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Construction & Deconstruction college

Kurt Schwitters

DADA art movement

This movement is souly based around rebelling against the first world war with the use of refreshing art methored which was photo montage. The whole idea was to be silly and to make no sense at all.

It originated in europe around the late stages of the war. The whole idea was to express the anger towards the war and the political views by making fun of it as they strongly believed that logic and making sense was the cause of the war.

This work was rather modern for its time as it indrocuded photography and also inspired movements such as pop art and surealism.

The movement died out but it branched out so the movement was significant and powerful.

they pushed the bandrages of art as art at the time was simple beauty and made sense.

Kurt was a german poet and typorgapher which is strongly seen in his work.He was discribes as the 20th centry's greated master of college and he would cut out pieces of magazines and throw them onto a page.

How he started being an artist was due to the war. He worked at the front of the war but was sent home after four months due to epilepsy which lead to him being a modern artists.

Him like all the other DADA artists made art to be silly and to rebell against the war.

His work on the right with the quote "These are the things we are fighting# with an image of a woman who looks hopefull and at bliss as she looks at the top left corner. This work has blocks of colour from the strips of magazines.

The neutrial colours gives the work an earthy tone with great contrast and highlights the text at the bottom and the at home wife during the war. The words here are important as thats what is the huge key here. These are the things we are fighting for, contrast and conflict but at the same time this work isnt meant to make sense but to really insult the ideals of war. I personally like this work because it can be seen with a deep meaning but the genius side of this is that there isnt a real deep meaning other than to insult the ideals of war.

I wanted to study Kurt because of the whole use of magazine strips and to be the oppersit of artwork which was in the past, a breath of fresh air with new ideas and presitation as the old work was with the use of landscapes and simple styles. This was new and used to humor.

Hannah Hoch

Hanna Hoch is an iconic dada artists who used fashion magazines to create her work. Her most iconic work is the eye flower work which can be connected to views being pressured on the audiance. Eyes seem to play a powerful role om her work.

A huge theme in her work is feminist views and values as she useses female subjects in her work. She has created the most radical work amung the DADA movement and is one of the most iconicly known.

Hannah stood her ground as she was a woman that was surrounded by male artists and really made her mark upone the world with her collages.

She grew up studying art through patterns, she took this work into abstraction work with what it was suppost to do and what it could do, there were many possibilties and she tried to explore that. She was pretty rebelious with art before DADA came along; art is something that can make a change. This was more visable in her DADA work (examples on the left) where the tried to explore change and really widen the range of what art is possible to do.

I chose to study Hannah because her work is a powerful statement. They are all explored in a simple meaning about standareds of beauty and the rise of the nazi party in europe in germany after the first war. A key element in her work is eyes, she uses eyes alot either enlarged or with a few too many and I believe that is about the image viewing the audicance and causing conflict on that behalf.

Hannah is completely different then Kurt as she embraces divecity while he explores shapes but they are both abstraction and are exploring themes which are happening around the time and making it humorious and make it also a strong statement.

Alice Kettle

Alice is a modern contemporary textile/fiber artist who creates fine works of art onto large sheets of fabric.
She uses a mixture of sewing machine and sewing by hand to create these beautiful works of figure mixed media art.

the line in this work is the major key in this work. Its repeated over and over to create shape as this is created with a continuous line with multi colours to give it depth, layers and shape. The colours are commonly primary colours but because they over lap quite a bit they do mixture by a distance. colours common used for the figure is blue, red and black and its effective because the black helps it stand out, the blue gives highlight as the red gives the work powerful key point making the audiences eyes focus around those areas. space around the figures can be limited from outlines (the black lines from the figure work) the space is unlimited within and outside these lines but it isnt negative space, this space is filled with lines of colour which do not form an image but movement around the figures itself.

The movement in this work is powerful from each fiber the work is given life within the shape and colour. The work is seem alive and draws the audience in with the movement.

Shepard Fairey

Cy Twombly

The contrast is strong in this work with the strong contrast within colour and no colour and between the colours its self.

