STRUCTURE

To pay attention is our endless and proper work.Mary Oliver(American poet b 1935 - )

Brainstorm/Blue Sky Thinking/MindmapCall it what you like or what ever someone

else says we should call it… Ideas come when you are actively thinking about stuff… it’s your job to think.

Steven Johnson: Where good ideas come from

Watch Steve Johnson guide you through the origins of ideas. You can cultivate ideas

Ideas are put together from thinking about stuff, thinking again and then joining up your thinking and acting on it.

VERY BRILLIANT IDEAS

Steal Like An Artist: Austin Kleon at TEDxKC

This is the bit were your teacher asks you to look at other artists work and make connections. You don’t need to reinvent the art wheel, you can take ideas and build on them, push ideas in other drections. It’s your job to do this and make things that are visually interesting. If someone else has already done it how are you going to move the idea on.

Blackout Poetry

Vladimir TatlinMonument to the 3rd International.Vladimir Tatlin - Russia's legendary dreamer

Pneumatic Tatlin

For Tatlin And the Hopes of All the Ages

Watch this film to find our about Tatlin. Watch the links below to see how artists are still inspired by this work over 100 years after it was made.

TOP TIP… What the expectations are

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i) Who? ii) What?

A) Why are artists, 100 years later still drawn to this work?B) What was the wider context in which this work was made?C) What kind of resonance does this monument have in the 21st century?

iii) Why?

Good practice would be to find out about Vladimir Tatlin and what he was up to with his Monument to The Third International.

iv) MAKE YOUR OWN VERSION OF TATLIN’S TOWER

Alastair MackinvenET SIC IN INFINITUM

Et Sick In Infinitum, 2008. Oil on canvas.

Et Sick In Infinitum, 2008. Oil on canvas.

Penrose Stairs/StepsThe Penrose stairs or Penrose steps, also dubbed the impossible staircase, is an impossible object created by Lionel Penrose and his son Roger Penrose. A variation on the Penrose triangle, it is a two-dimensional depiction of a staircase in which the stairs make four 90-degree turns as they ascend or descend yet form a continuous loop, so that a person could climb them forever and never get any higher. This is clearly impossible in three dimensions.

Penrose stairs

M.C. EscherAscending and Descending.

Alastair MacKinven,Andway Isthay Oreverfay2008, Oil on canvas. 205 x 205 cm

An idea taken from mathematics made visual via an etching reinterpreted by a painter

Rachel WhitereadCharity box, cast object

Rachel Whiteread, Embankment.

TASK 1Take cardboard boxes and make a structure from them out in the corridor space. Use take to stick boxes together.

Ai Weiwei

TASK 1a Look over Tatlin’s Monument to the 3rd International again.

Vladimir TatlinDan Flavin

A version of the sculpture in the courtyard of the Royal Academy.

Take the boxes provided and make your own homage to Tatlin’s Monument The 3rd International. Make a structure that gives you height as well as volume.

Vladimir Tatlin Retrospective

TASK 1b Look over Tatlin’s Monument to the 3rd International again.

Make an interesting structure with the boxes. Use tape to attach them together. How will you make them balance. How will your structure be a homage to Tatlin’s Monument to the 3rd International

TASK 1c

Make

*Choose other kinds of materials to make your own structures/stacks…and document them via drawing.

Martin Creed makes structures (stacks using cardboard boxes as well as other objects).

MARTIN CREED BOXES

Cardboard boxes are pretty much at the bottom of the totem pole in terms of possible art materials. They are cheap, disposable containers for other things. Rauschenberg has said he tries “to act in that gap between” art and life, and there's probably nothing more everyday than a cardboard box. He uses them “as is,” with their stains, tears, marks and worn labels revealing their history and creating a patina of wear and age.

ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG BOXES

Damien Hirst

Damien Hirst, Mother and Child (Divided), 1993,Glass, painted steel, silicone, acrylic, monofilament, stainless steel, cow, calf and formaldehyde solution. 207 x 322 x 109cm

Let’s borrow from Damien

Rachel Whiteread, Embankment.

TASK 2a.

Lets cut up cabbages and drawing them interior structure, paying extremely close attention to nuances and colour.

