Art critism

Art critism is making critical judgements about a specfic work of art. Art critics professional give out their verdict in different way these may be:

A newspaper reporter or journalist which is written for the genral public, includes reviews of art exhibitions in art gallerys and museums, who is assigned to the art beat,

A scholar writing for professional journals or texts, which are written for a more specialized art audience and appears in art journals.

Or an artist writing about other artists. 

For me doing art and design when we are criticing other peers work and giving constructive criticism we do this by peer assesment and also books. Art critism started in the 18th century the first person to name it art critism was jonathan richardson he decided to create a system on judging art work and that would be by severn categorys including drawing, composition, and colouring. These are then given a score between 0-18 which where put together to give a final score. We was then told to pick a critic to follow on social media i have choosen matthew collings. 

workshops

my first workshop was ceramics its part of our "the world I live in project" our task was to start of with a figurine and then to make it like us by either positioning the figure or adding items to or around it that mean or represent something to us. for mine I decided to have mine sat down with a straight posture because I've always been told the I sit with my back straight. I also had one arm holding up because im quite girly and if I say something sometimes I do that action I also carved a smiley face because I am quite a positive and bubbly person, and I love a good laugh. I was hoping to add some mini nail polishes and lipstick but I didn't get time to. I also added a dress because I love my fashion and really love wearing flowery dresses. here's my final piece.

For my second workshop as my specialism is fine art, this week we did lino printing, we had to link it, like ceramics to "the world we live in project" I choose to do my family and friends in Julian Opie style which I have done for part of my artist research. I choose to do me my mum and my two friends Megan and Charlie who are in my primary research. here are examples of Julian Opie and how I put my family and friends into it.

once I had drawn it out I then traced over the picture ready to trace on to the lino.

 

 

I then traced it out onto the lino ready to cut out with the lino cutters.
once I did that I got my lino and drew over the picture again but this time with the lino underneath so the picture transfers onto the lino.

The world i live in

For our first project of year two over the summer holidays we where given the project "the world i live in" which was to create a full art book of primary research including observational drawings, photographs and items stuck in. And also to visit gallerys around yorkshire and to find some artists that link to the project for example tracy emin who did the photo of all the stuff collected on her bed over a year period. Here is my mind map on idea i came up with.

Some of these included my mum, friends, historical places and parks i have visited around yorkshire, important items and important events. 

I have used a verity of media including pencil, acrylic, watercolour, coloured pencils on black and white paper. Also biro on tissue paper, paper techniques to paint over for example weaving. Feathers, straws, buttons, scrap book paper, sewing and knitting examples. Leaf printing, collage, tea baging the paper and stipling and dry brushing for backgrounds. Ive done portraits, landscapes, observational drawings and drawings from photos. Also line drawings and cross hatching, continuous line drawing and blind drawing. Also i visited the yorkshire made me exhibition at the cooper gallery which was a verity of famous people born and bred from yorkshire, which i took photos of and put in my book with the leaflets and information guide. I have also started to move onto the world around me so i have done a collage of new papers. Here are a few of my favorite pages. 

Overall i think my book has turned out well because it shows all the important things in my life and had a verirty of media and techniques in it to make it appealing to the eye. If i was to do it again i would work on my time keeping because i have had to catch up with it inbetween the rest of the project because i didnt get it done over the holidays. 

From doing primary research we then moves onto secondry artists research  we got to pick artist that link to our art books. Firstly because i am intrested in scenery photography and did a veritry of them in my art book i decided to find some scenery artists and do critical artists. I took out a book from the libary and found three artists that work i found intresting i choose Alan gussow, Ted christensen and Nell blaine. Here is my finished peice.

I did all three in acrylic and was very happy how they came out. 

If i was to do it again i would make the critical studys bigger and put the annotation on the back. 

 

For my second sheet i decided to do portrait because it linked to the family and friends portraits i did in my sketch book. I choose Julian opie, Karen kilimnik, and Mary cassat. Here is my finished peice. 

I did two in acrylic and the middle one is brown paper drawn over the top with coloured pencil. I love the julian opie style because its minimal but has everything  it need to give us an idea of the persons personality. I am also thinking of using his style for my final peice. If i was to do it again i would put the annotations on the back so i can make the painting bigger.

For my final artist sheet i choose a photography artist, one reason because i am intrested in photography and thought it would be interesting to find places around barnsley that represent these photos. The photographers i choose are Henry cartier-bresson and Andreas gursky. Here is my final peice. 

I enjoyed doing the photography artist research because it was intresting to do a critical study a different way than just drawing or painting it. Furthermore i think they come out really good and look alike. If i was to do it again i would find another photographer and put the annotation on the back. 

After doing artist research we started doing our mood boards i decided to do three collages to represent three different apspects of the world i live in.