I think the artists is trying to express the beauty and the uniqueness of the human body's movement oh how we can run, jump and dance with such great expression and beauty. The key of the work I believe is more vibrations of movement.

I personally like this work because its something to get into a deep discussion about with the splash if colours and the movement within the fabric.

Shepard is a contemporary street artists most famous for the 2008 american presidential election with obama's "Hope" work. along side that he is the founder of the OBEY clothing.

All of his work holds a very powerful statement, mostly political views. He uses the colours red to draw attention and make it clear about the statement being made.

This artwork is created through stencils, and it seems like the layer of two. The first layer is red over the top of a yellow cream background and back over the top to create detail/ bring the work together. What i think influenced this work is the war, the Afghanistan war and with the whole idea of peace is the true revolutionary route to take. This could also be based around the Vietnam war which happened around the 1970's and since it was the first war shown to the public it made the mass citizens against the whole idea of war.

Line is powerful in this work, it works in colours also, the black line gives the work life and a sense of what is really happening. The lines are thick and are created in a shadow effect. The colours are bold and are made to stand out from up close and from a distance catching the audience to the message made clear. The contrast here is made with the bright red helping the yellow more mellow and the black more vibrant.

Twombly is an artist around the 1960's A large amount of his work was textual scribbles (he was in the movement abstract expressions) that were movements and feelings he had gotten from poems that gave the suggestions of being alive. It has been mentioned that his work has been strongly resonated with the younger artists as his work is around form and content as he did action painting.

My favorite factor is the colours. The colours are warm and welcoming with the scribbles and dashes. Red is a common colour within his work and that alone makes the work harmonious.

there is no shape or order within this work, its more unorganized and disorderly, unexpected lines and repeated lines over lapping which gives the work interest.

I think the artists created this in a moment where he knew the emotion was a perfect fit for the work as the movement brought along art. The space between the lines and dashes are unpropitious as they are also disorderly but the center is make to seem crowded while the bottom right is also cluttered, the movement began from the left to the right.

Sarah Eisenlohr

Sarahs work is based around the changes of how humans have been able to change fictional effort on how they have transformed the earth using powerful undertones of spiritual effort and journey.

She collects subjects that venture for warmth and protection; thats how she picks the right ones, she collects and fuse together.

A main source for her work is photos from vintage magazines most commonly from the 1960's as the styles and fashion from that era sticks out within the work.

The main idea is to transplant images of influence onto vintage dull photography.

I chose to study Sarah because her work is simple college but it holds a huge statement about

This artwork here is collage work and the media is cut outs from vintage magazines. Sarah is a modern contempary artists and this work is based around how the last 100 years of modern art and how we think has changed dramatically this influenced her work by creating large amount of contrast with the usage of atmosphere and with the human subject acting normal and living their day to day lives within these fictional situations.

Her work is made up of layers of different images and the lines between these aren't always valuable but the colour creates contrast and harmony within the work. Here the woman sticks out with her peachy brown red colours which are warmth as her background is ice= blue grays and whites.

This image holds balance, uneven balance to logic as the subjects are placed in situations which are fictional and the scale of the subject being larger than the person who is in the lower center of the image.

Ernesto Artillo

Artillo is an Artists, photographer and art director. he has worked on many magazines with fashion but with his personal works he likes to stick to the idea of art, emotion and aesthetic is always present in a conversation.

His collage/ cut out work always shows the human form in a caught moment where it expresses emotion and movement. He takes apart the form and make it a moving image within a way where a mood can be seen present from different angles.

I adore his work because the aesthetic within the cutouts is balanced and simple, the original image is still there but also absent at the same time.

This art form is collage/ cut out work, it appears the artists took several pictures of the subject and merged all the images together to make a mixture of moods set for the work. With this he is looking foreword and yet the side of his face is showing an expression of looking away deep in thought.

