Creative studio, blog 5: Dale Holmes Talk, Part 2
Dale went on to talk about other organisations and artist (see below) and how they made an impact on the art industry.
Riders against riders association.
Marcel Duchamp - 1917 Readymade, this was a shift in the paradime, it caused small controversy, this was rejected by an exhibition committee. Think about how art would of been back them as this was not firstly seen as art until years later. Duchamp changed the conversation and how people looked at art.
Francis Picabia - Nature Morte, had a big impact straight away unlike Duchamp who got credited as an artist after the fact.
Picabia and Duchamp where mates.
1917 Matisse was also an images that had its own controversy, these 2 images were on show and cause uproar in times that were uncertain, this was something the audience in ……… could actually fight against. Matisse’s paintings caused violent protests in the streets. This made Duchamp urine piece not the most offensive of the year.
Duchamp never had a studio to work from and would use his living room to make art.
Matisse and Duchamp where the north and south of art complete opposites.
Duchamp Tu’um was a piece commissioned that uses shadows painted on a canvas.
I found Dale’s talk interesting in the way he uses what is around him and put this into his paintings, every little detail that would not been seen by someone that does not have an art background but is seen by someone that does. This is helped in the way I look at my own practice by taking a step back from my project and looking at the bigger picture. Seeing the smaller details of the project I am doing, that might not be overly obvious but important to the project and making the image a whole. Dale’s talk also opened the options of not just using my own practice to make a project but to use other art forms to show a different side of the project. This made me look at what I could do with my project and one of the things that really stood out was the sensory aspect of my project and what I could use to make this aspect come to live through touch and feel.
In our first week of teaching Dale showed us around the Barbara Hepworth which is our main building at University for Art and Humanities. During this tour he showed us his recent work of his project from the tennis courts, he had used one his painting he had made into a rug, he made the rug by hand. This made me think of the various sensory materials I could use to make something like this that would have a different feel, touch and texture. Sensory’s items/materials stimulate the 5 senses, sight, smell, sound, touch and taste. With touch being one of the 5 sense this made me look at what kind of different materials I could use, these are:
Slime
Shaving foam
Bubble Foam
Sand
Kinetic sand
Play dough
Water
Foil
Water beads
Bubble wrap
Bean bags
Ribon
Different type of fabric
Felt
Pom-Poms
Feathers
Oobleck
I also wanted to look at every 5 senses separately, to see what I could use and how I could use them as part of my work and integrated then into what I have already done.
Siobhan :)
20/10/21
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