The Build

Producing the group sculpture was very fun and exciting but, it did come with its challenges. even thought we had some problems, we managed to fix them as a group.

The sculpture is a representation of everyone's idea in my group of four. it has Elle's idea of a swan feather, Tianna's idea of a wave, Jasmines idea of triangles and webbing and, it included my idea of pyramids that could be walked threw and sat in. Combing all of these gave us a very successful sculpture that all of use were proud of.

On the first day of making, we made the feather and a pyramided to support it. we managed to get this standing up on its own. this selection allows people to stand under the feather for shelter.

On the second day, as a group we moved on to adding the other features in the surrounding area including my pyramids, Jasmines triangles and Tianna's wave. we managed to get all of that and we started to add webbing to make everything link together.

On the third day, we made sure everything was string and could stand up. we tapped and tapped our sculpture to the floor and began adding even more webbing.

On the fourth day, we had finished making. the last day consisted if adding finishing touches and details. we added a sign and added cassette tape to personalise our sculpture.

We faced a few problems but the biggest one was the webbing. At first the webbing was to tight so it was causing sections of the sculpture to rip and collapse, to fix this problem we cut the string off, made the sections we wanted the string to come of more durable and added the strings back but we made them loser this time. That problem was then resolved.

Our other problem was due to running out of resources. on one day, we ran out od staples which meant we had to rely on tape which proved to not be as strong.

Overall, I love our sculpture. I feel like we was extremely successful and it came out a lot  better than I thought It would. The only thing I would change about this, is the colour of the cardboard. This is because, it was a mixture of white and brown which made it look a bit messy. My favourite part is the webbing and the cassette tape that we weaved in. That small feature made everything come together.

The Serpentine Gallery

As a class, we visited the Serpentine Gallery to view the 2015 Pavilion. The Pavilion is temporary and was created by the architect's called Jose Selgas and Lucia Cano. he designer of the beautiful Pavilion is SelgasCano.

SelgasCano's master piece is a playful and fun pavilion that all types of audiences can enjoy. Children are very interested and fascinated by the bright colours and how walking threw the Pavilion is like an adventure that stimulates their senses. Whereas adults are amazed by the unique and distinctive shape of the Pavilion and from every angle there is something new and exciting to look at.

The Pavilion has various colours along with mirrored material, ribbon and translucent sections. the main material of the piece is Ethylene Tetrafluoroethylene which is layered twice. The frame is a made from steel.

Personally, I found the Pavilion to be breath taking! I managed to do a few observational drawings from the piece. Viewing the pavilion influenced me to think about using abstract form and shape when I go to make my own shelter with my college group.

Geometric Maquett

This was a small experiment that was done during one of my lesson. we had to made a form of shelter using tape, paper and cardboard. With these resources it taught use how to use the materials effectively, and how to make the overall sculpture stronger.

The problem I came across was, when the sculpture was put together, it had a lot of weak spots. This meant I had to work on these sections and come up with a way of fixing this problems. The problem was fixed with an extra layer of tape and small supports made from cardboard and paper.

Unit 5: Artists Research

Alan Aldridge

He is a English Graphic designer and Illustrator. He used to be the person that bands and publishers would go to when looking for the edgy design. His work influenced the Graphic era and became know as the 'Graphic Entertainer'.

Alan Davie

He was a Scottish painter and Musician who was very respected. he mostly worked from abstract and improvisation.

Alan Fletcher

He is a British Graphic designer who created his unique style of work and also designed a logo for the V and A. He was know mostly for is creative designs of logos.

Anselm Kiefer

He was a German painter and sculptor. Most of his work was based on The Holocaust and other spiritual concepts. he worked with raw materials such as, straw ash clay and more.

Ben Shahn

He was a part of the Social realism movement, he was know for graphic art, american painter. He was the must significant 20th century painter.

Buckminster Fuller

He was an American architect and engineer, he understood architecture and the science related to it. He worked towards making the world a more substantial place.

Archigram

This was a group formed in the 1960's which took inspiration from technology to create a new reality through hypothetical pieces. The main members were Peter Cook, Warren Chalk and more.

Chapman Brothers

Chapman Brothers create sculptures, installations and prints looking at contemporary politics, religion and other points. The Chapman Brothers explore beauty, pain, humor and horror. 

Christian Boltanski

Is a French sculptor, photographer, painter and film maker. He creates mixed media sculptures using. His installations often used materials such as found materials, used clothing and his own personal memories. 

Cindy Sherman

Is an American photographer who uses photography to examine the way women are represented and viewed by society. She is also a conceptual artist.

Cornelia Parker

Parker is a sculptor and instalation artist. She is know well for her large scale sculptures and focuses on 'Dark matter' and 'Heart of Darkness'.

Daido Moriyama 

Is a Japanese photographer famous for his work of the brakedown of traditional values of the post-war Japan. His work included a representation of the 'darker side' of urban life and how it is hide from the rest of the world.

Dan Flavin

Was an American minimalist artist. He is famous for producing sculptures and instalations fluorescent lights.

Daniel Libeskind

Libeskind is a American architect and artist. He is known for representing complex ideas and emotions in his work including Jewish history.