The line in this work is make obvious with the cuts and the deconstruction of the face to reconstruct another. The colour is, colourless. this work is black and white bring the mood to a serious level. The area around the work is negative with only a blank space but it brings the audiences attention to the sudden sculpture like work in the center.

brian dettmer

Brian Dettmer is one of the most famous artists/ sculpture working with books today. He uses a physical object and form and reconstruct it to create new fineart with it. He commonly uses old books, records, maps, anything really that falls into a form of holding data and information. His current creates 3D Derivative work. He is also known as the "Book Surgeon"

This work is made with a book, the pictures have been cut out, its to make a 3D illustrated sculpture of what the book is about. The words have been left there so the work can be given more context. The lines are clean cuts but this work doesnt have any colour. There is colour in his other works but this one is black and white but it seems like an old book with the style of the man within the book around about the Georgian era.

The work has harmony that is created with the image created with each paper being cut up to form a shape and a 3D image. I love this image because its a deconstruction of a literary form of art to create a 3D form of art which is still respectful to the original piece.

Koji Takei

Takei is a 3D sculpture artists that is inspired by the movement cubism. Its viable in his work which are reconstruction of instruments. How he creates his work is he deconstructs, analyses and reconstructs these pieces which make every day objects less useful. His musical instruments are strongly inspired by Picasso with his first phase of exploring into cubism.

The first sculpture it seemed to be made out of a violin/ cello and a trumpet, Its a mixture of string and brass instruments to form a 3D sculpture that is more about shape, a sculpture cubism piece.

The contrast is formed with the instruments itself as the trumpet is split into three ways and the cello/violin is woven the two pieces together.

I love these pieces because of the strong linkage to cubism but also because the idea of turning an everyday piece into something that can not be reused and is rather a placement to take up space than create sound to take up place.

Clowns

Across the news online and on television there has been a sudden up rise of clowns across America and slowly making its way across the UK. The reason why is unknown but overall idea seemed to have sparked from around august time when clowns have been caught luring children into the woods, this was from police reports of the clowns 'whispering' to the children.

Since then around American residents have been calling the police about clown sightings where some has asked if they can have permission to shoot them.

The uprising of the terror brought schools to a close as well as one student to bring in a knife to school to protect herself against the clowns, as well as an arrest of a student request clowns to kill their teacher.

This isn't new. There have been a clown scare in the uk around 2013 where a man dressed in a clown would stand by the edgy of the street just watching people walk by. There was another around 2014 within america but the whole dressing up as a clown prank is far older then the social media. in 1981 Boston police were notified about mysterious clowns around, not long after that there were reports of a 'demon clown' scaring children armed with a knife.

All of this happened a year after John Wayne Gacy ( a famous children entertainer who was a clown, charged with the murders of 33 people mostly children) and that alone spreaded the fear of a dangerous clown (sightings kept happening for the next 25 years)

What began the whole fear of clowns?

an easy answer is to just say John Wayne Gacy or even the movie/novel It or poltergeist, but where did the root come from? This dark meaning to them which brings fear and inspired those movies and which makes Gacy more scary. Around the British regency era (1811-1837) back where a clown named Joseph grimaldi was the most well known entertainer within England at the time, with illustrations of what he wore you can easily see the inspiration for the modern day clown. He became famous around the time where the whole idea and culture of being famous was changing as they began to get interested in the personal lives of those who were famous, the public person wasn't enough and the information of a private individual became desired. Grimaldi had a dark side, he suffered from depression and alcoholism, charles dickens was just starting out as a writing and edited/changed Grimaldi's biography, memoirs and wrote about the disturbed clown character in his first novel. The entertainment changed dramatically yet the written character of Grimaldi stuck. As mainstream culture changed clowns became darker and more melancholy characters. In todays popular culture its rare to find a clown used as a main source of entertainment more of a disturbed kind who are from dark roots such as the joker from the batman series who is a sociopath, there is crusty the clown from the Simpsons who is depressed, gone through stages of alcohol abuse while the days of happy clowns used for slapstick comedy is gone, forever.

Thanks to all of this the clown community has been receiving backlash as their numbers dropped dramatically and are now just children party performers. The whole up rawr of the clown situation happening which leads up to Halloween has made the clowns refuse to go out or take part in their work with the fear of being mistaken as a 'killer clown'

With this research I hope to take this into my other areas of work and involve this as an issue to mock for my DADA experiment work, or even bring this into the final piece.

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