Rodin

 

François-Auguste-René Rodin (12 November 1840 – 17 November 1917), known as Auguste Rodin ( /oʊˈɡuːst roʊˈdæn/ oh-GOOST roh-DAN; French: [oɡyst ʁɔdɛ̃]), was a French sculptor. Although Rodin is generally considered the progenitor of modern sculpture,^[1] he did not set out to rebel against the past. He was schooled traditionally, took a craftsman-like approach to his work, and desired academic recognition,^[2] although he was never accepted into Paris's foremost school of art.

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)

'Saint John the Baptist'

1879-80

Bronze

Height 200 cm

what I think about this piece of art is that it's very wonderful to look at because of it's incredible detail towards the figure, it's very inspirational towards me because I love to work with the anatomy. I even drew this when I went to the V&A museum.

In this photo there is a naked man posing with his right arm and right leg in front of the left arm and the left leg. the left arm is down by his side. it's a scuplture of Saint John.

The work was also inspired by the unexpected appearance in Rodin's studio of an Italian peasant called Cesar Pignatelli. Rodin was taken by Pignatelli's wild, uncouth appearance and physical force , saying, 'I thought immediately of a St John the Baptist, that is to say a man of nature, a visionary, a believer, a precursor come to announce one greater than himself.' In fact, he is describing an outsider, someone with whom he and other avant-garde artists had a strong affinity. He used Pignatelli's wild air and wiry physique to convey John the Baptist's urgent effort to communicate, a struggle that makes powerful demands on his entire body as he strides forward.

Joseph Cornell

 

Joseph Cornell (December 24, 1903 – December 29, 1972) was an American artist and sculptor, one of the pioneers and most celebrated exponents of assemblage. Influenced by the Surrealists, he was also an avant-garde experimental filmmaker.

1. Quoted in D. Ades, “The Transcendental Surrealism of Joseph Cornell,” in Joseph Cornell, exh. cat., New York, 1980, p. 37

Untitled (The Hotel Eden)
c. 1945 (140 Kb); Construction, 15 1/8 x 15 3/4 x 4 3/4 in; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

In this photo there is a wooden bird holding onto a wire with the beak, there is also a ping pong ball that might represent an egg, most of the materials in this photo is wood.

What I think about his art work is that I find it creative because of all of the random materials that he used and the fact that he created this piece with them is very artistic.

Rachel whiteread

Rachel Whiteread, CBE (born 20 April 1963) is an English artist, best known for her sculptures, which typically take the form of casts. She won the annual Turner Prize  in 1993—the first woman to win the prize.

In this photo there are cardboard boxes that are all white, stacked up on each other to make a shape that gives the impression of a city because of the different heights and mostly the shape. It has been placed into a big hall where the artist can expand on the art piece weather how high or wide it may be.
What I think about this art work is that how she creates a city out of cardboard boxes, which is really cool because it looks so unique and I've never seen any type art like this before so it's quite mindblowing.

Rachel whiteread was commissioned to do this at the Whitechapel Gallery in June 2012. It has said that the meaning behind this was that Whiteread’s plans to work negative casts of the existing windows into the motif, highlights her continued fascination with space.  Negative space becomes an object.  Air becomes palpable.  Objects and space take on a universality of stuff.

Thinking out of the box

Today we did a few sculptures with cardboard boxes. Which was different because its my first time doing it and obviously from the title we had to think outside of the box and so we had some little tasks which were 1,2 box in site
34 box and figure
56 box with text
789 altered box with site
101112 altered box with figure, I didn't find this as hard but I found it as a struggle, it was great fun and all because I'd get to work with the
cardboard box and create it into something else that people don't really use it for.

Painting

Site and Object Narrative and Symbol

Today's lesson we learned about these three artists and how they do their work etc. my task was to go out and produce four photos that related to the work we just leant.

First live drawing session

In today's session the lady we was meant to drawing got into an accident and couldn't come, so we used ourselves with clothes on obviously. With the clothes on I found it more of a challenge because you've got to draw in the creases. We started off by drawing mark techniques, then we used one of them for the start which was using vertical and horizontal lines to draw the figure. Then we did a view of perspective of sir. The next task was to draw in the style of the music that was played out loud, I found it very fun because you get so lost in the music and create a different outcome. For the last task we had to draw the tones of the figure.