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.
Friday, 7 March 2014
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.
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.
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.
Thursday, 6 March 2014
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.
Wednesday, 5 March 2014
Links to interesting artists
This artist makes some really awsome little sculptures out of scrap metal and some out of wood that he carvs out specifically.
Saturday, 22 February 2014
Collaged character development
this is my development for a range of characters in my story for the Alternative miss world project.
Friday, 21 February 2014
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