Vision

Raoul Hausmann.

Raoul was a German artist who was clearly part of the Dada movement which is highlighted in his work by the way he presents his work. His work portrays some of the most famous Dada work and i know for a fact his famous 'The Art Critic' piece is exhibited in the TATE gallery, so he hasn't done bad off his work. From his portrait i got of the Internet which has a quite menacing feel to it, its quite hard to believe that his work is to be taken with a pinch of salt and to take the mick out of life. One of his best mates was Kurt Schwitters who i am also looking at. They formed a little club which turned into one of the most rebellious art movements to date, The Dada Movement.

I think Hausmann's work is one to awe at and to spend time looking at and figuring our because of all the madness and pure bravery taken to put these pieces out into the art world for all to shove their noses up at and stomp all over with harsh words. His work is well formed and put together i have to applaud his efforts and his achievements. He has used a well structured colour pallet of stained tea and coffee and taken everyday photos and turned them into a completely different meaning. His piece 'The Art Critic' has maybe took a play on words into a picture using the phrase 'up there here for thinking down there for dancing' and definitely shown his hatred for art critics in the form of a shoe in place were intelligence comes from. Another way of viewing it is looking at the play on word 'you've really put your foot in it' as well, showing there words as babble and showing rebeliance as their comments as nonsense.

I love his work and his zest for life for showing the world or sheep and individual, showing that not all that is said is true and bringing me my inspiration for collage.

Kurt Schwitters is a German artists of many crafts such as: Painting

                                                                                              Sculpture

                                                                                              Writer

                                                                                             Typography

                                                                                             Collage.

I love his collages and think he strickes the right balance in all of them, he never going to far or too minimalist, some would ask..is he crazy? because who can lay out such masses of crap and make it look like a masteroeuce and have that much crao in his mind but he was an atist trying to carve his own name into the wall of fame and did so in exceptional cases and his work is now known all over the world. 

In his work he uses old newspaper, old labels, old pictures and old bits of rubbish, that wernt old to him at the time but are now. I love the colours he uses, sunconsiously probably and just because tats all he had at the time. 

Mr Schwitters main influences were Cubism and was part of the dada movement. Some say he created his own style in the dada movement called 'Merz'. This is like using used or thrown away materials and making your own masterpiece from them.  His pallet is what id say was teabag colour and coffee stain colour only really with the ocassional streak of bright colour. He takes everyday rubbish which we'd just throw away and treats them like gold dust with the cleaver placing and matching with other objects. He is a mster of colage and set the stepping stones off many other artists and hope i can lead on the same path and learn his techniques and portray them in my work.

Joseph Cornell.

Joeseph Cornell

Cornell was first and foremost a horder, hordering shit to others but to him was gold-dust, he collected and collected and built up a fine art collection of assemble material to die for. He grew up in the art centrail city New York with his mother, cant say much for his dad as he worked away and came home as and when he could. He had a very privalidged upbringing and was a textile salesman.

His work is based of the unseen the illusionas of everyday oife highlited and boxed up as pretty as a Christmas present. Some of his work is right up my street, kitch tonge and cheek he has done a box with seven Lobsters framed with some croscet curtains and I love it,  love the tounge and cheek feel to it, cheeky 50s feel. 

Like the creator of secret keepings, with his little acute boxes full of memrobillia and crafty vintage items. Some tell a story, some you make up your own mind on the tale he trying to tell.

He's a creator, a creator of concepts, of the viewers perception of his work. Its like looking through some smeared glasses, you could be right about what your seeing but have it in the wrong way. Is that real? What does the mean? What's he trying to say?

I think Cornells work is true buety in the eye of the art world and not just some shabby craftsmanship, its art. His boxes are like little fascinating trinkets with objects that just baffle the mind and plead you to take a closer look.

Robert Rauschenberg.

Rovert was an american artist who at the time, was making on the brink of pop art. He has been highly respected forhis artwork with a medal of arts in his name and works exhibited all over the globe.
Best knows for his 'combines', whcih to me are collages, he was knownw for taking the ordinary and making it exrodinary, taking non-traditionals materials and approches to his work.
He was an extrodinary case as he was famous in his own time and not just after death, he presented his works in galleries arund the world in his time and showed that trash cane make serious cash.
Robert was a pioneer of the artworld and would stop until he tried everything, a man of many talents and left his footprint in the artworld for decades to learn from.

