Excavation (Reviewing Blog Posts)
I have been looking through my old blog entries for work in progress photos of paintings. I started reading some of what I had written and was really surprised that […]
Category Archives: Research
Lines – A Brief History (Tim Ingold)
Lines – a fascinating read! `the anthropological archaeology of the line.’Language, music and notation ‘…the post-Renaissance writing that lays claim to a surface, and to the constructions imposed upon it, […]
Painting Now – 5 Contemporary Artists at Tate Britain
http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/exhibition/painting-now-five-contemporary-artistshttp://www.tate.org.uk/download/file/fid/32689 – Exhibition Guide… Very inspired by PAINTING exhibition at TATE Britain. So great to see paintings given attention and a platform in a climate where contemporary painting still feels […]
Unit Task 2
I am rereading and revisiting the notion of the crowd and carnival through Rabelais and His Worldby Mikhail Bahktin. This seems to bring together a series of strands which underpin […]
Painting Tutorial
Great tutorial with Stewart – don’t usually publish my tutorial notes but so much info here it seems sensible to link it through. · Stewart and I discussed the intentional […]
Notice Board
Updated notice board from beginning of 2.2 – had to really review and edit some of my favourites to hone in on specific elements for exploration in the immediate future. […]
Painting Surfaces & Negative Space
Unknown artist – I love the limited colour palette and figure dissolving or reflecting Bill Jacklin print – appreciating the mark making obliterating the figures and dark/light contrast Cristina Troufa […]
Bibliography
Bakhtin, M. (1965) Rabelais and His World. USA: Indiana University Press. Bettelheim, B. (1991). The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales. UK: Penguin. Canetti, E. (1962) […]
Rabelais Notes
Rabelais and His World – Mikhail Bakhtin François Rabelais (French: [fʁɑ̃.swa ʁa.blɛ]; c. 1494 – 9 April 1553) was a major French Renaissance writer, doctor, Renaissance humanist, monk and Greek scholar. […]
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