David Carson

Carson is an American graphic designer. He is famous for producing magazine designs and unique typography style.

David Lynch 

Lynch is an American visual artist works in a cinematic style.  His work can be rather violent and disturbing for so audience members. 

Diaghilev

He had a strong passion for promoting the arts. He expressed himself using painting,  dance, music and this lead to him bringing everything together to form ballet.

Dieter Rams

Rams is a German industrial designer, he is involved with Braun and Functionalist school of industrial design. He believes less is better and has created a timeless look.

 

Donald Judd

Was an American artist, he was apart of the minimalist movement. He is famous for the repetition of geometric shapes of industrial made materials throughout his work.

Eadweard Muybridge 

Muybridge was an English photographer famous for his pioneering work in photographic studies of motion. He worked with black and white which empathsized the beauty in his work.

El Anatsui

El Anatsui is a Ghanaian sculptor. He works with large-scale installations made from aluminium from recycling stations and then saws them together with Cooper wire. His aim is to raise awareness of waste and the environment. 

El Lissitzky

Was a Russian artist, and was a big part of Russian Avant Garde. He designed numerous exhibition displays and propaganda work for Soviet Union.

Elsa Schiaparelli

Schiaparelli was an Italian fashion designer. She was one of the most famous fashion designers during the two world wars and was influenced by Surrealism.

Ettore Sottass

Sottass was an Italian architect and designer of the late 20th century. Ettore was know for using colour and shape to create his furniture and architecture.

Federico Fellini

Federico Fellini was an Italian film director and screenwriter. He is seen as the most influential filmakers of the 20th centery beacuse of his fantasy style.

Fischli & Weiss

Fischil and Weiss were artists that had been together since 1979. They were the most know contemporary artists in Switzerland. 

Frank Auerbach

Frank Auerbach is a British artist that is very expressive using paint. he only used three models throught his work, his wife, a model and a friend.

Gaetano Pesce

Pesce is an Itailian achritect and designer. His work is very experminental and uses verious unique shapes and materials to express his work. 

Georges Bataille

Georgeswas a French literature and specialist in history of art. In each pieces of his work he captures an intreseting effect with his mark making.

Gunta Stolzl

Stolzl was a german textile artist. She was a big part of the devolpemt of weaving as it changed to modern industrial design.

Gustav Metzger

Metzger was a artist who developed the concept of Auto-Destructive Art and Art Strike. he initiated the Destruction in Art Symposium in 1966 with John Sharkey. Metzger is known for his protests.

Hannah Hoch

Hoch was an important member of the Berlin Dada movement and was a pioneer in collage. She gathered images from popular magazines and other places to create here collages.

Harry Callahan

Is seen to be the most inspiring photographer of the 20th century. He brought photographery into the mainstream of art.

Henri Cartier Bresson

He was a French photographer and painter . He helped promote street photography, his work led to influencing a lot of people.

Hussein Chalayan 

Chalayan is a fashion designer and artist. He uses minimalism and technology to create his work. 

Issey Miyake

Miyake broke the rule of the traditional way if dressmaking. He also experimented with various materials  including paper, plastic and more. 

Jackson Pollock

Was an American painter and was apart of the abstract expressionist movement. He is famous  with his style of dripping paint.

Jan Svankmajer

Svankmajer is a filmmaker and artist.  He is a surrealist artist know for animations.

Jean-Luc Godard

Godard is a French film director. He was apart of the New Wave movement.

John Cage

Cage was an American artist and composer.  He is know for music in the post-war avant-garde. Cage has also proud cued art pieces using line and colour in a bold way.

John Galliano

Gallano is a British fashion designer. He used to be head designer of Given hypothetical,  Christian Dior and John Galliano. 

Joseph Beuys

Beuys was a German performance artist and a instalation artist. He has worked in various media's including drawing, painting and sculpture. He be lives that art has a healing effect on both the art and the audience.

Henri Michaux 

Michaux was a writer and painter.he worked mainly using Indian ink he capture such beauty throughout his work.  

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

Was a Hungarian painter and photographer. He was influenced by constructivism and promoted bringing technology to the art industry.

Laure Prouvost

Laure Prouvost is a French artist living in London. She has won a Turner Prize for her installations.

Louise Bourgeois 

Bourgeois was an American artist and sculptor. She was a important figure in modern and contemporary art. Most of her work are large spider structures.

Lucienne Day

Lucienne Day was a British textile designer. She loved abstract work and worked with bright colours and patterns. Her patterns were based on flower and the verity ofshapes they came in.

Lucy Orta

Lucy Orta was a English contemporary visual artist. Her work looks at combining  the body and architecture , this lead to her creating refuge wear.

Luis Bunuel

Bunuel was a Spanish-Mexican filmmaker. He was a leader of avant-garde surrealism. He produced a lot of films and has won awards from the National Board of Review and the National Society of Film Critics.

Madeleine Vionnet

Vionnet was a French fashion designer. She was nicknamed "Queen of the bias cut and "Architect among dressmakers". She is currently inspiring new designers.