I love Rauschembergs work, i think he is so creative to put the most un-imaginable togther and make it look like it was meant to be. His colour pallet was an rainbow of moulded colours, all spread togther on the canvas but looked amazing. I think Robert like me, didnt expect things to always work out and never had a motif at the start but towards the end picked up and just worked in his favour. Hes inspired me in my work and given me a new look on collage, I hope to try some of his techniques out in my own work.

Hannh Hoch.

  

Hannah was an amazing photo montage artists, German and was part of the Dada movemet. 

Hannah was a feminist and would often support same sex couples with woman being in her favour. She would use media in her work like fashion advertisements and such others to reach out to the wider audience and prostest them.

She was a very libral woman also doing work on racial discrimination and on war. Outspoken, she was the most looked upon female in the dada movement. 

Hannah deffinalety fitted into the dad movement and followed their rules on rebellin against the common public and showing lifes true colours. 

I think her work is fasinating and you can clearly see the dad trademark in her work. She uses a wide pallet which leaves no question about her peices being a quiet staement, she wanted her to scream to the viewers and for them to feel what shes trying to portray. Hannah is a truely inspirational woman, taking on the dada'ists and the public with garish photomontages. 

If i had the time i would of loved to explore Photomontage and to do some peiecs inspired by her. It looks lile great fun ad can make some right funny ones. 

This collage is inspired by Kurt Switters. Kurt has gave me major inspiration in my work this projecta dn has some excellect and moving pieces and I thought I would try to interpret his work, into mine.

I tried to make it jam packed with labels, numbers and scraps of day-to-day rubbish. I chose to put these distinctive iteams together because some of the colours match like the blue from the railways brochure and the blue from the millies cookies wrapper. The teabag coloured paper from an old book ties in with the same swatch of coloyrs from the zip packaging, the film and the waxed strip of teabags. I chose to use the assitate with the bicycle printed on it with gouash to fit in with the theme of transport. Some things I added honestly, to bulk it out and to change the textures in the collage.

Overall I think as a first attempt of trying a ‘Kurt Switters’ I rate it as ‘okay’. I could of added more but I think some of my minimalist traits shon through and made this collag my own.

I found this picture in a book my friend brought in on the history od Darwen and felt enchanted by this photo and so made various photocopies to chop up for my collages.

I guess I’ve kind of framed this photo with  collaging around the edge of the photo but it wouldn’t be as embracing if id to cut igt up and miss pople off, Team Photo, stay as Team.

I started with colour because tthis is a very dark picture, keeping in with the picture theme I chose to add a strip of film down one side. Placing the picture where I had left rrom over the top of the picture and made me think of it as a picture from a newspaper so by adding a headline above and writing down the side leads the viewer to a more obvious clue in my collages.

Again sometimes I have no words why I choose to add somethings, sometimes for colour, sometimes just to fill a space.

My thoughts on this collage, is disappointing, I don’t like the way its layed out and think some parts stand out above others which makes it an un-balanced piece of work to me, unsatisfactory.

I seem to be framing my work a lot this year and doing work in my sketchbook means I leave a white boarder around the edge to frame my collages.

I love the colours ive chosen and mixed, I also love how they highlight and compliment one another. The different in textures is what I most wanted to experiment with using parts of pictures, labels, textiles, papers a wood to create different effects and see how they play off one another.

My overall feel on this collage is that I get a little of a 50’s vibe from the light blue colours, advertisemnts and labels all ties into a 50’s throw-back in collage and I love it.

This collage was started by two things, and then just building it up and adding things that I think are suitable and link with whats already there. I chose the ‘From The R.A.F Wing In Russia’ thing because the colour of the paper is kind of the same as he tracing paper and it’s a strong image that would give this collage a strong point and define it. I chose the swallow to be added because that is a symbolic tattoo for men in the services, usually found on sailors I know but defines, strong hard working men. Then the strip of red to break up the boring and add some colour. The painted bit of plastic sup was to set a colour behind the dull swallow and matches the red form the strip.

I like this collage because it has a strong subject matter, bold streak of colour and all ties in wonderfully with one another.

This collage was made around the picture of the three soldiers.

I cHose to use the floral padded green thing because the green is just the same as on the old soldiers uniform, kind of a camofloage green. I chose to use the dark print on assitate because it made ties with soldiers and the rocky landscape they work in, in the war. The dirty piece of photopaper show ages and a fog, which I thought represented the dark skies from the fire-arms and explosions pretty well. I cant really explain why I used the pther matierals, probably to tie it all together and not make it feel all separated.

My reflections on this collage are dissapionting, I don’t like the colours or how its layed out, or the materials ive used.

