The third and final person I decided to research, a printmaker, is David Hockney. Hockney was born in 1937 in Bradford in West Riding of Yorkshire. As well as being a printmaker, Hockney is also a painter, photographer, draftsmen and stage designer. In the 1960s, he made important contributions to the pop art movement and, Read More…
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Fine Art – Contextual Research, Bill Woodrow
The sculptor I decided to research for our fine art class is Bill Woodrow. Woodrow was born near Henley, Oxfordshire in 1948. As well as sculptures, Woodrow also creates prints and drawings. He had his first solo exhibition, “Bill Woodrow: Sculpture” in 1972 in the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London and was apart of his Read More…
Fine Art – Contextual Research, Sean Scully
For our fine art class, we were asked to do some contextual research on three different artists; a painter, a sculptor and a printmaker. The painter I decided to do some research on is Sean Scully. Scully is an Irish painter that was born in Dublin in 1945 and a couple years after he was Read More…
Sculpture – Idea Writeup
For our sculpture class, we were asked to come up with a sculpture that would be placed by the University in the playpark. I decided to focus on my cut in half flower sculpture as I feel it was the better idea of the two ideas I had come up with. The reason for my Read More…
Sculpture – Contextual Research, Jeff Koons
The third and final sculptor I decided to do some research on is Jeff Koons. Koons was born in 1955 in York, Pennsylvania and went on to study at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore and the School of Art Institute of Chicago, receiving his BFA from the former in 1976. Koons started Read More…
Sculpture – Contextual Research, Tony Cragg
The second person I decided to do some research on for sculpture is Tony Cragg. Cragg was born in Liverpool in 1949 but ended up moving to Germany in 1977 and still lives there to this day. In the early days of Cragg’s work, his work consisted of installations of discarded materials and found objects. Read More…
Sculpture – Contextual Research, Damien Hirst
For our contextual research for our sculpture class, we were asked to do research on three sculptors. The first sculptor I decided to research is Damien Hirst. Hirst was born in Bristol in 1965 and grew up in Leeds. A couple years later, in 1984, he moved to London where he worked in construction before Read More…
Fine Art – Final Pieces
Our overall outcome for out fine art class was to create two final pieces of two closeups of our environment on big pieces of card in acrylic paint. Below are my progress photos and finished versions: Progress photos: Finished versions: I had never painted anything this big before or using the method we were asked Read More…
Fine Art – Wet Media Studies
Over the two weeks of our fine art class, we were also asked to create some wet media studies of our environments. Below are my progress photos and the finished versions of my wet media studies: Progress photos: Finished versions: I created these studies using watered down black acrylic paint which I’m not all that Read More…
Sculpture – 3 angle views
For our sculpture class, we were also asked to recreate our sculptures onto 3 angles of a spot we would have our sculpture built on to show what it would look like. Below are my drawings: I decided to only recreate my split flower sculpture as I thought it was the better idea of the Read More…