Reading 2

An interview with Charlotte coton/ Director of cultural programming Art+Commerce

Charlotte Cotton was in her third year of Art history at university that became interested in photography and film. He said that she didn't want to be a photographer but she wanted to be with photography. She went to V&A museum in london to get volunteer in the photography collection. She wanted to work at museum to open to public 5 days a week, so she waitressed during the evening and for 3 days a week for 8 months she was volunteer cataloguging the photography collection. she learned how to look.

I think its really interesting that she don't take, buy and accept photographs that period, it was just a pure time to look at photographs in terms of the collection history and history of photography.

She was working as an assistant curator of photographs then curator of photographs at the V&A for 12 years. She wants to address of photography as a medium to everyone and people to give their opinion about them. The important thing is about public access that we can decide the important of what we are looking at.

She read critiques of institutional ideologier by writers like Christopher Phillips and Douglas Crimp. Intellectual critique can not analyze a photography without institution or their histories.

Photographers are always working on their own independent practice is the type of photographic democracy. Photographers works are all about what the feel and its a most important thing.

New practitioners couch their photographic announcement in art world language and value of the productions associate with galleries than other photographic context such as magazines.

I think that is interesting that she separate photography from fashion and advertising.

She thinks documentary photography in newspaper and magazines are making problems, because something has shifted in how we look at image or real event but i think its not true cause all of these things are in one piece and they working together. all of them are link together.

Our media environment is changed and we deal with lots of different perspectives. Generally and Culturally there are lot of different assimilation of the world issue.

Its certainly more popular within art to support digital video forms of documentary.

She doesn't see fashion context as an art context and also she don't consider fashion designer as an artists. I dont think its right. because fashion is art, and all the designers are Art artists.

Contemporary art worlds interest in photography in the 1960s and early 1970s it was a shift from the value of the canonical history of photography. it becomes a heavy act.

In general i like her ideas and the way he answered the questions but in some part of this interview i was disagree with her specially in fashion part. as i said Fashion is art and all the designers are an art artist.

Everybody love Fashion

http://www.scientificpsychic.com/alpha/fashion.html

I found this website, describe top brands in short way and i like it.

Between now and january i will visit these 4 museum.

• http://www.vam.ac.uk/
• http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/
• Wildlife Photographer of the Year /5th December 2009- 10th January 201/ in Bristol museum.
• SPIKE ISLAND

Session 5

Note on lecture

http://wwar.com/artists/ check out this websiteit has what ever u want abour artist and the style of them.

British painter

1. Value and Taste
2. Is art different from fashion? do they have different function?
3. Criteria for being "better",:best', or "good"? How do we judge what is better?
4. Academic study

What do we mean by impriving?

History Artist

Contemporary issues

Ancient Egypt 3000-1000 bc

idealize from/ nature form

they present reality life(very functional)

(painting reveals)real world with an ideal world.

Ancient Greek 1000-146 bc

Ideals human body/ideal man or women

what world should r shouldn't like

Ancient Rome 146 bc-AD 313

Reflective to society/people work)

Renaissance AD 1420-AD 1525

During that time renaissance changed massively.

the painting that we look they are all static and scientist view.

i saw another picture during renaissance that was about St.peter.i like that work because it was simple and it shows their meaning so well.

The painter was commissioned by family, he was from wealthy family.

Massalino works are about personal investment.

Mannerism and Baroque AD1525-AD 1700

it was about self portrait and it think look so specific .

ROcoco(in his painting u can see interior design)

ROmanticism

Shows power of nature,the effect on our Romanticism.That kind of painting on that period,suddenly it was a shifting in the thinking.

Realism 1850

the painting showed Ordinary people do ordinary things.

painting real life/ representing reality/

what i get during this lecture i think our views changes historically. and everyday i can see something new in art world.

Post modern artist

consider a pop-artist/public taste/its offensive in term os taste

How do we value modern artist?

Martin Creed........ the Light going on and off... dimensional variable/material variable

Its about what is art or what is not art? how is that art? what are the values?

i like that works i think its so clever.

POst Modernism

Artist as charlatan?

Prior to the renaissance.

The self wasn't considered to be a subject to explore in isolation.

Pliny the Elder AD 77

• Wrote 'natural history' an important source of artistic value in 15th and 16th centuries.
• Demonstrated the statues greek artist could achieve.

Lorenzo Ghiberti

• Sculptor, goldsmith and architect
• First artist to write an autobiography in 1450s
• Marked new ideas about the status of the male artist.

The name of his work that i saw was "The gate of Paradise" Doors to florance baptistery.

Francesco del cossa 1470

• plea to patron to be paid for commission as making for him self
• response from pay

Artist are entertainers

Role of the artist?

Artist have access to have sources of inspiration and talent.

Mark Rothko.1961

Mattew barney(he is working as an practitioner)

Art and Democracy/Commerce?

• Art has to be experienced and the shop is where people can experience ,it is a democratic. atmosphere rather that a west end gallery.
• Art as fashion?

Artist personalities

• Psychology
• Social History
• The Artist " civilizer"as "Border crosser" or as "Representer".

Psychologists

1. Lombroso 1863 approach supported victorian and romantic.
2. Otto Rank 1932..... artist is a part of society.
3. Different view of the artist assume certain expedition.

Sociologist

Becker 1982 argues that art works cannot be the product of a sole individuals work and effort.

Roger Hirons(his works are absolutely beautiful )

http://www.timeout.com/london/art/event/154407/roger-hiorns-seizure

The role of the artist

• To be a cultural civilizer
• Artist as tastemaker
• As a border crosser...... artist imagined someone has a critical view of social structures and can challenge boundaries.
• Artist as a activist

Suzanne lacey-The roof is on fire(it was about all sort of thing in one picture, different meaning)

Joost Conjin 2004

he made a wooden car recently and drove all over the world without paying petrol.

