitions, that seem to be introducing new european artists that are not really heard about in London, which I find a shame as it almost seems people are missing out on real talent today. Street Art in London differs from the many other styles and methods that artists all around the world have, and by introducing international work to the British not only are they learning about new Art in our World today but they are gaining a wider persepective on how styles vary when compared to eachother. There were some pretty outstanding pieces of street art in the gallery and I felt I could use a lot of the research and pictures are receieved in my illustration and printmaking course projects. Banksy also had work present at the Art Fair exhibition, but unlike most of the other artists there selling their work to members of the public Banksy was not present as his intent is keeping his identity hidden.
Colour and Line Turner's experiments Exhibition- Tate Britian..
Colour and Line exibition currently being held at the Tate Britain, came perfectly in handy for me and my printmaking course. Turner uses different methods and techniques on paper and various other medias for his prints in which he has revolutionised two different kinds of image-making: watercolour and prints. Its a fairly small and selected viewing of Turner's work, with only two display rooms with his work on show, I found this artist very interesting, again he was a new artist that I had to find out about and the viewing at Tate Britain helped me hugely in finding out about another artist but not just any artist a Printmaker too. Im really pleased that I have finally attented an exhibition that focuses on the fine detail prints that Turner takes time to do, even though ive been to a few exhibitions theres usually a mixture of artists work which means limited amounts of the work you as indivduals prefer. Turner has a printmaker is hugely talented and very unique with his style of working whilst being the exhibition i got to learn the scientific ways he used colour to make his backgrounds for his artwork, it was WOW!
Tracey Emin 'Love is what you want' Exhibition Hayward Gallery..
Recently at the Hayward Gallery in Southbank there is a Tracy Emin's exhibition happening. Tracy Emin is one of Britain's most celebrated contemporary artists of all time, her exhibition shows her work and covers work over the period of her career. There were many collections of work by Tracy, paintings, drawings, photography, textiles, video and sculpture. Her work consists of many different emotions she maybe feeling or has experienced over time. She piants in blocks of colour sometimes blocking out all of the detail but somehow her artwork still seems alluring to the focus of the eye. I didnt know what to expect of this exhibition but every bit of research counts in the world of art, however it was quite interesting I find that even if an artist covers an area of art in a style or technique that's not best suited to your style its still beneficial to find out a bit about their work and the story behind it. Tracy Emin was a new experiance for me and I can't see me using any of her techniques in my own work but I did like the show and definately think she is an artist to refer to in future references.
Literal.eyes Exhibition- London Miles
Literal.eyes is a current and recent exhibition being held in Shoreditch of 30 European artists that have recreated the works of literature into visual masterpieces. I absolutely loved this exhibition, not only was theartowkr my type of style and interest but it was good to see more new and young european artists as theres so much talent in this world to see but not enough time. Some of the most popular and well known London based artists and illustrators had their work at this exhibition and it was wonderful. Not only are the pieces contemporary and urban they told a story about the artists and how they got to where they are today with their painting, the skills and techniques in which they learnt and the covers of books in which they first learnt to master the works of great literary masters across all generations. I felt this exhibition has helped me a lot in my development and planning for printmaking, I have also been able to look into street art in more depth and starting to develop my own unique style of urban drawing! U no what they say practice makes perfect!..
Semester B- Bridget Riley- Paintings and related work at the National Gallery..
Whilst shopping and exploring London and being an Artist you can't help but pop into a few galleries and check out what exhibitions are going to be on, the National Gallery holds some of the most attracted exhibitions from tourists all over the world to little primary school children. It has some of the most imspiring and beautifully created master pieces by some of the oldest artists. Bridget Riley is quite a comtempory abastract artist she produces some of the most amazing patterns and optical illusions that you can't help but sit in pure silence hypnotised by the shapes and movements that one piece of artwork can actually show. I have found that going to an exhibition of Bridget has allowed me to find out much more about her as an artist and also given me a wider picture on her style of work, shes quite inspiring for printmaking I found and I have started expreimenting with little drawings and collages so I can produce a made illusional print.
Tate Modern- Street Art Exhibition..
