This popped in to my in box this morning-The Complex History of Yellow, a “Mediocre” Color — Read on hyperallergic.com/529864/the-complex-history-of-yellow-a-mediocre-color/ Penguin Dictionary of Symbols describes yellow as “the hottest, the most expansive and the most burning of all colors in its intensity, violence and almost strident shrillness … broad and dazzling as a flow of molten…
Tag: Artefact Project
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Week 15: Jars urns and bowls.
Leach, Luci, Keats, and me. Connected though objects and words. Leach has handed me via his Moon Jar a better understanding of creating an Object that means something more than just the materials its made with. Keats with his Ode to a Grecian Urn has helped me answer the question why and how we do…
Week 15: Preserving your Harvest – Bonne maman
Gather in some home grown produce — Read on http://www.bonnemaman.co.uk/be-inspired/preserving-your-harvest Honestly I think I have a guardian angle. I chose my children’s favoured brand of Jam to form my Triptych of Elevated Artefacts– Bonne Maman. I chose the flavour my eldest auntie made every year in autumn. Guess what they refer to Keats in their…
Week 15:Lucie Rie: A Secret Life of Buttons • V&A Blog
Lucie Rie: A Secret Life of Buttons • V&A Blog — Read on http://www.vam.ac.uk/blog/news/lucie-rie-a-secret-life-of-buttons I wrote about a button for our memory piece in the writing workshop. Remembered object Button. It had an anchor on it. It had lines, scribed horizontally across the french brass surface, blackened for effect. The button was attached to black…
Week 15: Painters from my past at the National Gallery.
Two painters that Isabel mentioned in my final tutorial. I am familiar and fond of them. I made copies, with permission of course while studying for my Diploma in Portraiture. These paintings are important to me as they both show daily life, which is what I wanted to paint, although possibly only moments. All these…
Week 14: Mingei Movement. Kitchen sink art. Value the everyday and the ordinary. Saga Ware.
What is arts, is it produced only by artists, or is it something that people have routinely created throughout humanity’s existence? This is a question central to the Mingei Movement in the early 20th century. Mingei theory was defined by Yanagi Soetsu (1889-1961). They promoted works of the ordinary craftsmen that spoke to the spiritual…
Week 14:Ode on a Grecian Urn
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44477/ode-on-a-grecian-urn Wonder what Keats would have said to a Korean Moon Jar? By JOHN KEATS Thou still unravish’d bride of quietness, Thou foster-child of silence and slow time,Sylvan historian, who canst thus express A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme:What leaf-fring’d legend haunts about thy shape Of deities or mortals, or of both, In…
Week 14: Ink & Die.
I remember reading about Jane Austin when looking for a day out in Sussex. I then read an article that said she may well have died from poisoning. The theory was that she made her own ink and it could have been the culprit. No one really knows. https://www.jane-austens-house-museum.org.uk/collection The old link to this page…
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