Ceramics

The Tricorn Centre. 

We looked at the Tricorn Centre ,it was voted the 3rd most ugliest building in Britain in the 1980s. The Tricorn Centre was a shopping, nightclub and car complex in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England. It was designed in the Brutalist style by Owen Luder Partnership. We looked at using tiles too work in the style of Esther Coombs. Esther Coombs is a professional illustrator living and working in rural Hampshire. She is best known for drawing buildings, sometimes on ceramics. She works from grand cityscapes to intimate studies of individual rural structures. She also draws domestic objects, even draws natural subjects such as animals, plants and people. (She's also drawn the Queen) http://www.esthercoombs.com/about

We decided to look at the Tricorn Centre as it almost fit in with the same techniques in which she creates. We had used a sharpie on a tile to produce a piece of work like hers. We were given various images of the Tricorn at different angles and to show off the elements in which the centre had. I had chosen three images of the Tricorn and tried to choose the right composition to produce a collaged piece and incorporating the Tricorn in different styles.

If I were to reproduce the tile with the same technique but with a different style and different land mark I'd like to compose a much larger scale imagery to focus on. I would choose Wymering Church or Portchester Castle to focus on as it is key landmarks around the area in which I live.

I would choose these buildings as I believe they highlight the different characters within the area I'm located. In addition, I would like to do this as I am able to include and relate to the area in which my focused target audience is.

When working with the sharpie pen I had encountered problems such as that if I had made a mistake I had a limited amount of time to wipe away the pen before it became permanently fixed onto the tile. I also had a problem that if I had tried to add a deeper colour it would then make weird white marks as the pen would almost scrape off the pen when drawing on the tile. Furthermore, it is best to work out a specific laid out detailed structure/template of the work as you need to free style the work as it is best to make sure that there is no dirt, dust or any fingerprints which may effect the style or outcome of your work.

Surrealism

1. Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s, and is best known for its visual artworks and writings. The aim was to "resolve the previously contradictory conditions of dream and reality."
2. salvador dali alvador Dali was born in Figueras, Spain, 11th May 1904.  http://www.salvadordali.com
   The work of Salvador Dali is mainly recognised by the clocks. 'The persistence of memory', I particularly like the way that surrealism is almost contrasting a whole different world. It suggests to me that they were trying to find different ways to express there own dreams in there art work as they are able too explore different aspects.
   
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   Man Ray

   Birth

   Emmanuel Radnitsky on August 27 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Man ray was a pseudonym adopted by the artist.In 1904 he entered school and had treaching in freehand drawing and industrial draftsmanship. "I came out with a complete technical training in the fundamentals of architecture, engineering and lettering." 

Dada

1. Dada was an artistic and literary movement that began in 1916 in Zurich, Switzerland. It arose as a reaction to World War I, and the nationalism, and rationalism, which many thought had brought war about. This was created by Christine Battersby, 'Behold the Buffoon', I do not particularly like this art movement as I find it very weird and not normal. In the era of Dada, the element of buffoonery appealed to the Dadaists, the beginnings of Dada correspond to the outbreak of the World War 1, it was usually a protest against the bourgeois nationalist and colonialist interests which is what the Dadaists believed was the root to the war.
   
   

Image transfer

acrylic paint transfer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGkuTLhB4pg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hpqpeljWd4


I decided to look at image transfer so that I was able to perfect the image in a whole. When looking at image transfer you are able too develop the work by adding layers of other materials too define the piece, what also is nice about image transfer is that you are able to work on most surfaces, you can look towards different materials from cotton to wood. I looked at using wood and cardboard so that I almsot varied my ideas and tried to find out what was best for my use.


 I looked at the artist Lesley Riley and her image transfer as she overlays textures and different styles into her work. I am going to achieve in some ways the same effect she has by adding layers of textures and develop them further instead of it just being a simple image transfer.

 What you will need?
Any photograph of your choice
Hairdryer
Acrylic Paint
And preferred material to put the transfer onto such as wood, cardboard or plastic.
Water

You will need to cover the acrylic paint either over the material you are using or the photo. You will need to thickly apply the paint so that the images ink will be removed with the paper when it is fully dry. When removing the paper where the image is sometimes you will notice that the image itself with the ink will be removed and you will not be able to get the whole image without any acrylic paint marks. I think that this adds an aged look to the image almost adding in a sense of texture and almost as if the paint had been there for a long time meaning that over time the paint would of worn off. you may need a bowl of water to assist you removing the paper.

3d clay

I had decided to work with air dry clay as it hardens much quicker which means the structure of the shape is easier to contain and work with. When using this tripe of clay I had used white clay which is slot wetter and softer to work with after trying to produce a spinnaker tower I had relised that it would take a longer time to dry and harden before I was able to sculpt the clay. I had encountered problems when working with both clays,such as the clay would snap or harden quick leaving it fragile to work with,  it also meant that joining smaller detailed pieces would be much more difficult as there surface area was much smaller meaning that it would dry rapidly and become more and more fragile when working with it. 

I would like to work with low relief and high relief clay as I am able to build a more textural and sculpted piece of work that I am able to change and make sure that specific areas are highlighted better.  I had added a silver coloured tone (acrylic paint) to the clay after it had dried as it added a more specific and detailed look what captured the spinnaker look. 

Clay work

monoprint onto clay. body stains.

Art Nouveau

Art Nouveau was first showcased in Paris and then in London, people either loved it or hated it. Some aspects of art nouveau were revived again in the 1960s.

Style:
Sinuous, elongated, curvy lines, the whiplash line, vertical lines ad height, stylised flowers, leaves, roots, buds and seedpods, the female form- in a pre-Raphaelite pose with long flowing hair, exotics woods, marquetry, iridescent glass, silver and semi precious stones.

Influences: 
Arts and crafts- art nouveau shared the same belief in quality goods and fine craftsmanship but was happy with mass production. Rococo style. Botanical research. 

Art Nouveau was a movement that was decorative and architectural in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It had enthusiasts throughout Europe and beyond.

English architect and designer Arthur Heygate Mackmurdo for the 1883 volume Wren's City Churches.

 I particularly like this piece as it is very abstract in a way with text expressions. I am looking at lino print for further experimentations and including other techniques within this piece. When I decided to look at the piece if work it almost reminds me of looking at all the emotions the artist has and uses them to create/overlay each piece of line or shape within the linoprint.