Barbara Kruger (The Photograph as Document)

 Kruger is an American conceptual artist and designer, she has worked for a variety of people working on publications, magazines and art directing just to name a few. Kruger’s work is extremely conceptual and political from what I can tell, with the bottom image probably commenting on the cold war between Russia and America, and the threat of nuclear war, which would probably wipe out the planet, so her works definitely have a political concept there, and a lot of her work is based on war or war image’s, with the top two images being of a war plane and a boat exploding with what looks like a medal, the top one could be a comment of how soldiers are given medal of killing people, so the boat represents the death side and the medal, is the commendation for it, then the image with the plane could be showing a juxtaposition between what we are dropping and what should be being dropped, so the bombs are falling, but they should be aid to help people that are suffering, so there turning into bags of stuff. These are just speculation of what the works about because this is just a quick post but I like the work and find it interesting so I’ll definitely keep it in mind for possible ideas for future work.

(Images and information Source)

http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/barbara-kruger-1443

http://www.barbarakruger.com/biography.shtml

Peter Callesen (The Photograph as Document)

 These are just a couple of examples of the amazing paper craft sculptures this guy makes out of just a sheet of A4 paper. He manages to get a crazy amount of detail into these things and make them look all most life like, especially with the snail and the hand both looking like they could be real. I find this work really interesting, one because they look really good and two because the thought that these are made out of one piece of paper is also really cool.

(Image Source)
http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/6VRK39/:9ni7gRZM:ns@a-gyS/www.picamemag.com/a4-pepercuts/

Idris Khan (The Photograph as Document)

 This is the work of Idris Khan, who works with reappropriated works from other people, the example I’m using is of Berndt and Hilla Becher who create typologies of old water towers, Kahn took these and layered them to create one image that changes the original work and create it into something different, and a completely new piece of work, he also done this with several other works and is he main way of working, I kind of like this style it’s interesting the idea of making someone else’s work into your own by changing it, it also creates some interesting concepts, which is something I’m going to have to research more for a current project.

Caravaggio (Independent Research)

This is a fascinating documentary about Caravaggio, which when I first watched it introduced me to so many ideas about art and particularly classical styles of painting, with covering the live of the artist and what drove him to create the work he was producing, but it also covers some of the contextual and symbolical methods used in the paintings. It’s well worth a watch if you have any interest in painters like this because it explains all these things really well, and without doing it in a way which is so academic that it gets confusing.  

Annette Messager (Visual Studies)

 This is another installation artist that was introduced to use in our visual studies session, as usual I’m putting her work in because it interests me, and in the case I feel it has some relevance to me work and ideas I have about how to best display it.

I’ve put up several examples of her work, but I’ll just talk about a couple of them, I particularly picked some of these because of how she’s hung them from the sealing, it’s something that I like and that interests me as a way of exhibiting, one of the works which is what looks like stuffed toy type things is to do with mad cow disease, so I imagine the ones that are suspended are to represent the cows that were kills the either lifted or scooped up to be dumped and burned in pits, and then the ones on the floor are the dead ones. Then as well as that there all contorted and burned so you can still make out parts which look like there from a cow but you not really sure. It’s an interesting work, and I like how you would be able to move though the space and move around the objects, meaning you can get closer to them making slightly more personal.

Like I said it’s this idea of suspending something that has grabbed my attention combined with being able to move through it, and these are the things I’m considering for my personal work at the moment for when it comes to thinking of displaying it, hanging them in the middle of a room, there’s going to seven of them so I’m thinking hang them to create a circle that you walk into, and have the audio I’m planning on using in the back ground, so that you’re in the middle of the work and surrounded by it.

(image and information source)
http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2009/mar/05/annette-messager-hayward-retrospective#/?picture=344185267&index=9

A Good Resource (Visual Studies)

I thought considering the videos I've been making recently I’d put up a quick post about where I get the audio from, the website I use offers free to use and allow you to use it on anything you want as long as it’s part of some other work and isn't just the music, as for example putting it as a backing track is fine, the site also has a link to a form that’s already signed so if you do need to send it off to someone like YouTube you can prove that it’s from a free to use and is in compliance with the wishes of the copyright holder.

And along with all of that the website has a really good range of music types, with everything from jazz to rock, to electronic, with the ability to refine your search down to different moods and tempos, making find music to use fairly easy if you already have an idea of the kind of music you want.

http://audionautix.com/index.php

Bill Viola (Visual Studies)

 These are some stills from an artist called bill Viola, who has creates some amazing installation works this particular one is called ascension and grabbed my eye after being shown it in a visual studies session, I think the reason they got my attention so much is just because of how dramatic the images look, the motion in them with the water being displaced, creating amazing shapes and pockets from where the person has hit, creating the shield like effect of air around them, and how you have the deep blues around the subject then it quickly fades to pitch black creating this void look to the rest of the images, or even a space feel to them, but as well as that they feel a little bit religious to me with the isolation of the floating figure, and the name itself, so I’ll be putting a more detailed look at Viola into my personal work because of thinking of doing an installation type thing with my personal work, and I feel I can rework some good ideas from him.

http://www.billviola.com/

Rene Magritt (Contextual Studies)

 This is some work of Rene Magritte, who is a very influential surrealist and conceptual artist whose work I have been looking at for an essay I’m righting, I chose his work because I found it the most interesting out of all the people I had to choose from, because some of the concepts and ideas he uses, as well as that I’ve all way’s been a fan of surreal art so it seemed like a good idea to go with something I already enjoy, as well as that the little I did know about his life interested me so looking into it more was interesting again, as well as that I felt that with his work being divers it would aid me when it comes to analysing it using the theoretical concepts that were introduced in the first semester.

http://www.interiors.intendo.net/magritte.html

Progression of video work (Visual Studies)

Sadly due to some bad file handling and trying to use things from mac to windows and visor verse most of my original footage and edits have corrupted and I could use them, which is why I shot a new video for Holly’s final session for installation because the clips I wanted to use didn't work and I felt that shooting again was the best way to do it than to try and recreate something close to the original clips, as well as that the sound quality wasn't as good on the first footage but second time round I managed to improve it a bit, I also changed the typography that I used after showing the video in Ryan’s video workshop, because it didn't work very well, but I didn't keep any records of the original so sadly evidencing this is hard to do. Again the same things happened with my work for Eva, my original edit wouldn't load in Premier because of originally editing it on a mac then trying to open it on windows I lost it all and couldn't make it so it could find the clips, so I had to re edit it all, which in the end didn't matter to much because with an idea from what I did first time made It so I had a better idea of what I was doing the second time and it made it better, bud again I can’t evidence this because my videos kept going crazy because of crossing over operating systems.