Cindy Sherman

I really enjoy looked at Cindy Shermans work, I find her work very intense.
She has inspired me to look at the human identy and how if we slightly change a feature on ourselfs we look totally different. Thats backs up my idea of me changeing my hair to create a different look.  I really Like her set of phots of a young girl, each time she makes a minute change to her face and the girl looked completely different.

Monoprint with painting

I then desided to make my prints look my pop art, i would add add paint. I used some pastic bright colours in blocks to make the work stand out more. i would like to use one of of the pieces

and maybe make into a pattern.

I started by just adding block colour to the hair.

Then i thought hair and face, to make the hair stand out.

Then i coloured the backround, but im not sure if i like it so much.
Maybe it was the choice of colours

Some more of the monoprints...

Spainish hairstyle.. When i was little i would have my hair like this to look my spainish.

Journey project for printmarking

My idea has come from the journey i take with my looks. I am baseing my idea on the way on the way i change my hair so frecquently. I recreate the way i look thought my hair i change my hair to what fits with fashion. I feel i hide behind my hair thats why i change it so much as i never quite feel happy with it.
I find it interesting how the identy of a person changes so much from such small changes. I thought of the idea of pop art and the way Andy Warhol captures icons and to me my hair is my icon. So for my monoprint work i explored basic lines and ideas. I didnt want to add detail to my face as i feel i hide behind it so i dont look no further.

This is what i produced..

Contextual studies Assessment task 3: Major Essay

Kayleigh Esteller
ND2
Word count : 988
Question 1.
Choose one work by each two different modern artists. Describe each work and explain how and why they are modern. Discuss the content of the images and how they are made..
　
Thought-out this essay I am going to Look at two pieces of modern artists work. Describe the work and explain how they are modern. The two artist that I am going to discuss is Louise Lawler and Imants Tillers.

I see modern art as a work from a period of time between the 1860’s to the 1970’s. work is normally associated with art in which the traditions of the past has been overturned. Morden work experiments with new ideas and looking behind the bigger picture, it has a tendency towards abstraction, which is considers and of modern art. Artists of the 20^th century is more often called contemporary art or post modern art.

Louise Lawler is a conceptual photographer, who’s work has been seen as very witty and explores the consequences of what might be called the private life of art.

She looks at how the objects should be placed to give us more of a reality of the work. She frames the work, which may have infect or no infect but it transforms the art work and its content.

I think she also take away some of the seriousness of the art work. Showing it how the eye would see it and further more extending beyond the visual bedrail. Her work is seen as modern because she is being more abstract and not contemporary. She use’s work which is from the early 1900’s . she looks at its importance and she either recreate it.. Like she did with “fountain” by Marcel Duchamp. She recreated in and used pure gold, I think she did this to make people realise the pure value of Duchamp’s work. She is mostly know for her photography, it which she explores what is behind the piece of work and the bigger picture. She works with pieces of insulation art and looks at how they are placed.

The piece of work I concentrated on was an insulation piece called “All those eyes” which is a photograph of the large piece statue of Michael Jackson and his pet monkey bubble by Jeff Koons from1988.

Lawler has taken a photo of this precious piece of work which happens to be gold, in what looks like storage it is partly cover my two other pieces of work. The photo is in black and white and I think it was a gelatin silver print. To me this piece of work shows a more humorist side of the art work, that its meant to be this beautiful shocking piece and she has shown it in a pretty dull way as it is worthless..
　　
　
　
Imants Tillers “one world many visions” is the first major survey of Tillers paintings. He is a contemporary artist that works on large scaled piece of work. His work is in response to issues of identity, place, displacement and chance encounters. Tillers work engages with aboriginal art, he reflects a movement in Australia towards reconciliation and mutual understanding.
In some ways Tillers has been identified as a typical postmodern artist in his use of appropriation and quotation.
In his work he uses grids a lot, as if the picture is made up of tiles. To me it brakes the picture up, especially because in on large scale. It makes it more easy to focus of each part of his work. His work is very powerful and deep but is also very dark. It express the darkness of a life for an aborigine person.
In his work he also use a range of quotes and letters. On one piece’s of his work it say’s in the middle “ there is no horizon” , which I feel mean that there is no light of day, that the sun will never rise for these people and no light shine open then. Tillers use very dingy colours on his work, a lot of browns and greys. Very earthly colours.
The piece of work that I looked at specifically is “Bonegilla” from 1999. It is 54 canvas boards big. It is half brown and half white, with what looks like a stencilled of tree. Further more in the back round is faces of children, but he has made if look as if the faces of the children was the breeze, it is a very effect piece. Along with printed writing at the bottom stating “ We have decided not to die” Which is a very powerful thing to say, as if the children had a choice in this matter. Also again down the middle of this piece of work it says “ horizon”.
I think Tillers work is modern but he use’s abstraction, however also for the way he has over turned old ways of expressing the aboriginal life, as his work speaks out for the people in a almighty way. He is able to express himself but not just by painting a picture but thought type to.

