In year 10, we are going through a very tough time. We have to work differently because we are restricted from moving around freely and we cannot move from our seats to take photos. Also, We cannot gather in groups to take photos because of the virus. Restrictions can help me to make me more creative because we will have more time to arrange anything we want. Artists are good at solving problems because they want to complete their objective and they will not give up until they complete their objective. Make Do & Mend means that you have to create something and improve it. I thought it meant you create and change something.
Instructional art
We had to arrange our bag to show what we have in our bag. We had to follow a set of rules I tried to arrange my items into a box and make it look very square. I think that I could have used the items in a much better way and I could have layered it instead.
ReadyMade
Readymade is made to a standard size or specification rather than to order. This means that it is a full photo that is already created but is tweaked to make a large difference to the painting. I cut out the bag on the head and then glued it onto another sheet. Also, I glued my remain onto a sheet and I drew a smiley face inside of it. In the picture on the right, I cut out the bag on the head and put the body of someone on it.
WWW: I have used readymade to change the photo , It has been changed using both the photos available to enhance the photos.
EBI: Cover the white space on both photos, use a different colour contrast
WWW: I have used readymade to change the photo , It has been changed using both the photos available to enhance the photos.
EBI: Cover the white space on both photos, use a different colour contrast
Folded Faces
We had an activity to make do and mend with our photos. We had to fold an existing photo and create a new photo with only three folds. It was a challenge as I wanted to change the photo immensely, but I wanted to have a sense of realism as well. So I ended up making a combination of them both. Here is the finished product.
WWW: Good quality photo and very realistic, looks like his chin is his mouth.
EBI: The shade of the fold is very aesthetically unpleasing!
EBI: The shade of the fold is very aesthetically unpleasing!
Marcel Duchamp
Marcel Duchamp decided to 'destroy' a work of art in 1919, he chose perhaps the most iconic image in the world - Leonardo da Vinci's 'Mona Lisa' painting. Scribbling on a work of art was intended to create an uproar in society. In order to create the highest shock value, Duchamp knew that he needed to attack a painting that almost everyone knew, a symbol of amazing artistic skill but also an image of female beauty. But why was this particular painting so famous?
This is partly explained by the mystery surrounding the identity of the sitter, the praise given to Leonardo and this painting in his lifetime and by the theft of the painting in the late nineteenth century. By 1919, 'Mona Lisa' had become something of a celebrity. It was re-installed in the Louvre, one of the biggest art museums in the world, and a symbol of the genius of Renaissance art. In other words, it was the perfect target for a joke at art's expense.
Marcel Duchamp, obviously didn't want to ruin the main masterpiece, so he traced the painting and put a moustache and a beard on her to create a laughing stock. His L.H.O.O.Q. work is one of the most iconic mockeries in the history of humanity.
This is partly explained by the mystery surrounding the identity of the sitter, the praise given to Leonardo and this painting in his lifetime and by the theft of the painting in the late nineteenth century. By 1919, 'Mona Lisa' had become something of a celebrity. It was re-installed in the Louvre, one of the biggest art museums in the world, and a symbol of the genius of Renaissance art. In other words, it was the perfect target for a joke at art's expense.
Marcel Duchamp, obviously didn't want to ruin the main masterpiece, so he traced the painting and put a moustache and a beard on her to create a laughing stock. His L.H.O.O.Q. work is one of the most iconic mockeries in the history of humanity.
Stopmotion - Kensuke Koike
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In this session, we had to create a piece of stop-motion bases on an artists work. His name is Kensuke Koike. He manipulates many different photos and makes very abstract art which is viewed by millions of people each year. In one of his 'exhibitions', he carved out the eyes so that it could stand up. It looks very gothic-like. He only I have tried to recreate a stop motion video that he did. On the left, There is a video that I have made. Hope you enjoy!
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Hannah Höch
Hannah Höch was a German Dada artist. She is best known for her work of the Weimar period, when she was one of the originators of photomontage. Photomontage, or fotomontage, is a type of collage in which the pasted items are actual photographs, or photographic reproductions pulled from the press and other widely produced media.