Marc Newson

Marc Newson has been described as "the most influential designer of his generation". He has worked with air craft design, furniture design, product design and jewellery. His style of work is smooth lines, trad parent materials and no sharp edges.

Martha Graham

Was an American modern dancer. She was the first dancer to perform in the White House, she also decided the US: the presidential Medal of Freedom.

Martin Margiela

Margiela is a fashion designer and the crewe of fashion house Maison Margiela. He realised his first collection under his own label with his business partner Jenny Meirens. 

Martin Kippenberger

Kippenberger was a German artist who worked in a rang of media's. He was seen as one of the most talented German artists of his generation.

Martin Parr

Parr is a British photographer.  He is famous for his photographic projects on various subjects. He has featured in exhibitions worldwide.

Meret Oppenheim

Oppenheim was a German Surreal artist and photographer.  She was a member of Surrealist movement. She was famous for modelling for Man Ray.

Michael Craig-Martin

Is a contemporary contemptial artist. He is the professor of Fine Art at Goldsmiths. 

Michael Snow

Snow is a Canadian artists who works in a wide range of media including, sculpture, films and photographery.  His work looks at perception.

Milton Glaser

Glaser is an American graphic designer. He us most famous  for his "I ♡NY" logo. He is the founder of New York Magazine.

Nam June Paik

Was a Korean artist who worked with a range of media and was the first artist to work with video art. He was the first to use 'electric super highway' on telecommunications.

Nan Goldin

Is an American photographer known for her own perspective world of addiction and sexual activity. She photographs fashion, transvestites and cross-dressers. 

Neville Brody

Brody is an English Graphic designer. He is famous for his work on 'The Face' magazine. He is the founder of company Research Studios (1994).

Nick knight

Knight is a British photographer and publisher. He is a director of showstudio.com. 

Paul Rand

Rand was an American graphic designer and Art director. He was one of the first artists to work in the Swiss style of graphics. 

Peter Doig

Peter Doig is a Scottish painter. He works in a abstract way that almost looks like fantasy rather than reality.

Peter Saville 

Saville is an English Graphic designer. He was a director at Factory Records where he produced album covers.

Powell & Pressburger  

Where a British film production partnership. The group was called 'The Archers', the founders where named Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. They made a total of 24 films together which were based on original ideas.

Rachel Rose

Is an artist based in New York City. Her work explores intreseting places including the zoo and Glass House.

Rei Kawakubo 

Kawakubo is a Japanese fashion designer and founder of Commercial designer Garcons. She studied  fine art at university.

Robert Rauschenberg

Rauschenberg was an American graphic artist, who influenced the pop art movement. He produceswork in many styles including print making, photographer band performance. 

Robert Smithson

Smithson was an American artist famous for photography of land art and sculpture. His earliest work included paintings and collages which lead him to sculpture. ne responded to Minimalism and Conceptualism.

Ron Arad

Arad is the founder of 'Arad Associates'.  He is know for is bold modern style on every day objects. He has created pieces that are used in public and also within a household.

Sarah Lucas

Sarah Lucas is an English artist. His work consists of puns and humour. she works with found objects and uses photography to capture the moment.

Saul Bass

Bass was an American Graphic designer and also an award winning film maker. He is best known for his title sequences, logos and film posters.

Sigmar Polke

Was a German painter and photographer. He was apart of the Capitalist Realism movement. During his time, he produced abstract work and did  painting that highlighted the historical events.

Sol LeWitt

Sol LeWitt was an American artist involved with the Conceptual and Minimalism movements. He worked with drawing, printmaking, photography and painting.

Sonia Delaunay

Sonie Delaunay was the Co-Founder of Orphism art movement. he is know for his use of bold colours and geometric shapes.

Stefan Sagmeister

Sagmeister is a typographer and graphic designer. He is the co-founder of 'Sagmeister & Walsh Inc'. he has designed posters and cd covers for various people and companies.

Tal R

Is an artist that uses a simplistic style. He's work consists of exaggerated brushstrokes along with an abstract feel.

Verner Panton

During his work, he created influential dedigns. His style was 1960's  which become popular at the end if the 20th century.

Viktor and Rolf

Was created by Viktor Horsting and Rolf  Snoeren in 1993. Their work is considered to be a mixture of couture and Art. 

Walter Gropius 

Gropius was a German architect and is the founder of 'The Bauhaus School'.  His work linked with other architects and he was considered as a master of modern  architecture. 

Willem De Kooning

Willen De Kooning was an American abstract artist. He painted in a style that was called 'Abstract expressionism'

William Eggleston

Is an American photographer. He is famous for his large scale photography that are in full colour.

William Morris

Morris was an English textile designer.  He was involved with the 'Arts and Crafts Movement'. He was am influence on British textile methods of production.

Wolfgang Tillmans

Tillmans is a German photographer. His work is images of his surroundings and are also very observational of the medias foundation.

Zaha Hadid

Hadid is a British architect. Her buildings are very unique and bold, they are very different from other architects.

Zhang Huan

Zhang Huan is aChinese artist. He started his career as a painter and has progressed on to performing art. photography and sculpture.