Creativity, Art, Design and Photography Q and A

Hello everyone!

 

The other day I was inspired by my good friend Isabel's blog post on a creativity, art, fashion and photography Q and A. I asked her if I could have a go at her Q and A and she said 'of course', so here I go!





This is a photo of part of a whole road of street art I saw in Brighton. I absolutely love street art and the wonderful bright, bold and expressive colours that are used. When I'm walking a long and find some, it always makes me so happy haha!



I've changed a couple of the questions from fashion to design, I absolutely love fashion but I don't know enough about it, if you love fashion and want to know more then check out Isabel's blog!

 

Here's a link to her amazing Q and A Isabel's Creativty; Art, Fashion and Potography Q and A ! I definitely recommend checking Isabel's blog out! Portfolio By Izzie BlogSpot / Portfolio By Izzie Wordpress

 

Right so lets get to the Q and A! Feel free to dip in and out and let me know your answers to the questions too!

 

What is my favourite piece of artwork?

 

'A Bar at the Folies-Bergère' - Edouard Manet

 

 

As much as I absolutely love contemporary art and using a variety of different mediums, there is something that always brings me back to this painting as being my favourite piece of art work.

 

(I was torn between choosing this and 'water-lily pond' by Monet)

 

I truly love this painting, personally I love how it effects me emotionally. At first glance I am drawn into the girls sad eyes, we as the viewer are looking through the man in the reflections eyes. I love how there is so much going on in the painting, yet it is a freeze frame in time. To me (and please let me know your opinion) I feel that this painting makes me reflect. There is so much going on in the world, we laugh and joke but when do we freeze and ask  if we are we ok? (I know, I'm deep haha)

 

I also love how not only are we seeing through the man's point of view but we can also see her point of view through the refection in the mirror, compositionally I think this painting is brilliant too!

 

Who is my favourite artist?

 

Gerhard Richter

 

This is a self portrait. Gerhard Richter's portraits are very photo-realist yet have this amazingly, interesting and talented blur technique.

Gerhard Richter is my favourite artist because I love his versatility. I am in awe of his work; he inspires me to not be afraid to try something new and step out of my comfort zone.

 

Gerhard Richter also makes huge squeegee paintings. I had the honour of seeing these in person at the Tate Modern, my last blog post talked about it, feel free to check it out Visiting the Tate Modern

         

I also love Gerhard Richter's photography. He created a series expressing the relationship between mother and child, I love the colours of the physical edit and definitely want to try this out.

 

What is my favourite medium in art?

 

At the moment my favourite is biro as I love how I can over draw and make my drawings so much more expressive and detailed! (I have run out of so many biro pens lately haha, I think I only have one left!)

 

This is a section of a detail drawing of wood bark in black biro I have been working on. I'm drawing on a collage of different man made materials to create different, interesting textures against the biro.

 

 

What is my favourite art movement?

 

I love impressionism! I think it was such a turning point in art at the time it started and I love how different people can see the same thing so differently.

 

This is an impressionist painting by Monet called 'Water-Lily pond'. I love this painting, I had to put it somewhere in this post haha!

 

 What is my favourite invention?

It sounds so super cheesy but my favourite invention is the pencil! Because of the pencil, what we think and feel can be more easily communicated. Because of the pencil, further brilliant inventions have been created!

This is one of the earliest pencils created.

I don't know what I'd do without a pencil.

 

Who is my favourite product designer?

Well one of my favourite products is Lego! So I've got to say that my favourite product designer is Ole Kirk Christiansen, who created Lego in 1932.

 

 Who is my favourite photographer?

Stephen Gill. He is well known for his series of photos called 'talking to ants'. His photos address the topic of flaws and imperfections.
 

         

 

What is my favourite theme within photography?

 

I truly love all types of photography. What I love most is the ability to capture the beauty of the world in a snap shot in time.

 

 

This is a photo I took when I went to Bournemouth. I took this with my iPhone 4S. 

 

What is my favourite photograph?

The Girl in the Room – Johnson and Johnson’s Imagine by Phoebe Rudomino
 

I just think this is a truly beautiful image.

 

So there we go! Thank you so much for getting to the end, I hope you enjoyed reading this post as much as I enjoyed making it!

 

Thank you so much to Portfolio By Izzie for letting me do this! Make sure you check her Q and A out too!

 

I hope this has inspired you and let me know your answers to the questions, I love to hear from you.

 

Thanks again, hope you have a wonderful day!

 

 

 

Visiting The Tate Modern

Hello everyone!

I hope you are all well! It feels like a while since I've last posted, I've been very busy lately but I have so many ideas for this blog so the posts are going to be  regular again! (Sorry)

This was a photo I took at the entrance, inside the gallery. The triangles were filled with mud so possibly plants will grow there one day.

 

The other day I went to the Tate Modern. For those of you who don't know, the Tate Modern is a popular art gallery with very current art work.

There are a range of Tate galleries, here is a link to the main website http://www.tate.org.uk/

I had been to the Tate Modern before but I was very young and didn't really get it (I'll be honest some of the work is very 'out there'). Going again, now I'm older, was quite refreshing and I found I had even more respect for these works in person.