Höch's work was intended to dismantle the fable that existed in the concept of the "New Woman": an energetic, professional woman, who is ready to take her place as man's equal. Her interest in the topic was in how the dichotomy was structured, as well as in who structures social roles.
Other key themes in Höch's works were political discourse, and shifting gender roles. These themes all interacted to create a feminist discourse surrounding Höch's works, which encouraged the liberation and agency of women during the Weimar Republic (1919–1933) and continuing through to today.
Höch's work was intended to dismantle the fable that existed in the concept of the "New Woman": an energetic, professional woman, who is ready to take her place as man's equal. Her interest in the topic was in how the dichotomy was structured, as well as in who structures social roles.
Other key themes in Höch's works were political discourse, and shifting gender roles. These themes all interacted to create a feminist discourse surrounding Höch's works, which encouraged the liberation and agency of women during the Weimar Republic (1919–1933) and continuing through to today.
We then tried to use Hanna Hoch's theme to create a good collage. In my opinion, it was a massive struggle as I could only use one travel magazine. The photos in the magazine are decent, but there are not enough good ones. I think this is one of my best collages as there are many contrasting colours and very different themes. Also, with the things that I had to work with made it harder to produce art. Here is the collage I made, shown below.
WWW: The collage turned out very well and I like the way it isn't very realistic.
EBI: I could have added more detail and add more photos to fill up the whole page because I cropped this page.
EBI: I could have added more detail and add more photos to fill up the whole page because I cropped this page.
Alma Haser
Alma Haser is a German artist that Make Does And Mend with her work. She manipulates photos by using many different techniques such as scrunching up paper, tearing it up and rearranging it, cutting and even folding. Also, she would cut up the photo and add layering onto the photo. Alma Haser is based in London and on the southeast coast. She is known for her complex and precise constructed portraiture, which are influenced by her creativity and her background in fine art. Alma creates incredible work that catches the eye and captivates the mind. Expanding the dimensions of traditional portrait photography, Alma takes her photographs further by using inventive paper-folding techniques, collage and mixed media to create layers of intrigue around her subjects; manipulating her portraits into futuristic paper sculptures and blurring the distinctions between two-dimensional and three-dimensional imagery.
Maurizio Anzeri
Maurizio Anzeri makes his portraits by sewing directly into found vintage photographs. His embroidered patterns garnish the figures like elaborate costumes, but also suggest a psychological aura, as if revealing the person’s thoughts or feelings. The antique appearance of the photographs is often at odds with the sharp lines and silky shimmer of the threads. The combined media gives the effect of a dimension where history and future converge. The image used in Round Midnight is an early 20th century ‘glamour shot’ that at the time would have been considered titillating for both the girl’s nudity and ethnicity. Anzeri’s delicately stitched veil recasts the figure with an uncomfortable modesty, overlaying a past generation’s cross-cultural anxieties with an allusion to our own.
Feedback from different person
WWW: Good detail, Interesting placement of thread
EBI: Add more thread
WWW: Good detail, Interesting placement of thread
EBI: Add more thread
My Feedback
WWW: very good use of different colouring, nice contrast.
EBI: More thread needed, many a bigger thread could be better to use.
WWW: very good use of different colouring, nice contrast.
EBI: More thread needed, many a bigger thread could be better to use.
Matt Lipps
Matt Lipps is an artist that has spent the past decade focusing on the relationship between sculpture and photography. His photo-sculptures “simultaneously catalogue, lament, and celebrate photography’s 21st-century transformations. His artistic process is methodical, often following a set of guidelines that transform his collaged elements into a unified composition and narrative. His photographic constructions rely on collage strategies, sculptural tropes and theater staging techniques. Lipps uses cut-out images that he finds in discontinued photographic publications and magazines, arranging these images to create still life photographs. He then photographs these scenes using a large format analog camera.
Response to Matt Lipps
Daniel Gordon
Gordon is best known for producing large color photographs that operate somewhere between collage and set-up photography. His work, as described by The New York Times, "Involves creating figurative tableaus from cut paper and cut-out images that Mr. Gordon then photographs. In addition, he seems motivated by a deeply felt obsession with the human body and the discomforts of having one.
