Recently our cohort had the opportunity to visit the Noosa Regional Gallery and observe some art created by David Paulson. Born in 1944 within Leeds, England, David received his formal art training in Sydney and Tasmania. David is most well know as a master draughtsman with a reputation as a teacher of life drawing. He works predominantly with oil painting.
We received a guided tour of all David's work and discussed some properties and meanings behind some artworks.
This was a great exercise as it helped us develop a professional understanding of the things to look for when interpreting an artwork for meaning. The tour guide had a great artistic knowledge of David's artworks and it was great to hear her deliver the content.
David Paulson self portrait. Very controversial painting with many different interpretations coming from individuals of the cohort. Quite a subjective piece of art.
Our cohort was asked to pick one piece of art and to analyse it in depth. I chose the painting below as it grabbed my attention through the nature of the water theme.
My interpretation was that this was an ocean with a wave crashing and a side on view of the water above and the coral beneath. Very harsh but clear lines and varying colour for the ocean beneath. Then above the water level very smooth, flowing lines giving the impression of a wave rolling or the current of the water. I thought this was a great and technical painting and very well created by David.
Here are some other examples of paintings I believed to be very well created and engaging to my interests.
We were recently exposed to aluminium wire and how great it is to use to create 3D art. I have seen this done very well as good friends of mine have made great sculptures utilising aluminium wire.
I wasn't very skillful in creating good looking shapes/things with this wire however I thought it would be a great idea to make a slinky with it. So I began to wrap a length of wire around a hard cardboard roll keeping the wire nice and tight and close. It ended up working quite well as you can see by the photo below.
After a while of just playing around with this new found toy I then realised how cool it looked whilst looking down through the slinky. This is as shown below.
I then began to take photos using my Iphone and they turned out really good. This then became one of my ideas/concepts for my first assessment task.
Commencement of the Visual Learning and Innovation Semester three elective was an exciting but daunting time as I am not a very artistic and skillful artist. Throughout the early stages of the course we were shown many different art forms and attempted many varying artistic skills.
Some of the artistic skills are as follows;
Bottles created utilising black chalk and pastels.
Attempts at other black chalk drawings.
Other forms of artwork we experimented with that Collective pieces. These forms of art are designed around multiple sections of the arts piece being created by different artists and being collected then merged together to create one single art piece. This I found quite interesting and could be a great art exercise within the classroom. Some examples are as follows;
Simple three piece folded drawing to create some sort of creature.
Whole class collective piece, where pastels were used to imitate the original tiny cutout.
Original picture with number zones for allocated drawing.
Finished product after all class members had individually used pastels to create their own grid. Final product turned out quite well and looked great.
Two forms of Art throughout the research of the class I really engaged with and thoroughly enjoyed looking at was Op Art (Optical Art) and 3D Street Art.
Op Art (Optical Art)
Optical art is a method of painting concerning the interaction between illusion and picture plane, between understanding and seeing. Op art was first recognised in 1964 with the first well know Op artist Julian Stanczak.
Movement in Squares, by Bridget Riley, 1961.
Are the rings moving?
Rotating Rings, by Gianni Sarcone.
3D Street Art
3D pavement art, or one-perspective art, otherwise known as anamorphic art, a 500 year old technique which appears proper only when viewed from a specific angle. First properly recognised in the 1980's when Kurt Wenner first began practicing this art method.
3D street painting made by planet streetpainting during the 4th Sarasota Chalkfestival in Floride US. The 3D street art piece is inspired by the Terracotta Army of Qin Shi Huang, the first Emperor of China. Created by Leon Keer, Peter Westerink, Ruben Poncia and Remko van Schaik.