With this collage I already had an idea to do a dark collage and started collecting dark materials and papers together, I started to move bits and bobs around to see how it looked and then it just feel into place really nicely, move around, look back, maybe take a picture, see what it looks like then, and after a few tries it all looks like a finished piece. I chose to frame it with assitate to finish it off but found this book on mental health and the effects of itand photocopied it onto the assistate, whichwe are not meant to do because it melts, but only sometimes and this time I got lucky. Promise its my last time… maybe. After risking my limbs with the photocopier it came out really clear, only quivers is the black block on the top which is where the book must of ended, but after placing it ontop it framed the word Visual pretty great and decided not to give it the chop. I loved the skull with the clock and have wanted to used it for…ever  so I was happy enough to slip it into this one and work pretty griming good with the mental health thing.

I love the overall, stand back and look at it feeling because it all fits in so well and is framed by the lovely mental health assitate. Pleased.

This collage was constructed around the white circle frame which I got of a uni brochure. The first thing I added was the photo of the modelwith her afro because her afro is pretty cirle and continues the circle theme. Then I added the two strips of film, because the models being photographed and its photograph film, literally as simple as that. And there was some tacky writing underneight that needed covering. Next I added the paper with the cogs on and at first only wanted the top bit because it was too mlong but didn’t like that tears mark on the white so I covered it with the bottom of the piece to keep the length I wanted. I added the hook from a hanger to highlight the circle in the cog amd symbolise the metal cogs. The bits of earing was to continue with the circle theme and theme of the model, modelling fashion.

I love this collage because it fits together ;ike a key in a lock and looks presentable and neat.

For this collage I really wanted to use that picture so that was my starting point . I used the shite cut out strips and the purple zip to resemble the cut out bits in the washing basket from the picture. Because of its being so dark I added the bright lime green card to get some colour into it and tie the bits together. Adding the prints on the math paper portrayed the darkness of the picture and the texture on the basket, but its also highlighted the green from the card, so a double whammy. Then the ‘EasyJet’ boarding sticker was just to bring some colour into the actual picture and some writing in too.

After wrting it down and explaining it, its grown on me, I didn’t use to like how dark it was or how bare and simple it was but the materials are a really great match amd all works in harmany.

                This collage remind me of that song ‘These boots are made for walking’ . I pretty much colour co-ordinated this one so what ever colour matches, goes.

Fits off I really wanted to use the Jagermeister beer matt because I love the colour and the deer is beautiful, so going off that I wanted a warm, colour co-ordinated collage.  Then added the top brown boots because I thought the coner would make a neat adge to my college. Then added the red shoes picture because the coloyrs and the actual picture all tied in. I chose to add the coloured pencils as a kind of colour key to show the chosen colours. The rest was just put to fill it out with colour. The ‘Applied Arts’ piece was from a university brouchure and just fitted in well and thought the words applied well to the collage.

I love this piece because of the warm tonnes and how well placed together they are and how presentable it looks.

Who doesn’t what Westwood?

Ive wanted to use this for ages and I love the whole page so structuring around it was a challenge. Tearing the page in two allowed room for collage through the middle with a classy feel.The teabags are just a little tounge and cheek fun and I thought they’d add to it because you can still see through them.

I like this one because of how its been presented and the colours used.

I know this one is dead simple, just three things work? I love this collage because of the patterns, coloyrs and the overall ‘neat’presentation of it. I love that its not framing the girl at all, but is actually framing the patterns shes waring and colours off them all. I love how there is clarity in some places and notin others.

I do like this one, but its not got a boarder and its doesn’t look tidy! And some have there own little sections and everything is a little spaced out. But I love the colours in it and love the aged, National Geogrphic tear-outs that ived used, iw anted to use particulary the one with the old man apinting, just looked interesting to me, I used the same brown as in the picture with the two men decorating and I used the black and white print of the girl because I needed a background, I know it doesn’t match much but as ive placed it, it looks like the wto men and the old man are focusing on her. The empty teabags were needed, it was in your face and needed mellowing out a little so they when peessed right up to them, you can still see through but it just fades them a little.

I dontlike this collage simpley because it too big.

I love this collage because its so structured and cube’y. I love the fact it’s a classic black and white with just the little hint of colour at the top and that its got different dar tones in it and thaen the silver lbinder thing. I thought the ‘photography and video’ suitaded because she was being photographed. I wanted this to be centred around the picture because I think she looks tunning but with all this collge around her, I think it makes her look better. Everthing just goes superbly together and looks so presentable.

I love it.

