Lucy Maree Murdoch - Aren't Loose Creative Designs

BVA313 Art Theory  18/6/19 Authenticity of Art  Art is globally at $50 Billion a year Fakes - estimated to be at 30%   - lack of documentation and research means it is easy to slip into the market.  Supposed to controlled by Art Authenticators.  A very secretive world. How are artworks analysed/  knowing everything about the artist - then scientific analysis - DNA - multispectral imaging.  lacks regulation in the industry. Van Gogh art has a lot of fakes on the market.  This fake has circulated for 100 plus years.  Declared fakes but then in 2011 - changed minds to state it is real.  X-rays can help identity fakes. Evaluate all the players Authenticators - Museums - Auctioneers  - want to make profit, not interested in authenticity.  Insurance - Art Critics - What are their motives for their findings? Artwork 'Fourteen Sunflowers'  Van Gogh - was it real or fake?  There were doubts - pictu...

BVA312  Art History  18/6/19 20th Century Art Movements Abstraction Franz marc - Wassily Kandinsky emotion or consciousness supremacy of pure artistic feeling. Hilma AF Klint - occult - ideas Piet Mondrian 1872-1944  Tableau 2 Bauhaus - craft was on the same footing as art  - simplified forms Dada - and abstract sculpture Helen Frankenthaler - Ref the case for abstraction  Khan Academy - Fauvism (Wild Beasts) Henri Matisse and Andre Derain - 1905-1910 interested in color theories -   early experiments in color and illusions in color. Cubism - a revolutionary change to old ideas - the first abstract style in the movement. Picasso and Braque - reflected the struggles of modern life.    Simplified forms - liberal use of cubes. viewer feel the essence of the forms represented.  Multi perspectives of the same scene. Instruments and sheet music featured in many works - music was important to them. http://www.art...

Artist Statement Artist’s Name: Lucy Murdoch Programme: Bachelor of Visual Arts Year: Three Title: “What’s for dinner?” a cautionary tale about greed and plastic pollution. Medium: Assemblage | Mixed Media | Diorama Research Question: Through the mediums of assemblage sculpture and illustrative drawings how can I create a visual story using anthropomorphic fantasy characters and incorporate awareness of plastic pollution? The production and assemblage of the story characters and presenting them in a scene so the viewer can read a story and receive a message about environmental issues or raising awareness through story.      Using the characters created for the story Victor Barco and the Poogie Hunters I have taken a story chapter and presented them in a way which should be read from left to right. Craft vs art practice - looking back at materials and play - inventiveness - collecting practice - Scale - museum practice - si...

Art History - Week Two 19/02/19 Sister Wendy Beckett - Italian Renaissance Story of Painting 3 of 10 you tube Essay is about topic that interests me Artists Art Movements Building Fantasy Art beginnings 1400's - new visions - Brancacci Chapel Humanity dignified Adam & Eve - suffering but responsible. Medicci family.  early arts patrons.  Artist - Brother John - Brother (Fra) Angelico. The wealthy wanted their homes decorated and there were new themes offered.  Classical world was fashionable - Botticelli.  Mars and Venus - Sattires. A scene with lovers, distance and lowliness. Andrea Montenga  - Northern Italy - official court painter.  Manchuria. Interest in Greek and Roman sculpture.  Portraits contained beautiful and fantastical landscapes. Paintings were ordered and precise, scenes had no people.  P D. Francesca. Leonardo da Vinci - a brilliant mind, inventor, artist with an amazing imagination.  Mona Lisa is...

Week One What do I know about the 17th to 20th Centuries of art? I think that my knowledge of art history over my time here at SIT included New Zealand, Australian, Pasifika, China, Korea and Japan as well as art from America.  We have a brief over view of ancient art that covered Roman and Greek architecture and sculpture as well as early paintings.  http://thevoiceoflondon.co.uk/a-level-art-history-a-subject-worth-fighting-for/ A collage of famous artworks over the years |  (by WHSmith Blog) What is my favourite era? My favourite eras are Romantic/Victorian especially the  illustrators  and Surrealism (early through to modern)  and Pop art. Who is my favourite artist? One of my  favourite artists is currently Lenora Carrington. But I like many artists including Arthur Rackham & Peter Blake. What would I like to learn? Anything that will help with my third year project, I think that there are many art movements and artists yet t...

5/3/19  - Spain 1600 Baroque Sister Wendy - watch YouTube  El Greco - Toledo  - painted as he felt it should be.   Doménikos Theotokópoulos (Greek: Δομήνικος Θεοτοκόπουλος [ðoˈminikos θeotoˈkopulos]; October 1541 – 7 April 1614), most widely known as El Greco ("The Greek"), was a painter, sculptor and architect of the Spanish   Renaissance . Died ‎: ‎7 April 1614 (aged 72); ‎ Toledo, Spain Known for ‎: ‎Painting, sculpture and architecture Born ‎: ‎Doménikos Theotokópoulos; October 1, ... Nationality ‎: ‎Greek Spaniard source Wikipedia : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Greco https://www.artble.com/artists/el_greco/paintings/the_burial_of_the_count_of_orgaz Peter Paul Reubens - Ambassador beteween Spain and Protestant Britain.  An Allegory of War and Peace.  https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/artists/peter-paul-rubens  1577-1640 One of the most influential Flemish painters of the Baroque ...