I thought that I would begin to brainstorm and think about what the possible ideas could be for my second assignment.
For assignment one the themes were:
- simplicity
-creativity
-freedom
-expression
-childhood
-innocence
For assignment two we are required to begin to think about ideas that follow on from the series of assignment one. I would like to carry on from assignment one by using lino printing but have another series that tells of a different view point from the first series.
Here are some of my ideas:
-could look at the complexity of art
-could look at the freedom of adults
-could look at adults encouraging children to be creative
-child could see it as them creating a master piece were as it is a simple stick man.
Week Seven Artist Research:
For this week there are no lecture slides available of artists to research so i decided to look up artist similar to my style.
Veronica Lawlor:
About:
Veronica Lawlor is known for her romantically unclined reportage drawings. Her most major are reportage of Italy and a portrait of Pope John Paul II.
She is known for her travels to America and covered such companies including 3M Corporation and the Hyatt Hotel Chain. She is also the only artist to draw, on the spot the 9/11 terror attacks on the World Trade Centres which the drawings are now featured in the Newseum, Washington DC Museum of Journalism.
She is also a published author of such picture books as "September 11, 2001: words and pictures" and "I was dreaming to come to America: Memories of the Ellis Island oral history project.
Lawlor is also apart of an eight member group called studio 1482 with each member of the group working as individuals or in concert with the others. This group looks at communicating in visually new, unique and exciting ways.
http://www.veronicalawlor.com/?paged=3
Influences on my artworks:
Lawlors style is somewhat similar to my own drafting and drawing style. We both use unpredicatable lines to detail the outlines of the subjects and will draw over and over the details to when they are right without removing the 'mistakes'. However my works could benefit from this as Lawlors' work although rough looks like an established and completed art work. This gives the viewer a history of the image with the final works as the images are reworked over each other.
Here are some examples of Lawlors work:
As you can see the lines and reworking the image adds to the 'romance' of the image almost making it over dramatic.
Tutorial tasks for week seven:
Bring in NAVA link to your digital journal:
Cite at least one publication under the research link and place the date viewed:
Children in Art
NAVA's Executive Director, Tamara Winikoff chaired the 'Child Photographer or Child Pornographer?' forum at the 2010 Head On Photo Festival in Sydney. The forum focused upon the ethics, practices and current debates about photographing, exhibiting and publishing images of nude children. The speakers included Maurice O'Riordan (Art Monthly), Gary Lee (artist and anthropologist), Dr Jacqueline Millner (University of Western Sydney), Delwyn Everard (Arts Law Centre of Australia) and Ella Dreyfus (National Art School).
http://www.visualarts.net.au/resources/childrenart
Cited: 01/11/10
I thought this was a good research article because it challenges the ethics of children appearing naked in artworks. Is it really a work of art or is it inappropriate.
Bring in NAVA links and cite at least one link that discusses opportunities for visual artist.
I thought this would be a good link for emerging artists to look at especially young artist leaving school. Here students can apply for grants and receive prize money to fund their works.
http://www.visualarts.net.au/advicecentre/experientiallearning Cited: 01/11/10
Another link to Uni Columbia and publications from Graeme Sullivan 2007.
http://www.tc.columbia.edu/news/article.htm?id=6423 Cited: 01/11/10
This article looks at how the artist is fond of creating street art and one of a kind conceptual pieces.
"It's hard to rationalize it, I suppose," Sullivan says of his penchant for casting his art to the winds, "but I find it quite invigorating. It's the same as what you do when you're teaching-'"because, as a teacher, you're typically giving out all this stuff. You don't know what happens to it. Though occasionally you do. Occasionally someone will come back, years later, and say, -'You know, you really kicked me on."' (Sullivan, 2007)
