Jess; Grayson Perry, Marriage Shrine, 2017
image; https://1843magazine.static-economist.com/sites/default/files/Marriage-Shrine-web-crop.jpg
- “relic” / offerings through religion / ritualistic / shrine
- Smaller items are interesting
- Embroidery based on Victorian tradition – focused on Mum
- Interesting how non-religious viewpoint influences / Elevates family
- Anatomical Venus // Wax figures with cavities // similar to the cavities in the Grayson Perry piece
- Wax figures like the Dali house near Barcelona
- URS FISHER, Untitled, 2011
- JOSEPH BEUYS // JOSEPH CORNELL
- Performance art // Archiving
- The placing of objects // Working with performance
- Wisdom teeth removal // Casting // Quantity
- DIETER ROTH
- Embroidery as a common theme
Toqa; Monet, Charing-Cross Bridge in London, 1902
image: https://www.ecosia.org/images?q=Monet%2C+Charing-Cross+Bridge+in+London%2C%C2%A01902#
- Light and colour/ effects
- Wants to work with light // hair, eyes, sunsets
- See DAVID for colour theory
- Document the sky daily
- Painting and photography – primary ways of working
- Possibly work with video // screen-printing to work with colours
- Colour theory – see impressionists
- Colour as a sense of movement – experiment with prints on fabric
- Environmental installation
- JAMES TURREL
- OLAFUR ELIASSON
- RICHARD BEVAN
- RIGHARD WRIGHT
- Possibly see artist who work with neon tubing DAN FLAVIN // BRUCE NAUMAN
Noah; Monet, San Giorgio Maggiore by twilight, 1908
image: https://museum.wales/media/3899/monet-san-giorgio-maggiore.jpg
- Experience with paintings / beautiful natural visions
- Wide colour schemes / rainbow of colours
- Inks and colours/ experiments
- Experiment with ‘ramping up’Monet experiment with neon
- Experiment with cropped version of painting // scale and the act of painting
- DON’T DISMISS ANY IDEAS
- FRANK STELLA
- MARK ROTHKO – see vandalism and the repair of the pieces on Tate Modern
- Colour experiments
- Mona Lisa and the flasher
- Possibly work with Lights and scenery
Mike; Damien Hurst, Grecian Nudes, 2013
image: http://www.artnews.com/2017/05/08/a-disastrous-damien-hirst-show-in-venice/
- Story of shipwreck in south Africa/ found after many years
- shows how history effects an object
- museums want to renovate old works
- Time and environmental changes / circle of life/ nature
- Death and Changes
- Sculptures and paintings – focus on environments and its impact
- Anti-Colonialism
- Relate to the grandparents within sculpture / focus on scale
- Something owned for many years
- Glass cast objects, Artist??
- Shop mannequin – take the use away from the object
- Outside force changing an object / idealistic
- Effects of war/ dictatorship on grandparents
- Idealised memories
- Insecurities and displacement
- Belonging and belonging to an environment
- Memories being saved only as positive things ect.
- Nostalgia
Theodora; Freud, The painters brother, 1985-6
image: http://www.huma3-archive.com/repository/reviews/painter%20brother_b.jpg
- not just about the style of portrait / about the artist
- photography and changes
- photo a day with a tripod to capture a self portrait
- Material Project in ‘self portrait’
- Potentially a diary/ record
- Not only individual elements are portrait but the whole thing as a portrait
- “mood diary” moods represent different colours on a map
- collections, photograph the objects / collage / weekly collage
- Instagram artist @amaliaulman
- TEHCHING HSIEH, One-year performance, 1980-1
- Dark room editing / instead of Photoshop/ possibly both
Rawan; Fuseli, Tiresias Foretells the future to Odysseus, 1804
image: http://paintingandframe.com/uploadpic/henry_fuseli/big/teiresias_foretells_the_future_to_odysseus_1780_1785.jpg
- concept of portraying literature // the body and its existence
- sculpture / painting
- film maker explores the relationship between mother and child
- classical painting // colour pallet experiments // scale
- still features a lot to do with the body and women within painting
- mythology
- scenes from own life in style of painting
- the body as a mass and its physical extension
- clay / becomes the body – possibly a performance
- the texture of skin on the clay will always be present
- JENNY SAVILLE – skin/ perspective/ viewpoint
Alex; Roni Horn, Pink Tons, 2009
image: http://www.tate.org.uk/art/images/work/T/T14/T14525_9.jpg
- glass box
- Himalayan salt – reminiscent of crystals/ gems
- Goes to Iceland for inspo
- Questionable gender, 4.5 tons/ Masculine Bright Pink/ Feminine
- Make own crystals/ glass casting/ bronze casting / catalogue daily elements/ instead of going to Iceland
- Big box of bags of stuff to recreate
- Artists boks/ make out of acetate to bring in the transparency/ document mon-fri with soil rock / small or big books?
- AI WEIWEI, ton of tea// scale
- Likes the idea of glass outside of functional use
- Square cube of objects at the tate modern
- Key concept lecture, artist who clones rocks
Alexandra Fine Art 