This collage is made from a ‘New York Times’ newspaper, a scrap peiece of leather, a scrap piece of photo paper, some sailor buttons, a trace paper for making dresses and a scrape piece of assitate. I put these iteams together to make one piece of work because the orage and balck strike a certain balance with one another, both stricking colours and both quite powerful and bold colours, although they black isn’t a colour.

I love this ollage because of the woman in the ballon basket, looking with the most bank face wether if it was e an dyou wed be looking worried being that high up but shes just like so what. I love the cut out of the bold looking yound man staring intothe distance and thought the two pieces of paper would look great on this collage.

I love this collage but if I was to do anything different id get rid of the asssitate, looks tacky.

I wanted to frame the ‘Simplicity 50p’ bit so I used the bind of the CD case as its own little section for it. I wanted this collage to be quite chunky because well… I could because I was using old CD cases. So I chose to add this dried up tube of oil paint in it and then needed some things to fill the space around it and decided to use strips of paper and wood to get different textures, but they all had to go with the red for the tracing paper packet. I used the 8 because there were already numbers used and the black from the tacing paper lettering made ties with the black from my number 8.

I love this because you can open the case and feel the different textures, the colours go weel and it’s a little 3D.

I wanted to used the bottom of the cover from a pack of old tracing paper because I loved the colours and the housewife hands displayed on it. Then I backed it with this old photograph paper because I loved the shadows from the leaves. I found this article and thought id use the title ‘Nothing of importance’ to match the colour papers and highlight that this is all just found things ive found and stuff your would just throw away. Then I added the pencil at the edge because it goes with the same yellow on the tracing paper packet and goes with the theme of it all and was a pefect fit in the bind of the CD case.

I like this because it all fits together, the colours work well, ive ot some 3D in their and rcyling and framing? That’s cool.

Ive wanted to do just a paper only collage for ages and wanted to use just newspaper cuttings or, in my case, tear-outs as it looks like ive never seen a pair of scissors. No but the reseason for that is, I love the delicate, feathering effct it leaves on the tear.

So I syrted by layering then placing to make sure you see the best bits, trying to show different shades of papers. I added the strip of wood down the side of the case because its defines the colours in the paper nd frames it with this bold brown at the edge.

I think if I had time I would built it up a lot more.

I love this one even though it’s a little simple and plain but I love how everything goes together and compliments each other and I guess the hunk in the old photo is’nt bad to look at either.

The photo on the background was a starting point, I used it because it is a suttle point of interest and it was big enough to fill the frame which is great because I don’t have to find gap-fillers and keeps it one colour, one structure. I really wanted to use the old photo of the dashing man and used that as  the template to my collage. I didmt want to completely cover the background because I liked the shadowed detail in it so i wanted to work around the parts with te most detail in. I used the piece of newspaper  and collection stamp wrapper because of the different browns in them  and the black background. I chose to use the two stamps because I needed some colour and they had age and placing them towards the top like on a postal letter just gave to how their marking and natural placing.

I love this collage and love the finshed professional look.

This started off because I wanted to use the magazine cover because its got visable vintage in it like, where it was deliverd with the stamp mark and the colour in it. Ther was a rip in the corner so I tore it off then it didn’t look quite right so I added it back on but no so id made a mistke, but changed it like it runix cube’d it verticle. Then I added the waxed teabag of me and a relative because the coloyr matched and it had this kind of ‘mumzie’ feel to it becsue of the knitting magazine and the colours so I thought mums love tea and they love children  and in my black and white, blunt mind thought that was enough.

I think I would change stuff in this one If I could, I would have rummaged for more things to add. But I do like it.

This one was based on the photo of the football team, I had been wanting to collage it for ages and had to chop it down to size but made sure the team satyed in shape…just.

I knew I wanted the man at the foot of the players feet to stay on  with his ‘porn start pose’, its just the way hes sta and the face expression that make me think of him like that. Rather funny. But for him, I had to make a few guys headless, so I added them back in at the side, looks like ive rubix cube’d their heads rought verticle. I added the material in the background to change the texture. I also added scraps from my tea bag dress choosing the photo of the ‘Ginger bandit’ don’t sweat it, hes family. I also wanted a little colour to be projected into this rather dull affair. I thought it was rather funny also because the only different is the colour, facial expressions are the same, serious, like knowones ever told them to smile before a photo before… Then I decided to balance it out by spreading the ripped teabag around the photo to get a response of difference in texture.