Quite a while a go there was street art madness at the Tate Modern. There was an exhibition being held for all the great street artists around the world. I found out about it from a few occasions in Southbank which is well known for its graffiti street art, skateboarding and Bmxing. The Tate looked really cool with massive pieces of street art from artists all of Europe. There well many foreign artists that I didnt know about yet in the exhibition, this helped me a lot to learn more about the world of street art and new artists with new styles. Some of the artists there were: Blu from Bologna Italy, Faile from New York, JR from Paris, Sixeart from Barcelona.. Again this exhibition had to be one of my most favourite viewings of artwork, the stlye and type of art is most definately what I am interested and inspired by in my own work. Ireally liked the atmosphere that was created within in the street art exhibition and we have the work to thank for that. The vibe was very positive, fun and bubbly and it's certainly reccomended to anyone who likes characters, typography, t shirt design and many other things which is great as it doesn't only revolve around one topic which usually some people tend to think that street art just revolves arounf graffiti when actually the Tate proved otherwise.
The High Society Drugs Exhibition..
The high society drugs exhibition in The Welcome Centre outside Euston station had to be one of the most psychedelic experiances of the year. Not only was the artwork authentic and trippified but u were able to learn about people's experiances on some drugs as well as important and valid facts about some of the most dangerous and most used drugs in the world. There were many different rooms and elements to the drugs exhibition and some of me favourite highlights of the viewing were the rooms with multi-coloured projections and crazy invenntions of dream machines that communicated with the viewer in such a deep and intense way, you almost felt like a different person. There were some beautiful pieces of artwork too that I felt inspired by when I left the exhibition, one section consisted of little pages from the old original Alice and Wonderland book with the Illustrations by John Tenniel. That was also one of my favourite parts as not only is that one of my fave novels but the drawings are so detailed yet delicate. One of the best things about the high society drugs exhibition was how many different vibes and scenes it had going on in what seemed like such a small space, for example there was a section of delicate, light hearted artwork such as the fantasty of Alice in Wonderland, and then would be quite a bold piece of artwork of someone injecting themselves so the viewer was constantly on edge when coming across a new piece of artwork. I think that's what really puts the cherry on the cake when describing what the best Art is today? When an artist can make a drawing seem like more then one drawing, or when the artwork can connect with the viewer mentally and emotionally in some cases. This never makes a piece of artwork boring, no matter what you do you could look at one of your favourite pieces and never feel bored because each time you look at it you find something new and more meaningful, keeping your mind and thoughts in Art fresh and exhilarating. The images I have posted from the exhibition are just very few of my most favoured pieces.
Tate Modern- Gabriel Orozco
Fourth Plinth- Six New Ideas
Fourth Plinth Exhibition was a fairly small and collectecd type of scene based in central London near Trafalgar Square. It was the first time that I had visited and it was quite unusual from other exhibitions and galleries ive been too. There was a small selection of work on show and most of it looked quite random but 'trippy' in the sense that you wanted to read and find out about each piece that was on show as you wondered why they were all grouped together for this particular viewing. The style and approach of the artists work present in the exhibition was very different from the work in the Saatchi, I liked the idea of all the varieties to chose and look at in the Saatchi where as for fourth plinth the work was limited. However I did find some of the pieces interesting for different uses in my work. I didnt feel that any of the work in fourth plinth could benefit me in my own work but it helped as research and broaden my knowledge on new artists. Check out some of the images I posted of the work I thought was effective.
Semester A- Printmaking Exhibitions and Outings...
When taking an artistic course, exhibitions and galllery trips are a must for one thing, research. Research in Art is vital for many different things. Not only for the artist information but in access to support your own work as well as introuce others to new artists work and styles. The most important thing I would say about having a variety of different research is not the inspiration you recieve to develop new ideas but the way that you are promoting a new artists work for them by attracting new members to their styles and appreciating their style of work, time and effort. One of the first exhibitions I attended when first joining my printmaking course was 'British Art Now' at the Saatchi Gallery in Sloane Square, London. The exhibition had many amazing and unique types of work and I particularly liked how modern the Gallerys Style is. The work presented at the time was by contempory artists from all over the world, and it was wonderful to see how many different medias were used of work down to, textiles, digital technology, sculptures and many more. One of the reasons I really liked the Saatchi Gallery was because the work that was in the exhibition at the time was what I would call 'modern and upcoming'. The styles used by the artists was exactly the type of Art I love doing and seeing, It was good seeing something original as after a while it can seem repetive the more galleries you go to. As my first time at the Saatchi Gallery I highly rate it as my personal opinion and if you are interested the modern, urban, street side of Art I definately reccommend checking out the Saatchi. To give you a little taste of my Saatchi experiance, Ive chosen some of my favourite images of artists work that I saw, feel free to look through :)
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