I can see plants in a pot, lemons scattered and in a fruit bowl, s one strawberries in another small fruit bowl , a bottle of water , posters in the background, and a table. I think this was made with paper mache. He use a lot of precision and technique to make this. I think he would need to use lots of persistence to make this work as there would be lots of faults in this work. 3 words I would describe this work is complimenting and aesthetically pleasing.
I can see plants in a pot, lemons scattered and in a fruit bowl, s one strawberries in another small fruit bowl , a bottle of water , posters in the background, and a table. I think this was made with paper mache. He use a lot of precision and technique to make this. I think he would need to use lots of persistence to make this work as there would be lots of faults in this work. 3 words I would describe this work is complimenting and aesthetically pleasing.
Up Close & Personal
One of the main COVID constraints we are experiencing is that we need to stay in the classroom and mostly work at our desks. This means that our desks have become a kind of mini studio space. The dimensions are much smaller than a traditional studio and we are going to have to be really creative in order for this not to feel like there is not enough space. One of the solutions might be to investigate how artists and photographers have worked at close up to their subjects and materials.
Observing and recording the world at close quarters was an important part of early photography history explained by microphotography and the role of scientists in the development of photographic technology. In the 1920s, artists like Laszlo Moholy-Nagy argued that photography could enhance human vision, helping us to see things invisible to the human eye. Modern film makers incorporated extreme close-ups in their movies and the Surrealists of the 20s and 30s used close-up photographs to disturb and disorientate the viewer. In recent years, conceptual artists have exploited the camera's ability to question the process of looking.
We have made some photos related to the theme of Close Up & Personal using the things inside of our houses. Here are some of my creations.
Observing and recording the world at close quarters was an important part of early photography history explained by microphotography and the role of scientists in the development of photographic technology. In the 1920s, artists like Laszlo Moholy-Nagy argued that photography could enhance human vision, helping us to see things invisible to the human eye. Modern film makers incorporated extreme close-ups in their movies and the Surrealists of the 20s and 30s used close-up photographs to disturb and disorientate the viewer. In recent years, conceptual artists have exploited the camera's ability to question the process of looking.
We have made some photos related to the theme of Close Up & Personal using the things inside of our houses. Here are some of my creations.
WWW: The first photo and the last photo are the best photos because they are in focus and looks much better.
EBI: The second and third photos are not framed correctly and they aren't in focus.
EBI: The second and third photos are not framed correctly and they aren't in focus.
Digital Collages
Online Field Trip
Personal Responses
My main ideas are about the readymade and Google Street View Photography. Artists like Marcel Duchamp and Doug Ricard interest me. The readymade is interesting because I like the fact that you can try and do anything you want to ruin a famous piece of artwork. It really appeals to me for this reason. I also like Google Street View Photography because even though I am not able to visit these places in real life, I can visit these places on Google Street View. It makes me feel like i have really taken these photos, even though I haven't even been to the place before.
The Readymade
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For 'The Readymade', I have decided to use 'A Girl With a Pearl Earring'. I chose to do this work because the photo is denounced as one of the best paintings in the world. Also, it was a portrait which can make my work much easier to do. The painting just works for what i am doing.
EvaluationTo deface my photograph, i decided to combine historical paintings to modern day fashion. I combined it by adding a mask to the image. I feel like the drawing i made was actually decent. The drawing was very long and tedious, but it was very good nevertheless. Something that strikes me is that it is very modernised, with a sense of history to it, considering how old this image is. Furthermore, this final product matches the readymade topic because I have managed to deface the work, but in a positive way. One thing I need to improve is that I could use some colour to brighten the mood of the image.
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Google Street View
For Google Street View, I am going to go into Alicante, Spain and Tenerife, Canary Islands. I believe that this is very good because it is a place that i have always wanted to go to Alicante. However, I have already been to Tenerife. The place was beautiful. The views there were incredible. But, Alicante is a place that I would like to go in the future.
WWW: The photos are effective in many different places, the suspended photos are the best photos in my opinion.
EBI: Some of the photos aren't in focus, the shaping of the photos are a little bit off.
EBI: Some of the photos aren't in focus, the shaping of the photos are a little bit off.