Observations following my presentation...
Following the presentation of this module today just a few more observations/reflections…Light will continue to be something I am interested in and drawn to and I may well make some work with it – Stewart you are right when you say I need to just consider things and wait for the right idea to come. This considered way of working is something that sits well with me, and making small samples of work inspired by other artists might just trigger something bigger.
I also like using multiples – looking back over my work I have seen a tendency to work with repeat images – not the same but nearly so, just enough different to ask the question. This too is an idea to carry forward – it will even figure in my SIP in a small way.
With reference to Stewart’s question on how do I classify craft? When I referred to materials/techniques being downgraded from fine art to craft I was influenced by two things, I think. First my observation of how artists pounce on new technologies, try them out, and almost use them up and throw them away. Some technologies remain, but not always in the manner they were first used. A new medium in art can be a new technique and that technique can be used by fine artists as well as other creative people or craftsmen. I wonder if fine artists sometimes disdain materials or techniques when their use has become widespread? Secondly I recognise there is a prevalent feeling that craft is not as worthy as fine art – I do not agree with this and think that how one discipline is rated beside another is somewhat to do with fashion – things go in and out of fashion –for example the use of pattern – once a dirty word but now being reinvented by some fine artists. So how do I classify craft? Perhaps it is something for which there is another use over and above the visual experience? That is, glassware/ceramics made to be used not displayed, textiles produced to be worn, not hung on the wall, graphical arts used to sell an idea? I’m not sure, but these are my first thoughts. I’ll continue to re-evaluate this.
Re my four classifications of light – this may be explained better on my blog than I conveyed today – I think I may have got a little muddled!
Reflection – light falling upon a surface and being reflected
Projection – where a light source is projected towards an object such as Miss Understood and Mr Meanor, and therefore projected away from the viewer
Light passing through – where light from the sun or an artificial light source passes through a substance eg stained glass, perforated paper
Radiating light – I shall use this word instead of emanating which may have other connotations and I mean it to refer to those works with an integral light source such as David Bachelor’s Candelabra 3 or Dan Flavin’s fluorescent tubes.
These classifications are something I have very recently defined for myself to understand what it is I most admire in some works and not in others - there may be more – I’ll keep an open mind! Both light passing through and radiating light create a strong reaction in me, whereas reflection and projection I can appreciate but not feel so much for. I also think that radiating light and light passing through somehow involve the viewer more, and that appeals to me – I want to involve the viewer in my own work too.
posted by Lynda Cornwell @ 10:13 pm
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home