Bradford Animation Festival - 'The Kiosk' Anete Melece

This is a light hearted animation of a Kiosk owner called Olga who is a cheerful woman who tends to all her costumers problems and needs, however she seems to be stuck in a monotonous life herself and often dreams of being far away! Her dreams come true by the end due to the list of bizarre incidents that happen to her.

 It was one of my favorites out of the film festival as it was the most light hearted and didn't attempt to tackle deeper controversial issues which other animation films do and tried to in the film festival. The style of the animation was in my eyes the most effective with the mixture of collaging, use of felt tips and water colours.

Turner Prize - Tino Sehgal

         Tino Sehgal was born in 1976 is a British-German artist based in Berlin. He studied political economy and dance so his work is very performance based. 

         All of Sehgal's works exist ephemerally and are documented only in the viewer's memory. The artist himself describes his works as 'constructed situations'.  His materials are the human voice, language, movement and interaction. He resists the production of physical objects.

        His work involves one or more people carrying out instructions conceived by the artist. His work is never usually captured on camera or film, as his work is always derived from the moment. 

       He is a Turner Prize Nominee for 2013 for his work 'This Variation'. This piece consists of a dark and rural room, in which viewers walk around, reacting to unseen performers' noises, making them feel uneasy. This brings the viewers out of their comfort zone, allowing heightened, responsive experience. 

       This piece approaches both art and performance with an Artuadian style. Heightening the viewer's sense and perceptions of art and performance combined. 

Guerra De La Paz - Textile block

The 3D textile artist Guerra De La Paz turns discarded clothes into sculptures, which is similar to what the brief for the textile block was - to use an old garment and turn it into something else.

He made giant sculptures out of old clothes which were the opposite to their previous functions which is what I was aiming for. And that is why Guerra De La Paz inspired me to male a giant stationary set out of an old wool cardigan as a response to my brief.





In Guerra's pieces of work he used bold colours with the fabrics, even though is pieces are made of fabric so naturally are artificial the colours he uses are very real.

Andy Goldsworthy - 3D block

 Andy Goldsworthy is a British sculptor, 3D artist and photographer, He creates environmentally friendly pieces/structures which are all site specific and are usually made out of natural materials


This work links to my 3D work as I used sticks like Goldsworthy has, however mine differs as I have used a bucket to push the sticks through like the images to the right but with a black or white bucket, and 3 lined up with each other.

I find these sculptures of Goldsworthy's very interesting as every material is natural and the abnormal sculpture because of that reason fit into nature.

Richard Tuttle - Fine Art Block

Richard Tuttle is a American post-minimalist artist, and his work is small and makes use of line and scale.

His work with wire links to my fine art project as I have used wire to create spirals like he has shapes and lines.

Our technique and process in creating our work was very similar because his drawn line goes from 2D to 3D which is how I did my work however I moved back to 2D. Richard in second image moves from ink to paint to wire showing his versatility in his work and its very interesting how he transforms this 2D lines in to 3D ones.

Modern Painters - September 2013. Cage of Flesh - Oil on canvas 2012

The composition of this painting is more to the right but in the middle of the page, the model is bending her back towards the left with her head back and arms up. The pose is simple so all you can see is the top of the body and the long hair.

Its a very realistic image as the colours are skin tones, with browns and white also the hair is browns oranges and blacks.

You can see the tone in the painting on the woman, the detail in the skin tone is obvious and realistic, and this is the same with the hair.

Frieze Issue 157 - Periphal Visions.

The kinetic artist Julio le parc for more than 50 years has been exploring spectirship, movement and partcipation.

I found the use of colour in these images interesting, and you can imagine from the image how the artist uses movement to create an warped effect. The simplicity of the images adds to the effectiveness as they are just stripy circles with different colour palettes.

One image a harmonious colour scheme in the main circle with green going into yellow then the stripes are red onto which is opposite green to green on the colour wheel.

Julio Le Parc has used colour and his knowledge on colour theory to his advantage, as he has been able to create the movement in the circle with the right colours making interesting colours from the patterns.