yes it has been a long time in coming, but I’ve been doing a lot over the summer i swear hahaha welllllllll, here is my final piece, it may be possible to deduce what its about from the other older posts but I want to write the concept down anyway: so those arent very good [...]
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Final Piece for Graded Unit
Posted in 3D, Artsy, Conceptual, Gradeeeed unit year one, tagged art, concept, conceptual art, darwin, drawers, edinburgh, espanola, fenandina, final piece, folio, galapagos, genovesa, gordon douglas, graded unit, hair, map, santa fe, summer, trust on August 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Evaluation
Posted in Artsy, Gradeeeed unit year one, tagged ants, assignment, belief, brief, drawers, evaluation, faith, H.G. Wells, hair, science, Strengths and weaknesses on May 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Again, this is just for me, but feel free to see how much I can say about one thing: Briefly outline the practical assignment My practical assignment for the graded unit was to make a piece of artwork based on the natural world, I immediately began thinking about Darwin and his theory of evolution which [...]
Graded Unit Action Plan
Posted in Gradeeeed unit year one, tagged action plan, ants, aryan, collective intelligence, evaluation, natural world, sources and resources, techniques and processes, the brief, timescale on May 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
this is more for me, but it might be interesting for others to see what I based the graded unit on: Chosen Brief and Initial Research I chose the brief entitled natural world, a brief demanded an insight into the relationship between animals and the environment and between humanity and these two also. I suppose [...]
Sidetracking
Posted in Gradeeeed unit year one, The Other Stoof, tagged ants, atta, concentration, concept, eugenics, galton, hat sizes, hitler, scents on April 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Hello hello hello, have decided to move away from the scents idea as to get away from the chance of me expanding my topic too much and lightening the strength of the final piece. With keeping my topics to a minimum I am inevitably going to make my work stronger and more concise without blabbering [...]
Degenerate art
Posted in Gradeeeed unit year one, Les notes sur la belle artistes, tagged alien, arno breker, beckman, censorship, chagall, China, classic style, degenerate art, documentation, ernst, exile, Gottbegnadeten list, grosz, H.G. Wells, hitler, kandinsky, klee, marc, marcus harvey, mondrian, myra hindley, nazi, otto dix, patriotism on April 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The art around the nazi period with any great merit was generally classed as degenerate art, it was seen as an enemy of the state and in some cases destroyed. Its a very interesting topic censorship, still very important today with the ever increasing world power of China. It can also be seen in Britain [...]
the clock
Posted in Artsy, Gradeeeed unit year one, tagged ants, artwork, aryan, clockwork, cogs, labour, nazi, swastika, wind-up on April 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
in this piece, I decided to take apart an old german wind-up clock. I believe it defines the concept of an anthill quite well. Don’t know if I already said that somewhere else on the blog but we’ll soon see when I get complaints ha. Anyway the reason I chose a german clock is to [...]
Clockwork and Atta
Posted in Artsy, Gradeeeed unit year one, tagged ants, arian, aryan, atta, atta sexdens, clockwork, collective brain, colony, disposer, eggs, eugenics, forager, fungi garden, organism, processor, queen ant, soldier, superorganism, within-nest specialist on April 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Atta is a harvester type of ant whose colony has one of the most complicated caste system, ie meaning it has a variety of different workers each working towards a different purpose. Out off nest specialists: Soldier – the largest ants whose head diameter comes to 3mm. These ants also have the largest fangs and [...]
The Graded Unit
Posted in Artsy, Gradeeeed unit year one, tagged ant colonies, ants, colonisation, darwin, democracy, dictatorship, eugenics, graded unit, hitler, instinct, justification, natural world, nature, phobia on April 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Yes, it is that time of year, and its oh so very exciting, it time for our graded unit. We were given five briefs to choose from and they’re pretty open to every option you could go for. I decided to opt for The Natural World as I’m reading a lot of HG Wells right [...]