Half way through the making of this collage, my mu usednit as a coffee matt and spilt tea on it but I decided to leave it there because things like that happen and that is the number one way to show age. Stains.

I dont love but I don’t loath this collage, I love whats in it, and love the tea stain but its not my fave, if I was to re-do it, id add more colour.

My friend needed something sturdy to scrape her acrylic paint and I let her use one of my tiles, I mean, I can always wash it off but when shed finished I loved the lines and the bunching up of paint in certain places, that I decided to just work with it, but then having all this white I needed white I needed wuite a nuetual collage to keep with it and decided this carriage would o as the colour of the paper was perfect and aged well. Then I found a wrapper from millies cookies and I always think the red from that wrapper looks great with browns. I used a peoce of really like wafer thin wood, cant think what its called to back it, and needed just one omore thing to add, but a small thing so I didn’t cover all the brown up and founf this old medican label that was ideal and kept with the gae of it all.

I do like this one because its different and well put together and overall looks fab.

This collage has a deffinate theme to it, of a childs theme, interpreting the millies cookies wrapper the red’y pink wood boarder at the bottom, the story page, the softening of the teabag on the picture and the strip of film at the top make its feel boarderd sfae qand soft. I chose to leave the film strip hanging over because ei love the holes in them, and then you can feel them.

I love this collage , I knew what I wanted to acheiev with this and think I did a lovely childs collage. I don’t want to change anything in it love all the colours and pictures. Not often I bloe my oen trumpet.

I have done three final pieces that are about going deeper into different collages and presenting them in deiffernt ways.

My tree trunk final piece is great, I love it, its so shrek.

It doesn’t look like I imagined in my head, it wast as chunkybut I love the final outcome. No I didn’t do it all myself my dad helped me saw the wood because if you’ve seen me my arms are the size of the wood. It wasn’t just ‘ill have what you’ve got’ kid of situation, I chose each peiec either based on the bumbs in it, the olour, the smell, the coves in it, I wanted the best ones for my final piece and ones with the most character in them. I chose to tie the objects around the top piece of wood to allow the piece to change from different angles and gve them motion when moved.

Each iteam I have chosen has been analyised by size, look, age and by how it will hang against the wood. I chose the clock becase those sort remind me of alice in wonderland and how she fell from a hole next to the tree she lent on, so has a story behind it and a little history. I chose to use the little thimble mug because its an antique and was just the right size and looked great hanging from the wood. I chose the box pendent because its an antigue and so has its own history and the gold looked great against the wooden frame. The stone was to keep the earthy tone going and looked at home against the wood. The gold embossed button because it looked great against hanging, its old and will show some history and looked good with the box. Then I added this label for a sheep-skin hat on the side because the sides were ooking a little bare, not toom chunky and wont take too much  attention away from the 3D objects.

I love this final piece and love the final look of it all. I love the objects hanging and think they al compliment each other.

My second final piece is my dollar jar.

This is a dollar that I had origami’d into a shirt and tie which took for…ever to do. I saw the idea for this on line and my parents just got back from New York and had some spare cash, so I looked it up on Youtube and after loads and loads of practises, I finally did it. Then I bent some wire to make a little hanger for it.

I decided to frame it in the glass kilner jar so you can look at it in a 360 angle and see al, the folds and creases. I added a dollar to the top and BAM.

I love this, because of how many times I tried it and failed and then did it, I love the colours of the dollar and who knows where that dollar has been and how old it is which makes it a part of history.

My third final piece was inspired by Joseph Cornell. After researching his work I wanted to interpret some of his work into mine because he really inspired me.

So I made up this box with Bill (our wood technition, who is salt of the earth), lovely man and I wanted it sectioned to frame all my little treasures.

I decided to paint two of the sections to make it less….boring, white is a boring colour, lets be honest. I had some left over wall paint samples so I used them.

I filled the top section with a drawing doll, and placed him like a mimi person, pushing to get out. Then I placed an old bottle in the bottom far left section , un-glued so you can take it out and feel it and look properly at it. I think it looks great against the white and deffinalety looks highlighted by it. Then my piggies! These are some very dear old toys I had and thought they were worthy of my box, they fit in with the old theme and look perfect against the green paint. My third section holds film and the roll. Thye fit in lovely and look great again the grey/brown background. Film because it hold lots of stories and history. Again I use an origami shirt and tie but this time so you can feel and smell it because mone does have a certain smell and mek work is about senses, to feel and smell things to get the hisroy of it. And the concers were added because Josph uses nature in his boxes.

I loved how everything fit in and looked amazing next to one another and the colours in it too.