ARText

Where Text Becomes an Art is to create a high quality textual graphics, headings, logos, icons, web site elements and buttons. Robert Smithson has done one that has a story shaped like a pyramid which lookes different but fun.
Rose Nolan also has done some text art where she has put 'HELLO' on the wall but only from a certain angle that you would be able to see which I find exciting as I would like to know how to do that one day.
If I had to make an art text design I would have the words that started with 'S'  as that is my first letter of my name then come up with all the words starting with 'S' that I find intersting to me and who I am then formit all in a 'S' shape.

abstraction, materiality, process

Each wall drawing begins as a set of instructions or simple diagram to be followed in executing the work. As the exhibition makes clear, these straightforward instructions yield an astonishing and stunningly beautiful variety of work that is at once simple and highly complex, rigorous and sensual. I love Sol LeWitt’s work as you can get approved instructions from an artist for his works to print on walls.

The drawings in the exhibition range from layers of straight lines meticulously drawn in black graphite pencil lead, to rows of delicately rendered wavy lines in coloured pencil from bold black and white geometric forms, to bright planes in acrylic paint arranged like the panels of a folding screen from sensuous drawings created by dozens of layers of transparent washes, to a tangle of vibratory orange lines on a green wall, and much more. Forms may appear to be flat, to recede in space, or to project into the viewer's space, while others meld to the structure of the wall itself.

The conceptual artist must make his work mentally interesting for the viewer. Faced with the complexity of the graphic network of Arcs from four corners, the viewer has to sense the structure of the work, not to feel any emotion. The use of pencil is typical of the first wall drawings, which began in 1968.

Representation

Rene Magritte wants to destabilise our certainty about what it is that images and language represent. "This is a pipe if you are thinking of a smoking device. This is not a pipe if you had a piece of plumbing in mind. Magritte points out that a pipe is not always a pipe. It depends upon what you have in mind". That can be a simple mistake buy having two differnt sides to the stories as you would have to find the right image and language.  

appropriation and design

In the early 1980s, Sherrie Levine made a career out of re-using or appropriating famous works of art, especially by making new versions of them and placing them in different contexts. Throughout her career, Levine has designed art based on works by prominent male artists from the early 20th century in order to underscore the relative absence of women in the art world at that time.

I find Sherrie Levine’s artwork very amazing as she can change something ugly to something beautiful, that is appropriate as it hasn’t down-graded to a lower liking.

TEU-LE-VA care for the relationships

The "Teu-le-va care for the relationships" power point showed the different ways that artists have used space that connects things.
For me I would say the VA (space) would or could be for religion or a meditating.
For island lady's I have seen them in a empty room with a flax mat on the groung, one space on left side of the room and another space on the right side of the room.
Sometimes they would go sit down and make tapa-cloth, but would be silent. This was a communed activity Tivaevae. This was introduced and took over from tapa-cloth production.

Research

The main purpose I research is to gather extra information or handy knowledge that would become helpful in the future.

I mostly use google as I find it easier and helpful then the other research websites such as wiki and xtra.

I don't usuly go to the library as I find it easier writing things infront of me instead of reading books and magazines, even though it can be very helpful and have alot of information.

Other ways for me to research would be making mind maps, brainstorm, drawing, photography, collecting and gathering ideas.

Purakau - reading responce

Reading Responce:

1. What ideas do you think each of these writers present about the role and function of the poster image?
2. What do you think are the other key ideas that both writers present in their essays about image making?

I think the both readings by Danny Butt and Jon Bywater are intersting on how to make a poster and what is important such as... "Don't stick it up in your dining room or in your study, Don't misplace it.
Don't collect it, Don't archive it, Don't keep it in your library. Don't give it away.
Post iton the walls of the city".

But when the poster moves outside its intended community, it becomes somethning else, an artefact that may hold the talismanic force of a possible other future, such as the Che Guevara posters that held pride of place in Austraila bedrooms of my teenage friends.

The image of Drake, eyes and chin raised, conveys self-possession in a way that rhymes nicely with the titles cocky implication that however ambiguous this notice may be today, in the long run we'll find out who it's about.

In four different ways, the Aotearoa artist cut through these conditions to activate the poster's traditionally prescribed function as propaganda.