Richard Long British artist born June 2, 1945 (Metal Yang, Rooster) was recommended for my research for his drawings on maps, also his ‘walking’ drawings.
My first glance gave me feeling of a powerful man with structure and quite balanced approach to mark making.
Richard Long, Untitled [Online] Available from: http://www.richardlong.org/Drawings/sept%202014/untitled-12-Edit.html [Accessed 27/11/18]
Working with natural materials in their original setting and leaving his creations to be reclaimed by nature, Long has refused the notion of art as a permanent object. … Incorporating elements of performance into the sculpture and preserving the work through photography, his process was as much about the resulting photograph as the sculpture was about expressing the journey and the event of walking. (The Art Story, online)
While exploring the methods and ideas of Long I thought that brightness of colour could not be reached with the mud, wood and an average stones from the desert. But very natural and dull hues create a soft, gentl feeling around the works. This closeness to natural objects make you think about our connection and relationship with the world around us, but one question is not leaving me – where is a progress and development of our civilisation in this art? If compare with the 'Cave of Hands' and 'Mud hand circles' is it not an obvious question what did change for the last circa 11000 years?
Hands at the Cuevas de las Manos upon Río Pinturas, near the town of Perito Moreno in Santa Cruz Province, Argentina. From 13,000 to 9,000 years ago [Online] Available from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cueva_de_las_Manos#/media/File:SantaCruz-CuevaManos-P2210651b.jpg [Accessed 28/11/18]
On one hand, this makes all history of Art worthless as we came from what we started, on the other hand, place of an exposition, the way of arrangement footprints and the subject itself raises questions about the necessity of art and our life.
The point which I want to apply to my works is the usage of the narrative patterns and the reworking art from the past.
Richard Long, Mud hand circles, New York 1989 [Online] Available from: http://www.richardlong.org/Exhibitions/2011exhibitupgrades/nymudhand.html [Accessed 28/11/18]
Richard Long, Box Hill Road River, London 2012 [Online] Available from: http://www.richardlong.org/Exhibitions/2012/box1.html [Accessed 27/11/18]
Fiona Rae (Born 10 October 1963, is a Hong Kong-born British artist. Fire Yang, Rabbit) was recommended for paintings with graphic movement and dynamic composition.
Colourful and fairytale plot in each work is joyful. Name of work is the statement and philosophical question at once - Love is best when you are alive; I need gentle conversations; Everything will be beyond your thinking; Mixing feelings and time…
Her paintings of the late 1980s comprise rows of miniature pictures, each made up of a combination of colours, forms and brushstrokes, against a neutral ground. In these works, the graphic qualities of individual pictures result in the appearance of a pictograph, each one resembling an unknown letter or symbol. (Manchester, online)
Creation of the different worlds and perspective at my glance makes this art thrilling and involving. Creative combination of different techniques catches viewer’s eye and entering him in the dimensionality of the artwork.
The complicity of the texture and composition is what I might think further in my own works.
Fiona Rae, I always wish you every happiness with my whole heart in the distance, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 2012, 213.4 x 175.3 cm [Online] Available from: http://www.fiona-rae.com/paintings/2012-13/i-always-wish-you-every-happiness-with-my-whole-heart-in-the-distance/ [Accessed 28/11/18]
Tacita Dean (born 1965 Canterbury) recommended for drawings with chalk.
Dark drawings, photography, paintings, etchings, videos very Nature oriented. Words are seems to be as important for Dean as a tone.
© Tacita Dean, 450 x 685 mm, part of The Russian Ending, Photo-etching on paper [Online] Available from: https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/dean-beautiful-sheffield-p20264 [Accessed 28/11/18]
Tacita Dean, on Film. Interview at ACCA 2013. acca_melbourne online [Accessed 28/11/18]
Artist’s speech made me sure again and again that 'digital' needs to be integrated into my art as it is my time and I see the world via camera, computer screen or TV…
Tacita Dean: FILM, TATE online
What is a past and how things are becoming old and how we live with this? This is subjects which are not in my priority list for research but as it is a big subject for Dean it makes me think about attitude, approach, research in my works. I have a fear of doing all the time works, extremely different from each other, yet this way lead me to the development and excitement. Tacita Dean, for instance, has her collection of dry flowers, old postcards, she uses artworks of other artists or life stories of different people – it is a variety of subjects. However at a depiction method it is always or chalk, or analogue camera, or photography which is presented in a particular way. At this point, an artist can have a variety of interest but he is most likely to use only several distinct ways of image making.
Anna Barriball (born: 1972, UK) her works are recommended for extreme frottage.
Unfortunately, I was not familiar with this artist, so when I try to check her artworks in Google – almost impossible to see details of frottage and uniqueness of the work.
“Anna Barriball’s works convey an intimacy with the overly familiar. She smothers the surfaces of everyday objects so they become seductively sinister husks of their former selves.” (Saatchigallery, online)
Works of Barriball are handcrafted, what I mean is for works the artist uses simple daily life materials, shaping them a bit and positioning in other to the original place. If compare with the previous artist, for example, Tacita Dean uses much more philosophical attitude and specific mechanisms and ways of image making – this makes her unique, while Anna Barriball would come to the school and adopt pupil’s snowflakes to her artwork.
Anna Barriball, Door, 2004, Pencil on paper, 208.5 x 88 x 6 cm [Online] Available from: https://www.saatchigallery.com/artists/artpages/anna_barriball_door.htm [Accessed 28/11/18]
If compare with another artist - Rachel Whiteread. She is doing also a frottage but with a bigger scale – his type is more dynamic and alive in reality, makes thing bigger and presents under the angle which you would not think before…
© Rachel Whiteread, Untitled (Rooms), 2001, Plaster, fibreglass, wood and metal [Online] Available from: https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/whiteread-untitled-rooms-t07938 [Accessed 28/11/18]
Bibliography and references
1. The Art Story, Richard Long [Online] Available from: https://www.theartstory.org/artist-long-richard.htm [Accessed 28/11/18]
2. Wikipedia, Cueva de las Manos [Online] Available from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cueva_de_las_Manos [Accessed 28/11/18]
3. Wikipedia [Online] Available from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiona_Rae [Accessed 28/11/18]
4. Fiona Rae [Online] Available from: http://www.fiona-rae.com [Accessed 28/11/18]
5. TATE, [Online] Available from: https://www.tate.org.uk/context-comment/video/studio-fiona-rae [Accessed 28/11/18]
6. Elizabeth Manchester, February 2003 Night Vision, 1998 [Online] Available from: https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/rae-night-vision-t07446 [Accessed 28/11/18]
7. Wikipedia [Online] Available from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacita_Dean [Accessed 28/11/18]
8. GARAGE, Лекция Ирины Кулик «Тацита Дин — Джейн и Луиза Уилсон» https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgd-wUHOSo8 [Accessed 28/11/18]
9. Saatchi Gallery [Online] Available from: https://www.saatchigallery.com/artists/artpages/anna_barriball_door.htm [Accessed 28/11/18]
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