Showing posts with label art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label art. Show all posts

Wednesday, 13 April 2011

Iron Age, Art and Photography

It's been a bit of a bizarre few days. My new car arrived and I have spent quite bait of time driving around in it. Yesterday, for the first time in my motoring career the windscreen was cracked by a flying object on the motorway - this is real frustrating but it is part of life's rich tapestry well at least that is what I keep telling myself.

On top of this I have started to prepare the presentation I am going make on Sunday about my recent photographic practice - in short iphoneography - I want to get it finished by tomorrow and I have a few ideas which I will firm up and hopefully make into some coherent presentation for Sunday.

The final thing that is floating through my mind is my historical research project. This year I am concentrating on the iron age and how this fits into the project as a whole. There are so many things I could pursue but I have decided to take a little slower this year - after all I am doing this for my own satisfaction and so it doesn't have deadline. Currently I am reading 'The Prehistory of the East Midlands Claylands' - a real page turner ! Actually I is very interesting if a little dry.

On top of this I am making simple sketches such as this of Jim Broadbent. I made a similar sketch a few months ago and the difference is striking. The previous sketch was a good likeness but didn't have the confidence of technique that one has. This one is looser and I think much more interesting for that. I have not striven for an exact likeness but just tried to enjoyed producing the drawing. I think it works.

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Tuesday, 8 March 2011

Trying to make sense of all these isms

The more galleries and art I see the more my head has been befuddled by the different groups, styles and titles, Cubism or post expressionism or pointillism etc ( as you can see I have been looking at at lot of late 19th and early 20th century art recently). Now the hard systems part of my make up has had enough of all this and so I have sat down this evening to try and draw up some rudimentary chart which fits all these together and I have succeed in as far as any chart can really capture something as nebulous as influences and loose alliances. Of course the truth is that you have to spend years studying art history to really understand all the differences and to be quite honest I'm not interested in that. No what I want is some straightforward chart to help me through the maze and I think I have achieved that - sort off. Sent from my iPad

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