In conclusion both piece of work that I have disgust are modern piece, and the artist them self s work in very modernistic ways. They both work in different ways, Tiller works on very large scale piece of work that use paint and type , where Lawler recreates a different meaning to art works by displaying them differently and in different lights. Both artist have been influenced on what is happing around the world, and close to them. Lawler with more the celebrity world and the world of Andy Warhol. Where Tillers work is more to do with the aboriginal people and the suffering they had been thought. They both have stepped away from the more traditional approach of more contemporary art and into modern. Each artist has stated clear facts, one in a more comical and less serious approach showing the less formidable approach. Then on the other hand Tillers did the opposite his work was very specific and to the point show much more importance and deathly power to his work.

 

Louise Lawler                                                

"All those eyes"             
1989
                                 

                                                           

Imants Tillers
"Bonegilla"
1999



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http://www.shermangalleries.com.au/artists_exhib/artists/tillers/gallery.htmlhttp://nga.gov.au/Exhibition/TILLERS/Default.cfmhttp://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ViewWork?workid=85521&tabview=texthttp://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0268/is_8_38/ai_61907744/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0268/is_8_38/ai_61907744/http://www.frieze.com/issue/review/louise_lawler/

Assessment Task 2: Conceptualising your own work, part 2

It was meant to represent to me that over the mountain it beautiful and sunny and here its dark and grey. Just the saying “ the grass is greener on the other side”.
Just like Tillers work where he expressed himself about nature and visions of people, mine was the same that people see on the other side that things are better.

I think the communication is very important when looking at art and how the work make the audience feel and think, a piece of work that is powerful like that is much more successful, therefore personally myself I think that Tillers work does this, it makes you look at the world around us and how it effects us. That is purely why he influenced my work as an artist. However to me his work is also beautiful, with the colours he use, tones and textures also, to create a direct and meaningful piece of art.

Assessment Task 2: Conceptualising your own work, part 1

Assessment Task 2: Conceptualising your own work Kayleigh Esteller
ND2
Malcolm Mosley
Word count: 543

My theme for my work has been based on grids. As in visual studies we have been looking at them and how we can produce working around this simple form.
At the beginning of my work I filled a small green book that had grid paper, I came up with as many patterns, pictures and designs that I could think of working each time around a grid.
I found this very interesting to work with as I believe that all piece’s of work has made some kind of grid, composition or placement to them. That every detail has been placed there on purpose to create a precise piece of art.
I then began to look at pictures with in a grid, almost like it was a collage cut up into bits or placed there on purpose. Then with a picture placed on top that may or may not connect to the picture.
I very much liked the idea of nature and the ugliness of it which make it beautiful, the colours and details with make up the picture on the grid is also important. I also liked the blend of type with it all, the place of powerful words or letters.
The artist I looked at was Imants Tillers, an Australian visual artists, that has been
It was meant to represent to me that over the mountain it beautiful and sunny and here its dark and grey. Just the saying “ the grass is greener on the other side”.
Just like Tillers work where he expressed himself about nature and visions of people, mine was the same that people see on the other side that things are better.
I think the communication is very important when looking at art and how the work make the audience feel and think, a piece of work that is powerful like that is much more successful, therefore personally myself I think that Tillers work does this, it makes you look at the world around us and how it effects us. That is purely why he influenced my work as an artist. However to me his work is also beautiful, with the colours he use, tones and textures also, to create a direct and meaningful piece of art. identified as a quintessential post modern artist. His work to me is full of depth and meaning, you have to look behind the main image and read what he has wrote. Tillers work is very detailed and in large scale, which he mostly painted. As an artist myself I don’t normally use paint but for this piece of work I was really excited to. His work is based on nature and the visions we see in the world of nature “One world many visions”. His work really inspired me to create a piece of work which I have never done before. I worked on large scale also. I started of drawing a grid out, from the on I filled each square with a different media. The bottom half I only used black materials and the top half yellows and oranges. I then set about printing letters on in paint in, at the top of my work, followed by a ink drawn drawing of tree’s plus a mountain over the top.