"If I knew what the picture was going to be like I wouldn’t make it. It was almost like it was made already.. the challenge is more about trying to make what you can’t think of."
-Cindy Sherman.
15 Feb 2012
Temporality
Pronunciation:/ˌtɛmpəˈralɪti/
Noun (plural temporalities)
1. [Mass noun] the state of existing within or having some relationship with time: like spatial position, temporality is an intrinsic property of the object
2. (Usually temporalities) a secular possession, especially the properties and revenues of a religious body or a member of the clergy: proposals were put forward in Parliament for appropriating the temporalities of the clergy
Need to...
(Illustration by David Shrigley)
David Shrigley, Hayward Gallery - 13 May
Grayson Perry, British Museum - 26 Feb
David Hockney, RA - 8 April
Words Words Words, Selfridges- 1 March
Louise Bourgeois, Freud Museum - 8 March-27 May
Gillian wearing, Whitechapel Gallery -28 March-17 June
By Livia Ritthaler - http://www.livia-ritthaler.de/
Whaa!…Apparently been made quite a few times but its the first I’ve seen it – thought i’d share it.
Just an observation...
Bauhaus Manifesto:
“The ultimate aim of all creative activity is a building! The decoration of buildings was once the noblest function of fine arts, and fine arts were indispensable to great architecture. Today they exist in complacent isolation, and can only be rescued by the conscious co-operation and collaboration of all craftsmen. Architects, painters, and sculptors must once again come to know and comprehend the composite character of a building, both as an entity and in terms of its various parts. Then their work will be filled with that true architectonic spirit which, as “salon art”, it has lost.
The old art schools were unable to produce this unity; and how, indeed, should they have done so, since art cannot be taught? Schools must return to the workshop. The world of the pattern-designer and applied artist, consisting only of drawing and painting must become once again a world in which things are built. If the young person who rejoices in creative activity now begins his career as in the older days by learning a craft, then the unproductive “artist” will no longer be condemned to inadequate artistry, for his skills will be preserved for the crafts in which he can achieve great things.
Architects, painters, sculptors, we must all return to crafts! For there is no such thing as “professional art”. There is no essential difference between the artist and the craftsman. The artist is an exalted craftsman. By the grace of Heaven and in rare moments of inspiration which transcend the will, art may unconsciously blossom from the labour of his hand, but a base in handicrafts is essential to every artist. It is there that the original source of creativity lies.
Let us therefore create a new guild of craftsmen without the class-distinctions that raise an arrogant barrier between craftsmen and artists! Let us desire, conceive, and create the new building of the future together. It will combine architecture, sculpture, and painting in a single form, and will one day rise towards the heavens from the hands of a million workers as the crystalline symbol of a new and coming faith.”
1919, Walter Gropius.
This semester the emphasis is on the tools, to create and to apply to all 56 questions/instructions given.
It’s good approaching the brief in an unfamiliar and different way; from our central capabilities of craft and skill rather than approaching the brief with preconceived ideas.
I think the Bauhaus Manifesto is quite fitting right now.
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6 Feb 2012
Yummy book
Only just started reading this one and I'm hooked so far. Nice short and sharp chapters that are very informative and probe design and the designer. Im looking forward to getting to these 3 double page spreads though, covered with priddy chairs!
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