Lucy Maree Murdoch - Aren't Loose Creative Designs

1/6/19  My practice of collecting - when did it begin for my project? Materials began to appear at an alarming rate during the first few months of 2019. Among them are themes of objects such as recycled plastic Barbie or Bratz style dolls - varying amounts and parts of porcelain Victorian dolls and old toys. A sort of dystopian collection of unloved objects destined to be remade, stored or displayed. This is because the dolls are not new in their boxes with tags - there are a great many collectors who value the object (character dolls are a good example) as a sort of currency - shiny, pristine packaging, labels - curated and stored, traded and re-sold -  never to be handled or played with .  That is not me or why I collect.  Certainly the object might have a re-sale value as an up-cycled piece of bespoke art and I intend to sell art work at the completion of my degree, but energies are spent on the creative process to produce the made work for m...

References 10 June 2019 APA List for Art History Essay on Fantasy Art - due June 2019 Beagle, P. S. (1982).  The Garden of Earthly Delights  (1 ed.). London, United Kingdom: Martibn Secker & Warburg Limited. Retrieved June 7, 2019 Bosch, H. (n.d.). Garden of Eathly Delights. Retrieved June 10, 2019, from https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/renaissance-reformation/northern/hieronymus-bosch/a/bosch-the-garden-of-earthly-delights Examples of Iconography . (n.d.). Retrieved June 6, 2019, from http://examples.yourdictionary.com/examples-of-iconography.html Hickson, D. S. (2014).  The Garden of Earthly Delights by Bosch.  Retrieved June 10, 2019, from Khan Academy: https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/renaissance-reformation/northern/hieronymus-bosch/a/bosch-the-garden-of-earthly-delights Jude, D. (1999).  Fantasy Art of The New Millennium.  Hammersmith, London, United Kingdom: Voyager. Retrieved May 31, 2019 Moffat, C. (2008, ...

30 MAY 2019 Ideas for exhibition - use boxes as dioramas - second set arrived and need to be put together.  I can use 6 or 8 with a character and backdrop in each - On the top add plate with text - (done)   then scaled houses made from cardboard - paint black so they do not detract from the figures. All characters for the second exhibition will be made from wire armatures and polymer clay (as opposed to the combination of polymer clay and dolls bodies used in exhibition one) Talked about the use of outcomes from the bookmaking workshop on 1 June with Sam Chandler.  These books could be useful for the exhibition as a way for the viewer to read the story - suggested one should be blank with a cover and title (tell own story) and one should contain cover and images and some text inside. Make drawings to include character bios and some story without text.  Look at authors such as Shaun Tan who produces wordless books - Tan is included as a practitioner i...

30 MAY 2019 Mapping exercise due 14 July 5pm  - email Kathryn 2500 words Intro: Aprox 2 paragraphs is a summary is going on to discuss Title is clear and relevant to project  - add sub title - pick some key words from question. Proposed key question - is resolved  and explained - integrate and start with this in the first sentence. Six arguments should be plenty - should be about topics i am doing - it is a statement (not a question)  use examples to back this up.  Tell reader how references are important to project. Choose examples that are relevant to my work.   Methodology - Practice based research - can find more in library and Y drive resources. document findings as I go along - could easily forget - make sure blog is regularly updated.   add citations as you go......saves a lot of work. Documentation - annotated texts - theory and history - cited APA.  worth 10 marks. Title : Victor Barco and the Poogie Hunt...

Art Theory - 28/5/19 Issues of Viewership - Gaze Ingres, Raphael and the Fornarina Artists with their models - painted by another painter in the studio - le regard  - French Deals with how the audience views the painting James Lacan (1901 - 1981)  and The Mirror Phase  - theorist : Psychoanalyst - understanding of ourselves - the first time we recognize ourselves in the mirror .    other people won't experience us as we experience as ourselves. Michel Foucault (1926-1984)  and the Clinical Gaze Spectator's Gaze - viewing the text or painting, art, music - usually the audience. Intra-diegetic Gaze    - one person looking at the other person Extra-diegetic gaze - where the person in the picture looks at the spectator - an aside and acknowledgement - the fourth wall - address the audience.  Camera or Director's gaze - camera looks where Director is looking Text within Text gaze - Characters watching character within th...

The Art of Russia Movement - Constructavism episode one - Out of the Forest 3000 BC Year 988 - uniting the country - ordered destruction of pagan idols and converted to Christianity.  Prince Vladimir - Santa Sophia Cathedral  11th C Kiev.  Byzantine in style - adopted a religion and an entire culture - from modern day Istanbul (Constantinople)   - A simplicity that spoke directly to the people.  The ICON - a painting on wood of a Saint, prophet or Jesus himself.  This relates to my practice - my story characters are similar to icons - legends.  Worshiped a fertility figure, a mother figure - so they related well to Mary mother of Jesus.  The people needed something sacred to touch because of their isolation. The BOOK - illuminations and texts - calligraphy.  Transcribed the bible so people could understand the words and text.  The text is a work of art itself.  interior of Cathedral   The new religion...