Well, the last presentation with all the teachers kinda clarified how my 3rd year at AKV/St. Joost progressed.
-tried to paint, i was satisfied with my last painting, but compared to drawing it requires a whole different approach... it is just not working for me.
-made a first step in animation, the animation was about the only main artwork i showed at the presentation at the end of period 4, the other was a minor work and the Land Art project... the animation shows how i have been working the 3rd year: by not sticking to my initial idea/concept for a work, i have been distracted with many influences and put them all, alongside the initial idea, in 1 work. Making the image far too complex and not clear for the viewer to understand at all.
-i did acquire experience outside the academy by working as a volunteer at art initiative W139 in amsterdam and reading books (magical-realism and also a book containing dialogs between an artist/gamer/bioloog(biologist?) and an art philosopher who discuss all sorts of topics regarding art, media, games and philosophy)
In the next post, BK4 Period 1, i will elaborate how i take on year 4.
Animation at end of period 4, was fun to make but in the end just a hodge podge of ideas and fascinations:
zaterdag, september 26, 2009
BK3 Period 4 - DB Skyline
Den Bosch skyline slideshow:
i took this sweep of photos right before they started to change that entire area, they already cut down most of the trees on the dijk/dyke and now all of it has been removed. They (Natuurmonumenten) are in charge of transforming that area into a place for outdoor recreation and also connecting the Gement to the other nature areas around Den Bosch.
I used this area for the Land Art project we were doing with Margriet. After seeing this very direct border between city and nature/farmland i came up with the idea of making people, who come through that area, aware of this contrast. By building a 2-3 meters high observation post with a focused view on the skyline of the city and on the other side the nature area. This post would be build a little bit inside the nature area and the materials would be grass, wooden planks and sand. The windows are there to narrow the viewing frame and to make people focus on what is seen inside that frame.
It is still only but a concept...
(click thumbnails to see larger image)
First concept:
Second concept:
Some other photos that i took in which i like the compositions and shapes:
i took this sweep of photos right before they started to change that entire area, they already cut down most of the trees on the dijk/dyke and now all of it has been removed. They (Natuurmonumenten) are in charge of transforming that area into a place for outdoor recreation and also connecting the Gement to the other nature areas around Den Bosch.
I used this area for the Land Art project we were doing with Margriet. After seeing this very direct border between city and nature/farmland i came up with the idea of making people, who come through that area, aware of this contrast. By building a 2-3 meters high observation post with a focused view on the skyline of the city and on the other side the nature area. This post would be build a little bit inside the nature area and the materials would be grass, wooden planks and sand. The windows are there to narrow the viewing frame and to make people focus on what is seen inside that frame.
It is still only but a concept...
(click thumbnails to see larger image)
First concept:
Second concept:
Some other photos that i took in which i like the compositions and shapes:
donderdag, januari 29, 2009
BK3 Period 2, trading my pencil for a brush
Well it was very exhausting finishing my paintings the last week before the final presentation of period 2. Staying late at college made me hate fridays when they close at 18:00 already instead of 20:00. Anyway, the presentation was good, they noticed i worked a lot on it in 2 weeks time.
But there are a few things have to work on:
- sometimes i have to let go my control whenever painting feels as if I'm in ecstasy, then i just have to go on and see what happens afterwards...go with the flow >.<
- research which canvas/paper size would be better, trying more kinds of size ratios, like instead of 80x100, i could use 40x100 or 100x100, its something i have to focus on now. I used to do that with drawings, but when buying the canvasses for those paintings i opted for the cheap ones which only had regular sizes.
well here is a slide show of the paintings, the first 2 are small 30x40 or something and the last 2 are 80x100.
The photo of the chalk drawing on the road was for the "Public Space" project in which we had to either make something on the spot, or put one of our old works in a public space that isnt directly Art related. My chalk drawing is a reaction on the small canal that is streaming nearby that road. I walk past it everytime i go to the art supply shop and I have never seen were that canal ends so i thought it might be fun to make an illusion as if it was underneath this particular road. The photo was taken from a metal stairs that was going up to a house of someone and it provided an opportunity to see the drawing from above int eh correct form. Viewing from the road it looks distorted.
But there are a few things have to work on:
- sometimes i have to let go my control whenever painting feels as if I'm in ecstasy, then i just have to go on and see what happens afterwards...go with the flow >.<
- research which canvas/paper size would be better, trying more kinds of size ratios, like instead of 80x100, i could use 40x100 or 100x100, its something i have to focus on now. I used to do that with drawings, but when buying the canvasses for those paintings i opted for the cheap ones which only had regular sizes.
well here is a slide show of the paintings, the first 2 are small 30x40 or something and the last 2 are 80x100.
The photo of the chalk drawing on the road was for the "Public Space" project in which we had to either make something on the spot, or put one of our old works in a public space that isnt directly Art related. My chalk drawing is a reaction on the small canal that is streaming nearby that road. I walk past it everytime i go to the art supply shop and I have never seen were that canal ends so i thought it might be fun to make an illusion as if it was underneath this particular road. The photo was taken from a metal stairs that was going up to a house of someone and it provided an opportunity to see the drawing from above int eh correct form. Viewing from the road it looks distorted.
dinsdag, januari 06, 2009
Period 1, 3rd Year, Final Presentation
It feels as if these first 6 months of the 3rd year at AKV have passed by so fast. Especially the first period. Well these pictures represent the first period and the workshop week. There aren't as many as before >.< simply because i haven't made more artworks. More work was done in my head, more research and questions which i had to find an anwser to. I'll tell more about that in the Period 2 - 3rd year post.
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