Vogue

I checked the vogue style website yesterday and i found this intresting part which is about the 10 best dressed women in 2009.

http://www.vogue.com/bestdressed/112309/

Task 5

George Baselitz, The Gleaner, August 1978. Oil and tempera on canvas. Lucian Freud, Reflection, 1985.

Most painters are between the late 19th century and the mid 20th century are modernists. Some famous names: Paul Cezanne, Vincent Van Gogh, Paul Gaugin, Henri Matisse, Wassily Kandinsky, Pablo Picasso, Marcel Duchamp, Piet Mondrian, Max Beckmann, Pierre Bonnard, Max Ernst, Alberto Giacometti, Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, Barnett Newman, Mark Rothko.Almost any painting made by any of these artists would be considered modernist painting.

Greenberg's concern there is a logic to the development of modernist art and, in particular, modernist painting. He identifies the essence of Modernism as "the use of the characteristic methods of a discipline to criticize the discipline itself began with the eighteenth-century German philosopher Immanuel Kant. "Modernism", Greenberg tells us, "criticizes from the inside [rather than from the outside], through the procedures themselves of that which is being criticized

Collage

collage was one of the major points in the evolution of cubism and also evolution on modernist art in this century.

collage was invented by Picasso or Braque. collage in the modernist sense began with cubist painters; pablopicasso and braque. Their works were between 1907 and 1914 .collage may include newspaper clippings,ribbons,handmade paper portions of the other work and photographs.

As i understood from this article , Paul Cezanne (french & post-impressionist painters artist) paintings had an logic meaning and during 1911 the direction of the logic become clear.

Starting 1911, Braque and picasso works created practically interchangeable.

Braque discovered Tromp-l'oeil work on that time.Tromp-l'oeil stimulated typography supplements, rather than replaces.

Around 1911 and 1912 , cubist surface become harder to deny.

Braque and Picasso start to work with different thing such as sand and other substances with their paints and also Braque start to exact simulation of wood gaining.

Decoupage is a type of collage usually defined as a craft. It is the process of placing a picture onto an object for decoration.In the early part of the 20th century, decoupage, like many other art methods, began experimenting with a less realistic and more abstract style. 20th century artists who produced decoupage works include Pablo Picasso and Henri.

Collage made from photographs, or parts of photographs, is called photomontage. Photomontage is the process (and result) of making a composite photograph by cutting and joining a number of other photographs.

Sunday Times

Shoulder IT

i read an article about shoulder pads, that it said most of the people love shoulder pads speacially when see JOan Crawford in Mildred pierce.

In late 1940s, women had been wearing big shouldered jackets for some time,but because of the war they looked quite utilitarian and worn over rather shapeless dresses somewhat shappy.Then In 1949,Christian Dior launched his new look-long,full skirt and tightly nipped in jackets with sloping shoulders. all of the sudden shoulder pads were out and didnt return for a long time.

The Fashion industry badly needs of a new innovative style.

In the early 1980s were what created the infatuation with the American footballers shoulder.they were more falttering that an italian waiter. certainly , at that time ,Saint Laurent, Valentino, Versace and many others were starting to show the look on their catwalks.

No ounfit looked right unless the shoulders jutted out.

In 1990s nothing is more unflattering to a woman with shape. Balenciaga and Balmain started the trend last season.thanks to them.

shoulder pads style is back.

Animal Print

I always love animal prints, because i love textile design. i read an article about animal print on vogue that i was so agree with it.

Animal print never goes out of fashion. however urban and modern ,we may be the untold value of animal skins to our hunter-gatherer ancestors. besides ,is anything more beautiful than natures design when it comes to the spots, dashes and stripes of a leopard or zebra?

No wonder fashion has embraced it to such a degree.

idea to how wear animal prints to look good.

Avoid Being Too Matchy-Matchy with Your Clothing

Don't try to be cute or clever by matching too many parts of an outfit; you'll look like you're trying too hard to make a fashion statement. Instead, aim for a balanced ensemble of complementary garments and accessories (not matchy-matchy ones) that look effortless.

The little Black Dress

VOgue Style( i read an article about a little black dress)

chanel invented the little black dress. since 1926, when vogue first showed chanel's version (short, simple and impossibly chic), the LbD has provided women with uniform that is as universal and lasting as it is distinctive and individual.

Dress up or down and accessorised simply or as wildly as desired,whichever its a way to wear it works. The Duchess of windsor, who knew a thing too about appropriate tailoring and owned several LBDs, put it most succinctly.

" When the Little Black Dress is right, there is nothing else to wear in its place"

Dress project (final design)

These pictures belong to last week ,during i was making my twelves of my dress. I'm happy with my design and i used inverted pleat, binding and sink technique on my dress. also i learned how to make a belt ,it is awesome. i tried to take a picture step by step.Hopefully u guys can understand!!!

Mariah Carey's brand aid

mariah carey and elle magazine produce the Elle for mariah mini magazine. its a new way for musicians and publishers to build their brands. one of the publication of Elle magazine said : for their part,many artists have strong brand relationships in place-their own fragrances and fashion line-that they want to promote.on this article it said that readers love exclusive content on their favorite artists ,whether its celebrities also its just not for the women.

they always looking for a new ways t0 reach consumers but approach isn't suitable for every artists.its hard for magazine to get attention from artist like Madonna, but when mariah advertising on Elle maybe it get attention form her.

Harvey Nichols Window

last week i passed from Harvey Nichols and i saw the widows decorations that i really liked it. its creative and fun mixed with lots of pizazz.