Lcf

So after gaining my unconditional place at London college of fashion, i went back down and had another look at the course and i think it's going to be my first choice now.
here is a video of one of the females that interviewed me.
http://youtu.be/tSfumEqBRCc

Ellen Gallagher

I can't really remember how i get from dada to ellen gallagher, but i really like her work, they way she covers the faces on paper with paint to give the impression of a mask is really weird, plus the photo's of it make the paint just look like an ordinary paper collage instead of an overpainting.
Gallagher's influences include the paintings of Agnes Martin and the repetitive writings of Gertrude Stein.



i might try to recreate the effects shes put onto her...paintings? collages? i dont really know what to call them, because they seem to be a mixture of the two.
I like the fact that the eyes are cut from the portraits aswell, it kind of takes away the sense of identification from the person, take the persons eyes nd they seem to lose their identity and their sense of being.

She was in the Tate in 2013 #, but i can't remember if i saw her work or not, when i saw her work on google it definatly jogged a memory of seeing it somewhere before, but i guess i'll never know.

DaDa - Elsa von Freytag-loringhoven

looking at dada and how the movement relates to my work is really interesting because its the movement ive been following without even knowing it!

Dada started up in the early 20th century, being born out of the negative reaction to world war 1. many artists responded to the war by rejecting logic and reason, favouring the nonsense and irrationality of the world.

a lot of Dada artists use collage in their work, as it is a way of getting the whacky out and creating things out of nothing.


Else von freytag-loringhoven was known as Dada impersonated because of how extreme she took the movement. She is one of the artists that i will be looking at a lot as she was the one who kind of brought it forward, she wasnt scared to be doing anything, to her, her body was a canvas and everyone would see it. she was iconic to the dada world of new york, being known as the baroness of Dada.
her work was something to be recognised, and many other dada artists came to love her work, some to be repulsed by it. Others feared the amount of power she had in the movement, because she was so big and everyone knew who she was.

she was described by an avant-garde publisher as, "the only one living anywhere who dresses Dada, loves Dada, lives Dada."

 

Max Ernst

 

Max Ernst is another dada artist that uses collage in his work. i like the fact that he doesnt always use collage in his work, a lot of the time he uses paint and paints the kind of things that i would create using magazine clippings.

 

in the above image, he has replaces the mans head with the eagles, which i found kind of weird when compared to the rest of the image, the knife going into the womans foot.

 

 

i took on a project today which involves a lot of painting so this artist will really benefit me, i will probably try to recreate some of his works.



Hannah Hoch

I recently found this artist while looking at all different kinds of collage artists. i really like her work and how she kind of ties all of the figures into one in her images.
the below image is one of my favourites because of how simple and real it looks. looking at it, it looks like something you could see day to day and not question.

work like this really makes me want to do more photographic work so that i can make my models poses more intentional.

first time gif

 

 

This GIF was made from an app on my phone that i douns on the apple store. The image shows a collage of mine moving around and is supposed to be generally whacky.

I will try to do some more of these, but next time i will do them in better detail and probably make the gif itself more neat.
I really like the idea of using ordinary abjects like the watch in my work, because nobody expects it.

sasha helim


I found this graduate from lcf who does a lot of work using collage and animation - expand upon at home cause I hate college keyboards

LUDstuff

I recently found this artist who does a lot of work revolving around robots and a lot of work that bulges out into 3D. I really enjoy browsing through his work as its so free and you can tell how much effort and emotion he puts into each illustration.

LUDstuff.BlogSpot

I would really love to get in touch with the artist to find out who his inspirations are and what mediums he works in, as its not stated on his blog.

Nottingham Trent Lectures

Ive started going to live lectures in Nottingham Trent the past couple of weeks to listen to artists talk about how they work and about their work. One of the best ones so far was a woman named Jo Addison, i loved her talk mainly because she showed me another artist that had inspired her named Friedrich Frobel. Frobel was the inventor of the building block, and he was amazed by the way children played with them and how pure a child's creations were. This is also something that really interests me, the way that children play and create things that most adults now days would be too scared to make, mainly because its either different and we dislike change or because its deemed weird for an adult to be having thoughts like a child.

I personally think that any thoughts that a child has about art and creation are as Frobel says, the purest form of art, and if an adult has a thought like this then it shows the creative potential that the individual has. Although i also strongly believe that everyone has the untapped potential to create things like this, only a certain few will ever act on it and bring it out into the world.

http://www.joaddison.com/ - link to Jo Addison's web page
Jo is a lecturer at Norwich university which i find rather exciting, because if i gain a place and attend there i will be able to pick her brains even more and get a better insight into the way she works!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Fr%C3%B6bel - Link to the Friedrich Frobel Wikipedia page, This page explains how he was an influential educator in history.

Bernhard Willhelm

Ive been looking at a fashion designer names Bernhard Willhelm and i have to say i love his work! everything he does is so out of the ordinary.

This is really portrayed in his Autumn/Winter 2013 show, he doesnt make his models walk down a runway like other designers do, he breaks the boundries and its almost questionable if he is a fashion designer or a performance artist.

A lot of his garments remind me of some of my earlier designs such as is cowprint outfit. 
His show also relate greatly with the season they are set in, such as the Spring/Summer 2010 show, where all of the models wore things like feathers and leaves on their heads. I think this is a really important detail of the show, as its the kind of thing that connects the models with the garments, and the garments with the show itself. 
Bernhard Willhelm S/S 10
He also pushes the boundries of clothing by making his male models wear female clothing!! this isnt something you see often so when you do come across it its almost something to marvel at. My mindset is that all clothes are unisex, theres no reason a man should not be able to wear womens clothing and vice versa.

How was working for Walter Van Beirendonck's W.&L.T.?
Walter was the only member of the Antwerp school who would go crazy. Walter really interested me because the ideas he developed had never been seen before. We liked the same things. He likes pop, he likes color and he likes sex. While he was working for the jeans label Mustang, Walter hired a football stadium for one of his W.&L.T. shows. He was responsible for Paris's most amazing and most expensive shows. 

This is from an interview with Hint Fashion Magazine, i like the fact he explained what Walter Van Beirendonck is like as a person, and the fact that he expands on the fact that he was the only person willing to go crazy with their work is really interesting, because i feel that im like that. Within this line of work there shouldnt be any limitations on what you can do, in a sense its like a refined version of illustration, its just brought to life. its all about what your imagination holds and if you know how to make it work. 

Basis of the personal project

My basis idea came from the alternative miss world project, at the end of it I was getting into doing 3D collages, so this projects kind of interlinked with AMW.

Links to interesting artists

http://ludstuff.blogspot.co.uk/

 

http://theverificationmenagerie.blogspot.co.uk/

 

http://ludstuff.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Automata-DiggerBot

This artist makes some really awsome little sculptures out of scrap metal and some out of wood that he carvs out specifically.