"Be an impressionist until the bitter end and be afraid of nothing"
The video below is a experiment with doing a review of the exhibition. In it the man in glasses gets the wrong end of the stick. He is getting confused between Goya and Gaugin a mistake we can all make!
The site contains a great video which has read transcripts that Gaugin wrote in the form of letters to various people. You can see that he was well acquainted with Vincent van Gough as well as his brother theo. Gaugin mentions how difficult it was to live and work with Vincent.
Below are quotes from the read transcripts.
"for most people I shall be an enigma for a few I shall be a poet"
"Everything here is harsh and impenetrable. Seeing this fills me with the sensation of struggle for survival a sensation of struggle of melancholy and acquiescence to implacable laws .....I'm attempting to put this sensation down on canvas"
"What is natural in art? In art truth is what a person feels in the state of mind he happens to find himself in"
"Novelty is essential to stimulate the stupid buying public"
"One should always be faithful to one's nature"
"He is a romantic while I am rather inclined to a more primitive state"
Below is a film i made experimenting with milk and water. Above is a still i took after i had left the bowl for a while. It is amazing how it has taken the form of an iris.
This is an extension of what i did with water and in some ways reflects my research which uncovered the hungarian artist who uses sand. I feel it relates to the theme of here and now becuase the guesswork part of it, as soon as you drop some ink it develops in its own unique way given the exact circumstance the here and now. Also you see the work develop. when i tried to direct the ink with the pen i had no control although im sure that the more familiar i become with the process i might develop a degree of control...can we control the here and now?
should i name my work is a question i was asked. some artists refuse to do this because in some ways it anchors the meaning. however if i left it blank it would achieve the same thing.
We are all asked to play a role to wear a mask...kennedy did that well
we have gone from individual man to tribal man
electronic media=tribal man books, a private experience a private teaching machine=individual man
the miners event of yesterday. The TV station owned by the president of Chile arranged for the first rescued miner to appear in time for the evening news.
With the movements i have looked at so far it seems to me that given the vast proliferation of digitalm technologie a whole legion of artists has emerged who have access to these tools and feel free to explore them as they do not depend on patronage .
Kseniya Simonova (Ксенія Симонова) (born April 22, 1985) is a sand animator from Ukraine. She started drawing with sand after her business collapsed due to the 2008 financial crisis, and had less than a year's experience when she entered Ukraine's Got Talent. She became the 2009 winner of that show,[2] constructing an animation that portrayed life during the USSR's Great Patriotic War against the Third Reich in World War II.
Simonova won 1,000,000 Ukrainian Hryvnia (approx. USD125,000) for her first place in the show.[3] A YouTube video of the performance has received more than 15 million hits.
Although this artist appeared on a talent show i still find the work compelling. It is the here and now as the artists performs the work in front of an audience. What is also interesting is how a narrative is created as we move from one image to the next. There are cultural references that i don't understand nonetheless you can see the powerful effect it has on the audience.
I would like to experiment in the same way. Using a light bbox...as big as i can find and then getting some sand.
The idea of the Artist being a loser. Makes me think of the suffering artist, the misfit, in his own world.
This is a trailer for a film about the beautiful losers a collection of 100 atrists who talk about creativity. For myself i believe in the idea that all you need to be craetive are tools and at the moment on this course i am being introduced to these tools. Will I be a follower of this Art movement? i don't know.
This movement is DIY its about about improvisation, discovery exploration and freedom.
over the last 5 years or so there has been a fashion for the geek. eg in films spawned by napolean dynamite we identify with the geek the outsider the loser...the beautiful loser. it kida takes away the pressure to be a suffering artists you know the idea that you have to be sucidal in order to make great art. with this movement you just have to be a weirdo....
I made this film using my using my Sony digital camera. I edited the film on final cut pro and used the effects available to create a mirror image. I really like this piece i find it compelling to look at and it has a calming quality. The here and now is clearly evident to the viewer.
I was introduced to the idea of synesthesia please click here for a definition. It is essentially a cross over of the senses. some people see numbers as colors. They cannot separate the two. Others see colours when they hear sounds. I am interested in exploring this area particularly when dealing with music and its effect on people.