 

I recommend going along if you're ever in London, even if you are not really into contemporary art, it is definitely worth while visiting as I found it really helped to expand my mind further into the prospects of art and how different people view things so incredibly differently.

 

There is a lot of work exhibited in the gallery and I thought for this post I would just talk about a few of the works and artists that stood out to me. Feel free to just scroll through and pick out what you like, I'll leave links through out to the website so you can check it out!

Here's a link to the Tate modern website http://www.tate.org.uk/visit/tate-modern


Sam Francis 
Around the blues

http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/francis-around-the-blues-t00634

This painting was huge and very striking. This was the first time I saw it through the rooms. It caught my attention straight away.

This was one of the first paintings that really stood out to me in the gallery. The initial feel of the painting is that it is an abstract piece; however, after I did some research, I found that it has personal meaning to the artist.
 

To Francis each colour has a symbolic meaning.

I found out that Sam Francis was a pilot in the Second World war. He was very much inspired by Monet and his 'water lilies' painting ('Water Lillie Pond' is one of my favourite paintings, I have a poster of it on my wall!). I can see from looking at the painting he was also very much effected by his life as a pilot, as the painting has the appearance of an aerial view and "communicates the silence of the skies".

I gained this information from http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/francis-around-the-blues-t00634/text-display-caption  

Lee Bul

Untitled (Carvings White)

 

http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/lee-untitled-cravings-white-t13992

I used a shutter speed of 0"4 and zoomed out when taking the photo to gain this effect. I also slightly enhanced the exposer when editing on Pixlr Express.

 

This work was hanging from the ceiling. I found it very unusual, if you want to see what the sculpture actually looked like then check out the link above. I played around with the shutter speed when taking the photo and I think it came out looking pretty cool!

 

 

Gerhard Richter

Cage 1-6

 

http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/richter-cage-1-6-l02818

 

The canvases were huge so I took a photo of the bottom left hand corner of one of the paintings.

 

 

I am a huge fan of Gerhard Richter and to it was an honour to finally see his work in person! Being exhibited were his squeegee paintings and they were so much bigger than I had imagined. I love how the colours underneath burst through the block colours. I also love the amount of layers in his paintings, seeing it in person has made me appreciate him so much more and I think I will do a post on Gerhard Richter later on!

 

 

 

Lynda Benglis

Quartered Meteor

 

http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/benglis-quartered-meteor-t13353

 



 

This sculpture was in the corner of the gallery and I found it a little unnerving. It is made of layers of polyurethane foam and looks a little like cooled lava. I think it is very unusual and striking, let me know in the comments what you think about it, I'd love to hear!

 

 

George Condo

 

http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/condo-colored-dream-objects-l03343

 

This link is to the main painting shown in the photo but feel free to have a look around on the website as a lot of George Condo's work was exhibited in the Tate Modern.

 

I really loved the aesthetics of his work and I want to stick some of his works up on my wall!

 

Lee Krasner

Gothic Landscape

 

http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/krasner-gothic-landscape-t03291

 

 

The painting closest to you in the photo is the work of Lee Krasner. I really liked the marks made in this piece and found it really stood out to me.

 

 

Jacques Mahé de la Villeglé

Jazzmen

 

http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/villegle-jazzmen-t07619

 

I love collage and I loved the bright colours of this work!

 



 

Roy Lichtenstein

Whaam

 

http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/lichtenstein-whaam-t00897

 

The painting in real life is a long rectangle I look the photo at a different angle to try and emphasise the impact this dramatic piece of pop art has.

It was amazing to be able to see this incredibly famous piece in person! I love pop art and Roy Lichtenstein's work, I think it is so iconic.

 

 

Manolo Millares

Painting 150

 



 http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/millares-painting-150-t00579

I thought the ripped canvas effect was super dramatic and eye catching and this is something I would love to try!

 Mark Bradford
Riding the cut vein

http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/bradford-riding-the-cut-vein-l03456

 

I thought this work had a huge impact on the room

I found this work really interesting and different. Mark Bradford uses Paper, varnish, silicone caulk and charcoal on canvas and I love the amount of layers and textures created.

 

This is a close up photo of a section of the painting. I wanted to show the amount of textures and marks made on the canvas.

Eva Rothschild

Riches

http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/rothschild-riches-t12576

 



This was a sculpture in the corner of the room. It created great shapes and reflections.

 

 

So there you go!

 

I know this post was very long but I wanted to show as much of the gallery as possible, to hopefully make you feel like you came to the gallery with me!

 

 

I definitely recommend making a visit to the Tate Modern if you are ever in London and feel free to explore the Tate's website to find out more and see if there is a gallery near you.

http://www.tate.org.uk/

 

If you have made it to the bottom then you are the best! Thank you so much for reading, I hope you enjoyed visiting the Tate Modern with me (haha).

 

Let me know what you think of the artwork and if there are any other galleries you recommend! Lets share our creativity and make this blog a place of inspiration!

 

Thanks so much, have a brilliant day