Foundation art

 

 Rebecca Horn Pencil mask ( Bleistiftmaske) DIMENSIONS Object within display case: 650 × 520 × 400mm Black box: 135 × 360 × 225mm Framed photograph: 255 × 312 × 33mm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eh9JH7daSbg Strapped around the face, the mask transforms the wearer’s head into an instrument for  drawing . Horn has described wearing it: ‘All pencils are about two inches long and produce the profile of my face in three dimensions...I move my body rhythmically from left to right in front of a white wall. The pencils make marks on the wall the image of which corresponds to the rhythm of my movements.’ The spike-like pencils make this one of Horn’s more threatening works. However, it is linked to the feather masks, as feather quills were also once used for writing.

  Creative drawing  starting on a 6x6cm square section on an A1 sheet hanging in front of a window i began to listen to kiwi by Harry styles. the lines i created were very dark and ridged at the song was quite rocky and was more shouting than singing a melody. i used 9B graphite. my next drawing was to Heather by Conan Grey, this song is a lot calmer and has more melody so my markings on my page were much softer and more flowing and you could tell there was less pressure being used on the graphite as the markings were less tonal. on this section i had a longer rectangle area to use up so there was more space for freedom and i could use the length to go from the start of the song to the end of the song. the third section was 6cm longer than the second section giving even more space to draw, this time we all listened to the same song on a record player from the 60s, we had no emotional connection to this song as none of us knew it, it was very 40s 50s vibes 

Wassily Kandinsky   Painter, printmaker, watercolorist, pioneering theorist of abstraction. Abandoning an academic law career in Russia, moved to Munich in 1896 at age of thirty to study art. Founded several progressive art groups in Munich, most notably the Blaue Reiter, in 1911, with Franz Marc. Developed artistic philosophy based on the psychology of colors and shapes. Rejected objective representation and materialism in his art and theoretical writings, favoring spiritual approach of "inner necessity," which culminated in his breakthrough to abstraction, around 1913 . Marc gave an emotional meaning or purpose to the colors he used in his work: blue was used to portray masculinity and spirituality, yellow represented feminine joy, and red encased the sound of violence. After the  National Socialists  took power, they suppressed modern art; in 1936 and 1937, the Nazis condemned the late Marc as an  entarteter Künstler  (degenerate artist) and ordered approxima...

watercolour, watercolour pen, tipex, gel pen      watercolour, gel pen, water colour pen, tipex                                      acrylic paint.   During lock down, and the period of corona i found myself feeling down and lonely not being able to go out to see friends and family, even events such as concerts i was so looking forward to had been cancelled. i lacked inspiration my dull mood of being locked in the same boring house was taking a toll on my creativity. i sat down eventually and thought to my self " what makes me happy" and my first thought as i looked at my wall covered in memories and one direction. Harry styles. and this is where i began, i had my friend help choose some pictures of harry so i could paint them, i wanted to focus on my favorite things about Harry, rings, tattoos, fashion, and him obviously. i found i had a niche for painting small water colo...