Take the drawing you made last week i) Take your Red Cabbage

drawing/painting/photos from last week and use them to create printsii) Poly tile iii) Etching iii) Monoprintsiii) HOW CAN YOU MAKE THIS INTEESTING? Your job is to think about this bit.

TASK 2b.

Juan Sánchez Cotánca. 1602, oil on canvas 68.9 cm x 84.5 cm

Laura LetinskyUntitled #54, Hardly More Than Ever series, 200231″ x 26.4″Archival Ink Print

Making an art historical reference. 1602 to 2002. Separated by 400 years. However both artists use the sliced melon and reveal its structure.

Look at Juan Sánchez Cotán work and think about how you might use it as a starting point, a stepping off point to also make a work that includes a cut vegetables.

Half Term Homework

The Lloyds Building

St Paul’sCity Hall Battersea Power

Station

Banqueting House

British Museum Admiralty Arch St Bartholomew-the-Great

Half Term HomeworkYou are to look at important and interesting buildings in London.i) Make a selection of 3 buildings.ii) Research the buildings. Does the building have a history worth telling? If

you building is an old building can you point to a more contemporary version of it?

iii) Can you make other links to your building visually?iv) Visit the buildings and make drawings of them.

Full pages in your sketchbook. Three buildings = 3 double page spreadsUse different media to make your drawings.

v) Look at the work of Jeanette Barnes and let it be the permission you need to make more expressive drawings.

Mark making is king/queen

John Virtue

London cityscape

Lesson 03 - John Virtue

Bourne IdenTV at Towner: British Artist John Virtue and The Sea

Watch

Jeanette Barnes

Sean Hillen

'IRELANTIS' collages 1994-2005

Half Term HomeworkAsk yourself “what if”?

In your work you need to:

Take risk

FailMake bad drawings

Reflect. Refine.

Make better drawings

Recognise, evaluate and reflect. What is worth pursuing and further developing?

Artists to look at and consider

Katie Paterson

Earth Moon Earth

In Moon Earth Moon Katie Paterson sent a digital signal of Beethoven’s Moon Light Sonata to the moon and reflected it off the moon back to earth. The returning signal was then played by a piano in a gallery. What the piano played back was based on Beethoven’s original music , but because of lost data the structure was changed.

Watch Katie Paterson on Moon TransmissionKatie Paterson, documentation of “Earth Moon Earth”

Nina Katchadourian

Spider web repair kit.

Nina Katchadourian, “GIFT/GIFT” (1998)

Nina Katchadourain made a series of works in which she repair spiders webs. She worked with an existing structure and added to it in a way that re-established the original structure.

Watch

Vija Celmins tate shots in the studio

Untitled (Web 1), 2001, Mezzotint on paper 17.78 x 19.69 cm Charcoal on paper

James Casebere

James Casebere makes the sets for all his photographs. Simple paper structure that are transformed in the process of documenting them via photographs.

Jeremy Deller

Jeremy Deller, Sacrilege, 2012, mixed mediaWatch these clips to see how people interact with thi s work

Sacrilege Part 1 The Making OfSacrilege Part 2 Glasgow Launch

tehching hsiehLook here

Tehching Hsieh made an exceptional series of artworks; five separate one year long performances that were unprecedented in the use of physical difficulty over extreme durations and in the absolute conception of art and life as simultaneous processes.

He formalised a structure of ideas and rules that he applied to himself in order to produce his performances. He stuck to his structure each time for a period of 1 year.

“The way we approach the work is that it’s meant to be fun for us, but, on the other hand, the audience has to be having fun with us. I think there’s more room for humour and fun in activism and I think there’s more room for humour in the arts.”

Evan Roth

Evan Roth Presentation, Storytelling, Kitchen Budapest Artists are Hackers: Evan Roth at TEDx Pantheon Sorbonne

Look at and take from Roths work. How could you introduce his ideas of hacking into systems you experience?

(Look at it all the work but ignore the phone swipe works. They’re the least interesting works in a body of challenging and funny works.

WATCH. Learn from the way he describes ideas in a simple way and consice way,

Anish Kapoor

1000 Names, 1979 - 1980

Charlotte Nash

Advice to Young ArtistsDavid Shrigley Lydia DavisOlafur EliassonHans-Peter FeldmannMamma AnderssonDavid ByrneMarina AbramovićJoshua Oppenheimer

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