The first one i choose to do was things around me. For example nature and scenery and water, other countrys, food and drink, furniture and interior design, clothing, makeup, jewlery, attractions, celbrities, music, film and technology.

 This was my final mood board 

My second mood board is the world around me so i split the board in half and did half about barnsley which i took from broches about whats going of in barnsley, and then half about the world in genral taken from news papers.

This was my final peice. 

My final mood board was of my intrests in books, tv programs, films and music when collaging them i used magazines, leaflets out of dvd cases, dvd cases, lyric books inside cds,  tv guides and photocopied pages from my books. 

This was my finished peice. 

Afterwards i started my design sheet, i already had an idea on what my final peice was going to be it was based on what I had done in the lino printing workshop, where I did 4 small cut-outs of my mum and three friends which I then cut down to three people to be on my series of canvas's so i just swapped the designs and coulours to see what would work best here was my final development design sheet

I think it worked well because the gouache looked great so even though on my samples I'm going to try my other two favourite media, gouache is my favourite for a Julian Opie inspired piece. I was quite happy with my design already but there where just a few changes I wanted to make so I changed them around the edges. and I think they looked much better. I knew by then that I was going to make it a series of paintings

after my design development it was time to do my samples I decided that I wanted to try out watercolour and acrylic as well so I did nine 15x12 paper samples 3 of each person in gouache and then the same in acrylic and watercolour. even though I tried them out the gouache was still the best because it was the right colours and it gave a smooth and opaque texture which is like what Julian Opie does. the water colour was too transparent with it being diluted which gave it a rustic look and the acrylic was not the right colours and really streaky. these where my samples.

after I had choose my media and my designs where ready I was able to start my final designs I stretched my canvas with a little help because it was the first time I had done one, my canvas's where about double the size of my samples, I then coated them with two layers or emulation and after they where dry I drew out my pictures using a guide from my samples. I think they came out great because the black out lines taken from Julian Opie made it look neater. the colours came out block and solid and the scaling was just right. I really liked my piece but its not usually my type of thing because I like shading and neutral colour but it was nice to trey something different. here where my final pieces.

knitwear exhibition at civic

this week we went to the knitwear: Chanel to east wood exhibition
  at the civic which displayed a variety of knitwear from the different decades of the 20th century and how style, colour themes and pattern changed over the years. it included famous designers like coco Chanel, Vivienne west wood and Julien McDonald. I really enjoyed looking around the exhibition because I loved the layout how the walls where all painted black and the windows blacked out to make it dark. and the spot light on each of the boxes which then had there own layout and objects to create a story linked to that decade it was like watching a cat walk but instead of them moving around it was us. I especially liked the war one because looking at the fashion it reminded you of the house wife's with the scarfs around there heads and kitted jumpers and skirts. I also like that one because I liked how the information was put on some cortigated which represents the bomb shelter it was also at a different level to the rest of the displays and level is important because it makes it more interesting for the viewer.

after looking around the exhibition we was given a one day project to make a 30cm by 30cm woven, cardboard or peg loom, crochet or knitted square which when everyone had done theirs was going to be made into a kimono and go up in the civic. we could use any long material as long as it was black. I decided to peg loom because I had done it before and enjoyed it. once I had set it up from hope I had brought in from home some vhs tape I then moved on to wool and then fluffy wool. But by the time was up my square was not big enough. so to problem solve we put mine and my peers together and it was exactly 30cm by 30cm. her is mine and my peers peg loomed squares.

Colour mixing

When entering the textiles classroom for health and safety, with me having long hair i tied it up so its out of the way. We then put our aprons and gloves on so the pure colour pigments didnt get onto our skin or clothing. After been shown all the colours we had to get our binder and with your scoops get 25ml and put it into a plastic cup. We where then given our colour and i got a mustardy colour so i went streight for the yellow 2G and with a lollystick got a fingure tips worth and then had to mix it till it was a bold colour i then  knew to make it a mustardy colour i needed a tiny bit of green so with another lollystick i added the colour green B. once i had mixed it, it was a little too green so i just kept adding yellow until it was the colour i wanted and when i put it next to the colour chart it was spot on. Once i had done i threw it away and recycled my apron.

Cooper gallery exhibition

Over the holidays I went to the Yorkshire made me exhibition at the cooper gallery in Barnsley town centre. The exhibition is black and white photographs of famous people who where born and bred in Yorkshire. Including actress dame Judi Dench, downtown abbeys Jim carter, sir Michael Parkinson and also includes singers, writers, politicians and Olympic gold medallist. The two photographers behind it all are Jennifer Robertson and Lynne fletcher. Jennifer who is from Sheffield met Lynne whilst promoting Manchester united and first started off at Barnsley chronicle which is minuets away from cooper gallery. Here are a few photos when I visited.