To be away from home and yet to feel at home anywhere; to see the world, to be at the very centre of the world, and yet to be unseen of the world, such are some of the minor pleasures of those independent, intense and impartial spirits, who do not lend themselves easily to linguistic definitions.
The crowd is his domain
He is looking for that indefinable something we may be allowed to call 'modernity'
Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the-eternal and the immovable.
The draperies of Rubens or Veronese will not teach you how to paint any fabric produced by our mills
Woe betide the man who goes to antiquity for the study of anything other than ideal art, logic and general method!
He (our modern artist) began by looking at life, and only later did he contrive to learn how to express life
Tuesday 29 April 2008
Sunday 27 April 2008
What's a blog?
This is a blog: http://mcfunfun.blogspot.com/
No, this is a blog: http://hickoree.blogspot.com
This is a blog, but it shouldn't be anything: http://inkonmyear.blogspot.com/
Last one: http://criztu.blogspot.com/2008/04/tallest-vs-smallest-men.html
No, this is a blog: http://hickoree.blogspot.com
This is a blog, but it shouldn't be anything: http://inkonmyear.blogspot.com/
Last one: http://criztu.blogspot.com/2008/04/tallest-vs-smallest-men.html
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These are a couple of early attempts at creating an Impressionist inspired art piece. As you can see, they aren't very good. I looked at the signs of Impressionism, the style, rather than the meaning behind the style. For the top image, I used a few photoshop tricks to try and achieve a soft focus and saturated colours. It worked in the sense that the focus is soft and the colours are saturated, but it's not pleasant to look at. The second image uses the motion of the water to create the broken brush style of the Impressionist. It looks quite pretty, but that's not what I was after.
So after these attempts, I spoke with Kevin, my course tutor, and decided to look further into the reason behind the rise of the Impressionists. Why did that style develop then and not at any other period in time? Are these ideas/inventions/ways of seeing still relevant today? If so, how and why?
The results of my research can be found here: http://unitfour-elgan.blogspot.com/
Thursday 24 April 2008
photoquotes
This link: http://www.photoquotes.com/ takes you to a site managed by Hákon Ágústsson and features lots of info about lots of photographers.
Sunday 13 April 2008
Projects_remaining> studio practice
I've to recreate four images, two still life, two portraits, in the studio...
One: big fish eat little fish (after Brueghel, Pieter the Elder)
Two: This is not a fish (C'est ne pas un poisson) (after Magritte, Rene)
Three: Gulliver arrives at Lilliput and is bound and harrassed by the little people... (after Swift, Jonathan)
Four: Odysseus' encounter with the Cyclops where he and his men blind the Cyclops with the heated end of a stake (after the Greek myth)
One: big fish eat little fish (after Brueghel, Pieter the Elder)
Two: This is not a fish (C'est ne pas un poisson) (after Magritte, Rene)
Three: Gulliver arrives at Lilliput and is bound and harrassed by the little people... (after Swift, Jonathan)
Four: Odysseus' encounter with the Cyclops where he and his men blind the Cyclops with the heated end of a stake (after the Greek myth)
Rubbish project
I've decided to photograph some of the rubbish which turns up in our backyard here in Reddish on a regular basis. Here is what I found on the 12th of April 2008.
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