Aaron Rose is a film director, art show curator and writer who is a key part of the Beautiful Losers art movement, which has featured and helped notarize the work of artists such as Barry McGee, Steven "Espo" Powers, Harmony Korine and Shepard Fairey. In 2005, he published with Drago Young Sleek and Full of Hell, where he collects over 100 artists including Mark Gonzales, Ed Templeton, Thomas Campbell, Phil Frost, Spike Jonze, Sofia Coppola, Sonic Youth, Terry Richardson. He was co-curator of the Beautiful Losers touring art exhibit, and edited the collected art book—released by Iconoclast and Distributed Art Publishers in 2004—featuring the work and artists of the tour. The exhibition toured the world through 2009. He is also the director of the documentary film Beautiful Losers, which began its US theatrical run in 2008. He was the owner and director of Alleged Gallery in New York City and created Alleged Press, which has released books featuring the art of Ari Marcopoulos, Ed Templeton, Mike Mills, Barry McGee and Chris Johanson. He is also co-editor of ANP Quarterly[7]. Rose's latest venture is a documentary called Become a Microscope - 90 Statements on Sister Corita, a short film with music by Money Mark and Becky Stark. The 22 minute film tells the story of Sister Mary Corita, the California nun who was also a political artist. Rose is signed as a director with the Los Angeles company The Directors Bureau which also represents Mike Mills and Sofia Coppola.[8] In 2009, he was hired by Wieden+Kennedy to help create WKE (WKEntertainment), a content-driven entertainment channel and production house[9]. At WKE, Rose is the producer of numerous television projects including Califunya, D.I.Y. America, and Don’t Move Here, which he also directs.
A film shot on an IPHONE4
It seems to relate to the theme of here and now only in the sense that its discourse is of new technologies or modernity versus the past. below is my analysis.
The film seems to deal primarily with the conflict between old and new through the use of binary opposites (Levi Strauss)
A very short view of a small part of Berlin. Nothing really happens…it does not have a coherent narrative in the sense of what we are used to anyway.
In the cinema book ????? An art house film is defined as one that does not have a coherent narrative. Also the film seems quite experimental which would class it as Avant Garde.
It’s like a poem?
Sound
The music is a series of electronic sounds some of it experimental. It responds to what is being seen. It is mysterious,
The sound has the reversing quality is the film referring to the past and that is why it is used
Hard to understand the dialogue does create mystery but ultimately it’s alienating
‘Modernity is loaded with meaning’
‘Crossing the limits of the present’
The music seems to punctuate certain parts of the ‘narrative, going from 'reversage' sounds to silence. (Silence is used very effectively here to create dramatic tension. The pause or silence ends with piercing strings that introduce the next shot
The German voice speaks of alienation ‘I am the bastard kid”
Mise en scene
Its Germany, its black and white, the film is shaky and sometimes warps (whether this is the fault of the iphone or it has been done in post production it creates an uncertainty that the world is unstable.
Locations:
High rise buildings
Uniformity
Empty streets
Starts in the air a sense of freedom as we see wispy clouds. We then fall into the city with its suburban landscapes
Modern architecture vs. old
Contemporary art spaces…modern art
Camera
A slight warping effect, handheld as you would expect with a iphone. Black and white. Pans and tilts. In some shots the camera is at a dutch angle or even upside down.
Editing
Quote I am a bastard kid cut to heart with arrow drawn on concrete cut to girl with head in hands…you make the connection
Most editing is trying to exploit the binary opposites.
My name is Elliot and I am ding a foundation art course. I have been given a theme to work with for the first part of my course.
this theme is
HERE AND NOW
When i heard about the theme I was thinking now more than I was here.A precise moment is shared by everyone in the world however a precise geoghrahic location is not.
I was introduced to various art disciplines; fine art, film, graphics, photography. I have a gallery space to work with as well
i Feel that it is important to get an idea of the context within which i will be showing my 'Art'especially given the theme
